Free Blog - The Gulf Oil Spill

In late April (20 - 22) there was a massive explosion on an oil rig that caused oil to seep out of the well, the oil is still flowing out to this day.

Who's to blame? Well it would probably have to be the oil companies fault that owned the rig which is BP, although the company itself doesn’t know how the explosion happened what they really don’t know how to pick it up.

There’s not that many ways to pick it up, you can corral it but that takes quiet a long time. They could also make a relief well that could divert the flow of the oil to that rig, but that would take more than 5 months to construct and get it fully operational. Still with that we would have to find a way to plug of the main hole, which is what BP has thought about, they plan to put a 100ton dome over the hole plugging it up, then have a rig suck up the oil onto a ship stopping the oil leakage.

The only problem with plugging this hole is the fact that it is more than 5000 feet in the ocean making it hard to get anything down there, so the dome that BP has constructed will only reach the bottom late Saturday night and they will have it fully operational on Sunday evening. They have stopped trying to burn the oil because it has all dispersed and they won’t use the chemical detergents to break down the oil because it is apparently harmful to the ocean life, but BP denies these allegations, so they are using it in very small amounts.

Even when the dome reaches the bottom of the ocean to plug the hole up there is no guarantee it will work - "We haven't done this before," said a BP spokesman. "It's very complex and we can't guarantee it." The quest took on added urgency as oil yesterday reached several barrier islands off the Louisiana coast that are fragile animal habitats. The oils has clearly became a problem, but we need to find the fastest and a safest way to get the oil cleaned up and the hole plugged.

Stealing Buddha's Dinner Free Write

Cover of "Stealing Buddha's Dinner"

A Memoir about the childhood of Bich Minh Nguyen

I am currently reading "Stealing Buddha's Dinner" which is a story about a Vietnamese Family who had to move into Grand Rapids, Michigan because of the Vietnam War.

Both places have many differences from each other that give the Vietnamese Family a very large cultural barrier. When the new family moved in their rental home they were very wary about people, the father would constantly look out the window to check if any was outside and the grandfather would sleep with a large sword.Another barrier that they faced were that the kids are obsessed with food, it would seem that no one of them can get enough, they would have 1-3 fruits a day and always complain about having to put food around the Buddha statue.

It would seem that this book is revolved around their food addictions, when Bich's father got married to an American named Rosa who never let the kids have any snacks, so to compensate "" would steal or sneak food out of the kitchen just to get a quick bite.

Also people treated the main character Bich cruelly, at school everyone would call her Bitch instead of Bich - which is pronounced Bit - which made her want to have an American name very badly. Also the family in general was always out, Rosa would always get off brand foods and the no-name brands of items, which obviously made Bich jealous because her next door neighbor always had the best kinds of food which Bich liked because she herself loved food.