The industrialization of Manchester was successful for the modernization of man, yet its growth also raised many concerns in society. The health issues were one of the major problems raised from the growth of Manchester, since the spread of disease throughout the city was extremely common as presented in Document 6, “The annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation is greater than the loss from death in modern wars”. This shows how the rapid growth of Manchester created unsafe areas that easily allowed illness’s to be spread. Also, the physical conditions in the factories caused many problems for the workers’ health. A French women’s rights advocate, Flora Tristan, said that in the factories, “They (the workers) are all wizened, sickly and emaciated, their bodies thin and frail, their limbs feeble, their complexions pale, their eyes dead… O God!
(21 marks) The massive increase in productivity and the technology of modern society’s resources, in more developed countries, have created new risks. Many of these risks involve harm to the environment and its consequences for humanity, such as global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions from industry. Green crime is seen as a global crime because it is harm done to other species or aspects of the environment such as the air, water supplies, the ocean and the rainforest are increasingly seen as impacting negatively on the quality and future of human life wherever it is in the world. Also, It is carried out by powerful interests particularly TNCs with the corporation of nation states and local wealthy elites which another reason why it is a form of global crime. A more radical approach to green criminology starts from the idea of harm rather than criminal law.
In his preface to the novel, Remarque maintains that "a generation of men ... were destroyed by the war" (Remarque, All Quiet Preface). Baumer's closest comrades fall one after the other. The conditions in the German army are to harsh, they have no food, ammunition, moral is low they could not keep fighting. An important episode in the novel is when Baumer is issued a period of leave when he visits his home town. This leave is disastrous for Baumer because he realizes that he can not communicate with the people on the home front because of his military experiences and their limited, or nonexistent, understanding of the war.
It was then declared that Love Canal was and is still considered a very dangerous area to be near and to live on. “ Love Canal will likely long endure as a ‘national symbol of a failure to exercise a sense of concern for future generations'(Sam Howe Verhovek). In my own opinion, I believe that Love Canal should not now, nor ever have anymore houses or facilities built on it. Love Canal was and is a place that had many illnesses among its people. “residents exhibited a ‘disturbingly high rate of miscarriages ... Love Canal can now be added to a growing list of environmental disasters involving toxics, ranging from industrial workers stricken by nervous disorders and cancers to the discovery of toxic materials in the milk of nursing mothers.’ (Love Canal).
Both were treated unfairly and weren’t liked by people. They both were used in some sort of experiment. Firstly, who ever you are and whatever you lack shouldn’t hold you back from having friends. Both Charlie Gordon and the monster had difficulties appealing to people and this was very disturbing to them. For example, the monster was hated by all and he knew that he could never have someone that looked normal because of the way he was.
The soldiers live and fight in terrible conditions. This environment begins a cycle that causes the soldiers to despise the Iraqis. They are under constant fear of being attacked or blown up. They are living in a location, the desert, which they are not use to. “The dust, the fear, the high threat level, the isolation-all of that was the surge the soldiers knew .
Kalem 10/6/10 P: 4 Short stories essay Technology was better throughout the centuries. It’s helpful to everyone in their daily life but if people start to abuse it, technology will become a really strong poison. The story “By the Water of Babylon” and “A Sound of Thunder” are a warning that scientific advancement and man’s constant quest for knowledge will harm us. The story “By the Water of Babylon” shows how the technology leads to people’s death. As technology become more advance, people use their knowledge to create a lot of weapons to fight with other like guns and bombs.
Summary Essay - the Obligation to Endure In the article "the Obligation to Endure", published in 1962 for Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring", mainly indicates the destructive influence of the chemical substances to the environment. The author holds the view that the excessive use of chemical products like pesticides and insecticides damage to the environment deeply and even to human. With the detail definition, Carson believes that the environment exists under an adjusted and balanced situation after the past millions of years of changes. Environment can transfer the harmful substances by itself, but the rapid development of chemical technology makes the environment does not have enough time to adjust and adapt it. Enormous chemicals
It is very much feared also. If the world did end, it would be very scary for people that may have survived. “The city was a dead place,” (Benet 411). For John, it was a place with no excitement, and nothing at all. The apocalypse is supposed to happen because of the sun burning up, so it would be very cold and lonely.
More updated methods of accelerating decomposition have been introduced in more recent years, however, these liquids are still potentially leaking. Even state-of-the-art landfills contribute to massive pollution to groundwater. While grasses in the creek Royte describes, act as erosion control and natural filters and some organisms seemed to continue to thrive is such horrid conditions, the author mentions that she later learned that pollutants from the water were showing up in bird eggs and chicks and jeopardizing their long term