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    DisasterDisaster” Oh DisasterDisaster how cruel you are Oh DisasterDisaster how rude you are You shake the ground beneath my feet You attack me‚ and you wake me up from my sleep I have so little time to get away from you I never though you would become my foe Oh DisasterDisaster what have I done Oh DisasterDisaster why did you have to come? Because of you I have nothing left Except for bricks and rocks and the smell of dust You made me cry‚ you make me scream You make me panic and entangled

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    Topic. How to apply disaster management program into Cambodia? Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented before‚ during or after any type of catastrophic event takes place. Nowadays‚ Cambodia does not have a law on disaster management yet‚ which is an essentially to cope with natural disaster. To help deal with potential disasters in the future‚ I think that the National Committee for Disaster Management and together with some other relevant institutions should be set up

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    on The Natural Disaster (Flood In Pakistan) There are many questions emerging from the recent floods in Pakistan‚ ranging from attempts to understand the atmospheric phenomena behind the downpours to the search for where ultimate responsibility lies for the ensuing human calamity. This short essay investigates some of those questions. A pinch of geography is necessary to explain why Pakistan received such an extraordinary amount of rain during this rainy season. The Indian monsoon can be understood

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    THE LEAST OP

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    necessary for a lasting democracy are the same necessary for the security of property and contract rights that generates economic growth The first blessing of the invisible hand 1. Why have most populous societies throughout history normally avoided anarchy? a. Why should warlords‚ who were stationary bandits continuously stealing from a given group of victims‚ be preferred‚ by those victims‚ to roving bandits who soon departed? b. If roving bandits rationally settles down and takes

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    The Titanic Disaster John Eaton‚ one of the co-authors of Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy said that in the summer of 1907‚ J. Bruce Ismay and Lord James Pirrie‚ a partner in Harland and Wolff‚ met to discuss plans to build two ocean liners that will surpass anything built to date. This simple meeting set off a chain of events that led to the death of over 1500 people less than five years later. The two ocean liners were to be called the Olympic and the Titanic. A third ship was added to the plans

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    HOW ONE CAN LEARN FROM THE DELL EFFECT Fall 2008 HOW ONE CAN LEARN FROM THE DELL EFFECT ABSTRACT Dell has entered the computer industry for a short period of time but the impacts of Dell will last a lifetime. Dell introduces a new business plan that no other computer producer has ever used and this just in time production allowed Dell to cut many costs. Because of the advantages in costs Dell was able to offer their products at a very competitive

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    DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE The disaster cycle or the disaster life cycle consists of the steps that emergency managers take in planning for and responding to disasters. Each step in the disaster cycle correlates to part of the ongoing cycle that is emergency management. This disaster cycle is used throughout the emergency management community‚ from the local to the national and international levels.   Preparedness The first step of the disaster cycle is usually considered to be preparedness although

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    The causes and effects of the Challenger and Columbia disasters It was the day in the history of America wherein the people had a great expectation of a mission that would take a civilian for the first time into the space by launched the Challenger‚ in 1986‚ but something unexpected happened when the shuttle explored shortly after liftoff and claiming the lives of all crew members onboard. That was not the only exploration of the American history‚ another similar disaster was the exploration

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    Least Count

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    ------------------------------------------------- The "Least Count" of any measuring equipment is the smallest quantity that can be measured accurately using that instrument.Thus Least Count indicates the degree of accuracy of measurement that can be achieved by the measuring instrument. All measuring instruments used in physics have a least count. A meter ruler’s least count is 0.1 centimeter; an electronic scale has a least count of 0.001g‚ although this may vary; a vernier caliper has a least count of 0.02 millimeters

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    Environmental Disasters

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    2] A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the

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