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    MAN-MADE HAZARDS A hazard is a forceful natural or man-made event with the potential to adversely affect human life and property‚ or the environment. Natural hazards are a normal consequence of the internal and external forces that are constantly transforming the earth (e.g.‚ earthquakes‚ hurricanes‚ tornadoes‚ volcanoes‚ etc.). Man-made hazards arise from deliberate human actions (e.g.‚ war‚ terrorism‚ humanitarian emergencies‚ etc.) that are usually predictable and preventable. They may also arise

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    CATEGORIES OF L.D. LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing this section‚ you should be able to: • describe five categories of learning disabilities‚ • describe the learning process‚ • identify accommodations which would be appropriate relating to each category‚ • recognize and apply appropriate strategies to case studies. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Based on information obtained to date in this course‚ can you group some of the particular learning disabilities into categories

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    CATEGORIES OF NON-VERVAL COMMUNICATION Body movements‚ gestures and postures Kinesics is the interpretation of body language such as facial expressions and gestures — or‚ more formally‚ non-verbal behavior related to movement‚ either of any part of the body or the body as a whole.  Gesture is a form of non-verbal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages‚ either in place of speech or together and in parallel with words. Gestures include movement of the hands

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    terrifying‚ disturbing‚ well-acted‚ perfectly paced horror film…” (Hughes‚ The Top 10 Horror Films Of The Last Five Years). There are two different categories of horror stories. The first category is fiction. This category was created to relate to the person reading‚ make it something they believe could happen to them. The second category is psychological. This category was created to get the reader to question the characters sanity. Many people may ask why someone would put themselves through such a suspenseful

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    Natural Hazards and Natural Disasters A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event will have a negative effect on humans.   This negative effect is what we call a natural disaster.  In other words when the hazardous threat actually happens and harms humans‚ we call the event a natural disaster. Natural Hazards (and the resulting disasters) are the result of naturally occurring processes that have operated throughout Earth’s history.  Effects of Hazards Hazardous process of all

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    Category of Computer Games 1. Skill and action games - emphasizing perceptual and motor skills 1. Combat Games - All combat games present a direct‚ violent confrontation. The human player must shoot and destroy the bad guys controlled by the computer. 2. Maze Games - The defining characteristic of the maze games is the maze of paths through which the player must move. 3. Sports Games - These games model popular sports games.

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    Seismic Hazards In Haiti

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    Seismic hazards have many different impacts around the world. An earthquake took place in Haiti 2010 and it was measured 7 on the Richter scale. The main hazard was the seismic waves caused by shifting rocks in an earthquake. There are two main types of waves‚ P waves and S waves. P waves travel through solids and liquids around 6-7 km/h and parallel through the rocks. S ways travel side ways at 2.5-4km/h and can only get through solids. Both waves can have a big impact on the community‚ a lot of

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    Grammatical Categories of Speech The main grammatical categories are Determiner‚ Auxiliary‚ Coordinator‚ and Complementizer. As also mentioned above‚ it is hard to define grammatical categories in terms of meaning because they have very little. Their function is to make the lexical categories fit together. • Determiner (D) The determiner category includes the articles a(n) and the‚ as well as demonstratives‚ possessive pronouns‚ possessive nouns‚ some quantifiers‚ some interrogatives‚ and

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    Categories of Computer Crime Smith Strayer University CIS170 Wk2 Professor Masudur Chowdhury July 4‚ 2013 Explain in detail the four common categories of computer crimes and provide at least one example for each. There are many different types of computer crime and multiple ways to categorize them. I will discuss four categories in detail to shine light on how vulnerable people are‚ when we choose to use a personal or publicly used computer to transmit confidential information

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    its environment‚ his or her daily interaction with others teaches it more about the ‘self as object’ or categorical self (Dunn‚ 1988). This is when a basic level of self-awareness is achieved‚ the child places himself and is placed by others into categories that define who they are (ref. from 2009). Harter (1983) outlined a developmental sequence in which children’s self-descriptions change as they get older‚ where they begin to see themselves more objectively - as if described by others (ref. from

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