Gerri Landau “Silkwood” Silkwood is a true story about Karen Silkwood, a laboratory worker at the Kerr-McGee Plutonium recycling plant who threw herself into union work in hopes of putting an end to the radiation poisoning of their employees. This is a movie about a whistleblower and the effective involvement of labor unions. Karen has gotten a coworker to cover her shift and learns about the temporary shutting down of the plant due to contamination in their section. A friend of Karen’s becomes contaminated and this is when she decides to be proactive against it. Most of Karen’s coworkers believe she has had some involvement with the contamination.
He adopted sentimental and angry tones in order to have the audience sympathize for Dianna while still placing blame on the paparazzi. The Wikipedia entry of Princess Dianna’s death confirmed newfound details on her death. The article’s purpose was to clarify some of the unknown details about the event. It adopted an educational tone in order to have the reader understand the major details of Dianna’s death and what happened afterwards. The purpose of the news report from the BBC was to inform the people of Princess Dianna’s death.
After I read Chapter 4, “The Nuclear Lighthouse,” in Mark Hertsgaard’s book Earth Odyssey, I was astonished to learn the information the world, and much more our country, hides from us. During this chapter, Hertsgaard goes into detail about Chelyabinsk, a highly dangerous, toxic region in Russia. Throughout my reading, I became so interested in the stupidity of the citizens and workers in Chelyabinsk that I decided to dig a little deeper and do some research. Environmentally, the situation in Chelyabinsk is not much different from what it was fifteen years ago. Nuclear waste was such a problem for Chelyabinsk because of the three nuclear disasters that took place there at the Mayak complex.
Show how you determined the total height of your alien and include what units you used to measure. 1 point Slide 5: The total area of the alien must be given (find the area of each polygon and add all of the areas together – show all of your work). 3 points
“Conspiracy of fools” book report 1. Discuss how the top leadership, specifically Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, contributed to the collapse of Enron. The executive leadership was the main cause for Enron’s collapse. Their dishonesty, greedy and selfishness made them do things that changed Corporate America forever. Kay Lay was the CEO for many years.
As illustrated in Out of this Furnace, proper operation of the blast furnaces was an impending life or death matter. Unfortunately, for the characters of Kracha’s best friend, Dubik, and Mike, their livelihood depended on the factory and the factory ultimately ended their life as well. “Dubik died two days after a blast furnace explosion blind and unconscious,” (pg.53). The explosion was later deemed an “accident”; however, Kracha explained, “In a larger sense, it was the result of greed, and part of the education of the American steel industry” (pg. 54).
This was not the first time they had tried to attack the world trade centre. In 1993 February 26th a truck bomb exploded in a parking garage below the world trade centre. Six people were killed and more than 1000 people where injured. A Pakistani was eventually captured and convicted for the bombing as were several Egyptians. The FBI believe that these terrorists plan was too explode one of the towers and make it lean and fall onto the other tower to destroy them both to try and kill and total of 250,000 civilian deaths.
McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, using the name 'Solo'. The US authorities claim he deleted critical files from operating systems, which shut down the US Army’s Military District of Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours, as well as deleting US Navy Weapons logs, rendering a naval base's network of 300 computers inoperable after the September 11th terrorist attacks. McKinnon is also accused of copying data, account files and passwords onto his own computer. US authorities claim the cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was over $700,000. In early November 2008, a total of 80 British MPs signed an Early Day Motion calling for any custodial sentence imposed by an American court to be served in a prison in the UK.
After isolating himself from everybody for two months while creating his monster, his health started to deteriorate, and in the end died alone. Nikola Tesla, also a great inventor who shared the same fate. Spider describes Tesla’s fate“ He died broke in 1943eight months before the Supreme Court proclaimed him the true inventor of the radio”(67). Both just being reduced to a nobody who should have been credited for their scientific discoveries. Their ambition has caused much destruction to the one responsible but it does not just end there.The effects of one person’s ambition has the ability to affect people around them.
The Speech of Ronald Reagon: The Way to Oppose the “Evil Empire” On January 28, 1986, there was a national tragedy for American population – a tragedy that was marked by death of seven talented and professional spacemen. The well-known space shuttle “Challenger”, which aimed to take its tenth flight, exploded after several seconds of successful launching. The most shocking and terrifying moment of American space industry was broadcast via live translation to millions of Americans – evidently, they were absolutely shocked when the accident took place. In the moment of absolute sorrow and social shock, the head of the United States, Ronald Reagan, had to address some critically-important, encouraging and inspiriting words to own citizens concerning