This includes exposure to light, pollution, weathering, erosion, and people walking through the sites, treasure hunters and vandalism. The damage done to Pompeii alone is expected to cost over 300 million US dollars to conserve the town, although due to the severe lack of funding this can be considered to be an impossible task. As both Pompeii and Herculaneum were initially excavated in the 18th century they have been standing exposed to the elements for hundreds of years, and so all structures have been affected by general deterioration over time. Excavations have left structures unstable and are on the verge of collapse. For example on November 6th 2010 the house of the Gladiators collapsed due to general deterioration and also heavy rainfall – see source B.
By the following spring, after a horrific winter that became known as the “starving time,” all but 60 had perished. Four hundred years later, historians can only speculate about the causes of this massive population collapse, which nearly snuffed out the first permanent English settlement in North America. But a team of geologists at the College of William & Mary may be closing in on a suspect: drinking water fouled by salt, arsenic, human waste or a medley of these contaminants (Document A). Life was no picnic for the Jamestown colony’s earliest founders, but at least they had enough to eat. Evidence suggests that the deceased people in Jamestown were as result of the mix of salt and fresh water, said historian Carville V. Earle.
Planning on visiting a cave?, well don’t get your hopes up on seeing one there in this age. Many scientists believe that the days of the salamandor lining the walls are over, due mostly to destruction and deterioration over time. Salamandors actually are in danger in pretty much any enviornment they choose to call home. The number of wetlands and forests is decreasing every year, in the last 100 years alone 54% of wetlands have been lost. Vernal pools would be the perfect fix for salamandors,
An example of some of the things that George Henderson says in his paper about poverty is, “Poverty is staying up all night on' cold nights to watch the fire knowing one spark on the newspaper covering the walls means you’re sleeping child dies in flames. In summer poverty is watching gnats and flies devour your baby's tears when he cries.” In the novel Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario poverty is everywhere, some places are just worse than others like families living in shacks, only being able to eat one meal a day. These authors and others are pointing out an indisputable fact. Poverty is everywhere and everyone needs to be doing something about it. Sonia Nazario describes a very graphic picture of children without one or any parents, food, shelter, and clothing, which many Americans choose to ignore and go about their business like it doesn’t happen here and around the world.
Death-row inmates have repeatedly asked to donate their organs, but their requests are always denied. The simple reason is that execution generally ruins organs before they can be harvested. By the time you cut someone down from the gallows or pronounce the injection lethal, the heart and lungs will have thumped and puffed for the last time. Soon after, the kidneys start rotting, and before long nothing is useful but the corneas. Even with beheading— still practiced in Saudi Arabia—the heart and lungs probably wouldn’t make it, says Douglas Hanto, chief transplant surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in
People actually just packed up their life and moved away. Mark Sauer, a Polio Survivor is quoted with saying that Polio ‘was the robber of hope for a generation, several generations of children, there were many other diseases that were bad for America, but Polio broke its heart.’ The disease did not seem to have rhyme or reason and acted much like a tornado, affecting some but not others. With the absence of any concrete knowledge on how to stop the spread of Polio, panic and hysteria took over. Sunday schools closed and children under the age of 16 were not allowed to attend local theaters. Medical professionals and scientists initially blamed the spread on the filth and overcrowding in the immigrant neighborhoods.
If we're all going to be dead in the end anyway, what difference does it make what we do with our lives? We may influence the lives of others, but they too are doomed to death. In a few generations most of our accomplishments will be totally forgotten, the memories of our lives reduced to a mere name etched on a tombstone or written on a genealogy chart. In a few centuries even our tombstones will be unreadable due to weathering; our skeletal remains will be all that is left of us. Barring fossilization, these too will be disintegrated into the earth and nothing of us will remain.
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.
Xinyi Huang Writing 121 4:00 PM Essay #1 ( Fixed Version) November 19, 2013 Lost Language In “Tribal Talk” by Michelle Nijhuis and “Speaking in Tongues” by James Geary, both writers talked about how the hundreds of thousands of different tribal languages spoken in the past by millions have been cut down in half. The death of these languages brought devastating effects to the human society, because as the languages begin to disappear, the culture and traditions that was tied to the language will slowly die off also. Dying languages aren’t just a thing of the past. Hundreds of languages, and its’ culture, have been lost in the past century, and many lesser known languages are near the brink of extinction. Efforts should be made
There was talk that there were not going to be enough troops to fight this war. They were running out of supplies faster than they could be replenished. “January of 2005, it was confirmed that there were no weapons of mass destruction found“ (Rowen, Iraq Timeline). In February, a suicide bomber killed about 115 people by blowing up his car. Later on in November of the same year, Bush states that “pulling troops before they have complete their purpose would not be a plan for success“( Rowen, Iraq Timeline).