Smackover Research Paper

Nobody should be afraid to risk their life for others who need your help most especially when you are trying to protect them from calamity. The Wreckers, by Iain Lawrence is a thrilling novel that takes place in Pendennis in the County of Cornwall. John Spencer, 14 year-old survivor of the Isle of Skye shipwreck, is trying to escape the wreckers with the help of Mary, Simon Mawgan’s niece, and find his father, who also survived the wreck, so they can together go back to London. John kept searching for his father with the help of Mary even though he was taking the risk of getting killed. He managed to stand up against tough people who tried to kill him using his true grit and bravery. John, his father, and Mary at first thought that trying to

People usually think of oil when they think of Texas. For many years, Texas oil had little value. In the early 1900s, lumber was still the leading industry in Texas. However, after oil was discovered at the Spindletop in 1901, it became the state’s number-one industry. The discovery of huge amount of oil in Texas affected the economy as well as many aspects of daily life.

Skunk Hollow or, “the mountain,” was a free black community from 1806 to 1905. It was a small community of free blacks that was located in the Palisades area. Two years after New Jersey ratified its Gradual Emancipation Act, newly freed slaves settled in a small community known as Skunk Hollow. There were over sixty households in the community known as Skunk Hollow. The Skunk Hollow settlers were more prosperous than other African-American families in the township because most of the Skunk Hollow residents owned property by 1854. Mr. Earnest, Benjamin Charlton and James Oliver were the earliest settlers of Skunk Hollow.

thousand went on strike on July 20, 1899 after months of planning to boycott ("William Randolph Hearst").

There were many groups living in the United States between 1860 and 1900 and most of the groups we can categorize people into had very different viewpoints. The main groups that most can be categorized into are the wealthy, the common people, the Indians and the Chinese. Starting with the wealthy they looked at the west as a big fat paycheck, the wealth folks went out west and bought up lots of land and production and monopolized, while the common people competed with these big companies for free and cheap land because they were the poor back east and came out west with hopes of finding gold while mining or getting rich off abundant crop land or maybe it was some common women who came out west because they were allowed to purchase land out west. The Indians were native to the west and after immigration started some of the bigger tribes fought back but most tribes were too small and were forced by the American

In 1603, the English were still a small rising nation, poorer than most, and less powerful than Spain and France. Although the British colonies settled in the Americas late, they quickly became a dominant force in the new world. After they acquired their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, VA in 1607, the British became attracted to greater power and more land, which was the first building block of perhaps the most powerful European nation of the time period. Due to their growth in the Americas, the British were able to be compared to the Spanish colonies of the time period, which boosted the English’s confidence. Along with their growth in confidence, came a new way of thinking. Many British men thought that they

There has been an oil scam near the Black Vine Swamp. The Red Diamond Energy Corporation (REDC) is an oil company. They're trying to find as much oil as they can without pumping the oil out of the ground. The government would pay them not to pump the oil. A man named Drake McBride is the head of the RDEC. He’s trying to make money off of a business, but it never works out. His next one is an oil company. He hires a man named Jimmy Lee Bayliss to find some oil for his company. Bayliss buys a 640 acres in the Everglades near the Black Vine Swamp. They owned section 21 next to section 22 which is owned by the state. McBride and Bayliss were hoping to get lots of oil out of it but they barely got enough oil to fill a “goldfish tank.” Bayliss has heard that there is a whole lot of oil in section 22 and “that's how the Section 22 scam had been born.”

Muckrakers played an important role in reforming and creating massive change during the nineteenth century. Extreme tabloid journalism was the norm during the nineteenth century. Facts seemed lost and reporters wrote sensational articles in order to sell newspapers. One reporter however broke the norms, Ida. M. Tarbell. She was not only female in a male dominated field; her honesty and integrity were recognized, The United States had a boom in capitalism and businesses thrived in the late 19th century, however, corruption was rampant. Ida M. Tarbell not only broke gender roles she exposed the corruption of Standard Oil; the result was new government regulations.

Chris McCandless, a young, nonconformist man, died in the Alaskan wilderness trying to live off the land there. Some laud McCandless for his transcendentalist behavior and unique, nonconformist beliefs; others call McCandless a reckless fool whose impulsive actions ended up costing his life. Chris McCandless was ultimately a modern day transcendentalist because he believed that nature was purer than society, a common transcendentalist belief.

La Bamba, California is very small town with a population that is just under two hundred people. In this small town, there was an auto repair shop, a bakery, a butcher, a grocery store, and a gas station. Other than the houses where the people lived, this was all that La Bamba consisted of. La Bamba was dependant on the crops of the local farmers to feed everybody. The farmers would haul in large amounts of different crops that would then be used to make the food that the people eat on a daily basis. The people of La Bamba made their own dairy products, meat, and bread. The gardens of the local women supplied the town with fruit and vegetables.

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'Promised Land' is the story, directed by Gus Van Sant, of what happens when big business and Small Town, America clash. Matt Damon and Frances MacDonald portray two sales representatives from Global Gas Co., a nine million dollar company. They travel to Northwest Pennsylvania to try to lease ability to drill on the land of citizens. The movie completely failed at being even moderately realistic as well as failing to clarify the issues involved with both fracking industrialization of rural areas and the genuine short and long term impacts involved. The manner in which the leasing agents approached property owners was false,

This world has digressed over the years. The American way has been tarnished and tainted. For these reasons, some people have decided to form a more perfect society. This new society is called Swagtopia. it is a marvelous land of freedom where the education is precise and the government runs the country in excellence. Overall, Swagtopia is a striving nation, and its people will pursue further greatness.

When presented the task of describing a food item with respect to John Locke’s concept of simple ideas, my sweet tooth and I could think of no better treat than my beloved scotcheroos. A scotcheroo is essentially a peanut butter Rice Krispy treat topped with a layer of chocolate. Scotcheroos are made in a large pan (13 x 9 in my case) and then cut into small squares, approximately one inch in size. My grandma frequently made scotcheroos for us grandkids while growing up; to this day, I adore scotcheroos for both the taste and the happy memories I have associated with them.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform spit nearly five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, making it the largest oil spill in history. The 1989 oil spill surpassed Exxon Valdez's oil spill in 1989 as the largest oil spill ever seen in US-controlled waters and the Ixtoc I oil spill of 1979 as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater offshore rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 riggers and injuring 17 others. The fire burned for 36 hours and the Macondo Prospect delivered about 4.9 million barrels of oil before being closed and sealed on 15 July almost three months later. The oil spill in the