The Unrelenting Environment According to an article by Christopher Horn, environmental issues like global warming and pollution increase poverty and can change society drastically. In the book Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi communicates a future with environmental problems through the story. Nailer is an impoverished ship breaker near the enlarged Gulf of Mexico. Though Nailer is only a child, he is already working as a ship breaker to live. The constant pollution, storms, and flooding had already shut down most of society, leaving others to fend for themselves. Flooding comes from the melting ice poles, as traders are taking advantage of this to cut through the arctic and improve travel times. But non-sailors are not so fortunate, as their homes are washed away and the loss of government to protect them. In Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi demonstrated through the story, that the …show more content…
deteriorating environment has a negative impact on poverty and changed the modern way of life. From the beginning of Ship Breaker, pollution has come from society and the lack of care to it.
For example, Nailer witnessed the difference in wealth as he sat by the campfire, “That was what thinking about clipper ships got you. A lungful of smoke because you weren't paying attention to what was around”(Bacigalupi 47). Many people don't realize what they are doing can affect the larger world in a negative way. Also, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Many global risks of climate change are concentrated in urban areas”(Horn). Densely packed areas are in more danger of affecting the environment because of the deficiency of greenery. Both quotes support the change of the world through human pollution, and still affect impoverished people. Nailer sat as a ship breaker on a beach, while city rooms are ordinarily cheaper. These places both have unhealthy pollution and environmental factors that change how people feel and live. Moreover, the rising temperatures and unsteady climate has lead to a rise of sea levels, threaten numerous coastal cities and
islands. In Ship Breaker, Nailer realized that the world has changed from the past, and that many places were gone due to environmental changes. Flooding has an enormous impact on how the environment changes the way of life. Nailer explained through the story, “The pirates were bitter enemies of the trading fleets and perfectly willing to kill or sink an entire cargo as revenge for the drowning of their own ancestral lands”(Bacigalupi 257). After the ice caps melted, there was massive flooding and sea-level rise around the world. The north was hit hard, as the flooding and loss of land changed how they usually lived. They turned into pirates, with nothing else to accomplish and resentful to everyone. Also, according to an article on climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines nature as “the patchwork of natural areas that provides habitat, flood protection, cleaner air, and cleaner water”(Horn). Do to industrialization and the loss of natural life, Earth is losing more of its flood and pollution protection, making it prone to change. Both quotes connect to flooding and the way it has changed everyone’s lives. Some countries became pirates, while others were hit harder due to lack of protection. Impoverished citizens were hit harder due to inferior conditions and less nature around them, as Nailer witnessed as he watched the clipper ships. In summary, flooding has a serious impact on the way we live and can change poverty rates for the worse. Throughout Ship Breaker, the story has shown what the future looks like with environmental changes. But these not only influence the environment, but poverty rates too. In the book, Reynolds didn’t even know about the sunken city, as he asked, “someone missed an entire city?”(Bacigalupi 282). The flooding could end the entire city, and leave impoverished people with nowhere to go, and numerous homeless. This shows that the world forgot about entire cities as they fled when the environment changed for the worse. Moreover, an article about climate change and poverty states that “Disaster risk is overwhelmingly concentrated in areas of the world that are less developed and have ineffective systems of government that are slow or without the needed resources to respond to catastrophes.”(Murray and Montteiro). Parts of the world that have low resources and wealth to deal with sudden environmental disasters usually get hit much harder than wealthier countries. The research from both indicates that the environment has a negative effect on poverty. Furthermore, catastrophes cause more poverty in all areas around the world, as the world of Ship Breaker shows us. In conclusion, environmental factors, like pollution or loss of greenery, influence flooding and climate change, which in turn increase poverty and change the modern way of life. In short, a deteriorating environment brings an increasing amount of poverty and changes the way people live. Paolo Bacigalupi demonstrates the importance of the environment as the entire setting was based off of the climate. In both the future and modern eras, the environment is constantly changing and changing how we live. Furthermore, Ship Breaker demonstrates a future where we continue ignoring the side-effects of pollution. Sea levels are rising and global warming is occurring around the world today. Based on Christopher Horn’s article, places around the world today with low amounts of nature are experiencing more poverty. Furthermore, the neighborhoods are more exposed to drastic changes made by storms and flooding. In conclusion, the unrelenting environment has caused an increase in poverty and change of life through pollution and flooding.
Our journey starts in the year 1853 with four Scandinavian indentured servants who are very much slaves at the cold and gloomy headquarters of the Russian-American fur-trading company in Sitka, Alaska. The story follows these characters on their tortuous journey to attempt to make it to the cost of Astoria, Oregon. Our list of characters consists of Melander, who is very much the brains of the operation as he plans the daring escape from the Russians. Next to join the team was Karlson, who was chosen by Melander because he is a skilled canoeman and knows how to survive in the unforgiving landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Third was Braaf, he was chosen because of his ability to steal and hide things, which made him a very valuable asset to the teams escape. Last to join our team is Wennberg who we know is a skilled blacksmith who happens to hear about their plan and forces himself into the equation.
Critical Evaluation-Assisi A poem that I have been studying recently is Assisi by Norman McCaig, which I found very interesting to read because it made a statement which relates to our world today even though the poem was wrote about thirty or forty years ago. The poem has lots of ideas including effective figures of speech, good choice of words, important images and irony. The statement that McCaig makes is, where ever there is great wealth it always exists along side great poverty.
The book I read was The Island by Gary Paulsen. It is about a 15 year
An estimated six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, and many were thought to have survived due to chance. Vladek in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus, is one of the few Jewish people to survive the Holocaust. Though Vladek’s luck was an essential factor, his resourcefulness and quick-thinking were the key to his survival. Vladek’s ability to save for the times ahead, to find employment, and to negotiate, all resulted in the Vladek’s remarkable survival of the Holocaust. Therefore, people who survived the Holocaust were primarily the resourceful ones, not the ones who were chosen at random.
Throughout reading this book, you only wonder how Fiver can understand know what the future has in store for the rabbits. He has a gift that really no one else really cared about it. It was almost like they did not want to believe him. Fiver reminds me of someone who always knows the truth but no one cares because he is not the most liked one.
In America, many have come to recognize Iran as a terrorist nation, but in reality, many Americans stereotype Iranians because they misunderstand the country and how it got to that point. In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis, she gives her readers an inside look of Iran by writing about her childhood during the Iranian Revolution and the changes in her life during that time. The frames in Satrapi’s graphic novel draw similarities and differences between advertisements and the Iranian culture. After analyzing the Satrapi’s graphic novel to advertisements we will look at the similarities and differences of how graphic novels and advertisements use words and images to establish the visual rhetoric.
It is hard to tell the story of a “typical” youth and it is hard to write a story that
In the story "The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, Crane uses many literary techniques to convey the stories overall theme. The story is centered on four men: a cook, a correspondent, Billie, an oiler who is the only character named in the story, and a captain. They are stranded in a lifeboat in stormy seas just off the coast of Florida, just after their ship has sunk. Although they can eventually see the shore, the waves are so big that it is too dangerous to try to take the boat in to land. Instead, the men are forced to take the boat further out to sea, where the waves are not quite as big and dangerous. They spend the night in the lifeboat and take turns rowing and then resting. In the morning, the men are weak and exhausted. The captain decides that they must try to take the lifeboat as close to shore as possible and then be ready to swim when the surf inevitably turns the boat over and throws the men into the cold sea. As they get closer to land a big wave comes and all the men are thrown into the sea. The lifeboat turns over and the four men must swim into shore. There are rescuers waiting on shore who help the men out of the water. Strangely, as the cook, captain and correspondent reach the shore safely and are helped out of the water, they discover that, somehow, the oiler has drowned after being smashed in the surf by a huge wave. (255-270) “The Open Boat’s” main theme deals with a character’s seemingly insignificant life struggle against nature’s indifference. Crane expresses this theme through a suspenseful tone, creative point of view, and a mix of irony.
The use of fossil fuels has greatly increased the amount of atmospheric and oceanic CO2 to a point where it’s ruining the natural flow of the world; the earth’s temperature is rising. As a result, the polar ice caps are melting causing the seas to rise. With only a 1 meter increase in sea level the United States alone could lose over 10,000 square miles of land, and thousands of houses will be destroyed. The effects will be just as prominent around the world: many islands will become submerged, 17% of Bangladesh will be underwater, and tens of thousands of people will be displaced (“Global Warming” 3).
The book Maus is a Holocaust book showing the life of Vladek Spiegelman trying to escape being caught and put into camps in World War II. In this essay, we are going to explore how Vladek's survival in world war II was based on luck and also was based on his considerable resourcefulness. The book Maus takes place in Poland during 1933-1945. A few main characters in the book Maus are Vladek Spiegelman, in this book, Vladek works at a Textile Factory given by his father-in-law. Another main character is Artie Spiegelman, he is the author of the book Maus and is Vladek Spiegelman’s son. The mother of Artie Spiegelman, Anja is no longer alive due to committing suicide. Although Anja is no longer alive, she is now replaced by Mala, Vladek Spiegelman’s new wife.
Water pollution has had devastating effects on the environment, which include irreversible effects to the oceans ecosystem. People often underestimate the importance of the ocean. They don’t realize how much damage pollution has caused to the ocean and the thousand of creatures that inhabit it. Earth is a huge place, but resources are actually very limited and will not last forever; unless there is a balance. We must protect the resources we have in order for them to last into the next generation. Every time we throw away a plastic bottle, drive our cars, and even burn those millions of fossil fuels to operate all those huge factories, there is a chance it will pollute the ocean and eventually effect the way we live. There should be stricter laws regulating human pollution, in order to protect our oceans ecosystem.
The novel Upside Down, by Eduardo Galeano depicts the injustices and unfairness of several branches of the global society. The differences between the colonized and the colonizer as Galeano writes is always growing and so is the gap between rich and poor. The author challenges western and eurocentric minds as to why on average, countries in the northern hemisphere have a higher standard of living than countries in the southern hemisphere. At first as a reader I thought the writer was whining about the unfairness of the world, but it is the social opiates such as the false idea of capitalism and choice that keeps us in check in this so called democracy. The author forces the reader to open their hearts to a concept that today's capitalist, power hungry society has almost forgotten
The temptation to stray from one’s belief is quintessential to the evolution and modernization of religion. The desire to preserve religious traditions is preferred by many, however, as times progress, yearnings change. In Isaac Babel’s short story “Gedali,” the tension between tradition and modernity is evident in the Russian city of Zhitomir. Nostalgia for the past demonstrates an aspiration for maintaining customary practices. Unfortunately, though, matters do not always pan out the way in which one hopes.
‘Night at the Museum' is an American fantasy-comedy film produced in 2006 that was based off the children's book of the same name written by Milan Trenc. It tells the story of Larry Daley, unemployed and divorced, who accepts the job as a night guard at the Museum of Natural History where he soon realises that all the exhibits in the museum come to life after the sun sets. With the help of President Theodore ‘Teddy' Roosevelt, Larry is able to overcome the complete chaos that enfolds the museum and become an idol in his son's eyes. Through the manipulation of camera shot types, camera angles and lighting during the scene where Larry reveals the contents of the sarcophagus, an air of mystery was able to be conveyed successfully to the audience.
Evo Morales stated, “Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans” (Pollution Quotes, 2013). Hence, attention must be provided to this devastating issue. Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse changes (Wieman, 2013). There are numerous types of pollution, such as light, air, land, water, noise, thermal and radioactive pollution. In an article, the author highlighted that according to Richard Buckminster Fuller, “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting, we allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value” (Farrell, 1971, p. 52). Pollution is created mostly by human actions, but can also be a result of natural disasters. Pollution can harm the environment of the world and its inhabitants in many ways. Pollution has a detrimental effect on any living organism in an environment, making it virtually impossible to sustain life (Enclyopedia - Pollution, 2008).