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    Ethics

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    1. To define the term of the whistleblowing 2. To Discuss elements to execute whistleblowing 3. To present the case study related to whistleblowing 3 – (I) Gene G. James • The attempt of an employee or former employee of an organization to disclose what he or she believes to be wrongdoing in or by the organization. ― (II) Charles B. Fleddermann • Act by an employee of informing the public or higher management of unethical or illegal behavior by an employer or supervisor. 4

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    Coastal Erosion

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    Reyes’s Hotel‚ Resort‚ and Spa has been a family property for decades. I inherited the property‚ but as a Coastal Geologist‚ I would have never built this property so close to the shoreline. The western Florida Coast has been abused in the number of permits approved for large upscale buildings. The popularity‚ beauty‚ and comforting weather during winter makes this place perfect for tourism. The problem is that the buildings reduce the beaches ad many construction sites extract coastal sand for their

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    1. Summarize advances over time in determining the age of the Earth‚ including the importance of the discovery or radioactivity. Herodotus counted layers of earth near the Nile River in 450 B.C.E. The Bible was used in the Middle Ages to compute the age of the Earth. The 18th and 19th centuries brought a more scientific look into determining the age of the Earth by studying the salinities of the oceans‚ the rates of sedimentation‚ and models of cooling of different materials in order to calculate

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    The railroad is responsible for a lot of the agricultural development of the Gilded Age. Agriculture was spreading further and further West due to the railroad. In fact‚ the railroad helped agriculture spread past the 100th meridian. A geologist named John Wesley Powell warned that this meridian line was the line that separated land that got more than 20 annual inches of rain‚ and the land that did not receive 20 inches of rain every year. This led to dry farming‚ which was a main reason

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    Charles Darwin's Dilemmas

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    Marcus Coca  Professor Micheal Shane Williams  General Biology  9­30­14          Colleagues of Charles Darwin    Charles Lyell was a British geologist in the 1800’s. He got his education from Exeter  college in Oxford. After college he went into law but became more interested with natural  history. In 1827 Lyell quit his law practice to do geology full time. Lyell wrote a book called "  Principles of Geology Vol.­1". On Charles Darwin voyage on the ship Beagle he used Lyell  book as a guideline durning his geological expeditions

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    Carbon 14 dating essay

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    methods used. This scientific tool‚ which was first developed by Willard F. Libby in the late 1940s‚ has significantly improved the accuracy of assigning dates to past events and artifacts as far back as 70‚000 years. It is helping archaeologists‚ geologists‚ and anthropologists reconstruct the world’s history by filling in some of the many blank dates in the chronology of the history of our human world and by substantiating and revising other dates. In 1941‚ the radioactive atom‚ carbon-14‚ was isolated

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    Relative Dating

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    dating tells us which geologic event happened first‚ but does not give an exact date to which something happened. There are several different methods that are used in relative dating. These are the fundamental methods that are used in the field by geologists ’ and earth scientists to gather information about the relative age of rock bodies and other cool geologic stuff. These principles are the principle of superposition‚ the principle of original horizontality‚ the principle of cross-cutting relationships

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    Aaron Wong History and Development of the Periodic Table Period 11 The most basic arrangement of the periodic table was in 1649. By this time‚ many elements have been known but the first scientific discovery of an element was in 1649. Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus‚ the first element discovered through scientific inquiry. He attempted to create a Philosopher’s Stone which was supposedly able to turn metals into pure gold. During his experiment‚ he

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    Figure 1 - Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. There are only a couple of paintings/drawing which show Leonardo himself. Figure 1 - Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. There are only a couple of paintings/drawing which show Leonardo himself. The purpose of this essay will be to explain the effects that Leonardo da Vinci and his inventions had on period of the renaissance‚ which was the period between the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy. It will also explore who he was‚ as well as what influenced him. The

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    Oklahoma History

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    Chapter 13 Creating the 46th State Timeline : 1890-1910 Phenomenal changes took place in the country’s heartland between the first land run in 1889 and statehood in 1907. Two Territories Indian and Oklahoma Referred to as Twin Territory’s Growth in the Territories Lots of activity happening in Indian Territory Oklahoma Territory Towns‚ Farms‚ businesses‚ and industries growing rapidly New settlers coming Five Tribes were trying to deal with their own lives Five Tribes lives

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