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Cost Factors in the Construction Industry

box" home stores continue to affect building materials; and employment reached a record high (First Quarterly Cost Report 2006, 20...

Europe's Colonization Efforts

fulfilled during the period between 1763 and 1848, however, illustrates how brute force and religious/political intervention was e...

Mass Media's Influence on Public Opinion

as "the exceptional event," which makes "coups and catastrophes" newsworthy (Alleyne 3). However, there is also considerably discr...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

The Attractiveness Of Biomass Fuels For The United States

petroleum diesel by virtue of its use in compression-ignition engines; as such, it presents no damaging effects when mixed as a tw...

Variations in Fuel Dispensers Among Gilbarco, Wayne, and Schlumberger

over a dozen different models available, some made specifically for the Asian and African markets. In order to make a reasonable ...

The Addition of Alternative Fuel Cars to Lotus Rental Cars

fuels for onsite fueling, the company has no control over what customers choose to place into fuel tanks. Biofuels are not availa...

Southwest Airlines' Economic Indicators

worldwide as passengers expressed fear of flying as never before. Southwest suffered less than most in the short term. Alw...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Case Study of TAE Fuel Company

visibility of the brand also may not always be a good move, the context in which this is seen will also be important in the format...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

Juvenile Delinquency and Drug Use

riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...

General Electric TF34, CF34, and Canadair CRJ Regional Jet Engine

In one page an outline that examines the Canadair Regional Jet's GE TF34 and its commercial CF34 engine in terms of its being quie...

US Economy, 2008

trillion as the forecast GDP in both February and March 2008, and a slight increase to $14.403 trillion in April 2008 (U.S. Gross ...

Biodiesel Fuels

quite competitive with petroleum-based fuel (Pahl 65). However, as yet, biodiesel is not competitively priced with the petroleum...

NEO-NAZISM IN THE UNITED STATES: AN OVERVIEW

(Phillips, 2007, 70). In this paper, well trace the origins of Neo-Nazism in the U.S., point out its views, and give an...

Alternative Automobiles

electricity for power, but because it uses gas as well, it is able to make the long trips (Wouk, Retseck & Johnson, 1997). Of cour...

Economic Profile : Airline Industry

of airline tickets affects the demand. Rubin and Joy (2005) reported that the demand elasticity for leisure travel is 2.4, which i...

Bio-fuels; An Economic Perspective

industry may be seen as an oligopoly with the concerted effort of suppliers to work in order to control the supply The need for ...

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

national pastime" (Small, 2005, 6). National pastime or not, however, baseball is no less susceptible...

Fuel Cells as an Alternate Energy Source

terms of our energy choices we should look not just to one energy source but rather towards a carefully selected group of renewabl...

Robert Herrick's 'Julia's Petticoat'

there, pleasd with transgression evrywhere." This is hardly the action a petticoat could manage were Julia demurely seated at a t...

Fuel Cells as an Energy Alternative

subsidies for driving (Martin, 1996). Of the total, air pollution demands $66 billion, land use $65 billion, and noise pollution ...

Anti Semitism Throughout U.S. History

likely that the Holocaust would have been even more horrendous than it was. Many, however, have the tendency to point to America ...

South Korea and Hydrogen Car Introduction

Introduction South Korea is one of the "tigers" of Southeast Asia. It has embraced capitalism and economic growth as has o...

Environment and Diesel Fuel

using solar energy to decompose water, and heat from the earths interior. On our short human time scale, this brief "fossil-fuel ...

California's Fuel Crisis

In eleven pages this paper examines the national fuel crisis with the emphasis upon California residents and the state's economy. ...

East Asia's Cultural Values and Competition With Western Europe and North America

of creating a tripolar global environment. Bergsten (2001) further asserts how the only way to prevent such a detrimental occurre...

'The Tragedy of the Commons' like Garrett Hardin How The "Tragedy Of The Commons" Applies To Using Forests As Wood For Fuel And Housing

an influential metaphor in the environmental movement" (Vandermeer, 1996, p. 290) - supports the fact that rainforests do not exis...

An Overview of Fuel Pricing Factors

moves" (Khaleej Times Online, 2004). In the case of the United States, the nation relies on oil remaining stable in order to suppo...