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Wilfred Smith in his book The Meaning and End of Religion traces the development of the concept of religion and demonstrates that it is a word attributed to the Western world used to describe traditions as mutually exclusive systems of belief. This process is known as reification, “mentally making religion into a thing, gradually coming to conceive it as an objective systematic entity” (Smith, 51). This has proved damaging because to say that religion is reified is to claim that something…

The BP horizon drilling accident is considered the biggest environmental disaster in US history, considered 10 times bigger than Exxon Valdez. Over a period of 86 days (from April to June), about 4.9million barrels of crude was pumped into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The impact of the spill is still being studied. During this period, 57.5 square miles of gulf waters were closed to fishing and other commercial activities. Just top put it in context, the estimated amount of oil spill is…

Ian McCarthy Professor Keaton Lamle English 1101 4 October 2017 Klosterman vs. Zinczenko For about the past fifteen years, there has been an argument circulating around the Americas and the UK. This argument comes at the height of what some may refer to as the fast-food crisis or the obesity epidemic. McDonalds is a large corporate company that is known to serve undeniably unhealthy food at fast speeds, thus being why it’s food is called fast-food. The question is when does personal…

(Smithsonian Natural Museum of Hihttp://ocean.si.edu/gulf-oil-spill) In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, which was owned by the British Petroleum Co., blew up and spilled more than 200 million gallons of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The leakage from the rig lasted about 87 days, which made it the biggest oil spill in American history. The Gulf coastlines the American states of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and a bit of Alabama. The oil spill affected many things, it took the lives of many…