When people are born there are basic needs that everyone should be accessible to survive. People need to have food, water, clothes and shelter, all these basic needs should be readily available. When it is heard that certain parts of the United States are suffering from basic needs is a huge concern. All people should have access to basic needs such as food and water. But now in the 21st century the United States, is facing problems that are usually seen in third world countries. Flint, Michigan is facing a crisis where their community is unable to access clean drinking water, which people need to survive. This issue is extremely important because everyone needs water to stay alive. But this isn’t the only time when people weren’t able to access basic needs and suffered because of it. In 1904-1908 the Hereo and Nama people had …show more content…
People are both having their basic needs taken away from them. The Flint and Hereo and Nama people both are suffering from injustice brought to them by having basic needs taken away. The dissimilarities between them are the Flint residents only had the basic need of water taken away and the Hereo and Nama had all basic needs taken away. Also the residents in Flint were not taken away, their contaminated water issue was brought to them. Unlike the Hereo and Nama which were brought a place that didn’t offer any basic needs to survive. Lastly the Flint residents were all killed but exposed to lead which caused more violence in society. Most of the Hereo and Nama people were killed seven months after being deported to Shark Island. By comparing and contrasting these two events that have happened it shows that they are more dissimilarities then similarities. The one but most important similarity that they have in common is the environmental injustice and environmental racism that was performed in both
In this article of “The New Water Czars” by Daniel Kraker explains about the historic water of the Indian community be brought back to its roots or just be turned into a big power broker. He begins to explain how the operations of the Gila River Indian Community are a big agriculture in the south of Arizona. There is a settlement that has been nearly 80 years in the making trying to help the community fewer than 20,000 with more than 650,000 acre-feet of water enough to serve the residential needs of almost 3 million people. In that case it will put the Pima and Maricopa people in a place of marvelous power.
Samuel appeals to the topic by addressing ethos, pathos, and logos and further investigates the government’s stance in the water war and presents the consequences communities are facing. The two-decade long argument over water has
The confusing part is, is that the government spends $1,000,000 flying in bottled water. Instead of giving these First Nations only $250,000 to fix their treatment plant give them some of the $1,000,000 that 's spent
The water emergency that is at present holding inhabitants of Flint, Michigan is a standout amongst the most lamentable difficulties of late circumstances. It is all the more disastrous for being completely preventable. The hot-off-the-squeeze narrative Here's to Flint investigates the occasions which prompt this calamity, and offers a pressing and animating picture of common nationals who are intrepid in facing power. It started as a cost-cutting measure sanctioned by the city's crisis administration office.
The people of Louisiana also had the same passion to take care of the land and clean up after a huge mess had occurred in their state. In both situations the people strive to do better and have a happy end result. Also, Moore speaks about how in a community the people you know will help you in
Since our bodies need water to survive why would we put Native American live in danger? The government does not give them much the way it is. It seems like they constantly take things that they deserve. This Native American village is the poorest in the world. They
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a mile-long from Northwestern North Dakota to Illinois. This pipeline affects drinking water for everyone and invades reservation and treaty land owned by the Native Americans. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, when informed about the pipeline, declared the tribe objected to the pipe construction. The Standing Rock Sioux begin to fight a “legal battle against the pipeline” and soon a “protest diverge” In “An Indian Protest for Everyone” by David Treuer builds an argument that Native Americans have developed a new type of protest when gathering at Standing Rock.
The books provides an example of the start of public interests in the conflict between locals and the city of Los Angeles over the water with the publicity gained when armed men and women seized possession of the aqueduct and let water spill into the desert and return to the river. The rebels also bombed the aqueduct. All of the momentum gained by the rebellion ended with the collapse of the bank; businesses closed and local were left with all of their money wiped out and only the cash they had on hand, and the resistance and local economy suffered. Within a matter of a few years after, Los Angeles owned 90 percent of the water in Owens Valley turning a once promising, fertile area into a desert; agriculture died, and the population, culture, and social structure changed dramatically, at the expense of the whites who took the land over from the
It is very hard for them to find jobs, and once they do, they get paid little to no money at all. Both the Flint Water Crisis and The Jungle have many similarities. They both are real life stories on how government officials let many people suffer due to corruption in the government. Both the Flint Water Crisis and The Jungle have corrupt governments. The citizens
As Kitson (2009) notes, "the hydropower projects, in many ways, represented a new form of colonization, as indigenous peoples were excluded from the decision-making process and bore the brunt of the social and environmental impacts of the dams" (p. 630). This lack of consultation and collaboration with Native American communities during the planning and approval of hydropower projects has been a significant challenge in mitigating their impacts. In fact, as Deloria and Lytle (2011) explain, "the United States government, which had a trust responsibility to protect tribal lands and resources, had approved the dam without consulting the tribal nations that would be most affected by it" (p.
In short, many people around the United States suffer from food instability and hunger. People can’t always help the situations they are in, but there are things almost everyone can do to help the hunger situation in
Our capstone project is aimed at combating the lack of basic healthcare and basic service in the poor and homeless. The biggest factors toward poor health are discriminatory behavior towards homeless communities and insufficient clothing to combat weather. According to a study done by Diversity and Equality in Health and Care, “people who are homeless are frequently treated as objects or dehumanized by nurses.” A comprehensive study done by NCBI and the city of Toronto confirms this behavior in cities throughout Canada and the United States.
For instance, where Nya’s family lived they had no water and the nearest water was ten or more miles away,but the water was still really muddy. Do you see where Nya lived made a difference for her and her family ,because Nya would walk miles to get water for her family. Where Salva traveled depended greatly on where the war was. Salva’s group would head towards Ethiopia, to find a refugee camp dodging the war.
Ehrenreich, B. (2016). Class Matters. Anglican Theological Review, 98(1), 15-21. This article, written by a highly-respected author, effectively discusses topics that I will be utilizing for the problem and solution sections of my final paper.