Valerie Wallach Mass Disaster Assignment Watching the mass disaster videos in class was both devastating and informative. Honestly, I had never really considered how anthropologists and other workers might handle the investigations of mass disaster sites, when hundreds of deaths occur as opposed to a single death. Clearly, they face a multitude of ethical issues and logistical challenges in repatriating a cemetery or mass grave. For now, I will focus on divulging the ethical problems. For the first case, a massive flood displaced nearly eight-hundred graves in Hardin, Missouri in 1993.
The ships captain had a drinking problem and on the night of the incident he was unfit to be in charge of the tanker and so left an unqualified crewmember in control. This inexperienced crewmember wouldn’t have collided with Bligh Reef if the ships RAYCAS radar had not been broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster. The incorrect crewmember being in charge of the tanker (the third mate instead of Captain Joseph Hazelwood) and broken equipment played a huge role in the collision. Environmental Impacts Marine creatures were affected greatly by the spill as the toxic oil disrupted the food chain; the oil massively destroyed plankton numbers as it prevented sunlight from getting through the water (Plankton need to sunlight to grow, reproduce and ultimately end up as food for fish). Recent scientific studies have found that the fish developed gross deformities such as extra fins, or suffered from retarded development.
This photograph by Martin Shakeshaft displays a number of women and children protesting about the closure of the deep coal mines in 1984. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost immediately with the closure of the pits. Much media attention is given to the men involved in the miner’s strikes of 1984-85 although women were involved too, albeit in a more indirect way. The photograph clearly shows this as it is made up of purely women and children. Many women’s groups were started during 1984-85 in support of the strikers.
Report on the Chernobyl Disaster On the 26th of April 1986 a failed reactor test resulted in the world's worst nuclear disaster, subsequently displacing over 200 000 people, and instantly killing a further 54 residents and emergency workers. This was then called the Chernobyl disaster. The disaster was due to the running of a test in the early hours of that day. The test was done to see the effects of running the reactor at low power. When the test began the reactor was slowed down, to the lowest operating power.
Madison Michaud Block E Nuclear Disaster Essay In July 2010, a resettlement project was started in some of the areas surrounding the Chernobyl Power Complex that were evacuated, almost 24 years after the incident. The residents that lived in the areas of Belarus that surrounded the Chernobyl plant were resettled due to dangerous levels of radioactivity released by the accident (Chernobyl Accident 1986, world-nuclear.org). Chernobyl was a major example of a nuclear disaster. Fukushima and the Three Mile Island accidents are also examples of nuclear energy gone wrong, but the accident that had the largest negative effect on the land and population around the place of the accident was the Chernobyl Accident of 1986. The Chernobyl Accident took place at the Chernobyl Power Complex in what is now known as the Ukraine, on April 26, 1986.
The World’s Worst Nuclear Meltdown, Chernobyl Thursday April 26th 1986, became the day in history when one of the world's greatest nuclear catastrophe’s occurred. This disaster happened in the Northern part of Ukraine next to the border of Belarus, in town of Chernobyl. The town's nuclear power plant called Lenin released the biggest nuclear fallout in human history. The immediate accident resulted in fifty deaths, but far much worse problems and deaths would emerge later as the nuclear fallout and radiation did not cease right away after the explosion and fire. How effective were world governments on communicating the disaster?
Since 2005 the responsibility for fire safety in the workplace has been put squarely on the shoulders of the employer (The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) Again it is legislation and the fear of prosecution that prompts most employers to carry out a Fire Risk assessment and spend money on the recommendations made. The compensation culture has led to a fear that drives more and more employers to ban things that previously were considered acceptable. Politicians are aware of the public dissatisfaction with the compensation culture. “I want to stop trivial claims, free up businesses from the stranglehold of health and safety red tape and look at ways we can bring costs down.”(David Cameron 14 Feb 2012) The people paying out the claims have a lot to say about it too. “The current system encourages many people to believe that there is a compensation culture that they can exploit with exaggerated and fraudulent claims.
Why did the 1905 Revolution fail? The 1905 Revolution was a major crisis for the government and came as a result of both long and short term causes. A month after Bloody Sunday, half a million workers went on strike in protest at the massacre, by the end of the year this had risen to 2.7 million. The strikes affected the railways, so food could not be delivered to the towns and cities., the peasants started revolting by stealing land from their landowners. Eventually national minorities engaged in widespread protests.
This incident occurs during the tough time to president, he pressurized to make a decision. The White House Political Director Lyore Boone regrets the decision that the President declares, and he said, “When you try to not loose anyone, you lose everyone.” This time the Kirkman administration represented to have a blurred image to everyone since the past 10 weeks. This was due to the tragedy moment that took the first Lady Alex Kirkman’s life. White House press Secretary Seith Wright and all the team were concerned about the president and the paperwork, Seith spoke with the chief of Staff Emily Rhodes in regard to why the president performing Idle. Emily became emotional and ignored him.
* These failures continued to increase mainly after Chairman Morris Nielson took charges of B&W and became the president and chief executive officer of the company. * After the unexpected challenges faced by the company, a vice president responsible for the Mount Vernon plant committed suicide. * B&W failed to deliver 21 of the pressure vessels to the two nuclear industries: General Electric and Westinghouse Electric. * As a result of this delay, the two companies took unprecedented step of forcing B&W to turn most of its uncompleted vessels to over to other competitors. * Later, when B&W tried to hang onto two of the transferred vessels, Westinghouse Electric took the case to the case to court and won.