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The film Toxic Soup by Rory Owen Delaney speaks to how everyday Americans fight to keep their blood, water and air safe from pollution. This video shows how corporations such as DuPont, Bayer, Ashland oil and Global contributed to polluting their local environments. The first company that the video talks about is DuPont, which is a chemical plant located in West Virginia. DuPont was found to be contaminating water near their plant with C8. The C8 found in the water was known to cause…

sending Hamlet to England, Polonius, who is still convinced that love afflicts Hamlet, urges Claudius to make one more attempt to ferret out a satisfying reason for Hamlet 's behaviour. He then tells the King his plan to send Hamlet to Gertrude 's quarters later that evening. While Polonius hides behind the curtains and says on Hamlet, Gertrude should attempt to cajole Hamlet into revealing his innermost thoughts with Polonius as witness. However, things don’t go as planned and Hamlet mistakes…

In the recently published first volume of memoirs, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk describes how a 1950’s child hood among Europe -yearning cosmopolitans in the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire helped to shape him as a writer. The key, he said, is to understand the concept of huzun. This turkish word describes a kind of melancholy, he says, not so much a personal state as one shared by an entire society, a mood of resigned despair for the great past - a murky, black white…

18 is considered a very important birthday and comes with many responsibilities including the ability to enlist in the army, vote, live on your own and most importantly you are officially considered an adult citizen. One of the rights or responsibilities not included though is the right to drink alcoholic beverages. 18 year-olds can vote, smoke, marry, drive, fly, pay taxes, take out loans, hold public office, serve on a jury and fight for their country, so what’s the big deal (Amethyst…

year if memory serves me was around 987/1988. Somewhere around the time, I was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was I believe summertime when this happened. I lived at the time in Lake City, just outside Lakewood in Washington State. I lived maybe a quarter mile from American Lake and would ride my bike there all the time. I had some friends-I remember they were Hispanic, but to this day I don't remember their names. I remember we lived along a busy, directly across from a little grocery store…

of breast cancer [Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC)1]. Invasive means that the cancer has “invaded” or spread to the surrounding breast tissues [IDC — Invasive Ductal Carcinoma 1]. Ductal means that the cancer began in the milk ducts, which are the “pipes” that carry milk from the milk-producing lobules to the nipple [IDC — Invasive Ductal Carcinoma 2]. IDC has the potential to invade your lymph and blood systems which causes spreading of the cancer cells to other parts of your body [IDC —…

Water supply on earth is finite. The United Nation’s world water development report, Water for a Sustainable World (2015), illustrated the 55% increase of global water demand by 2050. Without effective countermeasures, the word will encounter a 40 percent shortage of water within two decades. In Canada, water waste is the potential trigger of water shortage. Despite the great abundance of reserved water, Canada has a fixed average precipitation around 537 millimeter per year, less than 1/3…

On December 7, 1941, it will be a day that will always be remembered as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorated as “the date which will live in infamy”1. This was a day when the Japanese unexpectedly attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This was an attack that caused many American causalities, and American citizens really became furious. The hatred that filled the hearts of many Americans could be shown through President Roosevelt’s appeal to Congress to…

PROJECT TITTLE Hlalakahle old aged home project. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The municipality Maphumulo has recognised an extreme number of old people who live on their own without someone to take care of them, some of them live with their grandchildren whom have school to go to during the day of which they will have to live their grans on their own and come back late. Since they are the teenagers they happen to arrive home even later while their grandparents are waiting for them to perform activities…

but ‘pure’ (16). On his first quest when he meets “two young women, of the sort known as ladies of easy virtue,” (p 369), Don Quixote calls them “high-born maidens” (369).” At the end of Chapter 2 when a sow-gelder arrives at the inn playing his pan-pipes, the music convinces Don Quixote that he is dining in a fine castle and “that the salt cod was trout, the bread baked from the whitest wheat-flour, the prostitutes fine ladies and the innkeeper the lord of the castle” (371). He sees the best…