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Oil And Gas 21 St Century
1,457 wordsChesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, owns 1. 1 trillion cubic feet equivalent (the) of proved oil and gas reserves, one of the largest inventories of onshore U. S. natural gas {Chesapeake Annual Report, 1998, p. 1 }. Recently, Chesapeake finished the transformation from an aggressive exploration company focused on developing short-reserve life, to a lower-risk, longer reserve life natural gas producer. Chesapeake's operations are focused on develop...
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Gold Rush James Marshall
1,012 wordsImagine yourself building a sawmill and all of a sudden you see something shiny in the ground. You pick up the shiny pieces and determine that you just found gold. You go tell your foreman what just occurred. Soon, the news spreads that gold was found. Millions from all around pour into a place they had never seen before. These young white men were in a pursuit for happiness not realizing the hardships they would encounter on the way to California. In January of 1848, James Marshall had a work c...
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George W Bush Commander In Chief
599 wordsAs expected, Governor George W. Bush of Texas has won the Republican Party nomination for the presidential election in November. All along, Bush was the predicted winner for the GOP, but Senator John McCain of Arizona gave the Governor a run for his money. Although Bush was able to defeat him, John McCain was, and still is, the best candidate for the presidency. It was said that the New Hampshire primary is often a good indicator of who will succeed and who will fail in the race for the presiden...
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The Caste System In To Kill A Mockingbird
1,267 wordsImagine a time and place where no one is equal. Colored people have to drink from different water fountains; those who were poorer are not allowed to be involved with those who were wealthier than them. As a matter of fact, if one was different, they are shunned by society. In a perfect world, people would rejoice in each one another's happiness, but this isnt a perfect world; nor was it in the 1930 s. The Southern states were an area of archaic, imported romanticism (Erisman, p. 1). People of t...
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Cyber Patrol Internet Censorship
1,610 wordsThere is nothing more frightening than active ignorance, the German poet Goethe stated. Ignorance is alarming, no matter what good intentions it is hidden behind. Today, an ignorance of the issue of Internet censorship has left a threat to free speech, our constitutional right. Even worse, many of our lawmakers are the ones feeding this fire. The first major law concerning the matter was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. The CDA made it a crime to transmit indecent material over the ...
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Separation Of Church And State
1,099 words... only Washington and Adams held days of public prayer and thanksgiving. When Jefferson became President he did away with those practices saying that they were religious practices and, as such, belong in the province of religious societies, not of government (Miller 131). He felt that government should deal with actions, not opinions, and that no one should be held accountable for his faith. In his view religion was between the individual and his God. Jefferson also believed that government mi...
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War On Drugs Dollars A Year
1,681 wordsLegalization of marijuana offers both benefits, and disadvantages. The medical benefits of marijuana have been researched and proven to aid patients with glaucoma and some forms of cancer. Other benefits include: fewer people in prison and fewer social problems for the users because they get help instead of jail time. The big question remains: all out legalization or legalization for medical use, or decriminalization. Whatever the outcome, marijuana use needs to be based on its own pharmacology ...
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Mccarthyism Vs Salem Witch Trials
1,346 wordsOver three hundred years ago in the town of Salem Massachusetts a problem was laid into our hands. A problem that will haunt our nation for years and years to come. When our nation was faced with a similar problem was almost taken the same as it was with the Salem Witch Trials. This problem was called McCarthyism. Many people feel that the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism was just about the same conspiracy, but more than two hundred and fifty years later. One day two girls and an Indian slave ...
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Critique Of Marxian Economics
1,228 wordsJon Elster concluded his Making Sense of Marx with the claim that It is not possible today, morally or intellectually, to be a Marxist in the traditional sense (1985, p. 531). Acceptance of this statement depends, of course, on what is meant by traditional Marxism. Elster makes it clear that what he means by traditional Marxism is that intellectually bankrupt and non-scientific economic theory associated with the labor theory of value, the theory of the falling rate of profit, and the most impor...
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Gay Or Lesbian Gay And Lesbian
1,203 words... nts, there are emotional issues. One parent someone that the child has know for maybe 10 years suddenly has no rights and the child will never see them again. These are big issues. (Davis p. 2) The number of U. S. children with at least one gay parent is estimated between one million and nine million, with most such children conceived in a previous heterosexual relationship. But an increasing number of same-sex parents conceive through donated sperm or with surrogate mothers. (Reuter p. 1 - ...
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Odyssey And O Brother Where Art Thou Compared
868 wordsThe movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? is strikingly similar to Homers Odyssey in both plot and character description. In fact, one critic notes, O Brother Where Art Thou? is a Homeric journey through Mississippi during the Depression. (Ebert p 1) Thus, we find the modern film depiction of the troubles of a man during the depression is molded by the ancient struggles of Odysseus in Homers Odyssey. Specifically, three parallels surface in the discussion of the similarities between Homers classic ep...
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Democratic Society Human Beings
1,666 words... dancer. The goal of the dancer is to be able to express freedom and spontaneity. Paradoxically perhaps (at least for the Hobbesian who understands only negative freedom), the dancer's freedom of expression requires years of disciplined practice and study. Again, the dancer becomes ever more free to express his or her ideas, feelings, etc. - the more he or she undertakes the rules of long practice, proper diet, etc. As another example: as drivers of automobiles, we all share the same goal: we...
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Word Of Mouth Sexually Transmitted
2,049 wordsCritically examine the image of a destination of your choice. How has the image been determined? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Abstract The tourism industry can only prosper if the destination marketing organizations (DMOs) have a thorough understanding of the influences behind the consumers choice of tourist destinations. The research done for this paper focuses on image perception and projection of tourism destination in Malaysia. It will explore and analyze the image projected by...
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Matter Of Fact Seven Commandments
1,087 wordsEssay on Animal Farm In George Orwell's Animal Farm pigs managed to set their dictatorship over the other animals on the farm. The growth of pigs power was achieved step by step due to the various verbal and non- verbal forms of argumentation. First the pigs invented the philosophy of Animalism and thus tried to show that they cared about life conditions of the other animals. They used the song The Beats of England and the flag to popularize the ideology and turn the rest of the animals into the...
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Shays Rebellion Political Leaders
634 wordsShay's rebellion Americans won the victory in the Independence War but capitalists tried to use the results of war in their own interests. Although Hamilton and Madison wanted to create constitutional monarchy, Washington and other political leaders were afraid that proclamation of monarchy will arouse the rebellion of people and army. The taxes increased and inflation was huge. A lot of farmers had debts. Import of English commodity after conclusion of peace resulted to the bankruptcy of peasan...
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Natural Sciences Foreign Languages
1,052 wordsWhat is the relationship with literacy and / or education. The modern economical conditions make literacy and education the most necessary element for citizens of the United States and other countries. Literacy and education lay in the basis of democracy and development. When people study abroad they get used to respect customs and traditions of other citizens as well as differences between countries and cultures. They also realize that different people have common values. The United States dont...
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Five Year Plan Buenos Aires
2,171 words... of labor and social welfare, he employed all the power of a dictatorial state to overcome opposition to long-overdue labor legislation and to build up powerful unions personally attached to him in every economic field. These became the mass base for the Peronist movement. In his years as president, they constituted a watershed in the countrys history in terms of the expansion of government power over the economy, social reform legislation, and the strengthening of the labor movement. In fact...
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Catcher In The Rye Grab For The Gold Ring
1,644 wordsIn JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, a post war novel written in 1953 is about a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield, who struggles with loss of innocence and the fact that everyone has to grow up. He yearns for perfection. He illustrates individualism and alienation in adolescents in American society, and JD Salinger uses symbolism and irony to get this point across to his audience. Holden? s language, his colloquial speech of teenagers above all provides the excitement, surprises and clue...
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Percent Of The Population Opposing Viewpoints
2,652 wordsHomosexuality- The Major Cause of Homosexuality The origins of human sexuality and homosexuality in particular have puzzled philosophers, theologians and ordinary people for thousands of years. In scatter cultures, homosexuals have been regarded as a normal part of life, however, same sex attraction to most cultures have been treated as an unforgivable sin or a terrible crime. Many psychologists and psychiatrist had attempted to? treat and counsel? the homosexuals. In our social norm, male attra...
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Yin Yang Digestive Tract
1,570 wordsTraditional Chinese Medicine Chinese Medicine Traditional medicine of China has a long historical and cultural background dating back about 2500 years. The ancient Chinese people were able to reach a level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in the intellectual eli...
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