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    cuts, abrasions, and bruises and therefore are not serious, they do not need to put themselves at risk for mere entertainment. Every year, lists are put on the internet about the most dangerous jobs in America.The riskiest position by far is logging. Logging fatalities in the United States increased from 59 to 77 per 100,000 workers between 2013 and 2014 (Noah clayton). However, the entire category for deaths of athletes and coaches in all sports was only 10.97 per 100,000…

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    Fort St John Narrative

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    It was a crisp october morning in fort st john I just moved from Hope to Fort St John's for my job with a Big Beaver logging all I had was my german shepherd named gerard, a jeep, and a bag of clothes. Everything else had been supplied by my employer when I arrived a note was left on the counter it said “everything is ready there is a bit of food in the cupboard and fridge you’ll have to go shopping also look around your house theirs tools in the garage if you need them see you at work Rob.” I…

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    The Merriam-Webster dictionary explains evolution as a theory of changes that occur because constant change that excel naturally over a long period of time. (Merriam-Webster) This means that over a long period of time there were changes made from all the species and as time progressed we all started to break up into different categories and then different branches of those categories. It is said that we, as humans, share the same category as the primates. Though, over time we started to evolve…

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    Instead, it buys treated paper board from other companies, due to the abundance of recycling companies in Europe. Therefore, the raw materials required to make an envelope do not involve or rely on any logging or environmental destruction. Moreover, treated paper is easier to transport, making less carbon emission than making paper from tree trunks. The environmental cost of collecting paper and transporting it to infrastructure remain little but carbon…

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    Cote d’Ivoire shares many similarities with other colonized East African nations, however it is better off than many countries in Africa due to relatively low amounts of political strife, however certain aspects of the economy and environment still bare the scars of colonial rule. Cote d’Ivoire was host to many important kingdoms before the arrival of European powers. In the early eighteenth century the kingdom of Kong was founded by the muslim Juula. Kong became a center of commerce and…

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    Redmond Research Paper

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    stocked with Salmon when the pioneers arrived that they called their new settlement Salmonberg. Early settlers were filled with the pioneering spirit. Homesteaders would clear ancient trees and make way for their cabins and small farms. In the 1880s, logging took over as the area's primary industry. Mills were erected throughout the region as the demand for lumber increased. In 1888, sweeping change took hold of the valley as the Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern Railway reached the small town.…

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    Analysis: Blown To Bits

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    Chapter two of Blown to Bits by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis was about how technology affects our privacy. In this chapter, the authors discussed how our privacy is being stripped away, the willingness with which we give this privacy away, and privacy policies. As experts in technology, Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis discuss how technology has aided this progression of human ideologies to lead increasingly more public lives. Our privacy is constantly being stripped away from us thanks…

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    Edward Thomas

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    Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and—in retrospect—often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. Soon after writing the poem in 1915, Frost griped to Thomas that he had read the poem to an audience of college students and that it had been “taken pretty seriously … despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner…

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    charge begin to misuse their authority. A leader who misuses his or her control can continue to do it in different situations. Examples of leadership abusing their control are, a manager making a new crew member do the tasks nobody likes, or a manager logging into the company’s money system to change the amount of money it says the store earned the current work day to cover up that they took money from the cash register. When a person who holds a place of authority abuses and wrongfully uses…

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    Throughout their lives tropical rainforests such as the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil have been affected by natural forces like fire storms and drought. These events are random and therefore are very hard to detect. However it is well known that the damage caused by these natural forces cause far less damage then what us humans cause; mainly in the fact that the forest may never recover from human activities but will easily recover from the natural disasters and the ecosystem of that particular…

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