Essays on Crash

The black box is a flight or aircraft data recorder. It mainly collects and gathers the flight parameters information and stores them as evidence in the case of a plane crash. It is a technology that each and every corporate jet or commercial airplane should be equipped with.

Origin of the Technology.

The technology was discovered in Australia by Dr. David Warren. The technology began in 1952. Warren worked on the information and built up of the black box in Aeronautical research laboratories, in Melbourne. He argued that it was necessary for recording all the aircraft crew discussion. His view was to help Continue reading...

UP express trains takes 25 minutes with brief stops at Bloor and Weston GO stations. When the departure of UP train is after every fifteen minutes and travel time twenty-five minutes, the train will only make a back and forth service in an hour period. Taking the vehicle that moves to Toronto from Pearson to be three and each vehicle having a capacity of sixty seated passengers, the number of passengers that can be transported by UP express can be calculated as
60 × 2 × 3 = 360 passengers
The planned service will require more vehicles to be able to meet Continue reading...

The movie ‘Crash’ is an Oscar winning movie directed by Paul Haggis and released in year 2004. The movie received an overwhelming response and praise from the different types of viewers. Crash clearly depictsthe true image of life of people living in metropolitan city. The movie is a drama based on race and gender and their impact on lives of people living in Los Angeles. The movie presents some hard realities of our society that are rare to see in any movie. Race not only increase awareness of people on social issues such as race and gender but also Continue reading...

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-arrived at San Francisco International Airport on July, 2013. There were 307 individuals aboard the plane. One traveler was murdered and 182 were harmed. A second traveler likewise kicked the bucket, yet it is conceivable that she survived the crash and was run over by a flame truck. At the point when the plane was coming into area, the motors were unmoving and the plane was flying much slower than it ought to have been. 1.5 prior seconds the plane crashed, the pilots attempted a go-around, however they were past the point of no return.
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[Date (January 1, 2014)]

The greatest stigma in life is to rob someone off their future and its many possibilities. To take some risks without regards to others is a regretful decision that may shadow a person throughout his time. It is one thing to throw your own life due to negligence, another to implicate those who are innocent. This is true, especially with something as preventable as a fatal car crash. A simple respect to rules and regulations effectively minimizes incidence related to these records of vehicle accidents.
A driver is at a constant danger of a collision. Continue reading...

An analysis of Racism in the 2005 movie Crash

The 2005 movie Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, is filled with innumerable examples of racial stereotyping and the same is apparent in the movie from the very beginning. The movie is a classic example of the prejudices borne by racist people in their minds and their perceptions against people of a different race. This movie of Paul Haggis had won the Oscar and it is essentially a drama about race and its impact on the people of various ethnicities living in Los Angeles. Haggis has a number of people in this movie coming for various ethnic backgrounds. There are Continue reading...

King Tutankhamen was an Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled over Egypt for less than a decade. King Tut’s mummy was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter and George Herbert. How he died was completely baffling since there are no records about it. Various people have come up with hypotheses on how his death might have occurred. His mummy was found to have a missing heart, fractured ribs and leg and his whole body was burnt. He also had malaria when he died.
Hutan Ashrafian, a British surgeon claims that the king might have had a form of epilepsy which Continue reading...

Introduction

Background of the Study
A significant number of South Koreans are killed annually due to the road accident menace. The roads highways and superhighways are no longer just a means of necessitating movement of goods and people within the nation but are also a major source of loss of lives. The nation records alarming rates of road accidents that have been greatly attributed to human error. Reckless driving has been identified as a major cause of road accidents. Among the key perpetrators of this vice are drunken drivers, those drivers who do not abide by the traffic laws and Continue reading...

Introduction

The Hindenburg disaster is recorded in history as a spaceship that was involved in a crash marking the end of their use in air travel. This scientific design had marked one of the largest space travel aircraft. No such a large aircraft had been used for space travel before. This involved building a craft that was lighter than air and one that used hydrogen gas for propulsion. However, the crash of this aircraft created controversy including marking the end of their use in air travel. May, 1937 marked the day of the accident in which the Hindenburg aircraft arrived Continue reading...

Introduction

It is a film that is directed by Paul Haggis and he is the writer. A crime drama film was released in the USA on April 21of the year 2005.It is a story of Los Angeles were over a period of thirty-six hours a small number of desperate people lives as they try to cope up with life in the city where race relations belies their life. Among the major players are a Caucasian district attorney, and he always uses the race as his political creed. His caucacusian wife see his opinion that crime is associated with the black Continue reading...

The article reports on a Cessna 525A jet accident. At the time of the accident, the jet was found with four bodies’ two men and two women whose identities could be immediately established. Charles Muttillo vice president of Morley builders of Santa Monica issue a statement stating that the jet was ferrying Mark Benjamin, CEO of Santa Monica-based Morley Construction, and his son, Luke Benjamin, a senior project manager with the company, and two other occupants from Hailey Idaho to Santa Monica California. The pilot did not report any mechanical trouble prior to landing and there was no any Continue reading...

Introduction

The film “crash” is directed by Paul Haggis. He brings out the issue of divergence in characters and race. It illustrates the level by which characters crash. The movie implicates knit stories based on whites, blacks, Koreans, Iranians, the rich and the poor, cops and criminals. Many of the actors found in the film “crash” performed racist action. The actors’ personality, background and skill let to a completely believable impression.
The movie shows difference in racial characteristics in clear dimensions. The white characters portray possession of comfortable positions. The blacks, including the television director play a cold role. The Continue reading...

Article ReviewEuropean Rail Crashes Show Gaps in an Increasingly Precarious System

Introduction
This paper sets out to review and analyze an article that deals with a current transportation policy issue. The subject article is was published in the New York Times on 9 September 2013 and was entitled: “European Rail Crashes Show Gaps in an Increasingly Precarious System”, by Doreen Carvajal.

Article Summary:

The article opens by asking why management of the Spanish rail system trusted the driver of the high speed train that crashed on July 24th killing 79 people to be driving that train, when he had previously boasted of speeding and just prior to the crash was using his Continue reading...

Introduction

This case study reviews the loss of American Airlines Flight 191 a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10. An article in the Chicago Tribune on the same day (Young, 25 May 1979) reported that after losing an engine from the left wing following takeoff from O’Hare International Airport, the aircraft rolled over and crashed within a mile of O’Hare, resulting in the deaths of all 271 on board and causing two fatalities on the ground. The case study looks at the accident causes, structural and mechanical factors involved, contributory factors, and the Investigation Board findings.

The Research
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The Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight that departed from the Tokyo International Airport destined to land on the Osaka International Airport on the day, Monday 12 of the month August in the year 1985. The plane later crashed on the ridges of the Mount Takamagahara in Ueno killing almost all the passengers and working crew on board making it count as one of the major and deadliest aircraft accidents in history.
Cause(s) of AccidentThe airplane crash report showed a number of causes that led to that fatal event on that day as were Continue reading...

In 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 1.3 million traffic accidents in the US, which is approximately 23 percent of all accidents, occur while drivers are using cell phones (Lane, 2011). Around 1.2 million crashes occur because drivers use phones for conversations while the other 100,000 occur because a driver is typing text messages (Lane, 2011).
A survey was conducted on 912 smartphone users by State Farm, and 19 percent of them reported using their cell phone for surfing the internet (Sarno, 2011). Although their online survey did not report the demographics of the participants, Continue reading...

Purpose and scope

This audit aims at evaluating WIESER Company which is a licensed company for freight shipping and trucking. This is a field that encompasses adverse risks. Therefore, this audit aims at identifying these risks, employing concrete measures and coming up with possible deficiencies associated to the system and come up with more recommendations that may boost the performance of the system. The various factors that the report aims to consider in the audit top management leadership and support, risk assessment and standards development, communication and enforcement, accident evaluation and reporting, emergency response, fleet performance measurement, driver conduct promotion, driver competence, Continue reading...

Our scientific understanding of the vastness of the universe and the relative insignificance of Earth and human civilization on a galactic scale increases every day. The first planet outside our solar system was discovered in 1992, and since then, hundreds have been found. A study done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2011, for example, estimated that the Milky Way Galaxy alone should contain about 2 billion Earth-like planets. If this estimate is accurate, then the statistical likelihood that at least one, if not more, has also evolved life, possibly even intelligent life, is higher than ever before. Continue reading...

- Expected completion times and variance attached.
Using PERT charts and the optimistic, most likely and pessimistic times, we can estimate the expected time for each activity. PERT assumes the beta probability distribution for time estimates. A beta distribution can be used to estimate the expected time for each activity using weighted average (Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, 2011).

In the case of variance, three standard deviations are assumed to exist between the optimistic and the pessimistic values.
Thus variance = [(Pessimistic – Optimistic )/6 ]2.
The critical path is the longest path duration of the project. Slack time is the amount of time Continue reading...

Multi Agency Coordination

Multi Agency Coordination
As police officers responded quickly after the first plane crashed on the first WTC tower, there was no concrete plan what are they going to do, given that no one was expecting that kind of tragedy other than the terrorists themselves. After the first plane crash, police and the rescuers just did what the usual standard operating procedure was. They were not able to detect why the plane crashed on the first tower, they did not know that there was another plane crash approaching few hours after the first, and they did not know the total Continue reading...

The united airlines flight 173 crash could have been evaded with a few simple steps. The airplane was approaching Portland, Ore from JFk airport New York on December 28th 1978 when the pilot realized that there was a predicament with the landing gear. He immediately ordered for the emergency safe landing of the 189 passengers on board. He circled the plane for more than twenty minutes while trying to communicate with the air controllers on the possible approach strategies to apply. The airplane had a scheduled stop at Denver airport before it arrives to its final destination Portland airport. Continue reading...

Answer 1. Virtual reality is a computer-generated, interactive, three-dimensional environment in which people get immersed. Augmented reality is an exciting new way of creating richer, more interactive experience with users and future customers. Users of augmented reality or AR tools maintain a presence in the real world. On the contrary, in virtual reality the user is completely immersed in a computer-generated environment. Augmented reality mixes real-life images with graphics or other effects (Abernathy, P).
Answer 2. As companies get more comfortable with augmented reality, marketers are developing creative new ways to use the technology. Marketers often use this tool Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of this experiment was to observe collisions between two carts, measure energy changes and classify the collisions. It was hypothesized the momentum would be conserved during the collisions.

- Consider a head on collision between two billiard balls. One is initially at rest and the other moves towards it. Sketch a position vs. time graph for each ball, starting with the time before the collision and ending a shot time afterward
Before collision, ball 2 moves with a constant velocity towards ball 1. Therefore, its position changes with time while the position of ball 1 does not Continue reading...

Introduction and Theory

The main aim of this experiment is to investigate energy and momentum conservation in a closed system. Momentum and energy conservation principles are significant physical variables that engineers use when describing various physical phenomenon. Momentum of a body is a vector quantity, which is given by the product of its velocity and mass. In collision theory, the momentum of the body is always conserved when two bodies collide. The principle of momentum conservation applies to both elastic and inelastic conservation irrespective of the dynamic interaction between the two objects. This report demonstrates the application of momentum equation in determination Continue reading...

A collision refers to a physical situation where kinetic energy of momentum of an object is transferred from an object to the other one. In physics, collisions are classified as either elastic or inelastic. Conservation laws; energy conservation and momentum conservation are important tools in the analysis of collisions. Various literatures and experimental studies have confirmed that it is difficult to assess the interaction of bodies during collision. Therefore, main objective of this work is to demonstrate to relate the various parameters such as velocities and masses of the system using the principle of conservation of energy and momentum.

The momentum of an object of mass, m and velocity, v is represented mathematically as shown below:

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The experiment was aimed at investigating collision in two dimensions. The study sort to check whether the recorded energy after the collision is equal to the theoretical figure as well as calculating the discrepancy realized.

Experimental Data

Data Analysis
In two dimension collision, the momentum and kinetic energy before and after collision should be equal. The law of conservation of energy stipulates that the energy before and after collision should be equal, especially if there was no lost energy. However, in reality, some energy is converted into other forms of energy, hence the momentum of Continue reading...

Introduction

The Kessler Syndrome is defined to be orbital debris tenure that has developed into accepted outer the specialized orbital debris area without ever getting a severe explanation. The goal of this study is to explain importance of Kessler syndrome and its impact on the organizations to change its climate and to place the inference into the approach after research by the worldwide scientific community, as well as to argue what it might signify to potential space functions.
The term of Kessler Syndrome has derived by Donald J. Kessler. Kessler syndrome preserved the catalogue of synthetic things in orbit, however Continue reading...

PEOPLE:

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897, to a lawyer's family. Her love for aircraft came during the World War I. Amelia was a nurse in the hospital next to the airfield. Not long before the round the world flight Earhart wrote that her two biggest desires were: to be the first woman in transatlantic flight (at least as a passenger) and the first woman-pilot to cross the Atlantic. Both her wishes came true. In June 1928, she flew from the U.S. to England, as passenger. And then four years later, May 20, 1932, she has repeated Continue reading...

Introduction

In any collision, where the system is not subject to external forces, linear momentum will be conserved. In case the collision is elastic, kinetic energy will also be conserved. In this experiment, two steel balls were made to collide momentarily, and the projection of their 2D collision dynamics was recorded for analysis. The vectors measured using the carbon paper, are related to the momenta of the balls before and after collision. These were used in the respective equations to verify linear momentum conservation and elastic collision, i.e. kinetic energy conservation.

Data Analysis

Sample Calculations
xi = 67 cm; xt’ = 61.5 cm; xi’ = Continue reading...

Abstract

Space junk is a real problem today, what with million useless pieces of junk orbiting our planet. We do not see that junk does not mean it is not there or cannot be a problem. The technology we use today is innately tied to space as our modern life relies on functioning satellites. The paper looks into the presence of space junk and the issues related.

Introduction

Space junk is the collection of all the debris orbiting the earth. This orbital debris has been classified into two forms – natural and man-made. The natural debris consists mainly of fragments of meteoroids Continue reading...

2009 Hudson River Mid-air Collision

Introduction

It was in 2009 on 8th August, one of the worst air accidents in the history of New York took place when a Piper airplane and a sightseeing helicopter collided over the Hudson River, killing all the 9 people on board. Thousands of people witnessed this low-altitude accident as the airplane collided into the helicopter with both of them breaking into parts and falling into the river. Though both the pilots were properly certified and trained as per with federal regulations and the aircrafts properly equipped and maintained, the accident occurred due to insufficient Continue reading...

Vitamin C Clock Reaction: Kinetics

Vitamin C Clock Reaction: Kinetics

Abstract

Collision theory refers to a theory that was proposed by Max Trautz and William Lewis independently. The theory qualitatively offers an explanation on the way chemical reactions take place and the reason behind differences in reaction rates in different reactions. The rate equation for a given chemical reaction refers to the equation that provides a link between the pressure or concentrations of the reactants and the parameters that are constant partial reaction orders and the rate coefficients. This experiment aimed to determine the rate of reaction of reaction between iodide and hydrogen peroxide and Continue reading...

In this homework assignment, you will be working through two crashing problems and four earned value problems. All the information you need is included within this Homework packet. Make sure you answer all parts of the questions in their entirety.
Once you have worked through the problems, please post your responses to the Dropbox. Please refer to the course Syllabus for the due date.

PROBLEM 1

a) Give the crash cost per day per activity. [10 points]

The crash cost per day for each activity was calculated using the formula.

Crash cost per day= Crash CostCrash time
b) Which activities should be crashed to meet a project deadline of 10 days at minimum cost? Continue reading...

Never judge culture by one man and never judge a man by popular culture.

- Anonymous

Abstract

In “The Death of the Author,” structuralist thinker Roland Barthes suggested the notion of the author as a distinct identity in the creation and interpretation of a text was a thing of the past. Instead, he preferred the use of the word “scriptor” to refer to the person writing or typing a work for the first time. The ideas in the scriptor's mind would have to travel through his or her semiotic filters to make it to the paper – those filters take the ideas and shape them – for example, the inspiration Continue reading...

Crisis Communication Plan

Overview of the Crisis
Two bizarre incidents in a short period leading to the death of passengers and crew leave Malaysia Airlines struggling to recover. On July 17, a Boeing 777-aircraft, flight MH17 was shot down from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. All 298 passengers and crew members died in the incident (Torr, & Walker, 2014, pp. 23).
Families and employees were left devastated as the crisis unravelled. Malaysia Airlines flew to the assistance. The airline sent over 200 specialists, care givers and managers to Amsterdam to handle the crisis. At the scene, there were 80 caregivers assigned to providing the Continue reading...

Introduction

Plate tectonics is important because it explains the reasons for the deformation of Earth’s surface. Plate Tectonics theory assumes that the Earth’s surface was broken into several small plates and the plates have collided with each other to form the continents. The theory explains that the oceans and continents also move in addition to the tectonic plates. It also explains the global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes. The plate tectonics explains the major features of the earth, such as the continents and oceans, the earthquakes and volcanoes and the mountains and valleys. The theory explained that the Continue reading...

The beginning of Stock market in America.

Trading in the stock exchange markets has a definite origin. Ideally, the American Stock Exchange represented by the acronym (AMEX). Historically, the trading in the stock market commenced in the 1800s periods. This transition was referred to as the curb exchange. Historically, the origin shows that the stock exchange in the United States was established with the intention to develop a stable economic power. This was the primary disquiet of the United States economic stimulus policy. According to the historical records, this occurred during the times of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury at that time. This Continue reading...

Background

During the World War I, United States and European countries economies had forged an intimate and unique relationship and owing to this, the Great Depression spread to these countries. After the World War I, United States emerged as a major financier and creditor of postwar Europe. The national economies of European countries were greatly weakened by World War I and the war debts (McNeese, 2010). In particular Germany and other countries that were defeated were expected to finance war reparations. The United States Economy slowly slumped after the World War I and the American investment credits flow to the Continue reading...

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Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster of 1980 – An Engineering Failure

Highway bridges on navigable waterways are at risk from vessel collision. Since they are primarily built to let vessels pass through, design considerations should include the probability of a major collision of its structural members from a passing vessel. There are several factors why vessels may come in contact with a bridge’s structural member. The deviation of a vessel from its path may be caused either by human error, mechanical error or may result because of adverse environmental conditions. Indeed, the collision of M/V Summit Venture with the pier of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was due to Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature and circumstances under which secondary victims of traumatic incidents or victims of negligence can lay claim for compensation. This paper deals with a very important aspect of tort law which is negligently inflicted psychiatric injury. This is most common in victims of post traumatic stress disorder who witnessed an extremely traumatic incident. The paper also examines the liabilities which would follow from such a case, especially if the guilty person is employed in the service of the company i.e. employment liability.
Civil litigation involving tort law happens that when Continue reading...