References: Porter‚ B. F. (2002). Fundamentals of critical thinking. New York‚ NY: Oxford University Press‚ Inc. Reagan‚ Ronald W. (Jan. 28‚ 1986). Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger Address to the Nation. Speech given instead of the State of the Union. Washington‚ D.C.
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short proposals. Memos may also be used as a tool to inform staff‚ management‚ or executives of important information. Two very good examples of this are the memos written regarding the 1978 Three Mile Island Disaster‚ and the 1985 Challenger Explosion. Both of these disasters were forewarned by employees and addressed by memos to superiors. Bert M. Dunn of Babcock and Wilcox Company wrote a memo to his management to inform them of a potential operator error occurring at the nuclear power plants
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Lessons from Esso’s Gas Plant Explosion at Longford In September 1998 Esso Australia’s gas plant at Longford in Victoria suffered a major fire. Two men were killed and the state’s gas supply was severed for two weeks‚ causing chaos in Victorian industry and considerable hardship in homes which were dependent on gas. What happened was that a warm liquid system (known as the “lean oil” system) failed‚ allowing a metal heat exchanger to become intensely cold and therefore brittle. When operators
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Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com had been in constant fight between each other since the explosion of online purchasing. Before the mid 1990’s online purchasing introduction‚ Barnes & Noble had big dominance in bookselling‚ as it was the largest bookstore in the world. With the entrance to the book market by Amazon.com‚ Barnes & Noble found a big competitor‚ as it represented a new and innovative way of purchasing a book. Making a financial analysis on both companies‚ we could notice certain
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SPILL The Legal Issues and Ethical Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 Terry D. Bollman Park University BP Gulf Oil Spill 2 British Petroleum’s Roll in the Gulf Oil Spill This paper will explain some of the effects of three legal issues and three ethical issues surrounding the London-based British Petroleum Company’s involvement in the explosion of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon and the subsequent oil spill
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Today’s society is very different from the society that was here hundreds of years ago. Society changes everyday as things progress. Technology global economy and increase in the world’s population are great factors in the way things change. I do not believe it will affect me much but I do believe it will affect my son‚ and more for those generations after. As technology advances the more ways we make our lives easier. Not only does it help with our daily routines‚ but technology also helps in making
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What accounts for the population explosion in developing countries during the last forty years? In what sense is rapid population growth a problem’ Population growth is a necessary phenomenon for growth and security in the any world economy. Within this essay I will explain and clarify why rapid population is significant issue especially in developing economies. I will also provide clarity on why population growth has become so rapid in these developing countries. At the present time the world’s
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deal has been set with Foxconn‚ Apple will no longer give attention to worker conditions or anything that is irrelevant to its products. Totally ignore the Supplier Code of Conduct which they developed to police their suppliers. Foxconn is Apple’s most important manufacturer who in the world with the scale to build sufficient numbers of iPhones and iPads. So Apple refuses to push Foxconn to follow their Supplier Code of Conduct‚ as Apple is not going to leave Foxconn and they are not going to
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“Apple’s Supply Chain Woes” case-study‚ identify laudable‚ culpable and non-culpable decisions. Rank culpable decisions and show how context makes some difference to how much blame a culprit deserves. Answer: Laudable Decision Before the explosion in Chengdu plant‚ Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) in HK published a report warning of unsafe conditions with aluminium dust problem. They alarmed Apple the workers were facing the problem of poor ventilation and inadequate
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Foxconn has dorms where 70‚000 of their workers lived‚ at times stuffed 20 people to a three-room apartment (Duhigg & Barboza‚ 2012). These people work extreme overtime‚ are paid very little‚ and with the lack of privacy with those living conditions‚ they
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