British Petroleum Company (BP) and Amoco Corporation are two of the largest oil and gas firms in the world. In spite of the intense rivalry between the two companies for several years‚ they decided to merge in 1990. The upstream business of BP which is exploration and manufacturing of crude oil accounted for 68% of its revenues while that for Amoco accounted for 60%. BP Amoco after the merger in 1998‚ their business involved exploration and production of crude oil. This was their upstream business
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little and high-skilled workers are getting paid too much” (Ferdman). The CEO of Discovery Communications makes 1‚951 times what median workers do (Huhman). Ron Johnson‚ the
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BP’s general strategy Oil companies were the worst performing brands in the world market. There was no brand in the oil industry that had created positive perception in the public. During the late 1990’s BP has decided to change this perception for their brand. The main idea was to create a symbolic capital for BP. The definition of symbolic capital is given by (Bourdieu‚ 1974/1977 sited in Holt & McNulty‚2008‚p.76) as “ the resources by which authority and credibility are established amongst
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Why did Hong Kong Fall so Easily? Hong Kong is world widely known for being the world’s financial hub and for being the world’s richest city; most people don’t know that before being a financial city‚ it had a rich history behind it. It went through one of the greatest‚ harshest wars in history‚ the Second World War. There are many reasons why the Japanese were so successful in capturing Hong Kong; they invested most of their money into the Japanese Army. While they had latest guns and weapons
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Why did so many colonists died at Jamestown? In a matter of four years‚ almost every colonist died in Jamestown. In 1607‚ English ships sailed Into Chesapeake bay and up the James river and later founded Jamestown in Virginia. By the Summer of 1609‚ 524 colonists would have arrived in Jamestown. But by 1611‚ more than 80% Would be dead! There are three main reasons why this could have happened. There wasn’t Enough food‚ the water was unusable‚ and they didn’t have enough workers with the
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sides. We traded with people we could trust‚ accepted people and did not get into wars that did not involve us. Even though we came from Europe‚ why get into the fights that they frequently go into? On June 28‚ 1914‚ the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was killed‚ forcing countries to pick a side. The assassination of Franz and the forcing of choosing a side would ignite one of the largest and deadliest wars in history. Although the world was at war‚ America tried to remain neutral
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Why did America become involved in WWI? How did President Wilson justify his decision to enter the war in 1917? Was the war in the national interest? At the start of 1917‚ the United States and its president was not interested in fighting in the war. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to remain neutral. Even though 2 years earlier in 1915‚ a Germen u-boat destroyed the R.M.S Lusitania‚ in which 128 Americans were lost. The United States was interested in selling weapons and help with funding the allies
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Greece fight its crippling debt and deficit burden. The bailout is unprecedented in European history‚ with the total aid package reaching a whopping 110 billion euros (145 billion dollars)‚ 30 billion of which will be provided by loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That leaves 80 billion euros to be paid out by EU member states over the next three years. In exchange‚
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Do you know why “New School” become so popular in the late 1980s? Hip-hop starts at the 1970s‚ the beginning of hip-hop is starting by DJ Kool Herc. All of the early artists of hip-hop‚ deejays or MCs‚ were named ’Old School’. ’New School’ was a given name to separate the different style of hip-hop depends on when does it born and what was added. New school rap came out and became popular because the new technology of drum machine came out‚ the new generation of musicians‚ and a new type of image
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posted to the front door of the church. He managed to get away with all of this and skip the consequence of heresy. The Protestant Reformation was ultimately the breakdown of the Catholic Church. Then the people of the church moved into the belief of Divine Right. This is where you are “chosen” by God to be his representative. Then Absolute Monarchies came along which is Absolute Power but the Divine Right theory is involved. How did they become so powerful? They increased
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