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    Introduction Fossil fuels play a very important role in administering the economy efficiently and enforcing newer developments effectively. Oil & gas, Coal and other mineral resources supports us with most of our energy mix and touch our lives in multiple dimensions. They cater to everything - from domestic uses to manufacturing industries, and from transportation fuel to synthesis of organic and chemical products. India is a country with more than 1.2 billion people accounting for more than 17…

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    Art Observation Paper

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    For this assignment I visited the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and chose a painting from the 2016 Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition. The oil on linen painting was titled Professor Quimby and was made in 2014 by Cyd Goodwin. Goodwin appears to be influenced by theatrical plays as most of her paintings revolve around the same subjects/people. In Professor Quimby, one can see a young woman in a greenish dress, standing, looking over her shoulder at the viewer. Diagonally from the woman…

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    painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar snakes…

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    Renewable energy sources such as water, the wind, biofuel, and solar have little or no carbon emissions and, therefore, scores highly well in the replacement of fossil fuels. However, the cost of eliminating these emissions through renewable energy is high for all the alternatives. However, when considering the potential for the reduction of the emissions, wind power holds the best potential…

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    sculptures, and much more artwork of all times. One of the portraits that had caught my eye was called Spring Time by Pierre-Auguste Cot. He painted this portrait in 1873 and it was now found at The Metropolitan Museum. The material that was used is called oil on canvas, according to the tag that was placed by this painting. Unfortunately, the size of the painting was not listed on the right side tag of the portrait, but it was a nice big painting. As I continue with this paper, I will be…

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    The relation between Russia and the West is a debatable and meaningful topic which has been discussed by many experts and specialists. Lilia Shevtsova, an expert on Russian politics and a Senior Associate at Carnegie Moscow Center, analyzes the reasons why Russia has not modernized into a liberal democracy with a completely transparent market economy and the relation between Russian and the West, especially with the United States. In her book Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the…

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    Zaibatsu Corporate Culture

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    Translating to “wealthy clique” the Zaibatsu were the conglomerate businesses created during the Meiji restoration where one company comprised of one family held complete control over all subsidiaries while maintaining a monopoly of the industry sector. Dating back to the Tokugawa period the prominent large merchant houses would transcend to become Zaibatsu and during this time companies were just beginning to form with little separation between shareholders and management. Their economic growth…

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    a dramatic entrance into the national and international scene between 2009 and 2014. During these years, the United States became the world's top oil producer. It also created a huge demand for trucking to haul sand, water, equipment, drilling fluids, and other materials. OPEC responded to this challenge by flooding the market with oil to drive down oil prices below the break-even price for doing fracking profitably. The intent was to bankrupt the fracking industry and rid OPEC of the…

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    Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States of America. Roosevelt spent part of his presidency figuring out what companies were breaking the Sherman Act and putting them out of business. These companies were making it hard other the consumers and other companies that might have been trying to get their hand in the game. These bad trusts were not just stopping people from getting into the market but they were also making sure that the other companies that were already in the…

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    Analysis Of The BP Oil Spill

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    Oil Drilling Regulations British Petroleum(BP) had a massive oil spill on April 20, 2010. In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of eighty seven days, making it the biggest oil spill in United States history. The initial oil rig explosion killed eleven people and injured seventeen others (“11 Facts”). The spill killed hundreds of animal, plant life and destroyed the environment. BP was penalized up to forty billion dollars in…

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