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
Now that I am halfway through Sandra Steingraber’s book, Living Downstream, I feel that I have a pretty strong idea as to what her main point is (or the theme): there are many pesticides and chemicals that are in our environment that are linked to cancer many health issues, but more specifically cancer. Furthermore, her main message is to say what we don’t know about our environment and the chemicals in the air could be killing us. She focuses on the changes between back then and now, and the different carcinogens that have been put into the environment over time.
The novel The Tommyknockers by Stephen King is a book about the town Haven, Arizona and a series of unfortunate events occurring in the early 2000’s. It all started with Bobby Anderson, a frail women in her mid forties had tripped over something in the woods. She began to dig requesting the help of her friend/ lover named Guard. The further they dug the stranger the side effects of the people in town grew; bloody noses and rotting teeth were only the beginning. They were aware of what they were uncovering from the earth's crust, they knew the alien craft was causing changes to the earth around them. Then the more severe side effects began, the towns people could communicate through their minds and started building these
West Virginia and Kentucky have been faced with a rise in health-related issues, leading the nation in cancer-related deaths. Many of those cases have been said to be caused from greater exposer to pollution from coal-mining activity, which is said to increase your chances for cancer along with other fatal diseases. The Appalachia area has seen a rise in mortality rates, over 60,000 cases of those being cancer-related deaths directly linked to mountaintop removal practices. Mountaintop removal has been deemed as cleaner and safer than men going below ground to mine for coal, but with Appalachian communities- primarily in West Virginia, Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia seeing a high rise in cancer, cardiovascular disease, and birth defects rates, mountaintop removal has been looked at as one of the main causes.
This is portrayed in the film, starting out in the community of Norco and Diamond, which respectively contain majority Caucasian (which are financially thriving) and African American (which are financially declining) people. Near the homes of these citizens, a Shell refinery is located which releases chemicals in the air and this negatively impacts the health of these residents. However, the difference in opinion of the health impact is clearly seen between residents of Norco and Diamond. In Norco, many of the citizens have either worked or work for Shell refinery and deny that any adverse health effects were caused by this company. On the other hand, the citizens of Diamond voiced their concerns about what chemicals the air contained, along with the adverse health impacts. Concerns that arose include the impact on health, how the pollution is affected the community, the types of chemicals that were inhaled, economic conditions, etc. The Shell company tried to propose a solution by buying out two out of the four streets, however, this is a smaller community, which means by doing this then families would be separated and left in this community that is still polluted. This offer was rejected, and instead these
Anniston is not much of a model city anymore. The EPA officials who set up an Anniston satellite office to deal with the PCB problem are now alarmed about widespread lead poisoning as well. The Army is building an incinerator here to burn 2,000 tons of deadly sarin and mustard gas. And the Anniston Star has been questioning Monsanto's past mercury releases.
Salt Lake City, Provo and Logan rank consistently in the top ten U.S. Cities for the air pollution. Vehicle emission account for more than hal...
These toxins are the beginnings of numerous illnesses and diseases that kill many people each year. While the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is making an effort to fix this problem, it is a difficult and costly task, and it will likely be a very long time before we see the bay in a good state.
This era brought economic growth as well as harsh air pollutants. As the population mass migrated from rural farms to industrial cities, poor air quality resulted in chronic illness and premature deaths among laborers and residents. Second, “the CAA is a good economic investment for Americans” (EPA). According to an EPA study, the benefits of the CAA are projected to exceed the compliance costs by 30 – to – 1 in the year 2020. The study concludes that the CAA positively impacts the overall “economic welfare of American households” because higher air quality leads to less adverse health problems, reducing medical visits and increasing working days, which “more than offset the economic impacts from expenditures for pollution control” (EPA).
Toxic substances and Areas of concern: includes pollution prevention, clean up of the most polluted areas in the Great Lakes. Although many so...
... environmental quality leading health indicators are air quality index exceeding 100 and children of ages 3 to 11 exposed to secondhand smoke. Poor water quality can lead to gastrointestinal illness, neurological problems and cancer. Poor air quality can cause cardiovascular disease, cancers, and asthma. Certain chemicals found in homes and workplaces can contribute to severe poisonings and other toxic serious effects.
However, there is no guarantee that there are no long-term health effects caused by the chemical since regulators do not have adequate data (The Associated Press, 2014). Those affected by the spill are the residents near Elk River who depend on the river's water supply. Many restaurants, hotels and local businesses are forced to close since residents are not able to access tap water other than for flushing toilets. Locals are forced to take cold baths and use only bottled water for hydration and cooking needs (The Associated Press, 2014).... ...
Hooker admits to burying about 21,800 tons of various chemicals in the canal. There are at least twelve known carcinogens in the canal including benzene which is well-known for causing leukemia in people (Gibbs 22). The air, soil, and water tests have found chemical migration throughout a ten block residential area. The extent of the chemical migration is still unknown.
For our group community assessment, we assessed the neighbourhood of Moss Park. Throughout our assessment at Moss Park, we noted many of the community’s characteristics including physical environment, resources available, strengths and weaknesses etc… Moss Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, the area is mainly comprised of worn-out buildings and houses with a satisfactory number of resources including a public library, school, health care centers, pharmacies etc… During the assessment of this neighbourhood we noticed that the physical environment was contaminated with the presence of garbage on the streets and in residential areas. As we were walking through this area during our assessment, we noticed a strong smell of cigarette smoke in many areas on the streets and in some residential areas. We also observed many people smoking in the area which creates a harmful environment of second-hand smoke. Lastly, we noted th...
In Pensacola, a superfund site abuts a play area where most of the children are black. Toxic chemicals produced throughout the world are found in extremely high levels in Inuit people’s bodies and in women’s breast milk.
“Odour of Chrysanthemums,” by D. H. Lawrence, tells a story of a woman named Elizabeth Bates, who is married to a man that works in the mines. The couple has two children, and they are expecting their third child. There is a lot trouble between them. The Bates family lives in poverty. The house where they live has no electricity and it needs to be lit up with torches. One night Mrs. Bates waits for her husband to come back home from work to serve dinner, but he never shows up. She thinks he may be drinking with his friends, and that maybe his friends are going to bring him back home drunk as usual. Time passes and Mrs. Bates does not hear from him. Later that night her mother in law arrives crying, then she begins suspect that something bad happens and her husband is dead. The central idea of liberation is expressed as the writer uses three elements of fiction to tell the story.