Emergency contraception

the number of people seeking mental health care increased drastically, yet the number of providers to treat them dropped (Manuel, 2013). Of the most affected hospitals, Beth Israel in lower Manhattan, recorded a 69 percent increase in psychiatric emergency room patients (Bernstein, 2012). Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the chairman of psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center remarked: Triage has reached a different level: You have to get sicker to get in. Not only is there decreased capacity, there’s…

Isaac Cline, along with everyone else in the weather bureau, were the reason that there were so many deaths in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston. The Law of Storms was referred to repeatedly throughout the book stating that storms would never enter the gulf. This thought was relied on too heavily and was pushed on the civilians as truth leading the the whole hearted belief that they were safe. “...but said his office had received no notice of anything of the kind.” Dr. Young said about the…

In the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, they both compare in that they both talk about the impacts that these terrible events had on people’s lives. However, they differed in the way they were talked about. In the September 11 Digital Archive, it concentrated mostly on where the people were during these attacks, how these people remembered this day, and the impact it had on our country. In the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, it focused on what led up to this…

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. This storm was a natural disaster especially for New Orleans. The hurricane caused flooding, death, displaced residents, damages and a decrease in the population. Hurricane Katrina and the levee’s failure increased the stress levels for the individuals living New Orleans. In the documentary “Troubled the Water”, it appeared disturbing, chaotic and there was doubt and anger. These individual experienced something that would probably bring repeated…

Hurricane Matthew is testing the new effort by utilities and the government to make the nation’selectric grid more storm-resistant. From 2008 through 2017, the U.S. government and utilities aresupposed to spend more than $32 billion on things like smart-grid and storm-hardening technology. Thatalso includes systems that are made to resist wind, flying debris and flooding. It also allows powerproviders to identify damage and restore electric power faster.Hurricane Matthew did not really provided…

From June until the first of November the whole world is watching there television screen learning about new hurricanes that are headed towards land. These storms are violent winds that pick up lots of water and cause lot of damage to anything in its path. Not only is this natural disaster damaging to people and physical objects right in its path, but it hurts the economy a lot which cause for the rest of the United States or even the world to feel and suffer from the after math of the hurricane…

This paper annotates five sources that I will use for my final research paper on Hurricane Sandy. These sources focus on the following criteria: (a) the emergency operations center at the federal level, (b) the areas and populations effected by Hurricane Sandy, (c) the media’s role in dispersing disaster information to the public, (d) the interface between all levels of government, and (e) stress management after the hurricane. The sources listed below will provide a framework for an in-depth…

In February 2008, I began working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Gulf Coast Recovery Office (GCRO) as a consultant. My team had been engaged to help the GCRO address several financial management challenges that had been identified by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). With a background in business management and technology, I was tasked with leading the design, development, and deployment of a database that would serve as the centerpiece in a redesigned invoice…

Grandfathering is a NFIP rule that was created in order to recognize property owners who carried a policy before flood maps became effective to the correct standards relative to the map at the time of construction. Structures built before the first Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) have and maintain flood insurance policies when new flood maps become effective. Structures built after the FIRM maintain continuous flood insurance coverage. Congress is working on the reauthorization of the policy of…

forward some policies to replace the New Deal. Martha Gellhorn, Huey Long, and Herbert Hoover are three people who held a negative attitude toward Roosevelt’s New Deal. Martha Gellhorn was a reporter sent by Harry Hopkins, director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, to report on the conditions at North Carolina. The report demonstrated strong belief in President Roosevelt and described…