Homelessness is not just a poor person’s problem‚ its everyone’s problem. Introduction: Any person in this country‚ or anyone in this world could be unfortunate enough to suffer through a natural disaster‚ or a catastrophe. Lets take Hurricane Katrina as one example‚ that was a natural disaster that put most of the city of New Orleans in that state of homelessness. The Earthquake in Haiti‚ or the Tsunami In South East Asia‚ what about the mudslides in Guatemala‚ or the wild
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Tennesse Williams who was born in march 26th 1911 and died in February 25th 1983‚ wrote this play which was played for the first time in Chicago in 1944 and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945 The first movie adaptation was made in 1950 by Warner brothers and was in black and white. It was produce by jerry wald and Charles k. feldmann Being a very critical man‚ Williams attended to many theatre representation of his play but he used to interrupt the play by commenting the actor
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http://business.time.com/2012/10/31/hurricane-sandy-estimated-to-cost-60-billion/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/science/earth/as-coasts-rebuild-and-us-pays-again-critics-stop-to-ask-why.html?smid=pl-share http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/11/02/the-economic-impact-of-hurricane-sandy Natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes damage or destroy productive physical assets like factories‚ stores‚ housing‚ and public infrastructure (the capital stock); they interrupt
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Moreover natural hazards emerges from environmental activities which are uncontrollable such as Internal Geodynamics (earthquakes and volcanoes)‚ External Geodynamics (Landslides‚ erosion and flooding)‚ and Hydrometeorology (cyclones‚ drought‚ and hurricanes)”. (Good Practices: Natural Hazard Risk Management in the Caribbean Tourism Sector) A natural disaster can be defined as‚ “…a hazardous event that causes large-scale morbidity/mortality or socioeconomic damage”. Natural disasters arise for the impacts
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ABSTRACT Never before in the history of the United States‚ had this nation witnessed and suffered from such a costly and severe hurricane like Katrina‚ which occurred in August‚ 2005. This paper‚ based on secondary research‚ discusses the influences of Katrina on the American life. In particular‚ the findings explore and answer three questions of what this hurricane was‚ how it damaged the most developed country in the world and what responses were given by the authorities and the non-governmental
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What is a disaster? Disaster‚ in this article‚ a sudden‚ accidental event that causes many deaths and injuries. Most disasters also result in significant property damage. Common natural causes of disasters include earthquakes‚ floods‚ hurricanes and typhoons‚ and tornadoes. Tsunamis (popularly‚ but incorrectly‚ known as tidal waves)‚ volcanic eruptions‚ wildfires‚ and landslides and avalanches rank among the other natural forces that sometimes create disasters. Man made Not all disasters are
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This case summarizes events preceding the Hurricane Katrina‚ which was one of the worst natural catastrophes in the modern history of the USA. It raises questions about the lack of reasonable prevention and preparation actions due to flimsy structure and management of the responsible organizations and persons‚ invalidity and inconsistence of their actions and incapability of making the decisions in a timely manner. As a result of the unstructured and incoherent activities‚ we could observe several
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authorization to U.S Army Crop of Engineers (USACE) to design and construct a flood protection system to protect south Louisiana from hurricanes. It was called the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project‚ the reason for this project was prior to 1965. The state of Louisiana design and built its own flood protection‚ but on September 9‚ 1965 hurricane Betsy a category five‚ hit the city of New Orleans. Betsy drove strong storm surge waters into the city of New Orleans from Lake Pontchartrain
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Haiti very obviously needs help right now. The storm had devastated the country‚ leaving entire parts of it destroyed. Hurricane Matthew only added to the pain and loss the country was already recovering from due to the previous earthquake in 2010‚ and the country needs help now more than ever. I would work to earn money. I’d sell things‚ perhaps have a bake sale‚ to earn enough money to donate to the foundation Hope For Haiti‚ which is a charity that focuses entirely on helping Haiti through things
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Many engineers and other people have asked the question whether or not the present levee system in New Orleans could withstand a huge wave or a direct hit from a powerful hurricane. These questions were answered when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane which isn’t even the most powerful. After the hurricane hit the levee system failed and there were many breaches in the system‚ which lead to the flooding of most of the city. My question is what could have been done to stop
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