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    “I don’t think I’m any different than a school teacher or a doctor we all have a job to do and were trained to do it” (Coal a Love Story). The Sago mining disaster is just one of the numerous mining disasters that were easily preventable. The miners that perished rely on coal for their income and many had no choice but to go into the industry. The world has a love-hate relationship with coal. It is often very “on again off again”. During World War II coal production was at an all-time high.…

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    Google Analytics is a set of affordable and reliable internet marketing tool especially for small business, and it combines various featured applications that are useful for improving internet marketing management. It would definitely assist small business manager through enhance the performance of websites and apps whether they want to increase sales or attract more customers. Google Analytics has three major tool sets that used for data collection and management; data analysis, visualization…

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    Moving Mountains Analysis

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    illustrate the Peruvian population’s search to find a source of income, despite having to live in extreme climates or overwhelming amounts of pollution. The collection is featured in the exhibit because it demonstrates the willingness to working in the mining field, despite the harsh living conductions. The second series, Developers, documents the construction of skyscrapers. As new buildings are created, more resources must be extracted to build the complexes as well as fill formations to make…

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    A traditional traffic model for circuit switched data as well as packet data is the Poisson process in which the number of incoming packets per time is according to Poisson distribution. It is one of the most widely used and oldest traffic models. In this model the length of each packet is based on exponential distribution and the number of simultaneously ongoing packets is according to Erlang distribution [16]. The Poisson process is characterized as a renewal process. In a Poisson process the…

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    Nowadays, many company start to making their own map for different use. As we all know, map-making costs very high and involves a complicated process. However, why do many government and institution are still willing to invest such huge resources to making a map? The reason is that it is very valuable as a way of recording and storing information, a means of analyzing locational distributions and spatial patterns and a method of presenting information and communicating findings. In addition, a…

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    The Counterfeit Coins Problem is a well-known complex search problem in mathematics as well as in computer science. It can be related to the data structure (such as binary tree) computer program, algorithm, Graph Theory, Therefore researching this problem is meaningful. The Counterfeit Coins problem can be described as given a set of n look-alike Coins containing One Counterfeit which is a bit heavier or lighter than the genuine Coins. The objective is to find the Counterfeit Coins in minimum…

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    Stereotypes In Trampoline

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    Preliminary Essay Assignment When looking at the novel Trampoline by Robert Gipe and other sources, including our guest speakers, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Dr. Scott, and some notes that we took in class discussing the local citizens fight for rights against the big coal companies. I see negative stereotypes, such as drug use, the lack of education, and poverty, that are often brought onto the region and Trampoline solidifies these stereotypes throughout the entire book, it adds onto the…

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    Target could successfully identify pregnant women based on purchasing demographic data parsed through their predictive models, moreover they could presume the gender of the child and the progress of the pregnancy. The recent use of big data and data mining for business, personal and security related advantages have had questionable ethics between consumers and enterprises alike. However, the definitive benefits produced by big data undoubtedly exceed the potential risks that may present…

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    The outbreak of Zika virus in South America and Central America created a potential threat to its neighboring nation United States of America (U.S.A). Zika is an outbreak in Brazil, furthermore, as of January 2016, over 1 million cases were registered and the count is still growing. Therefore, neighboring countries like the United States are in serious danger because the United States had experienced the spread of similar arbovirus disease West Nile in the past. In 1999, USA had registered its…

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    working in the coal industry in the 1910 from mining issues such as the hopes of getting a job in the industry of coal in the western states of the United States, the harsh mining conditions, and miners being taken advantage of by their bosses. The book discusses two mining in general locations where all the stories are told by Sinclair himself: Rocky Mountain and Pedro (6). The author 's purpose in writing the book is to expose the truths of the mining industry in terms of a narrative to engage…

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