HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster Aaron Beam tells all in his novel entitled, “HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster” surrounding the fraud case amounting to $2.8 billion. Beam is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of HealthSouth whereas his partner-in-crime Richard Scrushy, also the co-founder, is the CEO. Beam was reluctant to work for Scrushy since he was not sure if the man was plain brilliant or just plain trouble. Nonetheless, he decided to work with him since he needed the job.
Thousands were greatly attempting to rebuild. (Doc A) During this, people reacted during the aftermath of the natural disaster by collecting and conserving resources, gathering help from the Red Cross and providing evacuation centers. After the earthquake, people reacted by collecting and conserving as many resources as they possibly could. People were building tents with tarpaulins.
Personnel and equipment come into the devastated area from all over the country, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands” (Bell, 2006, p. 26). 2005 brought the largest national response to natural disasters. Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita affected numerous states. The states affected were unable to help themselves, as would be responders were now victims. In addition to the lack of responders, the local infrastructure was decimated and local and state officials were unable to respond.
The reason the oil prices spiked briefly during Hurricane Irene is because the supply of oil nationwide was going to reduce because of the closure of some oil refineries that were along the path of the hurricane. The closed refineries at that time had a production capacity of approximately a million barrels per day. This meant that the market supply of oil reduced significantly, causing the oil prices to soar because of a shortage in oil supply. After the refineries were opened, when Hurricane Irene had passed, the supply steadily went back to the normal market supply, this resulted in the gradual price reduce of oil. There are other products that experienced an increase in prices as the oil prices increased.
Critical Structures Affected by Super storm Sandy Super storm Sandy was one of the biggest natural disasters that affected the US in the past century. Super storm Sandy affected twenty four States, creating several billions of dollars in property damages and taking the life of several people. On the morning of October 27, 2012, Governor Chris Christie declared New Jersey on State of Emergency in order to secure funds and resources to conduct the recovery phase, after super storm Sandy.
What is social vulnerability? The idea of social vulnerability inside the emergency management setting was first presented in the 1970’s when emergency managers first realized that vulnerability also encompasses socioeconomic influences that negatively impact resiliency to disasters or emergencies. Form the perspective of an emergency manager social vulnerability refers to the socioeconomic and demographic factors that impact the resiliency of individuals, groups or communities. It has been well established that not all classes of individuals living within a disaster area are affected by the disaster in the same way.
After investing the stage collapse, the engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti found that the cause of the accident was due to poor construction. A poor emergency response to the weather threat is what caused the death and injuries of the Sugarland concert goers (13 WTHR.com, 2012). They found that if the stage had been up to code it would have withstood winds greater than 60-70 miles per hour. Witt Associates found that the disaster plan did not work due to the lack of disaster preparation and emergency response, and a bad chain of command greatly added to the problem.
Although storms like Hurricane Katrina occur once in every one hundred years, being prepared and storing water, food, medicines, and other supplies keep families ready for any disaster. Natural disasters can leave communities without power for days and even for weeks. Being prepared in the event of severe weather and disasters like Hurricane Katrina, can reduce fear and anxiety that accompanies disasters. A crucial element of self-sufficient living is survival. Our government does not have all the resources to be totally prepared to take care of the vast numbers of people in a disaster.
Whereas, during a natural disaster it may be difficult to gain access to such resources and therefore, some people can be facing this issue for the first time in their lives. Which can result in conflict and lawlessness taking place. For instance, if a natural disaster was to occur in a less developed country such as Afghanistan, the citizens would not be in a sudden shock if they no longer has access to electricity or any other issues since poverty is issue in the country and they have already adapted into living and surviving in such living conditions that may occur during a natural disaster. However, if such was to occur in Ottawa then it would be a completely different situation since many people might be feeling helplessness and panic due to living
Preview Key Points - I'm going to tell you more about why the Red Cross is very helpful and why you should learn more about it. I will explain what they do to help. II. Body a. The Problem i. State idea clearly: The Problem is natural disaster happening throughout the world like for examples there are many fire, floods, earthquakes, tornados, explosions happening.
The two media sources that I will be using for my natural disaster is newspaper and internet. The natural disaster that I will be talking about is the Japan Tsunami which occurred or March 11,2011 In the northeast of tokyo were a 9.0 magnitude earthquake takes place 231 miles northeast of tokyo at a depth of 15.2 miles making it very hard to make a recovery. The Tsunami made a fatality Because many people couldn't swim
I like the suggestion to attend FEMA Quake Smart program as this puts into place preparing and planning for disasters. In addition, support and community events holds everyone responsible to discuss ways to prevent any further damage from a natural disaster, if possible. However, I wonder how many people prepare for a natural disaster while it was occurring?
Hunger is a serious problem throughout the world, but today I will be focusing on hunger in america. Just for reference, I don’t mean the time between breakfast and lunch. I mean people who don 't know where their next meal is coming from, or are starving. I will be delving into the problems that exist, systems set up to help people do, and what an average person can do.
All you need to do is give some change, or even some food. By doing this, you will follow in the path of Jesus. In the Gospels and the Catholic doctrine, it teaches us what to do for people in need. Also, the gospels and church teach us to love everyone as if they were our brothers and sisters.
Big Five Personality Traits The five personality dimensions OCEAN are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. This were defined as follow, according to Crissy (2011), Openness is the capability of appreciating art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, imagination, curiosity, and variety of experience. The characteristics such as imagination and insight, and those high in this trait also tend to have a broad range of interests were the traits feature in this dimension. Next is Conscientiousness this is the persons tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned rather than spontaneous behavior..