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    One of the most often identified causes of the Great Depression which haunted this country during the 1930s is the stock market crash of 1929. There is no arguing that the effects of this crash were devastating to both the economics and the morale of the American people. The stock market had fluctuated wildly during the year before the actual crash. Investors lost and gained in increments never before seen. These extreme profits and losses sometimes occurred within a single day. On October 24

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    affordable housing are the principal causes of becoming homeless. Even if a person is working a full time job making minimum wage‚he or she is not able to afford rent required for a home.Another cause of homelessness is due to mental illness or physical disabilities‚ as a result it becomes difficult for people to coexist with other civilians. Which in most cases leads to addictions and causes them to lose their homes and families.Domestic violence is the third leading cause of homelessness among families

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    much more about how exactly drugs work in the brain‚ and we also know that drug addiction can be successfully treated to help people stop abusing drugs and resume their productive lives. Addiction is a chronic‚ often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences to the individual that is addicted and to those around them. Drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and function of the brain. Although

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    Nuclear Power may be atmospheric friendly‚ but it is capable of causing extensive harm on any living organism. One of the worst nuclear power accidents happened in the United States on March 28‚ 1979. The accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Three Mile Island 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island has two power plants and together they supplied about 300‚000 homes with electricity. The accident started out as a mechanical malfunction‚ but was intensified by human errors. It was

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    Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz.‚ 2003‚ 22 (3)‚ 915-930 Disaster management in India: the case of livestock and poultry A. Sen (1) & M. Chander (2) (1) Fellow Programme in Management Scholar‚ Indian Institute of Management‚ Ahmedabad - 380015‚ Gujurat‚ India (2) Senior Scientist‚ Division of Extension Education‚ Indian Veterinary Research Institute‚ Izatnagar – 243 122‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ India Submitted for publication: 7 July 2002 Accepted for publication: 25 April 2003 Summary Developing countries

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    Review of Related literature and studies This chapter presents foreign and local articles. Reports and journal publications that will support the related literature‚ and studies to the present study on “ Cause and Effects of broken family in ZNNHS (main)‚ Dipolog city. Literature Over the course of one life-¬changing summer‚ Ella Mackenzie‚ a plucky and preternaturally mature fifth-going-on-sixth grader‚ is sent to what she calls Broken Family Camp. Ella’s family is broken all right‚ in all

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    crash of 1929 was the main cause of The Great Depression. In fact‚ The Great Depression was caused by a series of factors‚ and the effects of the depression were felt for many years after the stock market crash of 1929. By looking at the stock market crash of 1929‚ bank failures‚ reduction of purchasing‚ American economic policy with Europe‚ and drought conditions‚ it becomes apparent that The Great Depression was caused by more than just the stock market crash. The effects were detrimental beyond the

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    Paper Effects of Nuclear Weaponry on Warfare and Anti-Terrorism The world in which we live is increasingly filled not only with weapons of mass destruction‚ but with people ready to use them. The United States has reached the top of every international match in which we participated‚ but because of the capacity of other countries to produce weapons of mass destruction‚ and implement‚ the United States must review and revise their tactics for defense against nuclear terrorism and nuclear war. Because

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    A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ heatwave‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience. if these disasters continues it would be a great danger for the earth.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability

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    Chernobyl Disaster Chernobyl nuclear plant is one of the biggest disasters in history! It happened on April 26‚ 1986. It was a nuclear radiation disaster. About 4‚000 people died. All the survivors suffered from the radiation side affects for the rest of there lives. This also ruined the environment! The nuclear plant exploded exactly at 1:23 A.M. The explosion killed two people. Then radiation started pouring out of the reactor. There were 134 emergency workers that got involved trying

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