Persian Gulf

There were many causes of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Specifically, the key causes of the disaster were decision making biases, the implementation of the wrong decision-making style, and ineffective communication between work groups. These factors together made for the of the worst environmental disasters in the US. First, the key cause of the disaster was an overconfidence bias. This bias refers to a tendency to assume the certainty of accuracy about estimations and predictions (Davies,…

The havoc caused by the Deep Horizon Oil Rig Blast affected normal life for months. The large amount of oil released into the ocean had negative short and long term effects on aquatic and human life. The Deep Water Oil Rig Blast contaminated the Gulf of Mexico’s marine life, affecting human lives and jobs, and causing economic destruction. On April 19, 2010, a day before the tragic incident, workers on the Deep Horizon Oil Rig did not…

Dumitru Popescu the Romanian Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Las Cruces based aerospace company Arca was detained in Georgia and then sent to Doña Ana County. Popescu was finally thrown into the Doña Ana County Detention Center with his bond set at $40,000. Mr. Popescu has been charged with over a dozen counts of fraud including embezzlement and misleading filings. The charges he currently faces are the outcome of an investigation by the New Mexico Securities Division. First, the formal…

Since the advent of Precision-Guided Munition (PGM) in 1942, the United States has enjoyed an unrivalled military capability to fight the nations’ wars. The first elements of modern American PGM emerged towards the end of the Vietnam War, where the success of laser guided missiles had proven its value in precision strikes. Over the years, PGM has become deeply integrated into U.S arsenal for military warfare. PGM has undergone several improvements and upgrades, the recent one using GPS…

The Deepwater Horizon disaster could have possibly been prevented if the crew would have made better decisions on that day in April. The crew neglected to acknowledge the anomalies present and the warning signs that the well was unstable. If evidence-based decision-making would have taking place on this day this disaster that killed 11 people may have been avoided. Evidence-based decision-making or (EBDM) is defined as a process of conscientiously using the best available data and evidence…

happened back in 2010 but still impacting us today. The Deepwater Horizon was an offshore oil rig that initially was ignited and caught on fire, then soon after exploded. Approximately more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico, for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S history. Affecting millions of people and the atmosphere, the Deepwater Horizon explosion was the most devastating natural disaster. The Deepwater Horizon explosion made a…

Herodotus, in his work, The Histories, describes the leaders of the two combatant coalitions in the Persian War, Themistocles of the Greeks and Xerxes of the Persians, in very different ways. Herodotus often points to how both men handle council and their own piety as a tool to depict what kind of men they are, and at times reinforces his own generalizations of the Greek and Persian people using these men as his proxy. Herodotus seems to accept the idea that men, as individuals, can shape great…

The Parthenon’s Impact Past and Present “Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.” In today’s society, we are affected by history from the past, which could be anything from World War II to the times of ancient Israel and the Savior’s ministry. The Parthenon is the former temple to the Goddess Athena and an ancient architectural structure…

First of all, after dismissing the early accounts of Greek-Persian conflicts, Herodotus claims, “He (i.e. Croesus of Lydia) was the first foreigner so far we know to come into direct contact with the Greeks, both in the way of conquest and alliance.” (Herodotus, I.6) Furthermore, Croesus the king of Lydia is regarded…

own unique ways. The Peloponnesian and Persian wars were both important conflicts that focused on independence. Herodotus earned the designation “The Father of History” because before his writings, the Greeks had no word for history in terms of writing a narration of past events in prose. He has been anointed as the world’s first Western historian. Herodotus’s book The Histories, a record of his inquiries into the events of the conflict between the Persian Empire and Ancient Greeks; is…