quality of safe drinking water is insufficient‚ thus creating a water shortage. When the water crisis is mentioned two terms are associated with it: water stress and water access. According to the European Environment Agency ([EEA]‚ 2015)‚ water stress exists when
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“On Sunday (March 1)‚ a small group of armed civilians killed a Serbian wedding guest and wounded the priest.” The war broke out between Sarajevo and Pale after the attack of armed civilians from Pale on Sarajevo. Comparing to Zlata’s Diary with the book The Freedom Writers‚ both the books has wars in different issues but has similar consequences. Zlata’s Diary has a conflict between two countries which created the war. The Freedom Writers Diary has gang wars because of discrimination between races
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On January 16‚ 2016‚ President Barack Obama declared the city of Flint‚ Michigan to be in a state of emergency due to the widespread lead poisoning of the city’s residents that later became known as the Flint Water Crisis (Southall 2016). The crisis began in April of 2014‚ when the officials of Flint decided that‚ in an effort to conserve dwindling funds‚ the city would switch their main water source from Lake Huron‚ to the Flint River (Southall 2016). Almost immediately‚ the residents of Flint began
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October Crisis The October Crisis denotes the kidnapping on 5 October 1970 of James Cross‚ the British trade commissioner in Montréal‚ by members of the FRONT DE LIBÉRATION DU QUÉBEC. The kidnappers’ demands‚ communicated in a series of public messages‚ included the freeing of a number of convicted or detained FLQ members and the broadcasting of the FLQ manifesto. The manifesto‚ a diatribe against established authority‚ was read on Radio-Canada‚ and on October 10 the Québec minister of justice
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TATA Consultancy Services‚ Beating the U.S Financial Crisis 2008 The American market is the hunting-ground for the Indian software companies. Most of its jobs are from the market of U.S. The subprime crisis and the subsequent freezing of purchase decisions in the U.S have brought home to the Indian information technology service (ITS) companies the recklessness of depending almost entirely on that one market. India’s top five ITS companies – TCS‚ Infosys‚ Wipro‚ Satyam and HCL Tech – collectively
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outbreak of World War I. These included: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ the Balkans Crisis‚ the Alliance System‚ Imperialism and the arms and naval race between the major European powers. In my opinion‚ the most important cause of World War I was imperialism. Firstly‚ one reason for the outbreak of World War I was the assassination of the Austrian Archduke‚ Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June‚ 1914. The fact that the assassination was carried out by a Serbian terrorist group called
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1 Final Draft Amy L. Jones WTS 100 Erin Fuller December 10‚ 08 “The Global Water Crisis” Africa It was a four hour journey and most of the woman and children walked that twice a day. Just imagine getting up before dawn to make this long journey to get a bucket of water filled with a little water‚ dirt‚ algae‚ cow and goat feces‚ bacteria‚ mosquito larvae and other insect eggs‚ parasites‚ and various waterborne diseases waiting for a host. They have no time for anything else in the scalding-hot
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between its business values and business practices is anyones guess. In order to assess the extent to which BP has been successful‚ we will equate its position with respect to the extrinsic factors like industry macro-drivers‚ strategy implementation‚ crisis management and intrinsic factors such as size‚ capital‚ costs‚ technology and location. It is the change of dynamics between these extrinsic and intrinsic factors that decides the amount of resources that can be allocated to bring about any change
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The assassination of the Franz Ferdinand‚ the Austrian Archduke‚ happened in Sarajevo 28th June 1914 and the beginning of the First World War that happened afterwards had a great impact on the world history. There has been many research of the reasons and the beginning of the First World War‚ as well as of the assassination and its consequences. There are many studies about these two important events in national and international history. Although‚ the paper will not deal with the reasons of the
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Role of Perception in Crisis Planning ABSTRACT: This article reveals that a company’s perceptions of crises have a profound effect on primary crisis management activities. Although briefly reviewing the technical aspects of crisis management‚ the research examines the effects that threat and opportunity constructs have on crisis planning. The article concludes with some recommendations concerning the communication of a crisis’s dual nature before‚ during‚ and after a crisis situation. John M. Penrose
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