Toxic Chemicals In Rene Steinke's Friendswood

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Mathematics in Friendswood Friendswood, a fictitious novel takes place in Friendswood, Texas, which is an actual town in Texas. Although the plot of the novel did not actually happen, many of the geographical and biological information about Friendswood and the surrounding areas is actually based off of some truth. But with the novel being fiction, how much of the data and information provided by the book is accurate and how much of it is an exaggeration. Rene Steinke portrays Friendswood to be contaminated with volatile toxic chemicals in every corn of the town and that the people within the town are contracting cancer and abnormalities like they are the common cold. The town of Friendswood is still feeling the effects of these toxic chemicals …show more content…

Some believe that the area is still highly riddled with chemicals and factors that are making people very sick, and then there are the others that believe that the chemical threat to the environment and the threat to people has been treated and taken care of. There are people who think Friendswood is still toxic because there are mothers having miscarriages, mothers having children with abnormalities, and mothers having children who are getting sick. Friendswood is ranked below the national average in air quality, water quality, superfund sites, and health cost. Although, Friendswood is ranked lower in all of the previously mentioned topic areas, they are all within a five percent difference of the national average, except for the water quality, which is a fifteen percent difference from the national average. A less then five percent difference isn't that bad when compared to the overall average. Now looking at the graph it may be difficult to interpret the significance of what the values correspond to. Take in relation, the difference in average air quality for Friendswood, Texas versus the average air quality for Madison, New Jersey in the month of October 2017. The air quality isn't terrible in Friendswood, only causing slight sensitivity, but compared to Madison, the index is about

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