According to the University of California about 43.1 percent of people live in poverty in the United States and less than one percent of the US budget goes to helping these people. That is just in the United States‚ one of the richest countries in the world‚ and a well developed country. Think about the billions of other people that live in poverty in developing or undeveloped countries. Today‚ many people across the globe live in poverty and have a hard time providing for basic necessities such
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FEMA What makes this agency legitimate? What is the legitimacy based on? If based on authority or a need for the services this agency provides how does that relate to representativeness (demographics‚ ideology‚ and concerns; social contract & public expectations)‚ responsibility (ownership of actions‚ failures and successes)‚ accountability (answering to whom‚ top-down & bottom-up)‚ politics/administration (is there a political bias‚ does it prevent legitimacy)‚ and effectiveness/efficiency (is
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Cortnie Schierman Fijacko English 111 5 October 2012 Rough Draft: Rhetorical Analysis Essay David Eggers‚ in Zeitoun‚ shows a story of a Muslim American family living through many challenges. After 9/11 Muslim families‚ like the Zeitouns‚ face many problems living in America. Eggers wants to inform other Americans on the situation of Muslim living in the United States‚ present day. People who are uneducated about the Muslim religion need to be informed on how similar lives are of other people all
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System). A diagram of this system is provided above. The diagram depicts the four divisions that can be included in an Incident Command System along with a description of each division. More detail describing how this system could have been used post-Katrina will be given later. Understandably‚ officials did not have the opportunity to train and further develop their emergency operation plan due to budget constraints. However‚ organizing a centralized response structure is something that local/state officials
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COURSE: BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DESCRIPTION CODE: MAS 262 PROJECT: IDENTIFICATION OF PHILANTHROPIC COMPANIES AND THE EFFECT PHILANTHROPIC ACTS HAVE ON THE COMPANIES Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a process with the aim to embrace responsibility for the company’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment‚ consumers‚ employees‚ communities‚ stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere who may also be considered
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is an American nonfiction book written by Dave Eggers which focuses on Adbulrahman Zeitoun and his family. Zeitoun moved from Jableh‚ Syria to New Orleans‚ married Kathy and they have four children. The book shifts focus from the family when Hurricane Katrina hits and primarily focuses on Zeitoun’s struggles after surviving the storm. Eggers writes about this tragic true story in order to expose and bring awareness to some controversial issues including the destructive powers of pride‚ prejudices
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Natural Disasters The government has come under fire quite a few times following natural disasters. Their main responsibility in response to these disasters is to provide the tools citizens in the affected area need to recover as quickly as possible. The first and most important response is to food and water needs of the displaced. The communication of the distribution location has proven to be difficult to find out immediately after the destruction takes place. Also‚ extended shelter seems
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in her novel “Salvage the Bones”‚ has told the story of a family that lived in Mississippi when the incident of Hurricane Katrina occurred in 2005‚ getting back to her own memories of the Hurricane which she experienced in De Lisle‚ Mississippi. With the use of provocative symbolism throughout the novel‚ Ward has very interestingly narrated how the family suffered through the Hurricane‚ and how they spent their lives without any concern for the future. This paper probes into the symbolism and metaphors
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to a major hurricane like Hurricane Katrina that devastated much of Louisiana in 2005. During Hurricane Katrina many of the things when wrong because emergency leaders were because‚ emergency managers were not prepared for the after mass of the hurricane. It is important for a city to have a structured Emergency Operations Plan in place in the event of a major hurricane. This will help make emergency operations run smooth and emergency managers make important decisions. Hurricanes are measured
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experienced setbacks during the hurricane and had to work with a reduced budget. In addition‚ Gwyn had some concerns over Dana’s citizenship because her passport appeared to be questionable. Dana had been slowing providing the documents since the flood destroyed the original documents. Then Dana stated that if not rehired she would go to a competitor and expected the company to pay severance of two weeks’ wages for the time she was out of work during the hurricane. Another issue is the hiring of
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