Boston Molasses Disaster Essays

  • Kenneth Oppel's The Nest

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    Book Review #2 - The Nest by Kenneth Oppel --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: “The Nest” begins when Steve has a new baby brother named “Theo”. Theo needs lots of surgery and visits the hospital frequently. His parents are worried. Theo may not live. The doctors don’t know what’s wrong with him. Nobody does. One day, Steve, being afraid of wasps, tries to shoo away a silvery wasp. This wasp instead stings

  • The Negative Impacts Of The Boston Molasses Flood

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    January 15th, Boston experienced a strange disaster. This said disaster is now known as the Boston Molasses Flood. The disaster occurred when an above-ground tank filled with 26 million pounds of molasses burst and unleashed a wave of molasses from eight to fifty feet high and moving at 35 miles per hour killed people and destroyed buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. After the wave of molasses had slowed down, it settled at two to three feet in depth. Acting like quicksand, the molasses effectively

  • Stephen Puleo's The Dark Tide

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    “The Great Boston Molasses Flood.” The reason he wrote the nonfiction novel was to give the full accounting of what happened in the historical context. He used court records, newspaper accounts, and files from the fire department. He recrafted the tale about what actually happened with painstaking and terrifying details of those affected. Puleo creates a new way to view the dreadful catastrophe as something that changed Boston (“Dark Tide”). Puleo has written other books about Boston but none of

  • Understanding Ethics in Engineering Practice

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    “Engineering In Ethics” Engineering ethics is a multi-disciplinary arena of morals and integrity and a classification of ethical ideologies which is applied to the performance and practice of engineering. The grounds inspect and scrutinise and lay down the commitment of the engineers towards the society and to their patrons and to the career as a whole. As an academician of this subject it is directly related to the subjects of the science of philosophy, the philosophy of engineering and also the

  • The Importance Of Engineering Ethics

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    Engineering ethics is the field of applied ethics and system of moral principles that apply to the practice of engineering. It is closely related to subjects such as the philosophy of science , the philosophy of engineering and the ethics of technology. As engineering rose as a distinct profession during the 19th century, engineers saw themselves as either independent professional practitioners or technical employees of large enterprises. There was considerable tension between the two sides as large

  • Fatigue in Materials and The Factors Which Influence Fatigue

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    Introduction: In materials science , uses loads of fatigue caused by the weakness of material over and over again . This is a gradual localized structural damage that occurs when the material is exposed to cyclic loading . Stressvalues maximum value that caused this damage could be much less than the tensile strength of the material usually as surface tension , reduce or restrict the effort described below. For the following reasons : Fatigue happens when you download the materials and discharged

  • The Fishing Industry in Gloucester

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    went fishing for weeks at a time. When Italian fishermen came upon the Atlantic off what is now Cape Cod, the waters churned with schools of fish. When they came nearly 800 of them in Boston and Gloucester combined became fishermen. In New England, cod was king. Enriched by a West Indies trade of fish for molasses, boat owners were referred to as the "codfish aristocracy. Sadly in the late 1990s the fishing industry went downhill and changed for the worst. (.) In the late 1990s fishermen were getting