The Keystone XL Pipeline: Environmental Impact Abstract. The topic of global oil production is becoming a well-recognized political issue‚ as it should‚ but the environmental impacts need to be addressed as well. The recent development project of the Canadian oil sands has been put into the spotlight after the TransCanada Company applied for a permit allowing their Keystone XL pipeline. Introduction. The Keystone XL pipeline is a project of oil companies invested in tar sands oil‚ which
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b.) One knife c.) Strawberry Preserves d.) Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter e.) Cream Cheese (for those with allergies to peanuts) f.) Two slices of wheat bread. “Studies show that Rye or Pumpernickel bread are not good delivery vehicles for PB&J’s”. (www.seriouseats.com/2007/04/pbj-a-serious-eats-special-rep.html) Transition: Now that we have collected all of our materials‚ we can begin constructing our peanut butter and jelly
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The Keystone XL Pipeline was a proposed pipeline that would have transported crude oil from Hardisty‚ Alberta to Steele City‚ Nebraska. The pipeline would have stretched 1‚179 miles in a direct path to Steele City‚ Nebraska. The proposed pipeline was hoping to bring thousands of jobs to the market‚ strengthen the economy of the US and the communities surrounding the pipeline‚ and of course to transport oil in a safe way to fuel the needs of the American people. After seven years of review‚ the
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8-HODGE After having watched the PBS “China Prep”‚ I thought about what could be learned for the average school board member in the United States. The first thing I thought of was that every school board should watch this film. The concept that we are preparing our kids to compete in a global world market rather than at a local level on the football field is one we should all adopt. Many people in the USA seem to have tunnel vision when it comes to educating children. The idea of what a person
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in brown and black oil. Jonathan Waldman‚ an environmental journalist at the University of Colorado‚ published an article that argued that the Keystone XL pipeline should be built because it is the safest way to move tar sands oil‚ does not affect the environment and climate‚ and creates effective jobs. However‚ that is not the case. The Keystone XL Pipeline is actually a dangerous way to move oil from Point A to Point B‚ affects the environment negatively‚ and does not create effective jobs. In the
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A Canadian company‚ Keystone XL Pipeline‚ wants to export oil from its vast supply into the United States and possibly to other markets as well. Some groups are against the pipeline for various reasons‚ one of which is they state the oil sands project is harmful to the environment. They further say that the increased oil supply to the US will not make a large dent in our overall consumption and therefore is pointless. I completely disagree with this logic. The increase in the oil supply would
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1. Question Rainbow Products Savings - $5000/year Machine costs $35.000 Expected to last for 15 years Cost of capital 12% A. payback?‚ NPV?‚ IRR? Payback: The amount of time required for a firm to recover its initial investment. by dividing the initial investment by the annual cash inflow. In our case $35.000/$5000= 7years NPV: Investment- the PV of its cash inflows discounted at a rate( the firm’s cost of capital) NPV= -$35.000- $34.054= -$946 so NPV less than $0‚ the project
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Pragmatics 16:2/3.329-360 (2006) International Pragmatics Association SPONTANEOUS AND NON-SPONTANEOUS TURN-TAKING Maite Taboada Abstract Turn-taking is usually considered to follow a simple set of rules‚ enacted through a perhaps more complicated system of signals. The most significant aspect of the turn-taking process is that‚ in most cases‚ it proceeds in a very smooth fashion. Speakers signal to each other that they wish to either yield or take the turn through syntactic‚ pragmatic‚ and prosodic
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Argument Essay Outline Title: Keystone XL Pipeline Construction Thesis: The project is controversial because it clearly involves some environmental risks and spillovers to nature and society while economic benefits are also hard to ignore‚ but the best way to deal with the issue is adopting market-oriented regulations. • Keystone Pipeline System has been a major source of crude oil import for the U.S. in recent years. According to The New York Times‚ the Keystone alone supplies about a half million
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to Demand for Cosmetic Products in Bangalore‚ India Akwasi Ampofo University of Madras‚ Chepauk‚ Chennai 600005. Email: aampofoh@gmail.com Abstract The study seeks to examine the effects of advertising on consumer buying behaviour considering demand for cosmetic products by residents in and around Nagarabhavi‚ Bangalore. Using a sample of 100 respondents of mostly the young‚ we ran regressions and found that advertising does influence expenses incurred on cosmetics products but much influence on the
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