Cities Of Salt By Abdelrahman Munif And Oil On Water

The amount of oil was abundant and it was easily accessible with minimal regulation. And people had little understanding of the health or environmental impacts to themselves. Los Angeles still is the largest urban oil field in the United States. Thousands of ongoing oil wells in the greater L.A. area are located in a dense population of more than 10 million people. Though conventional crude reserves have decreased, oil drilling in L.A. still remains popular. Oil rigs spread among the city but by using special structures, tall fences, or operating oil drilling in low-income residential area, they often hide from pedestrian’s

Senator Everett Dirksen once noted “The oilcan is mightier than the sword”. In today’s world, it is easy to see why oil can be considered the most important resource to hold. Without oil, many of the common day occurrences we take for granted would be impossible. Oil is used for almost everything; from the fuel used to drive our vehicles, to the plastics used in every facet of life, and providing the heat needed to live through the winter. In fact, the United States depends so much on oil that as a nation it uses over 20 million barrels a day. Importing oil increases the total costs because of the need to transport it from around the world. It is estimated

Hundreds upon thousands of millionaires, new cities and towns, and a plethora of jobs are birthed out of one black goo. Oil. Ever since January of 1901, oil has been spewing out of hundreds of oil rigs all over Texas, bringing cities and people with them. Oil changed Texas from a place with very few cities to a place with cities all over. The oil would be found in a remote place and within the month 2000 people would live there, hoping to get rich from oil.

Four people who have never met before all carry around their guilt. As the end of World War Two happens, these four are trying to get to safety. Joana, the sergeant, who spent her whole life studying, wishes she put her book down and enjoyed the people she is fighting to get back too. Staying in her group, Joana is protected by her _____ status. When a boy and girl join the group, both of them hurt, Joana treated them before asking question. The girl, Emili, was polish, a race deemed unworthy of Hitler, and also pregnant. Where the baby’s father was unknown, Emili and her pink hat did not know the language, but spoke poor enough German to let Joana know the boy, whom Emili called her knight, saved her from a Russian solider. the boy, Florian

Salt: A World History written by Mark Kurlansky in 2002 is his fifth work of nonfiction. This novel explains the importance of salt, a mineral our bodies need, but cannot create; more than just an ordinary condiment, a substance of life. The book jacket identifies the book with the tagline:

Ever since the day that Spindletop started to gush, oil has been very important to the region.  Oil has lead to new inventions and also expansions to places like schools.  It also gave people jobs because people can get paid for locating and drilling oil.

On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake found oil in oil creek Pennsylvania. Oil did not become popular (or a major industry) until the late 1800’s. It was still a great improvement and (in today's time) one of the most important advancements all-time It is important because most everything that is in the world requires oil in order to run properly. Oil fuel our airplanes, cars, and trucks, to heat our homes, and to make products like medicines and plastics. It pollutes our environment. It causes danger to plants and animals d spilled. When the oil spilled n the sea, it caused tremendous danger to the sea animals. Oil helps because after being distilled it causes tarry residue which helps road surfacing, and for roofing. When

“Salt, A World History,” is an extensive aspect of world history by Earth’s one edible rock - salt. The book begins at the start of recorded history, and highlights humanity’s dependence on salt, up to roughly present day times. It focuses on the effect salt had on, and its contributions to, humankind. The book details how salt affected, economics, religion, science, and culinary practices all over the world.

The book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil is a warning to the world about the great harms that have been imposed on people and the earth by our need and dependence on petroleum products. The story is much darker than most people know and Maass is hoping to change that.

The book starts off with the discovery of oil in America. When Americans started to use oil, they had to skim it off the top of ponds that had a crack in the rock below it. The crack allowed oil to leak through. These leaks were called oil springs. Skimming oil off the top of oil springs was very primitive and could only gather so much oil. At that time, the only use for oil was for a medicine that would cure headaches. One day, after being very ill, a man named George Bissell stopped in Pennsylvania to see the oil springs there. He was amazed. When he traveled back to his hometown of Dartmouth, he met a professor who had a bottle of oil on his desk. After getting into a conversation about oil with the professor, George found out that oil was flammable. The idea hit him, “Why couldn 't oil be used as an illuminant?” Prior to the discovery

This book’s main focus is essentially the transformation of the land on the Arabian Peninsula due to the American oil explorers who want to exploit the land to gain access to the huge oil reserve that is the Middle East, in this case Saudi Arabia. The Americans are first described as harmless except by Miteb al-Hathal, who senses that they are devils who cannot be trusted and that something bad will happen because of them, which no one believes. It turns out, in the end, that he was right and if the Emir had realized what was going on earlier and actually worked to stop it then things wouldn’t have turned out so bad for the people.

The fictional accounts of women’s experiences in Fadia Faqir’s, Pillars of Salt, illustrate issues articulated by women’s rights activists in the Middle East. Traditional roles of women and men and a mythology of femininity and masculinity are juxtaposed with the disparate realities of the characters. The damaging forces of colonial rule, war, and Westernization are also exposed.

Abdelrahman Munif, a Jordanian born Saudi novelist, wrote a novel called ‘Cities of Salt’. It is a monumental novel that tells the story of the discovery of oil. Encountering the vicious arrival of the global, political and economic modernity to an unnamed Persian Gulf kingdom is the main point of Munif in this novel. Munif described the migration of the villagers as their traditional lands are destroyed, and their way of living is thrown into disarray by the foreigners – Americans, through invasion of modern technology, cultural gaps, and a whole new bunch of the local economy. He has exercised an unconventional format in novel by declining a clear protagonist or even its mixture. Leading characters of the novel in its first dozen chapters are gone by the final third of the book, despite the formation of main characters. The valley that is destroyed in the beginning and later the town of Harran that goes from a backwater to booming oil valley or town. Where the novel’s all fiction

Most associate the Central Valley with agriculture. But here in the dry southwestern corner of the vast basin, oil is the undisputed king. The “giant” oil fields that envelop the town of 9,000 – the Midway-Sunset, Cymric and Belridge – are among the largest in the country, each having produced over a billion barrels of oil. The landscape reflects that reality. Fields of pump jacks

Since the past few decades, owning a car has become a necessity in order to commute from one place to another. However, cars do not work automatically, they require fuel. Since the past decade, the petroleum industry has become one of the leading industries impacting the nation’s economy. Oil has become an essential commodity as it is utilized in transportation vehicles, serves as a raw material for manufacturing plastics, and is utilized in homes for cooking. America’s economy is greatly dependent on petroleum as it is the “black gold” of the nation. The considerable significance of oil has led to the drilling of it, which is not only limited to land, but also the oceans. Offshore drilling is a method in which petroleum is extracted from underneath the seabed. It is one of the significant technological advancements in the past few decades. However, the ones who are involved in the process of offshore oil production are humans, and humans tend to make mistakes. In 1969, due to a human error, an oil spill occurred and natural gas, oil, and mud shot up the well and oozed into the ocean (“Offshore Drilling”). The oil spilled led to an environmental disaster which killed thousands of marine animals and distorted the environment. In order to prevent the same error, the government passed a moratorium in 1981, banning more than 85 percent of the country’s oil drilling sites (“Offshore Drilling”). The moratorium restricted the United States to mass-produce its natural resource.