What are Earthquakes? The actual defining of a earthquake is: A sudden and violent shaking of the ground‚ sometimes causing great destruction‚ as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or volcanic action. Basically what its saying is that when a tectonic plate slips past another and when that happens its called a fault or fault plane‚ but when a earthquake happens it has been proven that it can deform the earths crust permanently. Something interesting is
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Professor Reed December 18‚ 2016 Preparedness Plan Final This paper is focused on the seismic hazard analysis‚ structural safety quiz of my household‚ and preparedness plan. The seismic hazard analysis is composed of fault rupture‚ ground shaking intensity‚ landslide potential‚ liquefaction susceptibility‚ and if there is a body of water nearby. Next is the structural safety quiz which consists of five to six questions about how concerned one should be about a home and a score is given at
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Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal Emerald Article: A standard agreement for vendor managed inventory Francesco Zammori‚ Marcello Braglia‚ Marco Frosolini Article information: To cite this document: Francesco Zammori‚ Marcello Braglia‚ Marco Frosolini‚ (2009)‚"A standard agreement for vendor managed inventory"‚ Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal‚ Vol. 2 Iss: 2 pp. 165 - 186 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17538290910973376 Downloaded
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totalitarianism and assess the extent to which it was achieved in Hitler’s Germany Totalitarianism is the absolute control of a ruler who is a complete dictator‚ unrestricted by constitution‚ laws or opposition. This essay will evaluate the extent to which Hitler had absolute control over Germany in terms of political control‚ control over the Nazi party‚ control over the youth and education. Hitler established single party state and achieved political control to a large extent. Political control was
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To what extent can Bosola be considered a tragic hero? “Let worthy minds ne’er stagger in distrust/ to suffer death or shame for what is just. / Mine is another voyage.” Thus the dying Bosola concludes his last speech and‚ in doing so‚ ends the life of a character whose very nature is at odds with the others’ – and with himself. For Bosola is a paradox: as a malcontent‚ he delivers line after line of poisonous verse; insults old women; sneers at the Cardinal and Ferdinand‚ whom he sees (justifiably
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Exam 2 Study Guide Book Chapter 6; Power Point Chapter 7: Social Thinking and Social Influence Know about snap judgments vs. systematic judgments. Know what attributions are Know difference between internal and external attributions Know the confirmation bias Know the self-fulfilling prophecy预言 Know what a stereotype is Know the fundamental attribution error Know that forming accurate impressions of others takes effort Know the differences between modern and ‘old-fashioned’ discrimination歧视 Know
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on a social level. This involves developing a sense of trust in others‚ a sense of identity in society‚ and assisting the next generation for the future. • Erikson focuses on the adaptive and creative characteristics of the ego. Including a person’s lifespan Together with the stages of personality development. • Erikson suggests continued growth and development throughout one’s life. • Erikson emphasised the importance of the adolescent period‚ believing it was crucial in the development of one’s identity
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places have a high level of landslide and avalanche hazard risk. Land slides and Avalanches are one of the worlds most major natural hazard types. They kill between 25 and 50 people per year and cost the United States $3.5 billion to repair per year. Landslides are caused when soil is disrupted. For example when deforestation occurs it removes the roots from the soil. The soil can then not hold it self together so when it rains the soil becomes saturated and falls. They can also be triggered when
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The island of Hispaniola‚ which contains Haiti on the western side and the Dominican republic on the Eastern side is found in the Caribbean sea near Cuba‚ and has a population of 10.3 million (Ferguson and Christian Girault‚ 2017). It is the poorest country in the Americas with an average GDP per capita of $846 US and 59% of the population living below the national poverty line of US $2.42 a day (“Haiti Overview‚” 2017) Haiti is located on a convergent boundary between the Caribbean and North American
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Hazard Monitoring And Disaster Reduction EM-DAT It’s a global database on natural disasters that contains essential data on the occurrence and effects of more than 17‚000 disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources‚ including UN agencies‚ non-governmental organisations‚ insurance companies‚ research institutes and press agencies. It’s data is primarily used by governments and agencies in charge of relief and recovery after a disaster. In addition
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