Riverbank erosion is a common happening today as it has been witnessed in many shorelines where the soil is constantly washed up leading to soil erosion. Given that the work of engineers is to develop products to offer solutions to problems facing society, there has been the development of products and techniques that can actually strengthen the banks and mitigate soil erosion. Given that the work of engineers is to develop products to offer solutions to problems facing society, there has been the development of products and techniques that can actually strengthen the banks and mitigate soil erosion. Natural methods refer to the various methods of protecting the slope while the vertical methods refer to the development of structures extending to the channels of the stream to help by redirecting the flow of water. The engineering concept here is that as soon as the water has been redirected, the hydraulic forces at the boundary of the channel will be reduced to a level that cannot cause erosion.

Natural methods of protecting the slope fall into three major categories including self-adjusting armors, rigid armors, and flexible mattresses. The natural methods operate by “armoring” the surface of the bank making it hard for soil erosion to occur (WETLANDS ENGINEERING & HAYES, 2004). The natural method is also widely known to address problems related to overbank drainage. The major requirement with this method is geotechnical stability to aid in the proper placement of the designed armor. This in many cases is known to have caused the replacement of adjacent structures, increased environmental damage, and also comes at a relatively higher cost. It should also be noted that filling material will be used in the alignment of the existing channel.

1.1 Riprap Blanket: This is a designed blanket of stones that form a “crowd” resistant to movement. The stones are shaped in a way that they have sharp edges at their points of intersection.

The automobile engineering industry has grown quite dynamic in the past few decades. Some of the transformations that have been experienced in the automobile industry are the development of solar and electric powered engines. The transformations are aimed at promoting clean environmental development and the efficient use of energy (Craddock, 2008). Apparently, the engineering field has embraced the new technology in developing environmentally friendly motor products. This focus of this report is to evaluate the use of alternative sources of energy to power cars and other automobile machinery.

The technology used to manufacture cars that use alternative energy sources is more advanced than that used to make fossils fuel-powered cars. In essence, the level of skills and intellectual capacity used to make alternative energy-powered cars cannot compare to that of making fossils fuel-powered cars.

Solar cars derive electricity from the sun. Modern technology has facilitated the development of solar-powered mobiles. In this case, the energy from the sun is trapped through solar panels and stored in car batteries. Afterward, the power is used to propel the engine light the motor cars headlights. The trapped energy is also used to power air conditioning devices and maintain the temperatures at the desired levels. In essence, the use of solar energy in the automobile industry is projected to continue rising in the future years due to the threat of exhaustion of fossil fuel.

The use of electricity to power cars is another recent development in the automobile industry. Electric cars derive electricity from hydropower. The electrical cars have given way to hybrid cars. In essence, hybrid cars have been the most recent developments in the automobile industry. Hybrid cars use efficient energy storage devices for propulsion other than fossil fuel.

Founded in the year 2004, Mandiant is regarded as one of the leading cybersecurity companies engaged in investing various types of computer security breaches across the organizations located in different parts of the world. Since its inception, the cybersecurity firm is committed to providing vital support by safeguarding each system-related information and data, and it helps organizations to carry out an evidence-based investigation process to perceive appropriate results about any type of security breaches in the organizations. According to a brief understanding of the current operational process, the cybersecurity mechanism of Mandiant includes safeguarding confidential product plans, and theft of vendor and client contract-related information, along with a customer database and financial assets of the organizations irrespective of dissimilar commercial fields. In addition, the cybersecurity structure of Mandiant also deals with organizational secrets and is responsible to protect them from uncertain security breach related issues (Mandiant, A FireEye Company, 2015).

Although Mandiant garnered its strong position through protecting the commercial credentials of the global organizations, the company has gained world recognition by its investigation of cybersecurity breach made by APT. According to the APT1 report of the organization, Mandiant has critically distinguished various APT&nbsp.groups along with their issues associated with the breaching cybersecurity of more than 141 US-based and globally renowned organizations. The APT1 in the Mandiant’s report referred APT groups in the cybersecurity-related issues. The APT1 report of the company is released with an aim of generating major awareness about the threat of cybersecurity breaching and the degree to which it can create security risks on the nations and the global economic condition as well (Rid, 2013).&nbsp.In addition, the report has also critically summarized the actual process along with tools, tactics, and procedures (TTP) that enabled APT1 to steal successfully the confidential information and intellectual property of different privately and publicly held foreign organizations.&nbsp.

The life of Thomas Paine began on a low note. Being a failure in most of what he had tried in life, he became a radical democrat and started handling matters that emulated to a certain level, the work of his predecessors in the names of John Locke and Montesquieu. He came up with an idea of selling pamphlets and set a historical record of selling many copies. He disclaimed the British government as intolerable, posing as a threat to the natural rights vested on man. Locke ought to speak about union and loyalty to the government. he challenges those of the opinion of honoring any form of government dissolution. He urges them to differentiate between the dissolution of the government and that of society. Nothing is much more important than unity according to Locke. The continual regard for a government with diverse bodies is desired by Locke. The government makes the community or rather they are one. It brings man into an organized system within political society. By giving an example of destroying a government through its roots (destruction of the societies), Locke is quick to mention that the world cannot stand to witness the demolition of one government. Paine, who appears to be an activist, seems to have been moved by this observation and opinion from Locke. In his opinion, Paine prefers the state of liberty enjoyment through society without a government. Through this system, any form of influence can be noted.

Locke’s and Montesquieu’s bold and strong analytical nature on national and societal matters could have also probably influenced his life, by molding his boldness of ridiculing the government and the existing leadership. Despite his own initial failures, he has found the ground to lay the basis of his championing. he says “an inquiry into the constitutional errors in the English form of government is at the time highly necessary. for as never in a proper condition of doing justice to others, while we continue under the influence of some leading partially” (Leon and Ferris 16). The message delivered here has a common similarity with the one that was also being articulated by Locke and Montesquieu that “what if the executive power, being possessed of the force of the commonwealth, shall make use of that force to hinder the meeting and acting of the legislation when the original constitution or the public exigencies require it?”&nbsp.

Raised Jewish, Zuckerberg was officially ushered into the ‘bar-hood” at the age of 13 according to the Jewish customs, and has since then identified and/or described himself as an atheist&nbsp.(Vara, 2007).

Zuckerberg got interested in computers in his elementary school days and had his first PC Quantex 486DX with an Intel 486 processing chip at the age of ten. Noting the queer interests, his father took charge and taught the young lad the basics, the Atari BASIC Programming inclusive. the latter of which he used to develop “ZuckNet,” a messenger program that allowed the exchange of messages between their house and his father’s clinic (Furgang, 2013). His father would later install the program in his clinic to enable easy communication between him and the receptionist. Impressed with the progress, David Newman was hired to coach him privately. As Zuckerberg himself recalls, the private lessons would take his skills to even great heights: “I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They’d come over, draw stuff, and I’d build a game out of it” (Lüsted, 2011, p. 21). At the age of 16, Zuckerberg transferred from Ardsley high school, where he excelled in unconventional classical studies, to the prestigious Philips Exeter Academy. he claimed to have both written and spoken command of four foreign languages namely French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek in his application to the latter. He went ahead to win different prizes in physics, math, and astronomy as well as classical studies in his new school. Though a man of many huts given the many undertakings that saw him captain the school’s fencing team at one point in time, Zuckerberg remained fascinated with the development of new software. He thus registered Intelligent Media Group, a software programming venture while still in high school. He pulled another first by developing Synapse, a music player program that could analyze a user’s listening habits and recommend song choices. a program that attracted the attention of IT, giants, Microsoft and AOL offering attractive, packages to the developer in vain.&nbsp.&nbsp.