Ethical Dilemma #3 Discussion

What is wrong with this ethical situation about D & R paying bribery finances to Mexico contractors? The cause of doing business in Mexico should not exceed the expectation of the U.K. regulation. White-collar crimes are criminal acts and the wrongness of the situations is corporate doing business can violate rules, and employees will follow this action. By Ian authorizing action encouraging Raul to pay the additional money to speed up the contract increased the chances of opening the stores. This spread though the district of Mexico stores opening D & R. Raul action in reporting to his manager is the only thing positive about the D&R case; where he cannot get approval on the store.  Corporate policies auditing the transaction is a precaution of doing business. This violation is the ability to track back to the management and should create a media storm on ethics violation. This is another example of corporation being pressured in the mainstream of expectation in doing business. Raul knew he would of been fired if he had not expedite the opening of the stores. If found guilty the corporation can be charged with international offence and create a fall back on shareholders. That's the penalty of doing business international regarding bribery services, it can look disrespectful if Raul not compliance.  But the Commission of federal guidelines of organization look at bribery as a penalty and will fine the corporation and offensive and possible jail. 

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Nov 5, 2018 6:24pm

Hi James Meyer,

I agree their are several scenarios that Raul and Ian can go through. The fact that ethic violation has been committed by this corporation can lead to the Commission fining the company. The corporation guilt is what is being question and the process of getting the stores approved. I think that it will fall back on the managerial department. Great post James.

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Nov 6, 2018 8:15pm

Hi Jessika Phillips.

We know that it's illegal to gift money in ethical conduct to speed up the situation. It's very observant of you to question Pedro motive in asking for money. The principle of the store manager value just spread like corruption. Leading him to destroy documents and to collaborate on a lie with Raul. Very touchy situation.   

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Nov 7, 2018 7:30pm

hi Austin,

Thank you for the prospective view points. Raul legal objective is acting on orders of his managerial advisory. In this case its clearly supervisory authority over subordinate. An the criminal act of breaking the law in D & R case is a violation and the corporation should be held liable. The action of internal measure should be handle by the ethic committee weather Ian and Raul should be disciplinary. 

Thank you Austin.

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Nov 7, 2018 8:01pm

Hi Austin, 

Excellent post! We can say that supervisor abused employee because of the fact the job was dictated to Raul. To get the contractor to approve the opening at the cost of bribery. Can I say Raul was naive to the situation being U.S. College educated. Pressure was placed on employees by managerial and decision were made in the interest of the company. Wrong decisions but it open up a chain of stores. I keep on telling myself that the company will be liable for the violation. An judgement will follow on what action was taken once they found out about the ethic auditing. The norm is to turn in all documents or if Raul follow Ian instructions then he'll incriminate himself by destroying the records.   

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Nov 10, 2018 6:56pm

Thank you Jaime,

As I recall in chapter reading that corruption in a corporation can be dealt with though the commission dept. The federal guidelines of organization leads corporation to train management in the protocols of ethic violation. The reason in the subject matter we have read, if being guilty of such a violation could be avoided then do it. Training ethical conduct of international protocals are well aware of in this case study by Ian and Raul. The company can incriminate Pedro for insisting Raul make a payment, and the subject should of been brought to government channels to aid in crisis overt. Now they have a scandal that I feel will cost the company fines for violating U.K. international policy. 

Best regards Jaime.  

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Nov 10, 2018 7:27pm

Hi Jaime,

Raul environment was one of understudy and abusive behavior. Ian management let Raul be overcome with stress of opening the store at all cost. This is a ethical behavior I can understand to fit in D&R organization. The value of this subject is will Raul and Ian fine the understand of what they did wrong, because international policy have economic protocols are in order of preventing corrupt policy. Ian damaging deposition statement in destroying all records is as incriminating as doing the payment of six thousand dollars to Pedro. Raul can hope of ethic training but his surrounding in the company just got \bombarded with legalities.  

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Nov 11, 2018 6:26pm

Hi Michael Bluestein,

I say the risk that the company put in to developing an international business was just as more costly to the shareholder and employees. To have desirable employees are the criterion for economic partnership dealing with international business. It is a matter of educating the employee on his countries policy as well as the other countries ideal of ethic conduct. If one country will benefit from the merger then it's up to the base country to fine the violation penalty.

Best regards Michael. 

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Nov 11, 2018 6:41pm

Hi Carmela,

I see temperament in this situation with management. Ethical departments is fairly new in the corporate world and will hold people as legal advisory and financial accountants. So being a escape goat will fall on the company and have its repercussion on the business. Shareholder pay dearly to avoid risk compartmental areas, this is to prevent legal troubles down the line. In this case with Raul, his is being abused and the challenged with legal problems because of international policy. Can he work his way out. Only if the make advancement in the other country doesn't affect the business corporate rules. Other than that he made the money...that should count for something. 

Best wishes, 

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Nov 11, 2018 7:01pm

Hi Carmela, 

Raul did act at the request of his superior boss and did get the go ahead to grease the palms of Pedro the contractor. The profit will show in the future and make D&R money but the ethics of the employee will show bad conduct and untruthfulness.  This is a problem with long term profit with finances and corporate policy. International policy was design to prevent endangering company and employees with risk compliance. This is about profit and drive to meet a deadline but violations does occur here and destruction of company property just leave a paper trail. I wouldn't do it and the cause of the company of being defame is just as important. 

Best wishes

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Nov 11, 2018 7:18pm

Hi Michael,

I agree that Ian did give the go ahead to doing the wrongest possible decisions. We can see the future of the company making the shareholder a profit which is what the motive was. The violation will happen and the decision in destroying the intelligent propriety will come to light. We have companies interacting with each other and evidence will turn up to implicate D&R wrong doing. All we can say is training in ethical systems of economics does play a part in the conduct of the international buy. And the future of the company needs to address the community of violation that happen in order to restore the business. 

Best wishes.  

An Ethical Dilemma

Kip A. Magee

Great Basin College

Abstract

            Megan Jones has a bachelor of science degree in Management and is continuing her career with Global App Creations (GAC). She works as a Human Resource Management and has been at GAC for six months. Megan is fresh out of college, the University of Rhode Island and picked up a lot from training. Her boss Debbie has laid out a specific job of finding the violation’s in the data package of the business files. While doing her research she came across some basic violations that deserved to be demoted, and some she wasn’t quite sure of. For example, an employee using the company vehicle was tracked visiting the hospital of a sick family member. Megan thought it is illegal for a firm to track the vehicles. And so this is where the dilemma starts for her. With sensitive information a certain protocol has to be follow, and thinking outside the box Megan did some research of her own. She asked Jeremy some question that he should have known about. But this was in violation of company’s protocol of GAC and strict confidentiality of the rules.   Question 1. If tracking employees through technology is not illegal, why should Megan be concerned if she is not involved in any misconduct? Second question, at this point, what are Megan’s alternatives to resolve her current dilemma about her involvement and knowledge about GAC’s tracking employees? Thirdly, who should have a stake or an interest in how GAC tracks and monitors its employees?

            When we examine what is happing in the ethical dilemma of Megan Jones, we have to ask are selves a lot of questions? Does this scenario fit the description of what we know about Global App Creation?  If tracking employees through technology is not illegal, why should Megan be concerned if she is not involved in any misconduct? The principle of tracking one’s vehicles is a matter of knowing the law about safety and protection under your States legal system. It’s in truth that a company can business ethically be responsible for the employee’s vehicle even if they are off the clock. But it’s to a morality limit of how close and to what extent they are being monitored. To prevent damage to vehicles, “In 2010, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a letter to all employers stating that it is their ‘responsibility and legal obligation to create and maintain a safe and healthful workplace, and that would include having a clear, unequivocal and enforce policy against the hazard of texting while driving.” (Abcarian 2015). This basically gave a pass to monitor employees company car and cell phone activity. Megan clarified her concerns of the observation of employee’s usage of vehicles thinking it’s illegal. Megan brought it to Debbie attention that technically it should be consider unethical for an employee was just visiting a sick hospitalized daughter. Debbie look at the situation as each employee has rights to maintain clarity and use their own vehicle. Since it was a company car it was a violation, and Megan attempt to save the situation was rejected.  

At this point, what are Megan’s alternatives to resolve her current dilemma about her involvement and knowledge about GAC’s tracking employees? Debbie at this point was stern that big boy’s play a different game and if she’s going to make it observing her employees is going to be done. Megan defense is to note that employee have the right to sign out a contract that tells them monitoring of company vehicles are done for the safety of the employee. And this will save the company from any pending violation in the future.  The feeling of Megan right or wrong understanding is to be left deflected from her true emotion and stick to the business ethic of the matter. Because she’s not a board member who make the rules her true nature is to oversee the daily activity of her assignments.  Being a six-month employee has a lot to do with her feelings and questions that she does not understand yet as a human resource employee. “An attempt to codify such a right by the US Congress, the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2001 [55], was proposed but not passed into law.” (Gundars Kaupins, Robert Minch, 2005). This fail bill made Megan Jones emotions about protecting employee’s privacy rights a debatable item.

Who should have a stake or an interest in how GAC tracks and monitors its employees? If stakeholder voted to protect their interest and modernizes the vehicles surveillance, then management should create a department that does just that. To ask Megan Jones to keep what she feels a violation in her mind secret then it’s an over step of her duty.  Mobile surveillance company are up linked to tracking systems that can keep watch on employees and vechiles plus cell phones. “The global positioning system (GPS), able to determine location outdoors worldwide, to sensor network, able to determine location inside building rooms.” (Gundars Kaupins, Robert Minch, 2005). This should be handle by professionals, I respect the ethics behind the motive to protect individual employees but time has change and the insurance company value is based on the law.

Work Cited

Michael Abcarian, 2015, “monitoring Employees: How Far Can You Go?” Society For Human Resource Management. Web. January 27, 2015. https://www.shrm.org/resourcestools/ hr-topics/risk-management/pages/monitoring-employees-gps.aspx 9/18/18

Gundars Kaupins, Ph.D, & Robert Minch Ph.D. 2005. “Legal and Ethical Implications of Employee Location Monitoring.” Proceedings of the 38^TH Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Web. 2005. https://www.computer.org/csd;/proceedings/hicss/2005/2268/05/22680133a/pdf

Kip Andy Magee

Megan Collin

INT 369 Natural Disasters

Mount St Helen Devastated Eruption

Abstract

Mount St. Helen is what we’d proceeded as a cone shape mountain with all sloping sides in the spring of 1980 to be full of snow. Mount St. Helens geographic area is full of rich forestation woodlands. Its timberland is so amazing and a wonderful sight to see for miles around and its wildlife forestation ranges in deer’s and elk with hundreds of species of birds and insects. With an assortment of wild gaming and aquatically life species inhabiting the lake bed and streams. One can only say Mount St. Helen is rich with agriculture environment for wildlife and farming. Crops production with its four seasons of precipitations is an ideal place to grow agriculture and raise livestock. What is normally growing vegetation in Washington State is wheat, potatoes and apples in the seasons for harvesting hay for the livestock’s.  Life is good for the farmers and agriculture in Washington State, production which brings in an “total equity $838Billion.” (USDA 2018). Resources and roads are in excellent conditions and businesses is un-expecting what is to come.

The Earthquake of Mount St. Helen

In the weeks of May 18, 1980 scientist were using seismic instruments along the area of Mount St. Helens rumbling activity. In the brief time of the scientist findings over hundreds of quakes were recorded.  In the mist of all the rumbling scientist stage a camp that would survey any active movement. The tectonic plates that sit underneath Mt. St. Helen showed sizeable activity and let out 5.1 magnitude scale quake.  “Earthquakes are caused by sudden movements, comparatively near to the earth’s surface, along a zone of pre-existing geological weakness, called a fault. These movements are preceded by slow build-up of tectonic strain that progressively deforms the crustal rocks, producing stored elastic energy,” (Smith, Keith, Petley, David N, et al 2013). The plates movement violently released a gas pressure of Mt. St. Helen, this caused a serious disturbance in the dormant volcano.

The Eruption of Mount St. Helen

“The type of Volcanic eruption determines the shape of the structure, or cone, that is built.” (Warren 1990). Mt. Helens has a Stratovolcano Dome and no one expected what was about to transpire. Scientist thinking that it would erupt from the top of the cone but actually it happened from the side. “Up to 600 feet thickness of strata have formed since 1980 at Mount St. Helen. These deposits accumulated from primary air blast, landslide, wave on the lake, pyroclastic flows, mudflows, air fall, and stream water.” (Steven Austin 1986). Mount Helen blow from the side of the mountain causing a landslide; the largest in North American history. “An avalanche is a mass of tumbling snow. More than 80 percent of midwinter avalanches are triggered by a rapid accumulation of snow, and 90 percent of those occur within 24 hours of snowfall. An avalanche may reach a mass of a million tons and travel at speeds up to 200 mph.” (NOAA 2008) This changed the formation geography of the mountain. “These movements vary greatly in size (ranging from a few cubic meters to over 100 cubic kilometer’s) and in speed (ranging from millimeters per year to hundreds of meters per second).” (Smith et.al 2009) This massive movement happed in less than 10 seconds.

The Volcanic Released

The released of volcanic ashes, gases and magma made a pyro flow that cover the country side. This force destroyed the forestation and woodland areas. The Lake inhabitants was filled with debris from the volcanic eruption and the landslide massive movement. The Lake filled with ashes making the water toxic to its natural species the fish. The violent eruption covered over 13 miles making this one of the most devastated volcanic eruption of North America.  The gases released is some of the most toxic fumes driven into the atmosphere and water systems. The cataclysmic eruption caused avalanches and massive landslide also covering the highway roads and bridges. The avalanches disrupted the farming communities and crop productions. This time of year the melting snow would be have been used for stream as water irrigation, but rapidly melting snow caused severe flooding to the major parts of this community.

The Disturbance in The Atmosphere.

Mount St. Helens eruption did cause sever turbulence in the atmosphere. The visual disruption can see plumes of smoke and ashes for 100 of miles. This emergency is one of the great reason that air traffic had to be diverted. Mount St. Helen halted all flights going in and out of Washington State. The ash could be seen for miles, but the toxic plume covered agriculture and lakes. Wildlife was untraceable are even noticeable, all life on the mountain was gone, as far as the eye can see and scientist who study the eruption of Mt. Helen was even overcome with ash and magma so they perished. 57 people still died from the unexpected sideway blast of Mount St. Helens eruption. Scientist, loggers and campers, reports are known victims of the full force blast of Mount Helen.  

The Totaling Damage of Mount St. Helens Eruption.

 Over 200sq mile of burning ashes and forestry wiping out all living creature and timberland. Any vegetation that was in the area whether farmland and agriculture was gone. Because of the ashes and magma, the soil and vegetation is char to a crisp. The area that is directly below Mount Helen has turn into a creator; a two thousand feet deep ravine, in all direction of Mount St. Helen region has changed boundary. “Within a week the crater had grown to about 400 m (1,300ft) in diameter and two giant crack systems crossed the entire summit area.” (USGS 1980). The lake bed is risen and geo-sphere has change shape making the lake bed unrecognizable.   

The Finding After Mount St. Helens Eruption.

Mount St. Helen beautiful as it was then; is now blacken rock and ashes left for miles in the plumes plan. Most of the highway is in good condition but for ash covering the highways, the bridge was wipe out because of the timber overflow in the rivers. The forestry may have been damage more than can be imagine “The May 18 eruption of Mt. St. Helens laid waste to perhaps as much as 120,000 acres of forest land.” (Burket, et, al 1980). The agricultural has taken a sever hit “Crop losses in eastern Washington are estimated at about $100 million in 1980-about 7 percent of the normal crop value in the affected area and less than was expected initially.” (Cook, et al. 1981). The ashes have no concentrated nutrients to the soil so hay toxics had no effect on the live stocks.

Aid to Mt. St Helen Victims:

Victims of Mt. St. Helen seemed to develop psychological depression for the blast among residents.  They develop “post-traumatic stress syndrome: depression, troubled sleep, irritability, and a sense of powerlessness.” (Carson, et al 1990). People need help and animals need rescuing so program were put together in aiding the Washington State people. “74 Research projects were funded by the National Science Foundation at a total cost of just less than $5 million. The reconstruction of the New highway and bridges from the Toutle River to Johnston Ridge cost $145 Million.” (Carson, et al 1990). “An estimated 10,000 animals were killed in the eruption. But efforts by local humane societies, volunteers, and rescue team from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), extracted hundreds of animals from the mudslides or other places where they were marooned or trapped.” (Amelia Newcomb 1980).

New Technology is ready for Mt. St. Helen.

Mount St. Helen caught everyone off guard when it erupted in 1980, but new technology is in place to record and make an accurate reading if it should erupt again. “Surface and satellite sensors can now track near- pinpoint precision the ground deformation that signals magma movement.” (Doughton 2010). Scientist and Researchers have been making extra efforts in getting this reading right by adding over 350 seismic sensors on the Pacific Northwest. Many of the new technology can’t be assured unless they are in the field of volcano activity.

Conclusion:

In this assignment we looked at what geo-sphere had to do with the tectonic plates shifting and releasing magma do to earthquakes. Mt. St Helen changed geographic formation when the landslide happened creating a rise in the river but contaminating the finding. The agriculture impacted was sever that the lost in shipping was in the 1.2 billion for the average 1990. With air traffic being diverted tourism had a decline in traveling. The wildlife will have to be reintroduce into the wild of Mt. Helen in order to balance habitation. It’s a saying that the Gods is displeased with the civilization when the Volcano erupts making sacrifices possible. The eruption of the Mount St. Helens Volcano made some citizens with post-traumatic stress disorder. Like any violent event counseling was available through the national program. Rescue for the community of Washington State is available for the people and animals. With an agency dedicated to aiding animals it saves some of our humanity.  In the research of this project I learn to understand the rescue of people in need. With research we can realizes that with home development along a volcano isn’t the best thing to do but keeping the technology instruments ready in case it happened again is a must for scientist and researcher.  

Resources

Mt. St Helens Eruption May 189, 1980 YouTube Internet.  https://youtu.be/-H_HZVY1tT4 May 7, 2018.

Stephen Burket. Edward Furlow. Paul Golding. Lowell Grant. William Lipovsky. Thomas Lopp.
“The Economic Effects of the Eruptions of Mt. St. Helens.” USITC Publication 1096. September 1980. Washington, D.C. 20436.

Cook RJ. Barron JC. Papendick RI. Williams GJ III. “Impact on agriculture of the mount St. Helens eruptions.” Science 1981. Jan 2. Http://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pubmed/17731222, March 5, 2018.

Smith, Keith, Petley, David N... et. al. “Mass Movement Hazards.” eBook Collection. EBSCO Publishing: printed 4/16/2013 copy 4/20/18

Neal, C.A., Casadevall, T., Millar, T., Hendley II. J., Stauffer, P., 1997. “Volcanic ash: Danger to aircraft in the North Pacific, U.S.” Geological Survey fact sheet 039-97. Print 4/20/2018.

U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service, 2008. “Winter Storms, The Deceptive Killers.” NOAA. American Red Cross. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Print 2008 4/20/18

Smith, Keith, Petley, David N., et. al, 2013. “Tectonic Hazards. Earthquakes.” eBook Collection. (EBSCOhost).  Printed 2013 EBSCO Publishing, web campus Internet: www.gbcnv.edu 4/20/2018

Sandi Doughton 2010. “Three decades later, Mt. St. Helens is wired with technology.” The Seattle Times. Web http://articles. Latimes.com/2010/may/22/news/la-adna-mount-saint-helens-20100522. Internet 4/30/2018

Amelia A. Newcomb 1980. “Citizens, SPCA officials cope with four-legged Mt. St. Helens Victims.” The Christian Science Monitor.

Steven Austin 1986. “Mount St. Helens and Catastrophism.” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Creationism. 1986 Creation Science Fellowship, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.

Carson, R,. 1990. “Mount St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano: Sasquatch Books, Seattle Washington, 160p

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349p.

Kip A. Magee

Great Basin College

3, April 2018

Droughts of the Western Nevada Civilizations

Abstract

What is the status of drought in Nevada? What risk does drought pose for our communities and ecosystems that we depend on? How do climate change projections impact the risks posed by drought in our state?

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evada droughts conditions are due to extremely abnormal lengthy period without any precipitation. In 2015 it was the most extreme drought period in the Nevada region history in quite some time. But the current state of Nevada drought is still dry but coming around in 2017, which prove to be better with precipitation moisture creating much need rain. With the very much need rain in the valley it left Nevada with many of hazards’ condition. The long -term period of warmth precipitation climate made the condition less excepted to the wet condition. Thus, creating extreme flooding areas endangering livestock and highway roads condition. The flooding from the drought created a different environment for the wild life and farmer livestock. The vegetation for the livestock crops were loss due to the flooding change in the soil, the much need nutrients loss from the fast down pour of rain.

Besides having the change in environment, the range fires damage much of the refuge for Nevada. The fires on the range where wild life feed was engulfed and made grazing difficult for wild burros, horses, and game. This drought period made hazardous practices for ranchers and national parks. Grazing became scares, making the food source less, it is having the effect of the living environment. Animals in the wild would have to travel out of there normal to feed, making habitation dangerous. As we learn from ranchers back east if the water wasn’t available to grazes cattle move the heard. So, Nevada rancher would ship its cattle back east to feed them, but the prices became inflated causing rancher to keep there cattle out of State.  Many farmers were counting on the Sierra Mountains snow melt to run off and help with the agriculture environment. But, due to the difference of land region the water was used immediately making the drought still affective in prohibiting farming. The Nevada State Climate Office are in constant survey in developing practice to prevent drought management theory. “NSCO has a number of research projects aimed at developing a better understanding of the frequency and magnitude of previous short-and long -term droughts, why they have occurred, and how our modern water resource infrastructure would respond to some of the longer-term megadrought conditions that we know happened in the past.” (Elliott 2014). We are still in the state of abnormally dry climate but the precipitation has drop more since 2015 and the loss of corps has reached a large some. “According to a report released Aug 18 by researchers from University of California, Davis, drought-related agricultural losses across the Golden State in 2015 alone totaled more than $1.8billion.” (DeLong 2015). The Nevada Drought Strategic Plan has 4 goals and funding strategies. Its intention is to monitor water by creating a multidisciplinary advisory board. Provide public awareness to educate on the droughts. To be informative on the growth and population of Nevada in relating with droughts. Taskforce will assistants with information to farmers and rancher and industries. To also be resilient with drought information about wild life and livestock. The Drought Response Committee (DRC) will work with primary state agencies, federal agencies and stakeholder on an “in kind” basis. To provide investigative and federal aid, state funding will be an issue and lobby the legislative session. (Elliott 2014)

Resource

Jeff DeLong 2015. “Growing problem: Drought hits Nevada agriculture hard.” Web Internet https://www.rgj.com/story/news/201509/02growing-problem-drought-hits-nevada-agriculture-hard. April 4, 2018

Bill Elliott 2014. “Nevada Drought Strategic Plan, A map for a more drought resilient Nevada.” State of Nevada Drought Response Committee. Nevada Division of Water Resources: Nevada Division of Emergency Management: Nevada State Climate Office. Internet April 6, 2018.

Kirk Siegler 2014. “Nevada Farmers Hack The Drought By Switching Up The Crops.” NPR Station. Web internet https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/20/2921179944/nevada-farmers-hack-the-drought-by-switching-up-the-crops. April 6,2018

This is my presentation of Hurricane Irma and how it devastated Puerto Rico and Florida.

Kip A. Magee

Megan Collins

Great Basin College

Mount St. Helens Eruptions

Abstract

I will examine the volcano eruption that struck in May 1980 of the Washington State, Mt St Helen. I will try to show the disruption that was caused by the volcano eruption on the economy and civilization. What trigger the massive eruption of Mount St. Helens violent rage. For my final report I will present the livelihood of the neighboring people and what aid was brought to the community.

Mount St Helen eruption was trigger from a 5.0 + earthquake beneath the surface releasing a massive volcano eruption. The eruption sending a large plume of ashes miles into the atmosphere causing traces of debris from Washington State all along the West Costal area. I recall the day when Mt. St Helen erupted, the ashes covered the sky of Los Angeles and it call for schools to be cancel, because of bad health hazards. The eruption of Mount St. Helen disrupted air visibility causing flights to be cancel and rerouted.

“Ash clouds from Mount St. Helens move over Ephrata airport in Washington on Monday, May 19, 1980. Communities across central and eastern Washington were covered in 3-5 inches of gritty, fine, ash particles. (Taylor 2015).

Ecological damage that was caused with rivers over-flooding and ranches begin destroyed. The 1980 eruption melt snow caps bring timber down into the civilizes area. Mt. St. Helen erupted twice in the 1980 each time sending miles of smoking ashes into the sky. “On March 27, after hundreds of additional earthquakes, the volcano produced its first eruption in over 100 years.” (USGS Mount St. Helens 1980). Mount St. Helen caused avalanches and mudslides along the mountainous area. This slow down the western ranges changing the face of supplies and delivery of agriculture. “Ash from Mount St. Helens has fallen over a diverse agricultural area, with deposits of up to 30 kilograms per square meter. Crop losses in eastern Washington are estimated at about $100 million in 1980-about 7 percent of the normal crop value in the affected area and less than was expected initially.” (Cook, Barron, Papendick, Williams 1981). The development of timber was the salvage plants is the most devastated by the eruption and agriculture wasn’t that badly damaged. The nontoxic of the ash wasn’t affected toward the animal livestock. The “long-term losses to the Columbia River fishery as a result of the eruptions are not know, but is believed that such losses will be small.”  (Burket, Burlow, Golding, Grant, Lipovsky, Lope, 1980).

Resources

Stephen Burket. Edward Furlow. Paul Golding. Lowell Grant. William Lipovsky. Thomas Lopp.
“The Economic Effects of the Eruptions of Nt. St. Helens.” USITC Publication 1096. September 1980. Washington, D.C. 20436.

Cook RJ. Barron JC. Papendick RI. Williams GJ III. “Impact on agriculture of the mount St. Helens eruptions.” Science 1981. Jan 2. Http://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pubmed/17731222, March 5, 2018.

Volcano Hazards Program. “Mount St. Helens.” USGS: Volcano Hazards program CVO Mount St. Helens. 1980. Internet March 5, 2018.

Kip Magee

Great Basin College

Fukushima Disaster of Japan

February 22, 2018

Abstract

I will examine the disaster of the tsunami that hit Japan in March 11, 2011 from a major earthquake that registered at a 9.0 magnitude on the coastal region. That earthquake affected the coastal preservation of the Tokyo Electric Power Plant a Nuclear Industry of Fukushima Dailchi. The precaution the Japanese government did into protecting and to save livelihood of the community with its levels of radiation which call for the evacuation of over a 100,000 people. We will also take a look at the development of what it might cost for rebuilding and clean-up operation.

What had transpired on March 11, 2011 was an epic disaster for Japan and its people. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake devastated the coastal area just about 2:46 pm. The region development was swept with a powerful backlash from the seafloor quake causing a 560sq km tsunami. “The earthquake was centred 130 km offshore the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on the eastern cost of Honshu Island (the main part of Japan), and was a rare and complex double quake giving a severe duration of about 3 minutes.” (Fukushima Accident October 2017).

The death toll stands at about 19,000 people and over million building destroyed. (Fukushima Accident October 2017).  One main destruction that endanger the inhabitant was the Electric Power Plant that utilizes nuclear fuel at the Fukushima Dailchi. The area of Fukushima institutes instilled 11 Nuclear reactors which 4 played in a critical role in why the evacuations need to be done of over 100,000 people. The plant core rods need water to keep them cool; but in reactor four, the ventilation wasn’t working causing drying out of the ponds. The complication of the tsunami mixing salt water with fresh water wasn’t the major concern of the rods over heating, but it still left Tepco Corporation very concern. In the course of Reactor 1 – 3 nuclear core failing the Japanese government implement a level 7 emergency warning which is as high as Chernobyl accident in Russia in 1986, which “the resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind.” (World Nuclear News (updated November 2016)). With radioactive ions particles in the air evacuation precautions was issue and planning phases. Sections of the city where moved 20 km away from the nuclear site and the employee of Fukushima Dailchi was not permitted to stay at the living quarter. “Tepco sprayed a dust-suppressing polymer resin around the plant to ensure that fallout for Mid-March was not mobilized by wind or rain.” (Fukushima Accident. Updated November 2017). The government housed many of the evacuee in gymnasium rooms where the safety of the people was deplorable. “Tepco had checked the radiation exposure of 19,594 people who had worked on the site since 11 March.” (Fukushima Accident 2017). Many of the workers was checked positive of iodine-131 fumes. There were 81,000 evacuees able to return to some of the areas and many of them with server stress which was more important than the radiological hazards. “There were also 267,000 tsunami survivor refugees remaining displaced in February 2014.” (Fukushima Accident 2017). The government consider purchasing the land that is severally contaminated with radiation and people that need more time to decontaminate their property the move-back will continue to be housed. The government did all that they could to overcome the natural disaster of the earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and for the most case Tepco reported that no one dies from radiation poisoning because of the evacuation procedure but the great force of the tsunami did take a lot of the coastal life of Japan. Shipping had to be re-establish and overseas shipping orders had to be put on hold until the docks was redeveloped. For Fukushima scientist came over from the United States to help with re-establishing the safety of the nuclear power plant. The radiation contamination in the water was lead to be absorbed; some escape out into the ocean and reactor 1-4 was stabilized. Because of this event that took place it’s unlikely that we should see an event like this for some time again.    

Resources

Hunziker. R 2015. “The Safety Culture of Nuclear Power.” Image. The Ohio State University. February 2018

Chernobyl Accident 1986, World Nuclear Association, 2016, 2017,2018. Webpage: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspx. February 28, 2018

Fukushima Accident. “World Nuclear Association.” 2016, 2017, 2018. Webpage: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-accident.aspx. February 28, 2018

Kip Magee

Megan Collins

INT 369 Natural Disasters

February 15, 2018

The Effect of Haiti Earthquake

During the earthquake of January 12^th, 2010 that hit the inhabitants of Haiti, just off the Port of Prince it measured at and 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale. The earthquake devastated the island southeast of Florida, “It was estimated that 220,000 [people] died, more than 300,000 were wounded and more than half a million lost their homes.” (Lichtenberger M.D., et al 2010).

The Natives of Haiti’s were more devastated with the prolonging for help and the medical needs. The aid came with slow results by the Israel Defenses Forces (IDF) and the University of Miami Hospital in Haiti. (UMHH). The slow result were due to unfamiliar with the region. The area of Haiti’s is by far the less developed regional of island civilization of the tropical. Home dwellings were made up of cement wall that was not design to with stand earthquake are with a structural code standard. When the earthquake hit in the late night more people were in there beds sleep. “The house came crashing down on me. When I was knocked off my feet, I was with my child. When I looked for my other daughter, who was pregnant, I didn’t know what was going on.” (Schuller. 2011). This was the common scenario that happen in Haiti. People just lost contact with family relatives and confusion amongst everyone.

Nevertheless medical provision was set up to treat the wounded with UMHH and IDF that housed much needed beds facility. In the event of catastrophic happening the safety of the population was becoming questionable. Violent rapes began to happen and local police knew that the inmates of the prisons had escaped to the refugee camps. These camps was not protected and just made up of make shift canopy tents.

“The statistic of rape and violence against women have become alarming, a result of this close proximity, a lack of privacy, and ineffective response. Women’s organization KOFAVIV (Commission of Women Victims for Victims) reported 230 incidences of rape in 15 camps. Medecins Sans Frontieres reported 68 cases of rape in one of their clinics in April.” (Schuller .2011).

The rampart violent was to no concern to the police and what security the UMHH offer was to the medical patients.  The women activists organized lead efforts to stop the violent. The women leaders of the camp area offer up guidance and security measure to protect the women of Haiti. With songs and dances the tribal leaders looked towards harmony to create and tranquility with the victims and aggressor. This helped with the incident of violent against rape victims and change the atmosphere of the village. “You know in Haiti, folklore is a big deal. The drum is the sign of music and the sign of happiness that allows people to relax. When you beat it, ‘peem, peem, peem’ everybody dances. Even if you have problems, you dances.”(Mark Schuller, 2011).  In the Peom of the Day: by Bill Collins’s “The Dead”, I interpret, that in the path of life that we all take it might be one big event that happens…but we all have a path. “The dead are always looking down on us, they say, while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down through the glass bottom boats of heave as they row themselves slowly through eternity.” (Billy Collins’s, 2014).

Resources cited

Mark Schuller. 2011 “They Forgot about Us!” Gender and Haiti’s IDP Camps, Interview and Translation. Indiana University Press. Vol. 11. No. 1 (2011). Pp 149-157., www.jstor.org. 8/27/12

Paola Lichtenberger M.D., Ian Miskin M.D., Gordon Dickinson, M.D. Mitchell Schwaber M.D. , Omer E. Ankol M.D., MPH, MOccH Marcus Zervos. M.D.,  Rafael Campo, M.D., Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, M.D., Mark Alain Dery, D.O., MPH L. Silvia Munoz-Price. M.D. “Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology,” Vol. 31. No. 9 (September 2010). PP. 951-957. The University of Chicago Press. www.jstor.org. 3/6/2013.

Billy Collins.2014, “The Dead.” GW English News. April 12, 2014 http://gwenglish.bloghspot.com 2014. February 26, 2018