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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//ABISOURCE//DTD XHTML plus AWML 2.2//EN" "http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/xhtml-awml.mod"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:awml="http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title> Abiword HTML Document </title> </head> <body> <div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;border:0.00pt solid #000000;border-collapse:collapse;empty-cells:show;table-layout:fixed"> <tr> <td rowspan="" colspan="" style="padding: 0.00pt;background-color:#003399;border:0.00pt solid #000000"> <p> <span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Arial'">Disaster Selection Research Assignment</span> </p> </td> <td rowspan="" colspan="" style="padding: 0.00pt;background-color:#003399;border:0.00pt solid #000000"> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="padding: 0.00pt;border:0.00pt solid #000000"> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Over the past decade or two, there have been numerous large disasters in the news that required a large incident response. Your assignment will be to select the scaled disaster of your choice. You will perform research on the public safety and healthcare response to your chosen disaster.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Write a two page paper in which you describe your chosen incident, and then discuss the professional response. Critically analyze what went right and what went wrong with the response. Consider: Was the response adequate? Were proper resources deployed? Was there a previous disaster management plan in place that contemplated this disaster? Were healthcare resources overwhelmed? Then use research on disaster response theories to back up your paper’s position.</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">You should use information from at least 3 peer-reviewed and credible resources (besides the textbook) to support your paper (Hint: use the citation tool to help you format resources found in the online library).</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">You may chose whatever major event you would like, but here are some possibilities:</span> </p> <span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Hurricane Katrina</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Japanese tsunami</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">World Trade Tower Attacks</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">A train or aircraft crash</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Recent U.S. earthquakes</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Mining cave-ins</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Russian meteor strike</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Boston Marathon bombing</span><span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'">Movie theater/school shooter</span> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p awml:style="No Spacing"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Arial'"></span> <a name="_GoBack"> </a> </p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-left:27.000000pt"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </div> </body></html> ">
