The key causes of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster are overconfidence bias‚ incompetence‚ poor decision making‚ and ignored warning signs. As years go by‚ good leaders continue to make bad decisions due to certain cognitive biases which inhibit us from viewing problems as they need to be seen; therefore‚ our minds distort information received and make miscalculations when processing the information (Mackin‚ 2010). Since BP was a very successful organization‚ it had grown overconfident in its projects
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The impact of technology on family time Nowadays technology is a part of our real life because most people have the same need that is the convenience. Although technology can provide and serve many functions and applications that support the human need but it also has an impact to our real life as well. The impact of Technology to our real life is time on family. Three technologies that have impact to family are computer‚ Mobile Phone‚ and Tablet. The static of tablet sales in U.S. on year 2011
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Title: the impact of technology on family time Do you think technology has changed the way of communication? Is technology slowly taking over people live and affecting their personal relationship? Have we become addicted to the technology that surrounds us everyday and it has sucked us into it? Technology is a use of scientific knowledge for improving the way to do things. It has been playing an important role in our life. It is common today‚ many developed countries are using high technology
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addition‚ animals with fur and feathers may freeze due to the damage of their protective covers (Fominyen‚ 2010). The deep-water spill also known as the Gulf oil spill is identified as the worst oil spill in the United States’ history. By the time deep-water horizon oil rig sank and exploded on April 20‚ 2010. There had been BP pipe leakage of oil and gas on the floor of the ocean located approximately 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. An estimate of 4.9 million barrels of oil had leaked into the gulf
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Logical Fallacies There have been many tragic events during the course of 2012 and the start of 2013 that have sparked many controversial debates. One can conclude from the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown Connecticut to the marathon bombing in Boston that something must be done‚ but what exactly must be done is the topic of debate amongst every media outlet known to man. Through the course of this whole gun control and immigration debate‚ there have been many logical fallacies used by many politicians
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Horizon Horses The history of the horse is a long and fascinating one. It starts before any humans even walked the planet and goes on to the present and future. They’ve been used in countless ways throughout history including being a prized possession to many American Indian tribes. About 60 million years ago‚ the history of the horse in North America began. The first horses were small creatures about the size of a fox that belonged to the genus Hyracotherium or the more common‚ Eohippus. Eohippus
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Medical Miracles on the Horizon The world and its inhabitants will face a multitude of problems in the 21st Century‚ including drug addiction‚ deadly disease‚ violent crime‚ warfare and hostility‚ hunger‚ and homelessness to name a few. All of these critical issues have been present to some extent in the 20th Century and‚ left unsolved‚ will continue to plague society and mankind as we enter the new millennium. As we rapidly approach the next era‚ new issues of equal or even greater
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GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR RESEARCH PAPER Ashley Leeds Rice University Here are some basic tips to help you in writing your research paper. The guide is divided into six sections covering distinct aspects of your paper. You need not organize your paper using these same sections‚ but you will need to accomplish all of these goals. Remember‚ the King‚ Keohane‚ and Verba book should help you understand a lot of these terms and procedures and remind you of things to avoid. I encourage you to refer
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of logic circuits. If we translate a logic circuit’s function into symbolic (Boolean) form‚ and apply certain algebraic rules to the resulting equation to reduce the number of terms and/or arithmetic operations‚ the simplified equation may be translated back into circuit form for a logic circuit performing the same function with fewer components. If equivalent function may be achieved with fewer components‚ the result will be increased
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Gardner‚ J. and Mark Roseland (1991)‚ "Acting Locally: Community Strategies for Equitable Sustainable Development‚" in Alternative‚ 16:3 October/November 1991. Global Ecovillage Network (GEN).(2005) Hester‚ R. T.(1990). Community Design. Primer: Ridge Times Press. Kotler‚ P.‚ and Gary‚ A.‚ 1988‚ Principles of Marketing ODPM (The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).(2004). The Egan Review: Skill for Sustainable Communities. London: ODPM. Roseland‚ Mark (1998)‚ Toward Sustainable Communities: Resource
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