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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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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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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Film analysis of the opening scene in the film Laura (1944). In the opening scene of the film Laura‚ there is much to analyse. Be it from unusual casting options‚ to the cinematography‚ it seems that the director Otto Preminger knew exactly how to make the audience to think when making Laura. Casting is of a big importance when analysing the film Laura. What is interesting about Premingers work is how he makes unusual casting decisions‚ that always seem to make the feature a success. It seems
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MUI group/ Laura Ashley case study When Tan Sri Dr KP Khoo‚ Chairman of the MUI Group‚ a Malaysian conglomerate‚ saw that Laura Ashley was under financial strain‚ he thought the British company was worth saving. Download the PDF For easy printing you can download the PDF version of this case study. If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download a free copy. Laura Ashley fashion and home furnishings are popular all over the world. The company has come a long way since Laura and Bernard
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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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“Every child in America should have access to a well stocked school library.” Straightforward‚ inspiring‚ and educational. These few words do her no justice. Laura Bush said very little‚ but what she said was very impactful and important. When she talked people listened and people gravitated toward her. What makes her so gravitational was her likability and the fact that she had the same concerns that every other American had. So she used her platform given to her by her husband’s Presidency to help
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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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Part 1: Summary Saving Private Ryan takes place at the in in 1944‚ during the second World War. It starts off with American soldiers arriving at Omaha‚ France by boat and engaging in an extremely bloody battle. One of the American commanders‚ Captain John H. Miller is then chosen to lead a new special mission: to find and return Private James Ryan back home because he is the last remaining son out of three who had been K.I.A.. Captain Miller assembled seven men to join him on the mission and
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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a big deal. These past months people have been protesting and debating on whether to let the pipeline be built or not. What is the Dakota Access Pipeline? The Dakota Pipeline is a new underground pipeline that is made by the Dakota Access‚ LLC. The Dakota Pipeline conveys 470000 barrels of oil per day. This pipeline goes through Bakken/ Three Forks Formation North Dakota near Patoka. The Dakota Access ‚ LLC claims that the project will create up to 40 permanent jobs
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