Petroleum jelly

According to the JellyBelly website, enough jelly beans were consumed in the last year to circle the earth almost six times. Jelly beans have become so popular and widespread over the years, although surprisingly, most people don’t know that the candy is thought to be a descendant of Turkish Delights, and that the original maker, William Schrafft, urged for his jelly beans to be sent to Union soldiers fighting in the Civil War (A Brief History Of Jelly Beans (n.d.), Prince, J). Jelly Beans have not always been so popular; they only started being sold at regular candy shops in the early 1900s, even though they were made in the mid-1800s. According to “How Everyday Things Are Made” (2008), making jelly beans is done in five steps over the span of ten days.…

small table, and then dropped to her knees in front of the jar. “Mommy watch the roly-roly baby buggies?” asked Patience, as she brushed a few strands of hair from her face. “Yes, sweetie, I did,” reassured Chastity with a smile. Patience dropped Sue to the floor, and then seized up the jar in her hands. Holding it close to her face, her eyes searched the inner recesses of the clear container for any movement. Chastity smiled. “Do they have names yet?” Patience looked up at her mother and nodded…

Ticktockman” can be seen as a metaphor for the harlequin’s disruptive role in society. The first parallel between the jellybeans and the Harlequin is that the jellybeans work their way into the mechanisms of the sidewalk and cause the inner workings to fail and cause a seven minute delay. In much the same way the Harlequin gets into the cogs of society and brings it to a halt with his numerous diversions and distractions. The jellybeans and the Harlequin are also similar to the harlequin in…

Declined in shark population breaks stability of The marine ecosystem The shark, the predator that stands on top of the food chain. However, its number has declined since the 1970s due to human destruction, and it will affect the stability of the food chain (Dudley, and Cliff 243-255). For instance, in Aldo Leopold’s paper, A Sand County Almanac, he claims each specie’s importance in the food chain is the link to the other specie “The lines of dependency for food and other services are called…

extraction.” State water authorities tested fluid in an oil rig because they were given information from a local resident that videotaped fluid discharge from the rig. Investigators found fluids laced with “boron, salts and a cocktail of notorious chemicals related to gasoline and diesel. It came from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil.” Due to the circumstances, investigators assumed that the oil rig agency in Shafter has violated one of the safety regulations. Thus, allowing The…

An oil spill is when liquid petroleum hydrocarbon is released into the environment. Oil spills have detrimental effects on the environment and the economy. Oil spills can potentially cost billions of dollars. There are multiple ways in which oil spills can be cleaned in a safe and cost efficient way. One way is bioremediation, which is the use of microorganisms to break down pollutants. Another effective way is chemical remediation, which is the use of chemicals to extract pollutants from an…

Products & Services Shell Energy is the largest and most innovative oil and gas company that will be around longer than Total, Exxon, Chevron, & BP. The company operates thousands of gas stations across the United States and recently started to research more about alternative energy. Phil Anderson informed us that Shell is very competitive and always has to “reshape the portfolio and back away from heavy Alaskan oil” and move toward integrated gas like British Gas. Shell recently merged with…

Other times, strangers acquired shelter in barns and sheds. Still, in other instances people slept on the ground in the open air. Within a few years of the start of the oil boom hundred’s of new homes had been constructed. By 1914 the population of the town had already diminished to around twenty-eight hundred people, but it would never recede to the paltry forty to one hundred citizens it had been before the oil boom. In 1901, due to the many people living in town the streets and land…

The knowledge of the world is forever growing and we as a civilization or continually growing and need to provide ourselves with new cleaner sources of energy and the explorations of the natural resources just may help. But is the exploration of natural resources may not be the greatest of solutions for our current environment. Take the world today we run on coal and fossil fuels that damage the earth 's ecosystems put the plant at risk of being uninhabitable. Therefore a need arises to examine…

Along with the threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific region owing to access to fresh water is the decline of fertile agricultural land. Agricultural land is not only the source of actual food for the subsistence of the populations from whence it is yielded but also the source of employment and in turn income for a huge proportion of the population in the Asia-Pacific region. There are currently dozens of deals being cut between rich or powerful countries with shortages of fertile land or in…