Before or during a disaster, it is a challenge and important to communicate correct information clearly to the target audience. Such efforts are taken for granted because we communicate every day. Communicating is very important in the prevention of disasters and reaction to an emergency. Often time’s communication plays a big part, but is placed in a small window of opportunity to gain a response from a small or large group. When lives are at stake, communication should take lead focus in the
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emergency responders face the added threat of entering buildings that have collapsed as a result of a terrorist attack. For example, the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995, the second terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9-11-01 as well as the Pentagon. Not only do these emergency responders face the expected dangers upon entering a collapsed building such as natural gas leaks, fire, exposure to
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0480775 Professor Diamond English 51 (T/R) 18 September 2012 Now They Are Gone. Black clouds covered the sky, scraps of buildings flying and the terrifying screeching and crying of the crowd is how many remember September 11th, 2001. The city that was full of life, lights and people changed in an instant. September eleventh was a chaotic event that changed the views of not only our country, but the world as well. What seemed like a normal day in my life was actually a life changing event
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Future Emergencies This short story was written in 2002, a year after 9/11. So the setting is the post 9/11 America contributing the sense of uncertainty and insecurity of America’s future and the fear of changes in American people’s lives. The female narrator She isn’t given a name, probably she’s used to represent ordinary Americans whose pleasant, enjoyable lives have been afflicted by 9/11 attacks, becoming frightened, anxious and longing for their past ways of life. Before the incident, she
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could do the rest of my life and it is. I have had to overcome many of hardships in my life. I have been abused and neglected as a kid. I have been to a juvenile detention center, out of school and homeless as a teenager, in and out of my family’s homes. What has given me the most strength was going to the juvenile detention center. I was in there for something I did not do. My mom and her boyfriend both lied to the cops. I had to spend three months, which felt like forever. It was not all that bad
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Development of Corrections Women’s prisons before the 1800’s were just as bad as the men’s prisons. The women were often treated like servants and were abused just as the men prisoners were. The only exception to the abuse was pregnant women, but after the women gave birth, they were abused. The prisons were also monitored and watched over by male wards and the women prisoners were mixed in with the male prisoners. By being mixed with the male prisoners the women not only suffered from
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make a decision to hear the case formally or informally. If they do not have enough evidence the case is then dismissed. While the court is determining what kind of case they have against the juvenile he or she may be detained in a juvenile detention center. My opinion on whether or not the juvenile process should differ from the adult process is yes and no. I believe that the juveniles that commit these crimes have not matured I believe they should not be tried as an adult. Unless it is a serious
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Juvenile Detention Center was concerned with the likelihood of sexual abuse of juveniles by officers of the opposite gender, and as a result the detention center enacted a new policy requiring each unit of the facility to be staffed by at least one officer of the same gender. This new policy lead to a decrease in shifts for female officers and an increase in the number of shifts for male officers due to the number of male units versus the number of female units in the center. Two female officers
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Skyy Eaddy September 28, 2011 Quitman street school grade-8-room-305 Autobiography Jefferson and Alison Crowther Mr. Jefferson and Mrs. Alison look like a great family to me. For someone to love there kid as much as any one, is some what great. I read a paper that said in the being. That ever morning when he got up he would put his suit, he would have a nice white handkerchief in the pocket. He would have a blue bandanna. so when there son the hero turned seven
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The earth feels smaller whenever a new telecommunication device is introduced to the market, or anytime footage of a unique event or an action in the world is shared in cyberspace for everyone to see; these are small affects of globalization in life. Globalization integrates economy and cultures of different regions of the world through trading, telecommunication, technology, human migration, and capital flows. Incentive of the integration may be economic, political, cultural, technological or humanitarian
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