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residential area: about 50 feet wide and 10 to 40 feet deep. With no uses for the large pit, the Niagara Power and Development Company allowed Hooker Chemical Company to dump their chemical waste into the unfinished trench in 1942. Later, the Niagara Falls City School District needed land to build new schools, so Hooker Chemical Company placed a clay cap over the hazardous chemicals and sold the land. A school and about 100…

In the 1970's, the working-class community in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York, was evacuated due to deadly chemicals seeping into the environment and harming people and pets. Before that, the Hooker Chemical Company dumped industrial chemicals in the unfinished canal, and capped it only clay. The Niagara Falls City School District was in need of land, so in 1953, Hooker sold the land to them for $1. Homes were built on top of the chemicals and more than 80 industrial chemicals…

the canal as a chemical waste dump Hooker Chemical Company sold to 99th street school for $1 Abnormally high birth defects, miscarriages and, illnesses 239 families were relocated In 1978, people in the neighborhood Love Canal of Niagara Falls, New York were discovering all sorts of different illnesses and noticed that there was an abnormally high percentage of birth defects and miscarriages. Later on they figured out it was because of former owners of the contaminated 15 acres,…

Corporation) purchased the site of Love Canal. During the time period from 1942 to 1953 Hooker Chemical dumped approximately 22,000 tons of mixed chemical waste into the Love Canal. After Hooker Chemical was finished using the site it was sold to the Niagara Falls School Board for the price of $1.00, with full disclosure of the chemical waste problems (Beck). During the 1970’s due to climate changes, the groundwater levels became abnormally high. High groundwater levels caused a variety of…

Africans that had established laws and customs. Both writers stories, Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and Adichie’s “The Headstrong Historian” were influenced by the time periods that they were in at the conception of their works, both talk in depth on the effects that the colonialists and missionaries had on Nigeria, and the complementary gender roles that were ingrained in Nigerian Ibo culture. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” was greatly influenced by his upbringing and the unique position…

about his emotions can be observed when he begins telling himself, “ “When did you become a shivering old woman. Okonkwo asked himself, “you , who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman” ” (Achebe 65). The remorse Okonkwo feels inside him can be clearly seen in the way he reacts to these uncommon feelings. Since Okonkwo begins to feel sadness…

kids in the US live without father, father 's will still play a major part in their son 's life. Okonkwo from Thing Fall Apart and Terrell from Something Noble both were not there to support their sons. Okonkwo would beat his son and use strong verbal abuse while Terrell left his son at a young age to never to return or even call to get to know his son. The character in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Something Noble William Kowalski demonstrate that without the loving support of a…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, greatness is defined by worth- or how much one accomplishes in a lifetime. Okonkwo, the main character, diligently works for everything he earns. His passion to be successful comes from his fear of turning out like his father, Unoka, who died with “no title at all and was heavily in debt” (8). Okonkwo fears the thought of becoming nothing. He keeps this fear with him and uses it as a strength to push himself through every hardship and reach the status his…

John Stewart Mill believed that the institution of the family was very corrupt because it was based on subordination and suppression of women. He believed that letting women vote would promote social strength and a moral regeneration (Document 1). Female political activist also fought for women’s rights by saying that, if women are nearly half of the population, excluding them from voting was a complete contradiction to the idea of universal suffrage (Document 2). Continuing with the idea of…

In our world, people travel different journeys based on the situations they may find themselves in and so is it in the novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), written by Chinua Achebe. Achebe is a Nigerian, born in 1930; he also writes short stories, essays and children’s books by which we wins honorary awards and fellowship. While growing up, parents expects children to make better lives for themselves than they (parents) live, however, this novel has such twist to it as the protagonist (Okonkwo),…