Exxon Valdez oil spill

Sleep deprivation is one of the key factors that caused some of the biggest disasters such as the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Chernobyl explosion (Wells and Vaughn 235). Sleep is very important to our overall health; it helps us power throughout the activities of the day, week, month, etc. It is a key factor to our mental, emotional, social, and physical health. However, in our highly active society that moves almost 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, sleep…

Many people wonder how much sleep they need. According to experts with the National Sleep Foundation, “Children aged six to nine need nine to 11 hours a night,... Teenagers need eight to 10 hours..., Adults aged 18 to 64 need to sleep for seven to nine hours a night,...[and] people over the age of 65, [need] seven and eight hours” (Dillner). People often think that they are okay to sleep too long or not long enough, but studies are finding that such sleep habits can have serious effects on their…

Following his idea we can see that the business need to do the best to increase its profit which he called that is social responsibility. However the changing of the world has denied his idea of social responsibility of a business by figure out the demand from consumer or shareholder, high pressure of the globalization to business. All of that factors has change the culture and the vision of business in the last decade. In the other hand, Milton Friedman had a forever right idea which is a…

According to Anderson (2006), the persistence of the media in highlighting an issue can help define it as a problem, forcing the government to act on a condition that has been in existence for years, or even decades. The media does this by using focusing events. For instance, life threatening hazards faced by coal miners were ignored in the US since the 1930s. Despite annual deaths as a result of collapsing mines, averaging at 1000, the government did little to address the problem. In 1968,…

products as the environmental issues has risen significantly during the past two decade. Environment management accounting (EMA) has being acknowledged by numerous businesses. The major incidents happened in Bhopal chemical leak (1948) and the Exxon Valdez oil spill (1989) has attracted worldwide media attention. For example, key environment issues have increased in worldwide such as global warming, climate change, deforestation, ozone layer depletion, and others. This make the whole nation…

likely to not only get into a car accident, but are also most likely to make mistakes at work (11:47-12:11). Because of that, many experts believe that this lack of sleep had led to disasters such as the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Staten Island Ferry crash (Sleepless in America…

Orcas have been stuck in captivity since the mid-1900s. They were first captured from their ocean environment and moved to tanks that were small and modified for their conditions. John Hargrove a former SeaWorld trainer said, “...I was thrilled to be apart of the orcas’ lives for so long, I finally came to the realization that if I had to live their lives, it would be hell. Captivity is always captivity, no matter how gentle the jailer”(9). That is why, regardless of their ultimate fate, orcas…

Sleep deprivation, which affects the sleep cycle, is a problem plaguing much of the human population. While there are copious amounts of scientific evidence about the consequences and many have authored about the issue, such as William Dement and Paul Martin, many people are still seemingly ignorant to it. Even though studies show that both adults and adolescents in America are becoming more and more sleep deprived, the problem seems to be exponentially more severe in adolescents. Many social,…

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 19, 1995. This terrorist attack was the worst terrorist attack to happen before 9/11. The truck was packed with 4,800-pounds of explosives which consisted of diesel-fuel and fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The bomb was detonated on April 19, 1995 just outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City shortly after 9am (Nacos, 2016). This catastrophic blast killed one hundred sixty-eight people and injured hundreds more (Nacos,…

Rudraksh Kapil Topic Area: Biodiversity Loss of biodiversity: what are the causes and what can we do? Biodiversity is the variety of all forms of life on Earth - plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity refers to: Species; Variations within species; and interdependence of species. It is interesting to note that only about 1.2 million worldwide species have been identified and catalogued out of a towering total of about 8.7 million, as of August 2011[1]. A range of factors and…