Alex Chin Prof. Julianne Altenbernd English 60 15 May 2014 Harbor Wave The earthquake that generated the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 is estimated to have released the energy of 23‚000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs‚ according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Indian Ocean tsunami traveled as much as 3‚000 miles (nearly 5‚000 kilometers) to Africa‚ arriving with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property. By the end of the day more than 150‚000 people were dead or missing and
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On February 22nd 2011‚12.51pm Christchurch experienced another earthquake with the magnitude of 6.3 at a depth of 5 km below ground level. This devastating event took the lives of many people with a death toll of 166 as at Sunday 6th March 2011. (CULTURAL) The earthquake caused many implications on Christchurch infrastructure in the CBD area. Many people were trapped in the CTV building‚ under collapsed furniture and damaged infrastructure . There was large amounts of damage to the roads such
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I. Introduction Most of us today experience the feeling of being poor. It might be in material things or in monetary matters. We can even see the people around begging just to live. It can somehow be the picture of our corrupt government. Officials don’t see the thirst and hunger these people are experiencing. They just think of themselves. Thus‚ worsening the increase of those people in the poverty line. Isn’t bad to look after our country full of beggars? Asking for pennies and food to eat.
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A Venn diagram is a drawing‚ in which circular areas represent groups of items usually sharing common properties. The drawing consists of two or more circles‚ each representing a specific group or set. This process of visualizing logical relationships was devised by John Venn (1834-1923). Each Venn diagram begins with a rectangle representing theuniversal set. Then each set of values in the problem is represented by a circle. Any values that belong to more than one set will be placed in
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A tsunami are the effect of a natural primary hazards meaning that they are a secondary hazard‚ mostly the result of tectonic activity. The Boxing Day tsunami was caused by the subduction of the indo-Australian plate boundary underneath the Eurasian plate (240km off the coast of Indonesia). In contrast‚ the Japan tsunami was caused by the Pacific Plate subducting under the North American plate. The Asian and the Japan tsunami’s both share the same magnitude‚ however the effects differ this can be
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Comparing Kobe and Sichuan Earthquake- “The wealth of a country influences the nature of the earthquake event experienced there”. With reference to the Kobe earthquake (1995) and Sichuan earthquake (2008)‚ decide whether this statement is true or not. This statement can be true in a number of ways‚ because an MEDCs have generally better infrastructures made for withstanding huge earthquakes unlike LEDCs where houses (especially squatter settlements) are damaged very easily and this makes the
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The Christian Crusades were a series of battles between the Muslims and the Christians in order to claim the Holy Land as their own. Religious and economic tensions are the causes of these numerous crusades. For starters‚ religious tensions occurred when Muslims taught the message of the prophet Muhammad. These teachings went against the christian teachings and the what the christian church believes. Muslims thought they would be able to overrun the traditional christian ideas. At the time‚ Pope
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Geography- Pakistan’s Earthquake on 2005 The most unfortunate disaster happened in Pakistan on 8th October 2005 and was thought to be the strongest ever to hit the region in a century; a magnitude of 7.6 devastating earthquake occurred in the Himalayan region of northern Pakistan and Kashmir‚ moreover there was a 24 hours of aftershock‚ resulting a huge amount of damaged area across northern of Pakistan and border areas of India; buildings are flattened; the sights of massive triggering landslides
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Several weaknesses of paper-based medical records have been identified‚ such as illegible handwriting‚ ambiguous and incomplete data‚ data fragmentation‚ and poor availability.1 In addition‚ paper records often become bulky with time‚ which leads to lack of overview. Because paper records still represent the usual medium for collecting and recording patient data‚ these weaknesses could impede the continuity and quality of care. Allow for all medical offices to send‚ receive‚ and share data & resources
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Question 1 Characteristics of bad systems To be useful‚ the information system must possess the characteristic of reliability‚ relevance‚ understandability‚ complete‚ accurate and comparability. However‚ in order for Encik Khalid to detect problems occur with the current or new system are based on the characteristics of bad system which are unreliable‚ irrelevance‚ not understandable‚ incomplete‚ inaccurate‚ and incomparable. The first characteristic is unreliable. Encik Khalid may detect the
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