wandering though the crowd looking for customers on her first night in North Dakota. "They ’re not in there to tip the dancers‚" she says with a laugh. Williston is the heart of Bakken oil country‚ the Fort McMurray of the U.S. ’s north‚ for all the good‚ and bad‚ that brings. There are at least 3.1 billion barrels of recoverable oil trapped in the Bakken shale‚ a teardrop-shaped formation spread between North Dakota‚ eastern Montana and Saskatchewan‚ and likely many billions more. In recent years
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story comes out of North Dakota. Despite ts reputation of being a fly-over state with little to see or do‚ it played a major role in the Cold War. The state was home to one hundred fifty Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The presence of such a large quantity of nuclear missiles put North Dakota on the Soviet Union’s radar‚ as well as made civil defense in the state higher priority. Only one evaluation of the effectiveness of civil defense in North Dakota has been done‚ despite
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Out of the documentaries shown in class‚ I have decided to analyze the documentary Dakota 38. The film focuses on Native American riders who go on a long‚ perilous‚ journey 330 miles across South Dakota to Minnesota to go to exact spot where their 38 ancestors were hung. The purpose of this journey is to honor and remember the end of the Dakota War which is known to be the largest mass execution in United States history ordered by President Abraham Lincoln. In the beginning of the film it focuses
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Many people would most likely feel conflicted if a very large pipeline was being built through their back yard. Some would even take action. In the article‚ “Native Americans Celebrate pause of North Dakota Pipeline‚ Vow to Fight on‚” the author‚ Dave Thompson‚ claims the Native Standing Rock Sioux Tribe feels the same way about their sacred land. However‚ through growing efforts the Native people of the local region of the pipeline’s construction to discontinue this pipeline they are making progress
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Company‚ a distributor of electricity serving portions of Montana and North Dakota. Reliant was in the final stages of planning a takeover of Dakota Gasworks‚ Inc. a natural gas distributor that operated solely within North Dakota. Emerson went on a weekend fishing trip with his uncle‚ Ernest Wallace. Emerson mentioned to Wallace that he had been putting in a lot of extra hours at the office planning a takeover of Dakota Gasworks. On returning from the fishing trip‚ Wallace met with a broker from
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Jesus Barajas Professor Schander Standing Rock Vs. Dakota Access The U.S government has always had a tense and colorful past in regards to environmental and native rights. This issue has again become a source of tension between native/environmental activists and corporate advancement and policy in the form of a pipeline. The source of tension comes from the fact that this pipeline stems from the fact that the pipe runs near a vital water source and also cultural heritage sites that
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05% 39.33% 38.57% 42.86% -6.67% 37.86% Gross margin for each label $26‚400 $27‚187 $27‚994 $59‚400 ($4‚608) $27‚475 Question 3 Plant-wide allocation based Activity-based cost system Advantages 1.Simple 2. Lower expense 3.easy for one product line 1. Accurate 2. Best for multi-
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property owner. To begin with‚ the route that the Dakota Access Pipeline is being built on was placed on sacred ground of the Sioux Tribe. The sacred ground includes the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and it includes graveyards were they have buried their ancestors. Now before the government wants to build something‚ they need to make sure that whatever they are
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your own Divisional Chief Executive make a careful and well prepared and argued case for such a strategic move an imperative. Consideration of alternative market entry strategies EPP has achieved significant growth to date through a combination of product and market development. Importantly‚ this has not led to diversification away from the core business which is important bearing in mind the 1990s experience of the Group Chairman and Chief Executive to previous geographic diversification. The move
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Dakota Dreams is a novel by James Bennett. The story follows the life of a lonely fifteen year old foster child named Floyd Rayfield. Since Floyd has no parents he had to live in multiple foster or group homes for most of his life. One day Floyd had a dream in which he saw himself as a Dakota warrior‚ a fierce warrior in Indian tribes. When Floyd awoke from his dream‚ he was certain that becoming a Dakota Warrior was his destiny. Floyd undergoes a name change to Charley Black Crow and‚ he learns
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