Clean Air Act

Mt. Everest In the video In thin Air Death of Everest produced by Atlas Media, and the article ¨Into Thin Air¨ by Jon Krakauer gave us amazing first- hand accounts of the triumph, and the 1996 tragedy. On Mt. Everest climbers have to scale 29,035ft to the summit and the climbers had to wear a lot of layers of clothes to try to stay alive on the mountain. But still not all climbers make it back down the mountain. Some die from frostbite and some fell off the mountain. The video and the…

The limitations that our minds have placed, have surpassed the physical limitations that our bodies have placed. Humans are not capable of passing these limits unless we allow technology to play a role. Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, the audience views multiple obstacles and challenges for each and every team who had hopes of reaching the summit of Mount Everest. From the high altitude to the dangers of unknown weather, many climatological complications plague those who take the…

Revolution was that the workers in the factories had a good environment that was clean and safe . Every other worker was doing their job. In document nine the picture shows “that the workers are clean , they do not look dirty”. Their is no pollution in the factories the air in the factories look clean with the window open . Everyone is doing their job and being very careful when working on the…

Alexander the Great quoted, “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep”; it takes great leadership style to build great teams. The leadership plays a significant role in the team success of failure in any business; the top management is the brain that drives the business to safety or disaster. The best leaders have distinctive leadership styles and are not afraid to make the difficult decisions. If you want to build a high performance team, then you need to…

So how does it affect us personally? As we live in these situations, the people directly inhale the bad air and our health is affected in a negative way. PM 2.5 pose a threat to our health because they can pass through are nose and throat, and they lodge deep in our lungs into our cardiovascular system. PM 2.5 aggravate diseases like asthma and bronchitis, and increasing coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath (SLC, 2015). PM 2.5 also can aggravate heart problems, like congestive heart…

Person vs self Into thin air A Lot of people on “Into Thin Air” story faced person vs person conflict because they wanted to reach the top. Some people received injuries, and even in a critical condition, but they’re still determined to reach the top, but in the end goes down and tries again next time because they wish to reach the top of the summit and be known as one of the people who climbed and reached the top of Everest. Doug Hansen is a good example for this because he tried to climb…

props to keep him from falling, The definition of the word “fly” is “moving through the air with wings” which he does not do by himself, and the laws of aviation also is consider to why he can not fly. Let's get more into detail on why I say he can not fly . One reason I believe he can not fly is because he uses props to keep him falling to the ground. First he bounced into a ball that throws him to the air, then he stands on top of a moving toy car, and finally he gets his “wings” stuck…

The beautiful streets in Chicago were once burning buildings and smoke, the waters were once bridges leading on the flames, but what does Chicago look like now? The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event. The fire left many areas in ashes, but now they have rebuilt their city into a modern town with many skyscrapers and monuments. Chicago's architecture has transformed the town because they have fixed the construction issues flaws of 1871, Chicago was built from ashes and now plays an…

Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest. The youngest person ever to climb Everest was a 13 year old American boy. A Japanese woman was 73 when she climbed Everest for the second time, and she was the oldest person to do this. There have been over 230 deaths on Everest. People should not rescue mountain climbers who put themselves at risk. First of all, rescuers can also die or get seriously injured (not just the climber) if they are trying to…

landfill, Puente Hills, the largest active dump in the country, and the hazardous materials, such as “leachate”, that is infecting the area of Los Angeles County (25). He declares that Americans disposed of trash in the wrong ways and it effected the air we breathe. Humes states that some…