In The Broken Branch, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein offer a first hand and well-explained account of what is wrong in the United States Congress today, when and where the government started to let things slip, and how Congress can work to get back on track. Mann and Ornstein begin their book by discussing some of the history, events, and reasoning behind practices of today’s Congress. Not until chapter three in the book do they really get into the root cause of the problems facing Congress in today’s day in age. In chapter three, Mann and Ornestein detail that they began their political careers in Washington D.C. in 1969, at the peak of the dissatisfaction that citizens were feeling over the Vietnam War (47). The duo conveys that the
How Mendocino Was Influenced The small, rural town of mendocino sits on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It’s surrounding coastal forests contain redwood and douglas fir trees. These two species are valuable timber for building. The climate of Mendocino is damp.
Unspoken is a book written by Luke Allnutt. The book is based around the story of his dad dying of a terminal illness, brain cancer. The tumor Luke’s dad developed was traced back to an immense amount of radiation he experienced when he was a child. The original round of radiation was helping cure the cancer that caused him to lose his sight, the very thing that cured him as a child will kill him later in his life. Upon the realization that the events you read about or watch an television was happening in Luke’s life affected him greatly.
Stereotypes, could potentially affect oneself performance still in today's society. Claude Steele, the author of Whistling Vivaldi, a research book base on research of stereotypes, stereotype threat, social identity, and social contingencies, reports that there are remedies to stereotype threat, including self affirmation, creating identity safety and changing your narrative. Expanding on steels remedies, my contribution on dealing with stereotype threat, are based on what he shared in Whistling Vivaldi. In chapter 9 of Whistling Vivaldi, titled "A New Hope", was filed with ways of reducing stereotype threat. One of the main concepts Steele's introduced, self affirmation, which is very similar to the concept of having a backbone.
He even mentions how these solutions and conservation practices are still relevant to today but are not
It is Not like We Need It to Breathe or Anything - the Issue of Air Pollution in Utah One of the largest issues that our society currently faces as it moves towards the future is the issue of air pollution, and its effects on our daily lives. A negative externality caused by our dependence on modern technology, industrial fields, and engineering, this increasingly dangerous impurity is harmful to both nature and people. Air pollution is a constant problem all over the United States, especially in the larger industrial sectors such as large cities where fossil fuels are constantly being burned by factories, motorized vehicles, and power plants. In the state of Utah, air pollution is a constant problem caused by many different factors, such
In the article “The New Normal” by David Brooks, he argues that the countries future will depend greatly on how the government makes budget cuts. He points out three principles that should be considered when making budget cuts. The first principle is to make everyone hurt, or to make cuts widely and fairly, not just in couple areas. In addition, Brooks claims that the government should cut more from the old to invest in the younger generation. He says that the government should invest more money into education and early-childhood programs.
In the poem, “Becoming and Going: An Oldsmobile Story” by Gerald Hill the speaker is traveling down a road in the Fort Qu’appelle Valley. He notices his father and his son are also driving down this road. The speaker then begins to list the two men’s characteristics. As he lists them we see that the father and the son have both similarities and differences in their personalities.
Many believed the Dust Bowl and floods of the Great Depression were natural disasters and framed destruction of the Great Plains as the result of weather, not human-created tragedies, even though scientific evidence proved otherwise. However, when the news and government framed stories a consequence of weather conditions they failed to communicate the balance of nature was overturned thanks to the unbridled settling of the land that caused ecological disaster. Although FSA photos and conservation photos of that era documented loss of open places and spaces, Lorentz reminds us that in America’s quest for domination over the land, almost forgotten how much we rely on nature for survival. The news presented only part of the story, devastation. Largely missing from reporting why ecological disaster came about, the connection between water and soil, and how unrestrained use and poor planning led to disaster.
Sickened, Julie Gregory’s memoir asserts claims of abuse that are still contested by her mother. Gregory’s memoir includes descriptions of various forms of abuse used against Gregory, her brother Danny, and several foster children housed in their home. It is important to note that Julie’s mother was never formally diagnosed. Rather, Gregory came to the conclusion on her own that her mother may be categorized as having Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another after learning of the disorder in a psychology class. While Gregory did eventually study psychiatry at the University of Sheffield, England, she does have an inherent bias towards this diagnoses due to her years suffering her mother’s abuse.
The industrial revolution brought abundant material benefits at the expense of humans. Mechanisation had improved accuracy and speed in production of items. It was free from human error and business owners did not have to pay for employees. They did not have to worry about sick employees that would reduce the output of items. The more items produced lead to higher profits and potential to employ more workers.
1. What observations can you make related to human geography from looking at the/these map(s)? This part of the map explains the different type of use of electricity in different states, which is being used for house worming, cars and trucks. Cities electricity is presented in colors to indicate the kind of energy is being used in the area.
It isn’t too disputed in our modern day society that air pollution is an evident problem; however, will it ever get to a point where the air we breathe will require, not just facial covering, but gas masks to ensure that we see another day? And what exactly are the implications of smog on the living things in our world? As depicted in John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up, the residents of the United State are forced to wear filtered gas masks to avoid breathing in the contaminated air around them and are also required to pay a price to breathe clean oxygen gas.
The Earth is a beautiful place, there is no doubt about that. Now the future is questionable due to all the manufacturing and oil drilling we’ve done. However, not only those actions are to blame, we have all played our part. Humans have created a new world, the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is defined as the idea that we have entered a new epoch in Earth’s geological history.
“Report to Wordsworth” by Boey Kim Cheng and “Lament” by Gillian Clarke are the two poems I am exploring in this essay, specifically on how the common theme of human destruction of nature is presented. In “Report to Wordsworth”, Cheng explores the damage of nature caused by humans and man’s reckless attitude towards this. In “Lament”, the idea of the damage of oceans from the Gulf War is explored. In “Report to Wordsworth”, Boey Kim Cheng explores the theme of human destruction of nature as a response to William Wordsworth, an romantic poet who celebrated nature’s beauty in his poetry.
