the significance of oil in the gulf of mexico

... for 22% of the news covered in America, dwarfing the coverage of the next most salient issue, the economy at 12% Furthermore, the Gulf saga registered as the number one story in the mainstream ... impact of the spill The examination of BP’s role and responsibility in the disaster The US government’s actions and responses during the crisis—with much of the focus on the Obama administration The ... archive of three million stories In the 1990s, in the midst of the price war amongst the other broadsheets, The Guardian remained at full price, “investing resources in journalism and distancing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... would include the intertwining of the WAR and ILLNESS scenarios – where Louisiana coastline is often personified either as a patient or as a victim under siege in the process of containing the oil ... the predisposition and the interactions within the target group in the discourse influences the interpretation of metaphors by the researcher This is a key consideration in the selection of the ... understanding of the meaning Determine the lexical units in the text discourse The basic meaning and the contextual meaning must correspond to elements of different conceptual domains a Establish the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... demonstration of the IICM in identifying and formulating the metaphors embodied in British and American media discourse arising from the BP fallout in the Gulf of Mexico This will be done by applying the ... i.e the heart” of the industry’s plan, the “heart” of the response and the “heart” of the engineering problem A separate search for the lemma “heart” was carried out with Sketch Engine The word ... the concept of PROGRESS in this preliminary examination of the NYT corpus is embodied by the concept of “moving ahead” in the right direction Furthermore, the Ontological Metaphors personifying...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... overcoming the pressure of the oil spewing out of the well/ the experimental procedure will help stem the flow of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico/ the picture of an uncontrolled gusher of ... total of some 3.3 million gallons, so far/armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico/ thousands of barrels of oil spilling into the gulf ... ‘Contain’ effort to contain the leaking oil continued/ unsuccessful engineering efforts to seal the well or contain the leaking oil/ The structures would contain the leaking oil and route it to the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... representations In the NYT-corpus, the recklessness of the oil industry (BP) as well as the failings of the previous Bush Administration were prominently highlighted, comprising 36.4% of the entire range of ... “dramatizing events and polarizing contrasts in order to emphasise the newsworthiness of the contents of the article” (Semino, 2008, p.31) The repeated casting of BP into the role of the UNSCRUPULOUS ... towards the Obama administration’s efforts in containing the oil spill as well as in the settling of moral and financial accounts on behalf of the aggrieved victims The conflation of the CRIME...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... are scathing in their assessment of the Obama Administration’s handling of the oil spill The main difference would lie in the more aggressive stance adopted by the Gcorpus where the incompetence, ... on the comparative analysis of the preeminence of the WAR/CRIME/THREAT conceptual keys in the TT & G-Corpus 233 The in- depth analysis of the varied representations of the CONFLICT scenario in these ... to galvanise the US House and Senate into combat against the foreign aggressor, drawing clear battle lines in the process of mitigating the Obama Administration’s culpability in the oil spill This...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... temper the strengths of the claims in this thesis pertaining to the influence of metaphor in discourse, as media consumers cannot be merely seen as passive recipients of editorial ideological input ... perceptions of “us” vs “them” Thus, this thesis highlights the dangers inherent in the use of metaphors as a deliberate strategy for the influencing aggregate perceptions and behaviour, advocating a ... Furthermore, it has also been established that the pattern of evaluative stances identified in this thesis generalisable only to the scope of these corpora In conclusion, it is hoped that the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... strengthen the moral legitimacy of the Obama administration while galvanizing the electorate against the “other”, concealing the multiple failings of the US government In contrast, the predominantly ... handling of the BP oil spill and the Bush administration’s handling of Hurricane Katrina (THE BP OIL SPILL IS OBAMA’S KATRINA) As is the convention in this thesis, the IICM phases are applied to the ... is in line with the pragmatic ideology that counterbalances the nationalistic rhetoric often seen in the NYT-corpus In this instance, the focus lies in the technical details in the fact-finding...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... example, the findings in the British broadsheets show the tendency of the relevant editors to adopt mitigating strategies in order to downplay the agency of the cause of the entire catastrophe (mainly ... use of these interactive features on their websites to track key aspects of the BP disaster For example, some widgets enable the direct monitoring of the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf ... analysis to include the examination of the accompanying photos and positional strategies that appear in tandem with the corresponding printed pages or the webpages of the online broadsheets The specific...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... representation of the metaphorical compound - Oil (WP) 292 Fig 6.11 A representation of the metaphorical compound - Oil (G) THE OIL IS AN ADVANCING ENEMY THE BP BLOWOUT IS A COLLISION WITH AN ADVANCING ... BUSINESS IS A SINKING ECONOMIC CORNERSTONE/ A RUINED ! SHIP REPUTATION IS A BURNED OBJECT (STAINED CLOTH)/ THE) OIL) SPILL)IS)A)THREAT)(WAR/CRIME)) THE CENTRE IS THE CORE (LOCATION) THE+ SPREADING ... SPREADING OF CONTROVERSIAL NEWS IS + CLEANING THE STARTING A FIRE/RIVAL OIL COMPANIES POLITICS IS WAR OIL SPILL IS A WAR + ARE PREDATORS/ A COMPANY’S (CONFLICT) CLEANING THE OIL SPILL FINANCIAL...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:23

... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... in fighting Iran and in attacks on the Kurdish minority in Iraq Military leaders feared that the use of such weapons in the gulf could result in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 01:20

... banks in these markets are not investing in relationship (Cetorelli/Gambera 2001: 621) The more intensive the competition of banks in a region is, the smaller is the readiness of banks to invest in ... Despite the fact that internet-banking is still gaining in importance, regional banks remain the key player in SMEs loan-financing The credit loan experts of the four saving banks pointed out, ... taken into account that co-operative banks are less represented in the East of Germany The higher banking-profit realized in these regions derive indirectly from the incentives of these banks in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... Map of the Gulf of Thailand showing the six major rivers that flow into the inner Gulf of Thailand Sample from the Upper Gulf and Lower Gulf in Southern Thailand exhibited low concentrations of ... 23.3% of fishes caught in the vicinity of the natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Thailand had mercury above 0.2 lg/g In order to prove that mercury contamination in the middle of the outer gulf ... evident that the increasingly deteriorating conditions in the marine environment of the inner Gulf of Thailand have threatened the existence of several economically important organisms in the area...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... earlier The effect of the oil spill on interest in the region is striking and in most cases has only increased over time This decline in searches represents a leading indicator of booking as fewer ... Potential Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill on Tourism Prepared for the U.S Travel Association 1.2 Overview The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest offshore spill in U.S history ... the Outlook for Recovery? Estimating the eventual impact of the spill on the tourism economies of the Gulf faces several uncertainties In order to begin to assess the duration and extent of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... The headings of these currents will generally rotate clockwise in time under the action of coriolis force as they slowly decay following the passage of a stonn For the latitude range of the Gulf ... approximating the 70 m as a 3-point profile like the 150 m current, and then interpolating between the 70 m and 150 m currents for the surface, mid-profile depth and O-speed depth points of the profile ... headings, the direction of the new profile can be approximated as the heading of the resultant derived from the 70 m (230 ft) current and the average current over the upper 70 m (230 ft) of the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 09:28

... in peripheral blood, but they are also synthesized in other organs including the brain [31] Protein fragments generated during activation of the system enzymatically cleave the next protein in ... steps in the complement cascade All of these regulatory proteins are produced in the human brain, but less is known about their CNS synthesis in other species [31] The status of some of these ... systemic administration of the excitotoxin kainic acid [108,109], or injection of the neurotoxin colchicine into the dorsal hippocampus [109] Surgical transection of the perforant pathway increased...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... 0.10) Within the positive group, tumours (55.6%) were located in the lower limbs, with tumours (33.3%) in the trunk and tumour (11.1%) in the upper limb Within the group testing negative, of the tumours ... lower limb (including buttock and groin), 25 related to the trunk, head and neck, and 11 in the upper limb (including axilla) Guillou et al [13] describe a ratio of 23:23:2, and combining other smaller ... neurofibroma or a perineurioma This may result in inadequate resection, thus increasing the chance of recurrence or metastasis The tumour was excised with marginal margins, and the patient had post-operative...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... 0.10) Within the positive group, tumours (55.6%) were located in the lower limbs, with tumours (33.3%) in the trunk and tumour (11.1%) in the upper limb Within the group testing negative, of the tumours ... lower limb (including buttock and groin), 25 related to the trunk, head and neck, and 11 in the upper limb (including axilla) Guillou et al [13] describe a ratio of 23:23:2, and combining other smaller ... neurofibroma or a perineurioma This may result in inadequate resection, thus increasing the chance of recurrence or metastasis The tumour was excised with marginal margins, and the patient had post-operative...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... Effects of active immunization of sheep against an amino terminal peptide of the inhibin αC subunit on intrafollicular levels of activin A, inhibin A and follistatin Journal of Endocrinology ... the actions of the Akt pathway are more pronounced than the Erk pathway in granulosa cells and vice versa in the in theca cells None the less, administration of inhibitors of these pathways in ... with subordinate follicles [21,22] The objectives of the studies reported here were to examine the interactions of the gonadotrophins and IGF with the Akt and Erk signalling pathways in theca and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20