questionnaire‚ this study used the Cronbach’s Alpha which is the most popular model to determine the correlation among the items and to assess the internal consistency of a questionnaire (or survey) that is made up of multiple Likert-type scales and items. According to Sekaran and Bougie (2010)‚ the range of Cronbach’s Alpha less than 0.60 is consider poor and the range above 0.60 and 0.70 indicate at the level of acceptable. If the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient is closer to 1.0‚ the consistency
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Abstract: The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization‚ its structure‚ methods‚ and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems.
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9. Piper Alpha video review The Piper Alpha’s tragic chain of events occurred because of a number of safety procedures were not met or implemented. The almighty dollar was given preference over the safety of hundreds of lives. We found a number of unsafe situations that could have been avoided if the right Safety management system was in place. These are our findings. 1. The oil rig recently introduced a new gas pipeline in the weeks leading up to the disaster. The rig wasn’t designed to be a gas
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Stars The stars making up jobs coffin or the top of Delphinus are alpha beta gamma and delta delphinus The tail is made of epsilon delphinus It is the 69th in size It is highest in the sky at 10 pm august to september Alpha delphini is a multiple star made of 7 parts A‚B‚C‚D‚E‚F‚and G A and G are the brightest Alpha delphinus is 241 lightyears away Alpha Delphini is sometimes known as Sualocin. The name was given to it by the Italian astronomer Niccolò Cacciatore. It is the Latinized version of
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Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa Child takes a daring‚ yet necessary reflection on Canadian norms‚ value systems‚ gender roles‚ formal policies and overall identity. While weaving the reader through a maze of sci-fi fantasy and reality‚ Goto presents the story of our Japanese-Canadian protagonist‚ who struggles through the facets of introspection and self-realization. What immediately stood out was Goto’s deliberate attempt to examine the Canadian immigrant “experience‚” drawing a contrast to that of Canadian
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experienced‚ Pi Patel portrays heroic qualities. In “Part One: Toronto and Pondicherry”‚ the reader follows Pi’s thoughts‚ introducing them to his beliefs and ideologies. What contrasts Pi from any other sixteen year old‚ is that he questions his beliefs and independently inquires about religious practices. Pi is dissimilar to the student body of his school as he has been brought up in the peculiar environment of a zoo‚ leading him to have an advanced view on societal aspects of his community by comparing
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To appear in the Handbook of Discourse Analysis‚ edited by Deborah Tannen‚ Deborah Schiffrin‚ and Heidi Hamilton. Oxford: Blackwell. Computer-Mediated Discourse Susan C. Herring 1 Introduction 1.1 Definition Computer-mediated discourse is the communication produced when human beings interact with one another by transmitting messages via networked computers. The study of computer-mediated discourse (henceforth CMD) is a specialization within the broader interdisciplinary study of computer-mediated
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can be defined by the dominant discourses in society‚ such as gender and sexuality. Michael Foucault’s definition of discourse is more than just the ways of thinking and producing meaning through communication. The notion of discourse defined by Foucault have become closely associated with power and knowledge (Miller‚ 1990). Dominant discourse demonstrates how reality has been socially constructed. They can be found in many forms of media and communication. Discourses become dominant because they are
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Chris Bulcaen makes a brief introduction to the study of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). CDA intends to use social-theoretical method in discourse analysis and is primarily linguistically based (Blommaet &ump; Bulcaen‚ 2000‚ p.447). It intends to analyze the structural relationships of dominance‚ discrimination‚ power and control through a textual study (Blommaet &ump; Bulcaen‚ 2000‚ p.448). Based on the assumption that social discourse is constructed and socially conditioned‚ CDA explores the power
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Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with affect the types of ways in which they
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