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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Issue #1 The issue is whether the UCC applies to the offer made by Fountain Products. Rule The UCC governs transactions in goods‚ which are all things that are tangible and movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale‚ and the common law governs transactions involving services provided by professionals. When there is a mixed contract involving both goods and services‚ most courts use the predominate factor test to determine if the contract is predominately for a good or a
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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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This essay will be looking to define the marketing audit‚ identify and explain the main characteristics‚ process‚ elements‚ uses and why its purpose is one of the most practical and profitable marketing tools available. The marketing audit has been defined by Kotler as “a comprehensive‚ systematic‚ independent and periodic examination of a company’s (or business units)‚ marketing environment‚ objectives‚ strategies and activities”. (Sloan Management Review 1977) It is a comprehensive review
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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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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1‚172-mile-long underground oil pipeline that runs from North Dakota down to Illinois. The pipeline costs $3.8 billion and is owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP. It is supposed to carry approximately 470‚000 barrels of oil a day and the pipeline makes that move in oil a more cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner. The plan is to construct it through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Those lands are considered sacred to the native people
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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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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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Place is the centerpiece of Kathleen Norris’ memoir‚ Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. This textual map is an eloquent gathering of herself as she explores her inheritance and her faith in a small town in western South Dakota. The land she captures on the pages of this aptly named ‘geography’ lives‚ breathes‚ transforms. But Dakota is not for the romantic seeking a nostalgic reconnection with the earth. It is a land of fierce winds and oppressive skies‚ drought and dust‚ killing rains. It is a land
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