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    Pioneer Venus In December of 1978, an orbiter entered Venus’ orbit. This orbiter was called “The Pioneer Venus Orbiter” one of the two spacecraft which launched Venus to collect data. Along with the orbiter, the “Pioneer Venus Multiprobe” was also sent to Venus where used it had four different probes to collect data through the surface, yet only one probe made it and transmitted the data back. The objective of this project was to create a map of Venus’ surface. The Multiprobe was a 290 kg heavy bus

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    MAKES A GOOD LEADER Viable authority incorporates solid character. Pioneers display genuineness, honesty, reliability and morals. Pioneers act in accordance with how they talk, and gain the privilege to be in charge of others' achievement in the organization. Solid initiative includes clear relational abilities. Pioneers talk with and tune in to staff individuals, react to inquiries and concerns, and are compassionate. Pioneers utilize compelling relational abilities for propelling the organization

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    Before I started back to school, I was working for Pioneer Human Services as a contract staff Resident Monitor in the Washington State Department of Corrections Brownstone Work Release facility. Pioneers motto is “A Chance for Change”. I genuinely believe all people, regardless of where they have been or what they have done, deserve to be given the chance to change. In the years I worked there this was always true, but I discovered there was one problem. That problem was that I was working for the

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    The following financial indicators were used to comment on the return made by the shareholders of Pioneer Foods: Basic Earnings per share; Dividends per share; Return on shareholders’ equity. The basic Earnings per share = Net profit after taxNumber of issued shares×100c= 912.1cents in 2016 (increased from 612.8cents in 2015 which shows that the company was able to generate a greater profit and the shareholders were able to ‘earn more’ even though more shares were issued). The Dividends per share

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    O Pioneers! One significant social issue found in O Pioneers! is the tension between the way women were often perceived in the late 19th century and the way they may have been entirely misunderstood. Willa Cather explores this issue through all of her female characters. Every female character in this story could be defined as a “pioneer” in their own right; however, the contrast between the women whose identity is attached to the way society wants them to be and the women who choose their own identity

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    Children Pioneers By Fay McCracken as published in the Friend, July 1995 The air was charged with excitement as the families with their wagons, oxen, sheep, and other livestock gathered at the Missouri River to start the long trek westward early in the spring of 1852. As twelve-year-old Albert Dickson wandered among the wagons, he saw many children. He even discovered several boys his own age. It was good to know that he would have friends on the long trip ahead. Albert was just one of thousands

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    depended on for years to come. The panel at Healthy Water Ways program has developed a study to guarantee the management and sustainability of The Pioneer River catchment, by sending a team out to analyze the health of the water ways and decide on a proposal that best suits the area to ensure future healthiness of the basin. 1.1 Background The Pioneer River is a 120km river which is located in Northern Queensland, Australia and flows through the city of Mackay. This river

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    O Pioneers!: A Journey into the Western Frontier Willa Cather is an author who uses similar aspects and events of her life and puts them into her novels. This approach allows the reader to know what inspired the events happening throughout the novel. After reading the novel O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, I began to search for ideas leading me deeper into the meaning of the novel as a whole. O Pioneers! is a novel in which several of the key concepts and character qualities can be better understood

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    as a struggle. Pioneers from distant lands are lugging memories, hopes, and heritage, seeking land that holds a promise of freedom and opportunity. The darkness fills the skies, the uncompromising weather of the plains, while the winds blow and sweeps the soil across the open wilderness. Until the light dawns, soil becomes fruitful, and life prospers in the West, immigrants must express their heritage and familiarize themselves with the new land. For immigrants in the novel O Pioneers!, searching for

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    invigored prose in “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” and Willa Cather’s similarly titled novel, you could be considered daft. Some of these major parallels can be seen in major and minor characters seen in willa Cather’s novel and are viewed in the forms of recurring themes including sacrifice, Youth, the idea of the American dream and the relationship between man and the natural world. First, let us examine the idea of sacrifice. In the poem, much of what our speaker praises in these pioneers is the way they

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