all children‚ regardless of socio economic status to have a fair chance to an early education which creates a solid foundation for the continuance of their education later in life. 2. Would you consider Hurricane Katrina a natural or Unnatural Disaster? And why? Discuss whether Katrina was a failure of policy implementation with regard to bureaucracy‚ communications‚ leadership‚ resources‚ and/or other failures (see‚ for example‚ reports by the Government Accountability Office). What policies should
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Katrina Anderson September 3‚ 2013 Title: Why Race‚ Class‚ and Gender Still Matter Authors: Margaret L. Andersen‚ Patricia Hill Collins Publication: Wadsworth The critical issues mentioned in “Why Race Class and Gender Still Matter” are how inequalities are going to be spoken about in the book “Race Class and Gender” and about how race‚ class‚ and gender still effect society today. Another critical topic in this chapter is Hurricane Katrina and how that brought the poverty
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Media - ‘When the Levees Broke’ A Spike Lee documentary looking into the tragic event of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. It shows camera footage and interviews from various people such as: residents ‚ politicians and police men who were all caught up in the disaster. Divided into four parts‚ the film goes on for four hours. During this‚ numerous people with different roles are interviewed regarding their experiences. Spike Lee has introduced the film but using archive footage and photos
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References: C.W. Johnson (2005). Emergency Planning After Hurricane Katrina: Using Task Analysis with Observational Studies to Simulate Hospital Evacuations. Retrieved July 8‚ 2006‚ from http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/Katrina.PDF Makola M. Abdullah‚ Shealy C. Gross‚ Terri R. Norton‚ G. Dale Wesson (2005). ALTERED
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with three kids‚ another on the way and their dog living with the clothes on their backs‚ nowhere to go‚ and no money for a new hotel‚ let alone a new house. This is similar to what happened to thousands of families in New Orleans when hurricane Katrina obliterated many neighborhoods‚ leaving families stranded on roofs and in the streets with no help from the government and their insurance companies. The article “Drop in the Bucket” was written by Karrie Jacobs for the public of America to become
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for organizational functional elements‚ position titles‚ facilities‚ and resources is essential for any command system‚ especially one that will be used by units from multiple agencies. In retrospect of these two major incidents 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina brought about many changes in the Emergency Management world. The [NRF‚ NIMS‚ and NPG] align the patchwork of Federal‚ State‚ local‚ tribal‚ private sector‚ and nongovernmental incident management efforts into an effective and efficient national
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Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Katrina destroyed imports of crude oil and caused a number of refineries in its path to shut down temporarily. It prompted denunciation by politicians of greedy refiners and gasoline dealers‚ and proposals for federal legislation prohibiting "unconscionably excessive" gasoline price increases. Many states have an anti-gouging law set in place during disasters. But yet just a year
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................................................................. Abstract Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink was a very compelling overview of the tragedy that took place at Memorial Hospital during the five days after Hurricane Katrina ravished New Orleans in September 2005. The book approached the ethical dilemmas faced by those physicians and staff involved in the key roles of the rescue effort at Memorial Medical Center‚ one of the many medical facilities that were devastated
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The recent hurricanes‚ Katrina and Rita‚ along with global warming amplify Jared Diamond’s thesis in "The Last Americans" that humans are responsible for the downfall of civilizations. Throughout history‚ many civilizations have collapsed due to numerous reasons such as incompetent leaders and environmental negligence. Many people view the United States’ current environmental crisis with apathy. These people feel that the environmental collapse of ancient societies such as the Mayans is only pertinent
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Communication and Crisis Michelle Cato HCS/320 July 16‚ 2013 Diedra Sawyer Communication and Crisis Many of us know about the devastating hurricane Katrina that took place in New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ in 2005‚ but how many of us actually thought about the communication issues. From the writing of James L Garnett and Alexander Kouzmin‚” Hurricane Katrina was as much a communication disaster as it was a natural and bureaucratic disaster. Communication gaps‚ missed signals‚ information technology failures
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