“Knowing Your Audience” June 17‚ 2012 Axia University BCOM 275 – “Business Communication and Critical Thinking” Alicia Snedeker On August 5‚ 2010‚ in San Jose‚ Chile a small copper mine owned by the MINERA company suffered a collapse. The mine collapse trapped 33 miners underground. No one had any idea if the miners could even survive being trapped 300 meters below ground with limited food‚ water‚ and oxygen. After four days of the miners being trapped no one still had any idea if
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The Environmental Impact 95 percent of electronic waste is recyclable. However‚ unregulated recycling can cause more harm to the environment than landfilling. While many companies‚ such as Apple‚ have safe and effective recycling programs‚ the majority of recycling companies export some percentage of their electronic waste to China or poor countries in Africa‚ where the waste is “recycled‚” or destroyed and stripped of its valuable metals. Though this seems like a good thing on the surface‚ because
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Marco Miranda Period 1 10-7-12 First five weeks of high school High school is an enjoyable‚ but challenging part of life. From the first day of school to the 5th week of school I was confused‚ excited‚ and lost. My challenges are getting A’s in all of my classes and being one of the top students in my classes. My successful moments have been getting A’s on my History‚ English‚ Geometry‚ and Biology tests. My goal in AVID is to find which college would best suit me. Also‚ I would like to
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replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate; which leads to more pollution and exploitation of the environment. When goods are produced and thrown out there are consequences to the environment we must face in the future including‚ pollution from factories creating the goods‚ destroying of natural resources to create the goods and garbage in the landfills that are killing the environment from the throwing away of goods. Society has fallen into this trap of consuming goods at an alarming rate
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But Our school should not participate in"Shut Down your Screen week’. Before the technology was like it is now the Greeks hated it. 2‚000 years ago the Greek philosopher Socrates complained about the technology.He wasn’t talking about the stuff we have today‚ but actually writing.He believed writing would create forgetfulness in the learners. The internet links our lives together. Without the internet how would we do research. Say if you needed a library book‚ but it wasn’t at your library
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As education’s budget cuts continue‚ school districts across the nation search for ways to save money‚ and one very promising option that they have discovered is the four-day school week. A school in New Mexico‚ during an energy crisis in the 1970’s‚ was the first to attempt this new type of school week in order to save energy and as of 2008 there were one hundred school districts that had adopted this perpetual three-day weekend (Work). It is mostly in small‚ rural communities where the kids have
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Four day School Week Businesses have adapted a four day work week consisting of ten hours a day to conserve energy and resources. Our school is making the choice whether or not they want to take off Friday or Monday from school and just have a four day school week. If the school decided to do this each school day would be an extra two hours. The school would also have a lot of different opinions from the students so‚ before any decision is made to make the three day weekend the principle should ask
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Environment Culture influences an individual’s attitude towards environment. Environment in this context refers to our physical surroundings and nature. Man’s attitude towards his immediate environment is largely based upon his cultural upbringings. Trompenar’s concept of attitude towards environment highlights how man controls nature by imposing his will upon it (reference). Large organizations impact the nature and environment in many ways. Corporate Social responsibility has become
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Environmental protection 1 Environmental protection Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual‚ organizational or governmental levels‚ for the benefit of the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and technology‚ the biophysical environment is being degraded‚ sometimes permanently. This has been recognized‚ and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation. Since the 1960’s
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In what ways are humans impacting their environment? How can humans make sure that future generations are allowed the same standards of living that they enjoy? How can the Maltese Islands make sure that they safeguard their environment for the future? Environment nowadays is being impacted by lots and lots of human’s absolute carelessness. Nowadays people are not thinking about the future generations and their needs. We’re almost over-extracting resources thus being unsustainable. Over-extracting
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