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    Natural Disaster Paper

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    Natural Disaster/Hazard Paper For my paper I will be talking about the 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17‚ 1994. The earthquake was centered in Reseda‚ a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles‚ California. “It was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that lasted 10 – 20 seconds. In addition‚ two 6.0 magnitude aftershocks occurred‚ the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later‚ the strongest of several thousand

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    Pied Piper of Hamelin “What are the ways in which Browning tells the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?” The Pied Piper of Hamelin is set in medieval Germany‚ in a small town‚ Hamelin. The town is plagued by rats when a stranger‚ the Pied Piper‚ comes to town and offers to get rid of them if they Mayor will pay him. He plays bewitching music on his pipe which causes the rats to follow him. He leads the rats to the river and they drown. The Mayor breaks his promise and refuses to pay the Piper and the

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    Climate Disaster Tucked away in the vast Alaskan wilderness only assessable by boat or plane‚ lays the state capital‚ Juneau. This isolated town‚ and the people born and raised in it have seen a sight that many people can’t fathom. Many Americans see the world climate change‚ but don’t take action because they have not seen the major effects of it. Being born and raised in Juneau‚ Alaska I have sadly seen over a dozen glaciers recede at a rapid rate‚ each year being a record-breaking year. Years

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    The BP Oil Disaster

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    largest providers of products and services to the energy industry‚” according to their website homepage. Transocean is an offshore drilling company helps companies such as BP find oil and natural gas reserves. Yet people call the oil spill the “BP oil disaster”. Due to the fact that BP was the company who was running operations‚ they are the ones to be ultimately responsible. Both BP and Transocean have taken responsibility for their actions‚ but Halliburton has denied any responsibility for this

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    Natural Disasters in India

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    Landslides The landslides are simply defined as the mass movement of rock‚ debris or earth down and have to include a broad range of motions whereby falling‚ sliding and flowing under the influence of gravity dislodges earth material. They often take place in conjunction with earthquakes‚ floods and volcanoes. The Himalayan Mountain‚ the north-east hill ranges and the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris experience considerable landslide activities of varying intensities. Also called landslip; Downward

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    Case Study 1 Group Alpha

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    Case study 1: Harrington Collection: Sizing Up the Active-Wear Market Course: Strategic Marketing (BUAD 6300) Presented to: Dr. Madiha Group Name: Alpha Team Group Members: Fady Sobhy Sherry Radi Hany Guriguis Mohamed El Kilany Mohamed Abdou Ibrahim Questions presented in the case in the section of “Making the Decision” as follow (4): 1- What is the potential competitive reaction? The USA market is a highly competitive market as shown in the case study‚ the US retail sales of women’s apparel

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    Recipe Fr Disaster

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    Recipe for disaster Rather than get into temporal issues or amaze people with youtube videos‚ I thought I’d share a bit of practice. Today is tea making day and I’m brewing up gallons of it. Rather than making six kinds of weak tea for specific uses I do the chinese thing and lump them together in a decoction (strong). As all the ingredients are natural herbs I don’t have to worry about overdosing people...their are however a few common sense caviats. Women who are pregnant or nursing‚ people

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    1984 Dystopian Disaster

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    Grasheyella 1 Medlyn Grasheyella Mrs. George- Ross Honors English 1- Period 3 7 October 2014 1984: Dystopian Disaster “The beauty of a dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds- but we still have power to change our own” (Allie Condie). A dystopian society is an imaginary place where people live miserable and often fearful lives. In dystopian

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    The Soyuz 11 Space Disaster: A Case Study in Engineering Disasters ENGG 123 November 20‚ 2011 ABSTRACT In 1971‚ Soyuz 11 was the first manned spaceship to contact the first space station. As the astronauts were preparing to re-enter the earth ’s atmosphere the crew cab depressurized and the astronauts were killed within seconds. This paper will discuss the events that happened and how they were investigated. It will also discuss how the disaster affected future engineering decisions regarding

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    The Hilton Head Disaster

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    My vacations always have their up and downs‚ something good and bad happens. In 2014‚ my family went to the beach in South Carolina. My family still remembers that vacation as the “ Hilton Head Disaster”. My brother and I still agree that this vacation is still our favorite. I love when my family goes on vacations together because they are fun and very interesting. On our way to the beach‚ we stopped at Dunkin Donuts and ordered coffee and donuts. My brother got a donut that he never tried before

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