Megan Crawford BCOM/275 Week 4, Individual Assignment Chilean Mine Disaster On August 5, 2010, MINERA San Esteban Primera reported a mine structure collapse at a small gold and copper mine in northern Chile. The collapse left 33 workers trapped 2,300 feet underground. Directly following the collapse, rescuers began taking action. They first drilled holes in attempt to find the location of the miners trapped, however it was not confirmed whether or not the miners would still be alive after enduring
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse BCOM/275 Disaster Strikes a Chilean Mine On August 5, 2010, employees of Minera San Esteban Primera woke up, stretched out, bathed, ate breakfast, and walked around their assuredly modest homes. They said their casual goodbyes to family as they headed off to yet another dark day at work deep in the San Jose copper mine in northern Chile. Little did they know it would be the last time for nearly two months they would see the light of day. These same
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Knowing Your Audience Jennifer Bankston BCOM/275 April 15, 2013 Jamey Pippert If you are a company who deals with dangerous work on a daily basis, you need to know who you are dealing with at all times. It is important to know what kind of audience your workers families would be and what kind of audience your actual employees are. When disaster strikes in a company, there are many measures that need to be taken. When the Chilean copper mine collapse occurred, there was a lot to take into
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Chilean Mine Collapse Student BCOM/275 July 7, 2012 Chilean Mine Collapse In the article that was required for our research, “Over 30 workers trapped after Chilean copper mine collapse” (Weik, 2010), it stated that on August 5, 2010 the San Jose mine collaped trapping approximtely 30 workers. It also stated that rescuers where attempting to locate workers in order to drill to provide those trapped with food, water and oxygen, however rescuers were halted due to a second cave-in. The news
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release MPS BCOM/275 July 7, 2014 JGC Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Failure to research audience demographics will, most likely, result in an ineffective reception of any message. However, performing an analysis of an audience and tailoring the presentation to meet its needs can mean the difference between triumph and disaster in how listeners receive and decode information. On August 5, 2010, the main entrance into
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Demonstrative Communication Name Last BCOM 275 Date Instructor Demonstrative Communication Communication is the way in which we can interact with any kind of person from different cultures, languages, and types. It is an imparting or interchanging thoughts, opinions or information among people by speech, writing, or signs. There are different ways in which people communicate. The three types in which people
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Knowing Your Audience BCOM 275 03/03/2013 When tragedy strikes, normally the common good in mankind comes to the aide of those who need help the most. Support from charity groups, the Red Cross or donations, all the way to something as simple as saying a prayer for those people before dinner. When the Chilean mine incident happened it was a national news story. It touched people and it helped people
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Demonstrative Communication Paper Philip Strasser-King, Anthony St. John, Lauren Batinich, Julie Ngo BCOM 275 09/05/12 Dr. Sylvester Fadal Demonstrative Communication Paper Communication is defined as the process of sending and receiving messages. Communication is only effective when the messages that you are sending is understood, but effective communication involves more than just understanding the message. Effective communication involves what the communicators were thinking, feeling
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0.0 Introductory Course 3.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 0.0 GEN/200 FOUNDATIONS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS (LD) (3.0 credits) C Communications BCOM/275 BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS AND CRITICAL THINKING (LD) (3.0 credits) D Business Information Systems BIS/220 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS (LD) (3.0 credits) C Management I MGT/230 MANAGEMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE (LD)
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18 or 21? BCOM/275 6/20/2013 Michelle Batson The great debate of the use of alcohol has challenged the nation for many years. The age limit that has been put into place in many states to legally drink is 21. Yet some still believe that 18 should be the legal age for the consumption of this drug called alcohol. Some argue that if a person can join the military, vote and be held responsible for themselves at the age of 18 that they should also have the right to drink alcohol. Others claim that
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