B.P.’s Cover-up and Local Response 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 hands. Read more…
2011 CTY Reflection Fourteen young students entered bravely into the unknown classroom. With their innocent eyes wide open, they were bewildered by the brick walls and the dim atmosphere in which they were suppose to spend eight hours a day for the next three weeks. The sunlight that was peering through the narrow windows Read more…
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…
Once there was a whale named Spot. After a huge hurricane, he got washed up on the shore and couldn’t get back into the water. A few minutes later, a poor fisherman came to the beach that Spot was washed up upon and saw a huge whale laying there on the sand. Read more…
HELEN (HANYU) LIU 8TH GRADE Helen just moved from Connecticut to Boston, MA. Just the consideration of starting a fresh school year in a new school can leave the body in abeyance and drown the mind in many hopes and doubts. Not knowing what to anticipate, the mind then constructs expectations and desires Read more…
