Haiti - and the island of Hispaniola as a whole - lies on the boundary between two major tectonic plates‚ Caribbean and North America‚ which slide past each other at a speed of about 2 cm/year (Figure D). This relative motion causes the build up of pressure on several faults lines across the island. When the pressure exceeds the mechanical resistance of a fault section‚ the rock yields‚ resulting in a sudden break of the fault and the radiation of seismic waves away from this
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ETH/316 Final Examination Reference: Matching Key Terms a) Implicit Contract b) Veil of Ignorance c) Virtue Ethics d) Utilitarianism e) Deontology f) Hedonism 1. “There is no I in Team.” One for all and all for one best describes _utilitarianism_______________. 2. “There is no I in team‚ but there is an M and a E (me).” To seek the greatest amount of pleasure for self and the majority of the group best describes _____Hedonism________. 3. “I will do my best to do my duty…” To strive
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Ethics Game Dilemmas Tricia Harris University of Phoenix Eth/316 Ethics and Social Responsibility Rebecca DeVoss May 27‚ 2013 Sexual harassment and falsifying data are an unethical practice that happens in many organizations‚ even today. Leaders must take action. In the case of the Mysterious Roses and the case of the Cold Feet G BioSport find themselves resolving serious dilemmas. This discussion will address decision-making steps‚ ethical lenses used to make decisions‚ and ethical
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The Responsibility Project Iris C. ETH/316 July 30‚ 2012 Penny E. Hylton‚ PhD‚ MBA The Responsibility Project The lack of responsibility in collegiate athletics has become a common practice and very little is being done about it. As the sport continues to grow there is a need to remain concerned with Corporate Social Responsibility in sports. With the rising interest in collegiate athletics‚ there is a need to further investigate the constructs of social responsibility and social accountability
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Historical trauma‚ discrimination‚ and the high rate of cultural stressors found on Native American reservations inhibit the healthy development of its adolescents‚ reservations do however‚ inspire a strong sense of tribal identity as well as family and community-oriented culture. These supportive aspects of living on the reservation can help to combat the difficulties facing these adolescents. Poverty‚ substance abuse‚ drop-out and violent crime rates are especially high in this area‚ which can
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down‚ by 1933 over 4‚000 banks closed. At this time they had President Franklin Roosevelt‚ who served four terms during the Great Depression‚ to look up to. Roosevelt took action to try to turn the country around and make it better for the citizens. What Roosevelt thought the Great Depression revealed was deep deficits among the society. He declared a bank holiday on March 6‚7‚8‚ and 9th of 1933‚ so the government could access the banks and declare which were worth saving. In 1933 the FDIC was created
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The main reason‚ most Americans moved to the west was to gain wealth‚ freedom‚ and to worship what they believed (Schultz‚ 2013). There were two periods of Americans moving west the first period transpired from 1820 and 1844 and took place regardless of the governments consent. At the beginning of the settling of the west Mountain Men were responsible for the exploration and finding the safest trails and paths to traverse. These Mountain Men paved the way for the new settlers into the western region
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U.S planes and ships. Pearl Harbor will always be remembered. Pearl Harbor was a devastating attack which showed how tactical and dangerous Japan can be.. Japan spent lots of time practicing the attack at a island like Hawaii so that they knew what weapons to use and how to attack in the most effective way. “Japanese planes came in two waves. They first bombed battleships in the harbor. Then the supporting cruisers and destroyers were bombed. Finally‚ the military airfields near the shore were
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The Cold War was a time of political and military tension between United States and the Soviet Union. The cold war wasn’t any normal war‚ there was no mass killings‚ no tanks or fighter jets‚ there wasn’t even any ground units. What there was though was a lot of nuclear weapons and money being spent on propaganda such as; newspapers‚ magazines and radio. They were spending money as if an actual war was going on. And even though there wasn’t any real physical war going on there were two great superpowers
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During the following period protests by colonists also known as Patriots continued to increase rapidly. With the Boston Tea Party in 1773 Patriots demolished a load of taxed tea from the East India Company. The British returned what they believed to be the belligerence of the colonists by decreeing laws known as The Coercive Acts on Massachusetts in 1774 until the tea had been paid for. In 1774 the Patriots set up their own form of government to better their independence effort
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