Essays on Azerbaijan

In each of the following situations, please select which mode of transportation studied this week would be the most advantageous. Explain your answer. [8A, 8B, 8C]

Sending 350 40-foot containers from Shanghai, China to Los Angeles, California.

Maritime transport is the best for these kinds of shipments because ships can fill a given container or what is known as full container load (FCL) (Rushton, Croucher, & Baker, 2014, p. 391). Additionally, container ships can accommodate stackable cargo, which will be prepared using a stowage plan (Rushton, Croucher, & Baker, 2014, p. 393). There is also the possibility of reduced damage in products, which may be caused when using other types of cargoes. ...

Introduction

The Caucasus is a region, characterized by diverse ethnic and religious composition and the high number of ethnic conflicts and separatist regions. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states of this region witnessed and suffered numerous confrontations on the ethnic ground and faced several claims for separation and independence. Azerbaijan and Armenia confronted each other because of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory; Chechnya was a problematic region of Russian Federation, striving and fighting for independence, as a result, suffered two wars; and Georgia – a tiny mountainous state that shares borders with Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, witnessed a ...

Problem statement

Azerbaijan like many countries in the world is dependent on fossil fuels as a source of its energy. Being a fossil fuel rich country, fossil fuels are widely used to produce majority of the energy needed in the country. However, fossil fuels have a number of problems associated with them. They are a finite resource and human beings are using them at a much faster rate than the earth can replace them. Therefore, in the future humans will deplete all natural occurring fossil fuels (Michaelides, 2012). Furthermore, carbon compound makes up fossil fuels. This implies that burning up fossil ...

Architecture is viewed as the art of science that involves coming up with design in the form of a drawing, managing, and constructing structures such as building complexes, swimming pools, parks, and other various structures in a particular proportion and shape. It is in this regard that since time immemorial architecture has grown from simple ideas to the amazing and intriguing structures that exist in our lives today. One of the magnificent works of architecture has been the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai, UAE; that is the highest sky scraper to date. The enormous growth of the architectural world ...