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    Causes of Accident Challenger’s STS-51L mission was scheduled for Launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral‚ Fla. “After several technical and weather-related delays‚ Challenger launched at 11:38 a.m. EST on Jan. 28‚ 1986” (Chow‚ 2011). The ship exploded 73 seconds after liftoff (Howell‚ 2012). The (mechanical) cause of the accident points to pressure seals (O-rings) but more importantly points to the serious problems that NASA had with its communication channels and safety information

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    Explain the legal procedure of showing Dan’s legal liabilities. This Essay will outline the legal procedure surrounding Dan‚ who is on trial for the attempted murder of his girlfriend‚ from the moment a neighbor reported the crime to the police. It will detail the time from the process of this report up to the end of his trial. The first step will be the investigation of the reported offence undertaken by a non legally qualified body‚ the Police. The Police will question the witness‚ Mrs Smith

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    purpose of these amendments was to provide equal protection to former slaves. Previous to this amendment‚ the state governments didn’t have to respect the Bill of Rights and give all citizens the rights stated in it. Consequently‚ the newly freed slaves were not given the privileges and immunities of citizenship. Therefore‚ one of the most important parts of the Fourteenth Amendment is that it gave Congress power to enforce and apply the Bill of Rights to the state governments. Robert Bork‚ Attorney

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    Public Pay Disclosure in State Government: An Ethical Analysis References Bowman‚ J.‚ Stevens‚ K. (2012‚ May 16). Public pay disclosure in state government: an ethical analysis. Retrieved from http://arp.sagepub.com/content/43/4/476 Open discussion about salaries is often taboo in American society‚ inquisition can considered rude or out of line. Sometimes people aren’t happy with what they are making and therefore wish to keep that information secrete. But what if employers

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    We were not told an awful lot about Duncan in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. He had very few lines‚ and appeared on only a few occasions. Despite this‚ I was able to gather a fair idea of Duncan’s character‚ through the interpretation of messages hidden within the text.<br><br>Duncan was a kind and good man. There are several segments of the play that show this; as I have demonstrated below.<br><br>Duncan is an extremely trustworthy King of his fellow men. He trusts his men with his life‚ his children‚ his

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    1. What was the Japanese “economic miracle?” During World War II Japan engaged in war as an allied of the Nazi armies‚ and it counted with a strategic position to control the pacific. Its government‚ militarized and power thirsty started expanding its sovereignty around Southeast Asia and the Manchurian peninsula in China. But it was not until the attack on the American military base‚ Pearl Harbor‚ that the Japanese where condemn to suffer the consequences of pacific war. In the aftermath of

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    prominent and revolutionary discoveries in the history of physics was Albert Einstein’s resolution of the inconsistencies in the current model of mechanics and electromagnetism with special relativity. Rather than attempting to remold Maxwell’s equations‚ Einstein‚ in 1905‚ rejected prevailing assumptions about the nature of time and space in the reference frames of observers with different velocities: instead of forcing the time and spatial position of an object to be invariant‚

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    Ethical Legal Dilemma in Advanced Practice Nursing Ethical Legal Dilemma in Advanced Practice Nursing The profession of advanced practice nursing is characterized by several attributes‚ one of them being the delicate balance between the law and the ethical code. One may argue that the legal system was designed around ethical principles but in the following paper‚ the author will attempt to point out the distinctions that separate and define legal and ethical

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    For instance‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in “Emile‚” that women shouldn’t participate in outside events just be a housewife. Women were more important to society as a mother and wives not as a political role. He made it very clear that women weren’t to know and learn the same things that men did. Unlike others who believed that the tradition walls of no involvement by women needed to be torn down. The Enlightenment writers made is so that women didn’t have any property and education but many people

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    Another major accomplishment of Grant’s presidency was his ability to improve Indian relations. In his inaugural address‚ Grant refers to the Indians as “the original inhabitants of the land”‚ suggesting that there should be an “endorsement of a policy aimed at making the Indians just like us‚ … white Americans”. During the 1850s when he served in the Pacific Northwest‚ Grant learned a great deal about the Indian communities‚ viewing them as a group of people that‚ if left alone‚ would have adopted

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