American Water Works Association

Bottled water is defined as “drinking water, often spring water, sometimes carbonated, sealed in bottles and usually certified as pure”(Dictionary.com 1). A plastic water bottle is such a common item that it is seen by any given person in America almost every day. This simple part of everyday life should not be completely eliminated from schools because of its extreme popularity, coming in second in sales to soft drinks. Americans have purchased over eleven million dollars in bottled water,…

do work by the CIA, which was his most dominant delusion. Nash believed that Parcher assigned him to de-code radio waves and find hidden meanings in newspapers and magazines in an effort to find where the Soviets were hiding an atomic bomb. Other delusions included the belief that the Soviets were trying to track him down and harm him. Nash also believed that Parcher had placed a microchip in his arm, which would help him gain access to a location where he was to deliver his completed work to…

pipeline is running the headlines. Native American tribes and their partners, drove by the Standing Rock Sioux, have been challenging the Dakota Access pipeline, a venture that would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana over the Plains to Illinois. The nonconformists, numbering in the thousands and including individuals from several distinct tribes, contend that finishing the pipeline would profane hereditary grounds, undermine the water supply, and unjustifiably…

Virginia, but is now also grown in big quantities in Turkey, India, and Russia. The leaves of the plant are dried, grinded and rolled into cigars and cigarettes. This plant can also be shredded and smoked through a pipe. Tobacco is native to the Americans, but has been recorded in the Maya culture more than 2000 years ago. This practice of smoking tobacco moved from Central America to the Aztec Empire then to North America, to the Native Tribes. Tobacco has been around for a while, the Arawak…

hurricanes are large tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane once its winds reach seventy-four miles per hour. Thankfully, unlike tornadoes, which can strike with little warning, hurricanes are much easier to predict, usually giving residents in high-risk areas time to prepare. It is of best interest to get prepared while the weather is nice outside and well before a threat occurs (American…

strokes, and chest pain. It works by blocking a certain natural substance in the body to reduce pain. Esther Inglis-Arkell says “It was derived from willow and birch bark, and works by blocking a certain enzyme. Cyclooxygenase-2 is basically an alarm bell, ordering out the troops. It manufactures a chemical called prostaglandin,…

industrial changes to the United States of America. These changes enticed millions of people to migrate from a variety of places such as Europe, Latin America, and Asia. There was also a lot of movement just within the United States. Thousands of African Americans traveled from the South to the developing northern cities. The amount of people living in these cities was phenomenal. The different temperaments and perceptions that all of these new people brought with them tremendously altered the…

the Whitney Independent Study Program, and received his MFA from Cal Arts. His technique requires him to device simple and complex models and sculptures to photograph and they include aspects of everyday life and take inspiration from history. His work is usually associated with a photographic movement known as the “The Pictures Generation”. The photograph that I chose to discuss is a part of Casebere’s collection of flooded images he began in the late 1990s: Yellow Hallway #2. Yellow Hallway…

are Carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Water Vapour (H2O) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). These gases cause increasing atmospheric and earthly temperatures, because they wrap around the earth like a blanket and trap the Suns solar energy, (Solar Radiation) or heat, effectively acting how a glasshouse does. This is known as the greenhouse effect. The natural greenhouse affect is the warming of earth surface and lower atmosphere because of Carbon Dioxide and Water vapour. These substances allow the…

Drinking water is essential to any lifestyle; a substance that humans cannot live a healthy life without. The water bottle business is an 11-billion-dollar industry, one needs to question why it is such a successful industry when one can drink similar water in the comfort of their own home. As best told by Charles Fishman, author of the Big Thirst, “the ownership and control of water is invisible” (Fishman 8). My relationship with water hasn’t always been a positive one, there was always a…