Slow steaming The full story Slow steaming – the full story Maersk’s development of slow steaming demonstrates its capacity for industry-changing innovation. When fuel prices soared and CO2 emissions hogged headlines in 2007‚ Maersk’s technical experts set about solving the problem. Slowing down was the solution they came up with. By 2009‚ significant fuel savings and carbon reductions resulting from sailing at 12 knots instead of 24 saw slow steaming become standard operating procedure
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Cormier is very successful in engaging the readers interest through the use of a wide range of literary techniques including features of the thriller genre‚ narrative perspective and setting. The graphic and shocking description of the trashing of the house immediately grabs the reader’s attention. The matter-of-fact‚ objective tone lists through the use of accumulation the extent of the destruction the vandals create. ’’ They over-turned furniture‚ smashed the picture tubes... tore two VCRs
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Growing up fast is not necessarily bad; but in retrospect on my first year in college‚ I tried to grow up too fast and lost my youth. There is something about being young. The jokes. The fun. The spontaneity. But when does youth end? I do not think it should end. There is nothing wrong with occasionally goofing off or taking a random road trip once and a while. Moving to New York City and living right beside Wall Street made me believe that I needed to be serious and fully mature. I was already buying
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The modern civilization lives in the age of information and the whole information is concentrated in computers. Today millions on servers all over the world contain the whole valuable information about the humanity and the World Wide Web called the Internet. Everyone has access to the net‚ because they can join it from the PC‚ a smart phone‚ a laptop‚ etc. The mature people are still getting used to the innovations in Information Technology and try to connect their life with computers to be able
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........................................................ page 17 Page 1 of 18 B 93/12-13 1. INTRODUCTION SITUATION ANALYSIS To understand what is slow food is necessary
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Living in the 21st century we are faced with many issues around the world and in our own societies. In my opinion I would say the biggest issue In our society currently is the speed that children are growing up these days. There was a time when kids enjoyed being kids. Today‚ even at the earliest of ages‚ children are partaking in adult activities with serious consequences. Similar to what we see with alcohol and drugs‚ sex is a very popular and portrayed subject matter. The movies‚ TV‚ the internet
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Title: An Analysis of the Language Style Used in “two fast and too furious” film. Fields: sociolinguistics A. Background of the Study Too fast and too furious film is one of the most amazing films in 2003 year. This film was directed by John singleton. He is a famous director in the world. He had been directing many films. This film was become a winner by many awards held in Hollywood‚ such as BMI film music award in 2004‚ breakthrough male performance 2003‚ won teen choice award‚ golden
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What I hate about driving‚ especially on the highway‚ is a slow driver. They believe that driving 10-20 mph under the speed limit is being precautious‚ but they do fully not understand that slow driving can be dangerous. They are oblivious to the whole world around them‚ mainly because they care about only themselves and not the other drivers around them. It’s irritating when some idiot decides to drive slowly on the left lane of the highway. The left lane is designed for passing‚ not holding back
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Karen Templer started Slow Fashion October‚ to start discussion and explore the wide range of topics related to sustainable fashion. You can read more about it on her (fabulous) blog. I have already been inspired by reading other peoples stories and am looking forward to reading even more. It makes me excited to hear I so many of you thinking about this topic and making changes to how you work and make. Here is my (late) story for week 1 of the#slowfashionoctober / @slowfashionoctober. When I
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“We All Fall Down” by Robert Cormier – Essay “We All Fall Down” is a thought-provoking novel dealing with the concepts of gratuitous violence and anger‚ guilt and love. All characters are well drawn and readers will empathise with Jane‚ Buddy‚ and their families. Foreshadowing exists throughout the book‚ building to a chilling and suspenseful scene. Cormier opens with a shock-inducing scene – four teenagers with their identities unknown gratuitously trashing a home. The characterizations of Jane
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