Lessons from Esso’s Gas Plant Explosion at Longford In September 1998 Esso Australia’s gas plant at Longford in Victoria suffered a major fire. Two men were killed and the state’s gas supply was severed for two weeks‚ causing chaos in Victorian industry and considerable hardship in homes which were dependent on gas. What happened was that a warm liquid system (known as the “lean oil” system) failed‚ allowing a metal heat exchanger to become intensely cold and therefore brittle. When operators
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Tolerance Ayn Rand once said “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. It means that a lie sadly has enough power to cause corruption in a society. It also suggests that a lie perhaps be strong enough to destroy even a high ranking person from a society. If you tolerate lies dominating people around you‚ you’ll eventually be a victim of them. Two literature works that explain this quote are Author Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ which takes place in a Puritan town named Salem in the state
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This essay is on how much the family has changed since the 1960s. This essay will contain the definitions and variations of the family and how they have changed. There will also be details of the differences of theoretical perspectives. There are many types of families; the most common family group is a nuclear family consisting of two adults of both sexes whom are in a sexual relationship‚ with children either biological or adopted. They must cohabitate in the same house hold and share income
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Essay – Red from Green The story is about a girl‚ called Sam who is offered a scholarship by a boarding school. This essay will include a deep analysis of the text and a other analysis related elements. At first she feels like the caring relationship she has with her father is too important but she changes her mind after a trip she makes with her father‚ Uncle Harry‚ and one of Harry’s clients from his law firm called Layton who is a bit younger than Harry is. Sam lives in Montana with her
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Catholic in belief. By 1559 only 14% of wills in Sussex contained Protestant formulae and bequests; by 1560 only 10% of wills in Kent had a statement of Protestantism in the preamble. Therefore‚ Elizabeth’s task was to slowly wean the population away from their traditional Catholic beliefs and towards her protestant regime through preaching and education. The government was actually particularly successful in this‚ reducing Catholicism to a mere household religion with only 1-2% of the population supporting
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leaned against the cold wall and said to himself again‚ “King Duncan has done no wrong in God’s eyes and has sacrificed his time and energy for others. I would never be able to be half the man King Duncan was. My conscience failed to protect me from letting my ambitions manipulate my acts. This was my wife’s fault‚ not mine! She called me a ‘naked newborn babe’ (I.vii.21) and dismantled my pride and manhood. I could have been a man of integrity and honesty; instead I brought the demise of my innocence
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Pennsylvania‚ Burrhus Skinner was born to a father who was a lawyer and a mother who was a housewife. His one brother died at the age of sixteen from cerebral aneurism. Skinner continued to be an outstanding but curious child. As a child‚ he made a flotation device that separated fresh berries from mature berries. It assisted in his selling of berries from door to door. His later inventions included the air crib‚ cumulative recorder‚ operant conditioning chamber‚ teaching machine and the pigeon
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being told to me by my mom‚ dad‚ and mostly from my grandmother. High school should be a time to spread teenage wings‚ growing up from children into young adulthood. To start preparing for the dreaded “C” word‚ College. When most kids were shuffling themselves from class to class‚ taking notes‚ flipping through pages of boring text books‚ I was nowhere to be found. Instead I was hanging out in the parking lot. My activities included swapping gossip from other delinquents. Instead of learning the
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react to a world without clocks‚ from never ending news broadcasting to the horrible circumstances of people not being able to regularly update their social networking status. Even though the skit was used as a mean of entertainment and highly exaggerated they have a point‚ life without time is chaotic and unbearable. Clocks help us to keep up with time. Time is very important to us. We run on time‚ it seems as if we have always had time to control how we live. From ancient time with we have be dependent
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Learning from Failure Circuit City used to be the nation’s number one leading electronics retail store. Even when the company finally decided to call it quits‚ they were still considered to be the number two electronics retailer. But it came as no surprise to consumers‚ corporate America and Wall Street after trading was halted when stocks reached .10 cents per share and CC filed for bankruptcy in late 2008. Circuit City claimed the United States’ economic crisis was to blame but the
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