...Crude With international corporations now spanning the globe in every direction, we see in cases like the one in Crude, directed by Joe Berlinger, the story of a large group of people effected by the negligent actions of big-money businesses whom have one only one real concern; profit. When the good, moral action is only defined by profits, a lack of accountability is directly related to your number of shareholders and stock price, the health and safety of those physically involved is disregarded. These actions of intrusive globalization can erode and eventually completely eradicate entire civilizations such as the rural Ecuadoreans seen in this powerful documentary. Since these peoples are primarily indigenous and have little to no voice as to what a powerful destructive corporation can and will do to them, in order to counteract rampant negligence by corporations in their globalized quest for maximized profit, it is crucial that the growth and evolution of transnational advocacy networks give the people who matter a venue to be heard on a large scale. People all over the world, both nationally and internationally are often silenced or disregarded because as many say, “money talks”, however this all changes when these individuals or small groups of people create coalitions, whether they are near each other, or simply someone on the other side of the planet who is trying to help them and make a difference. It all starts with one person and once the movement gains momentum...
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...Select an organization with which you are familiar, and identify an issue within that organization that would have both organizational and societal implications. In this essay I will identify what Crude oil Fracking is provide some issue/s within the fracing community on how certain societal implications where certain groups are protesting these organizations. That as any industry were the environment such as land, water, and mostly wild life is being disturb all for global oil domination. What is fracing? It is a relatively new type very new began in Ohio in 2011(OEC.org 2011). High capacity drilling were the main ingredients are sand, water and various potent chemicals. This concoction is infused at high pressures shale rock to break it open and release the highly volatile natural gas. So drilling companies can use a certain drilling process called “Horizontal drilling” to mine the oil pockets underneath. This this new type of drilling involves an enormous supply of fresh water and chemicals in which these fracing companies will not divulge what these chemicals are. All of this new technology is effecting nearby communities and small towns with at times toxic air discharges, water contamination and ecological concerns related to the disposal of the waste. With those concerns the Ohio Environmental Council (2011) temporarily stopping the fracing crews to do test on the public health risk. Soon after the U.S. EPA sent a study that the EPA conducted in December...
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...been able to maintain its competitive position of #3 on the Fortune 500 by establishing new joint ventures internationally and undergoing mass long-term projects to ramp up their production growth. The Value Chain Operations One of the key elements to Chevron’s growing success is their planning towards making long-term decisions such as multiple billion-dollar takeovers and projects, as well as Chevron maintaining their core operations around refining crude oil into petroleum products. Doing this helps the company to remain results oriented, rather than confirming to the demands of lobby groups (Corddry, 2015). Chevron’s long-term exploration and production strategies have allowed it to stay ‘years ahead of its competitors’, focusing primarily on crude oil as a method of driving economic growth and improving living standards over the next 20 years (Watson, 2015). Outbound logistics With presence in over 180 countries throughout the world, Chevron can produce and sell over 2 million barrels of crude oil every day (Sander & Bobo, 2011). Having such a...
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...generating a potential for cultural understanding, the viewer/audience find themselves at distance from the people in the film who might be seen as crude and ignorant. With the lack of interaction with the people in the film does nothing to prevent this and provide a voice for the people to express to us themselves the significance of everything that is going on from the descapcho to the symbolism of the Condor and the Bull. In a sense, while the film does show reality, it fails to convey meaning and hence may see anthropologists favour the written word than film. Close () states that a particularly prominent issue that arises in debates around whether film adds to orthodox anthropology is that of authority and/or legitimacy. The issue seems to be about the involvement of filmmakers in film and the impact it might have on the ‘truth’ and ‘reality’ shown (). In exploring films, there has often been a tendency to not just distinguish films between those that are documentary and factual (Barsam, 1973), but also a question of accountability and accuracy within film (Tomaselli, 1992). Nichols (1991) states that although documentaries are quite often seen as being truthful, what they have to say about human condition or the pressing issues of today cannot separated from how they say it and how this saying move us. As viewers/audiences of documentary film, we witness an interpretation of the world that driven and mediated by the ideologies and motivations of the filmmakers (Nichols, 1991)...
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...1) a) As told in documentary becoming a culture rather than sponsoring a culture makes youth belong to that brand. They have already been a part of a culture like Hip Hop or R&B but when a brand started to associate with that culture, teenagers automatically become fan of that cooltrademark which is a reflects their lifestyle and characteristics. If a culture purposes sales rather than expression that culture would have problems in development and producing innovations because they wouldn’t express themselves to new generations. 2) Yes exactly. Anthropologist and cool hunters are similar in many ways. Anthropologists study on customs and structures of community and cool hunters also interests with trends and habits of teenagers. As a difference anthropologists study on this for scientific researches but cool hunters study on this for financial purposes.Market researchers as ethnographers focus on specific affects of these customs on people’s life. They categorize the facts that consumers especially teenagers show interests. Also their main aim is gaining money or having great adverts . 5) Companies use stealth marketing because of its persuasiveness and it costs less than advertisements. That type of marketing generally bases on recommendations and consumers are eager to believe their friends or someone that they met before. In addition to these that method is easiest, trustable and least risky way to reach target market. When traditional marketing techniques were...
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...The ideology of conspiracy theory particularly peak oil is intellectually binding and fatalistic. It requires belief in a natural truth where in reality there is no such thing as an absolute truth. Yet, the documentary Crude Awakenings posits its premise and framework under the assumption that existence is co-opted by masters and overseers that desire to manipulate and exploit the masses. However, there is no inkling of critical thought or analysis on the basis of what peak oil is and how it actually impacts the world. The rhetoric utilized throughout the film is conjecture that is assumed as fact without any given depth to arguments presented by the “experts.” As such, the movie starts out with two contradictory quotes. One states that oil...
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...with Thomas Edison at one of his shows. During this time, Edison and Muybridge worked together while trying to discover a way to set these moving images to sound from Edison’s phonograph. Soon after their meeting, Edison set out to create an even better camera that could capture more images, and eventually created the kinetograph and the kinetoscope. By the turn of the century, it was evident that the film industry was s profitable enterprise. Many early films contained little to no story line, such as Edison’s The Kiss and The Sneeze. Later, when the ability to pan a camera was born, cinema company and top Edison competitor, Biograph incorporated these techniques into their films. Other early Biograph films were mostly documentary shorts, boxing films, or crude race-based comedy shorts. Edison then went on to create somewhat melodramatic story films and burlesque shorts, causing Edison to expand his ranges of subject matter and eventually merge with nine of his competitors, Biograph...
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...Luis Salas Who killed the electric car ? Environmental issues Who Killed the Electric Car is a documentary which unfolds a complex set of events around the development and demise of the modern electric car. The story stems from California from the early 1990s to 2006. Everything begins to unfold with a brief history of the first electric cars created in the early twentieth century. These electric vehicles were killed off nearly 100 years ago as gas/petroleum powered internal combustion engine cars became cheaper. The worsening problems of gas/petrol cars are illustrated: smog, high child asthma rates, CO2 emissions and global warming. 1987 when General Motors and the Sun Racer, won the World Solar Challenge, a solar electric car race in Australia. General Motor's CEO, Roger Smith challenged the same design team to build a prototype practical electric car which became known as the 'Impact' when announced in 1990. The project expanded to small scale production vehicles with the aim that it would give GM several years lead over any competitor car companies.The Californian Air Resources Board (CARB) saw this as a way to solve their air quality problem and in 1990 passed the Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate. The ZEV Mandate specified increasing numbers of vehicles sold would have to be Zero Emission Vehicles. 'For the car companies, there...
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...PortfolioStock/Fund/ETF ScreenerCalculatorsFree Annual Reports| Stocks | Mutual Funds | ETFs| Cars Cars HomeDrive On community Test Drive: James R. HealeyVideo ReviewsResearch a CarBuy a CarSell a CarIncentivesRecallsOther Reviews| Real Estate Real Estate HomeFind a RealtorSell It YourselfHome ValueApartmentsMovingHome Improvement| Small Business Small Business HomeAsk an Expert: Steve StraussEntrepreneurial Tightrope: Gladys EdmundsStrategies: Rhonda AbramsFranchises U.S. stocks follow Europe lower as euro currency loses value By Greg Keller, Associated PressUpdated 4m ago Comments 8 NEW YORK – Stocks and the euro fell Wednesday as worries about Europe hang over financial markets. Energy companies fell hard as the price of crude oil plunged 4 percent. The dollar and Treasury prices rose as traders shifted money into lower-risk investments. By Richard Drew, AP James Sculli works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in this file photo. EnlargeCloseBy Richard Drew, AP James Sculli works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in this file photo. Ads by GoogleScottrade® Stock Account $7 Online Trades - Free News, Research, Education, & Support. www.Scottrade.com Chromebooks are here Built for the web - 8 hour battery....
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...Topic: Economic and Financial Evaluation of oil production in the Ghanaian Jubilee oil field; “Tullow Ghana as case study” 1.0 INTRODUCTION Kosmos Energy Ltd. discovered Ghana’s offshore Oil Jubilee Field in 2007. It was the Biggest and brightest opportunity for Ghana’s socioeconomic advancement in crude oil discovery for that year, coinciding with golden jubilee independence celebration “Ghana@50.” The field is located about 60km off the shores of Cape Three Point in the Western Region of Ghana (Kosmos Energy ltd, 2012). The Jubilee oil field is one of the best oil fields off the coast of West Africa. Besides that, the field is one of the largest offshore oil fields discovered off the West African shore in recent years. The total estimated recoverable hydrocarbon resource is about one billion barrels of crude oil and a significant quantity of natural gas (Africa Region, 2009). The crude in the field is light sweet crude with 37 API. The Government of Ghana is fully committed to the development of the Jubilee Oil Field in order to proportionate and equate its economy to other nations.The Government, in collaboration with jubilee field operators, acquired production facilities to enhance the production of oil in the field. The Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah, which is 60 metres wide, 330 metres long and has the same length of approximately three football fields, has been acquired for the production of the oil in the field (Araujo, 2012)...
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...English 101 The Age of “Likes” Over the years, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have greatly impacted modern culture in more ways than one can possibly imagine. It has become an addiction to constantly check your feeds on the numerous social media sites it has made available to us. Through social media we stay connected with family and friends. We discover what our favorite celebrities are doing and what topics are trending worldwide. It has simply become innate of us to do so. Social media has made it normal to share your life with the world, get noticed by celebrity, become a celebrity, and voice your most honest opinion about someone, impacting modern culture in a positive and negative way. Mark Zuckerberg impacted modern culture in a way that no one saw coming. He created a social media platform that would revolutionize the way people all over the world communicated and interacted with one another. In the drama film, The Social Network, the film portrays the foundation of Facebook and how it impacted peoples lives both positively and negatively. Facebook helped create this platform where Harvard students could share information about themselves that no social media site had done before. It allowed users to see if one was in a relationship and also allowed users to block or deny friend requests. The site became so immensely popular it branched out to other popular colleges before going global and accumulating over 1.3 billion active users since its creation. While there...
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...| | | | | | | 1..........close ↑ Pathak panel probe : Loose ends, grey areas Businessline. Chennai: Aug 8, 2006. pg. 1 Abstract (Summary) Both the failure to cross-examine the representatives of the Party under Sections 8B and C, and the unexplained omission to vest the Authority with the power under Section 166A of the Cr.P.C. considerably dilutes the force of the Inquiry Authority's opinion that there was "not a shred of evidence" to link the Congress party to these transactions, that no wrong can be attributed to the Congress party, that there was "no evidence that the Congress party was involved in the contract and that it derived any benefit at all from the contracts," that "indeed, there is nothing to show that the Indian Congress Party had anything to do with the contracts" and that "the reference to the Indian Congress party with respect to Contract No M/10/57 is not justified at all." The impression left in an average reader's mind is that the Authority, by its repeated asseverations to the above effect, wanted to drive home the innocence of the Congress Party beyond all ambiguity or misunderstanding, although this seemingly contradicts its opinion that the sources, materials and documents collected by [Volcker] were "authentic and reliable". Another incongruity There is yet another incongruity as well: Of the four from India named by Volcker report as non-contractual beneficiaries (meaning that they had no obligation to supply food or humanitarian goods...
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...Exxon Valdez and Tylenol Case Study DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - DASMARIÑAS Communication Arts Department Lawrence G. Rawl, chairman and chief executive of the Exxon Corpoation was in his kitchen sipping coffee when the phone rang and received the news regarding the spilling of crude oil into the frigid waters of Prince William Sound, just outside the harbor of Valdez, Alaska. What was about to happen was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. These were the documented facts that media had portrayed across the United States and to the world: Exxon Valdez, a 978-foot tanker piloted by a captain whom later revealed to be drank, ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez. The results caused a spill of 250,000 barrels, the largest spill ever in North America. The devastating results affects, 1,300 square miles of water, damaging some 600 miles of coastline and murdering as many as 4,000 Alaskan sea otters. The disaster also enshrined the name of Exxon in the all-time Public Relations Hall of Shame. (Seitel, 2000). According to the book, Exxon’s dilemma broke down into five categories. First was the hesitation of Mr. Rawl if he is going directly and personally to Alaska. In an interview Mr. Rawl has said, “We had concluded that there was simply too much for me to coordinate from New York. It wouldn’t have made any difference if I showed up and made a speech in the town forum. I wasn’t going to spend the summer there;...
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...DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - DASMARIÑAS Communication Arts Department Lawrence G. Rawl, chairman and chief executive of the Exxon Corpoation was in his kitchen sipping coffee when the phone rang and received the news regarding the spilling of crude oil into the frigid waters of Prince William Sound, just outside the harbor of Valdez, Alaska. What was about to happen was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. These were the documented facts that media had portrayed across the United States and to the world: Exxon Valdez, a 978-foot tanker piloted by a captain whom later revealed to be drank, ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez. The results caused a spill of 250,000 barrels, the largest spill ever in North America. The devastating results affects, 1,300 square miles of water, damaging some 600 miles of coastline and murdering as many as 4,000 Alaskan sea otters. The disaster also enshrined the name of Exxon in the all-time Public Relations Hall of Shame. (Seitel, 2000). According to the book, Exxon’s dilemma broke down into five categories. First was the hesitation of Mr. Rawl if he is going directly and personally to Alaska. In an interview Mr. Rawl has said, “We had concluded that there was simply too much for me to coordinate from New York. It wouldn’t have made any difference if I showed up and made a speech in the town forum. I wasn’t going to spend the summer there; I had other things to do”...
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...Spanish sculptor and painter Picasso Ruiz Picasso is considered for the artistic genius in the 20th century nomination. Picasso style is one of a genius; his techniques were like a breath of fresh air. He held a variety of ideas during the 20th centuries. His ambition and the magnitude of his art work is what make him out to be the greatest of his time. Picasso created more than 20,000 art works. He became famous in his own life time he is known for becoming the first artist to successfully utilize mass media to gain popularity. He also introduced the notable case of Cubism, created, almost all the art movements during the twentieth century. What is interesting is that the viewers are able to grasp what Picasso see through his paintings. In Picasso’s paintings he visibly expresses his emotions and shared his personal feelings the way he saw things. His work displays an unlimited and vast nous of vitality and penchant for variation and innovation. Picasso once said that, “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary”. I feel as if his work was his diary he used art to capture specific moments of his life. Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain Pablo Picasso, also known as Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, was extraordinary in the world of art. Picasso's father taught as an art teacher during this time his dad quickly took noticed that his son was a genius, therefore he caught young Picasso everything he knew. At the young age of 14, Picasso took an entrance exam to the...
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