Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen is a book about a family living near a nuclear weapon plant in Rocky Flats. It also talks about the workers and how they were physically affected from working in the plant. Rocky Flats was full of secrets and lies. You can see how sociology takes place in Rocky Flats during this time. The workers and their bosses show us conflict theory. They are two different social classes working together. The conflict was the bosses knew what was going on but kept it a secret from the workers. The workers eventually found out how unsafe the plant was from working there. Another conflict was the bosses not disclosing every hazard they came across to the workers. The bosses live longer and avoid less injury’s because they get there workers to do the dangerous jobs. Some workers want more power so they can fix all the hazards and dangers in the nuclear plant because the bosses just ignored it. The bosses and workers are not equal. The group called Citizens for Energy and Freedom showed symbolic Interaction. It was formed by Rocky Flat workers and former workers. This group was holding a rally for the public and letting the public know that they are safe. They were manipulating the people in to thinking that living by this nuclear plant will cause no damage to them and their families. Also about how it’s safe and they won’t get cancer. They manipulated the public into thinking it was safe by saying if it was not safe the workers wouldn’t have built their family home next to it. It was like a fair they served food to the public and had a spoke person come to talk about being pro nuclear. This shows symbolic interactionism because the whole atmosphere of this rally gave off the symbol that it was a nice friendly place. Also because all their friends are agreeing to it being safe; so it gives off the symbol that it must be safe if everyone else thinks it is. Also the rally being a warm fun family event gave off the symbol to the public that what the spokesperson is saying must be true. I don’t think there was any functionalism at Rocky Flats and with the families. The society was not working together at all. There was rally’s going on that were for the plant and
In the article Skin Deep written by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, they discuss and look deeper into the diverse differences in skin color. Our skin color has developed over the years to be dark enough to prevent the damaging sunlight that has been harming our skin and the nutrient folate that it carries. At the same time out skin is light enough to receive vitamin D.
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Story of My Body” Ortiz Cofer represents herself narrative story when she were young. Her autobiography has four headlines these parts are skin, color, size, and looks. Every headline has it is own stories underneath it. Ortiz Cofer’s is expressing her life story about her physical and psychological struggle with her body. Heilbrun’s narrative, “Writing a Woman’s Life” shows that, a woman’s does not have to be an ideal to write a self-autobiography to tell the world something about herself and her life. Ortiz Cofer’s facing a body struggle that is not made by herself, but by people around her. Therefore, every woman is able to write can write an autobiography with no exception.
In the poem pride, Dahlia Ravikovitch uses many poetic devices. She uses an analogy for the poem as a whole, and a few metaphors inside it, such as, “the rock has an open wound.” Ravikovitch also uses personification multiple times, for example: “Years pass over them as they wait.” and, “the seaweed whips around, the sea bursts forth and rolls back--” Ravikovitch also uses inclusive language such as when she says: “I’m telling you,” and “I told you.” She uses these phrases to make the reader feel apart of the poem, and to draw the reader in. She also uses repetition, for example, repetition of the word years.
Throughout the documentary historical videos and photos are incorporated of the gathering of activists and volunteers
Many of these assemblies we can call voluntary or interest groups. A few examples of these types of groups include labor unions, banks, corporations, environmental activists, civil rights activists, and trade associations. These groups work to sway the public for or against certain issues, as well as lobby for political candidates who will represent those views.
“Terrible forces seemed out of control and the nation seemed imperiled. Farmers and workers had been waging political war against capitalists and political conservatives for decades, but then, slowly, toward the end of the nineteenth century a new generation of middle class Americans interjected themselves into public life and advocated new reforms to tame the runaway world of the Gilded Age” (American Yawp). Until one of the major tragedy happened known as the Triangle Shirtwaist were the factory was caught fire and many women had died or were injured. Events such as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire convinced many Americans of the need for reform, but the energies of activists were needed to spread a new commitment to political activism and government interference in the economy” (American Yawp). This is similar to the documentary video, A Dangerous Business, because, “workers had become injured in the McWane Corporation, safety was sacrificed to increase productivity” (Frontline/ Bergman). “Few years passed till OSHA found many violations but still owners would still put their workers at risk breaking violations time passed and suddenly they had too many violations that McWane had spent $5 million to develop a self-contaminated water treatment system, eliminated hazards, hired
Most people have bad feelings towards nuclear power because of three major incidents, Three-mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and more recently Fukushima in 2011. It is because of these events that many dislike the idea of nuclear power and have a misunderstanding of what actually happened in these events. According to the World Nuclear Association, “These three significant accidents occurred during more than 16,000 reactor-years of civil operation. Of all the accidents and incidents, only the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents resulted in radiation doses to the public greater than those resulting from the exposure to natural sources. The Fukushima accident resulted in some radiation exposure of workers at the plant, but not such as to threaten their health, unlike Chernobyl. Other incidents (and one 'accident ') have been completely confined to the plant.” (WNA). Each plant had its problems, but the only plant to actually cause damage and the loss of human life was the ukraine reactor in Chernobyl. According to WNA, what happened during the meltdown was that the staff running the reactor did not follow the correct procedure and when they were supposed to follow through with one action they neglected to stop something from happening, therefore resulting in the meltdown of only one reactor out of four. The total meltdown could have been easily prevented if the engineers running the plant had followed through with all plant procedures. The meltdown was an unfortunate accident and many nations turned from nuclear power soon afterwards until more recently when the technology to handle all possible situations with the most extreme care. The United states is best known for its procedures with rectors. The US has set in plans to handle any and all actions for the possible event of a nuclear situation. According to the Nuclear Safeguards Infrastructure Development and
From Slacktivism to Activism is an interdisciplinary course that will be team-taught by members of the sociology, history, political science, philosophy, and psychology departments. Through readings, case studies, guest lectures, and class discussions, students will discover what transforms an initiative into a social movement and elevates an activist to a position of social leadership.In addition, students will develop a template to put positive action behind their heart-felt convictions and will use this template to develop a
The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 was one of the most dangerous nuclear explosions this world has ever seen, and some people are still paying the price. This disaster not only affected Europe, it affected the whole world. This was during the time of the Cold War, and it government corruption. The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy) coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. “It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture” (world-nuclear par 2). This disaster was caused by multiple things, human error among them.
Many of our nation's greatest accomplishments may not have happened if people didn't take a stand to change what they had believed was unfair. When hundreds of people come together peacefully to make a change in what they believe in the odds are that they will eventually get the results that they had set out to reach in the first place. Sometimes what a person needs is a little push to get started on the goals that they want to set out to achieve.
Hancocks, Paula. "Fukushima's Nuclear Power Mess: Five Big Questions." CNN. Cable News Network, 07 Nov. 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.
People in the south tower were confused in the first few minutes of the attack because the emergency alarms were going of in the tower which made the workers go down and evacuate. But this was stopped when a guard on the bottom floor told the people that everything was safe and that people could go back up to their offices (Dwyer and Flynn 32). This circumstance shows how on one hand the evacuation alarms are going off and people are being told to evacuate according to the tower safety guidelines, but when people reach the bottom floor to leave they are told that everything is safe and that they should go back to their desks by a Port Authority official. Also a woman in the South Tower was told on one hand to stay in place and wait for firefighters to reach her on the 84th floor while some of her other coworkers were told to start to find the stairs and evacuate the buildings by the 9-11 operators on the line (Roberts 1). This shows how even at the same time, different departments were not giving out the same commands to people in the towers. Some of the people were confused on whether to stay or to go because they had heard both commands and some of those people chose to stay which put their lives at risk especially if
"Nuclear Power Plant." Union of Concerned Scientists. UCS, 01 10 2013. Web. 12 Feb 2014. .
One way for the groups to support political parties’ goal is the mobilization of people. Interest groups generally gather people with common interest. Through activities such as the grassroots movement, interest groups raise awareness of a specific issue. During the process, interest groups can endorse a candidate from a political party that has the same beliefs as the interest groups do, extending the number of supporters of the political party
While this was going on the United States government was doing what they could to try