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    countries in different continent. The third reason for CO2 emissions are industrials which is almost estimated 13% which is almost a quarter of the total CO2 emissions. An example for industrials are oil refineries. Oil refineries is a place where people breakdown oil to fuels and the problem with oil refineries is that a lot of oil would be not needed so the only way to get rid of it is to burn it which causes a lot of air pollution. Also another example of industrials is tires factories, when…

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    How Did Rockefeller Wrong

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    Rockefeller was the founder of Standard Oil Company, and become one heck of a rich man. In 1863 Rockefeller invested in Cleveland, Ohio, Refinery, for then-fledgling oil. He controlled most of the refineries in the US. They thought he was doing unethical practices, to gain monopoly industries. They had found, the Standard Oil Company in violation, of antitrust laws, and ordered it to be dissolve. Rockefeller was born to a traveling salesman. He always did little side jobs, from selling…

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    Top of Form The Iranian revolution was mainly caused because of the economic conditions the country faced rather than the Shahs friendship with Western countries. The country suffered from shortages, economic downturns, and high inflation while the Sha was in charge. There were many events that led up to overthrowing the Pahlavi dynasty. The first being the government monopoly on tobacco products which created a protest in 1891. Then came the Anglo oil company which was controlled by the British…

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    Climate change is a change in climate and carbon emissions is the carbon dioxide emitted from automobiles. Carbon emissions have been devastating to the planet. The oceans have been rising for years and the water might rise an additional one-four feet by the end of the 21st century. When the sea rises, homes are flooded, which can displace several people. Furthermore, the oceans will continue to rise since the cool skin layer of the ocean becomes warmer and less heat escapes the ocean.…

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    We all remember the images of birds covered in heavy black crude, and the hundreds of thousands of fish and other aquatic life floating above a decimated ecosystem, dead. Soon after these images were made public on every news outlet of the time, the PR machine at one of the largest fossil fuel companies went to work. With spin and confuse tactics, paying off “everyday folks” to say they stood by British Petroleum and appreciated so much that they were there to help. The year was 2010, an oil rig…

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    ISIS Research Paper

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    followers and it worked and the terrorist group started to do attacks on Iraq like suicide bombings and bombing and attacking cities. In a matter of days cities started to fall one by one. When the U.S started to do their air strikes on the ISIS oil refineries ISIS started to capture some people from multiple countries like: France, U.S, Russia etc. ISIS has started to attack all kinds of countries such as: september 2014: ISIS kidnapped an Algerian tourist and beheaded him in retaliation for…

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    When the fighting of the American Civil War had come to an end, the US saw the west as their future, liberating them from the turmoil and conflict of today and giving them a new tomorrow where they could develop themselves in new lands of financial and civil independence from the government. Unfortunately, while motivated by paintings and advertisements for this new tomorrow, Americans coming to the west still faced turmoil and conflict as people had to compete to build something of their own…

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    ISIS Case Study

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    I have no doubt that having U.S. forces on the ground will work, however, I do not support a full on ground forces. A large force with their equipments and vehicles would require a base or two that would need additional personnel to provide support and security. A tank force or air force is simply too expensive and cumbersome in combat in fighting the more agile "technical" vehicles (pickup trucks mounted with a machine gun or larger weaponry) the ISIS member uses. In addition, a large force…

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    The name Rockefeller is synonymous with the nation as one of the most historically powerful and wealthy names in the history of the United States. There are many things that come to mind with such a name. Wealth, control, monopoly, oil and railroad are items that are linked to the name Rockefeller. As John D Rockefeller was an industrialist and a pioneer in many industries, he would also push forward to establish a foundation that would be the betterment of mankind. For such a man to have such…

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    Homodore Vs Commoderbilt

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    Vanderbilt at age 16 buys a fairy boat. His one fairy boat soon turned into a business, considering he was very tough and competitive. Vanderbilt built the largest shipping industry in the world. He was soon nicknamed the commodore. The commodore then began working on the first transcontinental railroad. He decides to sale all of his ships and invest his money into railroads. He later realizes that his decision paid off by earning $68 million. As he is becoming the richest man alive the people…

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