Hurricane Katrina Have you hear about the Hurricane in New Orleans that changed a lot of people’s lives? A hurricane is a natural disaster. Hurricane is a tropical phenomenon caused by the weather changes. For example‚ Hurricane Katrina was a powerful hurricane that caused several damages in New Orleans. The effects of Hurricane Katrina were property damages‚ displaced people‚ and lost of people’s lives. One of the Hurricane Katrina effects was property damages. Hurricane Katrina
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The Spokane ice storm occurred on November 19th‚ 1996 in Spokane Washington. Many people‚ I’m sure if they live near Spokane have experienced this. This storm was the worst storm in 60 years. The ice storm caused many damages to the city‚ like fallen trees‚ frozen power lines costing a lot of money. All these damages totaled $22 million in 1996 money‚ now costing $33 million dollars in 2013 money. It started when freezing rain started to drizzle with fog and cover all the roads‚ trees and power
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Jaclyn Edwards MGMT 3180 Chap 2 Assignment May 30‚ 2013 Held Hostage 1. I was quite shocked with the aggressiveness of the French workers‚ however feel like if you want to get something done then go for it‚ however this could be very dangerous for the executives. Like the text said the actions of employees could become violent especially if they feel they have nothing to lose. I think my reaction to these events are influenced by my culture‚ because if that were to happen in the United
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Rifleman Dodd was the “Commandant’s Choice” for 1996 and it supported the year’s theme of “commitment.” It followed the struggles of Dodd‚ a rifleman in the British Ninety-Fifth‚ as he tried to return to his regiment when he was cut off by the French. The setting was the peninsular campaign during the Napoleonic War. The combatants were the French who “would hang or shoot—if they did not torture—any one they caught who was not a Frenchman‚” the British who only make appearances at the beginning and
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Monaco She Phoenix‚ Arizona. My home. You would think with name like a bird of fire it would be inspiring‚ breathtaking even magical. But it isn’t. It’s just another desert city. And I’m just another desert nobody on another desert summer day. He She’s a hurricane. She’s the greatest and most devastating of storms. Even in the bone dry summer‚ she changed my world and brought rain and snow and hail. She rained down on me when I least expected it. Before I could even get my umbrella out‚ she soaked
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The BP Oil Spill “Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste to sky‚ as well as the earth‚” said Henry David Thoreau on environmental damage. The BP‚ or British Petroleum‚ Gulf oil spill has been widely referred to as the biggest environmental disaster that the United States has ever faced‚ with over four million gallons of oil pouring into the waters off the Mexican Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill occurred in April of 2010. It was‚ and still is‚ the biggest oil spill in all of U.S. history. The massive
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1. Introduction This report will identify a crisis facing BP company‚ the Gulf of Mexico spill‚ and investigate how the organization response to the society. In this report‚ it will use Legitimacy theory to explain BP’s response to this event. Legitimacy theory can be treated as a explanation for voluntary corporate disclosures in annual report. As (Dowling&Pfeffer‚ 1975) says a corporation must act in congruence with norms and society value. First of all‚ Legitimacy theory is based on the
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The Hebei Spirit Oil Spill (HSOS) in December 7‚ 2007 spilled approximately 10‚900 tons of crude oil in about 10 km off the Taean coastline in South Korea. Due to the astronomical and irrecoverable damage upon the marine ecosystem and the overall living standards of the residents‚ the oil spill accident has been notoriously named as the “worst oil spill accident” occurred in Korea. Nevertheless‚ though almost a decade have passed since the outbreak of the HSOS in Korea‚ it appears that compensation
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In 2008‚ Hurricane Ike made landfall to the east coast line in Galveston Texas. The storm surge water that Ike produced by flooding the east coast region of Houston and Galveston. It has been estimated over billions of dollars in damage to homeowners‚ business owners‚ and cause numerous of deaths. The mass destruction that Ike caused had people coming up with ideas to prevent or lessen the effects if a storm like this would ever occur in the future. A storm surge project have been drafted and
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“Sir all I remember was that it was last Wednesday‚ about 10 o’clock‚ and it was pouring rain when we received the call. Once my men and I arrived‚ Mrs. Ventimiglia was in some sort of trance; repeating six things over and over again: Dirty lover‚ Liar‚ No‚ Malcolm‚ Hilton‚ 21-3-12." "So there was nothing else that seemed unusual? " "Oh no‚ there was definitely something odd about Mrs. Ventimiglia‚ almost as if she had stared death right in the face. She just sat there‚ in a pool of her husbands
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