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Three Mile Island Development Of Nuclear
1,304 wordsThe effects caused by a nuclear power accident, on the scale of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl accident, must override any inclination to side with advocates for nuclear power. Surely we have all heard the expression Im only human. If we are indeed only human, and consequently prone to error, we could never perfectly manage and contain an energy as potentially destructive as that of nuclear power, without the possibility of a nuclear accident. Furthermore, the wastes generated by nuclear power, wh...
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Young Drivers Young Male
1,374 wordsThe most exciting moment of our life is when we learn how to drive and actually get on behind the wheel. Who wouldn't insist to learn to drive especially we turn to the age of 15 or 16. I was really excited when my dad taught me how to drive. When I actually started the first turn on the road, I realized that driving was not easy for me. Since that time, I had told myself that I should not drive so fast on the road because I might get an accident. In order to become better drivers, it is not rea...
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Pot Smokers Fatal Accidents
1,757 words... e found to have recently smoked marijuana, though it could not be proven that it caused the accident. The engineer had extensive record of speeding and DUI. He was known by management to have drinking problems. Congress mandated that random drug testing be done on the entire transportation industry. Marijuana is less of a road hazard than alcohol. Surveys have found that half or more of fatal drivers have alcohol in their blood, as opposed to 7 - 20 % with THC, the major component of marijua...
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Nuclear Power Plants Three Mile Island
1,520 wordsNuclear Energy The Earths natural resources are being used up at an extreme rate. As these resources lessen, people must seek alternative sources to generate electricity for heat and light. The only practical solution for the energy is nuclear power. Nuclear power however, is not as safe as burning coal, gas or oil in a factory. In fact, nuclear power is much more dangerous. There are dangers with nuclear power plants that far out-weigh the benefits to society. About 20 percent of our nation's t...
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Drunk Driving Accidents Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1,006 wordsThere are right and wrong choices to make when a person chooses to drink alcohol. A good choice would be to drink responsibly and make sure not get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Designating a driver that will not drink during your outing is a good decision to make. A poor decision would be to get extremely drunk and decide to get behind the wheel of a car and drive anyway. It might be the persons opinion that they are capable of driving safely. This poor decision could seriously harm an i...
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Cellular Telephones Cell Phone
1,931 wordsBOSTON A driver chatting into a cell phone as the car whizzes down the road is becoming a more common sight in this age of telecommunications. State legislators and federal officials agree that the use of cellular telephones while driving poses a distraction which may lead to car accidents. But they acknowledge that little is being done to address the issue. "Anything that takes your eyes off the road is a hazard, " state Rep. Reed Hillman, R-Sturbridge, said. But Hillman, former head of the Mas...
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Phones While Driving Traffic Accidents
571 wordsDriving can be a dangerous endeavor. If you add speeding, drinking and driving or talking on the cell phone, it can become deadly. Speeding is one of the most common causes of traffic accidents. Alcohol is also a leading cause of deadly accidents. And one of the most controversial distractions right now is the use of cell phones while driving. Even without distractions, you are operating a 2000 lb machine at speeds of 40 to 70 miles per hour. Speeding is one of the major concerns of driving. It ...
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U S V Bear Arms
1,304 wordsToday in America, gun control is a very serious issue. There are different opinions on this issue, the National Rifle Association (NRA), feels that guns are safe when used for protection by responsible citizens, others feel that guns are far to dangerous to be kept in homes, and that guns should not be owned by anyone, only used by the National Guard and law enforcement. These people think their opinions are correct according to the second amendment, the amendment that deals with the bearing of ...
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Driving Age Young People
411 wordsThe media seems to have developed a grudge against teenage drivers recently. They claim that these young people should not be allowed on the road because they cause accidents, when teens cause no more accidents than adults do. Incredibly the government seems to share this blind prejudice and has set an unacceptably high driving age. Due to this unwanted hindrance young adults are forced to take the extremely unreliable public transport, causing them to be late for whatever daily commitment they ...
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Senior Citizens Fifty Five
1,243 wordsIn America today, more and more people are driving each day. Currently, there are more cars on the road now, then at any point in America's past. With all of this new traffic, more and more accidents occur everyday. The group second most responsible for these accidents is the group of drivers age fifty-five and older. "Currently these people make up twenty five per cent of the driving population, and account for eighteen per cent of current auto accidents." (aarp. org) With all of these accident...
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Put In Place Behaviour Modification
1,646 wordsIntroduction. In every organization employees play a major role towards the continuity of the organization as well as production. Therefore it is a responsibility of every organization to ensure that the general welfare and safety of employees is well taken care of. This can be done if management of the organization delegate some of its responsibilities to the middle level and junior staff in the organization so that in their absence they are able to make reasonable decisions regarding safety in...
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Safety And Health Occupational Hazards
1,698 words... to employees. Working also in a clean dry atmosphere also improves safety. In any working place the surrounding should be clean and dry free from moisture which can bring about diseases. This can be achieved by employees ensuring that the environment in which they are is safe. However, some workers work in a cold misty environment. Care should be taken to ensure that they are safe. There must wear gloves and books with heavy clothing to keep them warm all the time. Further individual behavio...
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Cause Of Road Accidents Cause Of Road Driving
1,410 wordsBad Driving In this essay I will discuss when and why bad driving makes mad. There are a lot of stupid things that people do while driving car. Such driving becomes dangerous not only for such drivers but, of course, for the people around. Motorists have revealed that bad driving and unruly children in the car distracts them most. A survey showed that 48 per cent of drivers quizzed claimed that other motorists' faults made them lose concentration behind the wheel. Twenty-one per cent blamed traf...
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Human Rights Watch
1,853 wordsPacking Safe Meatpacking plants are still among the most dangerous workplaces. America's 150, 000 meatpacking workers do the most hazardous job in the country, as a lot of them performing knife cuts every few seconds (Fink, 2001, p. 25). Among main categories of illnesses represented in the sphere, the disorders connected with repeated motion, jigging, or pressure was considerably significant generally for manufacturing and particularly for meatpacking. In meatpacking sphere, repeated trauma usu...
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Fire Preventing In A Power Station
1,337 wordsFire Preventing in a Power Station Power stations are among the most significant features of todays economy and lives of people. This is because most activities that go on today in public and in organizations depend on power supplies and if the supplies are stopped or in shortage some vital tasks may not be performed and as a consequence major losses and disasters may occur. There are various kinds of power stations such as coal fire power stations, nuclear power stations, hydro power stations a...
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Members Of Parliament Class Of People
2,030 wordsFrance is a country that has been shaped by revolution. The 1848 revolution is very unique in that it was probably the least bloody of all the revolutions in French history. Like most, if not all, the regimes before it the July Monarchy was toppled in 1848 because it became illegitimate in the eyes of the public. In his book Recollections, Tocqueville writes that the major cause for the revolution of 1848 was the animosity the working class people felt for the ruling bourgeoisie. While there may...
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Driving Age Teen Drivers
731 wordsThe dramatic increase in teen accidents has lead major portions of the public to favor the driving age to be raised to 18. The direct concern is over 16 and 17 -year-old drivers if they are responsible and experienced enough to drive on the road. Most San Diego citizens agree that accidents involving teen drivers are their lack of judgment and irresponsibility as a driver, and as well as their lack of experience and poor attention to details. I believe the sky rocketing increase in teen accident...
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Abiding Citizens Concealed Weapon
1,785 wordsGun control isnt about guns its about control. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. This is the premise that a nationally known organization, the NRA stands behind. They believe that our forefathers included t...
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Gun Accidents Anti Gun
1,614 wordsAs early as 1976 it was estimated that more had been written on gun control than on all other crime-related topics combined. The literature that was written before this time was very flawed and severely biased. The reason for this bias was the academics could see no reason why anyone should own a weapon in a democracy, and why should they? The only studies that were done were problematic ones, such as gun accidents, gun violence, and gun ownership among extremist groups. Due to these early writi...
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Hours Of Sleep Set Of Rules
1,372 wordsMatthew L. Wald, in the article A Study of Truckers? Need for Sleep Raises New Alarms located in the issue of the New York Times dated October 13, 1997, attempts to convey the results of a study conducted by the United States Transportation Department on the sleep deprivation of truck drivers. The author makes valid points on the issue but fails to back up these points with enough supportive evidence. The study was done to show how a new set of regulations could be structured. In order to determ...
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