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Part I: Short Answer Question 1a: • What are the implications of natural gas extraction for groundwater supply? • What are the effects of extraction on air quality? • What are the potential consequences of chemicals used during extraction on human and livestock health? • What are the repercussions of long-term exposure to chemicals on crops and soil? • What are the economic implications of extraction in regard to agriculture and tourism? Question 1b: Rachel Carson’s widespread cautionary tale…

CONTEXTUAL PROJECT ON PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING. PROGRAM NAME – BSN IO STUDENT NAME: ADEREMI OLUBUNMI BOLAWA (MRS) ADMISSION NO – 16064. DUE DATE: - 24TH OF DEC. 2016 INTRODUCTION This contextual project work consists of Ten (10) concept from the Module Entitled – ‘‘PUBLIC HEALTHNURSING’’ BSN 10 I will describe each of the concepts in terms of its meaning, critically analyze it for its real life application and will be followed by some references of the current research evidence.…

I. Vegetarianism and the Environment First off, there is no guaranteed diet that is best for the environment. Some people who switch to vegetarianism as a way to fix the world, but others realized restricted diets aren’t the answer. Meat eaters do, however fuel the factory farming business. Factory farming does destroy; it destroys prairies, forests, soil, and animals. Overgrazing is destroying arable land more and more each day (ProCon.org 3). Around 85% of all grazing land cannot be farmed…

Would you be happy working on a field picking grapes from sunrise to sunset for less than minimum wage, and at the same time be mistreated? Many farm workers across America lived and worked under unacceptable conditions during the twentieth century, they suffered from injustice. One of the most important hot topics in the second half of the twentieth century is the Civil Rights movements. In this research paper I will explain the significance of the United Farm Workers Association, the…

Book Synopsis Per Stalzer (2004), he began life in the ethnically isolated town of Gottschee. Gottschee was once part of the Austrian empire, but 600 years later it was an island of Catholic Germans in the middle of Slovenia during the rise of the Third Reich. After a gradual emigration of the very educated among the Gottschee, those who remained were forced to assimilate into the Slavic culture. German schools and clubs were outlawed. German was not to be spoken in their churches. And the…

one person’s car’s gas tank because the person threw a beer can into the road. He also had many environmental books, including Rachel Carson’s famous book Silent Spring, well-known for exposing the horrible truths behind the use of pesticides like DDT. Skink also stresses the simplicity and “honesty” of nature, claiming that “ ‘[n]ature never deceives us. It is always we who deceive ourselves’ ” (222). Here, he is saying that nature never tries to trick us by putting on any kind of act. Humans…

onto milkweed plants they do eat (Whitman, 2000). Another potential problem is the reduced effectiveness of pesticides. People are concerned that insects will become resistant to Bt or other GMF’s just as some mosquitoes have developed resistance to DDT (Whitman, 2000). Another environmental concern is that crop plants engineered for herbicide tolerance and weeds might cross-breed and make a “superweed” (20 Questions on genetically modified goods, 2009). These weeds would then be herbicide…

In the field of global health, a consensus has been reached that we can no longer analyze public health issues through a purely biomedical lens, but must incorporate a wide range of other dimensions, such as political, economic, social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated…

J08 -- FUTURE HYPE 1 Seidensticker, B. (2006). Future hype: The myths of technology change [ScribD]. Retrieved from https://www.scribd.com/book/134855105/Future-Hype-The- Myths-of-Technology-Change Introduction In Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change, Bob Seidensticker gives a strong personal view about technology change and debunks many technological myths. An important point he makes in the book is that technology change does not increase exponentially as Moore’s Law would predict, at…

The advancements in technology with the study of science and math would bring different meanings in wars to come. Aviation was just starting in World War One, by World War Two many new changes and improvements were made. The submarines and ships were bigger, safer, and could go deeper. These are just a few inventions that have been made yet there are a lot more that have yet to be named. World War Two was a time for imagination to thrive and new creations to be tested. Advancements in…