Flint

guilty of a rape crime, but they knew he was innocent. The current water crisis in Flint, Michigan has contaminated drinking water with lead, leading to public health in danger which the governor knew about. People abusing their power…

David Pellow's "Waste, Politics, and Enviromental Injustice" states that there is no clear way to label villains and the heroes in the environmental justice because environmental inequalities emerge and changes over time and places. There is no clear guide line that can be agreed upon by every social groups. The distribution of the benefits and the cost is determined by the powerful class with the control over valuable resource including the money. Social class without power to seize the…

For generations, Lake Taihu, China’s third largest freshwater lake in Wuni, Jiangsu Province, has provided a home and livelihood for over two million people. By way of contrast, in late May, 2007, a drinking water crisis took place following a massive bloom of the toxin producing cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. in Lake Taihu.2 Ultimately, due to unusual growth of algae, the lake digressed to completely green. Local reports say algae density is 38% higher than it was in 2016. Lake Taihu was known…

people are affected. I am not personally affected by the water situation in Flint, Michigan, but I still care about it. I think everyone deserves safe drinking water and probably almost all of the United States would agree with me or so I hope. The thing is if the Flint situation happen if a bigger city would more people care? Flint was a big story for a while now it never gets mentioned in the media. The last I read Flint still did not clean water, which is sad. With that being said, I wonder…

69% of the raw materials that were found in Barranco León were flint and 31% were limestone (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). In Fuente Nueva 3, 37% of the material that were found were flint and 63% was limestone from 1995-2004 (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). There were large amounts of flint tools such as cores and flakes found in Barranco León as well as a plethora of tools made out of limestone in Fuente Nueva 3 (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). Flint appeared south of the sites and limestone appeared south of the…

A traditional slave narrative is meant to speak out against slavery. It is read by the free, influential white men of the North to join the abolitionist movement to abolish slavery from the United States. Harriet Jacobs takes a different approach in her own slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. In a passage of her narrative, Jacobs says: “But, O, ye happy women, whose purity has been sheltered from childhood, who have been free to choose the objects of your affection, whose…

found, almost a century ago, to reduce noise levels in engines by putting lead in the gasoline. Robeznieks then explains how the city tried to save money by disconnecting from Detroit 's water system, in doing this the citizens of Flint started getting their water from the Flint River, which made many residents sick enough to hire a scientist to examine the water to find high levels of lead in the River water, their homes, and in Children who were examined. Because of the documented and well…

If a survey were to be conducted asking whether bottled water or tap water were most convenient, the majority of people are more than likely to say that bottled water is. Bottled water is seen to be the more convenient option by society, because it does appear that way. If someone were in a hurry can simply grab a bottle of water before they walked out the door, and they can even refill it throughout the day. The majority of fast food restaurants offer bottled water as an option because it is…

they can fill up their buckets and walk miles back to their home, then do it all again the next day. This reminds me of an issue that unfortunately has been relevant for many years now, which is the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. It has been a little over 3 years and the people of Flint still do not have any clean water. It is shocking how all…

textbook, all in your own words, about Flint, Michigan’s social structure and how they created a social dilemma that has affected many of the city’s residents. Lastly, you did a fantastic job making sure you included all four in-text citations, and they were all done with the correct information. Great job! 2. After reviewing your analysis, I think you could have used a theory from Newman’s textbook that talks about bureaucracy and how large organizations such as Flint, Michigan’s city council,…