The Coast Salish people are Native Americans whose culture has been at risk of extinction. In the article Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival, the author Michael Marker explains how the Coast Salish people are forced to conform. The area that they once lived in has been divided by the Canada-US border. The stress that has been put on the Native Americans has caused racism. With the government constantly pushing them around and slowly conforming them, they don't have a chance to voice their opinions or live how the want to really live.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Essay 3: Food/Sustainability Issues
In the brickyard, some of the food issues that are present are the result of events hosted by clubs, students eating there lunch outside, and trash left behind. Clubs occasionally have events in the brickyard that involves giving away or selling food. Most of the food provided is brought from nearby fast food places. This is an issue because the students don't know what is in the food or where it is coming from. Food provided from the brickyard is also an issue because safe precautions aren't really taken while handling the food. The providers may have on gloves but there usually aren't any sanitizers near by. The food also isn't being kept at a good temperature to prevent any germs.
There are also sustainability issues present in the brickyard. Due to the high buildings that surround the brickyard, the trees, plants, and grass isn't getting an adequate amount of sunlight. The gardeners that maintain the brickyard's greenery may use fertilizers that could contain potentially harmful chemicals.
There are also sustainability issues present in the brickyard. Due to the high buildings that surround the brickyard, the trees, plants, and grass isn't getting an adequate amount of sunlight. The gardeners that maintain the brickyard's greenery may use fertilizers that could contain potentially harmful chemicals.
Friday, October 12, 2012
EPA
Abria Harris
Synthesis
Hydraulic fracturing, most commonly known as "fracking", is a process in which pressurized fluids are used in order to fracture into Earth's rock layer to create wells underground. The fluids used in fracking have been identified as to being dangerous to both the public and the environment. Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz and ProPublica are authors of the article "EPA: Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Contamination" which is about fracking and how it could have been the cause of water contamination in an area in Wyoming. The authors uses a draft report from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to support their article.
"Federal environment officials of today scientifically linked underground water pollution [found in Wyoming with fracking]." The EPA question if fracking is capable of causing harm to water resources while others believe the fracking to be safe. All of the synthetic compounds from frack fluids could pose risks to the health and safety of the public and the environment. The EPA decided that the best way to find out if the the water really is being polluted by fracking was to create two test wells and monitor them. After a few years of testing and monitoring the wells, contaminants were found and thought to be relevant to the fracking. "In 2010 another round of sampling confirmed the contamination."
Warnings were given from both the EPA and federal health officials for the residents to be cautious while being around the water and steps were given as to what is safe and what is not. Along with the confirmation from the EPA that compounds used in the fracking process were found in areas that were fracked, the EPA also found that 2-BE, a chemical "known to be used in fracking," was detected in only one of the test wells. Although the EPA's findings were important, the information couldn't be used as a fact because the detection of 2-BE only occurred once in the tests.
Synthesis
Hydraulic fracturing, most commonly known as "fracking", is a process in which pressurized fluids are used in order to fracture into Earth's rock layer to create wells underground. The fluids used in fracking have been identified as to being dangerous to both the public and the environment. Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz and ProPublica are authors of the article "EPA: Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Contamination" which is about fracking and how it could have been the cause of water contamination in an area in Wyoming. The authors uses a draft report from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to support their article.
"Federal environment officials of today scientifically linked underground water pollution [found in Wyoming with fracking]." The EPA question if fracking is capable of causing harm to water resources while others believe the fracking to be safe. All of the synthetic compounds from frack fluids could pose risks to the health and safety of the public and the environment. The EPA decided that the best way to find out if the the water really is being polluted by fracking was to create two test wells and monitor them. After a few years of testing and monitoring the wells, contaminants were found and thought to be relevant to the fracking. "In 2010 another round of sampling confirmed the contamination."
Warnings were given from both the EPA and federal health officials for the residents to be cautious while being around the water and steps were given as to what is safe and what is not. Along with the confirmation from the EPA that compounds used in the fracking process were found in areas that were fracked, the EPA also found that 2-BE, a chemical "known to be used in fracking," was detected in only one of the test wells. Although the EPA's findings were important, the information couldn't be used as a fact because the detection of 2-BE only occurred once in the tests.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Khan
The sequence of events that have been occurring on the planet, according to Richard Nash, is leading to the world's demise.We have been desecrating this planet for years. Humans have been working this planet to its core and people don't realize the catastrophes that are in the planet's future. If mankind continues to neglect the plant by overpopulating Earth and overproduce products the future will not be too good for anyone; but, we can save our Earth by changing our ways and becoming more environmentally literate and ecoliterate. The environmental crisis that is at hand has contributed to an economic crisis as well. 40 years ago the ratio of rich to poor was 44:1, which has now nearly doubled to the ratio of 72:1. The world is becoming greedier than ever for all of the mundane things that are produced now a days. What are we going to do about this? Nash mentions a school known as the "Zoo School" which teaches students the basic subjects such as math and science, as well as helps to articulate the harm that humans have brought to planet along with all of its inhabitants. If more schools and programs such as the Zoo School were available, humans will be more knowledgeable of how to be good neighbors to the environment.
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