Marcos October 27, 2014 ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to identify the Buffalo Creek disaster and give • HISTORY Buffalo Creek is located in Logan County, West Virginia and essentially was made up by several cities along the 17-mile creek. It was a growing area due to the location of an important resource, coal. These were coal towns, built by the coal companies for the support of their mines (W.V. Archives and History). Population soon decreases when mechanized mining
of age and qualification levels, workplaces have become primary place of learning. There has been emerging research (Eraut, 2007; Billett 2002, 2004, 2009; Fuller & Unwin, 2004) evidencing the effectiveness of workplace as a learning alternatives. This case study is based on my experience while working in Marina Bay Sands as Training and Quality manager for front office department. This paper presents the practice based learning and workplace pedagogies that enhance my learning experiences while performing
“A global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by civilised mankind, is a very real possibility and may be due very soon.” - Scientists’ letter to President Nixon (USA), December 1972 Even back then, climate change and global warming has already been a concern to many people due to the disastrous effects it would have onto the world. Today, these two complications are definitely evident and observable in people’s lives. Due to climate change, the Earth’s