Karen Silkwood Essays

Young. Smart. Activist. Whistleblower. Dead. All of these words can be used to describe one person, Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a young woman who was very bright, and worked for the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant. When she decided to become an advocate and an informer for better working conditions at her job, it may have cost her, her life. Karen Silkwood’s ill-timed death is a mystery to most, but the main two theories on what happened to her are that she was ran off the road by another car or her

How Dr. Claire C. Patterson Won against the tetraethyl lead industry Dr. Claire C. Patterson was a chemist that worked on the Manhattan Project. (20th century geologist page 1) his greatest contribution to all life on earth was the discovery of lead pollution from tetraethyl lead through the air, and later the discovery of the age of the earth. Dr. Patterson was considered a renegade scientist for fighting against Doctor Kehoe, a toxicologist, who supported the oil company. “Patterson was an expert

How Dr. Claire C. Patterson Won against the tetraethyl lead industry Dr. Claire C. Patterson was a chemist that worked on the Manhattan Project. (20th century geologist page 1) his greatest contribution to all life on earth was the discovery of lead pollution from tetraethyl lead through the air, and later the discovery of the age of the earth. Dr. Patterson was considered a renegade scientist for fighting against Doctor Kehoe, a toxicologist, who supported the oil company. “Patterson was an expert

The prime example of an American tragedy can be found within Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Showcasing a dysfunctional family, the Loman's, and the issues plaguing each of the family members, none of them meet the depressingly low standard of the father, Willy Loman. From an overall drab and tired appearance to the flashbacks that constantly engulf him, Willy Loman stands as the highlight of what a skewed American Dream can do to a person. However, is this the only cause behind Willy Loman's

Kurt Cobain’s song “Rape Me”, composed and first performed live in 1991, has reached 32nd in the UK Singles Chart and received worldwide praise for its purpose to raise awareness on sexism, suggesting that he may be indeed enjoying his song’s success more than his personal life. The lyrics of “Rape Me,” perhaps, might have struck a chord to the youths of 1993. Rolling Stone hit the streets of Aberdeen, Washington State (Kurt’s hometown), asking Kurt’s fans about their response to his song. “I like

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrists, was interested in which symbols and common myths were able to seep into our thinking on both conscious and subconscious level. Initially working with an Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, in the late 1800s both agreed with the significance of recurring themes in people’s dreams. However, Jung and Freud took different paths with the disagreement of sexuality driving other’s personalities. He wrote The Personal and Collective Unconscious to demonstrates his views

Sigismund Schlomo Freud or more commonly known as Sigmund Freud was born on the 6th of May 1856 and passed away on the 23rd of September 1939. He was an Austrian and was originally a neurologist but is now more famously known as the father of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881 and mainly carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuro-anatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1885, he completed his habilitation

The Death of Karen Silkwood When tragedy strikes who or what do we look for? Do we look to blame, to hate, to sympathize? The son and daughter of Karen Silkwood, had taken different stands on this question. Karen was onto a breakthrough lead, one that would finally punish an enormous power company that provided nuclear fuel rods for power plants and to soon be exposed when tragedy struck… or was it irony? Karen’s Son takes the side of pure heroism, as he believes his mother did what she believed