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    Influence of Media

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    Media Health Literacy (MHL): development and measurement of the concept among adolescents Diane Levin-Zamir 1 ‚2 ‚ *‚ Dafna Lemish3 and Rosa Gofin 4 ‚5 Author Affiliations * ↵ Correspondence to: D. Levin-Zamir. E-mail: diamos@zahav.net.il Received March 13‚ 2010. Accepted February 3‚ 2011. Abstract Increasing media use among adolescents and its significant influence on health behavior warrants in-depth understanding of their response to media content. This study developed the concept and tested a

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    The Impacts of Natural Disasters on the Tourism Industry THM 1311 Intro. to Tourism & Hospitality Management Samantha Salamon THM 1311 Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality Management The Impacts of Natural Disasters and on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Table of Contents Introduction Why Study the Impacts of Natural Disasters on the Tourism Industry? Taiwan Earthquake of 1991 Japan Earthquake of 2011 Market Rebuilding/Hurricane Katrina Works Cited page 1 page 2 pages 3-4

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    yardstick (How to determine when a natural disaster is caused by humans?). The key terms that need to be defined are “natural causes”‚ “human causes”‚ “hazards” and “disasters”. A natural cause is a cause that is completely uninfluenced by humans and a human cause is a cause that has been influenced by human actions. A hazard is a threat with the potential to cause loss of life‚ injury‚ property damage‚ socio-economic disruption or environmental degradation and a disaster is a hazard that causes wide-scale

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    Influence of Media

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    In general‚ "media" refers to various means of communication. Media‚ the name alone to everyone seems all too familiar. For ages media has been a key source for knowing what is happening throughout the world. As time evolved the speed in which media information becomes available has increased. Nowadays media depends on Electronic media which includes television‚ radio‚ etc‚ Print media which includes newspapers‚ magazines‚ etc and Social mediamedia disseminated through social interaction. In the

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    A natural disaster is the happening of a dangerous hazardous event‚ which can cause damages for the societies (Petrucci‚ 2012). Floods are one of the most common natural disasters over the world and they have occasional devastating influences in developed as well as developing countries (Ahern‚ 2005). Recently the floods increasingly happen over the world in general and specially in Australia. For example‚ a sequence of floods in Queensland in early December 2010 did happen and led to a damage of

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    Summary and Recommendations: Natural Disaster Management From the lesson learnt among the experiences of Natural Disasters and local management for livelihood strategies in Myanmar/Burma‚ we found some key points which are the causes of natural disasters or causes making people more suffered‚ and the good experiences which peoples found and practice for emergency response or management for livelihood. Summary - Extraction on natural resources without conducting assessment on possible impacts

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    Jeff Rommel’s introduction to Florida could be described as trial by hurricane. Rommel took overFlorida operations in 2004 for Nationwide Insurance.Over a 2-month period in 2004‚ Florida experiencedits worst hurricane season in history four majorhurricanes (Charley‚ Frances‚ Ivan‚ and Jeanne) slammed thestate‚ causing an estimated $40 billion in damage. In the hurricanes’ wake‚ Nationwide received more than 119‚000 claims collectively worth $850 million. Although dealing with those claims

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    Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium‚ a rare earth‚ from monazite. Within a few years‚ the villagers began noticing physical defects in their newborns‚ and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia

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    Twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation and outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) 7 June 2001 New York Mr. President‚ Mr. Secretary-General‚ Excellencies‚ Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure‚ Mr. President‚ to see you preside over this important special session of the General Assembly. I am confident that with your able leadership and diplomatic skill‚ you will steer the

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    With reference to various examples‚ discuss how ‘naturaldisasters are socially constructed. While natural disasters such as floods‚ drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather‚ climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large‚ if not equal‚ contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling‚ 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues‚ there is

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