Disaster: British Petroleum Oil Spill Date: April 20‚ 2010 Location: Gulf of Mexico Personal Experiences: A little over a year after the BP oilrig sprung a leak‚ my family and I went to Panama City in Florida. As far as we could see‚ we couldn’t notice any differences in the Gulf of Mexico. The water was still crystal clear even though thousands of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean each day for months. I was completely aware of how the spill dramatically affected the lives‚ jobs‚ and
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Macbeth is made to believe that it is his destiny to become king. Despite his original disbelief‚ circumstances prove to persuade him to believe in the prophecies told by the three witches. In addition‚ Lady Macbeth acts as an effective instrument of evil in coaxing him to ’fulfill his destiny’. Once Lady Macbeth and the three witches convince him to kill the king‚ he is forced into a dark world of paranoia‚ deceit‚ guilt‚ fame‚ fortune and power of which he cannot possibly be expected to escape
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The Old Neighborhood This story talks about a woman named Sharon Hicks-Bartlett visiting her old neighborhood North Lawndale. She has not visited North Lawndale for fifteen years. She was shocked to see how it looked since she left. Sylvan playground as she remembered it was empty‚ full of trash and had curfew signs posted. Old establishments that used to be big are now shut down and abandoned. Movie Theaters wee either torn down or has turned into a church. Everything else was protected by
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Yummy: A Bully or A Victim? As said by Haniel Long‚ “A gang is the same as a wolfpack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another‚ for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united‚ it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.”(doublequotes.net) Throughout the book Yummy‚ Robert “Yummy” Sandifer does not have any parental role models in his life and has nowhere left to go. He decides to join the Black Disciples‚ a gang. He refers to the Black
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In a fast paced read by Sharon Old’s poem “Sex Without Love”‚ she expresses the poet’s attitude towards loveless sex as a cold‚ hurtful act. She picked certain words to come across to us that the activity of sex is cold and the speed of reading the poem is almost as if it was the speed of having intercourse. It’s not a beautiful thing us humans do‚ it is more of an activity that we do for pleasure. Old starts off the poem questioning how people have sexless love. You are not quite sure if she is
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DEFINITION OF THE TERM ‘VICTIM’. The word “victim” has its roots in many ancient languages that covered a great distance from northwestern Europe to the southern tip of Asia and yet had a similar linguistic pattern: victima in Latin; and‚ vinak ti in Sanskrit (Webster’s 1971). In the original meaning of the term‚ a victim was a man or animal put to death during a religious ceremony in order to appease some supernatural power or deity. Over centuries‚ the term has picked up additional meanings. Now
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Victim Interview Events surrounding the crime. Victim parked their vehicle‚ a green 2003 Toyota Corrola‚ on the side of a Family Dollar in Fort Worth‚ Texas. Upon the victim’s arrival‚ she went into the store‚ leaving her car on because she would only be a second and she did not want her car to get cold again since it was early January. While she was in the store‚ the suspects pulled into the parking lot next to the victim’s vehicle. One suspect jumped in her vehicle and they both drove away
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The American Slave In Sharon McElwee’s literary analysis of Frederic Douglass literary piece‚ “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave‚ by Frederick Douglass‚” Sharon breaks down the different key elements in Douglass’ story that make it so outstanding. Frederick Douglass is famous for his speech given during a time where slavery was still considered acceptable and was used by most wealthy white. Slavery was not viewed as cruel‚ but a valuable business that could earn them money
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Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper Part 1: Book Summary Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper is an updated version of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romiette has had another drowning dream.To relax herself‚ she starts to write in her diary. The next morning is Julio’s first day at Romiette’s school. After having trouble with gangs in Corpus Christi‚ Texas‚ Julio follows his father’s new job
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of a failed attempt to get back at Hamlet. Polonius died because of Hamlet’s vendetta plot against Claudius‚ Ophelia’s tragic end was an effect of Polonius’s death (thanks to Hamlet) “ "Pretty Ophelia‚" as Claudius calls her‚ is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet”(Innocence of Ophelia and Gertrude‚ Studymode Research). Last‚ but not least‚ the death of Hamlet’s father‚ and previous king of Denmark was caused by Claudius‚ the new king of Denmark‚ and Hamlet’s
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