Abstract: The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization‚ its structure‚ methods‚ and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems.
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The two poems "The Discovery" by Gwendolyn MacEwen and "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins have many similarities and differences. "The Discovery" by MacEwen is a poem about constant exploration and how nothing can ever fully be understood. "Pied Beauty" by Hopkins is a God fearing that is concerned with the continuous appreciation of everything God has created. Both authors depict a main central theme of an unappreciated world. However‚ both authors describe their themes in contradicting ways
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pasting an entire article into a word document and signing your name on it. Plagiarism is the act of taking the ideas or work that belongs to someone else and using them as your own. Earlier this week we all read an article about a high school called Piper High. 28 out of 118 sophomores of the school had been caught plagiarizing and were given zeros on their project as well as possibly facing failing their class that semester. Unfortunately‚ their punishment was taken away by the board‚ but even
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Peter Piper picked a peck of... Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pep... Peter p... Oh it’s no use. I’ll never get it. Good morning/afternoon students‚ teachers and other guests. Most people refer to tongue twisters as fun phrases to say so you’ll... twist your tongue. But the proper definition is... a combination of the same sounds to create a varied alliteration that could put pressure on your tongue which may cause your nerve system go above normal. In other words it can make you go wild
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In Pied Beauty‚ Gerard Hopkins vividly portrays his love of things that are not perfect by his choice of words‚ his use or imagery and alliteration. One way that Hopkins vividly portrays his love of imperfections by his choice of words. For example "For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swims;" by that Gerard Hopkins said that the moles on the trout’s body or scales that he compared with a beautiful rose. We all know that moles sometimes can be ugly and hideous‚ but to Hopkins - he said
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Nineteenth-century English poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins is admired for the highly original use of rhythm in his poetry‚ a quality that can be seen in the following poems‚ “The Windhover‚” “Pied Beauty‚” and “Hurrahing in Harvest.” A windhover‚ also known as a kestrel‚ is a small type of falcon. These three poems express Hopkins’s devotion to the Catholic faith‚ as well as his fascination with the natural world. Like most of Hopkins’s poetry‚ the poems were first published in 1918‚ nearly
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The only real difference between them was that Travis was definitely the more involved in the pranking and was a natural leader‚ even though Connor usually started their joint sentences. Other than that the two brothers were so similar the only way Piper and Annabeth could tell them apart was their‚ less than an inch‚ height difference. Another‚ “Gryffindor!” had Travis joining his brother in talking with the Weasley
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pictures" the poet is attempting to convey.In the poem’s title‚ "Pied" indicates the kind of "beauty" that Hopkins will praise—multi-colored things‚ and is defined as......having patches of two or more colors‚ as various birds and other animals:The poem’s first phrase grabs the reader with a familiar religious line‚ "Glory be to God." This sets the tone for the rest of the poem by praising all of the images Hopkins will present in "Pied Beauty."Another central focus of the poem introduced in the first
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Pied Beauty Hopkins was born in 1844‚ and died just 45 years later‚ in 1889‚ but in this relatively short life he wrote some of the most startling and original poetry of the whole 19th Century. He was a deeply intellectual and religious man‚ and became a Jesuit priest in 1877‚ the same year in which he wrote ‘Pied Beauty’. Throughout his life Hopkins was deeply fond of the countryside and its beauty‚ in which he could see the work and power of God. In ‘Pied Beauty’ he expresses his delight and
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social –psychological principles that was taught during this semester. This TV revolves around Piper Chapman‚ a woman in her thirties living in New York City‚ who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary in Ohio‚ a minimum-security women’s federal prison (operated by the "Federal Department of Corrections"‚ a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Prisons) in upstate New York. Piper has been convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for her then girlfriend Alex Vause
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