When the Union Pacific Railroad was authorized to construct a transcontinental railroad with substantial financial support from the federal government‚ officers and directors of the company devised a plan to make an immediate profit from its construction by fraud. The vehicle for this fraud was a company called Credit Mobilier of America. The method was to have Credit Mobilier‚ which was entirely controlled by the same people‚ bill the Union Pacific for the costs of constructing the railroad. There
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Why is the Pacific Ocean unsafe? In 2011‚ Japan suffered a major travesty due to the 9.0 magnitude earthquake‚ and tsunami that followed soon after. However‚ during that earthquake and tsunami‚ a nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daichii was hit‚ and exposed to the community. Being exposed to a nuclear power plant is extremely harmful because of the symptoms that may occur from it‚ due to radiation. According to the 2013 edition of the Encyclopedia‚ radiation is a‚ “flow of atomic and subatomic
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Reese Jones Mixon English 1320 3 April 2012 Pearl Harbor and the Pacific The Axis Powers wanted more land and a better world in their eyes‚ and what was not handed to the alliance would certainly be taken by force. Adolf Hitler‚ the Japanese‚ and all accommodating nations of the Axis Powers were criminal in their measures taken throughout World War II. It was an unjust war in a multitude of ways‚ and morals seemed to completely dissipate during combat. With the unprovoked attacks on Pearl Harbor
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decline in communal life in the pacific people. C – Decline in communal life L - Reasons‚ pacific D – Discuss Introduction Context: Every society in the pacific look for ways to uphold their inherited ways of life and preserve their unique culture. Limited subject: Decline in communal life in the pacific. Issue: What are major reasons for the decline in communal life in the pacific? Thesis statement: the major reasons for the decline in communal life in the pacific are threefold: sociocultural
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One interesting detail about the Northern Pacific exhibit is most if not all the organisms live in communities in this exhibit. Specifically‚ the sea otter lives with fishes that have a niche for cleaning the water in a way. What is a niche? A niche is an organism’s "occupation within that habitat
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While democracy in the Asia and Pacific has been growing rapidly‚ maturity of its democracy is still being questioned. Maturity of democracy is determined by high quality of democracy through where three main areas are in place including law enforcement‚ economic development and consolidated democratic institutions. The problem with third wave of democracy (Huntington‚ 1991) is that the change of political system from authoritarian to democracy does not automatically follow with the change in
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Profitability Ratio Analysis Profitability Ratio | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Gross profit | 51.15% | 48.80% | 50.45% | 49.01% | 48.13% | Net profit | 4.33% | 13.35% | 17.56% | 25.18% | 19.40% | Expenses ratio | 6.14% | 4.79% | 5.11% | 6.10% | 6.17% | ROA | 0.015 | 0.037 | 0.056 | 0.076 | 0.063 | ROE | 0.024 | 0.069 | 0.102 | 0.162 | 0.130 | ROCE | 0.035 | 0.048 | 0.069 | 0.086 | 0.075 | Table 3.1 Profitability Ratios (Year 2008 - 2012) From the calculation‚ the gross
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The case study on Pacific Oil Company shows from beginning to end the role of power in the outcome of a negotiation. From the beginning‚ the problem that Pacific Oil Company faced as it reopened negotiations with Reliant Chemical Company was that they did not assert the power necessary to really end up with the outcome of the negotiation they were hoping for. The case study points out several factors that Pacific Oil Company is trying to achieve in the contract negotiations with Reliant Chemical
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SWOT analysis of Pacific Coffee Strengths A. Pacific Coffee is a very profitable organization‚ earning in excess of $17.6 million in 2010. B. It is a Regional coffee brand built upon a reputation for fine products and services. It has almost 98 cafe shop in almost 8 cities. C. Pacific Coffee strives to be a contributing member of the communities serve. Pacific Coffee fund raising efforts are dedicated to the disabled or less fortunate children in its community and supporting
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There are 7 different species of salmon that can be found in the Pacific Ocean‚ each species has a unique appearance and has different habitats but they share many characteristics. Salmon are also a very unique species‚ they are anadromous‚ meaning that their eggs are laid and hatch in freshwater‚ and their youth spend some of their early lives there in freshwater before swimming to the ocean to grow and mature. Pacific salmon spawn only once and dies within days of digging their nest and mating
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