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    2.1.3 The Australian primary curriculum The Australian primary curriculum is overcrowding, identified by the Australian Primary Principles Association (APPA) (APPA, 2014). The Review of Australian Curriculum also proves the study loads of the Australian curriculum in primary school is more than other countries. Moreover, the curriculum takes the children a lot of time to finish reading a large amount of content and pages in correspondence with heavy word count in the learning materials (APPA,…

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    Several environmental risks has been discovered (aside from the coal industry) that has put our environment in a great amount of danger. These specific concerns faced by our environment include dams, natural disasters, and endangered species. Dams were found to have a major influence on our water impact, leading to major issues in our economy. In contrast to dams natural disasters are more of a natural process that bring on different types of environmental risks. While dams mainly effect our…

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    Snoring and body mass index (BMI) have been previously reported to be associated with metabolic syndrome(MetS). The aim of this study is to explore the individual effects and possible interaction of snoring and BMI on MetS. Methods: A total of 3794 coal miners aged 18-65 years old were recruited from Shanxi province of China. The individual effects were assessed by multivariable logistic regression model. The interaction on an additive scale between snoring and BMI was evaluated by calculating…

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    can lead to patient satisfaction and increase patient safety. Additionally, the manager also played a deaf ear to a request made by one of the workers for filter replacement in the mask used by the miners. Notably, Carlos Pinilla, the manager of the mining company failed to uphold the principle of…

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    Hamby’s muckraking. For almost two centuries, the Jackson Kelly law firm has served the coal industry when many of the major coal companies want to fight against miners appealing for benefits and other things that ultimately help these companies save money. The Jackson Kelly law firm is the go-to firm because of their amazing winning percentage in mining law, however the main reason for…

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    Informative Essay On Coal

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    What does one think of when the word ‘coal’ is mentioned? Many of the United States think of it as dirty energy, as it is a prominent cause of global warming. Many also see it as a way of life. Those that grew up in the Appalachian region see it as security and a way to provide for their families. As someone that grew up in southern West Virginia, almost everyone you knew had a family member in the mining industry. I, Sophie Hurley, hope that the people of this community can find some other form…

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    Eliminating Understatement of China Coal Mine Deaths By Ye Fu Heavily relied on traditional energy sources, China is the world 's largest miner and consumer of coal. Coal power has been the dominant energy source before P. R. China was established and has been used to fuel the rapid economics development in recent decades. However, a spate of accidents happened every year with large number of injuries have put the spotlight again on Chinese coal industry. Attentions all over the world have been…

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    Sago Mine Case Study

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    On Monday, January 2, 2006 an explosion occurred at about 6:30 am in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia. (Madsen, 2009). The Sago Coal Mine explosion resulted in 12 fatalities, but 14 other workers were able to successfully evacuate (West Virginia Office of Miners ' Health, Safety, and Training, 2006). Accident investigations were promptly launched by the owner of the Sago Mine known as International Coal Group, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), and the state of West Virginia…

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    Media Attribution Theory

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    for years, or even decades. The media does this by using focusing events. For instance, life threatening hazards faced by coal miners were ignored in the US since the 1930s. Despite annual deaths as a result of collapsing mines, averaging at 1000, the government did little to address the problem. In 1968, there was an explosion at one of the mines owned by the Consolidation Coal Company in West Virginia, killing 79 people. The incident was reported widely by the media, which focused on the…

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    Coal Mining Lesson

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    Mark Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary there is a second lesson in the book that is about coal mining. The lesson is called The Cookie Mining Lesson in this lesson the students are asked to mine a cookie for the chocolate chips. The readers are implied to read inbetween the lines for the lines of the lesson to see something different that what the Coal Foundation intends for the students to learn. In Lesson 2 Students will learn how to buy land, pay employees hourly wage and more when coal is…

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