Shell Canada Essays

  • The Island of Aruba

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    islands.” There are two other suppositions that seem more plausible. The Carib language of the Antilles, which was passed on by the missionaries, the French Dominicans Breton, Labat, Du Tertre, supports the derivations ora (shell) and oubao (island), which would together mean “shell-island”. Some people have also suggested the name comes from words meaning companion or guide. There is no way to be sure, and any attempt to uncover its true derivations would be guesswork. It is not known when the first

  • Pollution: A Looming Threat Ignored by Oil Companies

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    drastic climate changes and several mass extinctions, several groups, most notably oil companies, still do not acknowledge it or attempt to prevent further pollution and avoid more destruction. Recently, several oil companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell and BP, ignored the pleas of climate change campaigners and continued to drill for oil while facing the risk of polluting

  • Mutable Feminists: Are We Ready for Them?

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    are very different, they actually possess very similar personalities and characteristics. Helva is a human who was crippled at birth and transformed into a shell person. She lives her life inside the safety of a titanium shell, and without the shell’s protection she would be dead. Helva’s limitations may seem severe; however, the shell, which Helva lives in, allows her to have extreme capabilities far more advanced than any regular human’s. Therefore Helva is physically disabled, yet at the

  • Realization

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    else on this planet. Except that I met Brian. Being in his arms were some of the happiest times I had ever experienced. I could look deep into his eyes and be enchanted forever. Being with him changed my soul. I felt his love prying apart the hard shell of shyness that encircled me. His trust, his love and his support for me lifted me from the earth and gently sent me into the clouds. He cast off the chains I had given myself. Through him I learned a new insight about the world. It was as if a tall

  • Importance of Shell Shock in Pat Barker's Regeneration

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    Importance of Shell Shock in Pat Barker's Regeneration Pat Barker's Regeneration contains references to people, places, and cultural elements of particular significance to her themes as well as to the study of the First World War. One cultural reference, that of shell shock, is made early in the novel. On page four, Dr. William Rivers learns that Siegfried Sassoon is being sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital with a case of shell shock. To prevent shell shock from crippling the patients, Craiglockhart

  • Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney

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    Title: Burning Up Main Characters: Macey Clare, Austin Fent, Mr. and Mrs. Macey, Monica and Henry Fent, Venita Edna, Grace, and Lindsay. Setting:     The story takes off on the first of April at Shell Beach. Where there are private beaches and swamps in the woods. Plot:          Macey Clare is a 15 year old girl who’s parents are never home so she stays with her grandparents on the weekdays, and on the weekends that her parents come home from work all week, she stays with them. Macey gets involved

  • Indian Boarding School

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    emotions, as if you were reading them right out of that person's mind, which in that case would not consist of any words at all. If someone tells you a story, it is usually like a shell. Rarely are all of the deepest and most personal emotions revealed effectively. A poem of that story would be like the inside of the shell. It personifies situations, and symbolizes and compares emotions with other things in life. Louise Erdrich's poem Indian Boarding School puts the emotions of a person or group of

  • Human Resource Areas of the Shell Group Companies

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    Human Resource Areas of the Shell Group Companies Abstract: This Assignment examines one of the human resource areas i.e., recruitment and selection practices of the Shell Group of companies. We examine how Shell is implementing its concept of fairness and equity as a fundamental value in the management of its human resources. By explain the criteria used for recruiting and selecting process at Shell, we answer the question. What Shell looks for in candidates? We look into the Shell’s

  • Life in the Trenches of World War I

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    additional protection against debris caused by artillery shells. Communication between the between the front line and the Old British Line was provided some covered by through the Cover Trench, although Prior’s account of returning from The Island, the front line, states that he had to pause every two minutes to lay in a ditch along the road to avoid the infamous German machine guns. The Germans bombarded the Cover Trench with heavy fire and large shells over the farmhouse and its residents, including children

  • Symbolism in Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

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    foreshadow the conclusion of the story. As one reads this novel, he or she will begin to recognize the way basic civilization is slowly stripped away from the boys as conflict between civilization and savagery arises. The conch shell represents power and authority. Whoever has the shell has the power to talk. The conch shows how people use objects to give power, like a crown. "Conch?" "That's what this shell's called. I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking (pg

  • Factors Which Affect the Resistance of a Wire

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    that there will be an increase in resistance. 2.Material: The type of material will affect the amount of free electrons, which are able to flow through the wire. The number of electrons depends on the amount of electrons in the outer energy shell of the atoms, so if there are more or larger atoms then there must be more electrons available. If the material has a high number of atoms there will be high number of electrons causing a lower resistance because of the increase in the number

  • World War I: Letter Home

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    Dear Mum, How are you getting on? I hope that Dad's cold is better. Send my best wishes to everyone! I am writing to you from the barracks of our regiment. My training is going well; I have many good friends here, and although the training I have been getting is necessary, I cannot wait to finish it, and get out to the Front, because the chances are that the war will be over within a few months, and I want to get a good chance to have my go at the Boche. All kinds of rumours are spreading

  • Lord of the Flies

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    Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell Piggy and Ralph meet up with each other after escaping from their shot-down plane. A large scar was made in the untouched jungle, symbolizing the first of man's destruction on the island. A war is going on in the outside world, and now for the rest of the book, everyone will be isolated from it and put into their own "world." Piggy spots a conch shell, and tells Ralph how to use it to make a noise. Ralph does so, and calls all of the other boys on the island who

  • Lord Of The Flies: Flames Of Determination

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    Ralph was credited with its discovery and use. When it was first found, Ralph thought it was a stone in the water but Piggy saw it as the shell and explained what he knew about it: "A stone." "No. A shell." Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement. "S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. The shell emits a deep harsh note boomed. Ralph was amazed at the sound. "Gosh!" (Golding, 17) The sheer importance of the discovery of the conch

  • If Only They?d Listened To Pig

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    to survive. He says “We got to find the others, we got to do something.” We then see indication of his intelligence, he says, “A conch…he used to blow it… he kind of spat… you blew from down here.” Only a bright person would know the name of a rare shell and how to blow it to make a noise. Further on at the end of chapter two Piggy compares the fire on the mountain to the fires of hell. It almost like he can “see” what is going to happen to the kids. Also he says “acting like a crowd of kids” as if

  • Mayan Writing

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    by the Maya to write numbers-bars and dots- were used throughout Mesoamerica. The dot has the value of one, and the bar has the value of five. The Maya are also believed to have the first known concept of zero. This is represented by the elliptical shell. Symbols known as glyphs were used to record non-numerical information. The Maya used logographs (shorthand symbols) for many more words than we do. Another class of glyphs stood for sounds that make up words. Mayan words are generally regular in sound

  • Playing Basketball

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    basketball in the fifth grade. In the fifth grade I was a quiet and shy little boy. I rarely talked to my teammates and kept to myself. As the years went by I learned how to communicate with my teammates and my coaches and began to break out of my shell so to speak. I started making more and more friends that also went to my junior high. Basketball helped me meet a lot of new people. By the time I left junior high I had already a core group of friends I hung out with that I met from playing basketball

  • Rates of Reaction - Magnesium and HCL

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    Stop clock · Goggles · Beehive shell Step One All of the above equipment must be gathered. Step Two The Beehive shell sould be placed in the centre inside the bowl, then the bowl is to be filled up with water until the beehive shell is covered.Then the big measuring cylinder is to be filled to the top with water and then turned upside down onto the beehive shell. Step Three The tube should be placed directly over the hole in the beehive shell, where the tube(which goes through

  • Maine Lobster: Soft-shell versus Hard shell

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    Lobster: Soft-shell versus Hard shell A lobster must shed its shell in order to grow. It takes about five to seven years for a lobster to become a legal size harvestable adult. Soft-shell is the term used for a newly molted lobster. A soft-shell lobster has a shell with room for growth. Soft-shell lobsters are not as full of meat because their new shell is larger than the muscle inside the body. The part not filled with its body’s muscle tissue is filled with water. Soft-shell lobsters may

  • Artificial Intelligence in Gibson's Idoru and Oshii's Ghost in the Shell

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    Artificial Intelligence in Gibson's Idoru and Oshii's Ghost in the Shell Introduction If people knew what scientists are up to, they would not be sleeping as calmly as they do today. If only they knew, they would read more carefully what the cyberpunk authors have to say. The purpose of this work is not only to compare the pictures of Artificial Intelligence (hereafter referred to simply as AI) included in two major works of cyberpunk genre, but also to show the connection between