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Deepwater Horizon: A Disaster of Monstrous Proportions On April 20, 2010 British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig located forty miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded due to high pressure of methane gas seeping into the drilling riser and expanding. The explosion killed 11 men working on the rig, injured 17 other, and causing millions of gallons of crude oil to begin spilling into the ocean. This tragic accident has left many question like why did this happen? What could have been

Domestic violence in recent years has become a national issue of epidemic proportions (Whiting, 2014). The current Australian Government campaign against domestic violence clearly states that domestic violence is a crime (Douglas, 2008). However, a debate continues over the value of applying criminal law in this field. This article investigates the current operation of family law in Queensland in the domestic violence sphere and explores the advantages and disadvantages of applying criminal law to

An Epidemic of Gross Proportions KRAKOW, POLAND- According to an alarming new study published Friday by the Federation of Abnormalities in Thickness, the percentage of obese Americans over the age of twenty has just hit 40%. This growing obesity epidemic has been called one of the heaviest issues in modern day society. "I don't understand why those in rich, developed nations like the US or the UK get to gorge themselves with lavish delicacies every day, while in Eastern civilizations, people are

In “Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life, Rosabeth Kanter examines the distribution of groups in the work place. She identifies four types of groups that she found present in a workplace, and placed them into a fictionalized company. The groups were: uniform, skewed, tilted and balanced. She discovered that these numerical differences that exist, not only in a company, but in the world can harm unrepresented minorities in these dominate group settings. She focus her attention on the women in

Several suggestions have been proposed to cut the cost of Medicare and reduce its proportion of the federal budget. These include; a) The introduction of voucher system that would enable for the more privatization in the offering of insurance policies for Medicare. b) Increasing the Medicare revenues by raising the payroll taxes that are charged on the beneficiaries. Unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking also need to be penalized by Medicare so as to reduce the many claims related to such habits

Drug abuse has become a public health crisis of major proportions. It sabotages physical and psychological health. This sometimes leading to chronic illness and sometimes even death. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), “An estimated twenty million Americans aged twelve or older used an illegal drug in the past thirty days.” The most commonly used and abused drugs today are marijuana, cocaine, meth, and heroin. Drugs are chemicals and while each drug may produce a different

Suicide is reaching epidemic proportions all across the globe. What is causing such an outbreak in young adults? Most people have heard about the get help hotlines and the advertisements associated with suicide. Although we 've all heard about it, not much is being done about it. Johnson states the facts about suicide, “claiming 39,518 lives in 2011, or more than 6,889 more than in 2005” (10). This small piece of information goes to show just how much suicide has increased in the last few years.

Global Warming - A Problem Blown Out of Proportion It is ironic that fifty two years before hosting the 1997 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the city of Kyoto had barely missed being destroyed. It was one of four cities considered as primary targets by President Harry Truman’s secretary of war, Henry L. Stimson. The others were Kokura, Hiroshima, and Niigata. Gale E. Christianson describes Kyoto in her book Greenhouse as a magnificent city surpassed only by Tokyo in the number

Date: 2016-03-17 Abstract The impact of the clearance thickness proportion on the hole-flanging procedure was researched to decide the event of pressing. A 2 mm thick 1000 series aluminum alloy sheet was considered. An elastic-plastic limited component model utilizing remeshing alternative was created. Tests were directed to confirm the dependability of the created limited component model. A critical clearance-thickness proportion which is a farthest point between two states of hole-flanging was

Intimate Partner Abuse “I remember him using drugs and alcohol. He would start provoking me with sarcasm and verbal intentions. I wouldn’t act back because I had a beautiful little girl, who shared the same heartbeat as mine for nine months to protect. Under those circumstances, he would get even more infuriated and start pushing me, touching my face roughly, and intentionally wanting me to give him a reason to hit me. That’s when the toxic cycle began. He would start hitting me, throwing me against