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Engineering Disasters and Issues of Ethics

In five pages the Heathrow Airport tunnel collapse is one of the engineering disasters considered in this ethical examination of c...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Genetic Engineering

In eight pages this paper discusses Brave New World in terms of how Aldous Huxley addressed issues of genetic engineering....

The BP Oil Disaster - a Stakeholder Perspective

provided by the relevant ethical standards expected. 2. Stakeholders may be defined in terms of primary and secondary stakeholders...

Three Disasters at a Time

In March, 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake, a massive tsunami, and a nuclear accident. No country has ever experienced su...

An Engineering Problem

of the day. Whatever the reason, it is a problem now. When contemplating this subject that is of great importance to those who are...

BP’s Problem in 2010

been undertaking environmental strategies as part of their operations and the emerging BP set themselves a goal of being a leader ...

Nursing Ethics/Case Scenario Response

the conflict between ethical principles that the case scenario entails. The steps that the nurse and Dr. F. may have followed in d...

At Risk Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters by Piers Blaikie

In five pages this report considers a disaster's aftermath and people's vulnerability as represented in this 1996 theoretical text...

Issues and Perspectives on the Deepwater Oilrig Explosion

impacted by it either directly or indirectly. These include the employees who rely on BP for the provision of jobs, and provide a ...

Federal Standards of Safety

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration has standards for everything that has to do with employment. Violations can be cos...

Organizational Failures, an Overview

This paper presents responses to three issues that pertain to organizational failures that led to disasters. The MOVE, WACO and Ch...

Security and Risk Management

Emergency preparedness is something in which societies often invest tremendous...

Ethics and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

In eleven pages this paper examines the findings regarding what caused the Challenger space shuttle disaster of January 1986 in an...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Sound Engineering and Illumination

as a generative appearance-based method. This is an applicable perspective that is utilized when integrating illumination enginee...

Disaster of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...

Ethics

are a small minority (we hope). It is important for scientists to not get so intent on proving one thing or another that they vi...

Aristotle's Perspectives on Genetic Engineering's Ethics

In four pages Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics are applied to an examination of genetic engineering. Two sources are cited in the b...

Engineering and Manufacturing

manufacturing techniques. This can be done with careful production management and attention to detail. Identifying productio...

Nursing Ethics Issues

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

Business Ethics and Policy

religious ideology) and the various "sciences" of business (Parker S27). Quite often these arguments have attempted to negate the ...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Continental Airlines: Demonstrating a Link Between Ethics and Human Resource Management

was a role for Human Resources in this scenario. One technique used by Continental was to hire friends (Brenneman, 1998). This mig...

Overview of Engineering Ethics

been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...

Critiquing the Professional Engineers of Ontario Code of Ethics

of the time-honored professions of theology, law, and medicine; engineering is one of the most respected professions. Dougherty (...

American Red Cross Introduction To Disaster Services Training

is based upon the foundation of Disaster Services Training: 1. Planning and Coordination 2. Food and Shelter 3. Health and Mental...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Literature Review of Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico

for tsunamis. In short, Puerto Rico, though considered an "island paradise" is rife for all kinds of natural disasters, pa...

Dealing with Disaster using Computer Networks

1. Domain Sizing and Capacity Planning for Windows NT Server 4.0 (reproduced from Microsoft Corporation, 2002) Number SAM Reg...

The Edge of Disaster

in the effort to make the nation more secure is the private sector, but it has not done so (2007). Instead, the government has tak...