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    Disaster Management

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    ROLE OF STUDENT IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT Knowledge on first aid‚ rescue and evacuation. Help in the preparation of the school disaster contingency plan. Aware the parents and community on various types of hazards and what are the preparedness measures to be taken. Plantation in the school premises. Boosting the morale of the community after the disaster. Senior students can help villagers in preparing the Village Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan. The students

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    COMMUNITY TOURISM IN SOUTH AFRICA Submitted to: ACTS South Africa PO Box 13911 Mowbray South Africa 7705 South Africa 30 November 2009 Submitted by: FinnGroup Ltd Group 3 Helin Henrietta 09163185 Mäkinen Outi 07083938 Raudaskoski Heli 09163176 Tuominen Katja-Mirjami 07084112 Introduction In this consultancy report we will discuss about the concepts of community tourism and pro-poor tourism and their sustainability both in general and in the context of South Africa. The first section

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    In society the decisions executed can yield life altering consequences. In Roald Dahl’s “Man from the South” an american soldier makes a dangerous wager with a another man by the name of Carlos. Dahl exhibits a captivating and suspenseful foreshadowment of the American’s fate through his thematic decisions surrounding blind trust influenced by pride‚ the understated depiction of sacrifice‚ and the negative impact gambling has on the soldier’s psychological and physical being. Critical in understanding

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    Fukushima Disaster

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    nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials. According to the International Business Times (Australia) "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic disaster.” (IBT‚ 01) On April 2011 The Nuclear Institute rated the disaster a Level 7 “Major Accident” on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The International Nuclear Event Scale How the reactors were damaged An earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on a Richter Scale initially damaged

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    South

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    The poem "South" repossesses ideas of African heritage through the hybridity that "occur[s] in post-colonial societies both as a result of conscious moments of cultural suppression‚ as when the colonial power[s] [...] dispossess indigenous peoples and force them to assimilate to new social patterns" (Ashcroft‚ et al. 183). Hybridity is the force behind repossession in "South‚" and Brathwaite plays up what must remain from a hybrid (or colonized) identity. The poem reads‚ "But today I recapture the

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    The Fukushima Disaster

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    On 11 March 2011‚ disaster struck Fukushima‚ Japan when an immense tsunami hit and caused massive equipment failure to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant‚ which led to vast radioactive leaks and consequences. The Fukushima disaster is one of the worst nuclear disasters to ever take place‚ comparable to Chernobyl. Some energy specialists believe that the detriments of nuclear energy far outweigh the benefits due to the consequences it has caused in history and what it will cause in the future because

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    Disaster Recovery

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    the members of the organization’s leadership team and communicate IT performance. It is the CIO’s job to manage and led the IT department to achieve organizational excellence and success (Wager‚ Lee‚ & Glaser‚ 2009). When it comes to the disaster recovery case study‚ three steps the CIO could have taken to reduce the likelihood of the system failure are; risk analysis‚ risk management lead by the chief security officer‚ and security system evaluation. These three activities are part of the

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    natural disasters

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    physics generated from natural disasters. The specific natural disaster that will be focused on in this essay is tsunami waves. The paper will explain various ways that tsunamis may be generated which can even happen from the results of another natural disaster‚ the damage that tsunamis can cause as it hits land‚ and of course the physics in the tsunami’s waves relative to the damages. Tsunamis are one of the world’s most dangerous and a commonly formed natural disaster needing only a build up into

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    essay on the following problem: “Your County Manager has just gone to a federally sponsored program on getting volunteers to support the management and administrative side of disaster and recovery portions of emergency management. The Manager attended a seminar on a program called ‘Professional Volunteer Disaster Survey Team (PRO-V-DST)’ which had been developed in Texas in the mid-1990’s. She was quite enthusiastic about the program as it provides: A network of professional building

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    South Sudan

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    Level of Development in South Sudan Sociological imagination is “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (Mills‚ 1959). It is the ability to see how things interact and influence each other‚ as well as seeing them socially. A countries level of development is influenced by a number of factors that are related. These factors can be broken down into five categories which are historical‚ political‚ environmental‚ social and economic. In this essay‚ I will

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