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“THREE MILE ISLAND” Accident

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From the day, when nuclear power was introduced to the world, although “Super Power Nations” want to establish and develop the technology of nuclear power, most of the countries refuse it because of it’s nature of being more disadvantages. But the super power nations such as U.S.A, Russia, North Korea, Iran and etc, still want to prove their power to the entire world. As a result of it, we have to come across lots of accidents and incidents, in the process and development of nuclear power every day. In the whole history, the most dangerous and most significant accident in the American commercial nuclear power generating industry is the “Three Mile Island” which was owned and operated by General Public Utilities and the Metropolitan Edison Co. which is situated near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It may be the most significant in the world also. THE ACCIDENT At approximately 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979 the...

ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION In any country , for it’s development economy plays a big role. In order to get into the topic, we should clearly identify both words, technology and economic development. So let’s have a small look on the definitions of the two words. Economic development is the increase in the amount of people in a nation's population with sustained growth from a simple, low-income economy to a modern, high-income economy. Technology refers to whatever can be said at any particular historical period, concerning the state of the art in the whole general field of practical know-how and tool use. The technology, technology change and technological progress have played an important role in development of human kind. FROM HISTORY How big was the difference between the lives before and after the First Industrial Revolution, sometimes compared to the change after discovery of fire? This is not to say that there were no important techn...

GENERALIZATION CONCEPT & WOMEN

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GENERALIZATION CONCEPT & WOMEN There is a famous proverb in Tamil with meaning of a drop of cooked rice is enough to check the whole cooked rice. This is widely used for the concept of “Generalization”. A drop of cooked rice is in eatable condition means the whole pot of cooked rice is o.k. What it means? In general the fact is proved by our experiences. But, how can it be allowed to use this generalization concept in the case of an example for the feminism. And how much it acceptable the generalization concept for whole women, by looking at the attitudes and hobbits of some women. Not only that, usually the concept is used for soulless properties, but the notable fact is it’s being used for feminism years and years. In order to use a concept or notification, we should follow the conditions have to be applied and the ways it was used in previous years. In that sense we failed in approaching the concept on feminism. ...