“Antipersonnel landmines are explosive devices designed to injure or kill people. They can lie dormant for years and even decades under‚ on‚ or near the ground until a person or animal triggers their detonating mechanism” (Land Mine Monitor‚ 2014). There is not control for detonation of landmines and can be activated by pressure‚ by a radio signal or other remote method or by the closeness of a person. As landmines do not have a specific target are consider victim- activated weapons causing the kill
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WORK EXPERIENCE African Underground Mining Services (A.U.M.S)‚ Kenyasi (Feb. 2011- May 2013) Position held: Mine Controller/ Dispatcher Department: Mining Responsibilities: Trucking of Haulage for Optimum production Coordinating people‚ machinery and equipment to achieve optimal production in accordance with mine plan priorities. Serve as central communication person for mine
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can include personal‚ historical and cultural context. In Oodgeroo Noonuccal poems ‘son of mine’ and ‘then and now’ shows the personal‚ historical and cultural context. Throughout this essay will take a look at the features of her personal‚ historical and cultural context in her poems. Oodgeroo poems ‘son of mine’ and ‘then and now’ shows clear components of her personal context. In the poem ‘son of mine’ has a lot of her personal context‚ when reading this it gives us an allusion to reconciliation
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PFII/2007/WS.3/7 Original: English UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS Division for Social Policy and Development Co-organizers Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Government of Khabarovsk Krai and the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) INTERNATIONAL EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
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Onselen’s article took place in Rhodesia in the mines. Sugar Cane Alley and Van Onselen’s article both show Africans working to make a living but not being able to fully leave because of the control of the white owners. The white owners tricked their workers into staying the villages by using money and other ways to think they had it best at this field or mine. The white owners made it extremely hard for their workers to leave the fields or the mines by having laws to follow and debts that need
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off as a regular day. 111 men some husbands‚ fathers or even both kissed their wives and children goodbye to go off to work‚ not knowing that would be there last kiss to their loved ones. As the men went throughout their normal work day at No. 5 Coal Mine‚ they looked forward to quitting time and reuniting with their loved ones. Woefully‚ this would never come to past. Catastrophe struck at 3:27. 111 lives were slayed out by a colossal explosion. Paramedics‚ firemen and policemen gathered at the scene
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Mining the Coal Coal miners use giant machines to remove coal from the ground. They use two methods: surface or underground mining. Many U.S. coal beds are very near the ground’s surface‚ and about two-thirds of coal production comes from surface mines. Modern mining methods allow us to easily reach most of our coal reserves. Due to growth in surface mining and improved mining technology‚ the amount of coal produced by one miner in one hour has more than tripled since 1978. Surface mining is
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Introduction to Adit Mining Adit mining is a method of extract minerals from earth horizontally. An adit is a type of entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal. Adits are usually built into the side of a hill or Mountain‚ and often occur when a measure of coal or an ore body is located inside the mountain but above the adjacent valley floor or coastal plain. In cases where the mineral vein outcrops at the surface‚ the adit may follow the vein until it is worked
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all in the same situations and were struggling with poverty. It would be hard for someone to come in and research the people because there would not be much of a control to compare the miners situations to someone else who was not involved in the mines. If these cases had not been in effect for years and the people were all different with only part of the population effected‚ then the case study would have more
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being made invisible by the Japanese‚ Louie was able to resist it and fought back together with other POWs. Mine Okubo‚
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