Tragedy In The Gulf

Author : M. Sadiq,J.C. McCain
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401116855

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The Gulf War Aftermath by M. Sadiq,J.C. McCain Pdf

In 1962 Rachel Carson warned of the consequences of man's pollution in her book Silent Spring, a book that some feel marks the real beginning of our environmental awareness. Silent Spring told of the consequences of our increasing pesticide use to birds. Almost 30 years after her warning, the western Arabian Gulf experienced its "silent spring" when approximately 100,000 to 250,000 waterbirds died, along with millions of other organisms, due to the massive oil spill that resulted due to Gulf war. The magnitude of our environmental problems has continued to grow during the last thirty years to a point where even the "doomsday" environmentalists could hardly have envisioned back in 1962. It seems the death of yet uncounted thousands of humans was not sufficient for Saddam Husain. His desire for power and infamy led him to unleash environmental war on mankind. At the end of the Gulf war he set ablaze the oil fields of Kuwait and released more oil into the sea than had been spilled at any time throughout history. These actions were despicable and an affront to civilized man. A quality environment should be a right of all mankind, and to wage war by deliberately polluting the earth cannot be tolerated.

Author : George Dominic Catalano,George D. Catalano
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781608456284

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Tragedy in the Gulf by George Dominic Catalano,George D. Catalano Pdf

The recent tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico and resultant ethical consequences for the engineering profession are introduced and discussed. The need for a new engineering ethic is identified and introduced based upon advancements in science, complex systems and eco-philosophy. Motivations for introducing a new ethic rather than modifying existing ethics are also discussed.

Author : William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262015837

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Blowout in the Gulf by William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling Pdf

The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
ISBN : MINN:31951D03405360K

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The Deepwater Horizon Tragedy by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Pdf

Author : Tere Marichal-Lugo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508602484

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Tragedia en El Golfo/Tragedy in the Gulf by Tere Marichal-Lugo Pdf

Muchos seres vivientes murieron o han sido afectados a consecuencia del escape de petróleo en el golfo de México. Esta tragedia será recordada como uno de los desastres ambientales más terribles en la historia de la humanidad. Podemos utilizar fuentes de energía renovables para evitar desastres como el de Deep Water Horizon. ¡Salvemos los mares y océanos! ¡Salvemos nuestro planeta! Many living beings died or have been affected as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This tragedy will be remembered as one of the most terrible environmental disasters in the history of mankind. We can use renewable energy sources to avoid disasters such as the Deepwater Water Horizon catastrophe. Let's save the seas and oceans! Let's save our planet!

Author : Linda Crotta Brennan
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617839573

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The Gulf Oil Spill by Linda Crotta Brennan Pdf

Across the globe, devastating disasters have changed the course of history. This title brings the Gulf oil spill to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Explore the tragedies and triumphs of this disaster, how it helped shape the world as we know it, and how what we?ve learned from it has made the world a safer place. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Author : Sarah Dewar-Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350309722

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Tragedy by Sarah Dewar-Watson Pdf

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most revered forms of literature in the western world. Over the centuries, tragedy has shown a tremendous capacity to reinvent itself, often emerging at crucial moments in the evolution of cultural, political and intellectual history. Not only is tragedy marked by its diversity, the critical literature surrounding the genre is equally diverse. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key criticism and debates on tragedy, from Aristotle through to the present day. Sarah Dewar-Watson presents the work of canonical theorists and lesser-known but, nonetheless, influential critics, bringing together a strong sense of the critical tradition and an awareness of current scholarly trends. Stimulating and engaging, this essential resource helps students to navigate their way around the subject of tragedy and its rich critical terrain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : United States
ISBN : MSU:31293008122487

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The Department of State Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Author : John Drakakis,Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317894193

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Tragedy by John Drakakis,Naomi Conn Liebler Pdf

This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years. The foundations of much contemporary thinking about Tragedy are to be found in the writings of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard; in addition, the dialectical tradition emanating from Marxism, and the psycho-analytical writings of Freud, have extended significantly the horizons of the subject. With the explosion of interest in the areas of post-structuralism, sociology of culture, social anthropology, feminism, deconstruction, and the study of ritual, new questions are being asked about this persistent artistic exploration of human experience. This book seeks to represent a full selection of these divergent interests, in a series of substantial extracts which display the continuing richness of the debate about a genre which has provoked, and challenged categorical discussion since the appearance of Aristotle's Poetics.

Author : Katherine Hennessey,Margaret Litvin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789202601

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Shakespeare and the Arab World by Katherine Hennessey,Margaret Litvin Pdf

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performance in Qatar and an Upper Egyptian television series to the origin of the sonnets to an English-language novel about the Lebanese civil war. Addressing materials produced in several languages from literary Arabic (fuṣḥā) and Egyptian colloquial Arabic (‘ammiyya) to Swedish and French, these scholars and translators vary in discipline and origin, and together exhibit the diversity and vibrancy of this field.

Author : Al Roker
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Galveston (Tex.)
ISBN : LCCN:2015007009

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The Storm of the Century by Al Roker Pdf

"In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC's Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history - a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today's new age of extreme weather. On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the booming port city on Texas's Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, the city that hours earlier had stood as a symbol of America's growth and expansion, was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen. Rushing water from the storm, which caused 8,000 deaths, had lifted buildings from their foundations, smashing them into pieces, while wind gusts had upended steel girders and trestles, driving them through house walls and into sidewalks. No race or class was spared its wrath. In less than twenty-four hours, a single storm had destroyed a major American metropolis - and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature."--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : UCBK:C022389368

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Current Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Welch Murphy,Richard William Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
ISBN : UIUC:30112062959546

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International Shipping and the Iran-Iraq War by Richard Welch Murphy,Richard William Murphy Pdf

Author : Theodore Koulouris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317122685

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Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf by Theodore Koulouris Pdf

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as 'Greekness.' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 she kept notes on her Greek readings in the Greek Notebook, an obscure and largely unexamined manuscript that contains her analyses of a number of canonical Greek texts, including Plato's Symposium, Homer's Odyssey, and Euripides' Ion. Koulouris's examination of this manuscript uncovers crucial insights into the early development of Woolf's narrative styles and helps establish the link between Greekness and loss. Woolf's 'Greekness,' Koulouris argues, enabled her to navigate male and female appropriations of British Hellenism and provided her with a means of articulating loss, whether it be loss of a great Hellenic past, women's vocality, immediate family members, or human civilization during the formative decades of the twentieth century. In drawing attention to the centrality of Woolf's early Greek studies for the elegiac quality of her writing, Koulouris maps a new theoretical terrain that involves reassessing long-established views on Woolf and the Greeks.

Author : Daniel Jacobs
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815729099

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BP Blowout by Daniel Jacobs Pdf

The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequences BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident, which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killed 11 people. The ensuing oil discharge–the largest ever in U.S. waters—polluted much of the Gulf for months, wreaking havoc on its inhabitants and the environment. A management professor and former award-winning Justice Department lawyer responsible for enforcing environmental laws, Daniel Jacobs tells the story that neither BP nor the federal government wants heard: how the company and the government fell short, both in terms of preventing and responding to the disaster. Critical details about the cause and aftermath of the disaster have emerged through court proceedings and with time. The key finding of the federal judge who presided over the civil litigation was that the blowout resulted from BP’s gross negligence. BP has paid tens of billions of dollars to settle claims and lawsuits. The company also has pled guilty to manslaughter in a separate criminal case, but no one responsible for the tragedy is going to prison. BP Blowout provides new and disturbing details in a definitive narrative that takes the reader inside BP, the White House, Congress and the courthouse. This is an important book for readers interested in the environment, sustainability, public policy, leadership, and risk management.