Essays on Silliman

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Ms. Ana Mari Cauce President Jones, Jones & Jones 123 International Lane

Boston, Massachusetts 01234

Dear Ms. Jones: I believe that Halloween should be a holiday which promotes diversity and does not offend members of the minorities. Therefore, cultural appropriation is not acceptable because it diminishes the values of a certain group of people. The misrepresentation fosters stereotypes that are related to one particular culture and people are entitled to have diversity within that culture at the same time. It is best not to dress up as a member of a different cultural group than one’s own because it ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

Sodas: From Health Drink to Casual Beverage Prior to its current image as one of the most esteemed and consumed beverage across the globe, the history of soda drinks began with the manufacturing of carbonated water by Joseph Priestly, and Torbern Bergman’s invention of a mechanism turning carbonated water into chalk form with the use of sulfuric acid in the 1700s. However, Bellis and Oatman-Stanford noted that the newly manufactured good of Priestly and Bergman was met with little success in the market due to financial constraints and the presence of a weaker glass industry making it different ...

Human Impacts on Salt Marshlands

Salt Marshes Although less regarded by the public as an important ecosystem, salt marshes are among the most fertile and abundant coastal habitats on earth. According to Bromberg Gedan, Silliman, and Bertness from Brown University and University of Florida, Gainesville (2009), salt marshes provide more ecosystem services (anthropogenic benefits from nature) to coastal populations than other ecosystems. These intertidal habitats are composed of salt-tolerant grasses, herbs, and low shrubs, in great depths, and serve many functional dynamics. Salt marshes are located in a range of climates, from arctic and subtropical regions, and are always found along global coastlines. The ...

Abstract

Criminalization is process of recognition of the act to be criminal, consolidation of its features by the criminal law, and as a result the establishment of a criminal prosecution. The criminalization of black youth has always been a disputable topic all over the United States of America and for now it still remains unsolved. Finding different points of views of the authors of different articles, while studying this topic, I have clearly understood that there is no common view on this problem. In the essay I have matched different statistic data and analyzed the tendency of black youth criminalization within ...