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

In looking at the quintessential films of the 1980s through the lens of the Eddie Murphy moment, the particular elements of shifting U.S. feminism and nuclear energy stand outside of the Murphy influence and their effect on New Hollywood. Silkwood (Nichols, 1983) offers a look at these elements through the socio-political impact of second wave feminism, nuclear power fears in the shadow of the cold war and a Hawkish national agenda under President Ronald Reagan, the de facto politics of labor intimidation

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

earned an Oscar nod for Lady Sings in the Blues. Betty Midler scored a nomination for The Rose in 1979 and over a decade later was nominated again for the movie For the Boys. In 1983, music icon Cher was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for Silkwood. After four years, she won the Best Actress award for

language therapy treatment strategy that utilizes equine movement (“Hippotherapy,” n.d.)”. Children who are diagnosed with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or Autism tend to have slower development in their motor functioning abilities. According to Silkwood-Sherer, Killian, Long and Martin (2012), the foreword walking motion of the horse allows the riders pelvis to move in a way which is similar to them actually walking. This allows the participant to build muscle in the correct places so that they

Representation 'LGBT' in the cinema. From 1970 until today. 1. Hollywood. The big industry, commercial cinema. It is from the decade of the seventies when there are slight changes in the treatment of the LGBT collective on the scene, until now totally ridiculous. It coincides with the growth and maturation of the LGBT movement in the United States and later in Europe. For example, "The boys of the band" (1970) or "Cabaret" (1972). Although this was a 'false alarm', and the productions of the big

as senior editor and columnist for Esquire as well as a correspondent for the New York Post. Heartburn, her debut novel, and This Is My Life, her first film as a director, both came out in 1983. (1992). She was nominated for three Academy Awards—Silkwood in 1984, When Harry Met Sally in 1990, and Sleepless in Seattle in 1994—for "Best Original Screenplay." In her essay "Boston Photographs," Nora Ephron uses the narrative of the release of three contentious images

“Music makes the people come together.” says Madonna in the title track of her 2000 album Music. The lyric originates from what seems like just a campy, dance floor anthem. However, it speaks a universal truth; music unites us as an enormous vessel of human expression. From the actual compositions to the personas of the people behind them, it constantly adds to our cultural landscape. Popular music forms the world around us, fueled by the women who act as its idols. Turning back time into the 1970s