The topic in question is hydraulic fracturing‚ more commonly known as fracking. Said practice is vital to study because at the moment there are many questions about its potential negative effect on our environment‚ yet oil companies are pushing for its complete legality. The four articles used include Fracking practices in offshore California waters by oil companies probed by regulators (Jason Dearen and Alicia Chang‚ Los Angeles Daily News)‚ Fracking war: Sierra Club says bill not good enough
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Per the textbook‚ trying to understand factors that impact the outcomes of business process is an important aspect of improving business operations. Conventional wisdom plans experiment one-factor-at-a-time (OFAAT). Compare and contrast the main advantages and disadvantages of OFAAT and DOE and select the approach (e.g.‚ OFAAT or DOE) that you would use in order to obtain effective business process. Provide a rationale for your response. ADVANTAGES OF DOE OVER OFAT EXPERIMENTS A designed experiment
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Drew Lewis 11/13/11 Philosophy Determinism and its Moral Implications Q: There are powerful arguments that there is no such thing as free will. But people in ordinary life tend to presuppose there is free will when they talk about people deserving good or bad treatment‚ rewards and punishments. Some kinds of rewards and punishments encourage good behavior and discourage bad behavior‚ so those make sense even if there is no free will. But what about punishments for crimes that are impossible
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GERALD R. CABARLES NECESSARY EVIL. MOTION: TH would assassinate Dictators SIDE: Government EXPLANATION: Assassination can be defined as the targeted killing of an individual for political reasons in peacetime. It can be undertaken by individual citizens‚ or by the agents of another state‚ but in either case it takes place without any legal process. Why is ther a need in doing such? The setting up of this principle is in the method of necessary evil if it really cause harm than good. Likewise
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Obamacare‚ or what is formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ is federal legislation that was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010 by present Barak Obama. The act aims to reform national healthcare and give more people than before access to affordable healthcare. The overall goal of the act is to cover all persons regardless of their conditions or other factors. The passing of Obamacare has led to much conflict in the government and throughout the nation. In particular‚ recently
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Citation: C N Trueman "The Crusades" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site‚ 5 Mar 2015. 17 Dec 2015. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval-england/the-crusades/ This article explains what the crusades were. They were a chain of military crusades during the medieval time that were against Muslims. They both fought. One to get jeurslm back and one to keep it. This information is important because I got to learn what crusaders were and what they were fighting for. Alchin‚ L
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A severe thunderstorm is created when an unstable atmosphere reacts with different levels of pressure and temperature. Analogously‚ World War II was created in a very similar manner. The repercussion’s facing the Central Powers-primarily Germany- following their defeat in World War I included: loss of territory‚ financial reparations‚ military/armament restrictions‚ social and cultural upheaval‚ and finally the casting out and adoption of new political ideologies. However‚ the pains of the war were
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is an extremely common joint disease that is most frequently seen in the knee and in the older population. Since OA oftentimes leads to disability‚ the patient’s proprioception is negatively altered. Decreased proprioception can cause unstable joints and make the effected joint more prone to traumatic injury. Unstable joints increase the likelihood of falling which in turn can also increase the already high chance of traumatic injury. In order to counter this change‚ physicians
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Ever since the 1960s‚ there has been an influx of high-income populations moving into urban areas from the suburbs. This phenomenon was coined ‘gentrification’ by sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe “the movement of upscale (mostly white) setters into rundown (mostly minority) neighborhoods” (Hampson). Proposition 555 has stated that in order to increase government funding and provide citizens a better life with a cleaner environment and safer community‚ the process of gentrification would
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Peaceland outlines the conventional structural flaws in the present blueprint of international peacebuilding. The community populated by expatriates is one with its own “time‚ space and economics.” The occupants are inducted from organizations across the globe with distinctive philosophies and ideologies. Accordingly‚ they are not homogeneous. They form transnational affiliations who have more in common with each other than with host nations. Very seldom are the expatriates’ habits questioned or
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