Form Analysis of Chapter 8 of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Deborah Blum is portraying the idea that things that seem safe or even beneficial can actually be very dangerous. She supports this idea with various elements of form throughout chapter eight of The Poisoner’s Handbook. Elements of form used in chapter eight to support her idea include completion, choice of form, outside sources/ flashbacks, and active details. The completion of the chapter is used by Blum to support the idea that seemingly harmless things can be very dangerous.
According to the article “How Tap Water Became Toxic in Flint, Michigan,” written by Sara Ganim and Linh Tran, the residents of Flint, Michigan highly disapproved of the new water source. Around 2 years ago, the city of Flint was forced to switch their water supply from Lake Huron to a more local source, Flint River. Before, this was not a big problem to the residents of Flint because they were told that the water they were drinking was harmless. However, people began to doubt that the water they were drinking was safe because it looked like sewage. Over time, new evidence began to arise claiming that the water contained massive amounts of lead and iron.
“Wind whistles through the abandoned roads” ( Charbonneau, 149). This quote, by usage of powerful language says that after a nuclear war there is almost nothing left, homes and cities are abandoned and the world is almost empty. This makes the readers think that there will be nothing left, technology will go back a few decades and great people killed. Joelle Charbonneau throughout her entire book raises awareness about how dangerous nuclear fission is when used as a
In Richard Muller’s essay on Chemical Waste in America, he points out many different problems in todays disposal techniques of nuclear waste. He brings in readers by appealing to American citizens with his visual texts, guilt, and how we must start feeling some empathy for our future generations and find a solution to prevent a massive chemical waste epidemic. Mullers argument bases off his visual texts, by showing us a reality that is going on today. Among the visual texts, Muller explains the exact quantity of chemical wastes in the United States by telling his audience that, “we have already generated more than enough nuclear waste to fill up Yucca Mountain,” which is a storage bunker for chemical waste products. Muller even includes a picture of Yucca Mountain so the audience can get a feel for the absurd amount of waste we have built up.
What is leading to us destroying the world is our human nature. We humans have greed running through our blood. “We’ve poured our poisons into the world as if it were a bottomless pit-and we go on pouring our poisons into the world. We’ve gobbled up irreplaceable resources as though they could never run out-and we go on gobbling them up.”
Unlike humans trying to reconnect back to nature, we rather seem to want to create an artificial nature in our cage of industrious lives. Regrettably, this author 's call to save the environment has not been fully applied, as of today humans are still releasing toxins into the environment at the highest rate in history, occupying forests with building in the name of owning something, in places such as Antarctica, the polar bears are starving, even worst humans had it illegal to feed them while they are exploding and destroying their homes, the seas-fishes are iced up, just to name a few reasons why connecting back to nature is critical. Although green activists such as Ecosia have been working on restoring the environment, however, more needs to be done. We must see to it that nature bounces back to its full
In the same way nature and humankinds are closely related and cannot be separated; or cannot deny the presence of one another. At the Anthropocene epoch, humankind seems to have control over the nature in some extent, despite that nature wait its time and respond how it’s been treated. At this epoch “human-kind has caused mass extinctions of the planet and animal species, polluted the oceans and altered the atmosphere” (Stromberg, np). Moreover in “The Mutant at Horn Creek” the author shows how humankind altered the natural world and its effect in the
If we look at chernobyl, future generations installed safety features into nuclear reactors that prevents them from melting. We learn from our
Walking into graduation, every graduate expects to hear the same speech with little variance about reaching an important milestone in life but still having many more milestones. Paul Hawken delivered a different message with his commencement address, You Are Brilliant and the Earth Is Hiring. His message was filled with hope for the future since people are working together to build a better world for all. Hawken begins with, “Humanity is coalescing.
Omar Bradley spoken once that, “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” In the 1950’s, Ray Bradbury writes a stories about how technology could change the future. Ray Bradbury is a fantasy and horror author because at a young age he was interested in adventurous and fantasy fiction books. Which connects to the story called “There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury and shows the truth of technology. Hence fourth, technology has harmed society.
Chapter 2 of The poisoner’s handbook by Deborah Blum has an aggressive style. Elements of diction support this style. Some of the elements that support the style are connotation/ denotation, cacophonous, and monosyllabic/polysyllabism. Connotation and denotation help to show the aggressive style of the writing in chapter 2. When describing mustard gas, Blum states the its effect include “searing the eyes into a crusted blindness” (Blum, 2010).
A chart devised by Peter Zimmerman illustrates that it could cost about $5 million to manufacture and detonate a nuclear bomb in the US from the process of procuring the material, human resource hired to manufacture the bomb, and smuggling the material to the US mainland through Mexico and Canada. Most of the personnel involved in such an execution of this plan are already in the country in sleeper cells that are only activated once the puzzles have been finally completed, which would make it almost impossible to
During the Cold War era from 1945-1980, the environment took priority in American society. Awareness about the need to preserve the planet culminated in a nationwide Earth Day which proved the growing worry about the lack of sustainability found on Earth. Other environmental factors required immediate action to be taken before the detrimental effects of humans and their role in society would be too much for this world to handle. Although there are a variety of factors that raised awareness about the dangerous environment on earth, it was ultimately the implementation of the first Earth Day, tempting climate in the Sun Belt, and the environmental movement by Rachel Carson that brought the awareness to harsh environmental factors in the late
Nowadays debris is an integral part of humanity life. Mankind thinks about how to make the product easier and cheaper to use, but nobody cares what happens with waste after it was used. We contaminate the environment with every decade increasingly: muddied air and water, global warming are an output of human life. The worst thing is that from such attitude other living beings are dying. Millions of animals and birds cannot withstand such environmental changes; their populations become smaller and, eventually, disappear altogether from the face of the earth.
We need to change our perspective about nature and be more caring towards the Earth. Because if we keep on being cruel and not see a life in natural creatures they will someday be gone and we will be regretting that day. We can
