Disasters

basically forever in the spectrum of human life. Therefore it is imperative that before nuclear power plants are built that the area must be not only be a good location for producing energy, but also a great location that has no real threat of a natural disaster destroying a nuclear facility. An example of a place where a nuclear facility should not be…

Scientists have long been searching for when the world will end. Commonly they disregard how we, as human beings, damage Earth. We are pushing ourselves one step closer to extinction. Pollution is one thing, but leaving harmful wastes is another. Nuclear power plants around the world have been destroying Earth! Many incidences, such as the Chernobyl explosion, smuggling, and nuclear leakage have damaged Earth. There are many different forms of radiation. Radiation is the emission of…

The Bay of Pigs would turn out to be one of the biggest disasters in American history. On November 27, 1960, President John F Kennedy, was brought into the loop about a mission that was already in place during Eisenhower’s administration that consisted of an invasion of Cuba. Director of the CIA, Allen Dunes, informed Kennedy that this course of action would be a simple procedure that turned into a nightmare of epic proportions. The operation to train anti-Castro Cuban rebels for an invasion…

One of the artists that I really liked is Andy Warhol; Andy was born in Pittsburgh, he was one of the leading figures that started the visual art movement known as pop art. My favorite artwork from Andy is silver car crash; silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) portrays a body twisted in the mangled interior of a silver car. This painting was made in 1963 when Andy Warhol was at the age of 35. It is the last painting of the Warhol that was left in private hands. The painting is 8 by 13 feet in…

Over christmas vacation in 1938, nuclear fission was a startling discovery made by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. The discovery immediately revolutionize nuclear physics and a lead to the atomic bomb. This essays discusses the building of a nuclear power plant South St. Paul, Minnesota. I am arguing that we should not build a nuclear power plant in South St. Paul, MN. It takes on an average amount of fifthteen years to build. There could be a nuclear accident, such as a nuclear meltdown. Also…

Have you ever been watching T.V. and just wondered where the energy that was powering the television was coming from, or how it was made? Well that power source is called nuclear power and many people do not think about nuclear power, or just not pay any attention to nuclear power, but nuclear power is one of the most useful thing to have been discovered. It powers so much. Without nuclear power you would not have electricity to charge Iphones and laptops. With nuclear power we do so much with…

Disasters come natural in some cases and in other cases they do not, In Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism she argues about free market economic policies. As citizens are focused on dealing with disasters during a time of great misfortune, Naomi clearly states her thoughts on free market economic policies. Naomi’s argument throughout the entire book sums up the idea of an anti-capitalist movement. Being stunned by disaster, economic policies the government…

Penn State Public Relations Disaster In November of 2011, Penn State and their football program experienced one of the biggest public relations disasters in recent memory. This happened as a result of the once renowned football assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky’s sexual assault of as many as eight underage boys on or near university property. Sandusky was indicted on 52 count counts of child molestation that spanned from 1994 to 2009. The school and football program were also alleged to have…

In the book Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, the Mt. Everest disaster is told from the personal account of Jon Krakauer. There are many causes and effects that led to the Mt. Everest disaster. Many of the causes could have been prevented had they been more prepared for a disaster to happen. One major cause of the disaster is storm it limited visibility so that people could not see their way back to camp. Another cause was that the guides assigned to help the inexperienced climb the mountain let…

Natural Disasters and How It Pertains to Child Development The week of my internship was the most crucial and decisive week in my path to accomplishing my career that defined what the next few years of my life were going to be like. Important aspects about me professionally and personally are that I am in the mist of pursuing my Bachelors of Arts in Applied Psychology and minor in Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus. For quite some time, my interest resided on working with…