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    Yoga Sutra Commentary by Swami Brahmananda Saraswati 11-14

    SUTRA 11 Now we are going to discuss smriti, which basically means memory. The sutra says anubhuta vishaya asampramoshah smritih.  Anubhuta is the first wor, and anubhuta is translated as experienced. Experience in Sanskrit is called anubhuti, so anubhuta is called experienced, an experience that you have already experienced. Anu means something that follows or follows upon and bhuta means the element.  So anubhuta means that which follows the matter field when consciousness or your personal

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    Australian Bushfires Research Paper

    were common but few such years ago. However, since the arrival of Aboriginal Australians from the North fifty thousand years ago, their has been an increased spike in charcoal deposits from soil samples. The need of fire for hunting, heat, traditional ceremonies, and the necessity of fire as a resource has caused this exponential incline.

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    Firefighting Research Paper

    more drastic actions. Fire fighters lay down their life for others every day and ask for nothing.. With a job that receives little credibility and does not pay nearly as much as it should, the benefits of such a life-threatening career do not seem remotely close to being worth the strenuous amount of effort that it requires. Though some may choose to deny it, firefighting has now become one of the most dangerous occupations out there. Dangers with the career field of Fire Science start with the

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    Being A Firefighter Essay

    enough, but think about what will happen if the shift was changed to more than forty hours like fifty or even more, man anyone will heated and explode because that is just insane. Well firefighters have to do that, all of the time. "Firefighters work at fire stations, where they sleep, eat, and remain on call during shifts that often last 24 hours. Many work over 40 hours per week. The work can be very dangerous."“Firefighters: Occupational Outlook Handbook:: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.”.To these

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    County Road Fire Case Study

    down kept a Saturday evening barn fire from spreading to a nearby house, it wasn’t enough to save the barn and two horses that perished inside it. Firefighters were dispatched to 8000 County Road 189, owned and occupied by Reuben D. and Sarah H. Miller, after a resident of nearby County Road 192 reported the fire at 6:09 p.m. Prairie Township Fire Chief Reuben Miller responded straight from home. Holmes County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Summers, also a member of the fire department, responded from where

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    To present the process of utilitarian theory in a whistleblowing case, I ran across documentation referencing Ford Motor Company’s manufacturing of the Ford Pinto the early 1970’s. Petersen and Farrell discuss the ethical dilemmas faced by engineers highlighted by the 1980 Winamac, Indiana trial of Ford Motor Company (1986, p.3). The Pinto was created as a response to the Japanese competition emerging in the US. Due to competition, Ford was eager to get the subcompact car released in 1971. Changes

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    Ford Pinto

    Risk/Benefit Analysis The main controversy surrounding the Ford Pinto case was The Ford Motor Company's choices made during development to compromise safety for efficiency and profit maximization. More specifically, it was Ford's decision to use the cost/benefit analysis detailed in section 11 to make production decisions that translated into lost lives. During the initial production and testing phase, Ford set "limits for 2000" for the Pinto. That meant the car was not to exceed $2000 in cost or 2000

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    Ford Pinto

    the Ethical Dilemma in the Ford Pinto Case On August 10, 1978 three young girls died in a 1973 Ford Pinto after being stuck from the rear by a driver in a van. The Ford Pinto was completely engulfed in flames and the accident resulted in the death of the three young girls. Today, the debate continues regarding whether or not The Ford Motor Company was responsible for this case and many other cases involving the Pinto bursting into flames resulting in disfigurement or death. Ford has argued for

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    Essay in Ethic

    (The Ford Pinto)  There was strong competition for Ford in the American small-car market from Volkswagen and several Japanese companies in the 1960's. To fight the competition, Ford rushed its newest car the Pinto into production in much less time than is usually required to develop a car. The regular time to produce an automobile is 43 months but Ford took 25 months only (Satchi, L., 2005). Although Ford had access to a new design which would decrease the possibility of the Ford Pinto from exploding

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    Pinto

    uncompromising: "The Pinto was not to weigh an ounce over 2,000 pounds and not cost a cent over $2,000." During design and production, however, crash tests revealed a serious defect in the gas tank. In crashes over 25 miles per hour, the gas tank always ruptured. To correct it would have required changing and strengthening the design. Many studies of reports and documents done by Mother Jones on rear-end collisions involving Pintos reveal that if you ran into that Pinto you were following at

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