Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2011
The word calamity implies the succession of a great misfortune or misfortune scale, that is, that the same affects many people
Disaster or misfortune of enormous scope because it touches thousands of people and affects their lives and causes great material damage
The calamity, by the gravity that it supposes per se, it will alter the regular order that things present in the place in which it happens. It may be a event natural, such is the case of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, or, to be caused by the human being, such is the case of a war.
Regardless of what your trigger is, always, calamity will bring losses human and material on a large scale, the latter difficult to solve as soon as possible because they demand money and infrastructure to return to the place affect its normal state.
Recently, planet earth witnessed one of the greatest calamities in history that occurred in one of its territories: Japan. The tsunami that mainly affected the island of Japan not only caused the death of thousands and thousands of people, it injured many others and caused magnificent material damage, but also raised the alarm of nuclear proliferation as a result of the explosion of several power plants nuclear.
Climate change, directly responsible for many natural disasters that are experienced today
But the case of Japan we mentioned is one of many that move the world, unfortunately, every day it is more common and recurrent to find scenarios of this type. The climate change, caused in many cases by the negligent action of man in many respects, is undoubtedly one of the reasons for this, and if there is no will politics worldwide and a commitment from society in general, it will be very difficult not to continue appreciating situations of this kind.
Nature often has unforeseen events in store for us that cannot be stopped or anticipated even with the highest technology, Now, there are many other calamities that are not the result of nature but have to do with an excessive action and little affect to the health of the planet that human beings have been developing for years, and of course, today we are beginning to pay the consequences of this.
Meanwhile, the word calamity is linked to other terms, such as: misfortune, misfortune, adversity, cataclysm, hecatomb, misery, havoc and scourge, which are often used as synonyms for calamity and vice versa. Instead, fortune, victory and bliss are the words that are directly opposed to this sense.
People commonly followed by misfortunes
And the other of the uses that we normally give to the word calamity allows us to designate that clumsy person or to whom all kinds of problems happen all the time. This sense of the term is linked to words like clumsy, incapable, unskilled, awkward and big-handed and opposes those of skillful and crafty.
There are individuals who have a natural propensity for clumsiness and unpleasantness.
Their position in life is the one that ends up putting them in circumstances that they cannot handle and that end up complicating their existence, in addition to causing damage.
Domestic calamity: serious event that affects the health of an employee or a family member
Domestic calamity, for its part, turns out to be a concept frequently used in the field labor and which supposes everyone Serious family event that affects the normal development of an individual's activities in his or her job, among them the following stand out: disease, death, serious injury of a direct relative, among others. Such a state of affairs will demand that the employer in question grant the worker who is suffering from this situation the pertinent licenses until the misfortune is overcome.
One of the benefits that workers have achieved after long decades of union struggle is the recognition of certain basic rights that although they do not have to do directly with their professional tasks, they are linked to their lives and end up having repercussions on the plane labor.
If a direct relative, child or spouse, of an employee, gets sick, they will need him and so the worker will have to request the aforementioned license from their bosses in order to accompany them in the recovery or in the treatment.
Those permits must be given without discount of salary for work absences but the employee must present the pertinent medical certificates.
Themes in Calamity