Reclaimed water

Slur words are words of oppression; they have held the power to objectify, humiliate and deny rights to undeserving individuals of minority groups for much too long. They are tools used by oppressors against their victims, and they carry out the exact functions they expect them to. Slurs objectify, humiliate, degrade and shame. Recently, attempts have been made to shed slurs of their power. Many conflicting beliefs surrounding the proper handling of slur words exist. I personally believe that the best way to shed these derogatory terms of their power is to reclaim their use. In order to do so, however, one must understand how these words came into focus in the first place. In his ¬article, ‘Euphemize This’, John McWhoter explores the world of euphemisms and how they came to be. Most words don’t come into existence as derogatory, offensive terms. McWhoter derives linguist Steven Pinker’s notion of a ‘euphemism treadmill’ to establish his point that over time, the meaning of words and the sensitivity towards them change. He stresses that this is a healthy process, and will continue to happen over the years. Like the words McWhoter mentions, many of the terms that fall under the ‘slur word’ category did not originate as so. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, The N-word is derived from the latin word niger, meaning black. This word was converted to many languages, most often meaning black or black person. By the 1800’s, it was established as a derogatory term. Another…

assumptions which allow this to occur are justifiable. For example, one may see my model as being too simplistic and saying that I disregard certain cases such as when the use of a slur by an “in-group” member is negative, encapsulating the same value as those who use the word as a slur. When the derogatory use by those in the group can be seen to continue the previous looping and not add to its reclamation. For example on Kanye West’s track “Graduation Day” the character of the high school…

can improve water sustainability in domestic and agricultural use by using more sustainable appliances. For example, for domestic use water efficient appliances could help improve water sustainability. We could improve the water efficient appliances we have now. Using water efficient appliances will help reduce our water footprint and conserve energy. I believe there could be an efficient greywater treatment system that could recycle water from that was used for showering. Individuals could take…

As of lately, a process called hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has been all over news channels across America and other countries. Hydraulic Fracturing is defined as a process by which fractures in the rocks below the Earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting sand and/or chemicals at high pressure to extract natural gas or oil ("What is Fracking?"). Fracking is used to extract shale gas, tight sand gas, tight sand oil, and coal seam gas (better known as methane). Hydraulic fracturing…

selected for manual administration and Group 3: 10 units served as controls. Water samples from DUWLs and waste waters were collected every week during the ten weeks. They were inoculated onto various specific agar media and incubated at 28-37ºC for 2-7 days. After counting the colonies of microorganisms, they were identified and the mean…

Another important safety hazard is not to store dry ice in tight containers, excess pressure could build up causing the container to explode. Moreover, it is extremely dangerous to leave dry ice to sublimate in an unventilated room where CO₂ gas could build up at low areas in the room leading to suffocation from the replacement of air with CO₂. Furthermore, avoid inhalation, this could cause headaches, vomiting, with low concentrations and coma and death with higher concentrations (Dowbico…

2015) The final method is known as cake stalking. This is a process that attempt to create a dry solid for easy storage. “Water from the residues has been removed as much as possible to produce the dry cake.” (Xue et al. 2015) Issues with this system include potential airborne damages as “fine particulates from the cakes surface could be re-entrained to the atmosphere.” (Xue et al. 2015) There are also techniques that can be used before the red mud is stored to decrease the possibility of…

Because of the lack of water in arid regions, there is a great need to optimize agricultural water consumption. Thus, water conserving is becoming a decisive consideration for agriculture, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions where water is the main limiting factor for plant growth (Moftah and AL-Humaid 2005). Indeed, plants are prodigal in the water use because only roughly 5% of water uptake is used for its growth and development while the remaining 95% is lost for transpiration (Prakash…

Hot Springs National Park is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was established March 4, 1921. It is the smallest of all the national parks and is the only one that is almost inside a whole city. Hot Springs National Park has attracted many tourist and is a great place to go visit. It is extremely pretty and has many interesting places to go to. Its most famous attraction is the bathhouses, water. That's what first attracted people, and they have been coming here ever since to use the soothing…

This is because without it, nothing we know would survive. Our planet is seventy-two percent water but only three percent of that is fresh water and can be used by humans and animals for hydration. Of that three percent, seventy percent is locked in ice caps and not readily accessible to humans to use, leaving only about 0.3 percent of fresh water in locations that can be used by many organisms of the planet. And with 8.7 million, give or take a few million, species on Earth; we are sharing very…