Platform

policeman interrupted Christopher, asking why he has been sitting in the café in a trance for two and a half hours. By using white lies, Christopher was able to unintentionally manipulate the policeman in trying to get a ticket. To get to the train platform he had to go through the underpass again. This time he imagined a big red line stretching across the floor to his destination. He followed the line by putting one foot in front of the other while saying out loud “left, right, left, right.” He…

Twitter is a social media platform where users can follow: their friends, favorite celebrities, and companies and brands that they are a fan of. Users are able to send and read 140 character messages called “Tweets”. They are also able to post pictures, videos and links to websites from their twitters. Users are allowed to share information constantly and discover what is going on all over the world. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Noah Glass and Biz Stone and launched on…

The movie Fruitvale Station is a strong movie that emphasizes the struggle of the poor-minority community, shows the prejudice that the police in our everyday society have, and walks through the life of Oscar Grant III, 24 hours before his murder. The ethnophaulism that is used is both derogatory and uncalled for; As well, the prejudice that someone encounters on a daily basis is unbelievably sad. The struggles of minority people in the United States often disregarded, and the outcome of hate…

Supervisory Platform: Use your power to empower others One of my students wrote an expository essay where he explained why his grandmother is special to him. He stated that she was special because she supervises him and his sister. He specified that supervision means that she takes care of them and makes sure they have what they need. After reading his essay and participating in class discussions, I concluded that it is in the act of supervising that people should be empowered. I intend to be…

Los Angeles is a place where people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate, parallel lives. Individuals from all social backgrounds participate in routine activities in micro-spaces throughout the city such as purchasing a cup of coffee or riding the bus to work. These people can be a student going to school or a senior citizen out on a stroll. Even though they may cross paths and share certain spaces on a consistent basis, that does not mean that they live identical lives.…

Oil Drilling Regulations British Petroleum(BP) had a massive oil spill on April 20, 2010. In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of eighty seven days, making it the biggest oil spill in United States history. The initial oil rig explosion killed eleven people and injured seventeen others (“11 Facts”). The spill killed hundreds of animal, plant life and destroyed the environment. BP was penalized up to forty billion dollars in…

She felt right at home, living in her Seanmhair’s cottage and with Scotland, as her new address. Scotland had actually always been her second home. It was going to take only a small amount of time to get acclimated to her new living arrangement and the Scots’ way of life. Aileana decided she should take a walk into town to see if any of her friends might be out and about. It was a magnificent sunny day, now that the morning mist had burned off. As she walked along the sidewalk in town, the smell…

Fate is an often debated topic. There are many questions that are often asked when talking about fate. There are three questions I will be answering based on Sophie’s World : “Do you believe in Fate?, Is sickness the punishment of the gods?, What forces govern the course of history?” Some other major themes are the purpose of history, Hegel’s view on history, religion,…

Although more than seventy percent of the Earth is covered in water, people are slowly running out of water because almost every life form on Earth needs water to live and grow. Unfortunately the ocean contains more than 97 percent of all the water on Earth which is undrinkable due to the high levels of salt. With the Earth’s population increasing the level of pollution in the water is raised as well, and if people do not start taking care of the little fresh water that we have then the water…

With each stable offshore platform increasing in production, its growth in output would allow for the nation to secure its own use of energy supply, and limit the need for relationships with “unstable” countries. “Forecast oil supply growth projected substantial declines in oil imports…