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women, and can cause learning disabilities, behavioral problems and mental retardation. In the documentary “Poisoned Water” the cause for the water problem in Flint, Michigan, began when Flint switched from it’s current water provider the Detroit Water Department to build it own pipeline connected to the Flint River. After the water switch in Flint, Michigan, many of it residents…

drinking water in Flint, Michigan, received national attention." (Flint Water Crisis). According to serious tests that were made, many people found that their worries about the water’s flavor, scent, and smell were being disregarded by city and state officials (Flint Water Crisis). The story of the Flint water crisis is a government's deficiency and failure. This problem grabbed the media’s attention, where many people wrote or made cartoons about it. Sack's political cartoon “Flint water…

According to this article, the tap water in Flint, Michigan became toxic due to the governor’s office and the state Department of Environmental Quality. They were aware of how toxic the water of the Flint river is but decided to ignore the issue and did not treat the water properly. One of the reasons of why they decided to to switch their water supply from Lake Huron to Flint river was because Flint was declared to be in a financial state of emergency and so they took a budgetary control.…

after her mother passed away by her mother 's mistress. At the age of twelve her mistress passed away and her too happy days came to an end Harriet was given as the slave to her mistress sister 's daughter, where Mr. Flint came into her life and things started to turn bad. Mr flint forces her to have a sexual relationship with him but she refused it every single moment she was enslaved to him. Linda had two children, for whose safety she takes extreme majors to run away from her master and…

Harriet Jacobs managed to escape from slavery and by risking her life, she made a writing regarding her challenges as a fugitive in the North and a house servant in the South. Harriet's work entitled "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" explicates the real accounts of the horrifying slavery held for women and the untold evils that have been kept away from the public. Despite the fact that Harriet mainly authored about suppression owing to race, she also described how men put women under…

1. Business as a “Calling” or “Vocation” According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a vocation is defined as “the work that a person does or should be doing”. The first part of the definition (“the work that a person does”) can simply be viewed as the definition of an ordinary job; however, the work that a person should be doing differentiates the term. An individual who chooses his/her vocation feels as though there is a higher purpose and deeper meaning to a particular job. The “should…

but he knows how to get across the message he wants to display. This was the first movie this mogul of documentaries did. Filmmaker Michael Moore was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, a city dominated by one company, General Motors (GM), which is the largest corporation in the world and which was founded in Flint. The people of Flint were prosperous because of GM, and in turn…

created jobs and circulate money within US. On the other hand, greedy, GM chairman, Smith, moved out to Mexico to have cheaper labor in cost of socio-economic fiasco in Flint, Michigan. The city has not enough funds to spend on garbage removal. The city health department holds a press conference and announces that the rat population in Flint has surpassed the human census. The department blames it on the fact that the city can only afford to pick up the garbage twice a month and offers a bounty…

a city called Flint, Michigan, that is exactly what has happened. Lead as seeped its way into the water supply of this very big city. More information of this tragic incident can be found in five articles by CNN. They are called “How to test for lead in your home water supply.”, “Lead poisoning. Living with it and uncertainty of how long.”, “Water Crisis: Families bear scars from man-made disaster.”, “5 months later in Flint, high lead levels remain.”, and “How to help with Flint water crisis.”…

A lead contamination of the tap water in Flint, Michigan has become a national scandal as in 2014, state appointed emergency manager decided to switch from the Lake Huron supplied water to the highly corrosive and polluted water from the Flint River, without treatment to control the corrosion of the lead pipes (Olson and Fedinick). Citizens soon started to complain about dark coloured, foul tasting, smelly water that residents claim to cause rashes and hair loss. The high levels of lead found in…