With music we can express the feelings that are hard to express with everyday language. An example of this is Bessie Smith’s song‚ “Thinking Blues.” (McClary). In the song she is singing about how much she misses and wants her man to take her back‚ how she will do just about anything to take her back. However at first sight of the lyrics‚ I thought the meaning of the song was completely different. I thought it was about how she does not want to be deprived of singing blues just because she is a woman
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benefiting from the products of RR’s activities or suffering from the byproducts of the same activities. Stakeholders also include the consumers of the natural gas‚ and the future generations who may reside in the areas affected by the fracturing (“fracking”) process. At a higher level‚ RR has a responsibility to follow state and federal environmental rules & regulations as
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Find two examples of companies‚ products or organizations which display social responsibility: one which displays good social responsibility and one which displays poor social responsibility. For each‚ explain why you have this opinion of these firms. Read all posts before yours - no duplicates allowed‚ so if another student has already posted about your choices‚ change your example to some other firm. Early posts have priority. Then come back to the discussion and comment on the examples given
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References: Caruso‚ D. (Jan 3‚ 2011). ’Fracking ’ Pollution In Water: Pennsylvania Allows Natural Gas Drilling Waste Disposal In Waterways. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/fracking-pollution-in-wat_n_803737.html. Naoi‚ M.‚ & Krauss‚ E. (2009). Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interest Politics under Alternative Electoral Systems. American Journal Of
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THE FUTURE OF OIL Contents 1. Extreme oil--from the deep Atlantic to the arctic‚ from fracking in the U.S. to sands in Canada--is replacing dwindling supplies. But it comes at a heavy economic and environmental cost 2. The Bakken Boom 3. Boom and Bust 4. The True Price of Oil 5. OIL ON THE EDGE 6. TIGHT OIL 7. ARCTIC OFFSHORE 8. PRESALT DEEPWATER 9. OIL SHALE 10. OIL SANDS 11. HOW SPIKING OIL AFFECTS YOU 12. A RECORD PRICE FOR REGULAR 13. INCOME
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Connecting our analysis to create alliances: opportunities for action arising from neoliberalism ’s joint challenge to communities and our environment Paper delivered to the Sociologial Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference‚ 7 March 2014. Jamie Gorman‚ Centre for Rights‚ Recognition and Redistribution‚ Department of Applied Social Studies‚ NUI Maynooth. jamie.gorman@nuim.ie Abstract This paper argues that neoliberalism‚ as a common threat for social justice and environmental concerns
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Zach Robinson December 1st‚ 2012 GLBS 101 Research Paper: Nonconventional sources of Oil and Gas I chose an unorthodox global theme to research and learn more about‚ because much of society is clueless as to how we obtain some of our resources. I’ve always had an interest in the environment and how we as humans affect it. So it only makes sense that the topic I chose to discuss is nonconventional sources of oil and gas. The main two sources I wanted to better understand are Hydraulic Fracturing
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Some human exposure to fracking chemicals can occur by drinking chemicals that have spilled or entered water sources‚ direct skin contact with the chemicals or waste water‚ or by breathing in vapors from the contaminated water. Also‚ during the transportation of these fracturing
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Introduction: Hydraulic fracturing is the process in which a mixture of chemicals and water are used in combination to stimulate wells and expose minerals that previously would have been much too expensive to access using tradition methods. With the process comes some detrimental environmental consequences‚ like water contamination‚ due to the chemicals used in the liquid mixture. According to an Earthworks article‚ only 0.5 to 2.0% of the “frack fluid” volume content is made up of chemicals‚ which
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Cowspirasy is a documentary made by environmentalist Kip Anderson and award-wining documentary filmmaker Keegan Kuhn. Released June 26‚ 2014 in Los Angeles‚ California the documentary follows Kip on a journey to find the answer of what was causing climate change‚ only to figure out that the answer was in plain sight. The cause of climate change was animal agriculture. Now he goes to all these environmental organization to get no information on why they are not trying to stop animal agriculture from
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