Emergency exit

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…

The New Deal-Half Successful The Great Depression began on 1929 made the whole country in the dark-age. Countless banks failed, companies went bankrupt caused many people lost their jobs, the nation’s supply and productions diminished. Besides, President Hoover still stood his position on market needs self-recovery which led the situation worse. The New Deal, came out under this situation which was seen as the radical action to save the whole country. The new President Roosevelt called…

The twentieth century (1929) Stock Market crash set in motion a chain of events that would plunge the United States into a deep depression. The Depression of the 1930 's called for the end of an era of economic prosperity during the 1920 's. President Herbert Hoover was the unfortunate to preside over this economic downfall. Hoover believed the cause of this depression was international, and he therefore believed that restoring the gold standard would ultimately drag the US out of depression by…