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    Reaction paper: Last July 23‚ 2011‚ an orientation on disaster preparedness and prohibited dangerous drugs was held at the CE building during our NSTP. The speaker wanted to make us prepared at all times in case of natural disasters or calamities either natural or man-made. He also enlightened our minds of the possible harms drugs can do to an individual. When we say disaster or calamity‚ it is a great or sudden misfortune or catastrophe‚ an adverse or unfortunate event‚ or an occurrence that

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    Disaster in Franklin County Jennifer Wadsworth Western Governors University Disaster in Franklin County Role of Major Public Health Personnel The roles of major public health personnel must be delegated properly in a disaster situation in order to facilitate effective action. In the incident presented‚ a chain of command was established and assignments given to the appropriate personnel based on their skills and experience. As a whole‚ this group reports to the Incident Commander‚ an individual

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    Title: ‘Discuss how response to a humanitarian disaster could be improved through vertical and horizontal collaboration between the various actors’ 1. PURPOSE 2. APPROACH 3. LIMITATIONS Firstly I will outline who the actual ‘actors’ involves in a humanitarian disaster are with the use of Kovács & Spens‚ 2007 diagram provided in our lecture notes. The whole idea of ‘Collaboration’ which has two separate dimensions: 1. Vertical collaboration i.e. between supplier sand customers

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    Text and Context Essay

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    A: Text & Contexts Essay Texts are although a form of composer’s ideas and imaginations‚ they also reflect contexts and discuss different issues in the society of the time in which they were composed. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Ridley Scott’s noir film Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut are good examples of texts that reflect on contexts and the composer’s ideas and imaginations. Mary Shelley’s novel‚ Frankenstein‚ is a gothic fiction that represents the context of the 1800’s

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    Hindenburg Disaster Essay

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    March 6th was a tragic day for many people. This was the day of the Hindenburg disaster. This disaster is one of the world’s most famous and horrific disaster events. The Hindenburg Disaster is the story of how one zeppelin flight changed the world’s air travel forever. Just as it was about to land‚ this 803 feet long zeppelin caught fire and burned to the ground in a little over 30 seconds. There are many theories on this event‚ but somehow we still aren’t sure what exactly caused the bursting

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    The psychological and psychiatric impact of great natural disasters are beginning to be understood leading to new methods of prevention‚ intervention and mitigation. There is limited data from the Asian continent‚ however‚ which has been the location of some of the greatest disasters of recent times. In this paper‚ we outline the psychosocial intervention efforts from nine Asian nations when confronted with large-scale natural catastrophic events. These include reports from situations where local

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    Three post-Hurricane Katrina disaster planning lessons learned: have a prepared evacuation plan for the city‚ do not delay aid‚ and a lack of resources imposes greater difficulties of rebuilding. The mandatory evacuation call was late and not fully supported—many people did not have a way to leave the city‚ as many people were dependent on public transportation. Could have neighboring buses come in earlier and brought people to safety? I think the Mayor later got criticized for not using school buses

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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 Outsider by Albert Camus ‘The protagonist of the novel is condemned because he is a stranger to the society in which he lives.’ The Outsider‚ by Albert Camus‚ is a philosophical novel set in the mid 1940’s in the newly colonized country of Algeria. The novels plotline is that of a middle aged French Algerian man‚ Meursault‚ whose outlook on life is of an emotionally detached absurdist. Throughout the course of the novel it is understood that this outlandish philosophical view separates Meursault

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    Disaster Recovery Plan

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    coordinate its business processes‚ an appropriate disaster recover plan will include having an alternate site to step in‚ in the event of an emergency. This will include an outside vendor who will provide backup services in the event that the programs at The Bloom Design Group fail for one reason or another. In the interest of financial feasibility‚ The Group should contract for a warm site to step in if the home networks are compromised. 3 Disaster Recovery Test Plan For each testing method

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