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  Draft 1 Summary The article "Fire fighting robots go autonomous" by Braxton (2021), discussed the capabilities of these particular robots and the benefits of these machines. With more than 350,000 American homes burning annually and climate change contributing to 10,000 active daily wildfires worldwide. Robots can offer some respite to firefighters entering blazing buildings or traversing steep mountains. Over 3000 Americans die from fires annually, which includes an average of 80 firefighters (Scientific American. 2019). With technological advancement, firefighters are now equipped with robots to aid their work. The Los Angeles City Fire Department can be seen using robots to assist them, one of the robots is the Robot System 3 (RS3). The $300,000 RS3 was funded by the American Firefighting Foundation, the unit is capable of blasting water 10 times the rate of a conventional fire hose, and has four cameras which can show where the water is being sprayed and thermal sensory...

Draft 2 Summary The article "Fire fighting robots go autonomous" by Braxton (2021), discussed the capabilities of these particular robots and the benefits of these machines. With more than 350,000 American homes burning annually and climate change contributing to 10,000 active daily wildfires worldwide. Robots can offer some respite to firefighters entering blazing buildings or traversing steep mountains. Over 3000 Americans die from fires annually, which includes an average of 80 firefighters (Scientific American,  2021). With technological advancement, firefighters are now equipped with robots to aid their work. The U.S. Forest Service have been seen using in “remote controlled firefighting technology” to aid in their effort to reduce forest fires. The company have been testing and using remote controlled airdrop spheres called “dragon eggs”, these “eggs” are filled with potassium permanganate and glycol, and has the ability to keep the forest fuels at a more balanced level...

Draft 1 Every year, more than 350,000 American homes get caught on fire and 10,000 daily worldwide wildfires occur due to climate change. From this, 3000 Americans die from fires, which includes an average of 80 firefighters (Scientific American. 2019) . With technological advancement , firefighters are now equipped with robots to aid in their work . T he benefits of using the robots are, “being able to enter burning buildings too hot for human survival, penetrate smoke too toxic for human lungs and they are often faster stronger and more agile than the firefighters they work with ” . The use of robots can be seen in The Los Angeles City Fire Department , they are using a robot called Robot System 3 (RS3) to aid in fighting a fire. T he US forest service is also a nother sector which is seen using robots and drones to fight forest wildfires.   Most machines currently in use are remote-controlled, but scientists are currently developing “intelligent" firefighting ...

  Original statment from Gilbert Amelio "Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter." Gilbert Amelio, former President and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp According to Gilbert Amelio, former president and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp. Developing communication skills is essential to get the correct message and emotions across to the receiving parties, it is important for a leader to convey the correct message across in order not to cause a misunderstanding, the leader choice of words a how he present    it must be able to captivate and motivate the receiving parties, I order for them to act upon his words, it will be a waste of effort if no one understands and doesn’t do what he conve...

Draft 1 Hi all, my name is Goh Bin Hong, I am a self-motivated and cheerful individual, I always have been keen to up-skill myself by learning new things whenever I get a chance. My personal strengths are I am good at communicating, have leadership skills, am a team player and I am an adaptive person . These traits are just a few examples of the traits that I have. I am currently a university undergraduate, in Singapore Institute of Technology, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to university I was in the military under the 35 th Combat Engineer Battalion, during my time there I was a Platoon Commander and an Officer/Specialist Cadet instructor, my time there was nothing short but fruitful. I was studying in Aeronautical Engineering in Singapore Polytechnic and at the same time was also the captain of the weightlifting team in the school. During my free time I would normally go to the gym to get some training in, or I would love to go around Singapore to find hole in the wall...

Upon reading the article, it has given me a better understanding of how important communication and critical thinking is in the working industry. From the article in 2008 by IDC, it stated that the cost of employee's misunderstanding and poor communication in the United States and United Kingdom was estimated at US$37 billion. From this article, it got me thinking what would the outcome be if there wasn't any miscommunication, the money lost could have been used to improve the companies and the work life  of the workers. I also have learnt that the root of the cause of poor communication is due to poor employee engagement and attrition, the companies fail to effectively train good communication skills to the workers as they didn't touch the core of the communication. From this alone it got me thinking what exactly is the core of communication? I agree with the second last paragraph stating that, when leaders think critically and communicate clearly, they are also able to el...