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HANNAH H

BP Oil Spill: Past, Present, and Future   In the autumn of 2010, I decided to look into the recent, horrendous BP oil spill. I felt so strongly about the incident that I decided to write an essay and a questionnaire about the topic to educate others. The essay and questionnaire were used to evaluate Read more…

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First Day of High School   My alarm clock went off at 6 o’ clock in the morning, the sky still pitch dark. While I got ready for school, the just-woke-up-drowsiness, like fog, faded away. The worries I had built up in my mind about entering a new school came back to me. For the past few Read more…

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BP OIL SPILL AND ACCOUNTABILITY   On the eve of BP’s catastrophe, its man-made disaster that killed eleven of its workers and numerous innocent animals, bankrupting thousands of businesses on the Gulf of Mexico, the Minerals Management Service, the agency that supposedly regulates and manages oil companies’ leases of our natural resources, was sitting on its Read more…