onto reservations. Culture has been destroyed and religious artifacts decimated to create metropolises. But is the Dakota Access Pipeline another hit to the Amerindians? The purpose of this essay is to explain how the Dakota Access Pipeline is not only a finical benefit to the United States but the environmentally savvy one. The face of the protest against the pipeline is Dave Archambault III. He is the tribal chairman of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation for North Dakota (Hersher). He along
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brown and black oil. Jonathan Waldman‚ an environmental journalist at the University of Colorado‚ published an article that argued that the Keystone XL pipeline should be built because it is the safest way to move tar sands oil‚ does not affect the environment and climate‚ and creates effective jobs. However‚ that is not the case. The Keystone XL Pipeline is actually a dangerous way to move oil from Point A to Point B‚ affects the environment negatively‚ and does not create effective jobs. In the article
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the inflation‚ meaning if inflation rises the principle rises and likewise if inflation falls the principle falls. Another protection is that when the security is redeemed the holder is guaranteed to collect at least the original amount the security was purchased
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The opposition of the Trans-Alaska pipeline did their best to keep the pipeline from becoming established but their efforts where in vain. With oil prices high‚ and so much support coming from Washington and the lower 48 states‚ it wasn’t long until the pipeline was constructed. However‚ the opposition would get another change to argue their points. In the spring of 1989‚ the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled its precious cargo in the Prince William Sound after it struck a reef‚ spilling between 11
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The three arguments for deciding the ultimate source of knowledge are skepticism‚ empiricism‚ and rationalism. The theory that knowledge comes from sense experience is called empiricism. It is my belief that empiricism is the strongest argument of the three. Empiricism is the theory that knowledge comes from sense experience. My main reasoning for believing this is because of John Locke’s Tabula Rasa theory. Tabula Rasa is translated a “blank slate”‚ which Locke says is like our mind at birth. Overtime
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Dakota Access Pipeline‚ and it should be built. The pipeline has many benefits‚ and few‚ if any‚ actual problems. Nodaplsolidarity.org‚ a site dedicated to opposing and protesting the pipeline‚ avoids the issue of what the problems with it actually are‚ saying that the pipeline is a violation of the United Nation’s Declaration of Universal Human Rights‚ and a violation of the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples‚ without actually naming what it is about the pipeline that violates
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our own country. To examples we have seen that military force is vital factor in the world today. Military force has been used many times‚ such as bombing Hiroshima during world war II that had killed over 129‚000 people. Was that use of military force justifiable or was there was another way they could had resulted to? What is military force? Military force is forces who have been authorized to use deadly force in the best interest and support of the citizens. The job of the military is to be the
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Oil & Gas Pipeline Integrity Management Preface One of the primary goals of Oil and Gas pipeline operators is to ensure continuous and reliable delivery of crude/refined products to customers while ensuring safety of its employees‚ the public‚ customers‚ environment and its assets. They are faced with the increasingly complex process of maintaining the delivery of crude oil/gas/refined products at the minimal cost and impact on the surrounding environment. Pipelines are exposed to various risks
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A Canadian company‚ Keystone XL Pipeline‚ wants to export oil from its vast supply into the United States and possibly to other markets as well. Some groups are against the pipeline for various reasons‚ one of which is they state the oil sands project is harmful to the environment. They further say that the increased oil supply to the US will not make a large dent in our overall consumption and therefore is pointless. I completely disagree with this logic. The increase in the oil supply would
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incarcerate that many people. Karen Thomas’s article “Time to Invest in Schools‚ Note Prisons” shows that United States incarcerates too many criminals violent and non-violent. Joan Petersilia said in her article “Beyond the Prison Bubble” that‚ the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any free nation. This also supports the idea that The United States incarcerates too many people. Karen Thomas’s article “Time to Invest in Schools‚ Not Prisons” shows that the United States is home
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