Essays on Keystone

Like many other United States National Parks, Badlands is unique unto itself with physical attributes that when they are seen one knows it is Badlands National Park. Located in an area rich with history, the Badlands was created and founded as a national monument in 1939 by President Roosevelt before officially becoming a national park in 1978 (Steiner, 1993). The landscape of buttes, ravines, and hills found in the midst of the prairie of Southwestern South Dakota influenced the Lakota Sioux to call the area, ‘mako sica’ or ‘badlands’ (“South Dakota Legends,” 2003). The Sioux Pine Ridge reservation lies ...

Literature Review

It is found that oil prices have undergone critical decline over past couple of years for several reasons at the bottom of this decline. However, reducing demand triggered by increased production of oil in USA, over production by OPEC, and shift towards renewable sources of energy is considered the most fundamental reason behind current downtrend of oil prices. It conforms to the simple theory of demand and supply according to which demand and price are in positive, while price and supply are in negative relationship with each other (Stafford, 2015; Scott, 2015; Goldenberg, 2016; Arnold, 2008; Hensher, Rose, & Greene, ...

Implementation of a Biometric Gun Control Technology

Implementation of a Biometric Gun Control Technology

Organization Background

Keystone Sporting Arms (KSA), LLC is a gun manufacturer company located in Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by Bill and Steve McNeal who were firearm auctioneers. The two were fascinated by a Chipmunk .22 caliber rifle that was presented to them by a gentleman in 1994 during one of the auctioning days ("Keystone Sporting Arms, LLC", n.d.). The duo contacted the manufacturer who offered to sell the company but once the deal didn’t materialize, they took upon themselves to start manufacturing of riffles. With support from design engineers, trademarks experts, ...

(a) A hierarchical structure and organization by functional specialty as enunciated by Weber’s principles of modern bureaucracy are two important facets of a government organization because they both serve as control tools in the efficient delivery of basic services to the public. Hierarchy represents the classic command-and-control relationship that is a defining feature in many organizational settings, including governments. A hierarchical structure permits those in the higher rung of the hierarchy to review the conduct of activities by those in the lower rung. It serves as a control tool that assures democratic accountability or to put it bluntly, ...

A nurse in a nursing home care facility observed that there is an increasing incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) among its elderly residents. Most of those who got infected happened to be using catheters. Thinking that the UTI may be caused by catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), the nurse looked up the Internet to see if there are ways to minimize the incidence of CAUTI among the residents. The nurse discovered that CAUTI is one of the types of infections in long-term health care facilities that are most common (Nicolle, 2014; Matthews & Lancaster, 2011). Fortunately, the nurse saw ...

6C1-KCN Audit Plan

Business and Industry Conditions Keystone Computer Network (KCN) provides sales and services of microcomputers, software and hardware networking to customers. The industry in which the firm operates is considered as sensitive to the economic environment and highly competitive in nature, with competitors larger than KCN itself. The long-term strategic success of KCN is dependent on the retention and ability to attract qualified and competent information technology (IT) professionals. The annual growth for IT products in the next three years regarding expenditures is anticipated to be 6 percent.

Planning Meetings

The purpose of this section is to indicate the established meetings with ...

Introduction

Land fragmentation is the process by which land is divided into smaller portions to suit the need of the communities around and the parties involved. However, many biologists know that there are many possible effects related to the loss of habitat. Any time the habitat is fragmented; there is very serious impact on the land surface. The habitat is where animals live. The organisms also thrive in such enabling environments (Berry, 1999).

Whenever, the community changes the way they use land, species have difficulties because their habitat is destroyed. When the habitat is also destroyed or overused, organism have ...

The US has one of the biggest and inefficient health care systems in the world, which despite the high per capita expenditure, has failed to provide efficient and dependable coverage to the poorest populations (Blank, 2012, p. 416). One of the reasons for the high costs and poor coverage is the high fragmentation in the system, role duplication, and flawed performance measurement and reward systems for care providers. This is worsened by rising costs (in part due to high costs of drugs and medical equipment), unpredictability of the economy, and rising lifestyle diseases (e.g. diabetes and heart diseases) that ...

- What causes climate change? Define the Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse gases (GHG) allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere and absorbs the heat produced by that light. Most of this heat energy is trapped within the atmosphere by the GHG while some of them are let out into the space. The phenomenon of atmospheric heating due to the GHG is called as the greenhouse effect. Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases form the greenhouse gases. Burning of fossil fuels, manufacturing processes, decay of organic matter, agricultural industries and emission of synthetic fluorinated gases from various ...

The gridlock between the young and old generations has caused the public policy in DC to freeze (Bouie, 2014). The Congress is made up of both the young and the old generations. The Republicans make policies that target the older generation, while the Democrats make policies that target younger generations. The old generation tends to be conservative, and prefer to maintain their culture. The young generation is liberal, and gathers a lot of information through social networking. The young generation is dynamic, and uses current information to make decisions that are for the good of the environment. The public policy ...

What is it?

The Keystone Pipeline consists of a nearly 2,000-mile oil pipeline. Built in four phases, the last of which awaits presidential approval and perhaps, the most divisive, the Keystone XL built from Alberta, Canada to a hub in Nebraska, that would send the oil to be refined to the Gulf coast of Texas by Canadian company, TransCanada. The prized Alberta oil sands holds roughly 168 billion recoverable barrels of heavy crude called bitumen. This project would traverse across six states.

What are the PROS and CONS of the Keystone Pipeline?

In this paper, the pros and cons of the Keystone Pipeline would be analyzed, a topic that has become a divisive issue for ...

<Put your name here> <Put the name of your school / University here> Keystone Pipeline is a system of pipeline running from western Canadian Sedimentary basin to the various refineries in the United States. This pipeline conveys synthetic crude oil, diluted bitumen (from oil sands) and also light crude. This pipeline system is already operational with three phases of them working without a hitch and the fourth one on the design table. The fourth phase of the pipeline is referred to as the Keystone XL (eXport Limited). This phase is awaiting clearance from the US government ...

Abstract

Keystone XL Pipeline is a project proposed that is expected to offer energy security to the US and strengthen its economy. The crude oil pipeline is expected to cover 1,897 kilometers and estimated to be of 36 inches in diameter. The pipeline is expected to run from Hardisty, Alberta to Steele city in Nebraska. The pipeline is also expected to improve the American economy by opening up the American Midwest markets and the markets found along the Gulf Coast of the US. The Keystone system consists of different operational phases that include phase I, II and III, the Gulf ...

The North American Great Plains is home to diverse species of flora and fauna. It is well-known for its prairies, which are large areas of land that are dominated by grass, and could be broadly categorized into three: shortgrass, tallgrass, or mixed (Fick 189). This paper will focus on two species, one animal and one plant, that are found within the North American prairies—the black-tailed prairie dog and the stinging nettle plant. The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is one of five species of prairie dogs that exist in North America, and was the most common and ...

The field of marketing is extremely broad as there are hundreds of concepts that come under the same umbrella. Among a number of concepts that stride under the concept of marketing, the name of consumer and consumption is one of them. There are certain questions that need to be answered in this particular analysis . The picture is associated with this assignment that is required to examine accordingly. - This particular question is about analyzing and identifying the primary consumer. There is a picture associated with this part wherein it is found that there is a need of food among different species. ...

Eminent Domain: Unconstitutional and Inefficient

The core idea of discussion in the article is the Eminent Domain and relating to it climate-forcing and how the grant of eminent domain to a foreign company is unconstitutional and inefficient and also briefly refers to externalization cost of Tar-Sand oil. The author begins his discussion as how people look forward to the government to reduce climate-forcing by ending its subsidization. He cites eminent domain as one such example that should be ended. The government offices including the high court have inconsistent rulings over Eminent Domain and they cite that the concept of eminent domain should only be used ...

Many oil companies are aggressively seeking heavy oil as an upcoming energy resource as the world’s energy demand increases. With continued improvements in technology, this once costly source of energy is becoming a viable source of energy. It is estimated that the U.S. has a total of approximately 104 billion barrels of heavy oil and natural bitumen compared to a total of only 22 billion barrels of conventional crude oil (McMahon, 2013). Of the 154 deposits with more than 50 million barrels in the U.S. heavy oil, excluding Alaska, 121 of these deposits are located in California found within several basins ( ...

The United States energy needs are higher than she can produce. Latin America is a region that includes the Caribbean. This region was a creation of the Latin European colonists. This term was coined by a French Geographer in the 19th century. It included about twenty three colonies such as Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti among others. These nations were colonial territories of the France, Spain and Portugal. Their language is not English but Romance and the European languages dominate the region. Most of the people inhabiting the Latin American region are Roman Catholic followers. Latin America started by the coming ...

Research Paper: Should New Pipelines be Built to Transport Alberta Oil?

The construction of new oil pipelines to transport Alberta oil received mixed reactions since its conception. There are those who believed that the new development would be of profound benefits to the Canadian economy and that of the entire world. Transporting oil beyond United States and Russia was a dream that this country wanted to come true. On the other hand, some of the Canadians, United States citizens and environmental activists strongly opposed this move on the basis that it posed more risks to the environment than the benefits. These contrasting positions sparked heated debates among various stakeholder and parties ...

Everyone is well aware that there are many problems in the world, especially when it comes to the natural environment that sustains life on earth. Environmental problem is defined as those negative effects that comes due to lack of sustainability of the quality of the environment required for the well being of all organism living on earth. It can also be defined as burdens that come from human activities that affect the well-being of organism living on earth. These environmental problems affects the ability of the earth to sustain it ability to serve future generation. If not controlled in ...

The United States is considered one of the biggest contributors to the increasing rate of carbon emissions throughout the globe. While China is admittedly similar to the US’ contribution to carbon emissions, the US had held the position for more than a century as it was one of the nations who supported the Industrial Revolution. Since carbon emissions are considered one of the primary causes of global warming, the US, alongside other world governments and organizations, had come up with various solutions to reduce emissions and resuscitate the once sustainable environment. With emissions come mostly from the use of non-renewable ...

Charles Spencer Chaplin, well known as Charlie Chaplin was a legendary comedian. He belonged to South London and his date of birth is April 16th, 1889. Besides being an actor, Chaplin was also a director, writer and music composer for the period of the silent movies era. His movies, though silent, are full of amusement and are admired even in this modern world.

Charlie faced a lot of tribulations in his childhood due to poverty. He lived with his mother, Hannah Chaplin, a vaudeville singer, and his older half brother Sydney. His father, Charles Chaplin, Sr., a vaudeville actor, left them when he found ...

Abstract

The principles of financial management are very important as they help in ensuring the smooth running of all the financial activities of a firm. Several financial management principles are in existent and they cover different areas of management. There are about ten different principles of financial management. However, in this paper we are going to lay more emphasis on three of the principles among them; cash is king, not all risks are equal and efficient markets. This research is going to consider the Zales Jewelry Company and how the company implements the use of different financial management principles. We are ...