Aliya Magazova 201102146 | Name of Incident | Description | Important Dates | Series of events | Actions of Employees | Management actions | Consequences | 2 | The collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis | One of the main crossings of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis | Construction began in 1964. Opened in 1967. Collapsed on August 1‚ 2007. | Gusset plates had only half the thickness. No redundant load-bearing paths designed into structure. Increasing the weight of the structure by resurfacing
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Alone‚ Putman poses a very important question‚ why is civil society declining in the past several decades? Putman starts off his question by viewing the works of Tocqueville when he visited America. While being in America in the 1830’s‚ he found that civic association‚ norms‚ and networks are what make up America’s society. Along with that‚ he thought that social capital benefitted our society. Putman then goes on to question why civil engagement decreased in our society. Our voter turnout‚ membership
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with mere representation‚ he aims to make every citizen a legislator‚ to bring about‚ as he puts it‚ "unmediated self-government." To this ambitious end‚ he speaks with remarkable single-mindedness on the academic conference circuit‚ celebrating the civic potential of the people and sounding‚ very often‚ less like a professor than a politician on the stump. Barber’s writings over the years have been dedicated both to promoting this ideal regime and‚ still more‚ to combating the currents of thought
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Anti-Plastic and Zero Garbage Campaign Naocha * Three cheers to the recent goodwill initiative taken up Anti-plastic campaigners’ group‚ "Blue and Green". Back-up and support from various sections of society‚ organization‚ NGOs shows the awareness of the health hazardous and dreadful consequences of using plastic. As we all know that regular and prolonged dependence on plastic by the common people pushed the plastic items one of the most polluting agent destabilizing the ecological balance of nature
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mostly wealthy bourgeoisies of the third estate. The remaining members of the third estate‚ the peasants and sans-culottes‚ therefore did not have much say in what was being addressed to the public. Enlightenment ideas such as popular sovereignty and civic equality‚ advocated by all three groups of the estate‚ is apparent in the statement. Although this was a step in the right direction for all members of the third estate‚ the bourgeoisies and peasants benefited more from this document than the sans-culottes
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different viewpoints be merged? The current research has identified several socializing agents in adolescents’ political development. We know that parents‚ peers‚ the school‚ and the media are important agents in shaping adolescents political and civic values‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors. However‚ researchers have studied this process through a unidirectional lens‚ that is‚ most often taking a top-down approach where transmission flows from parent to child. From this perspective‚ adolescents have been
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Education Reform in Hong Kong: 334 System There are a number of controversies and debates on recent education reforms in Hong Kong. The most recent and debatable one is 334 Education System in 2012. In the following‚ it will first briefly look into the old and new education system. Also‚ it will explore the implications of the new education system to see the causes and consequences. By 2012‚ the 334 Education System replaced the 3223 Education System. The two systems are structurally
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Intro to Philosophy Midterm The word philosophy itself means “the love of wisdom.” Philosophy stands for doing the right thing or being a “just” person. Philosophy also means to see things for what they truly are and not what they may seem to be. A philosopher’s life is a lifelong quest to find the meaning of things beyond their physical appearance. The Ring of Gyges is a ring that a man puts on and becomes invisible. When he does wrong he is not blamed‚ he gets away with it. Once a man
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at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. In that position‚ Abbott contributed to studies of juvenile delinquents and truants. She also created studies on women in industry and problems in the penal system. She lived with her sister‚ Grace‚ at Hull House from 1908 to 1920‚ associating with the men and women who worked in support of Jane Addams and her social reform causes.[3] In 1920‚ Abbott and Breckinridge helped arrange the transfer of the School of Civics and Philanthropy to the University
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Recently‚ you asked me what I was studying in school. When I told you about my rhetoric course‚ you asked why I was studying such an old concept. I’m writing you today to explain why it is important that we still learn about rhetoric. Today‚ we commonly see rhetorically heavy symbolic actions like political speeches‚ newspaper articles‚ and FaceBook posts‚ but humans have been successfully utilizing rhetoric for over 2500 years. Rhetoric is an art form wherein the rhetor attempts to inform or persuade
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