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    Definition of Disaster: Disaster means a serious disruption to a community caused by the impact of an event that requires a significant coordinated response by the Government and other entities to help the community to recover from the disruption. Disasters are usually associated with severe damage to infrastructure and utilities‚ death‚ injuries and homelessness‚ and can be widespread or contained within a particular sector or sub sector. Definition of Disaster Area: Disaster Area means

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    Kerry James Marshall was born on October 17‚ 1955‚ in Birmingham. He received his education at Otis Art Institute located in Los Angeles‚ which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an honorary doctorate in 1999. The subject of his paintings‚ installations and public projects often stems from African-American popular culture‚ which is rooted from where he was born. He has said‚ “that you can’t be born in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ in 1955 and grow up in South Central in Los Angeles near the Black Panthers

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    Disaster Hunting

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    A disaster can be natural‚ 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 defined as any events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ fires‚ or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people Here we are discussing about Man-made disaster. Man-made disasters are the

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    Engineering Disasters

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    ENGINEERING DISASTERS We can also call Engineering as in invisible science. No one can actually see how it works but it actually exists like an air. Example: Plain flies‚ building stands and many more. We don’t think how a building can stand weight without collapsing. Similar to apple’s company’s Moto ‘it just works. Here the main problems are not the designs but the material the use up building that design. The concept of total cost minimization is the roots of such accidents that just ruins lives

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    Conflict of two cultures in Kate Grenville´s The Secret River The aim of this essay is to analyze the conflict emerging after the arrival of British convicts to Australia‚ which is portrayed accurately in Kate Grenville´s The Secret River. “It explores the collision of cultures that occurred between these groups‚ raising questions of identity and belonging‚ and writing the violence back into the story of early frontier contact.” (Crawford 236) In this novel the idea of a conflict is

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    Saints at the River

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    vacationing with her family in South Carolina. In both stories‚ a plan to use portable dams to retrieve the body is implemented. These dams fail because of the rapid flow rate at which the water moves. Even though rescuers drill holes in the bedrock to support the dams‚ the force of the water destroys these supports. Divers were sent into the river to see if they could discover exactly where the body was lodged and how to get the girl out of the river. Political pressure and clout also played an important

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    Polish Americans In Chicago

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    Chicago’s Polania Polish American Immigrants In Chicago I will be writing my final paper on Polish American Immigrants who settle in Chicago Illinois. I will be referring to Polish American Immigrants in this essay as (Poles) periodically. The majority of Polish immigrants emigrating to the United States of America was in the 1800’s. This period was considered the first out of three waves of Polish immigrants to settle in America. The first major wave was between 1800 and 1860‚ many of the emigrating

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    disaster risk reduction

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    Session M1.1: Disaster Risk Management Terms and Concepts Note: For further detail definitions and concepts clarity‚ please visit United Nation International Strategy (UNISDR) website http://www.unisdr.org/eng/terminology/terminology-2009-eng.html Crisis A crisis is any event that is‚ or is expected to lead to‚ an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual‚ group‚ community‚ or whole society. Management often requires decisions to be made within a short timeframe & often an event

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    Chicago Closing School

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    morning. Now‚ imagine being told that school was being shut down and you had to go to a different school with different people. This is the reality thousands of kids in Chicago are facing today. The Chicago Public School system (CPS) has announced the closing of numerous inefficient elementary schools and even a high school in the Chicago area. This has lead to one of the biggest controversies going on in the country today. Many parents are worried that their children will not benefit from the closings

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    Natural Disasters

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    Natural Disasters This being my senior project I wanted to look at a topic that I found interesting. Even though I find most topics in the fields interesting‚ none catch my attention better than natural disasters. I have always found disasters intriguing and have wanted to know more about them. The disaster that I found most interesting were Hurricanes. The thought of those storms with their power gives me the chills. Ever since I was in the middle of Hurricane Bob when I was vacationing

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