Journey to Sakhalin Sakhalin Island’s resources include oil‚ gas and coal‚ as well as forestry and fishing. Before the collapse of the USSR‚ oil and gas were being extracted from the ground. Several geological studies show that the vast reserves of Sakhalin’s oil and gas were mainly under the Sea of Okhotsk. After the disintegration of the USSR‚ Russia was eager to rebuild its economy and oil and gas were resources that it could leverage for foreign assistance. Before Sakhalin II‚ Russia would
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1 SURFACE EQUIPMENT FOR WIRELINE: To enable downhole wireline operations to be performed‚ equipment must be provided at surface to allow the following:- (a) The lowering and retrieval of the tool string to the work location. (b) Monitoring of tool position and cable tension. (c) Handling and alignment pulleys so that the tool string can be positioned vertically above the well for lowering through the Xmas tree and into the tubing string. (d) The ability to insert the tool string
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Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy. Though not fully articulated until the 19th century‚ proto-utilitarian positions can be discerned throughout the history of ethical theory. Though there are many varieties of the view discussed‚ utilitarianism is generally held to be the view that the morally right action is the action that produces the most good. There are
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From: DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE By R. Gordon Richard Gordon was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital‚1 a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon’s twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical student’s years of professional training. To a medical student the final examinations are
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be concerned about the manufacturer or dealer providing unreliable information. c.) Compare the four causes of information risk faced by users of financial statements as discussed in this chapter with those faced by a buyer of an automobile. 1. Remoteness of information. It’s difficult for a user to obtain much information about either an automobile manufacturer or the automobile itself without incurring considerable cost. The automobile buyer does have
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Online degrees are becoming an ever more trendy method to receive a college education and many students are switching to online education due to the quality of material‚ ease‚ and the level of flexibility in distance education programs. Recently‚ the internet has developed into a reliable capital of information for college seekers. Everything from applying for financial assistance to taking a course can be done online. Now‚ a student can even obtain online degrees from one of many schools offering
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Over time‚ the actions of mankind have been the victim of two vague labels‚ right and wrong. The criteria for these labels are not clearly defined‚ but they still seem to be the standard by which the actions of man are judged. There are some people that abide by a deontological view when it comes to judging the nature of actions; the deontological view holds that it is a person’s intention that makes an action right or wrong. On the other hand there is the teleological view which holds that it is
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It was once said that “the only living societies are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.” A man named Paul Claudel wrote this in his work‚ Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher‚ and he criticizes the ability to have a functional society. Societies are meant to organize the values of people into a system with uniform laws and expectations; however‚ societies can never fully achieve this. Claudel only sees societies with dysfunctional characteristics like inequality and injustice. There
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Ali Rami WRLD HST Mrs. Bucher 02/05/2015 Piracy in the Middle Ages Piracy is the act of robbery or criminal violence on and around the high sea. The term can and is not limited to include any acts committed on land‚ in the air‚ in large bodies of water or on a shore. Piracy does not normally include the crimes committed against people traveling on the same vehicle as the possible criminal. The term‚ “Piracy” has been used throughout history as a reference to land-raids committed by non-state agents
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Contracts Summary DAMAGES – REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT THE INTERESTS PROTECTED Fuller and Perdue‚ “The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages” There are three principle purposes in awarding contract damages: restitution interest – object is the prevention of unjust enrichment by the defaulting promisor at the expense of the promisee reliance interest – object is to put the plaintiff in a good position as he was before the promise was made expectation interest – object is to put the
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