Disaster comparison project

Description

Introduction  The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate that they have met the five core learning outcomes for the course. Students will write a 10 page paper comparing and contrasting a human caused and a natural disaster. Directions  As part of the paper students will discuss causation, appraisal of the event, individual’s subjective experience, psychological impact, stigmatization and or discrimination of victims, special populations impacted, secondary injury, agencies involved  and their duties/contributions, and the legal, ethical and organizational issues involved. Academic research literature, newspaper/magazine articles and social media posts covering the event may be used for this project.  The paper must be at least 10 pages, excluding the title page, abstract and reference pages and be written using APA format.