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    Disaster Plan It

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    Assignment: Disaster Plan 123 Textiles Corporation is located in a high-crime area that also experiences occasional earthquakes. A new network was set up with the server by a window. All systems are backed up once a month on an exterior drive. One night‚ a thief entered through the window and stole the server. Create a disaster plan that would better protect the organization’s technological assets. The choice to locate the network server by a nearby window is a very poor choice. Placing

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    Nuclear Disasters

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    Nuclear Disasters and Accidents Introduction: One of the scariest things about nuclear power is when something goes wrong and an accident occurs. Radiation is released into the environment and people get hurt. Two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor 2 in the United States and the Chernobyl reactor 4 in the former Soviet Union. In this text we will discuss these two disasters‚ along with correcting a few common misconceptions about nuclear accidents. The

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    Disaster Victims

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    Disaster: British Petroleum Oil Spill Date: April 20‚ 2010 Location: Gulf of Mexico Personal Experiences: A little over a year after the BP oilrig sprung a leak‚ my family and I went to Panama City in Florida. As far as we could see‚ we couldn’t notice any differences in the Gulf of Mexico. The water was still crystal clear even though thousands of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean each day for months. I was completely aware of how the spill dramatically affected the lives‚ jobs‚ and

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    The Aberfan Disaster

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    caused by two days of constant rain along with the coal slag being on top of an underground spring. “The tragedy was caused by two days of continual heavy rain loosening the coal slag‚ which was situated on top of an underground spring” (The Aberfan Disaster). This obviously does not make for a good combination. The rain water saturated the soil‚ weakening its integrity. The underground spring loosened the soil underneath‚ cutting out the soil creating air pockets. This helped in weakening the structure

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    Disaster Plan

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    in the southern part of the United States in an area that receives heavy rain. During the weekend‚ a major water pipe broke and flooded the first floor. The water caused extensive damage to the servers‚ which were also on the first floor. Create a disaster plan to prevent this sort of problem from happening in the future. Proposed solution: The way in which XYZ Computers has their IST Department set up currently is susceptible to many threats. The lack of a firewall is an open invitation for data to

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    Environmental Disaster

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    Environmental Disaster Who would have known that on April 20th 2010‚ the United States would soon be facing the worst environmental disaster. On that fateful day‚ an offshore oilrig named the “Deepwater Horizon” suffered an explosion. Seventeen people were injured and eleven people died from the accident. The damaged oilrig sank into the Gulf of Mexico the next day‚ and a one-by-five mile oil slick appeared in the ocean. At the time‚ it was unknown whether the oil was from the rig or if the

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    Pride In The Crucible

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    seven deadly sins that are considered the worst thing one can do‚ leading to that person’s downfall. Of all the sins‚ pride is considered the most negative character trait one can have. It is defined as; a deep pleasure derived from esteem in one’s own achievement‚ a super confidence and high esteem in one’s own abilities and inordinate vanity. Pride fools a person into thinking the source of greatness is only found within themselves. Pride considered to be the most negative attribute for the reason

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    Pride and Prejudice

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    Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a nineteenth century novel written by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice is about a lady named Elizabeth Bennet‚ one of the five Bennet sisters who must marry a wealthy man‚ as she stumbles across the prideful Mr. Darcy. This novel is particularly interesting because it shows the overcoming of huge character flaws for love. The author‚ Austen‚ tries to stress the point about love always finding its way. Admittance of love and proposal‚ omitting initial prejudices

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    Disaster of Bangladesh

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    Bangladeshi disaster: What price those £10 chinos now? Head Line: Primark‚ Bonmarché and Western consumers must take a share of the responsibility for the deaths in the Bangladeshi clothing factory. By: David Blair Published By: The Telegraph Date: 25 Apr 2013 Summary: This article is about the distressing incident which took place in Bangladesh where 228 people died in the fall down of eight storey’s Rana Plaza. Rana Plaza had shops‚ offices and factories crowded with many people

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    Pride and Prejudice

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    Three Act Structure Pride and Prejudice does somewhat follow the Three Act Structure. For the first act we are very quickly enlightened on the type of world the characters are living in. We see that it takes place in the early 1800’s and that everyone (especially the women) is obsessed with not only getting married but marrying well. At the first ball some of the more important character traits emerge in the main characters. We are introduced to Mr. Darcy and soon find out that he is arrogant‚ cold

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