In 2010 a horrible rushing hurricane hit the small country‚ Haiti with the population of about 10.85 million. On January 12‚ many people were horribly affected. Houses were destroyed with winds up to 145 mph‚ and an earthquake magnitude of 7.0. There was also a storm surge included in the hurricane. Crops were pulled apart and no one ever saw it coming. The hurricane in Haiti was one of the most enormous and destructive ever there. In response of this hurricane‚ people were left displaced‚ had little
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The collapse of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge stunned everyone‚ especially engineers. How could the most "modern" suspension bridge‚ with the most advanced design‚ suffer catastrophic failure in a relatively light wind? The State of Washington‚ the insurance companies‚ and the United States government appointed boards of experts to investigate the collapse of the Narrows Bridge. The Federal Works Administration (FWA) appointed a 3-member panel of top-ranking engineers: Othmar Amman‚ Dr. Theodore
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Spanish philosopher‚ George Santayana once wrote‚ “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote is widely used because of its relevance to a variety of topics. Engineers use reverse engineering to investigate an engineering failure and prevent it from happening again. We remember the tenth mission of the space shuttle Challenger that ended on January 28‚ 1986 in a catastrophic disaster. Seven astronauts were killed that day when the Challenger they were piloting‚ exploded
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The Collapse of the Ancient Regime. The memorandum sent to the king by the princes of the blood in December 1788 is a document of record; as it is the petition itself‚ not a record of it and it is a private source as it was generated solely for the use of the king‚ although the petition was published shortly afterwards‚ and therefore became a public source. The source was written in the period of the ancient regime‚ a month before the French revolution occurred in 1789 and is a strong
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The events that led to the collapse of the Roman Republic were as follows: During the early 1st century‚ there were many uprisings among non-Romans in Italy and Asia Minor due to their inability to vote since they were not Roman citizens; they had no voice in rulings that affected them. In addition‚ the citizens refused the non-Romans’ demands for citizenship purely out of greed as they wanted the spoils of war for themselves. At this tumultuous time‚ Lucius Cornelius Sulla‚ with his client army
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Several WAISers disagreed with Christopher Jones‚ who denied Reagan’s role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Harry Papasotiriou writes: "The Soviet Union certainly collapsed of its own weight‚ but Reagan helped speed up the process. The following paragraphs are from a forthcoming book that I am co-authoring. Reagan’s conviction that the Soviet Union was both a dangerous military power and a collapsing economic system derived not from any deep knowledge of the Soviet Union. Yet he proved to be
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In Bebe Moore Campbell’s‚ You’re Blues Ain’t Like Mine‚ I was able to view the novel from the three main sociological perspectives: the structural-functionalist approach‚ the social-conflict approach‚ and the symbolic-interaction approach. From the structural-functionalist point of view‚ I analyzed the Honorable Men of Hopewell as the power elite. I viewed Mamie Cox’s understanding of social class from the social-conflict perspective‚ and Doreen and Lily Cox differences were easily seen through
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COINTELPRO main priority was to destroy the Black Panthers by which they accomplished. The Black Panthers had corruption within the Party‚ most of the leaders were in jail‚ exiled‚ or dead. These along with political repression is what helped in the collapse of the Panthers.
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Society may collapse as a result of corruption. Corruption is the abuse of public resources to enrich or give unfair advantage to individuals‚ their families or their friends. Common forms of corruption are:- A business or individual pays a bribe to a government official in order to be given a government contract or license‚ the use of government owned resources‚ such as motor vehicles for private use ‚ a government official takes advantage of his or her position to favor a family member or business
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On Feb‚ 15 The USS Maine blew up resulting in 274 out of the ship’s 354 crew died. American press and most members of Congress say the Maine struck a naval mine planted by Spanish. Investigations from the explosion discovered was caused from ignition of coal dust from the fuel bunker‚ although some have concluded the explosion came from a mine.
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