without the Nile‚ Egypt would be swallowed up by the barren deserts that surround it. The river provided water for drinking and for irrigation of crops. It also served as a highway for travel. Egyptian merchants traveled up and down the Nile in sailboats and berges‚ exchanging the products of Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and the Mediterranean world. Egypt is called the gift of the Nile because the valley of Nile is
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Various Methods of Transportation in the Supply Chain Transportation is defined as the movement of people‚ materials or products from one location to another. “Transport is important since it enables trade between people‚ which in turn establishes civilizations.” Logistics is referred to as both the freight and inventory management (i.e. planning‚ execution and control) as well as the warehousing of materials and products (i.e. food‚ equipment‚ liquids and staff‚ including abstract items like
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Reflection Paper - Texoil For the Texoil negotiation‚ I was in the role of the Service Station Owner. As such‚ my main objective was to sell the station and get the best possible agreement. My BATNA was $400‚000‚ which represented an offer from British Petroleum and my resistance point was $413‚000 after tax‚ which represented the cost of my trip. My target was $488‚000‚ which included an additional $75‚000 to help tie me over until I found a job upon my return. This resistance point represents
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Wide Reading Book Suggestions Alexie‚ Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 2007. Talented Arnold Spirit leaves the reservation school to go to an academically superior one located many miles away. How he copes with this change‚ both at school and on the reservation‚ is realistic‚ thought-provoking‚ and laugh-out-loud funny. National Book Award Young People’s Literature 2007; Book Sense Book of the Year 2008 Crutcher‚ Chris. Deadline. 2007. Eighteen-year-old Ben Wolf has
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him discovering that things are “out of order‚” he resorts to severely beating Laura. The only way for Laura to escape from this torture is to stage her own death. One stormy evening Laura agrees to go out with Martin and a neighbour on his sailboat. She does this so that she can put her plan of escaping into action. Laura “falls” over board and desperately swims to shore. Meanwhile‚ her husband assumes that she has drowned due to the fact that she is unable to swim. However‚ Laura has been
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energy are wind turbines‚ Biomass‚ Hydroelectric‚ Geothermal‚ and Solar. Wind turbines are used for creating energy by using wind. Creating energy from wind has been done for years. In ancient times they used wind power for the propels for their sailboats. But the wind power originated from Persia for grinding wheat. In 1880 the first wind turbine was built specifically for generating electricity in Cleveland‚ Ohio and it operated for 12 years. Some advantages about wind turbines are that
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Advertising is one of the ways companies try to showcase their products to sell. Many methods are used to lure the audience into buying their product. According to a study that was done at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria‚ advertising is‚ “a promotional strategy designed to encourage purchase‚ and ideally‚ re-purchase‚ through brand loyalty” (Coleman). Old Spice an American brand of male grooming products‚ has created a line of men’s body wash that has a very appealing and humorous advertising
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In today’s society‚ America is a dangerous place for people to walk alone. We have definitely had our share of serial killers over the years. We have had the Harpes brothers in the 1800’s to the more modern day Jeffrey Dahmer. A serial killer in the United States is defined by Congress as “someone who murders a minimum of three or more people.” (Harris) Three-quarters of the world’s total serial killers have done their killing in the United States. True crime writers often claim that America’s
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Another Place‚ Another Time Owen‚ an adventurous little boy‚ eyed the bottle with a face of youthful curiosity. It was a translucent bottle made of orange glass with small round pills inside. He had never seen them before in his life and there was no label to explain what they would do‚ only four simple yet confounding words written in black marker that instructed him to “stay for a while.” After several minutes of debating‚ he let his curiosity take the best of him. He glanced around the rustically
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The vision for large-scale offshore floating wind turbines was introduced by Professor William E. Heronemus at the University of Massachusetts in 1972‚ but it was not until the mid 1990’s‚ after the commercial wind industry was well established‚ that the topic was taken up again by the mainstream research community. Current fixed-bottom technology has seen limited deployment to water depths of 20 m. As the technology is advanced into deeper water‚ floating wind turbine platforms
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