March 5‚ 2013 A Dystopian Masterpiece In his short story‚ “Harrison Bergeron”‚ author Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr. tells about a society‚ or America‚ in the future being ruled by a totalitarian government‚ whose number one law‚ is equality. Everyone is treated equally by law; no one is smarter‚ faster‚ stronger or more beautiful than another. The people of the society are forced to conform to handicaps by wearing weights around their neck or masks to hide a beautiful face. Vonnegut shows how far people are
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Jeff Rommel’s introduction to Florida could be described as trial by hurricane. Rommel took overFlorida operations in 2004 for Nationwide Insurance.Over a 2-month period in 2004‚ Florida experiencedits worst hurricane season in history four majorhurricanes (Charley‚ Frances‚ Ivan‚ and Jeanne) slammed thestate‚ causing an estimated $40 billion in damage. In the hurricanes’ wake‚ Nationwide received more than 119‚000 claims collectively worth $850 million. Although dealing with those claims
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WHO DISCOVERED MATHEMATICS? The history of the development of mathematics is a long one. No single person is given credit for the "discovery" of mathematics. As man lived in caves before any written language existed‚ he understood the nature of the first few numbers‚ the counting numbers. He could make simple comparisons and could tell that‚ say‚ 9 were more than 6. He would be able to see that if he had‚ say‚ 8 apples and there were 7 people in his group‚ each would get one and there would be
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Problem definition There were many problems but the main issue was in the following: The Decision making in both incidents was not rational Lack of planning for unexpected problems‚ although as mentioned in the two cases weather problems can be predicted approximately‚ so a solid plan should have been made. Problem Justification Although Rommel’s decision is a legal and rational decision from his point of view‚ yet it was not an ethical one and it was biased. His decision was utilitarian it
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Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium‚ a rare earth‚ from monazite. Within a few years‚ the villagers began noticing physical defects in their newborns‚ and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia
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As a member of a community where Bakken oil is transported‚ I am concerned primarily with the prevention of an accident or an act of terror. In regards to the prevention of an accident‚ I would like to see railroads take great care in planning their risk management. As of 2010‚ 225‚000 barrels a day were transported through North America; which is 75 times the 3‚000 barrels a days transported in 2005 (Michigan State University‚ 2016). Not only‚ is their more Bakken being transported through North
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The advancement of technology and the progress of man makes humans feel as though we are invincible‚ but when a natural disaster strikes we are reminded that Mother Nature still cannot be tamed and can strike at any time without warning. We have seen this in the past weeks with hurricane Harvey flooding Houston and displacing people who never in their life thought that their houses and neighborhoods might be underwater one day and left with nothing. Similar to current events‚ this image shows New
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Facebook: Social Network or Social Disaster Your busy day is done. You head home open up your laptop or head over to your desktop and turn it on. After impatiently waiting for everything to load on your computer you open up your web browser. You go to the top of the page and type in www.face and arrow down in the drop box to http://www.facebook.com/. As the website loads you wait in anticipation. When the blue bar at the top of the page loads you immediately look to the left hand corner of that
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Andes Flight Disaster there were noticeable similarities and differences that made each survival story unique‚ yet some aspects duplicate. During the early stages of both survival experiences there were two major objectives that the Andes plane crash survivors
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (aka BP Oil Spill) was one of the worst oil disasters in history. How much damage was done? How is BP making up for it? This is what we discovered: In the BP Oil Spill‚ more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days‚ making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. 16‚000 total miles of coastline have been affected‚ including the coasts of Texas‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Alabama‚ and Florida. Even though the
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