Synthesis of Micheal Marker

            Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival by Michael Marker mainly interprets the separation of the indigenous people from their society or culture. This article majorly focused on education and its policies referring to schooling. The Coast Salish people did not want to conform to society or anyone else’s culture. Racism was also an issue brought up in the article about when they integrated into schools.

            In my opinion culture determines an individual. This article spoke on how culture was trying to be taken out of the indigenous people. Honestly, conformity is not good or bad in my eyes it just depends on the individual viewing the situation.

Essay 3 Place

As of right now I have been researching a new place to multimodal for in essay 3. So right now I do not have any information because I am trying to find a good place with a lot of information regarding bio-region and food sustainability. Also, I want to have a place that relates to me and the world as a whole.

Environmental Ethics Artifact

“Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents.” To represent environmental ethics the item I chose was computers. The reason being because technology is used all over the world today and computers are majority of the networking. We use computers to look up information regarding the environment as well as trying to find ways to better our environment through analysis of data and research. Without computers most technology would not be able to function because a small computer is almost inside everything even cars. The environmental aspect of this is that we one day may not have to do anything because technology would rule the world and humans would have no say in it. It is obvious that everyone almost in the world has a computer and before long humans might even have computer chips inside themselves. This is scary because then our environment would not need many resources to function and our ecosystem would all be artificial.

 

Peer Reviewed Article on Fracking

In the peer reviewed article “Conflicting reports fuel fracking debate tied to Wyoming town” discusses several people’s perspectives on fracking in the state of Wyoming.  In the article it compared  the EPA study to “the USGS results from testing of one of two monitoring wells in the aquifer indicated higher levels of gases like methane, lower levels of diesel-range organics and the absence of such solvents as toluene, an EnCana analysis showed.”  This showed that the EPA was trying to falsify information so that it did not look that bad. One of the citizens of Wyoming interviewed stated “I'm not a scientist. All this fighting over testing has been a frustration to me. All I know is our quality of life has been taken away.”  This man feels as if he is not safe in his own environment called home. This is a disgrace.

In the article we read it spoke of fracking and scientific information that was collected. The article I chose gave a different perspective rather than science. In the article in class it stated that the people needed to know what was being put into the water. My article I found helps to broaden human’s thoughts on fracking in general as well as scientific information.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/29/us-usa-fracking-wyoming-idUSBRE88S00020120929 

Fracking Controversy

Honestly fracking happens to be a very controversial issue happening in the United States lately. From the article "the spokesman, Doug Hock, denied that the company's actions were to blame for the pollution and suggested it was naturally caused." This just shows that the companies are only wanting to focus on making money and not peoples well being. This is inconsiderate being that humans are who mainly occupy this Earth. Fracking should be illegal or entrepreneurs that incorporate fracking should have specific rules and regulations necessary to follow. Yes, fracking is bad but if people are going to continue to participate in it, citizens should at least be aware of what harm could happen their bodies. I believe that this fracking issue about contaminating the water will continue to carry out until after my death ,but regardless the situation everyone has their own opinions.

Synthesis on Fracking

In the article “EPA: Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Contamination” establishes how fracking is affecting the drinking water in Wyoming. This has been a controversial issue for some time now, but with this evidence they feel as if they could ban its continuance. This study was done to present if fracking was a major risk that affected water resources in Wyoming. “In the 121-page draft report released today, EPA officials said that the contamination near the town of Pavillion, Wyo., had most likely seeped up from gas wells and contained at least 10 compounds known to be used in frack fluids.” (Lustgarten) Through the information in the article provided fracking is a risk on water resources. With the evidence provided they did not specify if fracking was the real cause of contamination to the water. This was skeptic because “in an email exchange after the EPA released preliminary water test data two weeks ago, the spokesman, Doug Hock, denied that the company's actions were to blame for the pollution and suggested it was naturally caused.” This company does not want to be at fault for any liabilities that may happen due their company fracking. Being that the company understood the consequences they faced they are trying to weasel themselves out of trouble.

Honestly, fracking should be illegal due to the consequences it poses on the environment as well as the people. If any company sends out an emergency status that “cautioned residents not to drink their water and to ventilate their homes when they bathed because the methane in the water could cause an explosion” (Lustgarten) is a major issue.  Fracking is not safe for our environment and it already puts strain on the one resource that is already running low- water. I do not understand why fracking is so controversial because I have not read one article that places emphasis on anything that’s good that comes out of fracking. These big corporations need to stop trying to be cheap and take responsibility for the hazardous materials that they are putting into our water systems. They need to spend a little more money on ways to fix our environment instead of ways to make money in order to kill us off. Fracking will possibly always be controversial because everyone is biased in the world. I just think that we should help to make it illegal so that we can maintain ways to have healthy water instead of having to worry about what is entering our body when we shower or drink it. Ban fracking and we can experience less water contamination.

Response to Kahn/Class Discussion

In class we discussed how social class determines what jobs you get and where you will end up. I disagree with this because everyone has an opportunity to make it out of their social class and better themselves. Just because you come from a public school does not mean you do not have the intelligence to go to an Ivy League university. Ivy Leagues schools are overrated for the most part. The main difference in universities is cost of attendance. Even though everyone has a biased opinion on social class mine is that if you believe you can do it never give up.

            Richard Kahn shares similar interests with me when it comes to schools and social class. Kahn believes that education is necessary in order to change the world. He believes that education is used to only raise test scores and not awareness for the environment. This is right because in high school I never spoke of the environment not even in science classes. Kahn feels that we should stop worrying about unnecessary information and obtain facts that are going to be useful in the future. In cases today most the information taught in high school and college is never used in real life but saving the environment could be. We need to educate ourselves with environmental information if we want to continue to live on this earth.