Kern County

In this essay, I will be highlighting the negative effects of hydraulic fracking in its role of causing potential damage to the environment and contamination of groundwater. Hydraulic fracking is defined as the injection of liquid fluid at high pressure that extracts oil or gas. In Cart’s article, she denotes how this issue is very problematic because both oppositions have different opinions. For instance, the companies she interviewed disregard the potential damages from fracking and state…

idea and fast. What they proposed was an act called the Realignment Act. The main characteristic of this new legislation is the majority of the authority to make sentencing and arresting decisions goes back to the county jails instead of the state prisons (Stelloh). In this case, the counties are now able to decide whether they would like to enforce community resources as a punishment or rehabilitation instead of sending the convict straight to a state prison. On the other hand, many people…

There exists a pattern of historically disenfranchised groups in the United States, such as minorities and low-income communities, being exposed to a disproportionate level of environmental hazards such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay. This relationship between social and environmental aspects has been termed environmental racism, and beginning in the mid to late 20th century the Environmental Justice Movement grew to combat the politically normalized existence of environmental racism…

I am writing you regarding important issues that have come to students’ attention. There have been multiple incidents that have taken place at the Bakersfield College that are very serious. The incidents include many problems with criminal activity on the campus as well as outside of the campus. Furthermore, students taking night classes at Bakersfield College say it is very dark and creepy at night due to low lighting. Also many female students feel unsafe walking by themselves at night. The…

The ability to have access to land on which to grow crops and raise animals is very important to people who are economically disenfranchised, especially in rural areas where people may not be able to access products readily. This need is emphasized even more in areas were agriculture is the main means of employment. In order to improve the lives of the people in these areas the governments began using land reforms. In this paper I will discuss land reforms in the 1940’s and 1950’s and how they…

pertains to the issue of pesticides and traumatic brain injury being a cause of the development of PD. The participants were selected based off a set of criteria very specific to the study. The participants had to come from within the area of three counties, Kern, Tulare, and Fresno, all of which are in California. They had to have a PD diagnosis within the last three years, prior to enrollment, could not be in the last stages of a terminal illness, and had to be residing in California for at…

Giselle Rivas Professor Hagstrom Ling 250 May 6, 2015 Arabic Introduction The Arab world has many diverse influences in its, linguistic, ethnic, and religious groups. Due to war and exile, many Arabs migrated to America where millions of people created a community to advance with many opportunities. A heritage language interview was conducted to learn how Arabs continue to use their language, culture or religion in California. Origin of the Language The word “Arab” means “nomad,” a person who…

Recently speaking to one of my coworkers from TJ Maxx, Maribel Mojica, informed me she not only has lost two family members to suicide, she also works at the suicide hotline locally here in Bakersfield. The suicide hotline is operated by the Kern County Health Services. More than 1,000 college students kill themselves every year and suicide is the third-leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 24, according to a report by Emory University. “I have many reasons to be working with suicidal…

According to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chemicals used in fracking fluids include over 750 different chemicals. Some are innocuouse (salt, gelatin) while others pose significant human health hazards (methanol, isopropanol and 2-butoxyethanol). About 650 of the 750 chemicals used in fracking operations are known carcinogens, according to the report filed with the U.S. House of Representatives in April 2011. They include toxic chemicals like benzene and tholuene. Returning…

fracturing by collecting the air sampling data from the FLIR camera, justify whether the population is exposing to the toxic chemicals by living near the production of oil and gas area. Unexpectedly, the result is Lost Hills in Kern County, and Upper Ojai in Ventura County are being exposed to the association with developing oil and gas that related to air emissions of air pollutants. Although there were no any surveys, reports or evidence shows the odor problems related to oil and gas…