1947 Roswell Incident On a hot summer morning on July 3‚ 1947‚ near Roswell New Mexico something very strange occurred. Rancher‚ Mac Brazel witnessed it and found a very strange object in his sheep pasture. The object was glossy and seemed to have random‚ glossy chunks of weird‚ plastic and metal pieces. Unsure of the object‚ he called the sheriff. This sheriff had no clue what the object was. So the sheriff called the Roswell Army Air Force (RAAF) base. The soldiers took all the debris and
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The Brent Spar was an oil storage buoy located on the Brent oilfield in the North Atlantic Ocean‚ which was operated by Shell UK. It was used to store oil that was extracted from the under sea oilfield until an oil tanker transported the oil to land. The Brent Spar became obsolete around 1991 because of the building of an underwater oil pipeline that took the extracted oil directly to land. Shell UK then did a scientific‚ economic‚ and environmental study pertaining to the eventual disposal of
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After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact‚ Ukraine must seek their own survival and development in the East-West political attacks. Russia wants to control Ukraine‚ in order to prevent North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) eastward expansion. On the other hand‚ NATO hopes Ukraine can act as a barrier to prevent Russian expansion. Therefore‚ Ukraine must consider it should be pro-Russia or pro-Europe. Ukraine shares borders with the Russian Federation to the east and northeast
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CRITICAL INCIDENTS 1. Wayne Calder‚ a recent Harvard MBA graduate and one of his organization’s most innovative planners‚ was assigned to the Paris office for a two-year period. Wayne was particularly excited about the transfer because he could now draw on the French he had taken while in school. Knowing that his proficiency in the French language would be an excellent entrée into the French society‚ Wayne was looking forward to getting to know his French colleagues on a personal level. During the
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Jenkins David Willson English 201‚ M/W 28 August‚ 2013 The Candle Wax Incident I would never be so presumptuous as to assert that nobody but me has problems. I understand‚ in fact‚ that not only does everyone have problems‚ but that most people have bigger problems and more problems than I myself would care to imagine. I do believe‚ however‚ I can safely say that nobody else has my problems. The singularity with which I create extra work for myself is its own idiosyncrasy. A prime
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Case Incident 2 BECOMING A FACIAL DECODER I. Background Paul Ekman is a psychologist known for his study about facial expressions‚ where facial expressions reveal true emotions. Researchers have distinguished real smiles (so called Duchenne smile) from fake smiles. Ekman and his associates have developed methods to detect other emotions suchas anger‚ disgust and distress. They call their method as Facial Action Coding System (FACS). FACS has been used to study the facial expressions
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The Incident of the Goalie Stick I had just finished my hockey game‚ one which we lost by far. I slowly skated my way off the ice‚ as everyone looked at the “losing team” in disappointment. I stepped my way over to the locker and to my surprise‚ a couple of kids had found a broken goalie stick‚ and the floor was a mess with splinters. It looked as if a volcano had erupted in the left side of the tiny locker room. These kids swung it back and forth‚ trying to break it‚ but had no luck in doing so
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Sean Elijah Bell Sean Elijah Bell an African-American boy born on May 18‚ 1983 in Jamiaca‚ Queens New York .As a teenager he studied acting in Flushing Queens . Then became a baseball pitcher for John Adams High School. He lived in a modest home in Queens and was the middle child. Son of William Bell ‚ a mechanic and Valerie Bell‚ an investigator. His parents were married 29 years . He also was the nephew of a current University of Missouri basketball couch‚ named Frank Haith. Bell had a high
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Piper Alpha: Lessons Learnt‚ 2008 Piper Alpha was a large North Sea oil platform that started production in 1976. It produced oil from 24 wells and in its early life it had also produced gas from two wells. It was connected by an oil pipeline to Flotta and by gas pipelines to two other installations. In 1988‚ Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd ("OpCal")‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. On 6 July 1988‚ there was a massive leakage of gas
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Beyond the brutalities that all slaves endured‚ females suffered the additional anguish of sexual exploitation and the deprivation of motherhood. In “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚” Harriet Jacobs focuses on racial subjugation but also gives voice to a different kind of captivity that men impose on women regardless of color. This form of bondage is not only exacted from women by men‚ but also accepted and perpetuated by women themselves. Jacobs’ narrative gives a true account of the unique
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