It’s one of the oldest idioms that inevitably the majority of us have heard as a youth on a playground: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Unfortunately, this old phrase isn’t entirely true—it doesn’t define which words are hurtful, the context they are used in, or its historical context. In fact, words can be powerful. There are a number of words in language, that are both negative and offensive, that have been used to oppress a specific group. Their history has
Carolyn Ashley Kizer was born on December 10, 1925. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a labor organizer in the Pacific Northwest, although she held a doctorate in biology. Her parents were older than the parents of her friends, but filled the house with a rich intellectual atmosphere that surely influenced the young Kizer (McFarland). Throughout her childhood her parents would read her the works of Whitman and Keats before bed (Schumock), but it wasn’t until she was middle aged that she devoted
a lack of self esteem. Therefore, a member of an oppressed group will often suppress their true nature in order to avoid being persecuted. Reappropriation or "Reclaiming the Slur" is become a common practice amongst oppressed groups today, some reclaimed words include nigger (nigga), queer, dyke, slut, and bitch. However, there are instances when linguistic reappropriation can be both helpful and harmful to a minority party through the creation or removal of a groups power. The theoretical model
Linguistic reclamation is a cultural process of removing hatefulness from a term that is used negatively and oppressively by a dominant culture (out-group) against a specific, less powerful group (in-group). In the article “A Queer Revolution: Reconceptualizing the Debate Over Linguistic Reclamation,” the author, Robin Brontsema explores the reclamation of the word “queer” and other related “hateful speech intended to disable its target” from three different perspectives that are based on three
mud from there gliding down and hit and bury the 3 blocks of longhouses inhabited by 160 people on the slopes and slope View the Zoo hill. Water mixed with soil, accumulated at the cut slope, causing the soil structure becomes weak. Rain water flowing through channels created from the terrain and stagnant under the foothills reclaimed. Excavated slopes reclaimed using soil and rock believed to be the route for the construction of housing projects in the area. After the landslide, soil movement continues
I’m just going to jump into my actual post since introductions are for pussies: Right now, if you were to turn on the news, you would very likely see some sort of report on resource depletion. Whether it be discussion of the oilpocalypse, water wars, or our soon-to-be-met date with Earth’s carrying capacity, people everywhere are worried about running out of things. This fear is so pervasive partly because it taps into the human hoarding instinct, and now that our treasures are vanishing, we
global warming phenomenon. Besides, agriculture also has both harmful and beneficial effects on the environment by changing the quality and quantity of soil, water, air, biodiversity and landscapes. Farming is currently a main source of water pollution. Pesticides run-off from agriculture land also lowering drinking water quality and harm water-based wildlife. Environment mostly affected by agriculture because it is the only place for agriculture activity. However, environment also get benefit from
surface and ground waters and local communities through, for instance, displacement of livelihoods and cultural impacts. • However it is important to note that negatives about mining is not the whole story of mining since mining has its positive impacts which we ought to draw
fertilizing fields. Much of the draining was done by windmills (McKinney, 2007)which were used as pumping stations, strategically placed around lakes, marshy areas and adjoining mud flats converting them into polders, this helped to remove large amounts of water from beneath the soil. This created ample land for farming and also provided Holland with a recognizable symbol of their ingenuity and resourcefulness. Many windmills were converted into grain mills ... ... middle of paper ... ...vanced monitoring
basic amenities, which include proper medical facilities, primary and secondary schools and transport buses and local service providers. The people depend on mainly bore wells and dug wells for water. All the villages in the vicinity are electrified and there are no industrial users for power. The irrigation water required is supplied from the Narmada canal in the study area. The western, central and central-eastern zones of the study area are mainly barren lands and the eastern zone is mainly dry cultivated
that lived on this land, due to ruptured canisters that leached into the water supply. Love Canal was very close to Lake Erie. This meant that the water table was close to the surface. During heavy rains, the water table would rise, thus pushing the toxic waste to the surface. This resulted in the toxic water leaching into basements, evaporating and releasing toxic gases and contaminating the soil. In some cases, the toxic water would rise to the surface and there would be puddles of toxic waste. The
in natural water systems have proven to cause high levels of algae production. The Tampa Bay estuary has four major river basins that flow into it transporting TN and TP from the outfalls of terrestrial wastewater treatment plants and agricultural runoff. The process of phytoplankton growth which consumes the excess TN and TP in natural systems can also be related to the changing water quality levels such as dissolved oxygen (DO), salinity, available nutrient concentration, pH, water temperature
Water Recycling A Regional Administrator named Felicia Marcus once stated, “Water recycling is a critical element for managing our water resources.” Her statement symbolizes modern technological ideals to increase the reuse of water. Also known as water reclamation, water recycling is the process of extracting previously used water and treating it for reuse. Currently, modern technologies have allowed the application of recycled water to enter many different areas. Reclaimed water is cleaned
“Water is the lifeblood of this planet. Every time a good is bought or sold there is a virtual exchange of water. Every time we interact with water, we change it, redirect it, or otherwise alter its state. We have never learned how to efficiently manage water.”(Cluckie, 2009) Ian Cluckie, Professor of Hydrology and Water Management, emphasizes the fact that humans can’t survive without water. Although water is a renewable resource that can replenish under hydrological cycles, our intervention
Over the years I have observed Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra from every shore in every kind of weather-from the mirror calm of a bright orange sunrise to the violent churning foam of a turbulent, green sea. And always, the choking alkaline dust blows on the east side of the lake creating great clouds of toxic dust. Mono Lake is ever changing and provides a lot of life from such an ancient dead sea. Paiute people harvested the high protein fly larvae that were wind driven onto the shore in great
supported by factual, unbiased university research. Further information about any specific benefit - and the research from which it was drawn - can be provided by the USGA. The golf course ecosystem: Provides wildlife habitat Protects topsoil from water and wind erosion Improves community aesthetics Absorbs and filters rain Improves health and reduces stress for more than 24.5 million golfers Improves air quality Captures and cleanses runoff in urban areas Discourages pests (e.g. ticks and mosquitoes)
Biofuels and Their Effects on Water Resources Due to desires to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the increasing concerns of trade balances and geopolitics, as well as the growing rise of the price of crude oil, nations worldwide are taking bigger steps in establishing sustainable energy alternatives [1]. In order to meet more sustainable energy needs there has been an increase in the demand of biofuels. With this increase in demand comes the increase demand of water, which is already a limiting
The problem of water shortage is one of the major limiting factors in food production and agriculture development in the arid and semi arid regions. Reclaimed water is one of the most significant available water resources that shall be consumed in agriculture and urban landscape maintenance. In order to investigate the impact of water quality and its application method on olive trees this experiment was carried out during 2010-2012 in the semiarid central part of Iran on young olive trees. The trees
mining projects, there is a large amount of overburden that must be removed in order to access the mineral deposits. The overburden, often times in enormous amounts, is stored on site as piles or as backfills in open pits [7]. A. Environmental Issues Water and Soil Quality The overburden may potentially contain contaminants, which can leach into soils, surface and groundwater.
or in combination, occasionally lower the barriers to inflect and contaminate water supplies that otherwise have had a long history of safety. Because this is so, water safety still remains the most essential and unquestioned responsibility of water authorities, their engineers, and their general personnel down to the most recently hired workman. Five categories of parasitic organisms infective to man are found in water: Bacteria, Protozoa, Worms, Viruses, and Fungi. Some of these complete their life