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    My desire to be an Alpha man strongly revolves around the fraternity’s aims‚ mission statement‚ and vision. These principles and values of Alpha are something that resonates deeply with how I try to develop myself as a man within an academic setting as well the local community. The fraternity itself set the standard for which other Black Greek fraternities and sororities would follow as being the first inter-collegiate fraternal organization established for African-Americans with the sole purpose

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    ------------------------------------------------- June‚06 2012 To Director of Intake: The purpose of this letter is to inform you of my interest in becoming a member of the Zeta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity‚ Incorporated. My desire to inspire young men and women and make a significant impact on their lives is just one of many reasons I aspire to join your great fraternity. While growing up in a family of primarily my mother and other women relatives‚ I did not have many

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    Alpha Facts

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    1. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity‚ Inc. was created to address the low retention rate at Cornell University during the times of Jim Crow Laws. 2. In 2010‚ Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity‚ Inc. decided to boycott Arizona and move their 2010 National Convention to Las Vegas‚ in protest of the recent Arizona law that allows for profiling of potential illegal immigrants. 3. Vertner Woodson Tandy became the first registered black architect in the state of New York. 4. Vertner Woodson Tandy became the

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    Alpha Legacy

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    Alpha Legacy: A Brief History Since its founding on December 4‚ 1906‚ Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity‚ Inc. has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world. Alpha Phi Alpha‚ the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-Americans‚ was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca‚ New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary

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    Wolfram Alpha

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    1. INTRODUCTION Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data‚ rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might .It was announced in March 2009 by Stephen Wolfram‚ and was released to the public on May 15‚ 2009. Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range

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    Alpha Channel

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    Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing Technical Memo 7 Alvy Ray Smith August 15‚ 1995 Abstract The history of digital image compositing—other than simple digital implementation of known film art—is essentially the history of the alpha channel. Distinctions are drawn between digital printing and digital compositing‚ between matte creation and matte usage‚ and between (binary) masking and (subtle) matting. The history of the integral alpha channel and premultiplied alpha ideas are presented

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    Piper Alpha

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    Abstract The explosion accident that occurred on board the offshore platform Piper Alpha in July 1988‚ it killed 165 people and cost billions of dollars in property damage. It was caused by a massive fire‚ which was not the result of an unpredictable accident but caused by accumulation of errors and questionable decisions. The destruction of the platform by an explosion and the subsequent massive oil and gas fire showed that the potential hazards of the offshore industry were greater than had been

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    Piper Alpha Disaster

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    Abstract Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum. The platform began its production in 1976‚ first as an oil production and then later converted to oil and gas production. In the night of July 6th 1988‚ the platform was engulfed in a catastrophic fire‚ which caused the death of 167 men and cost billions of dollars in property damage. There are only 61 survivors who saved their lives by jump off the platform in to the sea. At the time of the disaster‚ the Piper Alpha disaster was the worst

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    Piper Alpha Disaster

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    Piper Alpha Disaster Subject : Engineering Application of Information Technology (EAT 106) Name : Ravin Raj A/L Vijaya Kamaraj Course : Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Mechanical Student ID : SCM-013090 Lecture : Cik Anis ------------------------------------------------- Abstract The case study was done on the Piper Alpha disasters which happened in 1988. First the management and the operation process is analysed and studied hence to the structure. Secondly the cause of accident

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    Piper Alpha Disaster

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    Alpha Piper Disaster Introduction The accident‚ which occurred on board of the seaward platform Piper Alpha in July 1988‚ took lives of 167 people and cost billions of dollars damage of property. The Piper Alpha is placed in the North Sea‚ around 193 km northeast of Aberdeen. The field was discovered in January 1973 and the same year construction of platform took place. The depth of it was up to 140 m‚ and at the time the development and installation of the Piper Alpha platform give tongue to

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