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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BUSI 514 Operation Management Professor Kipley Alfie(ZHEN) Zhang Wal-Mart Case study Background Sustainability standards for supplier Wal-Mart disclosed its sustainability standard to all Wal-Mart suppliers in the world in 2008. It requires Wal-Mart Supplier take more environmental and social responsibilities. To do so‚ in order to maintain its competitive quality image of Wal-Mart products. With growth slows down in U.S‚ Wal-Mart focus on expansion in the world‚ especially in China.
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is in the southern part of the island and its east boundary is Aiea. This tract is also between two main roads: on the north there is the H-1 freeway‚ and from the south Moanalua Rd.‚ which is also bordered with Pearl Ridge Shopping Center. This tract‚ even though it may not seem like it‚ is somehow in the middle of the island. It is located off the freeway which makes it convenient to reach other parts of the island. It is about a fifteen minute drive to down town‚ Waikiki‚ Kaneohe (east side)‚
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Born of different stations‚ languages and creeds‚ Epictetus and Seneca are Roman philosophers who externally appear to be very different. Epictetus was born to a slave mother‚ sold as a slave himself and spent the majority of his youth as a slave in Rome. Seneca was born into money; he became tutor to a boy named Nero who later acquired position of Emperor of Rome in 54 A.D. Though these two men seem to be from very different worlds‚ they have a shared purpose in studying philosophy. The purpose
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The History of Police CJA 204 Introduction to Police Theory and Practices The History of Police Police practices have been around for many years. There have been a lot of changes since the early 1600s‚ when it started‚ and now. Used to be a requirement with no training or pay for this type of duty. Now in the 21st century you can make a career out of being a part of the police department. Around the 1630s during Colonial America there was no such thing as a criminal investigation for the
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party at my house and insisted that I stayed. I didn’t really think that I would know anyone at the party‚ so I invited Bob over to just hang out. Joe couldn’t come because he was driving to L.A. He said it was his first time driving on a crowded freeway‚ and I came to the conclusion that the roads will never be safe again with him driving. I mean‚ if he can’t find out how to turn a computer on‚ chrissakes‚ how is he supposed to know how to put the keys into the ignition‚ or know how to brake‚ or
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Since there will only be two tenants‚ the building can conveniently be divided amongst them. A potential drawback of limited truck turnaround space is also eliminated since no more than two tenants will be occupying the space‚ and easy access to the Freeway system is a positive factor as well since it will draw future potential tenants. Although I’ve assumed a 5% vacancy rate for this building‚ I will also adjust this figure to 7% as per the average vacancy rate in
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I decided to attend a night traffic court session at the Ventura Courthouse. The cases ranged from seat belt violations to reckless driving. Most of the defendants appeared before the court to request more time to pay the fines associated with the tickets. I was surprised to see that very few of the people in the courthouse were pleading not guilty. Only one person showed up to defend a case with legal help from an attorney of some sort. The first person to claim not guilty was charged with speeding
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concert with another person. The shootings occurred at gas stations‚ supermarkets‚ restaurants‚ and schools. The victims were selected randomly‚ crossing racial‚ gender‚ and socioeconomic categories. The locations of the attacks always had close freeway access. No one was safe‚ not even children. News reports indicated the sniper was using a high powered rifle and adhering to the sniper’s creed‚ "one shot‚ one kill." As the victims and body counts continued to grow‚ all hoped for some way to stop
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD MGMT 520 Week 5 Midterm Exam 1. (TCO I) Marianne Jennings wrote an article‚ “Why an International Code of Ethics would be good‚” which was assigned to be read at the beginning of the course. As you have worked throughout this session‚ you should have considered this article and how it may or may not have impacted different situations in the world economic/business/legal/political environments.....…Great Depression 2. (TCO A) Use the fact pattern you received in the above Marianne
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