The third chapter of the book focuses on coal mining and its dehumanizing effects that take place in Welch, West Virginia. "Disease in the coalfields is rampant... More than half a million acres, or eight hundred square miles, of the Appalachians have been destroyed... Along with an estimated one thousand miles of streams." Rudy Kelly is the main focus of this section; he was diagnosed with black lung cancer and he underwent multiple operations, although the doctors told him he was supposed to have died more than twenty years ago. He says, “I’m breathin’ because the profit margin is higher than the price of a man’s life.
The rough Winter most likely was the cause to 70 deaths. Based on the “Background Essay”, “Then, in the awful winter of 1609-1610, another two-thirds of the settlers died.” Harsh winters were bound to happen. There was nothing anybody could do about it or prevent it. The colonists could have prepared for it, but because they did not have the current technology, they could have not possibly predicted that a rough winter was coming their way. According to “Document D”, in 1607 August through October “Summer sickness kills half the colonists” The summer of 1607 was so severe that it killed 50 people.
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.” (Ban Ki-Moon) The human rights issue addressed in this quote is one that the whole world is facing and has been facing for millennia.
1. Between 1880 and 1920, the population of the Congo was slashed in half; some ten million people were victims of murder, starvation, exposure, disease and a plummeting birth rate. Why do you believe this carnage has remained virtually unknown in the United States and Europe? Leopold became king of Belgium around the time royalty had to start worrying about Parliament and such things as voters. There was this sort of contest Erurope was going through; countries would rush to get as much African land as they could, usually going after the rich land.
The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people in camps. Also 3.5 million people are now considered hungry. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month. The Sudanese government disputes these estimates and denies any connection with the Janjaweed militia. It is assumed that the hundreds of rapes reported and treated are not even close to the actual number committed, as victims of rape in Darfur are often too scared or too ashamed to seek help.
BIO: Fires are a major natural and man-made disaster. An average of 5 million acres burns every year in the United States causing millions of dollars in damage. Once a fire ignites, it can spread at a rate of up to 14.3 mph destroying everything in its path. Fuel, weather, and topography are factors that determine how fast the fire will spread and the length of its duration. This portion of the Emergency Management Plan illustrates ways to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover all types of potential fires in the zoo.
The wind turbines kill thousands of protected eagles and bats each year. In California 10,000 eagles, hawks, and other birds are killed each and every year. This is one of those facts that the green team likes to hide. Instead they want to build 133 of the giant (390 feet) wind turbines in an area 16 times the size of the proposed area of ANWR. The wind turbine area in Wisconsin is a lushes marsh, home to millions of geese, ducks, and dozens of other migratory birds not to mention just down the road from a abandoned mine housing about 140,000 bats.
The Impact of Black Death & the World It Made Aaron Semkiw HIS: 103 World Civilizations I Instructor Kenneth Adderley April 9, 2011 The Impact of Black Death & the World It Made The Black Death was the world’s equivalent of an apocalyptic war, and it changed the lives of many people. It destroyed one-third of Europe’s populace, claiming somewhere around twenty million lives. And still, much of what we grasp about it is incorrect. The elements of the Plague defined in the imaginations of frightened school kids, the grotesque black bruises, the out of control state of high temperatures, and the unpleasant cessation by respiratory collapse, are just about conclusively true. But what this disease really was and how it made
It would interfere with millions of migratory birds that feed on its tundra plains. It would kill plants and animals that are native to the Beaufort Sea area and the environment would take two decades to recover. If there were a major oil spill, it would decades for the ecosystem to recover, since so many organisms would be contaminated and eventually die. Remember the 1989 catastrophe when the Exxon Valdez spilled 35 million gallons into Prince William Sound? The
Effects of The Black Death The biggest, most disastrous epidemic to ever affect Europe, and the world, the Black Plague, is also commonly referred to as the “Black Death”. The Black Death was an epidemic that killed an estimated 75 million people worldwide (Wikipedia). The Black Death lasted from 1347 to 1352 (Kishlansky 295), and had a lasting affect on the world. One-third to one-half of Europe’s population died from this epidemic (Kishlansky 295). People lived in fear of this disease that it would affect them and moved on with life with their saying of “live for the moment” (Wikipedia).