Gulf Cartel

As stated by Burnett, “Blackbeard is long gone, but a new and violent breed of pirate is taking his place, plundering ships in most oceans of the world” (9). The global phenomenon of contemporary piracy exemplifies modern trends which contribute to its reawakening. In modern day piracy, pirates are criminals who are driven by economic necessity. According to Martin Murphy, piracy can be referred to as a gang crime because the act of piracy occurs in small groups rather than individually (23).…

ory Daley Ms. Challis English 11, Period 3 March 19, 2018 The Deeper Meaning Behind The Deepwater Horizon Spill On April 20, 2010 the worst ecological disaster occurred in the gulf of mexico. A spill of apocalyptic proportions. This facility was built as a Ultra deepwater dynamically positioned submersible offshore drilling rig. This rig was owned by Transocean. It was built in 2001 in South Korea by the company Hyundai heavy industry. This particular rig was leased by British Petroleum during…

Donald Trump, a billionaire financing his own political campaign, running for President of the United States of America, is an experienced businessperson that owns a real estate empire. He is a Republican conservative following the utopia of restoring the American Dream. Trump differs from all other politicians running for 2016 elections in many aspects, from not using political correctness in his speeches, to clearly revealing his racists and sexists views. Although the main peculiar difference…

It is from this complexity that many criticisms of the R2P and humanitarian intervention come, as without defined expectations intervention can potentially magnify devastating situations and cause further international disorder. The effectiveness of intervention be debated and even with the parameters of the R2P, the intervention in Libya was not entirely successful, with the international community failing to fulfil the ‘responsibility to rebuild’ criteria for which they should have assisted…

War has plagued Iraq for quite some time. Starting back in the 1980’s with the Iran and Iraq war, moving into the first Gulf War when Iraq invaded Kuwait, moving on to Operation Desert Fox, in which the US and the UK enacted a “bombing campaign” to eradicate the chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons programs in Iraq, and the ongoing civil unrest, as well as the reoccurring conflict with the U.S., the people of Iraq have been exposed to a great deal of war and conflict over the last forty…

Hunter S. Thompson’s article following the events of September 11th, 2001 seemed like a version of his “Gonzo Journalism” for which he was so well known. This is a genre of journalism, also known as New Journalism, where the writer, as opposed to just reporting on an event, invokes their own thoughts and voice into whatever story they are reporting upon (Literature Resource Center, 2013). In his ESPN article, Fear & Loathing in America, Thompson (n.d.) reports facts and figures of the 9/11…

United States should be held responsible for fixing the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico because they are the main culprits who contribute to the low-oxygen, or hypoxic, areas which has led the delta near the Mississippi river to become the most drastic dead zone known. This is a dead zone that is not naturally made like the largest dead zone that can be found in the lower portion of the black sea. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico has been caused by our population polluting the waters with…

Around midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran into Bligh Reef. The result was the release of about 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska, loss of wildlife, and new environmental policies. The aim of this investigation is to identify the environmental policies that developed as a result of the oil spill, analyze why and if these policies were enacted, and search for evidence to either affirm or refute whether the oil spill made an impact on the…

US Intervention ISIS has been running amok around the world causing chaos wherever they see fit. Working with an international community, the United States and its allies are going to find it hard to finally deal with them. With so many countries and factions dipping their feet into the water that is Syria. The US is going to have to navigate the waters carefully. Though the US should keep supporting the Syrian Rebels, they should not proceed with a full scale confrontation with the Syrian…

There were many causes of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Specifically, the key causes of the disaster were decision making biases, the implementation of the wrong decision-making style, and ineffective communication between work groups. These factors together made for the of the worst environmental disasters in the US. First, the key cause of the disaster was an overconfidence bias. This bias refers to a tendency to assume the certainty of accuracy about estimations and predictions (Davies,…