The Incident

As I’m sitting at the terminal at LaGuardia International airport in New York City waiting on my flight to Los Angeles. Someone speaks over the intercom, “Attention passengers, the flight to Los Angeles will be delayed for two hours. I apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.” Thinking to myself, “What the heck, this always happens when I fly.” I’ve already been sitting there for an hour, I decide to get up and stretch my legs. Wandering throughout the terminal passing by…

January 28th, 1986, is one of those days in the history of the United States that will never be forgotten. That is the day that the space shuttle Challenger explode 73 seconds after it lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, killing the seven people on board, including a civilian school teacher. After an intensive investigation into the cause of the disaster, it was determined to have been the result of a faulty O-ring that allowed fuel to escape during the “burn” which resulted in the…

Recalling the statistics from Boeing, civil aviation has a success rate of about 99% (Statistical Summary, 2014). For this reason, it is easy to fall into the trap of being unprepared in the event that the unthinkable happens, and there is a major accident involving the organization’s aircraft. If the accident takes place in the United States, the NTSB will deploy a “Go Team” to begin investigating the accident. If the accident takes place in another country, the NTSB will most likely be…

The Flight 214 Did you know the chance of you dying in an airplane crash is one in an eleven million (Haltiwanger, “The Odds Of A Plane Crash Are One In 11 Million, Yet You’re Still Afraid”)? Sometimes accidents are inevitable and sometimes they are not. All it takes is a simple error for any accident to occur. Over the years most of the airplanes accident were mostly caused by the human factors. In aviation industry, the most common there are twelve most common human factors which are known as…

We can use BT with the invading UFOs. What’s the chance that an abducting UFO is from Zargon? (What is the chance that a UFO is from Zargon given that it abducts?) P(Zargon|Abduct) = P(Abduct|Zargon) x P(Zargon) P(Abduct) P(Zargon|Abduct) = 3 /8 x 8 /20 = 24/160 = 1 /2 6 /20 6 /20 This is the answer we’ve already seen. iv. -AT LEAST ONEWe flip three coins. What is the chance that any (at least one) of them lands Heads? We could solve this problem the way we’ve already done: count the outcomes…

On Feb. 29, a 61-year-old man was arrested for allegedly embezzling over $100,000 from a California company. The incident took place in Lake County. According to media accounts, the defendant was working as a bookkeeper for a local couple, and an investigation by the Lake County Sheriff's Department determined that he stole $103,000 from their business and personal bank accounts. The evidence was sent to the Lake County District Attorney's Office in September, and a criminal case was opened on…

Case Incident 14.2 – Does the Congregation Care? Questions 1. Analyze and explain the situation using any of the theories discussed in this chapter. According to this scenario, when the young pastor first arrived at the independent church, he was full of energy and wanted to be a great leader while performing his duties. Also, he was certainly looking for having a good impact on the members of this community, as well as helping the church to accomplish many things by identifying the…

One in sixty-eight children has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) (CDC). This means that many people in your life have Asperger’s, and you probably have no idea. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon is told by Christopher, a fifteen-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger’s. Christopher’s symptoms are very recognizable as someone suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome. Christopher’s mother left him and his father because she was…

One incident that took place at Madera High School and carried on for about 3 years should have been brought to attention and handled before the first month was to come, at most the second. The situation first took place in the cafeteria of MHS. There was a group of friends that were seen to usually sit down at this one particular table, but one day a group of girls sat at the table without permission. The main group got the idea to make the girls feel uncomfortable enough to the point that they…

When comparing the main characters of movie Adam and the novel The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, one sees that the two have many similarities; this makes both works exceptional to the audience. Firstly, in both the novel and movie both boys are interested in space. For example, Christopher is an aspiring astronaut who dreams of flying into space. Likewise, Adam works at a space observatory and has a lot of knowledge about the stars and how the universe was formed…