Floods
Essays

Dear Katharine: It's been too long since our last meeting, though it was good to see you then and how quickly the afternoon passed. You were indeed a generous host; the ginger tea cakes you made were divine and the orange pekoe tea was a delightful treat. However, I as we were dining and coming up to speed with the current events in each other's lives, I could not shake the feeling that you were haunted by an unshakeable sadness. There was a profound and apparent melancholy which pervaded your actions and made it difficult for you to make eye contact with me. You spoke in a monotone fashion and often stared straight down into your teacup. You sighed frequently. I don't even think you were aware of doing it. It saddened me deeply to see you like that and I wondered if I should ask you about your present state. However, I feared putting you on the spot and I was afraid that you would despise me for doing so. I decided that I would write you a letter instead, expressing my dismay and sincere concern. My darling Katharine: you've been a tremendous friend to me since we were little girls and I would be no friend to you if I turned my back pretended that all was fine with you. It clearly is not. You've clearly become consumed by a deep and debilitating depression. Your depression is of course understandable. You lost your younger sister, Lilly, nine months ago and still are clearly haunted by it. Lilly was a brilliant and charming little girl and her death in the boating pond was an absolute tragedy. It also wasn't your fault; you weren't even there. In fact, had you been there the tragedy still might have occurred, so you really should be grateful that you spared the experience. But Katharine, this isn't what I mean to say. Dearest Katharine, what concerns me even more than your apparent guilt over this death is the fact that you appear to be obsessed with death. Friends have told me that you've been plagued by nightmares where you envision relatives and dear contacts being consumed by raging fires or in floods. Your parents

The oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit at a reef in the Prince William Sound of Alaska on March 24, 1989 and it was considered as a nightmare that not only brought revolutionary change in Prince William Sound but made the…

It is unfortunate to state that sociological ills have preserved their place in almost every society, civilization and empire. Be it slavery, illiteracy, disease or poverty; one vice or the other has invaded communities throughout history and wreaked destruction upon the inhabitants. Despite the revolutions in the information technology and communication sector, countries are still experiencing a strong dearth of resources. Regardless of the progress within the global corporate realm, there is a widening gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots". Poverty is a harsh and tangible part of our world reality. What is poverty? A simple and straightforward explanation is to be without basic, essential items such as food, water, and shelter. The Copenhagen Declaration paints it as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation, facilities, health, education and information". (Finding Solutions to Poverty, 2006)

Changes take place in any industry which is going through a stage of development and change. Telecommunication electronics is in such a phase now and it is natural for this industry to be changing.

Chernobyl was, arguably, the worst nuclear disaster in history. There were many cleanup people - called liquidators - who worked at the plant after the disaster and who ended up dying or getting very sick from the radiation. This paper explores Chernobyl, but also the possibility of a nuclear incident in the US and how it would be handled.

Hurricane Katrina touched land near New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29, 2005 and its storm surge ripped the levees built to protect New Orleans from Lake Pontchartrain, which bounds it in the North (Wikipedia 2005).

To put in simple words, a flood is too much water in the 'wrong' place that has a far reaching effect on people and the environment. The most common type of natural flooding is caused by streams and is mainly because of…

The Yellow River (also known as "Huang He" in Chinese) is the second largest river in China after the Yangtze River and the fifth largest in the world. The River occupies an extremely important place in the Chinese…

As well as regularly treating potentially catastrophic illnesses, hospitals must also prepare for catastrophic events, including but not limited to natural catastrophes such as tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes…

Abstract The advent of technology has had an impact on almost every facet of our lives. Today, thanks to technology, the maintenance of patient records is becoming increasingly easy and efficient. In this text, I will concern myself with electronic health records (EHR). In so doing, I will amongst other things take into consideration the effect of EHRs on health care and the implications of adopting this technology from a privacy and security perspective. Further, I will highlight HIPAA privacy and security rules and how they relate to EHRs.