2] A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the
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“John‚ John wake up! You are going to be late‚ come on for god sake! “ That’s usually how my day starts‚ but today it was really frustrating! As you can see I’m kind of a sleepy-head (at least that’s what the others say because I don’t agree). Anyway‚ I woke up after my sister’s calls‚ thinking that it was going to be a normal day‚ but things were going to be far different from normality. I was on my way to work when my eye caught that little girl‚ trembling and asking for help. I could see that
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Do you agree with Milton Friedman’s (1970) claim that : « the only responsibility of business is to increase its profits » ? Milton Friedman was an American economist‚ statistician and writer‚ who had a massive impact on the research agenda of the economics profession. His famous words “the only responsibility of business is to increase its profits” (Friedman‚ Milton. 1970) led to many controversial debates on whether businesses should have ethics or if profit should be their main goal. Corporate
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‘Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction‚ and the act becomes... hollow.’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I stood in front of the mirror‚ gazing at my reflection through tears. They are always like this I thought. Violent. What did I ever do to them? I rarely talked to them. Yet‚ they always picked on me. Well
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Ann Barton said “Lovelorn Orsino is not a figure of fun. The verse he speaks at the beginning of the play is seductively beautiful: intense‚ metaphoric and imaginative” To what extent do you agree with this view of the presentation of the character of Orsino? The presentation of Duke Orsino emphasises the dominant theme of love in Twelfth Night. He can be interpreted in different ways. There is debate as to whether Orsino represents the beauty and truth of love as a heroic lover‚ or as a stock
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ESSAY ASSIGNMENT CURRENTLY THE JDF IS INFANTRY ORIENTED; DO YOU THINK THIS IS THE BEST APPROACH The infantry can be defined as soldiers or military units that fight on foot‚ in modern times typically with rifles‚ machine guns‚ grenades and mortars. More simply put the infantry is a branch of an army composed of infantry soldiers In my opinion‚ the army being infantry orientated is the best approach. As the phrase states‚ “as goes the Infantry‚ so goes the Force” the infantry basically the
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1958 CONVENTION ON THE HIGH SEAS Adopted at Geneva‚ Switzerland on 29 April 1958 [http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/8_1_1958_high_seas.pdf] ARTICLE 1 3 ARTICLE 2 3 ARTICLE 3 3 ARTICLE 4 4 ARTICLE 5 4 ARTICLE 6 4 ARTICLE 7 4 ARTICLE 8 4 ARTICLE 9 5 ARTICLE 10 5 ARTICLE 11 5 ARTICLE 12 5 ARTICLE 13 6 ARTICLE 14 6 ARTICLE 15 6 ARTICLE 16 6 ARTICLE 17 7 ARTICLE 18 7 ARTICLE 19 7 ARTICLE 20 7 ARTICLE 21 7 ARTICLE 22 7 ARTICLE 23 8 ARTICLE 24
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| | |Global problems of ecology................................................................................................... |3 | |Worst man-made environmental disasters of all time............................................................ |4 | |Bhopal
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“Assess the view that society discriminates people more than it brings people together” Functionalists disagree with the this claim that society discriminates people more than it brings people together due to the consensus approach that all agencies should work together positively‚ which they believe to be right. Also they value the fact that all of our society share the same norms and values‚ therefore society will not discriminate against each other but in fact work together. Society works
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The number of people killed was the most significant aspect of World War I. To what extent do you agree? It’s 1914 and Gavrilo Princip has just shot the heir to the Austrian throne and his wife. As he fired the bullet‚ little did he know that he was about to start one of the bloodiest and most tragic wars the world had ever seen. World War I was‚ for most people‚ the most horrific event of their lives. There were over 35 million casualties‚ a war second only to World War II. No other war had changed
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