The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1‚172-mile-long underground oil pipeline that runs from North Dakota down to Illinois. The pipeline costs $3.8 billion and is owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP. It is supposed to carry approximately 470‚000 barrels of oil a day and the pipeline makes that move in oil a more cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner. The plan is to construct it through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Those lands are considered sacred to the native people
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The Keystone XL pipeline is a pipeline that runs from Canada to the United States. This pipeline would take expensive Canadian tar sand oil in Alberta to the southeast part of Texas next to the Gulf of Mexico‚ so petroleum products can be transported around the world. This great project would supply petroleum demands and create many jobs. The battle between industrialists for the petroleum and the environmentalists against the petroleum has great influence on the Keystone pipeline. The only thing
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Need to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community." Common Dreams‚ www.commondreams.org /views/2016/09/09/what-you-need-know-about-dakota-access-pipeline-protest. Gail Ablow shares what is happening among the Sioux and the Dakota access pipeline with her personal analysis‚ to inform individuals what they should know about the event. She clarifies the threats and dangers that the Dakota Access Pipeline can bring to the Sioux Native Indian tribe
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Social Commentary in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction novel‚ Cat’s Cradle‚ is chocked full of social commentary‚ satirical humor‚ and an overall pessimistic view on American Society. Through the fictional religion Bokononism Vonnegut introduces us to John‚ a young man who is writing a book about the day the atomic bomb was dropped. His research led him to the late Dr. Felix Hoenikker‚ a brilliant scientist who was deemed the "father of the atomic bomb." Anxious to learn
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consent is given by the owner. In the case of Standing Rock‚ the government was never given permission to construct the oil pipeline in their Indian Reservation territory. The government should not be allowed to construct the pipeline in Indian Reservation territory because first of all that property is not theirs is the Sioux’s Tribe property. Second of all‚ the oil pipeline is going to produce many complications for the environment and the community around it. Third and final of all this is going
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Criminal Minds Analysis 5 S5‚ Ep5 Cradle to Grave - a serial killer who impregnates young women and murders them after they have given birth In this episode of this episode they believed that the killings was done by a single sexual sadist male. The thought this because all the victims were females who was raped and forced to give birth before he killed them. They believed the man went after these girls for a reason and they weren’t random because they were all blonde haired blue eyed. They thought
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AND THE CHAD CAMEROON PIPELINE In November 1999‚ ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond faced the potential collapse of the Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline project on which the company was about to embark. Both Royal Dutch/Shell and France’s TotalFinaElf‚ ExxonMobil’s partners in the Pipeline Consortium‚ had just withdrawn‚ citing environmental concerns among other things and leaving its future temporarily in doubt. This withdrawal delighted many environmental groups long opposed to the pipeline. A spokesperson for
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had a tense and colorful past in regards to environmental and native rights. This issue has again become a source of tension between native/environmental activists and corporate advancement and policy in the form of a pipeline. The source of tension comes from the fact that this pipeline stems from the fact that the pipe runs near a vital water source and also cultural heritage sites that would be damaged. Opposition to this comes in the form the benefits that it would bring to the economy among the
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Whitman’s Poem "Out of the Cradle‚ Endlessly Rocking‚" is not‚ at first glance‚ an obvious love poem. Most readers would probably consider this a tragic poem about death and love lost. In spite of the fact that the poem is about intrinsically sorrowful events‚ or perhaps because of it‚ Whitman is able to capture a very unique and poignant portrayal of love. There are three major perspectives to examine how Whitman develops the theme of love in Out of the Cradle‚ and by examining each reoccurring
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Summative task The message that this illustration is showing is the world is either supporting or shaming the Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters for standing up for themselves. This structure that is used is a visual illustration drawing. The world is either supporting or shaming the Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters. I know this because in the illustration they are showing half of it positive and the other half negative. Some examples of this are spraying tear gas vs. taking a picture‚ frown vs
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