The Deep Horizon oil rig explosion was categorically impacted by bias decision making. The leaders that day executed from a heuristic view‚ and also from an overconfidence bias. The two corporations colliding that day‚ BP and Transocean‚ underestimated the calamity occurring right before them. Twenty anomalies occurring simultaneously did not cause significant alarm to make a drastic and immediate decision to prevent the explosion. The team minimized the probability that the rig would explode
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Atomic Bomb Essay World War II started on September 3 1939‚ When Germany invaded Poland‚ two days later the war started when Britain and France declared war on Germany. But the United States did not get involved until December 7 1941 when Japan bombed a naval base called Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. In 1942 The Manhattan Project started in the United States. The project was to build nuclear weapons. It took three years to construct and test the weapons. The United States had to contact Japan and
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LECTURE 15 From Romanticism to Modernism – Ballet Thursday‚ May 22 Announcements and Reminders Concert reports due no later than today Paper due date: Tuesday‚ June 3 Final: Not cumulative (starts after Beethoven) Wed.‚ June 11‚ 12-2pm Similar format as midterm Study guide to come next week Outline I. Late Romantic Ballet (traditional) a. Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty II. Music in the Age of Modernism: The 20th Century III. Modern Ballets a. Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon
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The Sultana explosion “All of a sudden‚ the boilers erupted in a mammoth explosion‚ nearly splitting the Sultana in half” (Billings 1). The Sultana was going upriver on the Mississippi River when the boilers and the steamer stopped working (Billings 1). When all of a sudden a gigantic explosion on the boat killed 1‚700 people which is more than the Titanic (Billings 1). The boat was going up river and the boilers and steamer stopped working which caused the explosion (Billings 1). “The strain of
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concerns in the NASA workforce‚ was the loss of the Space Shuttle “Challenger.” The event has been dubbed by historians‚ as the “Challenger Explosion.” Following the accident‚ a detailed report was given to the U.S government‚ known as the “Roger’s report.” This gave the Government vital information
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Motorola Case Questions Exercise 2 Please read the information in the case carefully. The financial statement theoretically captures the impact of the strategic decisions made by the firm. If this is true‚ you should be able to decipher a few strategic areas of concern by examining the financial statements. 1. What are 4 strategic issues that emerge from an analysis of the financial data. Identify each issue. Using the data‚ give an explanation of what the issue is and what data supports your
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The Atomic Bomb: Effects on Hiroshima and Mankind The nuclear bomb was the most devastating weapon ever created by man. It was developed between 1942 and 1945 during the second World War. The project to build the worlds first atomic weapon was called The Manhattan Project. The nuclear bomb was based on the idea of splitting an atom to create energy‚ this is called fission. Three bombs were created‚ "Trinity"‚ "Little Boy"‚ and "Fat Man". "Trinity" was dropped on a test site in New Mexico on July
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Americans to Drop the Bombs? Introduction On August 6th‚ 1945‚ an American B-29 bomber named “Enola Gay” dropped the world’s first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. The nuclear explosion killed nearly 90 percent of the cities population‚ killing 75‚000 people from the point of impact and thousands more dying from Radiation Poisoning later on. Three days later‚ on August 9th‚ a second B-29 bomber named “Bockscar” dropped a second Atomic bomb on the Japanese city‚ Nagasaki. This bomb killed 40‚000 people
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Einstein ’s Letters to President Franlin Delano Roosevelt. E-World‚ 20 Feb. 1997. Web. 1 Nov. 2012. <www.hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml>. Goldberg‚ Stanley. "Inventing a Climate of Opinion: Vannevar Bush and the Decision to Build the Bomb." Isis 83.3 (1992): 429-52. JSTOR. Web. 7 Nov. 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/233904>. Lerner‚ Brenda W. "Manhattan Project." Encyclopedia of Espionage‚ Intelligence‚ and Security. N.d. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 7 Nov. 2012.
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on July 11‚ 2006. There were 8 explosions in 8 local trains between 6.20 and 6.35 p.m. resulting in 190 causalities and more than 600 injured. After the 1993 serial blasts this was the severest terrorist attack in the country. There were eight explosions within 12 minutes between 6.21 and 6.33 in the local trains and railway stations. The first blast occurred at Kher o a train bound for Boriwali fram Churchgate between Santacruz and Kher station. All the explosions took place in first class compartments
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