The Success of the Evacuation
When evacuation started in September 1939 it was very popular. Many
people in Britain thought that the German's would bomb the large
cities such as London and Birmingham without a second thought.
These thoughts were due to newsreels at cinemas showing German planes
bombing cities in the Spanish civil war. So people were relieved that
children and mothers of young children were evacuated. However the
German's didn't start bombing British cities until the autumn of 1940
and it got worse through the winter of 1940-1941. This was called the
blitz. Before this thousands of children had gone home, having to be
evacuated again.
Evacuation was generally a success and certainly helped save the lives
of thousands of ordinary children from bombing. It involved hundreds
and thousands of children, mothers and teachers being moved. It
affected thousands of families who became hosts to the children.
Considering the numbers of people and the distances and organisation
needed it was a great success. Some arrangements were very nasty and
bothers and sisters became parted.
Some areas had too many evacuees and some areas didn't have enough
children for the area. A lot of rural schools were too small to cope
with the extra children, which meant that many children enjoyed a lot
of 'holiday' time, which was often spent farming this is also shown in
Source H as it shows problems and limitations. Many evacuees or
children evacuated had a fantastic time, met new friends and saw areas
that they had never seen before. A lot of them had not been on holiday
before and had no experience of farming or living in the countryside.
It was an experience most of them enjoyed. However it wasn't all like
that. It was proved that for a small minority of evacuees it was an
unpleasant adventure. They were bullied in the rural schools, they
lived with people they didn't know and sometimes they were with
families that were a lot richer or poorer than their own.
Unfortunately some children were exposed to physical, verbal and
The use MEDEVAC in the U.S. Army has been in place since the Korean War, it was used to transport soldiers when wounded on the battlefields back to the CASHs and MASH units for immediate care. The pilots, medics, crewmembers, nurses and flight surgeons that have flown and been assigned within these units are very proud of their service. The demanding schedules, fast reaction times and service these crews experience create a tight knit unit. Through the modernization (that the army started pushing in 2005) to realign aviation assets in Combat Aviation Brigades (CABs) has caused a substantial loss of historical identification for these units.
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aware of the problems they are about to face, it is almost as if they
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My topic is going to be about the unification and recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It has been nearly ten years since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. Many promises have been made when it comes to the rebuilding of the city. According to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, as with most disasters, after Hurricane Katrina politicians and boosters were promising the city would be rebuilt and it would be bigger and better than before (Kates). Though often, after a disaster, cities are given empty promises and it seems that despite a slow process the people of New Orleans are determined to create for themselves a new and better home. The city of New Orleans was left in ruin and disaster
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When a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005 the shock of the destruction quickly became evident with the storm’s aftermath. There was the need for an organized response, however the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not ready for the magnitude or the severity of damage to adequately and successfully react. FEMA was confronted with a series of events following the disaster in which the agency failed to take control and communicate in helping remedy the catastrophic situation. There was the lack of management in coordinating transportation evacuation measures, supplying needed materials and food as well as housing to the citizens, specifically in New Orleans. The failure of our nation’s Federal Emergency Management Agency to efficiently respond to Hurricane Katrina led to a serious of negative events caused by insufficient planning.
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a new way of life, the people here still were trying to catch up. Many were
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The increase in unpredictable natural disasters events for a decade has led to put the disaster preparedness as a central issue in disaster management. Disaster preparedness reduces the risk of loss lives and injuries and increases a capacity for coping when hazard occurs. Considering the value of the preparatory behavior, governments, local, national and international institutions and non-government organizations made some efforts in promoting disaster preparedness. However, although a number of resources have been expended in an effort to promote behavioural preparedness, a common finding in research on natural disaster is that people fail to take preparation for such disaster events (Paton, 2005; Shaw 2004; Spittal, et.al, 2005; Tierney, 1993; Kenny, 2009; Kapucu, 2008; Coppola and Maloney, 2009). For example, the fact that nearly 91% of Americans live in a moderate to high risk of natural disasters, only 16% take a preparation for natural disaster (Ripley, 2006).