beautiful metropolitan, just a highway, a couple of fast-food restaurants, and miles upon miles of fields: I had landed in Hicksville, I just wasn’t aware of it. On the way to school, we stopped at a Wal-Mart [...] Wal-Mart, a gigantic get-everything-you-can-dream-of kind of store to pick up a comforter, pillow and other necessities to get by our first night. When I went to pay, the cashier started to talk to me, asking [...] started to gradually get easier. I began to fathom the culture of Arkansas, to empathize with their values, and more important, to understand my own Faroese culture; who I was. Today, I love Arkansas, and I
society that enjoys one of the highest standards of living anywhere in Britain. A unique partnership between the industry and the local authority has secured the islands a steady stream of income, which is used [...] other local authorities in Britain can only dream of. With the massive Clair oil field, 50 miles to the west of Shetland, coming on stream towards the end of next year, the BP led management at the oil terminal [...] arrival of oil in Shetland. He said there was a widespread fear of environmental damage and cultural intrusion, but, fortunately, neither happened. ?People thought the oil industry would make a mess of the
