Phillips 66 Since reporting its latest results on January 29 this year‚ shares of Phillips 66 have rallied 7%. In fact‚ its shares are up approximately 5% since year-to-date‚ due to persistent low oil price that kept improving refining margins for midstream & downstream companies. Last year‚ the crack spreads (profit from a barrel of oil) were strong except in the fourth-quarter that witnessed larger inventory builds. This is due to the fact that the steep decline in the crude oil price had a negative
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Ancient history Yr 11 assessment Religion played a very important part of Greek drama; the most important element underlying Greek drama was religion. It concerned the gods and was performed in honour of the gods at their particular religious festivals.1 The Greek drama began as a religious observance in honour of Dionysus. In the eyes of the Greeks‚ Dionysus embodied both spring and the vintage.2 He was a symbol to them of that power there is in man of rising out of himself
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In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories‚ he creates characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a more allegorical meaning. In the story " Rapaccinni’s Daughter" he uses Beatrice as a carrier of a deadly poison. Beatrice’s relationship with Giovanni is the main plot of the story. To Giovanni‚ she is the woman who represents death and enslaves him but in reality she is not deliberately harmful to him. She becomes a focus of Giovannis fantasies‚ fears‚ and desires
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Advantages of fossil fuels * major advantage of fossil fuels is their capacity to generate huge amounts of electricity in just a single location. * Fossil fuels are very easy to find. * When coal is used in power plants‚ they are very cost effective. Coal is also in abundant supply. * Transporting oil and gas to the power stations can be made through the use of pipes making it an easy task. * Power plants that utilize gas are very efficient. * Power stations that
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The Importance of Setting Setting is the psychological time or place in a story. Setting plays an important role in the success of stories. Three examples of this importance can be explained through “To Build a Fire” by Jack London and “The Cask of the Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. The settings used in these stories set the reader’s mood. A good writer’s depiction of setting puts the reader right into the story. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London takes place on
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Appreciation Forgotten The fairy tale of The Nightingale and the Rose‚ by Oscar Wilde published in 1990‚ is a story of the consequences of not appreciating creation. It is also a story of men not appreciating the sacrifices that women make. This passage‚ from The Nightingale and the Rose‚ foreshadows the consequences of not a appreciating nature. It then symbolizes pregnancy and childbirth‚ a sacrifice many women make that men take for granted. The first part of the passage uses
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unintentional and the purpose is to send a message to the audience. “The witch again works to signify a narrative occasion for a threat to the state whose revelation equates with neutralization.” (Purkiss‚ 191) Macbeth finds the witches hovering in a cavern‚ tossing all the customary and expected ingredients necessary to conjure divination into a seething cauldron while they recite their incantation. He implores/demands that they reveal his destiny‚ again. And he is consumed and afflicted by the potential
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de Tilbury‚ a cleric in the court of King Henry II of England and the Holy Roman emperor Otton IV‚ makes fun of arthurian knights‚ by relating how Arthur‚ after his supposed death‚ is not waiting in Avalon for his return‚ but is rather living in a cavern in the Etna’s volcano5. However‚ Tilbury wrote this stories to entertain his lord‚ Otton IV‚ after the emperor’s defeat against the French king Philip II in the battle of Bouvines in 1214‚ so‚ obviously‚ the author did not want to completely crush
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The wind nearly picked little‚ Nancy up off her feet as they entered the cave. If it had not been for John and Uriah grabbing her arms and dragging her inside‚ the wind would have siphoned her right back out the cave entrance as it seemed to do with all the air in the space. A moment later the air returned and they could breathe‚ but then they heard hellacious noises outside as the whirlwind wrecked havoc around them. The noise was deafening as it seemed to put pressure on their eardrums so that
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Streams of desperate tears spill off a woman who runs to one of the children. She grabs him‚ holds him‚ kisses him. A soldier comes‚ wrestles the child away from her breaking heart. Queen Mother leads the children out to the open over dead leaves and pine needles. The sun bakes through the shadows of the trees. She looks up‚ sees a pirate ship flying in. Everyone in the village sees the sailing galleon‚ mouths wide in wonder. But it soon turns to horror at finding dragons sitting nearby on
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