Political Affairs
 The tsunami of December 2004 presents an opportunity for politics, both globally and locally. Globally, many western countries saw this as an opportunity to show their concerns and to improve their image abroad. For example, the United States sees this as an opportunity to show the world that it can use its military power to help coordinate disaster relief. It also tried to provide aid to Indonesia and other poor countries to show its friendly intent.
Locally, many politicians took this as an opportunity to increase their popularity by leading the relief effort and therefore winning the hearts and minds of tsunami victims.
Thailand's Prime minister did a very good job after the tsunami disaster. For instance, he personally visited the affected areas. Because of this, he received a very high approval rating for his leadership. He won the election in a landslide in February of 2004.
 For some politicians, the scenario may go the other way. If the local politician was not doing a good job helping the victims, he could lose his job or his election in the future.
Nationally, large disasters like this could also expose construction projects that are not built properly, either through inadequate supervision or rampant corruption. Scandals like this could potentially bring down the current ruling government as well.
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Credits
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Credits: Interactions
Ideas for team-generated interactions were conceived by reading articles from NASA and also from Creative Adventures activities.
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- Ms. Irivinti for teaching us how to use Dreamweaver for our web design, Photoshop and Fireworks for graphics as well as animating our logo. She taught us how to create different background (fading) effects, how to pick appropriate colors, and how to generate theme specific images, spacers etc. She also assisted us with all programming aspects of our website.
- Mrs. Cataldo, Ms. Irivinti and our parents for guiding us with research and content development. It was difficult to find information we needed in one place and their assistance helped us a lot in this regard.
- Mrs. Cataldo and Ms. Irivinti for reviewing and editing what we wrote. They told us when our writing needed more work and also taught us how to cite sources, obtain permission for images that we borrowed from other websites and also the proper way to credit them.
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