CASE STUDY: At Florida Gulf Coast University‚ Intelligent Essay Assessor Helps Save Required University Course Situation In 2000‚ Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) was considering canceling one of its required courses in the General Education Program. As one of the newest institutions in the Florida state university system‚ FGCU offered “Understanding Visual and Performing Arts” as a required course for entering freshman. Enrollment at the new university quickly exploded‚ and by 2000‚ the
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and finally sealed on 19th September of the same year (BP‚ 2013). However‚ unconfirmed reports indicate that some of the well sites continue to leak (Pulham‚ Hilaire & Fenn‚ 2010). The spill took a physical and psychological toll on people around the Gulf area by its aftermath. BP’s oil spill provides valuable lessons in crisis communication as their reputation had hit rock bottom during the crisis. The company’s response website was designed to show how well the company was willing to deal with the
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Sustainability Review 2010 bp.com/sustainability 2 A letter from our group chief executive / 4 How BP is changing 6 Gulf of Mexico oil spill / 14 How we operate / 22 Energy future 30 Safety / 34 Environment / 38 Society Within hours of the Deepwater Horizon accident‚ BP teams were working to stop the leak. We also acted to minimize the spill’s impact on the environment by containing‚ removing and dispersing oil offshore‚ protecting the shoreline and cleaning up oil that came ashore. And we
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In the wake of the disaster in the gulf American citizens have a plethora of questions. Why would BP engage in risky practices that could endanger the area where the company makes its profit? Who is responsible for ensuring that the citizens of the Gulf Coast region are protected when companies like BP place profit above people? As this drama plays out on American television screens one must realize that the only check to the power of private companies is the American government which is charged
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to promote public safety and aware other about the virus and how it can be contracted‚ the researchers decided to focus our intervention towards first year students living on campus. The researchers started off the project by contacting Florida Gulf Coast University Student housing and Residence life. The plans for a Zika Virus intervention were shared with the administrator of Eagle Hall in South Lake Village which is an on campus‚ first year housing for students who attend the university. On September
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1. Introduction This report will identify a crisis facing BP company‚ the Gulf of Mexico spill‚ and investigate how the organization response to the society. In this report‚ it will use Legitimacy theory to explain BP’s response to this event. Legitimacy theory can be treated as a explanation for voluntary corporate disclosures in annual report. As (Dowling&Pfeffer‚ 1975) says a corporation must act in congruence with norms and society value. First of all‚ Legitimacy theory is based on the
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Marine Biology Shantal Ortega 1st The Gulf of Thailand Introduction The Gulf of Thailand is a semi-enclosed tropical sea located in the South China Sea‚ it is surrounded by Malaysia‚ Thailand‚ Cambodia and Vietnam. The Gulf covers roughly 320‚000 km². The boundary of the Gulf is defined by the line from Cape Camau in southern Vietnam‚ south of the mouth of the Mekong River to the coastal city of Kota Bharu on the east coast of West Malaysia. It is particularly shallow; the mean depth is 45 m‚
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effects on climate. Consider the Gulf Stream. The climate in Northwestern Europe (the UK especially) is much more mild than it is directly across the Atlantic in Canada and the Northeastern US. There can be up to a 30-40 degree (Fahrenheit) air temperature difference in January between these two areas. The Atlantic Ocean near Canada is locked in ice in winter but the Atlantic Ocean near England is not. It is thought that the huge temperature difference is due to the Gulf Stream‚ one of the strongest
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Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf is an expansion of the Indian Ocean‚ situated in western Asia which separate Iran from the Arabian Peninsula. The Persian Gulf’s wide is 55 kilometers and 989 kilometers-long inland sea. The Persian Gulf States include Iran (Persia)‚ United Arab Emirates‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast‚ Bahrain on an island‚ and Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest (Reynolds‚ 1993). The Persian Gulf has wide coral reefs‚ and numerous pearl oysters‚ and plenty of
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution‚ to me was a considerable formal declaration of war against communist North Vietnam. The United States wasn’t interfering with the conflict between North and South Vietnam‚ they were in international waters. The U.S did have a right to attack to keep peace and have security between themselves and the rest of the world. The U.S.S. Maddox was in the Gulf of Tonkin on the 2nd of August in 1964 surveying the coast and gathering intelligence
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