1.) The first interesting fact that I have learned from this video was that a lot of people who worked in the mines from Libby are dead, or are soon going to be dead. For this fact, I feel that the word two-tier system of medical care goes very well with this. This word means a system of medical care in which the wealthy receive superior medical care and the poor inferior medical care. I feel that this goes well in a number of reasons. Earl Lovack who was the operations manager of W.R. Grace quit smoking in 1970 because he had asbestos exposure, and he needed pleural plaque removed. This right here shows us that he more than likely knew the circumstances the people in the mines were working under and he continued to let them work and not help them get any medical treatment, but he got himself the medical treatment because he had the money to do it. A lot of the people from Libby, Montana had to work extremely hard to make ends meet and support their families.
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The word that best goes with this issue is ageism. Ageism is prejudice and discrimination directed against people because of their age; can be directed against any age group, including youth. This goes well because just because they are young’s and they are out late at night they think they are doing something illegal or bad, so they go and pick them up and question them. I don’t think that is right personally. If they are really doing something bad and causing problems in the town and is known to be a problem, than I can see why the police would do that. Everyone from Libby says that it is a great town though, and that everybody helps each other. Once the cops get the young kid, though out late at night having a good time the whole town will find out because Libby isn’t a very big town. Everyone knows everyone’s