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    "Enron the smartest man in the room" was a very intense story on how a fortune five hundred company CEO’S can get very greedy and turn on there employees. This story is very true and teaches you how to be true to your employees and also other business investors. This story tells you how wrong humanity morals can end up in greed and even death due to guilt. This story takes place with many business and financial advisors and writers who looked into the story and explained it the best they can to

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    Overall‚ it can be seen that the Tacoma bridge collapse occurred due to a number of crucial decisions made by engineers‚ contractors and the government. The extent to which these decisions were ethical depends on the ethical stance being considered. Economically‚ the government favoured reducing costs as opposed to the safety and quality of the bridge. Similarly‚ the contractors accepted the contract for a design that they were not able to fully complete and had to make changes when constructing

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    It is interesting to note that many advanced societies and civilization fell. Why is that? Jared Diamond believes that environmental degradation is the reason for past flourishing societies to collapse. He defines the term collapse as: “A drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity‚ over a considerable area‚ for an extended time” (p. 348). In essence‚ Diamond believes that the trouble we are having in society now‚ leads back to environmental deterioration

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    India’s independence; India accounted for less than 3% of the global GDP whilst the British GDP tripled that amount. [Ibid] Industrialisation is the development of industries in an area. To what extent were the British Empire responsible for the collapse of India’s industrial output? ===========================================================================

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    Eric Sandler Ethical Disaster of the Hyatt Regency Collapse Construction on the 40-story Hyat Regency Crown Center began in 1978‚ and the hotel opened on July 1‚ 1980‚ after construction delays including an incident on October 14‚ 1979‚ when 2‚700 square feet of the atrium roof collapsed because one of the roof connections on the north end of the atrium failed. The collapse was the second major structural failure in Kansas City in a little more than two years. On June 4‚ 1979‚ the roof

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    PLASTIC COLLAPSE OF A PORTAL FRAME AIM The purpose of this experiment is to find out how a portal frame deflects when horizontal and vertical external loads are applied to it. This experiment will then help in the comparison between what is theoretically expected to happen to the portal frame and what is actually recorded to happen during the experiment. The portal frame in this experiment is part of a statically indeterminate structure. BACKGROUND INFORMATION For any material‚ there

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    The Death and Social Collapse in Lord of the Flies Man’s relationships with death are themes often used in literary works to depict mankind’s spiritual‚ emotional‚ and social weaknesses. Sometimes authors use the theme of social collapse to interpret how the relationships of characters begin to wear off‚ which is also shown in William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ where he further enhances his theme by his portrayal of death and the crumbling structure of civilization. It is evident that

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    The aim of the writing was that ‘verifying most clearly and certainly the necessity of what the Tokugawa feudal system collapsed’ from a point of view‚ for instance‚ history of thought‚ thus followed the crushed process of such legitimate worldview in the feudal Japan as Confucian‚ especially neo-Confucian in the country‚ then‚ explaining ‘a pattern of modernization in Japanese thought widely and in Japanese society narrowly’. Moreover‚ this work has three parts that appeared each independently

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    I. The Irish Potato Famine was a catastrophic event in Irelands history. Almost a million people died during this harsh time. They had lost their main food source and barely had food for one person let alone their families witch consisted of 5-7 people on average. At the time they were considered a part of Britain but Britain did not help much during their crisis. The Irish Potato Famine of Ireland in 1845 resulted in a great population loss‚ a changed economy‚ and a substantial emigration of citizens

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    Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? HIS 127: World in the 20th Century December 2012 While political dynamics played a large role in the collapse of the Soviet Union‚ economic breakdown was the main cause of its deterioration. Built on the Socialist ideology of state owned and run business‚ the declining Soviet economy was plagued by economic inefficiencies and corruption. The country suffered from decades of being tossed on the rough seas of inconsistent and capricious political leadership

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