Describe the different strategies used by multinational oil companies for accessing oil reserves around the world after World War II. What role does Corporate Social Responsibility play in Eni’s strategy‚ and with what groups within the Republic of Congo does Eni engage as a result? Multinational oil companies face growing competition with national oil companies (NOCs)‚ which benefit from better access to global reserves of oil than the multinational companies. To cope‚ multinational companies use
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the democratic republic of the Congo (DRC). Where the land is rich with minerals of all types. Located in the Continent of Africa. The country has many exports goods and services. The people of the Congolese‚ Live to about the age of 54. The DRC official language is French but the natives also speak Lingula‚ Kingwana‚ and Tshiuba. A brief background on the Democratic of the Congo is or was establish as in Official Belgian Colony in 1908. The republic of the Congo gain its independence in 1960.
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Corneas in the Congo Case Study I. Duties and Responsibilities: As the head of a small aid agency in Congo‚ our duty is to cater the refugee’s health dilemmas and concerns. We must attend to their needs by providing them the right health services suited for their condition. Like what is happening in the camp‚ the refugees are in need of cornea transplant because of the poor water condition which resulted to them being blind. Therefore‚ we must do any possible means of giving them enough corneas
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I will say this though‚ regardless of the documentary’s portayal of the Congo and it’s military groups I still believe that‚ Without guns‚ without money‚ and without social constructs‚ our only true power is reduced to the way in which we interact with one another as human beings‚ and will only extend as far as how much value and regard we place in caring for and upholding our natural environment. I applaud the documentary for getting more people to pay attention to a worldly cause‚ and certainly
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Is Mars Colonization a Good Idea? Among celestial bodies in our solar system‚ Mars is remarkable in that it possesses all the raw resources required to sustain not only life‚ but a new branch of individual evolution. The time to colonize Mars would certainly be required when the Earth becomes uninhabitable as the global warming rises up. When that happens‚ Mars has the potential to become the most habitable planet in our solar system. Nevertheless‚ even with positive extrapolation of robotic manufacturing
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Elizabeth 1 argues that dividing up English resources is a bad idea Colonies were a bad idea 2: wanted to put government funding toward protestant causes 3 Sir Walter Ralegh was the earliest Englishman to make an actual attempt at colonization 1 America became attractive to English policy makers in 1580s 4 1http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=W8cr4Vgt9ekC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Roanoke+Colony&ots=ys19S_6b9o&sig=PnfDZvsafb5iFv5-ycyG_X3i2lY#v=onepage&q=Roanoke%20Colony&f=false
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Hawai’i By: Kaleem Minor In January 1778‚ James Cook of Britain made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first European to ever visit the island group‚ which he named the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his patrons‚ John Montague‚ the Earl of Sandwich. The ships then made a brief stop at Ni’ihau‚ the seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands‚ and headed north to look for the western end of a northwest passage from the North Atlantic to the Pacific. Almost one year
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By the end of the sixteenth century‚ Portuguese hegemony that was in the Indian Ocean was growing weak (359). Portugal was a small country with an even smaller population. With its size‚ Portugal was not able to keep up with the demand that came with a large seaborne trading empire. In the late sixteenth century‚ investors from other areas began to put expeditions together so that trips could be made to Asian markets. Some of the most prominent followers of the Portuguese were the English and Dutch
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Effects of American Colonization in the Philippines The effects of American imperialism on the Philippines are numerous. Some‚ however‚ stand out‚ most notably the installation of an American-style democracy and the prevalent attitude that anything American is “good”. Many of those in lowland Philippines‚ and most of the Christian population‚ for that matter‚ grew up in an increasing Americanized society. The following American influence in the Philippines says it all: Political -Partisan
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The English were one of the European powers that sought to build and empire in the New World in the 1600s. Jamestown and the Virginia Colony were founded by the Virginia Company of London which hoped to benefit economically from their investments. New Hampshire and New York were also founded for commercial reasons. On the other hand‚ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were founded by Separatists and Puritans who hoped to practice their religion freely. Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were
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