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Created in 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act was the first legislation allowing the government to enforce regulations on trusts that interfered with free trade and market competition. Named after U.S. Senator John Sherman of Ohio, the act allowed government to establish proceedings against trusts in order to disassemble these organizations. Trusts had created many problems in the free market such as establishing monopolies over certain industries. This lead to extremely high prices and low supply…

Wedding Portrait or Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, Jan van Eyck’s 1434 oil painting on wood panel, is among the most famous paintings in Renaissance art. This painting not only is a double portrait but also visually certifies the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini, an Italian merchant, and his betrothed in their Flemish home in Bruges. Van Eyck’s composition is filled with elaborate detail and complex symbolism. The use of oil paint instead of tempera paint allowed van Eyck to create the illusion…

them. This separated out the components within them- making it easy to measure their percentage value. I found the regular margarine to be made up of 14.5% solids, 64.2% oils, and 21.3% water. Next, I used the same method as before, and found the percentage of each component of the light margarine to consist of .8% solids, 42.9% oils, and 56.3% water. After that, I found the percent error of my calculated amount of each part of both margarine types. I determined my percent deviation for the…

The National Gallery of Art on Friday, March 30th. I viewed so many stunning works of art, but out of the pieces I had the chance to see that day. The three that caught my eye were Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) oil on canvas, c. 1717/ 1718, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Diana and Endymion oil on canvas, c. 1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of Roman mythology (fantasy), and…

around a disk containing the substance, but grew around all the other parts of the agar plate, the substance on the disk likely caused the bacteria to die. In the case of cinnamon, one reason it may have stopped bacterial growth is due to cinnamon bark oil and the bioactive phytochemicals cinnamaldehyde and eugenol, which significantly decrease biofilm formation of E. coli bacteria (Kim et al.) As shown in Figure 1, this effect of cinnamon is supported by a 4 mm zone of inhibition around the…

SWOT Analysis It is important to know oneself in order to succeed in life. One of the tools in which one can use to do this is by the use of a SWOT analysis in which one identifies his strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. These are basically internal and external factors which influence the decisions that one make in their life more so in their career. This paper will contain elements of my own SWOT analysis, my action plan and highlight some of the benefits of such and analysis…

As an Environmental Studies student I have come to realize everything has an impact on the way this world works and many of those impacts are causes of human-environment interactions. Before reading this book, I had a basic concept about energy and the main complexities that came with it. As humans we have created a web of relationships that form our complex society and allows us to function efficiently, however, it is that connected that strains global energy needs. The smallest of changes…

example, the Nigerian government’s oil savings account has depleted from a favorable amount of $21 billion in 2008, down to $2 billion in 2015 (Wallace & Mbachu, 2015). However, despite these changes and a subsequent 1% increase…

gone forever and this process was only gradual. I’m currently taking an Economics class. One day my professor wanted to discuss about the incredibly low gas price. He said that the supply is high because of a new technique it has been used to take the oils out of the mantle rocks called “fracking”. As an economist, he could not quite tell if the benefits overcomes the environmental costs of the new technique. Since my father worked his entire life at Petrobras, Brazilian’s biggest petroleum…

Description of the Event The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is also known as the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and the British Petroleum (BP) Oil Spill (OSHA, 2011). It occurred on April 20th, 2010 and it was approximately 50 miles southeast of the Mississippi River Delta or 66 km off the Louisiana coast (GCERTF, 2011). BP was the main developer of the Macondo Prospect oil field, which is where the accident occurred (Cleveland, 2013). The Deepwater Horizon was owned by Transocean Limited, who were under…