Gulf Cartel

The Battle of Leyte Gulf took place in the Philippines and pitted Japanese and the United States naval forces against one another for command and control of the western Pacific region during World War II. The Philippines, to the United States, was another stepping stone closer to striking at Japan’s home island and also a vital staging point to wage war against Japan’s merchant supply line of valuable resources such as oil and fuel. Japan was required to defend the Philippines in the interest of…

Historical information on the situations that occurred prior to the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, was pursued by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats. The Maddox, in response, fired 3 warning shots and the North Vietnamese boats then attacked with torpedoes and machine gun fire. In the exchange, 1 U.S. aircraft was damaged, three north Vietnamize torpedo…

The transition from high school to postsecondary education can be a stressful time for students. Many try their best at maintaining all their responsibilities as a student including their social, professional and academic lives. Students attending universities often report being overwhelmed or overly stressed, ranging from moderate to severe stress that can be difficult to deal with (Sax, 1997). In past studies, researchers believed that both men and women have differences in the way they deal…

Isle of Dogs: A Delightful Dose of Dogs Isle of Dogs takes place 20 years in the future, where the japanese city of Megasaki is ruled by the cat loving Kobayashi dynasty, which has banished all dogs to live on an island of trash. This leads 12-year Atari (Koyu Rankin) to venture to the island to find his deported guard dog, Spots(Liev Schreiber). Upon his arrival, a group of dogs (Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban) agree to accompany Atari across the Isle…

Introduction and Program Description This project is based upon the knowledge of undergrad college students living in Eagle Hall at Florida Gulf Coast University. The purpose of our project is to make the college students aware of the Zika virus and give them ways to prevent contracting Zika. Mainly Zika is a vector (mosquitoes) spread virus and it is becoming a prevalent virus in Florida, so it is important to inform fellow students. Our goal is to educate these students on how to prevent the…

today. This natural hazard quite literally blew everyone’s expectations away. Despite the warnings and alerts, no one could anticipate the worst natural disaster in the United States history. Hurricane Katrina brought devastation and destruction to the Gulf Coast region in a ghastly fashion. Katrina first began as a tropical depression that morphed into a tropical storm and finally, a hurricane. It was a storm that was carefully watched and predicted for over…

improvement taken by immigrants can help grasp an idea of how immigration affects states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar among others who are part of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) take advantage of the economic needs of immigrants. These Gulf States have an economy based on oil production and exports. Countries that are part of the Gulf States are among the richest and most powerful countries in the world, hence the largest guest worker program in the world, this program receives…

Forces Group. The members were originally working for the Gulf Cartel as an enforcer gang. Then, they came to form a new gang called the Los Zetas. Their founders and leaders were Osiel Cardenas Guillen and Arturo Guzmán Decena, and the new members began working as drug runners, hired assassins, and bodyguards. The Los Zetas are now considered “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, efficient, violent, ruthless and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico" (Wikipedia 1) by the U.S.…

the cocaine that enters the U.S. transits through Mexico. Mexico is also a main supplier of marijuana and methamphetamines in the U.S.” (CNN). On the contrary, “Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 and $29 billion annually from U.S. drug sales” (CNN). The United States would seem to be a “cash cow” to the cartels. With billions of…

Drug lords and cartels are a major problem in modern society, they distribute drugs into communities and sometimes turn these areas into warzones. They have a huge amount of power, even over some country’s governments. They control a lot, drugs, guns, entire cities and countries. There is some things being done to solve this problem, but so far it’s barely made a dent in the trade. It’s still running strong after all the attempts to shut it down. There are so many people killed each year by not…