The first couple of years were not easy for the settlers. The question is Why did so many colonist die? To start off with, one of the problems they faced was environmental problems. Many of Jamestown’s colonist died because of brackish water which was some salty water due to the mixture of fresh and salt water, because of the tides that would happen twice daily. Also, they would dump their human waste into the water and make it even more contaminated so when the people of Jamestown would drink or use the water it would make them ill and even to the point that they died.
These runoffs have contributed to the beach closures, and the unsustainable condition of biological life in the lake. Human health is at great risk due to the untreated waste that is dumped in Lake Huron each year. The untreated sewage contains many viruses, two being Giardia (an intestinal parasite), cryptosporidium, which causes intestinal illnesses and even death. E. coli a more familiar virus has elevated its concentrations in Lake Huron, found in either animal or human feces, which causes diarrhea, nausea, and stomach cramps. ("Testing the waters,"
Geraldine Brooks explores how ignorance, superstition and hysteria can be as fatal as any plague within her novel ‘Year of Wonders’. During the trying year of the plague superstition, ignorance, and hysteria took over the village, causing people to make irrational accusations, decisions and behave immorally, turning against each other. Brooks explores how the plague acts as a catalyst effecting each of the villagers differently on a physical and emotional level. The plague is defined as a large amount of insects or animals infesting a place causing damage, within the novel we see the villagers become these animals. Fear and anguish brought out some of the worst qualities in the villagers causing them to turn against one another creating anger, conflict and damage unto one another.
If they come close to you, you will get stuck in there tentacles (Tarshis 6-7). As soon as the tentacles touch your skin, it injects deadly venom into your body. Immediately, you stop breathing, you lose consciousness, the heart beats irregularly, then it stops beating, and venom is absorbed into the blood stream very rapidly (6). Box Jellyfish are extremely dangerous, and depending on how bad the stings are, people may die. Over the decades, the Box Jellyfish have
Many turned into desperation, while having no choice but to eat their own horses, cats, and dogs. The worst part was the eating of rats, poisonous snakes, and dead bodies. Their water crisis only made it worse. Salt water disease resulted in their organs being drained leaving their brains out of place and in paranoia. A slow painful death occurred there.
Orcas, in captivity, are likely to suffer multiple health problems, not only from disease, but from other Orcas whom they share their tanks with. Most Orcas are kept in chlorinated pools which causes their skin to become very dry, and irritable. (Blackfish) The tanks they are kept in have higher temperatures and barely enough room for the Orcas to swim which results in dorsal fin collapse. Thirty to one-hundred percent of captive, most being male, Orcas have dorsal fin collapse. (Blackfish) The tanks can also cause Orcas to become violent to one another.
In other cases, the algae blooms from eutrophication turn out to be incredibly toxic species (National Academy of Sciences 696). One particularly nasty algae is Pfiesteria piscicida which emits toxins that break down the skin of fish, causing bleeding and sores and ending in mass fish death (Howarth 39). In August 2005, a dairy farm in Western New York experienced a manure lagoon collapse, which resulted in 3 million gallons of manure funneling into the nearby Black River, where it killed as many as 250,000 fish, brought all recreation to a halt, and forced the city of
This area is one of the densest concentrations of sea birds anywhere in the whole world. Even a small amount of oil can cause death in many of these animals because they can die from ingesting the toxic material, and lose their insulation when they are contaminated with oil. In 2004, two mechanical failures led to the loss
Eugene Smith In the 1960s, W. Eugene Smith created photo essays of birth deformities caused by pollution in the Japanese village of Minamata. Pollution from a local chemical factory was poisoning local fish that the villagers ate. Smith, like many photojournalists, risked his life to take his photo essays. In fact, Smith was severely beaten by workers at the chemical factory, causing injuries that contributed to his eventual death. A Good Photo Essay Not every photo essay has to tell stories motivated by social consciousness.
The book states that "When he finally returned, all the fish were death. So was the carrion hawk. The shambler had climbed up to the belfry and eaten it. "(Martin 244) Regarding of the destinies of his pervious pets had, I think he will starve his sandkings too. I felt angry about how Kress' irresponsibilities that caused his pets died in a famine because owners have the duties to feed their pets well.