Disaster: British Petroleum Oil Spill Date: April 20‚ 2010 Location: Gulf of Mexico Personal Experiences: A little over a year after the BP oilrig sprung a leak‚ my family and I went to Panama City in Florida. As far as we could see‚ we couldn’t notice any differences in the Gulf of Mexico. The water was still crystal clear even though thousands of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean each day for months. I was completely aware of how the spill dramatically affected the lives‚ jobs‚ and
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Why I’m Optimistic About Our Nation’s Future? Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ___________ (Essay and Oral Presentation) STEP ONE: Write it Hook Nobody likes to be bored. So put yourself in your audience’s shoes. Find an interesting way to start your speech. For instance‚ Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech was the "Gettysburg Address." It began: "Four score and seven years ago‚ our Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation…." He could have just said
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ENGINEERING DISASTERS We can also call Engineering as in invisible science. No one can actually see how it works but it actually exists like an air. Example: Plain flies‚ building stands and many more. We don’t think how a building can stand weight without collapsing. Similar to apple’s company’s Moto ‘it just works. Here the main problems are not the designs but the material the use up building that design. The concept of total cost minimization is the roots of such accidents that just ruins lives
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THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER Name: Affiliation: PART 1 Critically discuss the role of defamation law as guardian of the truth‚ focussing on the inaccurate reporting‚ which led to The Sun newspaper publishing a front-page article‚ headlined “The Truth‟ on 19th April 1989. Defamation law safeguards an individual’s rights against a defamatory statement that cause public contempt‚ hatred‚ or ridicule[1]
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* Access model * A model that explores how an individual or groups relative resilience to disasters is impacted by differences in access to the economic or political resources needed to secure a livelihood. * The strengths of the model are that it provides a broad view of vulnerability including root causes‚ it gives weight to natural hazards‚ and it provides a framework for looking at livelihoods and vulnerability. * The limitation of the model‚ is that it is a tool for explaining
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Environmental Disaster Who would have known that on April 20th 2010‚ the United States would soon be facing the worst environmental disaster. On that fateful day‚ an offshore oilrig named the “Deepwater Horizon” suffered an explosion. Seventeen people were injured and eleven people died from the accident. The damaged oilrig sank into the Gulf of Mexico the next day‚ and a one-by-five mile oil slick appeared in the ocean. At the time‚ it was unknown whether the oil was from the rig or if the
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Environmental disaster is defined as a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity. Obviously‚ it is not an act of God. Human have forgotten that mother earth is a gift from God‚ to be respected and taken care of. Therefore‚ environment disasters issues are getting serious all over the world within these few years. Global warming is the result of human activities. Excessive amounts of greenhouse gases had been released to the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide that
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saster management Delhi Public School‚ Dwarka A Project on Disaster Management Acknowledgement This report has only been successful because of the help of some people. First and foremost‚ I would like to thank our Social Science teachers - Mrs. Ruchika Gupta (Geography) Mrs. Shalini Chaturvedi (History/Civics) Mrs. Soni Saxena (Economics) For giving me this task from which I could learn many things and also for
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National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan: Disaster Preparedness According to the Word Disaster Report of 2012‚ The Philippines ranks third of the most disaster-prone countries. Because it is situated on a geologically unstable region and is surrounded by many subduction zones that may cause earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ landslides‚ typhoon and tsunamis‚ it is impossible to stop natural disasters from hitting our country; all we can do is to manage risks. The National Disaster Risk
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caused by two days of constant rain along with the coal slag being on top of an underground spring. “The tragedy was caused by two days of continual heavy rain loosening the coal slag‚ which was situated on top of an underground spring” (The Aberfan Disaster). This obviously does not make for a good combination. The rain water saturated the soil‚ weakening its integrity. The underground spring loosened the soil underneath‚ cutting out the soil creating air pockets. This helped in weakening the structure
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