will not forget. News broke out that “San Jose mine, a small copper operation in northern Chile owned by Minera San Esteban Primera, suffered a cave-in, leaving thirty three workers trapped underground” (Weik, 2010, p. 65). Minera San Esteban is the mining company who had to announce to the families and workers within the company about this fatal event. Two thousand feet underground, the miners were trapped with limited food, oxygen, and water for a total of sixty nine days (Partch, 2012, p. 132). This
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS AND CRITICAL THINKING 02/03/2014 By: Michael Hobler On august 5, of 2010 there was a cave-in in a small copper miner in Chile were thirty-three miners have trapped underground. These miners are trapped three hundred meters underground they have an inadequate amount of water, food, and oxygen. There still was no sign that any worker was still alive on the 4th day since the cave-in since there was no one that
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enough relevant information so the receiver can process the particular situation, but the sender cannot add in pointless information as that may raise too much emotion or direct the receiver into fictitious promises or expectations. Each message the mining company sent out had to communicate the same basic information, Weik, J. (2010) over 30 miners were trapped, but this information was required to be constructed in a different way for each audience listening. Pragmatics, the use and language between
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on Mountain side Early Morning Characters: First Person - Narrator Demetrio's Gang Pepito's Gang Pepe Critical Approaches/Historical Approach The story was presumably written in 1930's, during American colonization and Pre-Japanese era where mining industry seem to ascend. Biographical Approach Having experienced joblessness and hunger in the city, he thought of the city as without conscience and soul and believed those of lowly origin to be the real people. Marxist Approach Shows the struggles
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Chilean Mine Collapse Scott Smith B Com/275 September 18, 2014 Ronald Baker Chilean Mine Collapse A mine in Chile collapsed on August 5, 2010. This horrible incident trapped 33 miners underground with limited food, water, and air. The collapse set off a chain of events that demonstrated a breakdown in communication. With different audiences in need of information, communication is key. According to “From Collapse to rescue: Inside the Chile Mine Disaster” by Jennifer Yang, staff reporter
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I. Introduction Mining is one of the biggest issues all over the world. It is also one of the great contributing factors in economic progress, health related and environmental issues. Mining is the extraction of valuable materials and non-renewable resources such as petroleum, natural gases, or even water from the earth, from an ore body, lode, vein, seam or reef, which forms mineralized package economic interest of miner. It is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through agricultural
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ADVANTAGES OF BLACK SAND MINING : The advantage of black sand mining is that the black sand is the one of the raw materials that used in making a metal that we used in building different establishments and buildings and also our houses. Aside from that , families that is near in the black sand mining will have a another income to support or give the primary needs of their family. Aside from that it is also used as additive to strengthen the concrete and steel in building foundations and infrastructures
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The narration is derived from interviews that the authors conducted with various people who played key roles in the rescue mission. Mining in Chile is not a novelty; it is a country rich in mineral resources and the world’s largest producer of copper. Mining accidents had been recorded in the past some of which ending in tragedy. The locality in which the mining disaster occurred – The Atacama Desert region alone hosted 884 mines. The events relayed in the case study commence on August 5, 2010
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There were many participating factors that led up to the California Gold Rush. One was…well the discovery of gold on January 24, 1848. After John Sutter discovered the gold, he asked his workers to keep the gold discovery a secret but it wasn’t too long since word got out. Once it did, more and more people came to California for a chance to strike it rich. Many even left their old lives behind for this once in a lifetime opportunity. The California Gold rush was an important event in history
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economic and environmental are the most important to understand. Lithium mining can be done by either pumping brine in rivers or hardrock mining ("Lithium Mining"). People involved in this process are the mining companies and the U.S, government. The U.S. government payed a multibillion dollar investment in 2009 for an industry that satisfies the future demands for lithium vehicle batteries (Wanger 202-206). Lithium mining began in 1817 when it was discovered by scientist, Johann August Arfvedson
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