however, we first UK drugstore chain, launched a health IN BRIEF need to understand just how the hucare strategy designed to differentiate man brain forms its judgments. the stores from competitors and grow » Leaders make decisions largely through new health care services such through unconscious processes as dentistry. It turned out, though, that How the Brain Trips Up that neuroscientists call pattern Boots managers did not have the skills We depend primarily on two hardwired recognition
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In this paper I will discus the Army Corps of Engineers and their work on the Kissimmee River in Florida and the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers in Louisiana. I will evaluate the necessity and effectiveness of each of these public works projects and analyze what these projects can tell us about the Army Corps of Engineers as an entity. I will determine whether the actions of the Army Corps of Engineers’ were detrimental, justifiable, or somewhere in between. Finally, I will make specific recommendations
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A Gumbo of Influences: Louisiana’s Slave History, 1763 to Statehood The state of Louisiana has a very diverse and rich heritage and unique history. The history that will be referred to in this essay is that of Louisiana's slaves and slave laws. Much of the country’s slave history is easily traceable through the original thirteen colonies before the Revolutionary War and declaration of the states’ independence from British rule. But what about the slave territories that were later added to the Union
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They found themselves at work on natural levees, in back swamps, on Pine Hills, river bottoms, and coastal cheniers. The work was back breaking because of the heat, floods, droughts, hurricanes, diseases, and other natural hazards. Despite these obstacles, the Louisiana agriculture has evolved
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Popul Res Policy Rev (2010) 29:127–141 DOI 10.1007/s11113-009-9133-x The Role of Community in Disaster Response: Conceptual Models Olivia Patterson • Frederick Weil • Kavita Patel Received: 1 May 2007 / Accepted: 15 October 2008 / Published online: 5 November 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract We focus on the role that community plays in the continuum of disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and we explore where community fits in conceptual frameworks concerning
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in Communication World that the Institute characterizes most business crises as one of two types: sudden crisis or smoldering crisis. A sudden crisis as a disruption in the company's business that occurs without warning, and is likely to generate new coverage,” Some are business-related accidents, natural disasters, sudden death or disability of a key person,
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Communications of the IIMA 25 2006 Volume 6 Issue 2 Disaster Planning and Management Holmes E. Miller Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18104 Kurt J. Engemann Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801 Ronald R. Yager Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801 ABSTRACT Recent events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, power outages, and the threat of pandemics have highlighted our vulnerability to natural disasters. This vulnerability is exacerbated by many organizations’ increasing dependence on computer
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miles per hour, rain pounded on the rooftops, flooding imminent as levees strained and gave way pouring into New Orleans. The Category 5 hurricane terrorizing all cities and states on its war path of destruction; Katrina is what they call her and her storm surge reached 20 feet high. 1,836 was the final death toll that Hurricane Katrina caused and her affects were impacted over approximately 90,000 square miles. 80% of New Orleans was underwater and some places were up to 20 feet under. (11 Facts
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Whatever Happened to the 100-Year Event? They're big, we know them when we see them, and we remember them. By STEVEN SULLIVAN B y September 16, 2013, more than 4,500 square miles of Colorado were under water. That’s an area roughly the size of Delaware by some estimates; others compared it to Connecticut. The territory on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains had already been subjected to six straight days and 17 inches of rain, more than five inches above the annual average
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Climate Change: Global Warming In April 9th of 2010, Marisa Marcavillaca—a farmer and indigenous women’s organizer from Peru— went to The Capitol Hill to tell her powerful story. Her words were quoted by Al Gore in one of his speeches. She said through a translator: “We are very concerned, in my community, [and] in my country, about global climate change. Nature is disrupted. We are seeing the impacts on a daily basis. We are losing our lands, water is disappearing, it rains when it shouldn’t
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