Gulf Coast of the United States

It is a normal night, just like every other night. You are sitting on your couch flipping through the channels, and you see a scene that catches your eye. A documentary about oil drilling. You decide to start watching and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop. You keep watching more and learning more about what happens during oil drilling. Then the documentary starts showing pictures of the possible effects of oil drilling. The pictures of an oil spill. Pictures of animals coated in oil.…

Energy Security: The Keystone Pipeline You see them every day as you’re driving down the interstate. Big trucks carrying cylinder-type trailers with hazmat placards strategically placed around them. There are rail systems that may pass through your neighborhoods and or near your child’s school with loads larger than what 18-wheeler can carry. We know these rail systems, as trains. What you may not know is, these trains are carrying tankers filled with natural gas, with loads stretching miles…

WWII’s Pacific front is most known for the war between United States and Japan. japan wanted full control of the Pacific but the only thing to stand in their way was United States and the naval base at Pearl Harbor. These lead to Japan surprisingly attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1961. It made United States attack back like no other, after the attack United States wanted blood and did not care about civilians lives they just wanted to destroy the Japanese empire. After the attack on Pearl…

The environment, along with its protection and issues connected with it are questions of interest nowadays. Many people are concerned with the state of the earth and our destructive impact on nature itself. Because of the slow change our environment is undergoing, many have failed to realize that this is even a problem. In, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore explains, “If a frog is put into a container of water that slowly increases in heat, it will stay there until it... Gets pulled out of the…

The Atchafalaya River is the United States largest continuous river swamp at about one hundred and seventy miles long and is located in south central Louisiana. The Atchafalaya Basin was formed when the Mississippi River gradually began to change its course. It flows south in a channel that used to be a part of the Mississippi River and it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The Atchafalaya is very important to agriculture and…

will take over this part someday , although of these previous claims no one believed that Iraq would invade Kuwait as a neighbor country that share with Iraq its culture , traditions and Arabic language and the two countries were members in the GCC -Gulf cooperation Council - that's…

the vast ranges of climate patterns based on Australia’s location. These are the reasons why Australia is physically unique. The famous sunburnt country, where there is nothing in the centre except for hot desert and the cities are located on the coast which are the ideal sunny paradise. Australia has a diverse range of climates because of its size and it being located below the equator and above the Antarctic circle. Thus giving Australia cold fronts from Antartica and high pressure…

day Dominican Republic and Haiti] to send letters back to Spain, perhaps to switch out, or trade one of his slower ships for a more quick and nimble one. Columbus had heard of severe storms called “huracan” or “horrible tempests”.While just off the coast of Hispaniola due to the grim weather, he sensed that one of these severe storms was drawing breath, beginning to awaken with great power. In light of this, Columbus requested to dock at the ports on the south side of the island in a place…

imperative that the United States supreme court rules in favor of Florida in order to prevent social, economic, and environmental hardships on Florida for generations to come. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin covers over 12 million acres stretching from north of Atlanta to the Big Bend of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has created and maintained reservoirs for power, flood control and in the case of Atlanta for drinking water. As Douglas Jehl states in…

America, the poster child of the free world. If America were an infomercial we would be filled with claims such as “Land of the Free,” “A country where everyone gets along,” and “THE place to be on Earth” followed by those 3 seconds of sped up talking that tell you all the side effects and possible negative implications that go so fast you can’t hear them on purpose. “This products only applies if you are white, male, and wealthy. If you are not all three of the above you may want to consult a…