ABSTRACT No doubt, information has been made easier to access since the existence of internet back in late 90’s. Since then, internet play much bigger role in our daily life. Our dependencies on internet is no less than to other utilities such as electricity and water. We need it almost every minutes if not seconds in our life. It serves as a medium of communication among millions of human being to stay connected and share information regardless to gender, race, geographical location and political
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美国 12 月 19 号,20 号机经预测 声明:本人对北美托福的出题有一定的研究，我根据这 几年北美题库的题，按照出题的规律预测的，有些题 目最近有考过，我根据出题概率最大的整理成的机 经，更完整版本的请联系本人，近期北美如果考旧题 的话，中标概率还是挺高的。希望各位考生可以做参 考，希望各位一次性顺利通过托福考试。 考试类型：口语 1. 有个 group 要保护环境，你能提供哪些建议？ 2. 送礼物是送实用性的礼物还是 for fun 的？ 3. music building change reading：music building 改造完成，有地方拿来做 locker， 来保存学生的乐器。还有建专门的联系房。 男学生支持：原因 1 更加方便，不用 carry instrument back and forth。淋雨或什么的会损坏乐器. 2 现在只能在 dorm 练习， 现在有练习房，不会影响别人休息了 4. hidesight bias 是指有些人明明没有预测到结果，但 是往往结果出来之后自己却说以前就预测到了. 教授： 我朋友写了一本书，noval，她一直很担心没有出版
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"Remediate" means to solve a problem, and "bio-remediate"" means to use biological organisms to break down harmful chemicals and pollutants in order to return the environment to its original natural condition. This would include an environmental problem such as contaminated soil or groundwater. In a non-polluted environment, bacteria, fungi, protists, and other microorganisms are constantly at work breaking down organic matter. What would occur if an organic pollutant such as oil contaminated this
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The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill happened in 1989. The American Oil Tanker Exxon Valdez crashed into the Bligh Reef causing an oil leakage. The Exxon Mobil’s Company response to the oil leakage responded by giving 3.5 Billion Dollars from the companies bank account. However the company only spent 2.1 Billion Dollars of the 3.5 Billion Dollars actually for them to clean up the oil spill. Exxon and the Government ordered investigations of the disaster because of how much money was given to clean up the oil
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“An agonizing 87 days passed before the well was finally plugged on July 15. By then, 210 million gallons of Louisiana sweet crude had escaped into the Gulf of Mexico, according to government estimates, making the BP disaster the largest accidental oil leak in world history (Hertsgaard, par. 11).” The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the biggest oil spills in the water in the world's history. Killing and polluting a massive proportion of the ecosystem. That is only a small portion of
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Oil and Gas Industry Corporate social responsibility is the concept that has been increasingly used in present day business rhetoric. Although the concept itself is relatively new, it has become widely present and today there are no major companies that do not have some kind of CSR agenda. The role of CSR in the oil and gas industry has been at the forefront of promoting the idea of CSR. The oil companies today devote attention to sensible issues related
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The Gulf of Mexico oil spill The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the biggest environmental disaster in the United States. The British Petroleum oil spill is caused by a broken drill ring pipe line and it led to a huge oil spill in the ocean of the Gulf of Mexico. There were about 4.9 million barrels of oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico which caused extensive damage to the marines. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has threated many of people live and it also has a big effect on wildlife, tourism
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History Ronald M. Atlas* University of Louisville, Louisville Kentucky 40292, United States Terry C. Hazen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States ABSTRACT: The devastating environmental impacts of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and its media notoriety made it a frequent comparison to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the popular press in 2010, even though the nature of the two spills and the environments impacted were vastly di erent. Fortunately, unlike higher
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION A. Exxon ValdezThe tanker Exxon Valdez, carrying 10 million gallon ofcrude oil, was caught in an open reef Prince William Sound inAlaska, spilling the oil it carried. This happen, because one of thecrew members failed to correctly maneuver the ship for thereason that the crew member was tired of the workload.Moreover, the crew master was in the influence of alcohol andcannot give instruction accurately. It greatly affects almost dozeno animal species living in the surroundings
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ExxonMobil 2011 Financial Statement Analysis and Assessment Shepherd University Abstract ExxonMobil Corporation is one of the World’s largest companies by both gross revenue and net income. Total revenue finished at $486.4 billion for 2011 and net income was $41 billion, increases of $103.2 billion and $10.6 billion respectively. ExxonMobil continues to see solid returns in both their Upstream and Downstream business areas; while the Chemical business area after a major earnings increase
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