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On 3rd March 2011, a rogue wave forged ahead of the coastline of Fukushima an hour after the magnitude 9 earthquake shuddered east Japan. This monumental tsunami brought over 40 meters of waves, caused the failure of three reactors in the local nuclear power plant, the devastation of property, and an estimated 14,000 dead bodies were found (Japanese National Police Agency, n.d.). This precipitous sea bore initiated attention worldwide to natural disasters and led to the investigation of the tragedy...
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The aim of this CBA is to understand the role of socio-vulnerability in natural calamities I choose this geographical event because I wanted to learn how did this earthquake cause more fatalities than an earthquake of comparable size. On Tuesday 12th January 2010 at around 4.53 local time, a massive earthquake struck the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince causing an astonishing amount of damage, loss of life, and dislocation. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0 with its epicenter being only...
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The multicultural environment is maintained by a group of individuals from different nationalities, languages, religions and ethnicity in same place. At present days people engaged in a multicultural environment due to the reason for their work, migration and study activities. The number of individuals including in multi-culture expanding day by day. It found that in 2001/2002 the quantity of international student in the UK was expanded in excess of six times higher than contrasted with 1973, and more than two...
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Barbie dolls, they’ve around since the late 50’s, most young girls grow up them, and I highly doubt anyone living today doesn’t know what they are. Yet so little people really look into the implications of showing young girls these dolls which are unrealistically and have unattainable to the average person bodies. They’re crazily slim, and have ‘perfect’, model bodies. Yet for young girls who grow up with them it can seem to be the norm, or something that they...
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Rap music is a popular type of genre that is listened to in today’s society. Rap music emerged from other kinds of music to become what it is today. Most people still enjoy listening to rap music. Some prefer new school rap over old school rap. The new school rap is known to have way greater quality. It’s listened to many different races. Although rap is seen to be more of a black culture, it’s sung by many different people....
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Life brings along a lot of good and bad affairs. However, we try to focus on the good which brings us happiness, but the bad affair sometimes tends to ruin the good times. One of the bad affairs that society today faces is homelessness. Homelessness can be defined as not having a fixed roof over one’s head or living in temporary accommodation under the threat of eviction. This paper focuses on societal views to try to explain the issue of...
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