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Essay Instructions: This paper needs to focus on why it is important to people my age, (college students)why some decide to join or not to join a greek organization. The biggest reason why people are hesitant about joining is because they are scared of being hazed. Talk about how hazing has been made illegal. There neds to be an arguement and you need to take a side. Both sides need to be argued for, but a side needs to be taken. I want my paper to inspire people to join the greek system. Discuss the good things that being in a greek organization (i.e. networking, community service, friendships that are made), can do for them. Make sure to include why it is important to people my age.

Essay Instructions: Just a page report on the following accident scenario, please follow all directions that are asked!

DIRECTIONS: Read and review the following accident scenario. Write a brief report citing the facts and complete an Analysis Section using relevant facts to devise the error chain. You may incorporate the 5M model in organizing the mishap information. Complete a Conclusions Section citing probable and contributing causes and a Recommendations Section citing realistic and valid recommendations. This exercise will give you a chance to apply all the elements learned from the course.

With the above data that is assumed to be accurate, develop a basic hypothesis of probable cause and some contributing factors. You must support your probable cause hypothesis with a logical analysis of the data presented. In other words, support what you say by facts pulled from data. Use what information is available and attempt to apply logic and fact to the data that is presented.

Accident Scenario:
The charter pilot and passengers boarded a light twin and departed the island (uncontrolled) airport at dusk, with the AWOS weather system reported as 2 miles in fog/haze and 900 feet overcast and deteriorating. On take off, the aircraft rotated, entered the lowering mist. Approximately five miles past the departure end of the runway, the airplane was seen exiting the clouds in a steep left rotating bank, trailing smoke. It impacted the ground and burned. This was a fatal accident. There was no flight plan or radio contact with the aircraft.

On-scene observations:
The impact angle was approximately 45 degrees; all wreckage was twisted into a small consolidated area. The aircraft retained some semblance of looking like a plane. The right wing and engine were burned. There were slipstream rivet soot marks running along the right portion of the fuselage aft of the engine nacelle. There were small metal streaked blobs splattered on the right horizontal stabilizer. The engines were mangled and would have to be sent to the lab. The right prop showed span and chord wise striations with numerous classic "S" compressions on the trailing edges, as well as the blade tips jagged, broken and pieces missing. The left prop was intact; the tips were bent aft, and the blades showed little sign of trailing edge compression and appeared to be in a feathered knife-edge position relative to normal direction of flight. All basic systems appeared to be functioning. All instruments were destroyed. The throttle quadrant was damaged but showed all levers, props, throttle, mixture and feathering levers to be pushed forward-to the wall. Rescue personnel at the scene were unsure if they had moved any devices. Pathology revealed no medical or intoxicants in the pilot's blood. The pilot had a valid class two medical and completed an Air Taxi check ride several months prior. Technical experts concluded the right engine had power and the left engine was placed in a feathered position.

Follow-up observations:
A preliminary review of the paperwork indicated the aircraft was certified and airworthy. It had full tanks and was 50 pounds over max gross weight. The charter company had just hired the pilot, who had less than 7 hours in the make and model, 20 hours total time in twins. It was determined that the flight was to be a sightseeing flight within 20 miles of the airport. The pilot was new and did not possess a current instrument rating.

A week prior to the mishap, the new pilot "thought" there was a possible power loss on the right engine, but ground tests conducted by another line pilot could not duplicate the problem. Another pilot stated he was aware of the rough running engine, but it was "just the nature of this aircraft and things always smoothed out after a couple of minutes." The aircraft log books showed no missed inspections. There was one entry approximately 20 hours before the mishap that indicated work was done on the right engine to correct a small seep off the fuel line gasket and readjust the turbo waste gates. A further statement added that no run-up was conducted as no pilots were available and no leaks detected so aircraft was returned to the line. The aircraft remained in service due to several pending charters. A secretary overheard the flight manager tell the new pilot this was an important charter. The passengers were "Hollywood" types paying extra cash since there was no other charter company available for this last minute request. The two-plane charter company was governed by CFR 135 and regulations. Another witness "thought" he heard one of the engines running "rough" as it taxied out. He said that most planes usually stop and do some sort of run-up before take off, but didn't see this plane do that. The witness was a private pilot sitting at the airport coffee shop.

Essay Instructions: Read Case 2.2. Pick either #1 or #2 of Jim Donnelly's arguments, addressed to Rebecca Wright. Explain the argument in your own words. Then refute it using ethical principles and critical thinking.

CASE 2.2 Exporting Pollution
As an assistant to the vice president of environmental affairs at Americhem, Rebecca Wright relishes the opportunity to apply her training in public policy analysis to the complex and emotion-laden issues that her company faces.57 Rebecca is convinced that cost-benefit analysis, her specialty, provides a rational decision-making tool that cuts through personal feelings and lays bare the hard economic realities. Still, she was startled by the draft of a memo that her boss, Jim Donnelly, shared with her. The logic of Jim's argument seems impeccable, but the conclusions are troubling-and Rebecca is sure that the document would create a furor if it were ever made public. Jim is preparing the memo for an upcoming decision on the location for a new chem?ical plant. The main problem is that atmospheric pollutants from the plant, although mostly harmless, would produce a persistent haze; and one of the particles that would be released into the atmosphere is also known to cause liver cancer in a very small portion of the people exposed. Sitting down at her desk to write a response, Rebecca reads again the section of the memo that she had circled with her pen.

From an environmental point of view, the case for locating the new plant in a Third World country is overwhelming. These reasons are especially compelling in my estimation:

1. The harm of pollution, and hence its cost, increases in proportion to the amount of already existing pollution. Adding pollutants to a highly polluted environment does more harm than the same amount added to a relatively unpolluted environment. For this reason, much of the Third World is not efficiently utilized as a depository of industrial wastes, and only the high cost of transporting wastes pre? vents a more efficient utilization of this resource.
2. The cost of health-impairing pollution is a function of the forgone earnings of those who are disabled or who die as a result. The cost of pollution will be least, therefore, in the country with the lowest wages. Any transfer of pollution from a high-wage, First World country to a low-wage, Third World country will produce a net benefit.
3. The risk of liver cancer from this plant's emissions has been estimated at one-in? a-million in the United States, and the resulting cancer deaths would occur mostly among the elderly. The risk posed by the new plant will obviously be much less in a country where people die young from other causes and where few will live long enough to incur liver cancer from any source. Overall, the people of any Third World country might prefer the jobs that our plant will provide if the only drawback is a form of cancer that they are very unlikely to incur.
4. The cost of visibility-impairing pollution will be greater in a country where people are willing to spend more for good visibility. The demand for clear skies-which affects the aesthetics of the environment and not people's health-has very high income elasticity, and so the wealthy will pay more than the poor to live away from factory smoke, for example. Because the cost of anything is determined by how much people are willing to pay in a market, the cost of visibility-impairing pollution in a First World country will be higher than the same amount of pollu?tion in a Third World country. Thus, people in the United States might prefer clear skies over the benefits of our plant, but people elsewhere might choose differently.

Essay Instructions: Topic: Hawaiian Islands/ Sandwich Islands
Timeframe of paper to follow:
18th Century including
-people
-region
-culture
-images (such as temple images/ figures)
-homes
-religion(worship of gods/ images/ temples)
-Captain Cooks time on island (3rd voyage)
End within timeframe of Captain Cooks death.
**Prefer more emphasis on temple figures

Footnotes and bibliography
MLA format
8 pages in length (excludes bibliography)
no table of content, no cover/ title page
Font size/ style: 12/ Times New Roman
Double space
1-inch margin

Sources found include
1. Buck, Peter H. Arts and Crafts of Hawaii.
2. Cameron, Roderick. The Golden Haze with Captain Cook in the South Pacific.
3. Feher, Joseph. Hawaii: A Pictorial History.
4. Hamlyn, Paul. The Voyages of Captain Cook.