Civil–Military Relations in Hurricane Katrina: A Case Study on Crisis Management in Natural Disaster Response In late August 2006‚ Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans region‚ affecting an area of over 90‚000 miles. It began with a hurricane which led to flooding‚ disrupting millions of lives across multiple jurisdictions‚ and damaging or destroying much of the local critical infrastruc- ture—21 refineries‚ miles of electricity transmission lines‚ and telecommunications equipment—within
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Academy of Management Review 2012‚ Vol. 37‚ No. 2‚ 300–326. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2010.0522 UNDERSTANDING ATTRIBUTIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY DONALD LANGE Arizona State University NATHAN T. WASHBURN Thunderbird School of Global Management Notwithstanding the significance to organizations of external reactions to bad behavior‚ the corporate social responsibility literature tends to focus on the meaning of and expectations for responsible behavior‚ rather than on the meaning
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The Eden Project – making a connection John Blewitt* University of Exeter Abstract The Eden Project is a major tourist attraction and learning environment. Three quarters of its visitors are on holiday travelling to Cornwall from beyond the South West region. The informal learning experiences fashioned for them are intended to offer pleasure‚ meaning and ecological significance. It strives to reach people by connecting and resonating with their everyday lives in a range of complementary and experimental
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Contracts II Outline Fall 2005 Professor Jean Powers Cited to Crandall & Whaley’s Contracts‚ 4th Edition I) Damages (227) A) Introduction (227) 1) General Rule – Contract damages should put the π in as good of a position as if the contract was fulfilled. 2) No action on a contract need be present for damages to be proper. An executory contract will suffice. B) Measuring Expectation Damages (229) 1) Expectation = Expected Value + Costs – Expenses Mitigated 2) Repair Theory – Damages should
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The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps for Strategy* Human nature insists on a definition for every concept. The field of strategic management cannot afford to rely on a single definition of strategy‚ indeed the word has long been used implicitly in different ways even if it has traditionally been defined formally in only one. Explicit recognition of multiple definitions can help practitioners and researchers alike to maneuver through this difficult field. Accordingly‚ this article presents five definitions
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Mass Media Audience in Malaysia In the mass media perspective‚ have two types of audience which is the passive audience and the active audience. But sometimes‚ they maybe act both of these types. So‚ in discuss this both type of the audience‚ I have pick up the difference theory to explained how their style can give the powerful effects to mass media or by their attitudes make the mass media have the limited impact on them. Lots of theory that has been discussed on passive audience‚ and state
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G EOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM John Pickles ISSN 0306-6142 ISBN 0 86094 220 1 © John Pickles Published by Geo Books‚ Norwich Printed by W.H. Hutchins & Sons‚ Norwich CATMOG - Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY No. 44 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM by John Pickles (West Virginia University) EDITOR ’S NOTE PREFACE NOTE ON THE USE OF THE GLOSSARY I INTRODUCTION (i) (ii) (iii) II (i) (ii) (i) (ii) IV (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
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The Matrix and Philosophy Welcome to the Desert of the Real Edited by WILLIAM IRWIN For Peter H. Hare‚ Morpheus to many Contents Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix 1 Scene 1 How Do You Know? 3 1. 2. 3. 4. Computers‚ Caves‚ and Oracles: Neo and Socrates WILLIAM IRWIN Skepticism‚ Morality‚ and The Matrix GERALD J. ERION and BARRY SMITH 16 The Matrix Possibility DAVID MITSUO NIXON 28 Seeing‚ Believing‚ Touching‚ Truth CAROLYN KORSMEYER
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 30.2 (July 2004): 129-54. Wordsworth Studies and the Ethics of Criticism: The “Tintern Abbey” Debate Revisited Eric K. W. Yu National Chiao Tung University Abstract This paper raises important questions concerning the “ethics” of criticism with reference to Wordsworth scholarship. Reviewing the major critical approaches to Wordsworth’s canonical poem “Tintern Abbey‚” I explore their implications for doing literary criticism today. I begin with
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Do children apologize to each other? Apology events in young Israeli peer discourse ZOHAR KAMPF and SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA Abstract Children’s apologies are greatly under-researched. Though there is wealth of information available on the pragmatics of apologies generally‚ we know much less about whether and how children apologize. Our study explores modes of remedial work by Israeli children in peer discourse. The data were collected through ethnographic observation of Israeli preschool and
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