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    producing events at Vidant Health. Managing time and scheduling details was a major portion of the job experienced I gained during my time as an intern. When planning large scale events such as ribbon cuttings, the amount of details and decisions that have to be made must be done according to a strict time schedule. On my first day I attended a meeting about the ribbon cutting for brand new cancer center at Vidant Health. The meeting was the first meeting about the design and theme of the event. During

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    Holidays and cultural celebration serve a function in society and Carnival is no different. The importance of this celebration has endured for centuries and will continue to do so, because it allows people to lose control in an acceptable manner. Furthermore, it also serves a purpose in providing light and in the midst of the long, dark winter months, and people need this sort of joyous celebration during that time of the year. Nowadays carnival is celebrated in a myriad of different countries,

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    Amongst all of the biological events in history, the Cambrian explosion was one of the most spectacular because it gave rise to a vast majority of different animals. This event occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era. The Explosion is said to have occurred between 540- 542 million years ago. This event is termed as an explosion because of the gigantic outburst of different species. The radiation brought about diversity, which is an important factor and advantage in the ecosystem, environmental

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    Ice Age Research Paper

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    The Ice Age was the mark of the extinction of life in that time. What was the end result would lead to many discoveries by man that is still to this day yielding more data, information on what happened in that time. Living organisms being trapped in the asphalt for 11,000 to 50,000 years being perfectly preserved in rocks. The oldest of the fossils according to La Brea Tar Pits museum, that dire wolves, saber-toothed cat from Pit 91 each dated back to 44,000 years old. An coyote from Pit A is dated

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    Charles Tollison Failure

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    Charles Tollison was an audit manager for over thirteen years at a large international accounting firm. He was a dedicated worker, very knowledgeable about technical accounting and auditing issues. Whenever called upon Tollison never turned down a difficult engagement, and often worked long hour. He even made several personal sacrifices; his most recent was missing his eight year old daughter’s birthday party. While in the midst of completing a tough audit Tollison met his office managing partner

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    Festival, and The Punkin Chunkin.The Delaware State Fair began in 1919 in Harrington railroad station around a potbelly stove. The population for the meetings grew which forced them to change the meeting spot. Because everyone seemed so eager about such event this helped formulate the Kent and Sussex County Fair which was incorporated

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    Asteroid Impact Theory

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    disappearance of dinosaurs is an event in history that is still being debated today. There are different theories that try to explain the extinction, but the two theories that have been most accepted are the asteroid impact theory and the volcanism theory (Ducharme). One major theory explaining the disappearance of dinosaurs is the Alvarez hypothesis, or the asteroid impact theory. Walter Alvarez and his father discovered an atypical large clay layer at the K-T boundary, or the event of the extinction of

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    The K-Pg event, the day life on earth was wiped out, is one of the most notorious extinctions in the history of the world. From jawed fish, to plants, to crocodyliforms (10 species’ fossils have been found, 5 of which are extinct), even a species of pterosaurs, life was extinguished; however, what happened to the creatures? What truly killed the dinosaurs? There are many theories but some ideas are downright insane. Some older ideas consist of comets dusting the Earth with a poisonous gas, or the

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    Gubagoo Case Study

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    Good Morning Tiffany, Thank you for taking my call this morning, I understand you wanted a little bit more information about who we are and what we do. So, Gubagoo is now the leading chat and technology company catering to dealerships all over the country... We are able to do this by setting our self apart from the competition with a few things, One of those things being we leverage chat unlike any other provider with something we like to call the OMNI- Channel, This allows customers

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    Phanerozoic Eras

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    Approximately 3/4 of all species on earth went extinct in this extinction (BBC Big Five Mass Extinction Events). A global cooling event, after bolide impacts, could have been the cause behind this extinction, as warm water taxa were mainly affected by this extinction (Wake, Vredenburg). This extinction event may have actually been a series of extinctions over several million years instead of one single extinction event (BBC Big Five Mass Extinction

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