1990s

Before the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 the U.S. had no liability on oil spills. The problem was still reoccurring even though over 10,000 oil spills were occurring every year around the country. It wasn’t until the major Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska that it was shown that there was no protocol or organization to immediately and effectively clean up the large spill. In the Conference report for the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, it is stated that there was a great increase on the liability of oil…

African American Films and Directors in the 1990s Many of the African-American films of the 1980s depicted the community as violent and unsafe. Hollywood was not interested in filming the success stories of thousands of young blacks. And rather than dealing the realities of street life and black neighborhoods, many films portrayed the communities as gang-ridden and violent-- with frequent drive-by shootings and alternating chase sequences. This was because these over-the-top scenes resonated…

In Paris is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingston explores the 1980s New York City drag balls with a focus on the African American and Latino gay and transgender society involved. The film begins with the purpose of the balls and the culture that surrounds it. Different key players in the drag world explain the aspects of a ball such as “voguing,” “realness,” and “houses.” Livingston reveals how the subjects dealt with the adversity of this lifestyle of poverty, racism, and homophobia. She shows…

The raw data from the interview transcript and survey form were analyzed using the grounded theory approach developed by Corbin & Strauss (1990). The initial coding began after reading the entire interview transcript two times. Following this step, the data was deconstructed line-by- line and codes were assigned to the concepts and processes that these lines represented. Once the entire document was coded, the document was reviewed again with the aim to converge or diverge the data using a…

The Monten and Bennett article titled, Models of Crisis Decision Making and the 1990-1991 Gulf War, presents three models of analysis—Presidential Dominance, Bureaucratic Politics, and Organizational Cultural Approaches. We will discuss Bureaucratic Politics and Organizational Cultural Approaches, their definitions as they logically apply to Janine Davidson’s article, Civil-Military Friction and Presidential Decision Making: Explaining the Broken Dialogue, and revel their utility and relevant…

We all look at the same moon in the sky, and sometimes this is the only comfort those in a long distance relationship have. Some couples may not have the chance to talk for days, so they seek a sense of peace from the orb in the sky. If this is the case, though, why is anyone in a long distance relationship? With a face to face relationship, there is rarely the worry that one may not see his or her significant other for any length of time. Long distance relationships are growing in popularity,…

"The wife's story" is Written by Ursula K. Le Guin, "What of this goldfish, would you wish?" written by Etgar Keret, the "Lottery" written by Shirley Jackson these stories are connected in their background is kinda the same, but their stories are about how people do not accepted the change in some things usually the writers wrote their stories in a dark way, they idea is to prove in the stories that when they are talking about changes in some parts of the stories they accepted but in some they…

: The story opens with an introduction to the main character, Raskolnikov in the city of Petersburg. Though he is described as “exceptionally handsome” and “above the average in height”(2), he is dressed shabbily, is “verging on hypochondria”(1) and is planning a murder. The victim would be Alyona Ivanovna, a pawn shop owner who is malicious, stingy, and crude overall. After selling a watch to her and absorbing details of the building, Raskolnikov meets Marmeledov, a drunkard who cannot hold…

It was a cloudy day. I decided to go to Cameron library to do my math worksheet and my Economics 101 homework. A few hours ago, my interviewee sent a message to ask me where I was, so I told him that I was on the second floor at the Cameron library. After twenty five minutes, I saw him walking towards me. He was wearing a grey hoodie and jeans and held a blueberry muffin and a cup of coffee. He looked very tired and busy. I stood up and stretched out my hand with a big smile, my interviewee…

Hello! I am a phone and this is my story. My story starts at a dark factory, I was being made on an assembly line, there were some weird bags of flesh standing over the assembly line, putting some parts on me. After some time, I felt complete. Once I had all of my parts added, I fell into a big pile of other phones. A little while later, One of the flesh bags picked me up and put me into a small box where I fit snugly. I sat there for a while in the dark box, not able to see anything. After what…