Gulf Stream

Hurricane Sandy, also known as “Superstorm Sandy”, was a massive hurricane and cyclone storm that occurred on October 22nd 2012, and lasted until November 2nd. Sandy is considered to be the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (Gutner). Initally starting out as just a Category 1 tropical storm in the Caribean sea, Sandy made its way to Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the United States east coast border, reaching to a Category 3 strength. With its immense strength and wind power of a maxium of 115…

includes various actors, all of which play a different but important role. There are seven main drug cartels: Beltran-Leyva, Gulf, Juarez, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and Tijuana/Arellano Felix. Each cartel maintains its own territory, and some areas are disputed among cartels. For example, Los Zetas controls the Central North and some of the Southeast coast, and the Gulf Cartel reins the Northeast coast. However, both cartels dispute over Zacatecas, a region in central Mexico.…

The way the government aimed to deny these incidents ever occurred, Gourevitch and Morris deliver an in-depth perspective on the events taken place in a prison system in Abu Ghraib, located in Iraq. It’s astounding how the people whom lead our precious America could be such savages in the face of temptation. And so much so, how could we as a country be the country we are and continuously deny our roles in these events. The leaders of our free have once again aimed at keeping world information,…

both have similar concepts. Although many aspects of Sumerian and Greek societies were very similar, there are several differences. Some of those differences include education and location. The location of the Sumerian's is located near the Persian Gulf, next to Arabia, while the Greeks are located on a peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea between Turkey and Italy. In class we asked questions on how come we wake up of the mornings, or why the sun comes up. We learned that each civilization has its…

The President attempted to persuade his audiences by determining his credential as the President of the America. Obama used logos technique to persuade the crowd about what he was saying. He said “That’s my judgment as Commander-in-Chief. But I’m also the President of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy”. Bu using logos, he hoped to receive not only support from the citizens but also from the Congress because he believed “America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together."…

in America, along the Mississippi Gulf near Waveland. It traveled west…

Many people would associate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 as the world’s worst human-caused ecological disaster, citing the devastating effect the spilled oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Although the slick has spread over a large area, destroy BP’s publicity, and has killed many marine-based wildlife, other events in history makes the oil spill appear incredibly minor in comparison. For example, in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the Dust Bowl, a result of bad farming techniques…

Following the event of 9/11, Muslims have been labelled as today’s “barbarians.” Many Muslim states and people have been “othered” by states following the attacks. States, such as the United States, have even gone to the extent of waging war on/in their country. In The Bombardment of Damascus, Quincy Wright asserts that international law does not “require the application of [the] laws of war to people of different civilization” as the law does not explicitly state that there is a distinction…

The USA is worldwide known for being the major liberal democratic country. However, on 20th march 2003, the USA invaded Iraq, which was the major and the most expensive military confrontation for the USA after Cold war (Lieberfeld, 2005). This action has been argued to be the breaking and rejecting the international law of non-intervention. But, the justification of such action was given by the president of the USA – George W. Bush as following: ‘Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward…

The US invasion of Iraq was a shameful war and it should have never happened. This War had no real proof why there should have been a war. Iraq had never threaten american. America just amused that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. This caused a lot of confusion. This war was not necessary to start. There were good reason that Canada was right to refuse to participate in the war on Iraq. It was based on lies, led to disasters and it was a counterproductive war. Many things started to go…