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    This case arises out of damages sustained to a 397-unit apartment complex in Camp Springs, Maryland. The Owner, Metropolitan Apartments at Camp Springs, LLC (“Metropolitan”), incurred significant property damage following a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that occurred on August 23, 2011. (E. 1013). Appellee is WCS Construction, LLC (“WCS”), which served as the general contractor and construction manager of the project called “Town Center at Camp Springs Apartments.” (E. 947) Appellant is the…

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    Mr Tlin Characteristics

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    A. Social History and Characteristics of Mr. Tulin Mr. Tulin is a 40 year Haitian National. He comes from an impoverished neighborhood of Carrefour, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he was born and raised. Mr. Tulin is the oldest of eleven children. Mr. Tulin’s parents worked tirelessly to provide for their children. Tulin’s father, now deceased, was a laborer and his mother is a street merchant, selling charcoal, and a self-taught seamstress. Mr. Tulin adopted his parent’s…

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    Breaking news: Just yesterday at 4:53 pm, the country of Haiti was Figure 1: Port-Au-Prince flattened by 7.0 earthquake. flattened by a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 causing major destruction. The epicentre was 13 km from the capital of Haiti, Port-Au-Prince. The initial estimates for this disaster, placed the death toll around 210,000. Sadly, this estimate was horribly wrong with the death toll rising well above 300,000. There were many reasons for the death rising so high,…

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    Cholera In Haiti

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    “In addition to the personal losses of homes and crops, more than 716 schools, numerous health facilities, and the existing sanitation infrastructure in Haiti all suffered damage as a result of Hurricane Matthew” (UNICEF Haiti). This damage has resulted in limited access to clean water and numerous cases of water-borne diseases. A new water purification system as well as information on the transmission of disease is necessary to help the people of Haiti’s southern peninsula. Haiti is no…

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    needed to assist the ship owner prepare for impending ISM audit, and against any possible deficiencies. Practically, there are two types of ISM audits performed to verify Company/Ship compliance with the ISM code. • External Audit – conducted by Port State Control, Flag State Administration or Recognised Organisation on their behalf. • Internal Audit – conducted by the Company (the Ship owner). In this light, a…

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    local and the remote computer. However, one can run the two programs on the same computer. Such communicating programs constitute a client/server application normally; a server runs on a specific computer and has a socket that is bound to a specific port number. The server just waits, listening to the socket for a client to make a connection request (Polam, 2014). On the client- side, the client knows the hostname of the machine on which the server is…

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    2011). The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0 mm (Fierro, E. & Perry, C. Preliminary Reconnaissance Report). The epicenter of the earthquake was in the town of Leogane. The town of Leogane is approximately 25 kilometers west-southwest of the city of Port Au Prince. The earthquake had a depth of 13 kilometers (Fierro, E. & Perry, C. Preliminary Reconnaissance Report). The earthquake occurred on January 12th.. More than 3 million people were affected by the earthquake. There were 220,000…

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    The Haiti earthquake has been a disaster, because everything got destroyed and a lot of people died. This earthquake happened in 2010 on January 12. It said that three million people were affected by the earthquake in 2010. The earthquake has been so bad that 300,000 people were injured. An lot of people didn’t have homes for awhile. All of the buildings were destroyed, the whole earthquake was just devastating.What's sad it didn’t have any place to get educated or any food to eat. People were…

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    Fact or Fiction: The Effects of Misrepresentation Literature appears in many forms from fiction to non-fiction to memoirs with each providing a different purpose for the intended reader. Often, authors will write their memoirs in order to give the reader new knowledge of events through personal experience rather than to entertain them as a folk tale might. Consequently, those in search of gaining knowledge through personal experience on a particular event will most likely choose to evaluate the…

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    fire” is what Crispus Attucks said and what led up to him dying, and starting the revolutionary war. This was just the beginning of a huge revolution. Crispus Attucks played an important role in the American Revolution by his role in the Boston Massacre. On the night of March 5, 1770, Private Hugh White, a guard on duty outside Boston’s customs house,was surrounded by a jeering crowd.He reacted by hitting one of them his musket. The crowd grew larger, and eight redcoats came to rescue White. A…

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