1. Local Response and Local Emergency Managers The local response is the first responders to deal with the hazards in a plan and organized way. The local response consists of firefighter‚ police officer and emergency medical service to a hazardous incident. After the Hurricane Katrina incident FEMA had required all first responder to properly train in the Incident Command System (ICS)‚ so to eligible for federal grant funds. The local emergency manager is primarily over the providing an emergency
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book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal explores the effects of the spread of multinational fast food corporations into other countries‚ and the resulting loss of national culture. In his chapter “Global Realization” Eric Schlosser claims that “The global expansion of American fast food is homogenizing cultural identities; like Las Vegas‚ it offers “a brief sense of hope… that most brilliant illusion of all‚ a loss that feels like winning” (Schlosser). Schlosser intentionally
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Budget Setting Process within Local Governments in the UK Introduction Finance is one of the key resources available to local authorities for use in providing their services and for meeting their statutory obligations to their residents. Other resources include staff‚ systems‚ property/buildings and information. Finance is the resource that allows all the other resources to be secured and as such managing it becomes a very important activity to ensure an efficient use of all resources. Finance
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Nike Goes Green. Very Quietly By Reena Jana Its eco-friendly products save the company money‚ but the brand’s buyers want looks‚ not sustainability. Nike‚ Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of a major manufacturer of sportswear and equipment. It is very famous on the Air Jordan‚ Nike+‚ Nike Pro‚ Nike Golf and Nike skateboarding. Nike goes green Most of the companies are trying to make it supply chain and products greener‚ which bring observable environmental benefit and financial gain
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2007 Ledesma Local Supplier Development Program Ledesma’s Local Supplier Development Program aims to strengthen job-creation in and the economic development of the province of Jujuy‚ in Argentina‚ and particularly in the area where its employees live. In doing so‚ the company designed a program in which the growth of local suppliers could also provide benefits for the company. In this way‚ the sustainability of the program is not solely dependant on the commitment to local development. The
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Consolidated Engineering Co. Goes to China: Case Consolidated Engineering Co. Goes to China1 Travis Maples and Penelope B. Prime (Published in Readings and Cases in International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective‚ by David C. Thomas: Sage‚ 2003) “Do I have to satisfy every set of eyes in China?” After more than a year since the contract had been signed‚ this was how Vice President of Operations and Project Manager‚ Travis Maples‚ felt about the deal that maybe wasn’t. He had worked
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Hannerz‚ Ulf (1990) ”Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture”. Theory‚ Culture and Society Vol. 7‚ pp. 237-251 (also reprinted in Featherstone) World culture is marked by an organization of diversity rather than by a replication of uniformity. (237) The world has become one network of social relationships. (237) People can relate in different ways to global interconnected diversity. For one thing‚ there are cosmopolitans‚ and there are locals. What was cosmopolitan in the early 1940s
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The Beat Generation The Twentieth Century has witnessed several moments which have helped to shape the face of American culture. Each movement has in some way altered the way we‚ as Americans‚ think and act. One of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of the Beat movement. The Beats were initially a small group of individuals situated in New York. The Beat writers were a small group of friends at first‚ and a movement later. The Beat Generation in literature consisted
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animal’s brain‚ but also they lack a clear scientific purpose. The instructor admits to saying no new information will be learned; therefore it goes against Rule 1 of the APA Ethic guidelines for Animal Research. Case 2: Your university includes a college of veterinary medicine. In the past‚ the students practiced surgical techniques on dogs acquired from a local animal shelter. There have been some objections to this
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loose morals and racy tastes. The musical Anything Goes (1934)‚ embodies the wish for what once was in its title song “Anything Goes” written by Cole Porter. Taunting lyrics criticizing American culture and the chaotic society in which the characters live defines “Anything Goes” as a true jeremiad. “Anything Goes” critiques the immorality of the Roaring Twenties. Similar to Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚ by Jonathan Edwards‚ “Anything Goes” comments on the shockingly immoral ways of the people
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