Environmental Disaster Who would have known that on April 20th 2010‚ the United States would soon be facing the worst environmental disaster. On that fateful day‚ an offshore oilrig named the “Deepwater Horizon” suffered an explosion. Seventeen people were injured and eleven people died from the accident. The damaged oilrig sank into the Gulf of Mexico the next day‚ and a one-by-five mile oil slick appeared in the ocean. At the time‚ it was unknown whether the oil was from the rig or if the
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Jason Bohn‚ Brian Louis‚ Jacob Etheredge‚ Dave Dufty| Practicum for Project Management | April 1‚ 2013 Dan Monzon‚ Jason Bohn‚ Brian Louis‚ Jacob Etheredge‚ Dave Dufty| Practicum for Project Management | April 1‚ 2013 Challenger Disaster What went wrong? Challenger Disaster What went wrong? Table of Contents Intro 0 Body 0 Give It That Finishing Touch 0 Add a Table of Contents 0 Add a Bibliography 0 Get Started Right Away When you click this placeholder text‚ just start typing
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A nucleotide mutation repeats short DNA sequences a number of times in a row. A substitution is where one or more bases in the DNA sequence is replaced by the same number of bases. There were many short and long term effects after the Chernobyl disaster that would affect plants‚ animals‚ and humans. One of the animals that was affected nearby was a mutated catfish in the Pripyat River. The radioactivity from the
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Disaster in the Forest* In 1755‚ General Edward Braddock famously led a British army to a costly and humiliating defeat about eight miles from the junction of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers (the site of modern Pittsburgh.) In a passage from his autobiography‚ Benjamin Franklin offers his one explanation of what happened. This general was‚ I think‚ a brave man‚ and might probably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self-confidence‚ too high an opinion
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California drought: Why farmers are ’exporting water’ to China By Alastair Leithead BBC News‚ Los Angeles While historic winter storms have battered much of the US‚ California is suffering its worst drought on record. So why is America’s most valuable farming state using billions of gallons of water to grow hay - specifically alfalfa - which is then shipped to China? The reservoirs of California are just a fraction of capacity amid the worst drought in the state’s history. "This should be like
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Aberfan Disaster At least 85 children have been confirmed dead A generation of children has been wiped out” Minister of State for Wales At 0915‚ just as the pupils of Pantglas Junior School were about to embark on their first lessons. Only 25 children survived the catastrophe One of the first acts of the Labour Government when it was elected in 1997 was to pay the £150‚000 back; figure should have been nearer £1.5m £500 was paid to those involved‚ and £1‚000 to those who had lost one or more
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Marriage and Culture A Courting Disaster Coontz‚ S. (2005). Marriage a history: How love conquered marriage It took only 25 years to undo the homemaker/breadwinner marriage system that took 150 years to perfect. Some people say that the sixties and seventies started a new marital system for the better‚ and some think it was the downfall of society. Divorce rated exploded‚ premarital sex was normal‚ having babies out of wedlock‚ and the gender roles diminished. One view of this transformation
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at 2:46 p.m. local time‚ shaking buildings violently in Tokyo for several minutes and sending millions fleeing for higher ground. The media keep disaster in the forefront of our minds. TV‚ radio and the front pages of the press seem to revel in disaster because the public have a morbid curiosity in it‚ provided that it happens to other people. Disaster boosts TV ratings and sells newspapers. As we absorb the news of a famine‚ an earthquake‚ a hurricane‚ a tsunami‚ sometimes we tend to put ourselves
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aren’t edible to humans. There are water filters that will remove most of these contaminants but‚ they are usually pricey. In the West Coast of America‚ we live next to the Pacific Ocean which contains most of the water on Earth. Why are we in a drought despite promising facts? The reason is despite an abundance of water on Earth‚ we have access to merely one per cent of all the water on the Earth’s surface. The rest of the freshwater is hidden in ice caps or somewhere deep underground. The remaining
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Ashley Reller Sociology March 19‚ 2008 Courting Disaster Paper Whenever a crime is committed‚ someone is labeled the victim and someone else the offender. The offender often destroys or hurts something of value through violence and aggressive actions. The victim on the other hand was the helpless‚ weak‚ person taken advantage of because the offender could not be stopped. It seems pretty clear. In the book‚ Courting Disaster‚ Jennifer Dunn talks about the crime of intimate stalking and how
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