Disasters

MCET 450: Mechanical Analysis & Design I Hyatt Regency Disaster Written by: Douglas Chu, Andrew Smilinich, Brian Esposito Assignment Date: August 25, 2015 Due Date: September 1, 2015 Introduction: The Hyatt Regency disaster took place in Kansas City, Missouri on July 17, 1981. This tragedy occurred during a large gathering of people for the annual tea dance (Engineering Ethics:The Kansas city Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse). According to the filed report the “atrium area was…

The Black Ice Disaster “137 and back-up unit to central,” called the dispatcher. “Go ahead central,” I reluctantly relied. Oh no, this cannot be good I thought to myself. Not at this time of the morning. “137 and back-up unit respond to a 10-82 in progress at 1234 River Road.” “10-4 central, I am en route from Bellefield Road.” I had just pulled into my driveway from working and long and cold night shift. I was extremely tired and I just wanted to go to bed. I was planning to sit there in my…

Did one single disaster cause the K-T extinctions? Some scientists and people are committed to just one reason the K-T extinctions occurred but in this paper many possibilities will be explored with evidence to back up why they could have been a cause as well to the extinctions. Everyone will ultimately make his or her own decision/thoughts on what could have happened, and of course all hypotheses would be subject to analysis. Asteroid impact theory. The impact of a 10 km+ asteroid would blow a…

She wrote the book Titanic Voices From the Disaster, but it wasn’t very fascinating. It would’ve been better if she included more details about the lifeboats. She also could’ve said more about how cold the water was when the Titanic sank. Everyone who couldn’t get on a lifeboat had to stay in the water. All, but one, died in the water. Including more facts about the lifeboats and the temperature of the ocean would’ve made Titanic Voices From the Disaster more interesting. The lifeboats…

If I were to name the twenty-first century, I would call it the Age of Disaster. Many events have happened throughout the course of the twenty-first century that forever changed lives all around the world. To kick off the twenty-first century, a group named Al-Qaeda, planned a terrorist attack. The plan went in full force on September 11, 2001. Two planes crashed into the Twin Towers, destroying the towers within hours. A second plane also crashed into the Pentagon. A final plane was thought to…

In “The Imagination of Disaster”, Susan Sontag explores the significance of the affects that science fiction movies have on society. Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with the imaginative concepts of futuristic science and technology such as time travel, parallel universes, space travel, and extraterrestrial life. The author states, “science fiction films are not about science; they are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. In science…

A disaster unlinked any other occurred in the United States on May 20th, 2010. Approximately 41 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig resulting in the death of eleven members of the crew, and started the leaking of oil that was in the well. This event would go down as the largest marine oil spill in history and leave many people asking, “How did this happen?” The metaphorical finger has been pointed over the years at BP Oil Company…

Reading Synthesis 2 In Rebecca Solnit's essay, "When the Media Is the Disaster," she highlights on how media in the world causes more damage than the disasters itself. First, she is able to illustrate how members of mass media use the word "looting" in the wrong context. She runs through certain disasters in time such as Hurricane Katrina, and the Disaster in Haiti and their lasting effect on the use of media. With her strong ideals and powerful words, she is able to convey the message that…

displacement of normal operation. Whereas, Disaster recovery is a process of rebuilding the infrastructure after the disaster has passed. It is the fact that business continuity and disaster recovery are similar but they are not same. From years ago, people are combining business continuity and disaster recovery into a single term which results in failure to know their differences. The business continuity is broader than a disaster recovery (Green, 2014). Disaster recovery manages the…

first period class made sandals with Amazon’s delivery cardboard boxes inside and outside of room 803, on Oct. 19 for children in Haiti, victims of natural disasters. Haiti is still recovering from a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake that occurred in 2011 and Hurricane Matthew that claimed the lives of more than 877 people. These disasters left many children without shoes, causing them to have injuries such as cuts, sores, and infections on their feet. The sandals made from this…