This provided my first real understanding of a fundamental difference between how the indigenous people of Guatemala view disaster and how a North American does.
Re "This Time, the Scene Was Real" (Week in Review, Sept. 16): With the horrific images of the terrorist attacks burned into our brains, we need to ask why we can so easily view disaster as entertainment.
He educates himself with habitual thoroughness, searching the Haitian national anthem for words of comfort, looking for cultural context in a French newspaper article on his Kindle about how Haitian voodoo priests viewed the disaster.
Therefore, children are viewed in disaster policy as potential victims and recipients of assistance, not as active agents.
The major league baseball playoff games scheduled for Oct. 6 would make a fight on that night a pay-per-view disaster, Burstein said.
It's get-out-of-the-way music: "Is It a Lie?," a song that steps back from itself, viewing the disaster it recounts as if it were a reverie, starts in the middle of a dead run.
"Just viewing the disaster's scope - its magnitude and the areas affected - we believe that the 10,000 figure is more probable," said Martin Romualdez.
Many policymakers view recent disaster events, such as the flood of 2011, as a catastrophic event when proper risk-based knowledge predicts that this flood event is estimated to occur "once every 10 20 years" (MRC 2011, p. 2).
The responses he gave to the Senate committee investigating the bank's misdeeds were widely viewed as a disaster.
I read a lot of books about those times, and these days they seem to be viewed as a disaster.
