ABOUT DISASTERS A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural
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It was at his graduation where he gave his commencement speech‚ "The New Art." In 1916‚ cummings received an M.A. for English and Classical Studies at Harvard. After completing his college education‚ he volunteered to be an ambulance driver with Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps (The American Red Cross) in France in 1917‚ during World War I. It was while he was overseas when he was imprisoned falsely for three months in a camp on suspicion of French disloyalty. Although this was an unpleasant time
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Full time carer Margaret McCall talks about her day-to-day struggles with caring for her disabled son. “Normally I get up at 6am‚ shower‚ take my tablets and make a cuppa. I get my son David up at 6:45am and get him out of bed. I then wash him before taking him back to his room‚ laying him on the bed and changing his pads. Then I dress him and put him into his wheelchair. I give him his breakfast and his medication then I take him into the living room and put his trainers on and wait for the van
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I my dream the crow’s cry cut through my thoughts to bring me back to reality. Its call was more aggressive then I was before‚ hastier. In the background I heard a silence sound quickly becoming louder and louder until the deafening call of the ambulance passed by on my right I watch it until it entered my street. I started running‚ my shoes turned into the winged boots of Hermes‚ as I ran I was hoping‚ praying‚ wishing that I was not going where I thought I might have being. To my dismay I met it
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hort story Best Short Story for May/June 2010 English A Exam Written by: Zoie Hamilton of Washington Archilbald High School‚ St. Kitts and Nevis By Curtis Johnson in Form 4/5 Business 1 (Files) · Edit Doc Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate® May/June 2010 English A Examination Quesion5: It was the middle of the mathematics class. Mrs Taylor our teacher suddenly collapsed and sprawled unconscious on the floor. It was terrifying. Write a story which includes these words. She
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Try to figure out how it would be without Walt Disney. A world without his magic‚ peculiarity and optimism. Walt Disney converted the entertainment industry‚ into what we know today. “We keep moving forward‚ opening new doors and doing new things‚ because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths” quoted by Walt Disney. Avery curious human being that was willing to try new things and think outside the box. Walter Elias Disney known as Walt Disney was an American motion-picture
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The Lost Generation: Expatriates in Paris “The Lost Generation” is a group of artists that left America because they were disillusioned and disgusted by the quickly developing consumerism and materialistic desires found in America during the 1920s.(Sarah Ferrell) The people of the 1920s had been shaped and molded by the vicious‚ and basically pointless‚ World War I. Their lives had evolved and been formed to fit the war‚ and when it ended their morals‚ mentality‚ and skills no longer fit into “normal”
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were .5mg.” “I’m sorry Ashley but I couldn’t understand that‚ what did you say?” I was making sense in my mind but to other people I was mumbling and stumbling. The nurse had me sit down and try to explain things to her‚ while I waited on the ambulance to get there. “Ashley‚ what did you take?” “I took….” I would doze off and the nurse would shake me and yell. . . “Ashley‚ stay with me and explain to me what happened‚” she said “I took two
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You should call an ambulance immediately. Ensure that you bathe the area in cold water for at least ten minutes and while cooling the burn‚ check the child’s breathing and level of consciousness and be prepared to resuscitate. The standard procedure for treating a child with
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critical prior to discharge (The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing). Here is an example of EMTALA. A client comes to the emergency department of a private hospital after falling from a tree picking apples in the fields. He is transported via ambulance and arrives with an obviously broken leg. The patient was transferred to this hospital because it was only ten minutes away from the accident scene. The triage nurse does a quick assessment on the patient on and determines that he needs to see orthopedics
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