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    The Hillsborough disaster

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    hillsborough disaster The Hillsborough disaster was an incident that occurred on 15 April 1989 at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield‚ England‚ during the FA cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest soccer clubs. The crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others. The incident has since been blamed primarily on the police. The incident remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history and one of the world’s worst soccer disasters. soccer clubs

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    Mine Disasters

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    Mining disaster in the past have been referred to mining accidents claiming five or more lives. Mine disasters once were really common. In the single year of 1907 there were 18 coal mine disasters.. Among the disasters in 1907 was history’s worst the Monongah coal mine explosion‚ which claimed 362 lives and impelled Congress to create the Bureau of Mines. I will discuss this disaster more later in this paper. Mine accidents have declined dramatically in number and severity through

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    Natural Disasters

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    Earthquakes Natural disasters‚ such as earthquakes‚ hurricanes and cyclones‚ floods‚ and tornadoes are some of the traumatic experiences that may cause posttraumatic stress disorders. This type of disorders and other disaster related psychological problems are prevalent after natural disasters. As a result it is important to analyse those individuals that develop psychological problems especially to prepare and plan interventions both in the short and long term after disaster (Coşkun‚ Coşkun‚ 2000

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    Invitational Speech Outline Name: Stephanie Jonson Date: April 23‚ 2015 Topic reviewed: _____ Topic: Hurricane Preparedness Purpose: To invite Specific purpose: To invite my com. 2211 class about how to prepare for a hurricane Thesis: I like to invite you to explore with me three ways you can get prepared for a hurricane‚ First have a disaster kit put together‚ secondly you will have to take cover during the hurricane‚ and lastly after the hurricane‚ asset the damages it has caused

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    Disaster Victims

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    Disaster: British Petroleum Oil Spill Date: April 20‚ 2010 Location: Gulf of Mexico Personal Experiences: A little over a year after the BP oilrig sprung a leak‚ my family and I went to Panama City in Florida. As far as we could see‚ we couldn’t notice any differences in the Gulf of Mexico. The water was still crystal clear even though thousands of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean each day for months. I was completely aware of how the spill dramatically affected the lives‚ jobs‚ and

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    Disaster Management in Pakistan On 26th October this year‚ thirty six trapped Chilean mine workers were rescued by drilling a deep hole into the mine. A month later‚ twenty nine mine workers in Newzeland died after remaining trapped for days in a mine. Poor disaster management cost precious lives. In Pakistan‚ too‚ Disaster management is not up to the mark. Be it the devastating earthquake‚ the catastrophic floods‚ the outbreak of fires or the aftermath of bomb blasts‚ the management was

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    Disaster Paper

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    When you deliberate on a disaster‚ it becomes clear that any such event has three phases to it. Initially‚ there are antecedents that lead to the disaster. When enough antecedents have accumulated‚ the disaster occurs at that specific tipping time. Finally after the disaster has happened the final phase of resolutions occurs. The resolutions are steps that the society attempt to implement to revert the effects that the event has produced. Consider the Deepwater Horizon disaster that happened on July

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    The Disasters of War

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    The Disasters of War (Spanish: Los Desastres de la Guerra) are a series of 82[a 1] prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates‚ art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising‚ the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–14 and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. During

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    Nuclear Disasters

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    risks associated with such disasters and the subsequent environmental remediation efforts all serve as important lessons and warnings for impending developments in nuclear power. Conversely‚ should nuclear threats to public health prove unavoidable‚ swift action should be taken to limit long-term environmental degradations through comprehensive waste disposal and remediation. Even with existing technologies in nuclear waste disposal‚ clean-up following a nuclear disaster still occurs at a painstaking

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    Disaster Management Plan

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    losses due to the hurricane.  With this being said‚ a formal disaster plan is recommended to protect the city as well as the people in it.  Disaster management requires proper issue and concerns to be effective.  Accurate Geography information from various sources as well as systems should be integrated together to get maximum protection for homeland and to ensure security.  After doing research I have found many cities who suffer from disasters have become successful in surviving them using 3D city models

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