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    The National Tragedy The Challenger was a horrible tragedy the american public had to witness, but we as a country will not let it get in the way of our future accomplishments. The Challenger was a spacecraft that exploded on January 28, 1986 while its departure to space along with 7 crew members inside. The president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, then delivered the “Address To The Challenger Disaster” to the nation and the crew members families. Reagan crafted the speech to let everyone…

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    Name Instructor Course Date of Submission Columbia Shuttle Crush Disaster Abstract This paper discusses the Columbia shuttle crash disaster that occurred on February 1, 2003. Pressure suits, seat restraints, as well as the space shuttle crew’s helmets failed to work. The result was a devastating incident as the out-out-control ship broke apart after losing pressure. Following the incident, no survivors were rescued. A report from NASA claims that the incident led to the death of all astronauts…

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    The Challenger Space Shuttle tragedy is one of the most widely studied cases of design negligence in history. Its explosion on January 28th, 1986 was the result of a design flaw in the solid rocket boosters. Problems with the design were detected a long time prior to the launch date, however due to a constraint in time, and pressure from NASA management to maintain its frequent launch schedule, the design was not changed. After the launch failure, investigations into the cause of the explosion…

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    History Era Project 1970-1990 The Challenger space shuttle disaster was the worst moment in the NASA programs history.It starts as a normal day it was going to mark the shuttles 10th successfully launch.The Challenger was expected to perform as expected after being tested for 11 months there were no doubts about the launch. When the shuttle took off everything was normal, but after 73 seconds it exploded killing all 7 crew members including a school teacher.Marking it as the most horrific moment…

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    second space shuttle constructed by NASA. Also, it had completed nine successful missions before the disaster. Following the accident, the shuttle program was suspended for 32 months as President Ronald Regan appointed a Commission, chaired by William P. Rogers and known as the Rogers Commission, to investigate the cause of the accident. The challenger, the space shuttle that exploded few minutes after its launch, marking the history as the most significant disaster in the history of space…

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    In the cases of the Challenger and the Columbia tragedies, organizational failures played a vital role. For the Challenger, there had been a teleconference between the engineers from Morton Thiokol (the company that designed the O-rings that cased the Challenger to explode), the Kennedy Space Center and the Marshall Space Flight Center. The engineers, who were low level, expressed their concerns for the safety of the crew as well as the Space Shuttle but were ignored. In the case of the Columbia…

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    In 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale to prevent police brutality against African Americans in Oakland, California. Around this time, after the landmark United States Supreme Court ruled the Brown v. Board of Education case, which stated that the segregation of schools were unconstitutional, African Americans continued to face poverty and economic inequality. They helplessly strived for community improvement and equal human rights and tried to find an…

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    Robert George Seale better known as Bobby Seale was born October 22, 1936 in Dallas Texas. He was the oldest of three children. Seale grew up very poor with a very abusive father. Growing up he continuously saw his father mistreat his mother and beat her. (Bio, Page 1)His family then move to California where he attended Berkeley High School this is also where he started to gain some political knowledge. Seale then joined the U.S Air Force in 1955 sadly he was discharged after an altercation with…

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    There have been many important influences throughout the ages in the horror genre such as Horace Walpole, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft. All the way from Edgar allen Poe to H.P. Lovecraft. There have been many influential horror or Gothic writers throughout the ages. Though in the early days of Horror this form of storytelling were called Gothics and or Romances. Horace Walpole, one of the first to use grim story elements in his stories. He also liked…

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    Merrit Junior College in Oakland, California (2). Harvey Young Illustrates that the leaders were in their late twenties (14). As David Hilliard and Donald Weise reports, Huey P. Newton was a so called “Bad Boy” or “Rebel” before the Panther party started (25). Also, to become a better burglar, Huey P. Newton studied law (25). Huey P. Newton said, “We realized at a very early point in our development that revolution is a process. It is not a particular action, nor is it a conclusion. It is a…

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