“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 anyone
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In the essay “Body Ritual Among the “Nacirema”‚ anthropologist Horace Miner describes a group of people known as the Nacirema‚ a little known tribe living in North America. The way in which he writes about the curious practices that this group performs‚ distances readers from the fact that the North American group described actually corresponds to modern day Americans of the mid 1950’s. The Nacirema’s cultural beliefs are deeply rooted in the perspective that the human body is prone to sickness and
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Coal Miner Presentation Amanda Long Rogers State University Coal Mining Coal mining has been around for a very long time and it is necessary for everyday use. Everyday coal miners wake and get ready to go into a deep dark hole. Coal miners can be compared to soldiers in the war‚ every morning they have to kiss their wives and kids goodbye and make sure they say I love you‚ because they never know what kind of day it’s going to be. Coalmines collapse and kill thousands each year‚ coal miners have
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Horace Miner Response Horace Miner’s essay "Body Ritual Among The Nacirema" is deeper then a clever critique of the absurdities of the American culture. Other then mocking the science of anthropology‚ Miner shows how an outsider would view America. This sight would not be much different from an American viewing an uncivilized village in the middle of the forest. Miner’s essay extensively proves that the culture of America is not very different then many other civilizations. The perspective
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Graded Assignment Miner‚ Cowboy‚ or Farmer (100 points)Imagine it is 1880. The Civil War has been over for 15 years. Economic conditions in the town you live in have deteriorated‚ and you are struggling to make ends meet. You decide to try your luck out west‚ where there is plenty of land and plenty of opportunity. Before leaving‚ you must decide what you will do out west—be a miner‚ a cowboy‚ or a farmer. Each presents its own opportunities and difficulties. Write an essay in which you: Tell what
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According to the National Institute of Statistics‚ in 2014‚ the Chilean population reached almost 18 million‚ almost like the State of Florida in the United States or the Netherlands. More of the 40% of the population is located in Santiago‚ the capital; the vast majority of the Chilean inhabitants’ lives in cities instead of the countryside; and the population is getting older‚ turning Chile into a country under an advanced demographic transition (INEa‚ 2014). In its Constitution‚ Chile does not
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Chilean Copper Mine BCOM/275 CHILEAN COPPER MINE On August 5‚ 2010‚ 33 miners were trapped in a chamber 2‚300 feet below the earths surface. It is the responsibility of the company to notify the family of the situation before the media. The last thing that any company needs is to have the media represent them in a disaster such as this. Verbal Communication There are many things to address‚ but first we must focus on who was on shift at the time of the collapsed and contacting the next
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MINERS - Wilfred Owen There was a whispering in my hearth‚ A sigh of the coal‚ Grown wistful of a former earth It might recall. I listened for a tale of leaves And smothered ferns‚ Frond-forests‚ and the low sly lives Before the fawns. My fire might show steam-phantoms simmer From Time’s old cauldron‚ Before the birds made nests in summer‚ Or men had children. But the coals were murmuring of their mine‚ And moans down there Of boys that slept wry sleep‚ and men
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Sabrina Green BCOM/275 Week 4 Celeste Bajorek Chilean Copper Mine Collapse On Thursday‚ August 5‚ 2010‚ the collapse of one of the shafts in the Chilean copper mine left 33 workers trapped approximately 300 meters underground. Rescue efforts began at once‚ but just two days later another collapse in the mine halted the efforts of the rescue crews for many hours (Weil‚ 2010). With such a devastating situation‚ the company should take
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and I thought it would be interesting. In this essay‚ I will write about Chileans holidays. The next paragraph will be about how Chileans celebrate the holiday season. The paragraph after that will be about popular traditions in Chile. Paragraph four will be about things that are special about Chilean culture and the last paragraph is the conclusion. This paragraph is about how Chileans celebrate the holiday season. Chileans celebrate the holiday season by having Asada‚ chicken‚ turkey‚ and pork
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