140‚000 inhabitants. The city both has a university and a number of important industries e.g. SAAB Aero airplane assembly. The city is located in the middle of an agricultural district on the plains of eastern Sweden. The prerequisites for building a biogas plants were thus obvious. The manure from cattle and pigs in the area could be co-digested with abattoir waste and organic waste from other food industries in the area. In the early 90’s the city of Linköping was in the process of converting
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[pic] Guns Germs and Steel Humans have lived on this planet for thousands of years. Over the time‚ they learned‚ developed‚ acquired knowledge‚ and civilized in the process. Yet‚ this learning can’t be construed to be complete‚ leaving a lot to be learned. Along the way‚ human race has evolved by generating vast amounts of food‚ domestication of plant and animals‚ along with battles and illnesses. The primitive human who survived on hunting has reformed into modern human as we
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Love as a universal trait Love is a feeling that every person can relate to having no matter their religion or culture. As we grow up we as humans hear “I Love you” from many different people as well as say it to many different people for example our parents‚ siblings‚ or significant other. Again as we grow older our understanding of love deepens as we experience those different types of love‚ however‚ the love that is felt for a significant other is by far the most fulfilling. When reading “How
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Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Why do some nations have so much material wealth while so many others have so little? This was the question Jared Diamond posed in his book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel. After identifying a point in time when all societies were roughly equal (over 13‚000 years ago)‚ Diamond identified the key variables that allowed some societies to develop highly complex‚ material-rich societies‚ while others developed at much slower rates. Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel uncovers how Europeans
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Overview of the case‚ Strategic Management at Zhujiang Iron and Steel Company Zhujiang iron and steel company (ZISCO) is an important strategic business unit within Guangzhou iron and steel enterprises holding limited (GISE)‚ established in 1997 as a state owned organization. Before 2003‚ ZISCo pursued a product differentiation strategy with a focus on domestic niche markets because ZISCo was new in steel market and had no distribution channel. With this strategy ZISCo couldn’t achieve economies
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Reflection on Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Jared Diamond: A Genius or a Nut Case? My Review of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel It was the prehistory of the world that drew attention to Diamond’s brain that gave him the wonderful thought of writing this book about how our world is today‚ with the differences of culture‚ cargo‚ religions‚ skin color‚ etc. One simple question his friend Yali asked‚ “Why is it that you white people develop so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little
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inside. The resident is being accused of murder‚ a crime they didn’t commit. In order to avoid jail time‚ the accused is going to need an exceptional lawyer. An excellent example of an exceptional lawyer would be Atticus Finch. He has many strong traits that show what an ample lawyer he can be. Whether it be his courage‚ which he shows when he takes the Tom Robinson case and defends Tom Robinson from the lynch mob. Or his intelligence‚ which he shows when he proves that Bob Ewell was the one who
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The man should be the dominant partner in the marriage 13th September 2012 There are two main Christian views towards roles in marriage. There is the traditional view‚ and the modern view. Traditionalists‚ fundamentally say that men should always be dominant in marriage‚ whereas‚ the modernist view is centred on both partners being equal. The traditional view held by Christians is that men should be the dominant partner and that they should go out to work to pay for the family‚ while the wife
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characters have a mixture of positive and negative traits. In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare‚ Mach has a mixture of positive character traits as well as character flaws. Macbeth has the positive trait of being a great leader; however he has the negative traits of being selfish and mental instability. There are many characteristics throughout the play that proves Macbeth has both positive and negative traits. Macbeth shows the trait of being a great leader. In scene one of Macbeth the
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STEEL ASIA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION: Company Case Study STEEL ASIA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION COMPANY DESCRIPTION Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation (SAMC)‚ a joint venture with TATA Steel from India‚ is located in Bulacan in the Philippines and produces reinforcing steel bars (also referred to as rebar) for use in construction. The plant was commissioned in 1996 and currently has 400 employees. Annual production is 360‚000 tons of steel bars compared to its 400‚000 tons annual designed capacity
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