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    Advantages Of Fema

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    As with any new, large Government program; there were certainly growing pains. The prevalent issue I noticed seemed to be dependent on who was the head of the program. At first conception, there seemed to be uncertainty as to the “disaster” that should be prepared the most for. During the Cold War era, it was planning for a nuclear war. Haddow et al (2011) mentioned the head of FEMA at the time saying “Of the more than 20 major programs, the earthquake, hurricane, and flood programs

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    Power Outage In Chicago

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    Living in Chicago, which is known as Windy City, a natural disaster that would impact our community would be a power outage. Last year our community experienced several power outages due to strong winds. According to Nies & McEwen (2015), nurses aside of their personal duty of developing a disaster plan for home and family, they have a duty towards their community where they can assist by developing plans for disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery for the facilities where they

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    Keeping our environment clean is very important, so that we don’t get any health issues. We see people throwing trash everywhere. On the streets, on grass, in water-which is what we drink, and do we know how bad that is for us. Littering causes pollution, pollution causes rain, a lot of rain causes the sea level to rise, which forms hurricanes. Then when a hurricane forms, it destroys our whole community. I’m sure we all can deposit trash into the right place, which is a garbage dump, so let’s please

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    Natural and artificial disasters have always posed a threat to the development of countries across the world. In that regard, different governments have already established strategies that can be implemented to deal effectively with the disasters, which occur. It has been observed that the developing countries are slightly behind than the developed ones regarding dealing effectively with the disasters that occur abruptly. When a disaster occurs, the priority is to reduce the vulnerability of people

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    (bleeding to death)I wanted to research on this natural disasters because I want to help make the world safe and its life in the world. I care about the destruction of these natural disasters. There can be a building that is one billion dollars that is just built, then it was destroyed during a tornado or hurricane.The main point or question i’m overall trying to cover is that why don’t we try to stop or predict and help fight the disasters in the world. We can help in a lot of ways to help stop

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    The scope of this paper is “Challenging Disaster Administration: Toward Community-Based Disaster Resilience” article by Liza Ireni-Saban published in 2012. In the past, disaster management was an area of undeveloped process from a community level. In fact, disaster’s consequences go beyond losing lives and properties damages. Therefore, the article illustrated different models of managing disaster process of a community based level and provide some guidelines that would help to diverse the consequences

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    “We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.”(Petra Nemcova) Disasters can happen in what seems like a moment. Some have time to prepare for what will come, while others suffer the effects. Petra Nemcova is one of the many helping to fix the effects of disasters and comfort those in need. She does this by founding the Happy Hearts Fund. This Fund rebuilds safe and resilient schools for

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    experience of those post-Bhopal. Biological citizenship is a unique element of technical disasters because technical disasters are made up of two competing logics: “the political logic of risk containment and a personal logic of survival” (Petryna, 2002, 19). Technological disasters are novel; the scope and acting agent probably has not been studied extensively, creating the need for this knowledge post-disaster. Expertise on such tenuous issues is difficult to come by, leading to the bastardization

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    research on this natural disasters because I want to help make the world safe and its life in the world. I care about the destruction of these natural disasters. There can be a building that is one billion dollars that is just built, then it was destroyed during a tornado or hurricane.The main point or question i’m overall trying to cover is that why don’t we try to stop or predict and help fight the disasters in the world. We can

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    A hailstorm and a cyclone also result in absolute disaster and breakdown of life. Trees are blown off their very roots, and houses arid huge buildings are dug out of their very foundation, and all life is destroyed or dislocated. As far as Bangladesh is concerned, nature has been very kind on the one hand and very cruel on the other. I say this because, not one year goes when there has been no natural disaster. However, when such calamities do occur, the entire machinery, Governmental

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