Objective Explain the reasons why people live in hazardous areas. Discuss vulnerability as a function of demographic and socio‑economic factors‚ and of a community’s preparedness and ability to deal with a hazard event when it occurs. Explain the reasons for some sectors of a population being more vulnerable than others. A Distinction A hazard / Hazard event / Disaster Hazard -is a perceived natural event which threatens both life and property Disaster - is the realisation of this hazard
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went to find an opportunity at a pet shelter that needed volunteers. I walked inside the shelter and asked the front person if there was a volunteer opportunity available. I was told that there was no opportunity available‚ but I did not think anything about it. I went home‚ then after a few hours went by‚ I texted my friend‚ who is Caucasian‚ if I could come over to her house. I received a text back saying that she was busy volunteering at the same pet shelter that I had gone to just a few hours
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almost everyone will unavoidablely be influenced by television‚ newspapers‚ and even the World Wide Web--the Internet. Famous people are the only group the masses most concern. Convenient media approaches make every day’s behaviors of famous people available to average people. Commercial management of media brings about the excessive attention to the personal lives of famous people. To begin with‚ after television and broadcast‚ Internet is becoming the most popular and convenient way for information
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People do acts of kindness for a reason. People help others because they are in need and because they can get a benefit out of it. For example‚ I live in Texas and over the summer we had many catastrophic events. Including hurricanes through the Houston and Corpus Christi area. There was another through Puerto Rico and many earthquakes happened in Mexico. Many people lost their lives‚ homes‚ and all of their belongings. As a close church community‚ we were able to incorporate other church communities
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< Homeless Shelters Almost everyone can relate to seeing them standing on the median when stopped at a red light or when walking down a street in an urban area tucked away in the corner of an alley. What I am referring to is the homeless‚ not just those chronically homeless either: families – especially in the economy we are in right now –are being foreclosed on and among other people may find themselves temporarily displaced. Homelessness has been a major issue in the United States that has
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My experience at the animal shelters These are my experiences while visiting both animal shelters; first I visited Orange County Animal Services. When I came in I realize there were people standing on line waiting to talk to the clerk to tell her their business in the shelter. While waiting on line I observed this two young girls in front of me very excited that they were adopting a dog‚ when they got to the clerk they told the clerk that they had choose a dog and were ready to take him home
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I believe that people are naturally good to others‚ because there isn’t as much cold-hearted people as there is with the good-people. In the world there is a lot of good people that will go out of there way to help anyone that they can. During hurricane Harvey majority of the people that were stuck at there homes couldn’t go anywhere they would have to stay out there house till someone came to get them. People say there isn’t enough people good people in the world but after everything that happened
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How do Religious people and Atheist people perceive each other’s points of view? Do religious people accept atheists or see them as enemies of “GOD”? How does not believing in God create tension and sense of mistrust between religious people and atheist? I would like to investigate and learn what religious and atheists people think of each other using interactionist theoretical perspective. Interactionist perspective mainly focuses on how people interact with each other from simple everyday
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2014 Domestic violence shelters play an important role for victims and their families. Shelters are essential to those who feel they have no other safe place to go. In many cases‚ victims of domestic violence find it difficult to locate available‚ safe places where they can turn. The need for safe‚ affordable housing for victims of domestic violence is well documented. Without access to housing options‚ women fleeing from abusive relationships are often forced to live in substandard conditions
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A change in the way you deal with other people Chasity I have learned the only way to deal with other people is to change what’s within yourself first. A true saying‚ “You can try but you can’t change others”. The one way to approach the issue is to change how you act and view other people. By doing this‚ everything else will fall in place. With our attitude or what make us become so aggressive with a person‚ depends on what they have done‚ the way the person approach you‚ how they even
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