Writing 102 Section 97 11 April 2013 Casinos: The Golden Nugget of the Gulf Coast It was all started in June of 1990 when the state of Mississippi legislature legalized dockside gambling along the Mississippi Gulf Coast with the Mississippi Gaming Control Act. Then, in late August of 1992, the Isle of Capri casino’s first riverboats docked at the east end of Biloxi Beach in Biloxi, Mississippi to take in passengers to gamble on shore and since then Gulf Coast has never looked back. However
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Pagan Troy University Abstract Natural disasters come fast and leave fast but the communities are left with long and difficult injuries. They can be physical, monetary, family structure, and mental injuries and they do not leave along with the hurricane or ease up quickly like the earthquake, they stay around leaving many in need of multiple services. Communities are not ready most of the time and crisis intervention models have been created along the way in the aftermath of several disasters. These
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Media Bias and how it affects our country negatively English 112 Spring The biases the media has are bigger than conservative or liberal. They are all about getting ratings, making money and about doing stories that are easy to cover. This may seem like a trite statement but it hold enormous amount of truth. As Americans, we trust what reporters write in the newspaper, and say on television and radio stations. We expect them to report the truth. However, current media outlets distort
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discuss the response by government, NGOs and volunteer groups to Hurricane Katrina. The question for you to answer is whether or not the organizational structure for disaster response for the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and FEMA was adequate to effectively respond to a Cat. 3 - 5 hurricane on August 26th, 2005. As you respond to this question please complete the following: o Review the various reports concerning the Katrina response and relief efforts. Identify an example of a relief effort
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Simas Butkus E&P STARBUCKS Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world with lots of stores all around the world and also amazing profits. In this short writing assignment I will try to evaluate this brands philanthropic activity and distinguish strategic philanthropy examples from not so strategic ones. First of all, I would like to mention few strategic philanthropy examples, which were mentioned in the book: * “Since 1992 we have been working with CARE International
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Introduction Hurricane Katrina became the New Orleans¡¦ biggest nightmare in year 2005. Even though the city was spared the full impact of the hurricane, the city¡¦s levees were breached and flooded more than 80 percent of the city. At the end of the day, the total death toll has reached 1,836 as of May 2006, and the experts estimated the total cost of Hurricane Katrina at $81.2 billion or more. It was true that Katrina was a natural disaster; therefore, it was unpredictable and unavoidable. Federal
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are welcomed to engage in joint activities and events without private invitations or limitations. KSA is helped not only Korean students but also Korean community. KSA gather in Baton Rouge to share opinions socially without conflict. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, hundreds of Korean refugees flocked to Baton Rouge to find emergency shelter at the Korean Baptist Church of Baton Rouge. In there, volunteer of KSA helped many refugees. They were provided food, clothing, emergency medical
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becomes most important. It is frequently known that there are significant communication and coordination problems between the different levels of government. The most memorable natural disaster where all of the governments worked together, was hurricane Katrina. This national event brought forth to everyone’s view, the complete breakdown of intergovernmental cooperation. Authority and autonomy come amid these things. The Federal Governments role in case of disaster management and response is still
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University of Phoenix Detecting Media Bia HUM/114 The reported story of President Obama abandoning his campaign in Florida to deal with the state officials along the Atlantic Coast in wake of Hurricane Sandy was not clear but seems to be accurate. The information that was given from MSN.com did not seem to have enough depth. The story was short, but it seemed to lack what steps other than generators, food and water will be provided if needed. The areas that are currently being affected are
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environment they live in. Other natural disasters are portrayed to be just a bad day created by Mother Nature to just pass by. Overall, the natural disasters that can be catastrophic to people on earth are hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. All three natural disasters occur in many countries. Hurricanes are common in the United State of America, earthquakes are common in Mexico, and tsunamis are common in Japan. These three countries have experienced the worst damage from these natural disasters. The
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