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    Environmental Disaster

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    Environmental Disaster Who would have known that on April 20th 2010‚ the United States would soon be facing the worst environmental disaster. On that fateful day‚ an offshore oilrig named the “Deepwater Horizon” suffered an explosion. Seventeen people were injured and eleven people died from the accident. The damaged oilrig sank into the Gulf of Mexico the next day‚ and a one-by-five mile oil slick appeared in the ocean. At the time‚ it was unknown whether the oil was from the rig or if the

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    Challenger Disaster

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    Jason Bohn‚ Brian Louis‚ Jacob Etheredge‚ Dave Dufty| Practicum for Project Management | April 1‚ 2013 Dan Monzon‚ Jason Bohn‚ Brian Louis‚ Jacob Etheredge‚ Dave Dufty| Practicum for Project Management | April 1‚ 2013 Challenger Disaster What went wrong? Challenger Disaster What went wrong? Table of Contents Intro 0 Body 0 Give It That Finishing Touch 0 Add a Table of Contents 0 Add a Bibliography 0 Get Started Right Away When you click this placeholder text‚ just start typing

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    Disaster Plan

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    in the southern part of the United States in an area that receives heavy rain. During the weekend‚ a major water pipe broke and flooded the first floor. The water caused extensive damage to the servers‚ which were also on the first floor. Create a disaster plan to prevent this sort of problem from happening in the future. Proposed solution: The way in which XYZ Computers has their IST Department set up currently is susceptible to many threats. The lack of a firewall is an open invitation for data to

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    The Chernobyl Disaster

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    A nucleotide mutation repeats short DNA sequences a number of times in a row. A substitution is where one or more bases in the DNA sequence is replaced by the same number of bases. There were many short and long term effects after the Chernobyl disaster that would affect plants‚ animals‚ and humans. One of the animals that was affected nearby was a mutated catfish in the Pripyat River. The radioactivity from the

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    Disaster in the Forest

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    Disaster in the Forest* In 1755‚ General Edward Braddock famously led a British army to a costly and humiliating defeat about eight miles from the junction of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers (the site of modern Pittsburgh.) In a passage from his autobiography‚ Benjamin Franklin offers his one explanation of what happened. This general was‚ I think‚ a brave man‚ and might probably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self-confidence‚ too high an opinion

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    Natural Disasters

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    Natural Disasters This being my senior project I wanted to look at a topic that I found interesting. Even though I find most topics in the fields interesting‚ none catch my attention better than natural disasters. I have always found disasters intriguing and have wanted to know more about them. The disaster that I found most interesting were Hurricanes. The thought of those storms with their power gives me the chills. Ever since I was in the middle of Hurricane Bob when I was vacationing

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    Aberfan Disaster

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    Aberfan Disaster At least 85 children have been confirmed dead A generation of children has been wiped out” Minister of State for Wales At 0915‚ just as the pupils of Pantglas Junior School were about to embark on their first lessons. Only 25 children survived the catastrophe One of the first acts of the Labour Government when it was elected in 1997 was to pay the £150‚000 back; figure should have been nearer £1.5m £500 was paid to those involved‚ and £1‚000 to those who had lost one or more

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    Courting Disaster

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    Marriage and Culture A Courting Disaster Coontz‚ S. (2005). Marriage a history: How love conquered marriage It took only 25 years to undo the homemaker/breadwinner marriage system that took 150 years to perfect. Some people say that the sixties and seventies started a new marital system for the better‚ and some think it was the downfall of society. Divorce rated exploded‚ premarital sex was normal‚ having babies out of wedlock‚ and the gender roles diminished. One view of this transformation

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    Natural Disasters

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    NS103 FORMAL REPORT: NATURAL DISASTERS GROUP MEMBERS: BASE‚ Aron Christoper V. CASTILLO‚ Jonathan Nelson E. GUEVARA‚ Steven Kristian L. 4ISB FEBRUARY 11‚ 2014 Avalanches While avalanches are sudden‚ the warning signs are almost always numerous before they let loose. Yet in 90 percent of avalanche incidents‚ the victim or someone in the victim’s party triggers the snow slides. Avalanches kill more than 150 people worldwide each year. Most are snowmobilers‚ skiers

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    Nuclear Disasters

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    risks associated with such disasters and the subsequent environmental remediation efforts all serve as important lessons and warnings for impending developments in nuclear power. Conversely‚ should nuclear threats to public health prove unavoidable‚ swift action should be taken to limit long-term environmental degradations through comprehensive waste disposal and remediation. Even with existing technologies in nuclear waste disposal‚ clean-up following a nuclear disaster still occurs at a painstaking

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