Slip and fall

bunch of men in black robes. He then closes his eyes and wakes up to a dark room with no one else there. He tries to size the perimeter of the room to no avail, then decides to check the middle of this dark room. This is when he trips, and almost slips in what appears to be a pit in the center of the ground. He then passes out, and wakes up tied to a wooden board with a swinging pendulum above him. As the pendulum gets closer, nearing the man’s heart, he finds a way to escape the board. He then…

Edgar Allan Poe has become a vital figure in the world of literature based on his gothic short stories, Cask of Amontillado to The Fall of House Usher and Tell-Tale Heart, each unique in their own way as they have attracted more people to his books for over two centuries. In his short stories, Poe has shown numerous amounts of descriptive and unsettling imagery with different techniques, adding an eerie mood along with suspenseful syntax. Poe not only incorporates techniques such as unsettling…

When something begins to slip away from people, they tend to hold on tighter or simply let it go entirely. In the Ibo society this is apparent. The main character in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo, is attempting to hold on to his traditional ways, Nwoye, his son, struggles with meeting his father’s expectations as well as the community’s expectation for gender roles and religious practices. While Nwoye struggles with following traditional practices he decides to leave his original…

Fear is the shadow that lurks behind us, casting out a thick fog that shields our mind making it hard to reveal our true self. The concept of fear is a reoccurring theme that arises throughout Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo, the main character of the novel, struggles with his fear of failure and weakness and tries to cover it up by appearing to others as a strong and masculine individual. However, Okonkwo’s mistaken outlook on masculinity causes him to commit belligerent and…

There have been many important people who have impacted the United States in a monumental way throughout history. Each person who was considered to be the most influential in history has benefitted the United States differently. Out of each person’s actions throughout time, I believe the person who has had the biggest impact on this country was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I believe she influenced this country the most through her incredible efforts of supporting and leading the first women’s rights…

The Love Canal is located in Niagara Falls, New York. It is named after William T. Love who intended for this location to become a dream community where water could be used to power the surrounding industries and homes. By 1910 it became evident that Love would not see his dream fulfilled. Ten years later industries began to use the abandoned ditch to dispose of various chemicals. Landfills can be safely used if they are managed properly. In 1942 a company began using the Love Canal as a…

residential area: about 50 feet wide and 10 to 40 feet deep. With no uses for the large pit, the Niagara Power and Development Company allowed Hooker Chemical Company to dump their chemical waste into the unfinished trench in 1942. Later, the Niagara Falls City School District needed land to build new schools, so Hooker Chemical Company placed a clay cap over the hazardous chemicals and sold the land. A school and about 100…

In the 1970's, the working-class community in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York, was evacuated due to deadly chemicals seeping into the environment and harming people and pets. Before that, the Hooker Chemical Company dumped industrial chemicals in the unfinished canal, and capped it only clay. The Niagara Falls City School District was in need of land, so in 1953, Hooker sold the land to them for $1. Homes were built on top of the chemicals and more than 80 industrial chemicals…

the canal as a chemical waste dump Hooker Chemical Company sold to 99th street school for $1 Abnormally high birth defects, miscarriages and, illnesses 239 families were relocated In 1978, people in the neighborhood Love Canal of Niagara Falls, New York were discovering all sorts of different illnesses and noticed that there was an abnormally high percentage of birth defects and miscarriages. Later on they figured out it was because of former owners of the contaminated 15 acres,…

Corporation) purchased the site of Love Canal. During the time period from 1942 to 1953 Hooker Chemical dumped approximately 22,000 tons of mixed chemical waste into the Love Canal. After Hooker Chemical was finished using the site it was sold to the Niagara Falls School Board for the price of $1.00, with full disclosure of the chemical waste problems (Beck). During the 1970’s due to climate changes, the groundwater levels became abnormally high. High groundwater levels caused a variety of…