noticed them wandering though the crowd looking for customers on her first night in North Dakota. "They ’re not in there to tip the dancers‚" she says with a laugh. Williston is the heart of Bakken oil country‚ the Fort McMurray of the U.S. ’s north‚ for all the good‚ and bad‚ that brings. There are at least 3.1 billion barrels of recoverable oil trapped in the Bakken shale‚ a teardrop-shaped formation spread between North Dakota‚ eastern Montana and Saskatchewan‚ and likely many billions more. In recent
Premium Petroleum
A True Hero Epic battles‚ terrifying monsters‚ extraordinary strength‚ and great leadership; these characteristics and encounters are what make up the epic hero that is Beowulf. The heroism exemplified by Beowulf is defined by many different qualities. Beowulf is truly a hero because he is willing to put himself at great risk for the greater good. Beowulf’s defeats of Grendel and Grendel’s mother establish him as a hero because he did it to save his people‚ rather than for his own glory.
Premium Beowulf
With drama-series like The Fosters‚ Orange Is The New Black‚ Game of Thrones‚ Glee‚ True Blood‚ The Modern Family‚ and Sense8‚ among others‚ queer characters have begun to slowly gain prominence outside the borders of the stereotypical white gay male. Slowly‚ representation is being found‚ and the blanket hiding difficult subjects from sight is carefully being pulled back. In True Blood‚ gay cook and man of color Lafayette Reynolds confronts a white man when the man declines to eat
Premium Homosexuality Gender Transgender
Mahatma Gandhi: A true leader I really inspired from the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi who has been a great personality. He was the person who led to the Indian Independency in 1947. He has become a true inspiration to most of the leaders worldwide. In 1893‚ Gandhi was graduated from law school. His search for work led him to go South Africa. He was been discriminated and beaten. These acts changed his life. He got inspired to fight for the rights of Indian Community in South Africa. His leadership
Premium Leadership Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi India
The True American Cowboy As the twentieth century approached‚ America was experiencing a time of considerable expansion. All eyes were looking for ways to make the United States a larger‚ more powerful‚ and more efficient country. Because of this wave in American society‚ there was no movement given more devotion than the settling of the West. The range-cattle industry in its various aspects‚ and in its importance to the United States and particularly to the Great Plains‚ has been a subject
Premium African American Cowboy Black people
True Grit by Charles Portis is an acclaimed western novel that was published in 1968. The most recent film rendition‚ produced by the Coen brothers‚ based off of the book was released in 2010. While the film adaptation is drastically similar to the novel in regards to dialogue and plot‚ there are some discrepancies that can be seen between the two. In the film there is more of an emphasis on the “true grit” aspect of the general plot than in the novel by Charles Portis. The Coen brothers added or
Premium Film F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
God opens millions of flowers without forcing the buds‚ reminding us not force our way but to wait for things to happen perfectly in time. Can we still count the vast number of in-a-relationship students here in our school? Why not try to ask someone how many boyfriends/girlfriends she/he had? Let me rephrase‚ is there anyone still existing as No-Bf/Gf-Since-Birth? Why not try to ask someone if ever she/he had a boyfriend/girlfriend? Gone are the days when men wait years to win a woman’s
Premium Love
Victor and the creature commit horrible crimes‚ only the creature is capable of taking responsibility for his actions. Although at first glance the creature in Frankenstein is evil‚ the true villain is his creator‚ Victor. Though both characters are isolated from society‚ the cause of their seclusion demonstrates the true nature of the individuals. For instance‚ Victor becomes isolated from the world due to his intense efforts in attempting to create life. He becomes so engaged in his studies that:
Premium Mary Shelley Emotion Frankenstein
In today’s society and culture we are surrounded by people telling us that we can find happiness by having sex at any time we feel like it. This message is displayed in the media through television‚ internet‚ music‚ movies‚ video games‚ and more. People will try to convince you and say "Just try it and you’ll be happy‚" or "a life with no sex is boring." Through my studies in the Scriptures I feel led to tell you that the Bible says something quite different than what the world is telling us to
Premium Marriage Sexual intercourse Fornication
The Monster’s True Intent The monster study was an experiment conducted in Davenport‚ Iowa by a man named Wendell Johnson. At the time the experiment took place‚ it was thought that the speech impediment of stuttering was something you were either born with or not born with. Wendell on the other hand thought differently. He believed that it was something you could make worse or maybe you could cause people without stuttering issues‚ to start to stutter. He decided to test this buy taking in twenty-two
Premium Stanford prison experiment Psychology Milgram experiment