Smelting

Milk, a common household staple. Praised for its ability to build strong bones and muscles, as well as its perfect match with cookies. However, it is possible that milk is not what it is made out to be. People create information, the information then becomes fact because it is widely believed. Most likely because the source, or the person who created the information, is credible. However, just because something is widely believed does not make it true. For example, people used to think the world…

“If I were to go to America, I would be hated.” Noor Khwaja, a Pakistani-Muslim teen, said these strong words in the spring of 2010. Muslim men and women are discriminated against in our country. The attacks that transpired over 15 years ago, still strikes a cord with American’s everywhere and has caused a type of discrimination that is unjust and unlawful. This type of discrimination is vastly similar to the type seen in the 1950’s to African Americans and is an ethical prejudice that needs to…

During this age, large companies began to merge and consolidate to reduce competition and raise prices. At first the government did not break them up, so monopolies dominated industries including oil, sugar, tobacco, copper, smelting and refining, and meatpacking. These mergers eliminated competition and suppressed small businesses and ruined the chance that anyone else could be successful in that industry (Carson & Bonk, 1999, p. 293). This entire situation was all caused by…

The problem revolves around the regulation of industrial arsenic output at an ASARCO copper smelting and glass manufacturing plant in Tacoma Washington. Arsenic is a known carcinogen with long term detrimental effects. Arsenic can also have adverse effects on plant and marine life, and can cause areas to become uninhabitable if it occupies the soil. The plant is the only one that uses a high arsenic core, which means that the arsenic output is quite high. This has affected several nearby areas,…

The manufacturing and production industry during the Industrial Revolution had substantially contributed to the creation of the modern society. It marked the beginning of the use of machinery to manufacture products. From machinery to new forms of power, the achievements made during the Industrial Revolution shaped much of the modern world that humans live in today. During the Industrial Revolution, improvements in machines produced larger quantities of manufactured goods, which led to a…

A major flaw in Miller’s (1984) case study is that human agency is implied within the model and language used, but the word ‘agency’ is never explicitly stated. For example, Miller (1984) states that the area surrounding the modern-day village in question is completely “anthropogenic” (73). This statement implies that humans have the ability to affect the environment surrounding them, meaning that they are agents that can affect their surroundings. Another example of this occurs during the…

The principal use of slaves was in agriculture, the foundation of the Greek economy. Some landowners might own one or even two slaves, just for themselves. It is certain that rural slavery was very common in Athens. Slaves were not just used in agriculture, they were also used in mines and quarries (as mentioned before). In mines and quarries, slave labour was prevalent, with fond large slave populations often leased out by rich private citizens. The strategos Nicias leased a thousand slaves to…

actions from companies. An example is the rural tribal lands of East India. Protestors are going head to head with steel giant Arcelor Mittal. The global company wants to displace the villagers from their ancestral land, and build facilities for coke smelting, and steel production. It will destroy 15 villages and displace many…

Our concept of Modern Political Thought is mainly a derivative of the 17th and 18th century, whereas Classical Political Thought had its birth before the modern era. As a result, even somewhat politically-adept modern citizens seldom draw upon ‘modern’ philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Plato and Aristotle, who predate both Hobbes and Locke by over a thousand years, are even further from these citizens’ minds. As is stands, many individuals have difficulty finding pertinence in…

These case studies are all correlated into one huge complex scale, the article Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and information in a multilevel world sums up all the articles. It illustrated evidence that dynamic linkages across levels are more successful in assessing problems and finding solutions that are more politically and ecologically sustainable. Which can be associated with all the articles because in some way each issue that they addressed was involved in different elaborate…