An Introduction to Disaster Management for Class 8 Central Board of Secondary Education ‘Shiksha Kendra’‚ 2‚ Community Centre Preet Vihar‚ Delhi – 110092‚ India Tel : 91-011-22509252-57/59‚ Fax : 91-011-22515826 E-mail : cbsedli@nda.vsnl.net.in Website : www.cbse.nic.in TOGETHER‚ TOWARDS‚ A SAFER INDIA An Introduction to Disaster Management for Class 8 FIRST EDITION 2003 CBSE‚ DELHI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS Dr. Kamala Menon‚ Principal‚ Mirambika School‚ New Delhi Ms. A. Venkatachalam
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Disaster Desolation‚ havocs‚ demolition‚ Annihilation; does one truly know the definition until he or she experience this personally? A Place that once delineated as beautiful‚ fascinate‚ and tranquil. Changed dramatically to unkempt‚ desecrate‚ and unsafe on a single disastrous day‚ October 4‚ 2009. My experience on a mission’s trip to Philippines after hurricane Ondoy showed me this devastation and has forever touched my feelings. I look forward to having an opportunity to not only share
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster A First-Hand Account of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Katsumi Furitsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Young doctors speak out on the Fukushima disaster . . . . . . . . . . .40 Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Ronald McCoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 “A terribly difficult situation with a lot of uncertainties”: PSR Press Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Adolf Hitler 1 Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Hitler in 1937 Führer of Germany In office 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945 Deputy • • Rudolf Hess (1933–1941) Position vacant Preceded by Paul von Hindenburg (as President) Karl Dönitz (as President) Chancellor of Germany In office 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 Succeeded by President Deputy Paul von Hindenburg (until 1934) • • Franz von Papen (1933–1934) Position vacant Preceded by Succeeded by Kurt von Schleicher Joseph Goebbels
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the heads of more than 3000 people. This has caused the deaths of officially 400‚ but potentially more than 1000‚ nearly all of whom were garments workers‚ the lions share of which are expected to be women. This‚ Bangladesh’s largest industrial disaster‚ came just five months to the day after the Tazreen factory fire which killed more than 117‚ and little more than a year after the torture and killing of garments worker organiserAminul Islam. The episode provides a deadly and vivid self-portrait
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Sara Doxsey G. Bret Bowers GSW 1110 31 August 2010 Facebook: A Social Disaster Facebook is a social network that has become the lives of many individuals. This simple site is actually very complex. People tend to think that it is a wonderful way to make friends and connect with old ones‚ but it is a way of causing stress in one’s life. It provokes a significant amount of drama and conflict. Often times people use it to initiate a problem or to get under another individual’s skin. The problem
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Natural Disaster/Hazard Paper For my paper I will be talking about the 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17‚ 1994. The earthquake was centered in Reseda‚ a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles‚ California. “It was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that lasted 10 – 20 seconds. In addition‚ two 6.0 magnitude aftershocks occurred‚ the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later‚ the strongest of several thousand
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Discussion I - The Mann Gulch Disaster 1. The mental obstacles that constrained the way a problem is defined experienced by the smokejumpers (conceptual blocks) included the following: a. First‚ the jumpers were told that the fire they were going to fight was a 10:00 fire‚ meaning that they were going in prepared to fight a fire that should be contained by the next morning. They seemed to have pre-defined the problem without consideration that they may be dropped of having to fight a different
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Climate Disaster Tucked away in the vast Alaskan wilderness only assessable by boat or plane‚ lays the state capital‚ Juneau. This isolated town‚ and the people born and raised in it have seen a sight that many people can’t fathom. Many Americans see the world climate change‚ but don’t take action because they have not seen the major effects of it. Being born and raised in Juneau‚ Alaska I have sadly seen over a dozen glaciers recede at a rapid rate‚ each year being a record-breaking year. Years
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Landslides The landslides are simply defined as the mass movement of rock‚ debris or earth down and have to include a broad range of motions whereby falling‚ sliding and flowing under the influence of gravity dislodges earth material. They often take place in conjunction with earthquakes‚ floods and volcanoes. The Himalayan Mountain‚ the north-east hill ranges and the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris experience considerable landslide activities of varying intensities. Also called landslip; Downward
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