Ryesha Lester
December 22, 2017
Argument Paper
English 7, Hour 7
Whether it’s mountaineering, skiing, sailing, or just an everyday hike, keeping outdoor enthusiasts safe is always an exhausting challenge. Every time a team of cocky people take on the task of breaking rules only to later need rescue, a certain debate that has been brewing in the outdoor community for years emerges: If people are endangering themselves, do they have the right to rescue services? The answer to that is no.
To start off, different rescue services should not have to pay for the people they’re saving. According to the article “Get into Trouble Outdoors- Who Pays for the Bills,” in the year 2008, The National Park Service spent nearly $5 million on SAR (search and rescue) missions and they continue to spend this amount annually. Of course, this does not include the cost of the thousands of man hours put into these extensive search missions. Unless the rescuees violate a park rule- for example, trespassing into a protected archaeological site- they are not held responsible for the cost.
In fact, this caused so much controversy that lawmakers across the country are debating whether or not climbers should pay the bills for their rescues, which can cost several thousands of dollars. Although this is true, Oregon is the only state where climbers are actually fined. It
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How many helicopters are available to be dispatched for the people who are not on the mountains is also an important factor. According to the article “Should We Rescue the Everest Climbers?” it states that Nepal already has limited resources for disaster relief. In case, Nepal’s total amount of economy generates only roughly $20 billion a year, which is achingly close to the (estimated) $5 billion reconstruction that will be needed. In comparison, the U.S. economy generates $17 billion a year, so you can only imagine how much effort is put into this field of
Ultimately there is no specific reason to blame for the disaster that happened, nevertheless greed, selfishness, erratic weather and misinterpreted information contributed to the deaths. Conclusively, most of the climbers themselves that died hold a great responsibility for their own death for the sake of their lack of knowledge on what they were encountering for their greed along with their selfishness.
Everest in 1996. This became the deadliest expedition to ever climb with 15 people losing their lives. Krakauer explains his intrinsic motivations to accept this challenge and many of the mistakes that helped lead to the disasters of that day. He includes himself, and explicitly blames himself for at least one person's death. The experience affects him profoundly, and in addition to telling the story, the book focuses on how Krakauer is forever changed as a result of what happened. All of the clients have difficulty adjusting to the altitude, tiring easily, losing weight and moving slowly. The climbers' experience in mountain climbing and at high altitudes varies some of them are quite qualified, others very inexperienced and highly reliant on the
Everest. “The falling ice hit twenty-five men, killing sixteen of them, all Nepalis. Three of the bodies were buried beneath the debris and were never recovered,” (Source 2). This tragedy had occurred all when mountaineering. This is not something rare either, according to Source 1 “Keep Everest Open”, “...Everest exacted a ratio of one death for every four successful summit attempts”. This sport is extremely dangerous if something goes wrong, which means that the chance of death is high. So why would anyone want to risk their life just to climb a
Envision a man that sat on a grimy concrete block, as nightfall began to crystallize before his eyes. His hair, charcoal-grey, was matted and straggly, as if he had ever known the pleasure of a hot shower or comb except when he was in the war. His once shimmering brown eyes were know hollow and cold. His eyes, that were once filled with the upmost blissfulness, now sagged like the bulky bags underneath his eyes, consumed by the loneliness and despair he felt for himself, for his lack of purpose in life. This man did not bare a smile, only crinkles where one used to be. He wore his only faded blue jacket with a tan shirt tucked underneath it. He wore cruddy worn out jeans that barely seized his thin waist and boney legs. His only pair of shoes that were once white, we're now grungy. His finger nails were bitten and dirty. This man, like many other homeless veterans, struggle everyday of their lives.
For every year, there will be six mountain climbers who will succumb to the harsh climb of Everest, and that’s about seventeen times the rate of death caused by skiing and snowboarding accidents together all around the world. Mountain climbing, skiing, and snowboarding are all adventurous and hard-to-participate sports. But why are there so many deaths created by mountain climbing? And in all of those deaths there are about fifteen guides, and mountain rangers, most of them died to help the injured climbers. However, there are more than four thousands successful climbs made by varieties of people from young to old. So should people have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk? To me, people absolutely do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk because that is what rescue services are for, to help people when they need it. And it also depends on their current situation, which may affect their abilities to make a decision.
Geography led to the Han dynasty decline because of how the government kept splitting the land to itty-pieces of property and charged a profuse amount of tax. “To escape their taxes farmers and landowners often gave their property to powerful magnates and became tenants on their estates”. Due to the high amount of tax a lot of money couldn’t be given to the tax collector because of the corrupt government.
Veterans that are homeless should be housed. This is important because more and more people are signing up to join the army. The more people that sign up means, there will be more veterans that are homeless. The more homeless people that roam the streets means bad neighborhoods and even worse schools. More effort should be directed to help homeless veterans to get their lives back.
Nearly four-thousand people have scaled Mt. Everest, but about 240 people have died trying. Even though people put themselves at risk, society should pay. Society should pay because many people can’t afford to pay the rescue bills and it is the right thing to do.
Getting an education is essential to becoming a good social worker. Social workers need cultural competency in working with every type of population including people of different ethnicities, race, gender, sexually identity, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We also need enough education in order to advocate and be comfortable advocating for our clients. Our LGBT clients go through obstacles that straight people will never have to go to such as fighting for the right to marry, getting picked on in school and trying to prove to people that their sexual orientation is a real thing. The following paragraphs include how articles about the lack of social work education have affected my views about my education and my career.
Who exactly is a homeless person? A homeless person is someone without permanent housing who could be living in the streets; or be staying in a shelter; abounded vehicle or building. There are more than 600,000 people in the United States which are homeless on a given night according to the government. There is exactly 610,042 homeless people in the United States. Who exactly are the homeless? Homeless to most of us would be inconceivable. Why is that, because we have no idea what it’s like to not have a home and have to move from one location to another?
Although homelessness is widespread and almost next to the catastrophic global hunger problems, it can be brought under control and its effect reduced to a greater percentage. By simply tracking the root causes of low wages and the lack of affordable housing as well as improving other support systems like housing vouchers and health care, homelessness can be solved.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it." This is one of Mitt Romneys famous quotes. The scary part about this quote is that he is right. About half of our country is dependent upon government assistance, and some are passing this way of life on to their many children. This is the main problem, if the future generations begin to think this is a good way of life our government will crash, again. Government assistance is a problem due to the fact that; there is no incentive to work, people get handed money with no enforced restrictions, and there is no constant supervision for people, “needing” this assistance.
There is no static or perfect definition that can encapsulate all that may fall under the theme of humanitarian intervention. Philosophically speaking, humanitarian intervention is the idea that individuals have the duty to prevent human rights violations from occurring. Furthermore, the legal basis of humanitarian intervention is derived from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Lecture 11/15/16). As decided by the UN in 1948, all nations have a responsibility to protect, or to prevent crimes against humanity, and while it was an important milestone for the recognition of human rights, not all those experiencing the crimes of genocide
Social workers are concerned with social problems such as world hunger, domestic violence, child abuse, adequate benefits for veterans and much more. The profession of social work is necessary because without it, there would not be people dedicated to helping other individuals in our world. To dedicate your profession and life to one specific problem in regards to the social work field, is something very few have the will to do. Therefore, social workers are necessary to keep the social justice system afloat. Social workers must have educational background in social work, in order to be familiar with the types of settings they will be exposed to. Social workers must embody excellent social skills, as well as communication skills. Being able
People should pay because they put themselves at risk according to the article “Who should pay to rescue” by Sun-Herald workers in Australia “ People should pay for their cost of rescue”. Some people do agree with that because you put yourself at risk knowing that the adventure will involve something risky . Also in the article “Pay-per-Rescue” it says “ If someone gets into a risk they have to pay because we aren't giving free rescues, because it cost tons of money just for a helicopter rescue”. Also some people do agree with because like what I mentioned