When They Set The Sea On Fire Analysis

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The book Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas by Solnit and Snedeker it not an atlas of roads, but a journey through the sights, smells, and heritage of the great city of New Orleans through maps and essays. Within it are the essays “When They Set the Sea on Fire” by Antonia Juhasz about the BP oil spill in the Gulf. As well as “No Sweetness is Light” by Shirley Thompson about the sugarcane industry in New Orleans. The two essays compare greatly in the concepts of deception, greed, and the cause of sickness. The artifice in these essays bring so much false hope and suffering to the people of New Orleans. Deception is when a person makes another believe something that is not true to gain advantage on the other. The deception in these essays are catastrophic to the people of New Orleans. In “When They Set the Sea on Fire” Juhasz tells about “the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that the gulf seafood was safe to …show more content…

Both of which almost seem uncontrollable. They might be different where sugar is meant to be ingested while toxic chemicals aren’t. The two problems are not all that different in the end. Both have to do with what society has built them up to be. A necessity. Just about anything that is affordable food wise in a grocery store is packed full of sugar. The general public has become obsessed with the sweetness that is sugar. It of course is a necessity to survive, but at the rate everyone uses it, it becomes extremely harmful to people. Oil is the exact same way. We rebuilt this country specifically for gas and oil driven machines creating a necessity of the stuff! New Orleans went from a peaceful land to a land full of factories and cars that destroy substantial amounts of the city and its inhabitants every day. People are blinded to what is happening around them due to society’s norms and false truths. All because of the greediness of big

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