The Collapse Of The Plaza

Prior to the 1993 bombing, the threat of international terrorism had never really hit home for most Americans, “It couldn’t happen here”. But it did. A group of Middle Eastern terrorists placed explosives in the back of a rented van and parked it in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center. The result was a large crater, over a thousand

Everyone knew that when one stayed in the water too long, one drowned. However, that was not the case. In Alden Nowlan’s, “The Fall of the City,” Teddy was a young boy who had a very vivid imagination. Although at times it went to the dark side, it was ultimately the mistreatment from his aunt and uncle which cause Teddy to destroy his city. For example, his uncle’s threats of physical abuse leaded Teddy drowned in his imagination, the only place where he can feel safer. Although Teddy hardly spoke back to his uncle, he was still threatened that he will not “be able to sit down the rest of the week.” The threat isolated Teddy from his uncle and Teddy felt as if he has no one to turn to. Without someone who truly understands his feelings,

The earthquake of 2010 altered the way the people of Haiti looked at everyday life, as well as, it caused them to be deprived of all hope on creating a new beginning. On Tuesday January 12, 2010, the Haitian society knew that their world would never be the same. Having killed over 300,000 people and wounded more than 200,000 people, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake was demoralizing to the Haitians (“The 2010 Haiti Earthquake”). To make matters worse, following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake there were twelve aftershocks containing a magnitude larger than 5.0 (“Earthquake in Haiti”). The outcome of the earthquake was devastating to the extent that the minority of people who survived stood on the remains of their churches, grocery stores, and even their own homes. Corporations like Merlin USA and others around the globe are contributing in various ways to help try to rebuild Haiti’s nation. Working to repair Haiti’s demolished society, Merlin tries to bring appropriate health care to all susceptible associations in Haiti (“Haiti”). Strongly, Merlin continues to put in a great effort and they have tended to around 47,986 patients merely in Port-au-Prince (“Haiti”). Sorrowfully, people are constantly dying from Cholera in Haiti; nevertheless, it seems to them that nothing the world can offer will be able to cure the adversity they have encountered.

When a building is on fire, those inside expect that the structure will hold up long enough for a safe escape. In the twin towers, this did not hold true. On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center, once a beacon for commerce and business was attacked by two hijacked planes. The explosion caused the jet fuel to ignite, sending fire through the buildings. Ineffective fireproofing led to a catastrophic amount of deaths and victims. In Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn’s 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, stories and statistics from first hand accounts help to prove that this is true. The greatest contributing factor to the loss of live on 9/11 was the ineffective fireproofing in the World Trade Center.

However, the deaths are not the only loss the 9/11 attacks created but the economic costs were also a significant blow to the United States. The direct cost losses being related to the damage caused by the destruction of the buildings include but are not limited to; the loss of the four civilian aircrafts with a value of $385 million, the replacement cost for the destruction of the buildings amounting to $4.5 billion, $10 to $13 billion of property and infrastructure damages, a loss of 17$ billion in lost waged and direct job losses along with considerable losses exceeding $45 billions in insurance industry and traffic revenue (Institute for the analysis of Global security). But the damages don’t cease there. In fact, according to the report published by Watson Institute for International Studies of Brown University, the US governments’s

This paper describe Stamford Plaza Hotel Auckland. It is a five star hotel located in Auckland City center. Stamford Plaza as a multinational company owned by Stamford Land Corporation Limited, has strong market position in New Zealand and Australia. Its target market focus on luxury and top level travelers. By using effective 4P’s marketing instruments, Stamford Plaza Auckland attracts loyalty customers and develop new potential guests. We also use SWOT analysis to demonstrate the competitive advantages and disadvantages the hotel is facing with. Via analyzing threats and opportunities, we can give some recommendations on hotel market strategies. Finally, we get the conclusion on hotel outlook.

The Hyatt Regency walkway disaster occurred in Kansas City during the evening of July 17, 1981 in the atrium building of the hotel. The actual disaster comprised of two of the three walkways in the hotel collapsing onto the main floor. The walkways were designed with the fourth floor walkway directly overhead of and suspending the second floor walkway with the third floor walkway offset several meters next to the second and fourth floor walkways (see Figure 1.1). All three of the walkways were suspended from the roof and from either end of them. During a dance competition the fourth floor walkway collapsed onto the second floor walkway, causing both walkways to collapse onto the lobby floor below. According to Ratay (2010) the load on the walkways was only approximately 53% of the code mandated load capacity of the walkway. The disaster resulted in 114 total deaths and 219 injuries, and the structural

The information in this piece is about how natural disasters impact terrorism. Lack of resources and others inability or unwillingness to send aid can be a tipping point for some to commit terroristic acts. It also discusses how natural disasters often leave us extremely vulnerable.

You’re on your way home from work and you are stuck on a bridge in rush hour traffic. All of a sudden the bridge collapses and you along with hundreds of other people are severely injured. This is what it was like for the people involved in the Minnesota bridge collapse, one of the deadliest bridge collapses in history.

During the second decade after the 21st century's end, the sun erupted into a torrent of new activity, bathing the earth in what spiritualist and the reprobate packs of New Age do-gooders have declared would be the only solution to change the tragic course of humanity 'cosmic light'. As one news reporter surmised: "the sun had become a neutron bomb, decimating life while leaving the urban and rural infrastructure intact." The two centuries of ozone depletion only served to exacerbate the rapacity that radiation poisoning and death swept through the human population.

In the case study of the Stage Collapse at the Indian State Fair, the crisis in this case affects internal and external landscaping. Several different organizaitons were responsible for the death of innocent lives being lost and no particular group took responsibility for their actions.

Going back to the collapsing of the Rana Plaza, Prashad reveals that there appears to be a trend of factory buildings collapsing in the twenty-first century, specifically "poorly built shelters for a production process geared toward long working days, third rate machines, and workers

Disasters of both natural and technological origin have a considerable impact on communities. The effects of disasters in India are significantly reduced by well established counter disaster arrangements at all three levels of government. These arrangements comprise comprehensive plans of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery and in more recent times, of mitigation. The economic effects of disasters can be devastating and widespread. When disasters strike houses, businesses and community infrastructure get damaged or destroyed and people’s livelihoods are temporarily and sometimes permanently disrupted. Physical damage is the most visible economic impact of disasters. Major natural

River Padma, the biggest and most raging river of Bangladesh, is only twenty kilometers from the village where I grew up hearing about the sinking of locally manufactured launch which regularly took a toll of thousands of lives. I just always asked myself why this type of accident happens. As the Padma has alienated the southern part of our country from the other regions, it is a must for people in those areas to cross the river to reach the capital city, Dhaka. In the year of 2008 when I first came to Dhaka, I had a bitter experience of observing such accident. Horrible scene of hundreds of people dying in front of me made me seriously rethink- how can we resolve this problem? This question drove me to choose Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) as my major in university level and having the opportunity to be a student of the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) was a great achievement for me.

Also, he allegedly remarked to the media on the same day that the cracks were a trivial matter. Rana Plaza was built after taking permission from the Savar Mayor (who, like Rana was also an Awami League member) - a person with no legal authority to issue this permit.