ESS Analysis of Hurricanes Thesis Statement: A hurricane is a type of tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean‚ Caribbean Sea‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes can cause significant damage to coastal areas and even several hundred miles inland‚ depending on the strength of the storm. Hurricanes can cause winds above 150 miles per hour and are categorized 1-5‚ depending on the strength of the winds‚ with 1 being the calmest and 5 being the harshest
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TOPIC: ETHICS OF ADMINISTRATION (POAD 8137) Student name: Hung Tran Duy Student ID: 2156098 Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks. The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study. I. INTRODUCTION The video ’A totally avoidable tragedy’ (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people
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When the Elwha Dam was demolished it was the largest controlled sediment release in a dam removal project anywhere in the world. Because of the amount of sediment behind large dams like the Elwha‚ the demolition must be done gradually over time to ensure that there is not an overflow of sediment rushed down the river which could cause significant damage to the landscape and the organisms which inhabit it. At the time of the dam removal the Elwha was holding behind it 15‚000‚000 cubic yards of silt
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Chapter 1 – The Legal System 1.1 What is law? * Defn: those rules which will be recognized/enforced by courts * Means different things to people * ‘Law; covers a diverse range of human activities * Impacts upon peoples lives differently 1.2 Why do we need law? * For humans to co-exist harmoniously * To be applied and enforced in a legal system * Based on a generally accepted moral code 1.3 Norms and rules * Important behavior controls
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Ahead of the hurricane’s landfall‚ a station south of Apalachicola reported wind gusts of 79 mph (127 km/h) at an elevation of 115 ft (35 m).[54] At sea level‚ sustained winds reached 52 mph (84 km/h) at Keaton Beach‚ with gusts 67 mph (108 km/h).[55] While moving ashore‚ Hermine produced a 5.8 ft (1.8 m) storm surge at Cedar Key.[56] Heavy rainfall occurred across western Florida‚ reaching 22.36 in (568 mm) over 72 hours at the Lake Tarpon Canal in Pinellas County.[57] The outer rainbands of Hermine
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The beavers are an extraordinary creature. They are an animal that is mostly nocturnal‚ large‚ semi-aquatic rodent‚ and are of two different species. These two species are Castor Canadensis and Castor Fiber. They ate certain kinds of tree bark such as willows‚ maples‚ poplars‚ beeches‚ birches‚ alders‚ and aspens. Beavers have been known to erect dams eighteen feet high and four thousand feet long-radically altered ecosystems‚ creating ponds and changing stream flows. These were their homes
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The Great flood is a historical event that may have happened before 0 BC‚ this was an event that flooded the whole world which have possibly wiped out human and plant existence. There are several different evidence that suggest the happening of the Great flood which include the several geological shaping which can only be created with a massive flood‚ the several different theories that different cultures and religions have mentioned and the possible existence of the Noahs arc however the fact remains
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Leiningen was an aging plantation owner. He ran his large‚ agricultural estate with the help of some four hundred workers. Leiningen was the type of man who took the bull by the horns‚ so to speak. He knew that within two days‚ a huge swarm of hungry‚ perilous ants would reach his plantation. He also knew that it was nearly impossible to stop them. Ants like these destroyed everything in their path. Leiningen believed that a man’s brain and his power to use it effectively made him virtually
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DISADVANATGES: 1. Dams are extremely expensive to build and must be built to a very high standard. 2. The high cost of dam construction means that they must operate for many decades to become profitable. 3. The flooding of large areas of land means that the natural environment is destroyed. 4. People living in villages and towns that are in the valley to be flooded‚ must move out. This means that they lose their farms and businesses. In some countries‚ people are forcibly removed so that
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The Spokane ice storm occurred on November 19th‚ 1996 in Spokane Washington. Many people‚ I’m sure if they live near Spokane have experienced this. This storm was the worst storm in 60 years. The ice storm caused many damages to the city‚ like fallen trees‚ frozen power lines costing a lot of money. All these damages totaled $22 million in 1996 money‚ now costing $33 million dollars in 2013 money. It started when freezing rain started to drizzle with fog and cover all the roads‚ trees and power
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