FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES Exxon Mobile the Number One Fortune 500 Company A fortune five hundred company is defined as “an annual list of the 500 largest industrial corporations in the U.S.‚ published by Fortune magazine. The corporations are ranked based on such metrics as revenues‚ profits‚ and market value.” (2011) Exxon Mobile has been declared the number one fortune five hundred company in the world in 2008. In 2007 Exxon Mobile was ranked number two but recently with its new
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5150 Mr. Padilla English 101 5 December 2012 Argument Essay The topic of gay marriage has always been controversial. Anytime the idea of same sex couples being allowed to marry is brought up there’s almost always an argument started. It’s viewed by many as wrong and many think it should remain illegal‚ but why? If two people are happy‚ no matter the gender‚ why should anything stop them from marrying? Male and female‚ male and male‚ or female and female‚ it shouldn’t matter; if they’re happy
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Canada In the early 1980’s provincial anti-drinking and driving groups started to appear in Canada. The people who started these groups were victims and survivors who wanted to inform and educate about the tragedies that were caused by drinking and driving. The people who started these groups include Sally Gribble (PRIDE in B.C.)‚ Gladys Armstrong and Pat Baril (PAID in Alberta)‚ Margaret Taylor (CAID in Manitoba)‚ and PRIDE (People to Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) which is the organization in
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Daijon Hunter Mr. Mata Language Arts-3‚ Period 1 Wednesday October‚ 5 Against The Power “…A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it‚ there be no road between.” This is basic thinking for genocide and the way genocide works. If you are against the group in power then you are as good as dead to them. In the crucible this is exactly what happens‚ the court inflicts fear upon the people and tells them they are either with or against the court. This was in certain ways
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Scouting has been a huge part of my ever since I was very little. I joined cub scouts when I was in the first grade and went all the way up through cub scouts and then crossed over into boy scouts when I was old enough. The Boy Scout program was completely different than Cub Scouts to me. Cub Scouts is adult lead because the kids are not old enough to do things on their own but one of the main purposes of Boy Scouting is to install the ideas of leadership in the youth so Boy Scouts is “boy lead”
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Binge drinking is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. Binge drinking is out of control in many college town campuses. The actual act of drinking alcohol is not necessarily the big issue here; it is the way people are drinking it whether they are legally old enough or not. The issue is binge drinking of college students mostly or anyone really. Drinking alcohol can have many consequences
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other human that is twenty-one or older. The drinking age was not always what it is today; it has been changed a tremendous amount of times throughout the decades from 1919-present day. There wasn’t a national drinking age before the prohibition that from 1920 to 1930 and after the prohibition‚ most states required age was 18. In 1984 The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted by Ronald Reagan‚ it was a law that required states to raise the drinking age or ten percent of the federal highway funding
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Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Teens who abuse alcohol often turn to a life of crime‚ or suffer mental or physical breakdowns. In many cases the teen may even die from attempt suicide or car accident. In Montgomery Country two teenager was killed in a car accident‚ after leaving a party drunk and driving over the speed limits. Knowing that they were underage‚ if the father who hosted the party had never let the teens drink‚ then the two death could have been
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THE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE I would like to complete higher education in the field of law. I find law very interesting. I have completed the degree of bachelor of laws from Mumbai University and I am looking forward to complete higher education in law. I find the topics like criminology‚ law of crimes‚ property laws‚ insurance laws and law of evidence interesting‚ so I would like to do master of laws in any of the above mentioned topics. The topics I law are interesting and whatever topic a
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Driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol is one of the most dangerous things that a human can possibly do. When people drink and drive‚ they are not only putting themselves in danger‚ they?re also jeopardizing the lives of other road users and pedestrians. At a young age‚ I use to watch my uncle James drink and drive thinking it was completely normal. Everything was ok until one day he got too drunk and lost control of the car and hit a tree. Today‚ I? am still pondering on what
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