North American Aviation

cockpit procedures, the captain’s failure to successfully manage the flight, and Colgan Air’s poor procedures for airspeed selection and management during approaches in snow and icing conditions (NTSB, 2010). Pilot fatigue is a major problem in the Aviation Industry. After…

Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is one of the local columnar cactus of the very few that is found in Tucson, Arizona. These giant cactus can grow between 14 m to over 20 m while weighing over 3200 lbs. These cactus are heavy because of a desert adaptation which allows them to retain water by expanding its core. This allows the species to survive the extreme hot and dry summer conditions of the Sonoran Desert. However, this cactus doesn’t have high fitness in the cold conditions, so the…

Being a member of this illustrious organization would mean a great deal to me. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated is an organization full of members with a purpose. Members that feel they have a calling to serve the greater good of the communities around them, and beyond. The members of this fraternity are very diverse with all different shapes, colors, races, personalities, and ethnicities. However they all have the same foundation of brotherhood, scholarship, and service to uplift…

Phi Theta Kappa was founded in 1918 and is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious honor society serving two-year colleges worldwide. I was recently extended an invitation to become a member of the Alpha Xi Iota Chapter due to the time spent so far earning my associates degree and my cumulative 4.0 GPA. I had never considered joining an organization like this but after some research I think this could certainly benefit my future both professionally and personally. Phi Theta Kappa’s mission is…

Good evening, everyone. I’m Amber Smith. And I’m Caroline Vogl and we are co-presidents of the Fall 2017 pledge class. We are extremely excited to be standing before you today as the newest initiated members of Alpha Gamma Delta. *crowd cheers* It has been quite the journey from putting on our rush shirts and nervously boarding the busses to the Days Inn. Our acquaintances from Bid Day have become our cherished friends in the short amount of time that we’ve been together. We’ve grown together…

crash or what safety items this aircraft have in the case of any problem. “Aviation safety is a term encompassing the theory, investigation, and categorization of flight failures, and the prevention of such failures through regulation, education, and training.” (Aviation safety, 2015) If we search in the internet for the aviation safety hazards we will have many reasons and example for each reason, because in the aviation industry we are facing many danger and probabilities for failures,…

2.3.2 Human and Risk Aviation Milan (2000) studied the human risk Aviation in his paper, most accidents can be attributed to human error combined with other factors. Human errors have been present in the production, maintenance and operation of aviation hardware ranging through aircraft, airports and air traffic control facilities and equipment. Human operational errors can come about when workloads exceed work ability, e.g., in stressful situations. In aviation, working capacity primarily…

Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…

As the U.S. tries to build democracy in Iraq, it is apparent the difficulties are numerous. The U.S. cannot free a country from an oppressive government and dictatorship oversee an election and walk away believing that democracy has won the day. In March of 2003 the U.S. along with other coalition forces invaded Iraq. In less than a month, Bagdad fell, after 24 years of brutal dictatorship which included corruption, intolerance and fear, Sadaam Hussein along with the Ba’athist government…

Kim Jong-Il North Korea remains a mystery to the rest of the world. It holds its matters private, works in ways that confuse outsiders, and threatens those who question them. It has spent decades creating a way of life that raises curiosities and appalls outsiders through its violence and inhumane treatment of citizens. North Korea, however, accelerated its destructive path when Kim Jong-Il inherited leadership. In fact, Kim Jong-Il’s leadership brought North Korea to ruins.…