...of human rights? The question now is that is globalization ‘good’ or ‘bad’? Since the commencement of globalization, the global economy has boomed at a very great rate. It has increased the living standards of the people in underdeveloped and developed countries. It has helped in fair worldwide spread of wealth, improved the variety of services and goods offered in different countries. Globalization has created jobs for people in underdeveloped and developing countries, companies sought to invest in underdeveloped countries where the cost of production will be minimal as compared to investing in developed regions. Yet globalization is criticized, mainly because of the effects it has on the society, environment and culture. Globalization has created competition between economies that compete vigorously with each other to achieve superiority. Such completion has caused more devastation and exploitation. Globalization has affected the financial market, economy, health, environment and culture. In this research project, the positive and negative aspects of development of nuclear program have been compared, analyzed, and evaluated. The nuclear program that includes, nuclear as power source, as a weapon and as a future research material, has been consistently growing. Every economy is investing in nuclear programs. Nuclear is a great source of energy, it is harnessed to produce electricity. Discovery of nuclear has...
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...Since time immemorial, mankind has created objects and methods to make their lives easier. We commonly refer to these innovations as technology. From the first wooden spear created by the caveman to the latest augmented reality of today’s Silicon Valley, these innovations have been technology. Since technology has been adopted, there have been naysayers that have always spouted the same lines of “This technology is going to ruin us” and “This technology is evil”. In this essay, we will show the duality of technology by the destructive nature of it, the beneficial nature, and the choices mankind makes when it puts these technologies into practice. In 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project came to an explosive end as the first atom bomb...
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...Jesse Barrett February 1, 2010 HUMN 432 Weapons of the Future: Welcome to the future of technology in the 20th century. As the world progresses to grow, the weapons and technology do to. The question exist that “ What will the future be with weapons?” Will robots be built to have weapons in place of human soldiers? Many questions pop in our minds, thoughts, and opinions about what the future is capable of. In humanity today, we usually hear or see these issues from the radio, television, internet, and so on. Meaning that we can believe whatever the media is saying, but we honestly don’t know what the future holds in store for weapons, just violence. I wanted to talk about robots and the U.S. Department of Defense that will have one-third of its fighting capacity provided by robots. In this issue robots can be good or bad, just depending on the scenario at hand. The good reason is that these robots take place of human beings to save many lives. It saves humanity from risking their own lives in the line of battle, to spend more time with their loved ones. Another reason robots are good for taking out terrorist, and any other dangerous situation without feeling, emotion, or heart. On the opposite side, if robots fail or turn against their creator or humanity, just like the movie “ Terminator”, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Robots would also cause chaos if not programmed correctly to follow orders but is just required to kill. By the year 2035, the 1st completely...
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...Technology Technology has been advancing over the years. Statistics show that more and more people are relying on technology as the years pass by. In our world today over three billion people and counting are using the internet today. Three things where technology has had an improvement is in the medical field, military, and homes. First of all, I have seen and experienced the new use of technology in the Medical Field. In today’s world doctors and sergeants can save more people’s lives. They have created robots that can do surgery, and have 100% perfection in the surgery. There are new cameras that doctors use today that can go inside your body and search for many things including tumors, cancer, and injuries. An x-ray is technology that doctors use today, in order for them to see just your bones and be able to detect what injuries you may have. This is helpful for many people especially the athletes, since they have a higher probability of getting fractures on their bones. In my own opinion I think technology did a good improvement in this area. Secondly, in the military it’s difficult to decide whether the improvements are good or bad. The military has advanced in many aspects which is terrible for the whole world but good for the armies all around the world. The ending of World War II is an example of a bad improvement. The United States of America had to use the Atomic Bombs on two cities of Japan to end the war. Now there is a new bomb called the nuclear bomb. This...
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...University of Hong Kong and University Distinguished Professor. As an expert in the area of safety reliability, Professor Kuo wrote one of his popular science books named “Key Report of Nuclear Power” (2013), which aroused great impacts. The presentation was based on this book, which we could divide into three areas: Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues, People’s Acceptance and Public Media Impacts. Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues In the presentation, Professor Kuo said, currently the main resource to generate electricity was fire, such as coal and gas etc. The next would be water resource, nuclear resource and other new energy resources. In China, the most frequently used was fire to generate electricity. However, this created a lot of environment pollutions such as haze in Beijing. Moreover, in spite of the large amounts of rivers in China, waterpower was still lacking. It could not 1 become an alternative generation to support the increasing electricity consumption demand. Due to these reasons, now China was actively promoting the development of nuclear energy, with constructing a large number of nuclear power plants and investing a lot of money on nuclear research in order to try to change the current energy structure. Threaten of nuclear safety However, once we talked about nuclear power, the public would be...
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...-Technology makes life more complex. - Sweatshops and harsher forms of slavery are more likely to be found in technologically advanced societies, relative to primitive societies. - The increasing oppression of technologically advanced societies over those which are not. - More people are starving (in total numbers and per-capita), in this most technologically advanced age, than at any other point in history or primitive pre-history. - The increase in transportation technology has brought stressful traffic congestion in some areas. - Technicism - New forms of danger existing as a consequence of innovative forms of technology, new types of nuclear reactors, unforeseen genetic mutations as the result of genetic engineering, or perhaps something more subtle which can destroy the ozone or warm the planet. - Potentially devestating nuclear weapons become more powerful and proliferation is made evermore easy with communication and transportation advancements. This leads to socially stressful military concepts like mutually assured destruction. The duck and cover drills accompany other lifestyle aspects of an advanced technological society. - New forms of entertainment, such as video games and internet access could have possible social effects on areas such as academic performance. - Creates new diseases and disorders such as obesity, laziness and a loss of personality. -computer virus and bug -privacy and stolen copy right -make part of people over concentrate...
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...currently face. My analysis uses a few citations related to the industry. Based on my analysis, here are some of my thoughts on current opportunities, threats and competition Cameco’s currently faces. Opportunity Nuclear energy offers a solution to the world’s search of environmentally friendly energy sources. It is expected that the demand for Uranium will increase considerably resulting in a substantial need of mining company’s .Following Fukushima disaster; it has opened the door for companies, like Cameco, to acquire new investments at a lesser cost. According to Andrea Jennetta (2013), politicians need to get a grip and get leading on nuclear energy – not wasting time and resources on intermittent technologies that blow billions of dollars. Threat With Uranium market being unpredictable there are continuously risks with market fluctuation, stock prices and environmental elements. Equipment breakdowns water in- flows and cave-ins at mine sites can cause shutdowns or lags in production. Weather conditions and unforgiving natural elements are a major threat to business survival; effectives mine sites, reactors, exploration sites and potentially employees. Although vulnerable, Uranium has still plenty of safety systems. But as stated in the Canadian Nuclear Association (2013), Licensees have demonstrated, through analysis using conservative initial assumptions and significant safety margins that vital areas and critical SSCs (structures systems and components) is protected...
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...have a huge impact on society and have for many years and even though terrorists are winning by putting continual fear into citizens, trying to disrupt the economy, with continuing advances in our technology and security we hopefully prevail. Terrorists use explosive devices to create fear in people and the people cannot go about their daily life they normally would. These catastrophic events have forced military medical and physiological experts to re-evaluate their understanding of mass casualty terrorism. The primary goal of terrorism is to disrupt society by provoking intense fear and shattering all sense of personal and community safety. When a terror attack occurs in the USA the impact from the attack is felt economically. Whether the attack be nuclear or biological. From the point of view of threatened governments there has been two tasks: first, to try to prevent the terrorist event from taking place and second, if prevention fails, to deal with the after-effects or consequences, (Heymann, Philip 2001) including the remarkably large political effect of acts of terrorism. Although terrorists plan is to spread as much fear into citizens of the United States of America, our security continues to strengthen and we become stronger as a nation. Through advances in technology and the use of special resources, hopefully one day we can stop all terrorist attempts thus making more peace on earth. When a terrorist strikes it is to make a statement or to keep citizens in...
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...When energy vanishes from people’s life can cause of paralyzed international institutions. The common energy which people use every day is a fossil fuel such as coal, oil and natural gas. Unfortunately, people face some serious problems with above energy sources such as exhaust resources, greenhouse effect and diverse environment pollution. All of the world barrels of oil reserves have already declined and glaciers are melting. If people don’t invest to find new energy sources, a lot of big problems will come in the future. Tues, creating a new energy could be solutions for the problems which people have so far and in a future. In this respect, the alternative energy sources that have become a hot issue in the world are solar energy, nuclear energy and wind power. Energy Problems People all of world realized energy problems that people face so far. There are not only energy problems but also environmental problems too. The energy sources that people every day use are fossil fuels and oil. Stein and Powers (2011) explained disposal of fossil fuels are cause of environmental problems such as global warming. People need to find out the ways to avoid greenhouse effect. Other kinds of fossil fuels such as coal or oil are also not a perfect energy. They have some toxic. There are some problems about coal. Coal can’t use for mobile applications because coal is suitable fuel for stationary power operation. (Stein and Powers, 2011). Coal is cheap energy source. However it can’t...
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...HOW THE FIRST NUCLEAR AGE STARTED AND HOW IT ENDED Introduction Nuclear, the most powerful energy fuel on earth has been discover on 8th November 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen when he accidently discover X-ray. According to Njolstand Olav in the Nobel prize website “The real Nuclear age started in 1939 when the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from physicist Albert Einstein and his Hungarian colleague Leo Szilard, calling to his attention the prospect that a bomb of unprecedented power could be made by tapping the forces of nuclear fission, just after the outbreak of World War II in Europe.” (Njølstad, 2003) This was a turning point in the beginning of the development of nuclear weapons in the world. After the first atomic bomb exploded in 1945, many countries in the world have been competing with each other to develop these weapons systems. The earliest countries to blow up nuclear weapons after the U.S. was the Soviet Union and followed by Britain, France and others. The existence of the nuclear weapon become the most powerful deterrence tool in the cold war between two ideologies. The collapse of the communist ideology in many communist country in the world, it is the signed of the end of cold war and the end of the first nuclear age. The First Nuclear Age Concerned with the ability of the Nazi Germany to produce the super weapon at that time, the President of the US in collaboration with Britain has ordered an ongoing research project...
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...Essay Questions 1. How do the different actors in international system affect international relations? How do the different theories explain the role of these actors in the international system. The actors consist of state actors and non-state actors. Non-state actors and terrorism work outside the westphalian system and take power away from state sovereignty. They consist of terrorist groups, IGO’s like the European Union, NGO’s like multinational corporations. NGO’s increase interdependence and globalization. IGO’s bring about peace and spread democracy and war is not realistic. NGO’s even have the ability to remove state governments through public support and pressure placed on high ranking officials as shown in -----. They also have the power to hinder development of countries as shown in the Global South, but at the same time they provide many jobs for the economy. For state actors, the actions and decisions of states can effect profoundly the international because of polarity, hegemony, and economy. The Liberalist view would see non-state actors as a positive because they are bringing countries allowing them to work together through institutions increasing interdependence and globalization. Realists would say that these non-state actors are only out for self interest in profit and will use up resources taking advantage of wages whenever possible. Constructivist view would see terrorist groups specifically as falling under Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations...
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...Nuclear phase out On March 11th the most fatal earthquake in Japan’s history hit the country followed by a devastating Tsunami. Besides the immediate destruction caused by those natural disasters they triggered a fatal chain reaction leading to a partial meltdown (a complete meltdown was not confirmed so far but is not unlikely) in three reactors of the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi. In Germany those events have caused a new uprising of the anti-nuclear-movement. Most people in Germany are in favour of a quick nuclear phase-out and the big political parties have very quickly adapted this opinion. The big question remaining is how to handle a project of such a huge size without causing financial, climate related or other threats. In the following work the current situation will be analysed and viewed as a change process containing the following steps: • • • • • • • • Step 1: Create a sense of urgency Step 2: Form a powerful coalition Step 3: Create a vision for change Step 4: Communicate the vision Step 5: Remove obstacles Step 6: Create short-term wins Step 7: Extending the success Step 8: Anchor new approaches Step 1: Create a Sense of Urgency First of all the awareness of a need for change should be created, increased and communicated. “With this shift, urgency will move from being an important issue every few years to being a powerful asset all the time.”1 In the history and the development of nuclear power and the nuclear power plants there have been many different...
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...environment is hard to maintain. Burning coal for energy has lots of advantages and disadvantages. There are two opposite opinions towards dealing with excess consumption of coal. According to objective global circumstance, it is impossible to ban coal directly. So a debate about whether to restrict coal makes more sense here. The consumption of coal is a fact and there must be a substitute for coal if people want to restrict it. Renewable energy is the most foreseeable energy consumption to take the place of coal for its ability of being renewable. Coal is a solid black substance that comes from organic matter that was compressed underground for thousands of years. When burning coal, heat and energy will be released, so coal is considered a good fuel for energy generation...
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...Ethical Hacking Computer Ethics – CIS 324 Dr. Nelson Stewart June 7, 2013 INTRODUCTION When most people hear the term “hacker” they think of an evil person committing crimes by hacking into their computers to steal, destroy and/or steal identities. This is so in some cases, but not all hackers are bad. Hackers are merely curious technically skilled individuals who gain unauthorized access to computers, networks of various companies, organizations and individuals. Good hackers are considered white hat hackers. They are the ones that are hired to break into systems as a way of testing the vulnerabilities and security issues that may be present in the computer system. Bad hackers are considered black hat hackers. They are the “evil” hackers, or should I say “crackers” who hack into systems to steal identities, information, crack into software programs and create nasty viruses. What is Ethical Hacking? Ethical hacking provides a way to determine the security of an information technology environment – at least from a technical point of view. As the name ethical hacking already tells, the idea has something to do with hacking. But what does “hacking” mean? The word hacking has two definitions. The first definition refers to the hobby/profession of working with computers. The second definition refers to breaking into computer systems. While the first definition is older and is still used by many computer enthusiasts (who refer to cyber-criminals as “crackers”), the...
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...2. Find one example of alliteration in the speech. In JFK’s speech he used alliteration, one example is “feeding the fires of war”. 3. Based on this speech passage, how does President Kennedy view space? JFK views space as a place for knowledge, not war. A place that must be explored and used for the right purpose. 4. Explain what he means when he says, “For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own.” When JFK says “For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own.” he is saying that some parts of science can be used for good and bad, but as humans we need to use science solly for good. The Mercury 13: Paving the Way for Women in Space 1. Why couldn’t women become astronauts in the early 1960s? Woman could not become astronauts in the 1960s because only test pilots can become astronauts and woman cannot become test pilots. 2. Who was Dr. William Lovelace? Dr. Lovelace developed the astronaut test for the Mercury project, she believed that woman should be allowed to become astronauts just like...
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