Essays on Shutdown

During the shutting down phase of a project which involves sign-offs, compliance audits, and official approval, there are possibilities of unforeseen things happening. Shutdowns are largely unpredictable because the normal or programmed operations of project systems are altered. While this may help in discovering problems with the current systems, it also raises certain issues that highlight the burden that may come with project shutdowns. The problems include safety risks, creating expensive or complex problems, delay in respect to the set schedule, ambiguity in decision-making, and the possibility of general failure of a project. Project systems may be designed to ...

1 The assessment of financial performance of the division managers in each subsidiary can be obtained by taking a difference between budgeted profits and actual profits in US dollars. It can be understood from the table provided below. The table provided above summarizes the information regarding the actual and budget performance of each subsidiary in 2004 . All amounts are expressed in US dollars that are helpful in comparison among them. It can be seen from Table 1 that the subsidiary of Japan has performed below budgeted profits that in dollars but it might have increased its profits as compared ...

I am a first responder, so I will make sure that no evidence should be tampered or damaged. I will consider all functional or non-functional computers as evidence and capture photographs or images of all display screens. I will disconnect computers from the network to protect the tampering or removal of evidence. There are some obstacles involved in the computer forensics; there is a chance that the evidence was deleted from systems or devices. Files are often password protected, and it requires a great effort to decode a file that involves strong cryptography. Digital evidence are sensitive and fragile ...

BUSINESS PLAN PART 3

BUSINESS PLAN PART 3

The development of an online solution for "Your House, Your Design" requires that experienced professionals of the E-commerce work on it. Today the company does not have extensive experience in the electronic commerce; today only have a one-page website with information about the products and contacts to the company. The online store requires an online catalog linked in real time with the inventory, graphical representation of the entire product and a secure payment platform for the client and the company. With the previous considerations and the required learning curve of the hosting platforms, the company ...

Introduction

Concerns with avoiding the adverse consequences of Global Warming and the effects of Climate Change has increased significantly over the past decades (Deutch et al.). The leading economies such as the United States are still reluctant to adopt comprehensive climate change policies despite pledging to do so. Nor has there been an agreement with the emerging rapidly-growing economies such as India, South Korea, China, Indonesia, and Mexico on the mechanisms to adopt Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) emission constraints (US Energy Information Administration [EIA]). With Global emissions of GHGs projected to continue to increase, there is the added urgency to not ...

Strategic Management and Corporate Social Responsibility

Introduction The book retailing industry is suffering from fierce competition due to globalization and unpredictable trends (Yang, 2009; Scupola, 2003). It has been realized that the purchasing trend of printed books is declining, and the utilization of e-books is increasing. The numbers of independent stores of books declined lower than 1000 in 2014. Even, the industry faced the shutdown of more than 500 independent shops since the year of 2005. In 2013, the book retail industry in the United Kingdom faced the shutdown of 67 local bookshops. However, 26 shops were opened, and 987 were trading already. The immense ...

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Turbine Engine Lubrication: A Vital Function

Turbine engine has high rotations per minute (RPM) and generates large energy due to compression. The rotating components in the turbine engine (Engine Bearings) must be lubricated at all times for smooth functioning of the engine. The lubricant must flow across the bearings at high pressure (Ehlert, 2011).

Background - Turbine Engines

A turbine is a machine utilizing a rotor or a wheel to produce power that is generating by the motion of the steam, water, air, gas or any fluid. The flow of the gas or the liquid rotates the ...

Reflective Essay - Work experience

3.1 IntroductionDuring my undergraduate degree in BITS Pilani, Dubai, I enrolled in Practice School-2, which is a semester long subject that ensures students earn professional experience during their study as engineers. I was positioned as a trainee in electrical maintenance engineer at Robt. Stone (ME) LLC for a period of 5 months (4th July 2010 to 25th November 2010), where I was trained on various projects concerning the operations of the organization and electrical maintenance carried out in the Oil and Gas industry. After the first two months of introduction and training, I was placed in the OH&S department to learn and ...

The government is not only beneficial to the Americans in more ways than one, but also necessary. There are undertakings within the county’s setting that require the government’s oversight. The government is important as it ensures there is military control and protection of its citizens. Through the government, the country is provided with a defense system through which it can defend and or deter attacks within its boundaries. Government is important as it ensures the citizens therein are protected from other forms of worse or adverse power structures, which have the ability to form in the midst of ...

The movie I have selected to analyze is The China Syndrome. This movie highlights how journalism and media play a huge role in checking how large and potentially dangerous corporations work. At the beginning of the movie, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) is seen putting the Ventana nuclear reactor into an emergency shutdown because of the coolant going to dangerously low temperatures. The whole idea was that if the core had melted and drained into the earth (which is called ‘China Syndrome) it would have contaminated all the groundwater in the area and made the whole place radioactive. This means that ...

A political landscape is the current environment of politics in the country.

It consists of what our leaders are doing about the issues facing the country currently. The Political landscape not only involves what our leaders and the breed of politicians are saying and talking about, but it also involves public opinion. This landscape is very important for a nation because it enables it to gauge the direction of the country in terms of policy implementation, public opinion, and the current breed of leader.

One of the main issues in the political landscape of today ids the government shutdown. The congress recently refused to expand the debt ceiling. The democrats led ...

According to the Wall Street journal, the U.S Gross domestic product grew by 2.8% in the quarter that ended in September 30. This is according to the data released by the Commerce department. The growth indicates an improvement from the 2.5% growth recorded in the second quarter. According to economists, the growth much of the growth was due to a one-time accumulation of inventory by businesses across the country.

There was reduced spending on equipment and software by business firms in the third quarter. According to economists interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the government shutdown together with the holiday ...

U.S. Government Shutdown

The reviewed article by Paul Lewis titled “U.S. shutdown and debt ceiling deal: what does the agreement mean?” that was published in “The Guardian” on October 16th 2013 depicts the overall situation around the Affordable Care Act - Debt Ceiling lift debate that resulted in a 16 day U.S. Federal Government paralysis, which led to the worldwide political, economical, and financial tension.

It all started after Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to pass a budget resolution, unless Democrats would give in the Obama's health care law funding. From the very beginning everyone knew that government shutdown ...

The Top Three Republican Candidates and The Affordable Care Act

Jeb Bush Jeb Bush is at the moment the front runner in the Republican Presidential election camp. Bush like most of the GOP candidates has called for the repealing of Obamacare. He called the law “a monstrosity” (Haberkorn, 2015 March 9). For Bush, Obamacare seeks to consolidate power in Washington DC. He adds that Obamacare suppresses employee wages and has created uncertainty in investment in the economy. Obamacare is the “greatest wage suppressor in the so called recovery age.” (Haberkorn, 2015 March 9). Bush’s alternative to Obamacare is the catastrophic health coverage. With this plan, he argues ...

Critical thinking

Part 1: Huffington Post analysis Traditional text-based reporting techniques, such as prints, outdoor, audio and slideshows still play a significant role in the media today. The traditional media is, however, blended with the rich media such as social media and videos. Both two types of the media included at Huffington Post to promote the social channels. The Huffington post, for example, uses video links, photos and text to bring a clear and brief presentation of the news. The post is also open to response and feedback through the Facebook, twitter and Google plus links. The video or the post can ...

Introduction

Science fiction and disaster films often must take dramatic liberties with science and truth in order to serve a greater narrative purpose; events are compressed, effects are exaggerated, and realism and physics are thrown out the window in order to provide greater drama and spectacle (Revkin, 2004). In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich in 2004, the world is subjected to global disasters brought about by climate change. The effects are myriad; global cooling sets New York in a coating of ice and freezing temperatures, glaciers crack and separate, and a “superstorm” is said to cause rapid climate ...

It may be a mere co-incidence or accidental turn of events that the theme, concept, content, genre and approach of two generically different kinds of books can have so much of close association. In order to appreciate this feature, an analytical study of the following two books was made.

1: Technical Book:

- Description: A supplement for undergraduate and Graduate Investments Courses. - Publisher: Prentice Hall, 5th Edition (January 8, 2013) - Language: English - Paperback: 160 Pages 2. Non-fiction Book - Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company - Contents: 213 pages - Language: English 3. Article ...

The Class Name

The 26th of April this year will be marked as the twenty-eighth anniversary of a disaster of a worldwide scale. So much time has passed after it and we still remember that fear of a nightmare of such a nuclear disaster that has changed millions of lives during a couple of days and it changed the nature itself, as well. The topic of our research is the Chernobyl Catastrophe (or “Chernobylska Katastropha” in Ukrainian); we`re going to describe its causes and consequences, the governmental meanings about it and how it changed the territory of Ukraine and the countries it affected. Let us ...

Introduction

Hurricane Katrina was recorded as the most deadliest and destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone. It occurred in the season of Atlantic hurricane. It is a natural disaster which is recorded as one of the costliest disasters. In addition, this is a natural disaster classified under five other deadliest hurricanes, in the whole history of the US. Hurricane Katrina appeared as the sixth most intense hurricane in the 2005 season (Brenner, 2007). An approximate of one thousand eight hundred and thirty three people died as a result of this natural disaster. There were subsequent floods during this disaster making it a deadliest hurricane in the ...

Answer 1)

a)History of Quantitative Easing: Quantitative Easing, also known as Open market Operations is one of the conventional method of Credit Control which is followed by central/federal banks to stimulate economic growth and to circumvent the banking system. The history of this method credit control has two phases i.e pre 2007 and post 2007 period. (Parkin, 2011) i)Pre-2007 Period: The very first use of Quantitative technique of Credit Control is attributed to Bank of Japan on March 19th , 2001. The Bank authorities before accepting this method, rejected the efficiency of QE method and rejected its use for ...

What are the Types of Ethical Predicaments Encountered in Public Personnel Administration?

Types of Ethical Predicaments Encountered in Public Personnel Administration 3 Common Ethical Dilemmas 3 The Context of Ethics 4 Administrative Discretion 5 Constitutional Prerequisite 6 Ethical Predicaments in Administrative Discretion 6 Corruption 7 Ethical Predicaments in Corruption 8 Other Types of Ethical Predicaments 9 Nepotism 9 Information Leaks 10 Public Accountability 10 Policy Dilemmas 10 Discussion 11 Conclusion 12

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Types of Ethical Predicaments Encountered in Public Personnel Administration The success and reputation of governance depends upon the functionalities and conduct of the public administrators. ...

This paper argues about the shutdown of SeaWorld; SeaWorld is a mammal theme park, located in the United States. Sea World is a theme park dedicated to the underwater world. Unlike other parks, Sea World is not divided into zones. Here each attraction has its own name and theme. SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment maintains one of the largest collections of marine animals in the United States. It provides care to as many as 67,000 animals including marine and terrestrial. In the wild, marine animals live in large social groups and swim up to 100 miles a day. However, at SeaWorld, Orcas ...

Sequestration refers to the reduction of budgetary costs by the United States federal government. In 2013, the federal government cut spending in particular categories of expenditure. Primarily, the cuts were on account of the Budget Control Act (2011) that were similarly deferred for some period by the American Taxpayers Relief Act (2012) till March when the law was implemented. According to Demaree, sequestration can be described as the practice of reducing obligatory spending in federal government budget (1). These cuts are occasioned when expenditure for the government surpasses the total income the government receives in one financial year (Sequestration ...

Sequestration and the Government Shutdown of October 2013

Sequestration is a budgetary process in the United States under which limits on the federal budget are imposed. The process of sequestration involves setting a cap on the amount of spending that the government can undertake at any given period of time. The capping of the government spending is not a blanket one and it targets specific categories of expenditure. Budgeting in the federal government of the United States is carried out through a process which involves both the executive and the congress. The executive arm of the government prepares a budgetary estimate of expenditures covering a specific period of time and the congress, ...

2013 Government Shutdown Between first and 16th October 2013, the United States Federal government had a partial shutdown after two houses of the Congress failed to agree on a new budget (Cohen, para. 3). The House of Representatives led by the Republicans insisted that President Barrack Obama’s Obamacare reform must be delayed as a condition of passing the bill. After the Congress failed to enact the legislation that would appropriate funds for the fiscal year 2014, the Federal Government shutdown presented challenges to the economy and more than 700,000 federal employees, who faced unpaid leaves without guarantee of back ...

Should the U.S. provide its citizens with universal access to health care?

Interestingly, the United States is the only industrialized and wealthy nation that is yet to provide free and universal healthcare to its citizens. By far, the US is the Earth’s richest nation. Great Britain, France, and Canada have been able to provide its citizens with universal health care. The current health care situation in the US is affected by restricted access to health care and escalating costs. Insurance coverage currently determines the coverage of US healthcare system (Clarke, & French, 2013). Majority of US citizens are covered ...

The evolution of human society passed through various different stages, the first being the family heads enjoying privileged positions extending to tribe heads, being equivalent to the head of the state. Hence, the final stage rested with a politically organized society having a full-fledged government machinery and authority. A study of world history is a roof of the fact that states have arisen at different times in different countries. Hobson defines the concept of state as: “State is a community of people, occupying a definite territory, organized under a government, which is supreme over all persons and associations within its territory and independent of all ...

President Obama and the Republicans are really engaging in a bitter war against both sides when it comes to the topic of health insurance for Americans. This research paper will discuss the major issues that exist between the Republicans and President Obama with the Affordable Care Act. I will compare the pros and the cons of the new law. I will explore who will benefit from this law in which has been nicknamed as “Obamacare”. Why are the Republicans fighting so hard to stop this law? How much will it cost the government?

Republicans’ stand

There were claims that the Patient Protection ...

Abstract

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are the two major wings of the political phenomenon in one of the world’s oldest democracy, the United States of America. Democrats and Republicans came together on doctrines of completely different ideologies and therefore their take on issues have always remained different, though agreements have occurred on small scale now and then. This article is a discussion of differences and rarer similarities between these two wings and the differences amongst factions within.

Introduction

The United States of America is, without a doubt, one of the oldest democracies in history. The political history of United ...

Last month the world watched closely as the most powerful country in the world in terms of wealth and military had much of their functioning halted due to the government’s inability to compromise. The shutdown ended up lasting for sixteen days and it has been estimated that it cost the country $24 billion dollars. What was seen as unfortunate and angered a lot of voters was just how unnecessary the shutdown actually was. It was not the result of a necessity but the result of politicians acting as many writers depicted them “as children.” However, there are some who see ...

The recent US government shutdown has been due to the division in politics. The republicans refused to pass the budget due to the controversial Obamacare and the request to raise the debt ceiling. The republican votes are needed to pass the Budget. Delaying of the budget means closure of all government offices and agencies. This will lead to more than 700,000 federal employees facing unpaid leave and with no guarantee of pay once the shutdown is over. This article termed as ‘US begins government shutdown as budget deadline passes’ posted in the BBC news website on 1st October ...

The recent government shutdown which was as a result of the impasse between the Republicans and the Democrats in Congress has had profound effects on various individuals and groups in the American society. From the very onset, it would be important to state that this was an unfortunate incident. It was unfortunate as it led to challenges and hardship for local citizens simply because of political brinkmanship and posturing by the concerned parties. Furthermore, it is something which was avoidable but no steps were taken by either party to forestall it. It is my considered view that the shutdown significantly ...

Dear Employees,

As you may know, the recent economic situation of the United States has forced the government to shut its doors. Recent events have caused a number of medical offices as well as government offices to close. Although Chloeta Fire is a public company, we are closely tied to government entities; making our business’s success dependent on what happens when or if the federal government decides to open (Kavilanz). Although there is no news yet as to what will happen in the future, we are sad to say that Cloeta Fire will have to join many others in closing its ...

Research paper

Introduction Being a study of the economy as a whole, and considering aggregated indexes as GDP, unemployment rates and price indices, the macroeconomics depicts an overall state of the current economic situation.

The debt ceiling

Even though, after the Great Recession of 2008, the U.S government is desperately trying to stabilize the situation using various fiscal and monetary measures, it still fails to spend less money, thus borrowing more and more from its creditors every year. Then it comes to the question of raising the debt ceiling in order to borrow more, and this procedure is known for quite some time now, but ...

If you pay a visit to a preschool, you will see that morals and ethics are not innate concepts. You will see young tots grabbing toys from one another, crying when things do not go their way in games, and using violence to solve their problems a great deal of the time, at least until a teacher intervenes. Lessons like learning to share, having fun in games without winning, and negotiating your way out of an impasse all take time and reinforcement from older siblings, parents, teachers and other authority figures. The ways that authority figures intervene to teach ethics and morals change ...

The Daily Show has become a hallmark of the ability to both convey the news and poignant information while at the same time making the target audience laugh. This essay focuses on the capacity for Jon Stewart to bring a balanced effort to the often bipartisan news environment. In the Daily show episode ‘The Government Shutdown’, there is a broad message that is brought forward in a comedic light (The Daily Show 1). The highlights during the beginning of the show utilize the full range of acting ability that Jon Stewart possesses. Through this medium, the capacity to communicate matters of substantial ...

With the federal government shut down in the United States, many people are uncertain if it will have any effect on their personal lives. For some, their daily routines, so far, will carry on as usual. For others, it is a lack of services or conveniences that might not be available. For those who are already struggling, basic necessities may not be met. For American parents who rely on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), there is concern that there will not be enough money to meet one of life’s basic necessities, providing ...

1. The name of the organisation, the industry it operates in and the issue relevant to ethics and corporate governance with which it was connected. a. What were the conditions at the organisation that led to this example of poor corporate governance? (5 marks) b. What were the outcomes for the board of directors, the shareholders, the staff of the organisation, its customers and the general public? (5 marks) The processes and structures for control and direction of firms is corporate governance. It is concerned with the associations between board of directors, management, control of major ...

Venezuela which is in the shape of a reversed triangle is located on the northern hump of South America and is twice in size of the land area of California. The climate of Venezuela is usually either winter or summer. The ethnic groups in Venezuela are Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German and African while the official language spoken in Venezuela is Spanish. 96% of the population is Roman Catholic while 2% of the population is Protestants.

The population growth rate of Venezuela is 1.47% in 2012 while the population in Venezuela that is urbanized stands at 93% in the year ...

This paper takes an in depth analysis of the circumstances that lead to the shutdown of GLH Derivatives and the London arm of Chicago's Griffin Company. As evident from the report that appeared on the BBC News, Chicago's Griffin Company inadequate internal structures (operation risk managers) is noticed to have neglected the dictates of operations risk, basically the Basel I and II Accords. For ease of understanding, the paper begins with the definition of operations risk. The analysis of the violations of the conventions of the two Basel by GLH Derivatives and the London arm of Chicago's Griffin Company ...

What is management accounting? What are the sources of data? How are the data used to make management decisions?

According to the official definition by CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) management accounting “is the application of the principles of accounting and financial management to increase, protect, preserve and increase value for the stakeholders of for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises in the public and private sectors.” The main difference between financial and management accounting lies in the time frame and the level of details provided. Financial accounting reports information on the monthly and annual level, which may not be enough for some of the daily operations. In this case management accounting comes into place, providing a broader spectrum of information ...