1. Do you agree or disagree with Tony Hayward’s quote at the end of the case? Was this disaster strictly a BP failure or an industry accident? (One of my biggest mistakes was that I allowed myself to become the lightning rod for hatred and anger.” He went on to say‚ “I genuinely feel that this could have happened to anyone. This is not BP. It is an industry accident.) I mostly agree with Tony Hayward because an accident of that size is a result of a complex combination of mechanical failures‚
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Book Review by: Frank Lopez "Tip of the Spear‚ US Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War"‚ by Greg J. Michaels Hardbound. 280 pages. 14 photographs.7 maps. Notes. ISBN: 1-55750-599-3. "Tip of the Spear" is Greg J. Michaels’ experience as a Marine Non Commissioned Officer` in a Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) company in the 1991 Gulf war. Not the fiction of a technology thriller‚ it is the first book written on present day US wheeled armored vehicles in combat‚ and the men who fought in them. It looks
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The universal appeal of Bruce Dawe’s poems lie in the poet’s passion in speaking for those who have no means of speaking. In "The Wholly Innocent" Dawe challenges his readers through a wilful determination to terminate the pregnancy of a healthy foetus. And in Homecoming Dawe questions the validity of war as he speaks of the untimely death of several adolescent boys who are brought home as dead soldiers. Through the use of persona in a dramatic monologue‚ vivid imagery‚ onomatopoeia‚ deliberate repetition
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enough to reveal the psychological and social damage children were experiencing. Experts believed children possessed an innate attribute that allowed them recover quickly from oppression or abuse. However‚ in the novel The Boy who was raised as a Dog‚ Bruce Perry exemplifies how despairing experiences can psychologically damage a child’s brain and leave permanent damage that guide dysfunctions in behavior and cognition. Perry urges how healing sessions and social interaction with positive role models
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isn’t easy at all on the other hand it‚ so hard that many people ignore it until they become very ill. Death can give people the feeling of being not in control of their own life‚ so they give up since they can’t control death. In the beginning of Dawes poem‚ he gives up on death because of his death of his dog. He explains there is no point of praying because death always wins and that’s when faith dies. As for Dickson poem‚ the metaphor of the Funeral gives the speaker an assumption of depression
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The Dawes Act was a document that authorized the President of the United States to assess American Indian land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who agreed to allotments would then be granted United States citizenship. During this time in the mid 1800s the United States and its citizens had their hearts set on Westward expansion. Americans were strongly encouraged by the belief of the “Manifest Destiny”‚ a widely held belief that settlers were destined by God to expand throughout
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could the federal government have made the Dawes Act more successful? by refusing to allow Native Americans to assimilate by making it illegal for Native Americans to sell their land to speculators by providing larger land parcels so the Native Americans could grow more crops by using land speculators as brokers between the government and Native Americans Points earned on this question: 5 Question 3 (Worth 5 points) What was the goal of the Dawes Act? provide funding for "Indian schools" assimilate
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Amy Burkett Environmental Science April 20‚ of 2010 a BP’s oil rig Deep water Horizon had blown up out in the Gulf of Mexico. It had killed 11 people and let more the 200 million gallon of oil into the ocean water. The oil spill had damaged over 1‚000 miles of the shore lines. A study was done by the Center for Biological diversity and it had shown that over 82‚000 birds
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Text Response: War Poetry Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe are about the disaster of war‚ yet they speak of different wars with different mindsets of the soldiers. In the following essay I discuss the history behind the poems‚ the poetic devices that Owen and Dawe used. Each poem addresses their own truths about war. The first poem is from WW1 where ignorance was common‚ so common that boys of only 17 years were signing up for “the adventure of a life time”. The “adventure”
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The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen and Somalia. The waterway is part of the important Suez Canal shipping route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea with 21‚000 ships crossing the gulf annually. The Gulf of Aden is a vital waterway for shipping‚ especially for Persian Gulf oil‚ making it an integral waterway in the world economy. The Gulf of Aden is an area known for acts of piracy‚ earning it the nickname “Pirate Alley”‚ and making its waters dangerous for
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