Intro/Facts Ashland Oil, Inc. with revenues exceeding $7 Billion in 1987 was the sixtieth largest company in the country and the nation's largest independent oil refiner. The company employed over 42,000 people worldwide and had refining capacity of 346,000 barrels of oil per day. Key oil supplie...
The first cloned sheep, Dolly born 6 years ago, died from a developing lung disease. Since her birth, she has caused a sensation around the world, sparking controversial ideas of human cloning (Nuland 128). This lead to people questioning whether or not cloning was really a success. Many people fear the idea of cloning because it is new and misunderstood. The main arguments debated pertain to the immorality of restricted individualism, a violation of an individual's sense of uniqueness, and the constriction of independence by the expectations of their "parents- (Strong 186). ...
During the eighteenth century, piracy began ruling the waters surrounding the American colonies. For many people piracy adds an exciting thrill to maritime history with its adventure, romanticism, mysteriousness, and its alluring nature. However, piracy is just the practice of a pirate: these pirates conducted robbery or illegal violence at sea; violence and crimes that killed, hurt, and affected the lives of others.1 Legally, crime is broken into three different parts: mens rea, the mental state of mind the criminal had during the crime; actus reus, the acts that are criminally committed; an...
Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That night, Ralph sneaks down to the camp at the Castle Rock and finds Sam and Eric guarding the entranc...
Introduction Over the past eight weeks, I have been attending regular "play sessions" on the playground of Woodward Elementary School. During this period of time, I became particularly aware of the rules and boundaries, set by adults and peers alike, that the children often encounter when attempting to frame their interactions in an acceptable way. To simply walk up to a group of children and ask them to play in a friendly manner represents only a minuscule factor of social development. As a child interacts, he or she must learn to interpret a wide variety of complex cues and requi...
