article 4 nola.com Gulf of Mexico oil spill’s environmental impact expected to be profound‚ long-lasting Published: Friday‚ May 07‚ 2010‚ 8:26 PM As the "Miss Brandy" shrimp boat skimmed rust-colored clumps of oxidized oil from Chandeleur Sound‚ seagulls from a flock circling nearby dived beneath a light oily sheen on the water’s surface to feed on a school of minnows Friday afternoon. "The fish are probably coming to the surface because they’re dying from the oil‚" said Larry
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James Wright Professor Duke English 1301 April 14‚ 2014 Sister Flowers “Sister Flowers” is a short story about a young girl named Marguerite. Due to being raped as a child she explains her life as “sopping around everywhere”. Until the day Marguerite received a “lifeline”‚ Mrs. Flowers‚ a friend of her grandmother. Throughout the short story‚ Marguerite gives a thorough explanation on her opinion of Mrs. Flowers. She puts her on a verbal pedestal‚ describing her as “someone who made me proud
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longer is it a fuzzy idea of a letter to Santa in my head. I have discovered that persuasion is‚ in fact‚ a very powerful tool that can help people to achieve many things‚ both good and bad‚ and have learned the tips and tricks that make persuasion more effective. Persuasion is convincing others to do what you think. It is a “[p]rocess aimed at changing a person’s (or a group’s) attitude or behavior toward some event‚ idea‚ object‚ or other person(s)...to convey information‚ feelings‚ or reasoning
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Are We Not All Assistant Pig-Keepers? In Lloyd Alexander’s book The Book of Three‚ a young man named Taran chafes under his apparent nothingness. After listening to Taran’s rant‚ Coll‚ his mentor‚ gives him a title: Assistant Pig-Keeper. However‚ this is only a title to the same responsibilities Taran is doing and has been doing for quite a while. This is not enough for Taran‚ who dreams of being a knight and becoming a hero by his acts of bravery. As the story continues‚ he gets to live his dream
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understanding of rhetoric and how I can use it persuasively and responsibly. Prior to reading chapter 1 I often thought of rhetoric as language that is used to further ones own agenda by misleading and deceiving. I would often associate rhetoric with one of my mission companions who would teach in a style to investigators that I felt was misleading and deceiving. While he was a skilled and powerful orator that was persuasive in many ways his teaching style would come off as threatening and torturous and I
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Wendy Xu TSM 311 After watching the documentary Super-Size Me‚ there should not be a lawsuit brought against McDonald’s blaming the restaurant for their condition as the cause for overweight and obesity in the United States. The documentary showed the experiment on what effects eating fast food could have on the body if Morgan Spurlock ate only McDonald’s for all three meals a day for thirty days and led a more sedentary lifestyle. According to Morgan Spurlock‚ McDonald’s is iconic
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Self-Reflection Paper Phelicia M. Williams Human Development/EDFN 990 November 22‚ 2013 Michael P. McCreery Ph.D. Self-Reflection Paper When I think about my own biases‚ perceptions‚ attitudes‚ and beliefs I use to holds about different culturally ethics groups‚ I definitely have to rethink and correct myself and not stereotype individuals on my thoughts anymore. I always knew mankind was magnificent because we were created and GOD eyes but this course just emphasized just how important human
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Mable Finnie Professor V. Oliver Whit3 Collar Crimes September 3‚ 2012 Reaction Paper-1 White Collar Crime White Collar Crime is consided Fraud. That involves theft. The essence of fraud is larceny by trick; that is‚ possession of property obtained through deception. There are many kinds of fraud including false advertising‚ bankruptcy fraud‚ and criminal impersonations. But the object of frauds is always the same: to obtain property through false representations. Another category
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I also like the ambiance and how staffs welcome and entertain visitors at Gardenia’s plant. If I will rank our plant visit as 10 being the highest‚ it will be 6. Because I didn’t find it much useful in our course except the fact that compared to my previous visit‚ at least‚ I was able to relate more with what I saw like some notes posted on their walls. Also‚ I was able to appreciate the visit more for we already discussed topics relating to manufacturing
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“My Vision” Ever since I can remember people have been asking me this question. A question that is so simple to ask‚ yet so hard to answer. A question that you may have an answer to at one point‚ but lose it the next. A question that when really thought about‚ can spell your future. That question is “what do you want to be?” This question has always given me a hard time‚ because honestly I never really wanted to give an answer to it. Maybe it’s because I never wanted to limit myself to an answer
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