compare the psychological impact of a disaster of your choice (9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the London subway/bus bombings, the Pakistan/India earthquake, etc.) to the impact of the sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania by a German U-boat in May, 1915, a disaster that took 1,198 civilian lives and played a significant role in our entry into World War I.
briefly describe your chosen disaster and public/survivor reactions to it, give a brief overview of the Lusitania disaster and describe public/survivor experiences related to it and draw comparisons between the two (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania is a good encyclopedic source and several other useful resource documents on the human experience of the Lusitania incident are located in the Course Materials folder), and then apply to the two disasters three major psychology of disaster concepts from our course (Terror Management Theory [TMT], PTSD, Phases of Disaster Recovery, Culture as Casualty, etc.).
