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    In this ever-evolving world, we are constantly using things that use electricity without any thought. As the world evolves and develops, the need for energy increases, and the resources are drained. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, we have been utilizing fossil fuels to create the required energy to power our homes, cars, and businesses. Regrettably, our reserves of fossil fuels are running low, and they have been viewed to increase the temperature in the atmosphere and accelerate global…

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    is already facing various threats such as climate change due to an increase in green house gasses and the tar sands only further contributes to this increase. The tar sands are responsible for approximately 8.5 per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions (“Energy Alberta”, n.d). According to Weinhold (2011), “there are more than 1,400 known pollutants emitted by oil sands operations.”(p. 5). Although many individuals mention that they are working on monitoring emission problems such as…

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    Background “Tap a Button, Get a Ride’’, this meaning leads to Uber Technologies Inc. Uber is online transportation network company, is an American worldwide company, based in San Francisco, California. Established in 2009, by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. The Company was initially founded as UberCab. Now, the service available in over 66 countries and 507 cities worldwide. (Uber, 2008). How it is work : (Software) Uber have application through the smartphone platform, which allows the…

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    Nigeria is plagued by conflicts between various ethnic groups, issues of widespread government corruption and ineffectiveness, and by conflicts concerning the production and sale of oil. These problems are all especially evident in the Niger Delta. As a resident of the Niger Delta and an ethnic minority within Nigeria, I have a unique perspective on the situations at hand, as well as how they aught to be remedied. I hope to see citizens of the Delta gain an increased amount of regional…

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    TOPIC TransCanada is planning to take over the U.S 3 party gas pipeline operator. From the past two weeks, I have been reading this news in many website’s article about that the TransCanada is going to take over the U.S. gas pipeline i.e. Columbia pipeline. So suddenly this news attracts me and I wanted to go deep down about what exactly about this deal and how does it make any difference in supply chain industries especially in oil supply chain industries in up north side of Canada. So when I…

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    Scrapping and pollution. Despite shipbreaking being a profitable industry there are a number of environmental and human health hazards. A brief review in numbers shows that scrapped ships have an unlabeled weight of between 5,000 and 40,000 tons, 95% of which is steel, coated with between 10 and 100 tons of paint containing lead, cadmium, organotins, arsenic, zinc and chromium. Ships also contain a wide range of other hazardous wastes, sealants containing PCBs, up to 7.5 tons of various types…

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    2. Environmental restoration “A bird's nest nestled in the tall grasses of a wetland symbolizes the end of a 20-year struggle to clean up a site contaminated by radioactive material from a former Cold War-era uranium processing plant…”(Cornwell, 2007). The ultimate objective of Fernald Closure Project was the accomplishment of environmental restoration in compliance with federal environmental regulations. In 2006, Fluor successfully completed the project of environmental restoration with the…

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    As can be seen, multicem concrete showed resistance below the limit for structural lightweight concrete, which can be classified so as insulating concretes or moderate resistance. However, according to Radonjanin, Malesev, Marinkovic and Al Malty (2013), concrete made from 100% recycled coarse aggregate can achieve high compressive strength since large amount of cement to be added, which is therefore not an economical proposition. Still according to the author, concrete made with 50% or 100% of…

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    The Holy Trinity

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    The Holy Trinity only consist of three brands of cars. Ferrari, Porsche, and McLaren. The reason why those brands are in the group is because of their technology, not because they are supercars.(“The Holy Trinity”) At the Illinois Institute, some of the students are considering hypercars or supercars as megacars. Design students have created future friendly hypercars as Ferrari adds green technology to its portfolio. (Jason Ford Reports) To the devotion to the brand. The Ferrari F1 or known as…

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    Ford Persuasive Essay "Find the USA in Your Chevrolet", don't just "Drive One". Chevrolet has better gas mileage than Ford. Chevy is more safe and more protective for families than Ford. However, Ford is cheaper than Chevy, Chevy is stronger, durable and safer. Although there are many different brands of trucks, however; Chevy is the best kind. It's true, "Chevy runs deep". It has much better gas mileage than Ford, it may not be much cheaper, but it's worth the money. Chevy a person can get…

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