...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 blessings of life they most likely took for granted earlier that day - to be able to stretch out, to bathe, to eat, and to walk around in the comfort of their own homes - would be taken from them unexpectedly later that same day. Some time around the miners' lunch time on August 5, 2010, the upper galleries of the private copper mine collapsed trapping the miners. Many on the outside feared the worst. After all, when the collapse occurred the miners should have been in or near the hazard zone on their way out for their lunch break. Furthermore, with limited necessities such as food, water, and oxygen it was unknown whether the miners could have survived. "Liliana Ramirez, the wife of one of the oldest minders trapped, said she had faith all along that they were still alive and that she knew that her husband would never let his fellow workers perish" (Hughes, 2010). Families of the missing miners, like Liliana Ramirez, started gathering and camping out at the mine's surface since...
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...Story Element Lesson Plan 1 Story Element Lesson Plan Heather Sines ECE335: Childrens Literature Instructor: Karen Foster April 21, 2015 Story Element Lesson Plan 2 Story Element Lesson Plan Grade: Preschool Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed By Emily Pearson Lesson Plan: Monday Subject: Beginning, Middle, and End Story Element Grade: Preschool, ages 3-5 (covering Kindergarten Common Core ELA Standards) Topic: Being Nice Duration: 1 School day (Monday) Story Element Lesson Plan 3 Goals/Objectives: | We will Identify the parts of a story using the beginning, middle and end of a “being nice” themed multicultural book. The children will be able to divide a story into the beginning, middle and end, and be able to identify the settings in each. Within identifying the settings and the sections of the story, they will be identifying how one person’s kindness can affect another’s. | Standards Covered: | Reading Standards for Literature K-5 Kindergarten-With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in the text.-Identify characters, setting and major events in a story.-Ask and answer questions about unknown words in...
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...clothes, and earn the household money, child labor during the industrial revolution was very difficult for kids because they didn’t get to be kids and they got hurt and sick. We received our information from the two stories, The Story of my Cotton Dress and Mr.Coal’s Story. First, we will be reviewing how kids got hurt by their physical labor, when working in the cotton mill. In cotton mills, children often got hurt. Why you may ask? Because their jobs were to go INSIDE a thread machine to fix it if it got stuck. This is not fair to the kids, and then they could lose an arm or a leg, and STILL have to show up to work the next day! I learned that information from the story The Story of My Cotton Dress, and from my teacher, Ms. Pierce, in a class discussion. Did they not see back then that this will effect the kids of the next generation while they were forcing them to inhale coal and tie strings together around needles?!...
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...Knowing your Audience BCOM/275 University of Phoenix Nicole S. Morgan Knowing Your Audience The story of the 33 miners who were trapped for 69 days after the San Jose Mine they were working in collapsed in Chile is a heart wrenching tale that touched many. The most important factors in communicating this true story are portraying the feelings and emotions that were felt during this harrowing event. The audience consists of family, members of the community, and company employees. It is important that proper and effective communication is used in portraying the details of this story so that the needs of family are met and the emotions of loved ones are protected. Using such approaches as Logos, Pathos and Ethos and steering clear of the common logical fallacies is imperative in addressing the audience. Logos is a logical appeal that uses facts to support a speaker’s topic. Pathos is used to attempt to convince others with emotional appeals; this allows the presenter to you can engage the audience’s passion by appealing to the audience’s fear, love and hope. Ethos shows your audience that you are competent, honesty, and most of all empathetic. All of these appeals are key in communicating a message that makes the audience feel that you are relaying sound information that caters to their emotions and empathizes with their plight. Some of the potential...
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...Both “Naomi” and “The neighbor’s wife and mine” are representative stories of westernization of Japanese culture. Naomi was written by Junichiro Tanizaki and published in newspaper in 1924. It demonstrates aestheticism and created the word naomism that represents the modern girl. The neighbor’s wife and mine is also a story that shows how Japanese people were longing to be like westerners. Both are stories of transition from classic Japanese culture to modern western style culture. I would like to describe how each story represents modernity and the difference of each women modernization. The neighbor’s wife and mine is the first sound effect movie in Japan. As we can see, the title is written in horizontal line instead of traditional vertical direction. The whole movie shows the influence of the western culture. First, in the beginning of the movie, the painter was drawing a western style house that was rare to see it at that time. He was inspired to the western style architecture and boast to Shibano, the main character, about how beautiful he drew it. Second, when Shibano goes to his neighbor house to claim the loud music, he realized that the house was totally western style, and he even did not know how to use the slippers. The interesting thing is that the music, Jazz, he supposed to feel disgust, was really amazing that he ended up dancing and singing with the people around. The music, Age of Speed, is also interesting because it implies the quick development of society...
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...yourself and where there is a law against everything you do. Well in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand this is how the characters in this story live. Throughout this story The Unconquered realizes that everyone deserves to have rights and not be controlled all the time. You should be born with freedom and be able to make decisions for yourself. The government in this story has complete control, but The Unconquered changes this overtime. In the beginning the laws are strict and no one is allowed to stand out in any type of way. In the middle of the story is when he begins to rebel against the law. Then towards the end he was in his own world with his own laws. He was no longer controlled by the government. So within this story the theme of laws and government changes a lot overtime. In the beginning of the novel the laws were very strict....
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...Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Chilean Copper Mine Collapse A small copper mine in San Jose, located in north Chile, collapsed trapping workers underground. The mine collapsed on August 5th, trapping 33 workers in the mine. The coverage of this mine collapse came two long weeks after the traumatic event. Initially the incident did not catch any news worthy attention. Mine collapses are pretty common but the accident finally caught the interest of an editor, and then it went viral from there. The mine is approximately 300 meters deep. Rescuers had to drill a second hole to locate workers but there was no confirmation of any active life underground in the initial survey of the situation. There was a limited supply of what the miners would need down there such as water, food, and oxygen and it had been 4 days since the mine collapsed. There was a lot of speculation as to whether workers would be alive down there with the limited resources but rescuers worked at a non-stop pace to get to the trapped miners in hopes that there were survivors. A second cave-in the Saturday after the initial collapse, delayed rescuers for approximately 3 additional hours before they could resume their rescue efforts. The accident trapped workers for over two months at depths up to 2000 feet below ground. A tunnel gave way and the story was seen around the world as a miracle. The worldwide coverage was intense showing every detail of what Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Chilean...
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...Know the Audience BCOM/275 University of Phoenix Know the Audience This particular situation relates a heart wrenching news story about 33 miners in Chile whose lives were held within the balance of time (Weik, 2010). In explaining this story, one of the most important factors relates to the feelings and emotions within the information to be provided. The story will gear at considerations and assessing the target audience. The audience in this situation will be family, company employees, community members, and anyone active in current events. Without regard to those directly affected by the information, the message will hold details that include the answers to who, what, where, when, and why. Persuasion will take precedence in this article to focus on known facts to lure in an audience. The information with family and company employees directly affected by any action will need to provide more extensive details. Steering clear of logical fallacies is an imperative goal when directing information to family and company employees. An easy escape with a fallacy will place blame, but facing the questions as a result will cause disarray and added concern. The needs of the family and company employees will focus on the information within the message and will hold a level of confidentiality. An added focus is to persuade the audience by reaffirming policies in place including safety investigations to protect against future events. The focus will instill a calming attitude...
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...The traditional beginning of the Gold Rush was the story of James Marshall. Marshall was instructed by John Sutter, a business man, to find an area to build a sawmill. Marshall, traveled with a few workers, it took him a while to find the right spot because: "nothing but a mule could climb the hills; and when I would find a spot where the hills were not steep, there was no timber to be had" (Holliday 56). Marshall had finally found an area where he could build a sawmill, and managed to get his team through the steep hills of California. One morning he came upon an area of the camp to check the status of the camp. When he was observing the water flow, he noticed something really shiny. Marshall picked up the gold pieces, assuming that this was a fluke, but as the day grew older, he found a few more pieces of gold. Then there was that famous quote that people tend to still say today: "Boys, by God I believe I have found a gold mine. (Holliday 58)” This story was taken in to account as the first story to hit the globe about gold being found in California. Actually, there is another story. This one is about a Mexican, who found gold in the hills of California, long before news had spread about gold being found by James Marshall. His name was Francisco Lopez. He was traveling in the San Fernando Valley, in 1842, during the time California was still a territory. Lopez was taking a rest, when he found a few pieces...
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...communication we also must ensure that the receivers of that message understands the information we are providing to them. As we will notice with the communication during the Chilean copper mine accident in South America, knowing your audience proves to be even more significant when a company has to deal with the outcome resulting from a disaster. Understanding that families and workers need to me told in different manners is a key. The company had to send sympathetic messages to the families, had to inform them about the efforts was made to save their loved ones. On August 5, 2010, a small copper mine in northern Chile collapsed trapping inside of it 33 miners. The mining company Minera San Esteban Primera, had to take on the very difficult task of informing families, workers within the company, and media about this fatal accident. These miners were trapped some 300 meters underground, they had limited oxygen supplies, little food, or water for such a catastrophe. The agents chosen by the company to handle these releases took great care in how straightforward and honest information was delivered in order to keep the company’s reputation intact. Once news was leaked of the accident and everyone glued themselves to their television from around the world to watch the story unfold not knowing whether or not these brave men would live to see the sun again. Their fate was unknown for more than two weeks, until the rescuers reached their refuge discovering them...
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...Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication On August 5, 2010 in Chili, a San Jose Mine collapsed. The Minera San Esteban Primera Company had their employees working during this collapse, which was fatal 33 miners were killed. They fell in hole that was 300 meters or 2,300 feet below. The 33 fatal employees consist of one Bolivian and 32 of them were Chileans. At this time there was chaos wondering if there were any survivors in the trapped hole. When the media came out and broadcasted the news, all of that was reported was havoc and chaos leaving the whole world wondering and assuming the worse for 17 days. The Minera San Esteban Primera Company next step was to coordinate a rescue, and how they were going to address the families of the 33 trapped workers. The Minera San Esteban Primera Company amazing impressed and inspired Chili with their rescue mission. The rescue that had the miners trapped for a few months in a narrow shaft that was a half of mile deep was successful. The rescue took almost a full day to accomplish once communication was established. Moreover, with the quick training and coordination of Luis Urzua is which helped the miners survived. Luis Urzua was the last member to come out of the hole. Chili has unstable mines, because of their frequent earthquakes. Therefore, with the impressive techniques and resources, Codelco, which is as state owned mining company, started drilling exploratory holes, eight to be exact. On the seventeenth day...
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...Velonta Adams Chilean Miners Trapped and Rescued The Chilean miners’ accident was surely a frightening incident for the miners themselves and their families. This incident that occurred raised a great many of questions of whom the Chilean President, Sebastian Pinera was faced to answer. With all things considered, it would have been to his credit to ensure that as many facts as possible be gathered to deliver information about the accident to families and the media. The Chilean miner’s accident was examined from many different perspectives and shed light on the position of the company, Compania Minera San Esteban Primera, as to their concern for the safety of the miners based on the condition of the roof which collapsed. His statement that was communicated to the public was, “The cause of the roof collapse, about 1,100 feet (350 meters) below the surface, is being investigated.” Chile Mine Collapse: Facts about the Amazing Survival Story, by Wynne Parry and Rachael Rettner. This incident was telecast around the world almost as quickly as it happened and some things to remember are how the families and peers of the miners felt during this tragic event. They would be left guessing day to day about the well being of their loved ones and fellow co-workers. The media would have needed to be very delicate in the delivery of this astounding news to the world because it would be also heard by those that knew them best, their loved ones. The responsibility of the senders of the information...
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...Release BCOM/275 August 29, 2012 Audience Paper and Communication Release When delivering news of a catastrophic nature it is important to understand the audience receiving the information. The story of over 30 Workers trapped after a Chilean Copper Mine Collapse involved many types of audiences. It was important that each audience received information according to their role in the successful evacuation of the miners. The audiences that needed communication were the miners’ family members, the company employees, clergy members, rescue teams, news reporters, and emergency medical personnel. When providing information to the audience the verbal language components of phonemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and nonverbal communication components to consider are chronemics, proxemics, oculesics, kinesics, haptics, vocalics, and personal styles is something to consider to ensuring the correct message is delivered. When delivering news to the family members and to the company’s employees it is important to have factual information about the miners who are trapped; family members and co-workers will want to know the names of the miners, if the miners are alive, and the activities that will take place to rescue the miners along with an estimated time line of rescue; this can be achieved by setting up an informational center. Another thing to consider is the timeliness of updated information about the rescue activities and the health of the miners. Some additional needs...
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...Schilling BCOM 275 January 30, 2012 Britta Cammarata Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release On August 5, 2010, the airwaves and newsprint ran a story about a small copper mine in northern Chile collapsing and trapping 30 miners inside. On this day the Minera San Esteban Primera Mining Company had a difficult task set before them. The company would not only have to inform the families of the trapped miners and its employees of the accident but would also initiate a search and rescue efforts to locate the men still trapped in the mine. The first task was to locate the miners and use every possible means to remove the miners quickly from the mine. The second task would be to inform the families of the miners and the employees of the company of this horrible accident. Although rescuing the miners from the copper mine will be a challenge for the company, but the biggest challenge the company will face is communicating with the different groups of people involved in this tragedy. When communicating with the different diverse group of people, the company needs to consider what his or her audience needs whether it is reassurance or details of the accident. The company also needs to consider security, by electing one spokesperson to relay information to the families, employees, and the news media this way the company can ensure the individual groups are receiving the proper information (Neal, 2010). The company’s first communication will be to inform the miner’s...
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...at home means constant fear and days of hunger. The people of Sierra Leone lived through this reality from the later eighties through the early twenty first century. The film Blood Diamond is based on this politically volatile era in the history of Sierra Leone. Three places are of prominent importance in the film. In these places life changing decisions and choices are made. The significance of these palaces drives the characters to defy common human behavior, put their lives in extreme danger and seemingly achieve the impossible. Of great importance is a mining valley in the countryside which is a stronghold of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel insurgency seeking to oust the current government. The government remains in control of the capital city of Freetown. A third significant place is the a United Nations meeting hall where the United States and other powerful Western countries make life altering decisions regarding the state of Sierra Leone. Despite the stark differences in the characteristics of these places, there’s one element that is present in all three – corruption. Greed and personal interest is the uniting factor in the three significant places in the film. So rampant is this self-interest attitude that it takes a reality of its own as TIA, short for “This is Africa.” Here, no one can be trusted and everyone strives for himself. On the RUF controlled mine field, enslaved men sift through muddy valleys for diamonds at gunpoint. With child soldiers...
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