Horizon

years’ probation and to continue cooperating with the criminal probe. Just today, July 19, 2015 Halliburton announces that it has reached an agreement with British Petroleum (BP) Exploratory and Production Inc. relating to the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon well incident in the Gulf of Mexico (Halliburton…

This essay is about analysing the policies and decision that the Nanjing Government made after the 1911 revolution in 1937.There are real reforms after the 1911 revolution until the Nanjing government in 1937. The period was far more stable than the preceding warlord era. There was enough stability to allow economic growth and the start of ambitious government projects, some of which were taken up again by the new government of the People's Republic after 1949. Nationalist foreign service…

my perspective… permanently. I found as I awoke in a new reality, I was heading to an unknown destination on a airplane. Looking out the window, the skies shined with pure sunlight, and that sunlight bouncing off the misty clouds that ran on the horizon like the hills. Upon finished descent of the plane, I exited to find myself in an unfamiliar place, and in the middle of my confusion, a phone call came in. Staring at the phone I contemplated…

A Day on the Mississippi The weather was perfect. Mid 80’s with not a cloud in the sky, perfect boating weather. Gingerly, I set my first foot on the dock, it swayed beneath me as the dock descending a few inches in the water. I pushed forward, walking fast but being sure-footed to eliminate the chance of falling in the river. Slowly, but surely, I reached our boat. It was tied up in the middle slip of the dock. My father and I began to quickly take the tarp off the boat, snap by snap. We both…

entirety of their surroundings. No matter where someone turns, nature’s presence follows them whether in the inner city of Milwaukee or rural countryside of southern Scotland. The night sky portrays a sense of intricate detail covering the entire horizon as far as the eye can see. Nature’s vastness contains power and encompasses a sense of motion, especially when glancing up at the night sky. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh utilizes intricate brushstrokes to portray the nighttime. Van Gogh’s…

election scandal which resulted in Nicolás Maduro as president. The citizens of this country do not get to practice their right to vote and elect a president they believe will be good for their country, so they do not get to expand their cultural horizon and find out what truly will be good for their country. The crisis in Venezuela has happened in several other South American countries such as Colombia and El Salvador as well. Another example of the government interfering in people’s lives and…

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…

“The Hymn to the Aten” is a great poem. It gives me a different view on the sun. I didn’t know the sun can mean so much in our everyday lives or to other cultures around the world like Egypt. “Aten is regarded as a king with cartouches for his names and is considered to celebrate the royal jubilee festivals “(Wikispaces). The history of the poem begins in ancient Egypt with Amenhotep IV; From 1350 to 1334 BC, he became a monotheist by worshipping the sun god Aten. Aten, similar to the sun-disk,…

woman and overcomes the men who try to oppress her. They fail to silence her voice as she ultimately “pulls in her horizon like a great fish-net…from around the waist of the world and drape it over her shoulder” (Hurston, 193). Her ultimate dynamism is contrasted with her initial feeble state as a young girl when “she had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons”. She has not only procured true happiness despite her hardships, but she…

the range of activities that make up our “agency” (Alcoff 2006). These aspects interact through the hermeneutic idea of “interpretive horizons”, the spaces from which one looks out to understand and make meaning of the world performed in a particular place and time, by a particular person whose individual experiences have a formative influence (Alcoff 2006). The horizon perspective consists of an individual’s background assumptions, social location within the societal structure, and personal…