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Minimum wages were introduced to assist employees from being exploited, but is it affect-ing employees opportunity to find work? Minimum wages are set to prevent low paid work-ers from being exploited by their employers who would pay them otherwise. The minimum wage is “a level of pay for workers, usually set by the government or collective bargaining” (Minimum wage, 2015). Economists believe minimum wages are the cause of unemploy-ment. If employers were allowed to ‘fall below the minimum level…

The blue whale is the largest animal in the world weighing in at 180 tonnes and an average of 30m in length. The blue whale is part of the Chordata phylum as it body possesses a notochord, an endostyle, pharyngeal slits and a post anal tail. The blue whales body is a blue-greyish colour on the top and on its underbelly it is somewhat lighter. The blue whale has a long and tapering body that is muscular when compared with other whales. Its head it a flat U-shape and has a ridge that runs from the…

ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Co. is a multination energy corporation. It is the world’s largest independent company focusing on the production of crude oil and natural gasses. The company was first founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Co. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips) ConocoPhillips and COMAH Foreword: The ConocoPhillips Humber Refinery is a Major Accident Hazard site as defined under the COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazard) Regulations 1999. The…

Genetically modified organisms prove to be essential to the growth and success of developing countries. Since 2010, about 1.02 billion people go hungry internationally. Many of these people are from developing areas such as countries in Africa. Genetically modified organisms, as shown above, increase yield gain, and decrease insect destruction and pesticide usage. Many genetically modified organisms provide nutrients that would normally be unavailable to these developing countries. Vitamin A is…

People, animals, and even traffic by car, rail, and air came to an abrupt halt as this smog settled on London. Thousands of people and animals were affected by this deadly substance. the smog was thick enough that no one dared go outside. the weather had gotten so bad that even airplanes were grounded for the four days the fog was there. Giant amounts of chemicals that were released into the air from coal burning houses to giant factories and visibility had gone down all the way to barely a…

The Last Supper is a still life sculpture made by Ken and Julia Yonetani using groundwater salt from the Murray River. The image of the large banquet is chipped, moulded and cut from a 1.5 tonnes of salt into a three-dimensional “still life” masterpiece with the dimensions of 9 metres in length, 0.72 metres in width and 1.22 metres in height. The sculpture is of a nine-metre table laid with a variety of food on top, such as fruit and vegetables, lobster and fish and various shaped glasses and…

Two billion tonnes is the number that represents the amount of food that is wasted per year on the planet. At the same time, some countries have faced a serious aliment crisis as consequence of the poverty and hunger. By 2075, the world population can reach 9.5 billion people (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2013), so, the increase of food production is important to combat that issue. However, before that, food loss reduction is essential in order to avoid excessive costs and save money for…

with an annual capacity of 14 million tonnes with a strong presence in intensive steel consuming markets of Asia and North America. It has operations in four countries; • A 10 MTPA integrated facilities in India • A 4 MTPA steel plant in Canada • A 7 MTPA Taconite plant under execution in USA • A 0.4 MTPA downstream complex in Indonesia Essar Steel India is an integrated steel producer with an annual production capacity of 10 million tonnes. Essar Steel’s manufacturing…

Furthermore consumerism has caused economic problems for people since people are investing into items that cannot bring them more money. This is all down to the mentality of the people, consumers purchase products for a sense of accomplishment and momentary happiness, and once that ends they need to buy another product. Eventually from buying and buying and buying people may end up in debt and what was first intended for happiness may cause sadness and depression due to looking for happiness…

or one tonne lucky for him the drums of blanks are only 750kgs then they are tipped into a hopper. Once Titan has tipped the blanks in he does a little bow. Once the blanks have filtered through the hopper they are taken along a conveyor belt to a counting machine it takes photos like a panorama to count how many counts need to be made. Then they are sent to one of the 13 stamping machines to get imprinted. Each machine can make 750 per minute and they stamp down with a force of 30,000 tonnes to…