Pierre Shale

Shale gas and oil plays have been the focus of activity in the United States for the past 15 years. Barnett Shale successes prompted extensive commercial expansion of shale oil and gas activity (Curtis 2002; Browning et al. 2013). As the testing ground for new technologies, Barnett Shale has an extensive experimental history of various drilling and hydraulic fracture methodologies that have been successfully transferred to other shale plays (Grieser et al. 2006; Samuelson et al. 2012; Browning…

Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The Lock Haven Formation underlies the Catskill Formation composed of primarily of gray to red sandstone and overlies the Brallier Formation composed of olive gray to dark thick laminated marine shale. Also the Lock Haven Formation is composed of Devonian aged (480 million years old)…

Natural gas drilling is becoming a major profit maker for a multitude of companies. In response to being offered one hundred thousand dollars to sell his land for hydraulic fracturing, Josh Fox, a native Pennsylvania documentary filmmaker, begins to do his own research into the drilling industry. With the help of people from across the county, Fox is able to obtain first hand repercussions of the natural gas drilling on water supplies, overall health, animals, life after fracking, and the lack…

had won. The missile sites were relocated to northern Ontario and Quebec since it would cause huge problems if the missiles were to destroy Soviet bombers over the major cities near the border and they were fitted with nuclear warheads. In 1969, Pierre E. Trudeau removes all nuclear…

Multiculturalism is another huge factor which changed Canada and became part of its identity. Multiculturalism can be referred to as, “ an ideological aspiration celebrating diversity”(Hyman, Meinhard & Shields, 2011, pg.3). Globalization played a huge role in establishing Canada as a sovereign multicultural state. Canada can be considered to be cultural mosaic as it is home to variety of cultures and religions from across the globe. However, colonization of Canada resulted in formation of a…

social security, or unemployment insurance? Well, the answer is because our great prime ministers. Canada has had several great prime ministers. Great prime ministers that Canada has had include William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lester B Pearson, and Pierre Trudeau. Canada has had several great prime ministers. Another great prime minister of Canada is Lester B Pearson. Lester B Pearson is a politician, statesman, public servant, and a professor. He was born on April 23,1897 in Ontario. He wanted…

Minister. Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was an extremely well known Prime Minister for Canada. He inspired many Canadians and rebuilt the nation. Trudeau has greatly impacted Canada during his sixteen years as Prime Minister. He had made many contributions and decisions for Canada while gaining respect from many Canadians. Trudeau gained great adoration and praise from the population, this admiration increased his fame which was named as Trudeaumania. Pierre Trudeau was an…

patterns of relationships through interaction with one another. Citizens within a society must learn to navigate the social world and decided how to perceive it. However, certain groups with power can influence the way members view society. Sociologists, Pierre Bourdieu and Charles Tilly present different yet similar ways of defining how members within a state can shape a society. In both cases, political power is one of the main ways society can be transformed. Bourdieu’s concept of habitus is…

In 2015 the Liberals engineered one of the greatest political comebacks of a generation going from thirty-four seats in parliament to a stunning one hundred and eight four, despite the fact they were trailing in third place when the campaign began (Andrew-Gee, 2015). A victory of this margin deserves to be analyzed if for the mere fact that the Liberal Party will use the victory as a mandate to enact their agenda. This paper will argue that the Liberal Party’s victory was the result of a adept…

Similarly, advertisements work to attract the viewer into buying said product to make his or her life better if this product were to be purchased. With this in mind, Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and Novelist John Berger have correlating opinions on advertising as a whole. With Bourdieu, he talks about how cultural capital can be drawn from one’s background, such as character, way of thinking, gender, or race. He also claims cultural…