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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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    Environmental Disaster

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    Environmental disaster is defined as a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity. Obviously‚ it is not an act of God. Human have forgotten that mother earth is a gift from God‚ to be respected and taken care of. Therefore‚ environment disasters issues are getting serious all over the world within these few years. Global warming is the result of human activities. Excessive amounts of greenhouse gases had been released to the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide that

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    Engineering Disasters

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    ENGINEERING DISASTERS We can also call Engineering as in invisible science. No one can actually see how it works but it actually exists like an air. Example: Plain flies‚ building stands and many more. We don’t think how a building can stand weight without collapsing. Similar to apple’s company’s Moto ‘it just works. Here the main problems are not the designs but the material the use up building that design. The concept of total cost minimization is the roots of such accidents that just ruins lives

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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 preparedness

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    DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DURING TYPHOONS Typhoon is a word composed only of seven letters and two syllables yet it attracts attention when heard from news or read from a newspaper article. It creates worries and uneasiness to the receiver’s mind. There are a number of definitions of what typhoon is. According to the website Merriam-Webster.com (2013)‚” Typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or China Sea.” Typhoon is the term for a natural phenomenon that can

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    The Centralia Disaster

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    The Government’s Role in the Centralia Disaster Jason Smith Strayer University PAD500 Modern Public Administration 2012 The Government’s Role in the Centralia Disaster This paper will explore logistical alternatives to those chosen by Mine Inspector Driscoll O. Scanlan as described in “The Blast in Centralia No.5: A Mine Disaster No one Stopped” by John Bartlow Martin (Denhardt‚ R. B.‚ & Denhardt‚ J. V. 2010 p31-44). We will seek to

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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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    The Disasters of War

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    The Disasters of War (Spanish: Los Desastres de la Guerra) are a series of 82[a 1] prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates‚ art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising‚ the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–14 and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. During

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    The bhopal disaster

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    The Bhopal disaster (commonly referred to as Bhopal gas tragedy) was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes.[1] It occurred on the night of December 2–3‚ 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ India. A leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was

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    Natural disasters

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    WHAT IS A NATURAL DISASTER A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚[1] and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover.[2] In 2012‚ there were 905 natural disasters worldwide‚ 93% of which were

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