Consumer Attitudes About Renewable Energy: Trends and Regional Differences Natural Marketing Institute Harleysville, Pennsylvania NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. Subcontract Report NREL/SR-6A20-50988 April 2011 Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 Consumer Attitudes About Renewable Energy: Trends and Regional Differences Natural Marketing Institute Harleysville
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test our hypothesis which proposes that the growing use of electronic deveices is academically beneficial to high school students' standardized test scores and GPA. Our method of data collection includes both a survey of high school students in the Midwest area and an analysis of national SAT scores in the years before computing and in years with computing. Analysis of SAT archival data shows a negative correlation between scores pre-computing and scores post-computing (with computing influences), meaning
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There are 12 US-based firms in the US plastic-forming manufacturing market. This market is segmented into three geographic regions – West Coast, East Coast and the Midwest. In the West Coast market, PFM competes against one other competitor, which is based in Tacoma, Washington. There are four competitors active in the Midwest market and six competitors active in the East Coast market. Each of these competitors is approximately the same size and manufactures similar machinery. All of the
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Introduction Historical Information Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor is a popular, family-friendly pizza chain predominantly located in the Upper Midwest. Joe Whitty opened up the first Happy Joe’s Restaurant in East Davenport, Iowa on November 16, 1972. While working as a supervisor and a manager for Shakey’s Pizza, in the late sixties, he thought about combining a pizza and ice cream parlor because he always noticed customers walking down the street to get ice cream after leaving the restaurant
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productivity and product quality may not only certainly benefit a company’s bottom line, but can also benefit national interests. Marathon Oil, for example, is the United States’ “fifth largest transportation fuel refining company and the largest in the Midwest” (“Corporate Profile”). This Findlay, Ohio based company’s operations “include a six-plant refining network, a comprehensive terminal and transportation system, and extensive wholesale and retail marketing operations” (“Corporate Profile”). Marathon’s
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jobs, which shows English, depending on where one is located is not always the dominant language. Latino communities are increasing in every region of the United States particularly in the South and the Midwest, with some regions nearly doubling their Latino population (Census 2011). Being in the Midwest, and working with the public, as a hairstylist, I decided to take full advantage of the increase in Spanish speakers. For my research I focused on native Spanish speakers,
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predominantly a Western Culture because it consists of an Anglo majority which prevails politically and economically. The United States culture is divided up into six main geographic regions which consist of New England, Mid-Atlantic, the South, Midwest, Southwest and the West. The six regions are influenced by White American, African American, Native American, Hispanic/Latin American, Asian, and other Multiracial Americans. Cultural Regions in the United States As Americans gain more exposure
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As eager entrepreneurs, we all think that when making sound business decisions we would make the “right” one. In the working capital simulation, we were able to analyze what investments should be made regarding growth and cash-flow improvement opportunities. In addition to financial details of Sunflower Nutraceuticals Company (SNC), we examined the outcome of each decision during three phases within a nine year period. This paper will describe what decisions had the best outcome in regards to the
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their opinions be ignored or crushed by others. In particular, Native American warrior and chief Crazy Horse would not be silenced by the white man’s expansion west that interfered with his, and the Great Sioux Nation's sacred way of life in the Midwest Region. Through Crazy Horse’s childhood, battles with General Custer, and death at Fort Robinson, Nebraska,
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The date of the start of the history of the United States is a subject of constant debate among historians. Older textbooks start with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and emphasize the European background, or they start around 1600 and emphasize the American frontier. In recent decades American schools and universities typically have shifted back in time to include more on the colonial period and much more on the prehistory of the Native peoples.[1][2] Indigenous people lived in what
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