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.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Visual Rhetoric
As an outsider looking in, Earth is in bad condition. Saturn, the doctor, tells Earth "I'm afraid you have humans." Humans, in this case, is disease-like and like some diseases, it may lead to one's demise.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Turtle Island Themes
The Dead By the End of The Road
Snyder shows how the highway is a death trap for animals such as birds and deer. The main theme is that the highway plays a negative role in the relationship between nature and mankind (man-made things). Although the road-kill can be used as a resource for food and items ("a pouch").
Coyote Valley Spring
The theme is that life (plants, regions, animals) are better off not touched by mankind. The deer, bears, and squirrels seem to be in the wilderness, or the "Coyote Valley"; untouched by humans (the "lost people"). In the wilderness, the animals seem to have more of their environment intact and unharmed.
By Frazier Creek Falls
Snyder is taking his view and appreciating nature. The theme of this piece is that the land can be here as long as humans aren't ruining it. Mankind doesn't have to live off of "clothes or tools" but can live off of the earth alone with its plentiful resources.
Snyder shows how the highway is a death trap for animals such as birds and deer. The main theme is that the highway plays a negative role in the relationship between nature and mankind (man-made things). Although the road-kill can be used as a resource for food and items ("a pouch").
Coyote Valley Spring
The theme is that life (plants, regions, animals) are better off not touched by mankind. The deer, bears, and squirrels seem to be in the wilderness, or the "Coyote Valley"; untouched by humans (the "lost people"). In the wilderness, the animals seem to have more of their environment intact and unharmed.
By Frazier Creek Falls
Snyder is taking his view and appreciating nature. The theme of this piece is that the land can be here as long as humans aren't ruining it. Mankind doesn't have to live off of "clothes or tools" but can live off of the earth alone with its plentiful resources.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Turtle Island Themes
Without
The theme of this poem is humans have the power to renew Earth. It is not ones responsibility to try an d SAVE the world because it can not be saved, but it can be healed and replenished with the power that humans have grown to have.
Two Fawns That Didn't Get To See The Light This Spring
It is because of humans that animals lives are at risk. The two fawns in the poem both may have survived, but they would not be raised properly. A human can provide a fawn with food that act as supplements but what the fawn really needs is its' mother and the resources provided by the forest.
The Uses of Light
This poem is describing how both the sun and the moon contribute to Earth. The sunlight helps warm earth and it's inhabitants. The moonlight illuminates the night, allowing animals and humans to see earth.
The theme of this poem is humans have the power to renew Earth. It is not ones responsibility to try an d SAVE the world because it can not be saved, but it can be healed and replenished with the power that humans have grown to have.
Two Fawns That Didn't Get To See The Light This Spring
It is because of humans that animals lives are at risk. The two fawns in the poem both may have survived, but they would not be raised properly. A human can provide a fawn with food that act as supplements but what the fawn really needs is its' mother and the resources provided by the forest.
The Uses of Light
This poem is describing how both the sun and the moon contribute to Earth. The sunlight helps warm earth and it's inhabitants. The moonlight illuminates the night, allowing animals and humans to see earth.
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