...Dirty water is one of the world’s biggest risks. Lake Erie is facing such a problem and has been since the 1960s. If this pollution is not controlled, it could be harmful to humans that live around the lake and also the animals who live there. The State of Ohio needs to enact a policy to clean up the pollution in Lake Erie and find a way to prevent pollution from happening. This hits home for me because I live in Willoughby right by Lake Erie. When I go to the beach I see how dirty the water is there. I hesitate to swim in it. Lake Erie is a beautiful lake when it is not so dirty, and we should try and preserve it. If we don’t it will be become so polluted that it will be considered dead, this happened in the 1960s due to all the factories dumping waste in to the Lake. It was literally a dumping ground and it even caught on fire a few times due to the toxic wastes. The phosphorus levels in Lake Erie are increasing due to the pollution causing harm to the fishes that reside in it. In 2014, Lake Erie had so much algae from pollution that it caused the City of Toledo to be left without fresh water. This algae was caused by the excessive amount of phosphorus in the lake. This excessive amount of Phosphorus is caused when the fertilizer is dumped into the lake by farmers. There has also been an excessive amount of plastic being found in Lake Erie. Scientists had done a study and they found the most amount of plastic in Lake Erie out of all the Great lakes. All of this plastic comes...
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...money. Attempting to carve the Erie Canal through the New York wilderness was “little short of madness,” Jefferson fumed. But New York governor De Witt Clinton refused to let the plan die. He remained determined to construct the canal—making water travel from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean a reality. How would Governor Clinton carry out his plan? Clinton called on his fellow New Yorkers to fund a $7 million canal that would link Buffalo to New York City via Albany and the Hudson River. Engineers who had studied Great Britain’s canals developed the plans, and construction began in 1817. More than 3,000 workers cleared trees, leveled ground, and dug the ditch for the canal, which would cover 350 miles (563 km) and raise and lower boats nearly 600 feet (183 m) during their journey. When construction ended in 1825, the canal was an immediate success. The cost of shipping grain from Lake Erie to the Atlantic dropped from $100 to $20 a ton, and the time in transit was cut from 20 to 8 days. The Erie Canal carried such a volume that it repaid its initial cost within 12 years. Digging the Big Ditch “We are digging the Ditch through the mire; Through the mud and the slime and the mire, by heck! And the mud is our principal hire; Up our pants, in our shirts, down our neck, by heck! We are digging the Ditch through the gravel, So the people and freight can travel.” —Erie Canal work song Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Erie Canal workers excavate a deep cut...
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...The Battle of Lake Erie Journal Summary After war was declared between the United States and Great Britain, over two-thousand soldiers invaded Canada under General William Hull. Less than a month later, Hull cowardly surrendered his troops to a much weaker army, leaving the British in control. Due to Hull’s surrender, Great Lake’s captain, Daniel Dobbins, was left imprisoned. When Dobbins finally escaped the British camp, he made a long trip to Presque Isle, later known as Erie. Here, Dobbins was guided to the President, James Madison, in order to relay the horrific news in front of the cabinet of the defeat. Dobbins, Madison, and the cabinet concluded that Presque Isle, or Erie, was the most suitable area for building a fleet, instead of attempting to invade Canada. Since there was not a navy base on Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario had more supply routes, Isaac Chauncey, naval forces commander, took control of the invasion. The well-respected veteran sent sailors and soldiers to the north, or Albany, by September, less than a month later. During this, Dobbins sailed to Presque Isle, a six mile land strip on Lake Erie. Unfortunately, the harbor lacked resources; therefore, Dobbins spent a small amount of two thousand dollars on supplies to build a fleet. Lieutenant Jesse Elliott, whose ideas clashed with those of Daniel Dobbins, commanded a small fleet at Black Rock that was within shooting distance of the British. Here, Elliott and Army Captain Nathan Towson, captured $150,000...
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...variables to take into consideration when breaking down the war and how each positive and negative action has impacted our country. Importantly enough, the battles that took place on the Great Lakes significantly determined control over the Lakes and easy access for the British from the north. One battle in particular was the battle at Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry was able to lead a fleet of ships against the giant Royal Navy. Throughout this paper I will discuss the buildup of tension on the lakes, hardship of building the fleets, recruiting manpower and supplies, and the infamous battle at Put-In-Bay. All of these events have a monumental impact on how the rest of the war could have played out. During the war of 1812 America wasn’t the only country having conflict with Great Britain. Great Britain was dealing with the Napoleonic wars lead by none other than Napoleon of France. This is important because this took heavy amounts of tension off the Americans because Britain was fighting a war back home. Okay, now we turn our path to Lake Erie. Early on in the war the United States didn’t put much emphasis on the importance of Lake Erie. Not up in till a couple of events took place on the lakes did the Americans pay closer attention to the lake. The first beginning with General James Winchester, as he was sent out to Fort Wayne to take command of an army being raised by General William Henry Harrison to give aid to the Detroit. As Winchester is in route he stops at Frenchtown...
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...first investments were in small railways. James (Jim) Fisk was born in 1835. Jim was also known as “Big Jim”, “Jubilee Jim”, and “Diamond Jim”. When Jim was younger he ran away from school and joined a circus. Jim had many occupations before becoming a stockbroker. Gould and Fisk worked together in a great scheme. Gould and Fisk were important factors in the “Erie Railroad War”. If it wasn’t for what they did, the railroad might have ended up belonging to Cornelius Vanderbilt, a successful railroad owner and the richest man alive at the time. Gould and Fisk issued illegal shares and put them into the market. Vanderbilt was buying all of the stocks to put himself into control of the Erie Railroad. What Vanderbilt did not know was that Gould and Fisk would just keep producing the stock certificates, taking Vanderbilt’s money. Vanderbilt was not actually gaining any control of the Erie Railroad because the stick was “Watered down” by Gould and Fisk. Eventually it was brought to the public what was happening. When citations were issued to the men, they ran and hid. Even though he was scammed and did not acquire the Erie, Vanderbilt was still the richest man in America at the time. Another Scandal that both Gould and Fisk were involved in was Black Friday. Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869. On this date the U.S. gold market collapsed. Fisk and Gould figured if they could scam Vanderbilt they would be able to scam Wall Street investors as well. Andrew Johnson had come...
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...Garrett Hileman October 18th, 1844 was the most disastrous flood that has ever hit the city of Buffalo since it was founded. The rising waters of Lake Erie came without warning and surprised the sleeping community. Many people were sleeping as the waters began to rise. For several days before the event of the flood a strong north-east wind had been driving the water in the lake to rise above normal levels. On October 18th a shift of the wind had taken place, and it blew from the opposite direction with astounding force never before or to be known to happen in Buffalo. With the sudden change in direction of the wind volumes of water began to build in a dreadful wave, which overflowed the lower districts of the city. The rising waters began at 12 o'clock (midnight) and in less than half an hour the whole lower part of the city south of the canal from Black Rock to the Hydraulics was submerged in water from two to eight feet in depth. The height in which the water rose to was completely unpredicted. Houses were blown down--unroofed--cellars flooded; in fact the great amount of damage done almost instantaneously. Upwards of eighty canal boats went ashore between Buffalo and Black Rock. In the lower districts there were many harbor craft and canal boats left by the receding waters, many canal boats being out on the commons, on Division, Eagle and Clinton streets along with many steamboats being taken by the rusing water and left abandoned. South Buffalo was dumped with miscellaneous...
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...When the Erie Canal, lining Lake Erie and Ontario from Albany to Buffalo in New York, had been constructed and opened in the year 1825, the economic landscape in New York would be changed forever. During the time it was built, the Industrial Revolution, adopted from the Great British movement, had shaped New England into a land of virtue and one unrecognized by the rest of the world, let alone the United States. The Erie Canal had been proven to be one of the most cogent aspects of New York’s, “rise to distinction,” throughout it’s 200 years of notable existence. It had offered many advantageous opportunities and therefore implanted growth within the colonial state as a result. Given the influx in the amount of people, workers and inventors...
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...As a child I remember two instances, one was the story my father used to tell me about the Cuyahoga River catching fire in Cleveland Ohio. The other was my personal brush with hot tub folliculitis as a teenager. The Cuyahoga River was known as one of the most polluted rivers in the nation. This river had caught on fire at least 13 times between 1868 and 1969. These fires causing millions of dollars of damage every time taking out boats, bridges and buildings near by. The fire of 1952 was the largest and most famous fire, which led to the environmental movements of the late 1960’s. Until the 1980's, this river was devoid of any fish or living organism except the Oscillatoria, which is a filamentous cyanpbacterium, which reproduces by fragmentation. The last fire of 1969 caused the movement that resulted in the creation of Clean Water Act, Great Lakes waster Quality Agreement, and the Environmental Protection Agency. These movements led to the halt of city sewage and factory toxins to be dumped in the river. As a teenager, I remember getting hot tub folliculitis after getting in the hot tub of the local gym known as Ballys Scandinavian. This id caused by the gram-negative bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Hot tub folliculitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the hair follicles. This condition presents itself as a rash similar to chicken pox. Hot tub folliculitis has led to organizations checking the pH levels of the hot tubs twice a day and also led to the...
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...The reading passage explains about how the zebra mussel population dominates other fresh water aquatic fishes and also how inexorable the mussel species. However, the lecturer refutes this and he uses other information and he says that the mussels can easily be controlled and the passage is exaggerating about the mussel. According to the professor the mussels were wouldn’t controlled because of lack of proper knowledge to deal with them. But now that’s not the case anymore. He explains that how zebra mussel population can be desisted across the European canal. The passage says that human transportation like ships are primary sources of invasion of mussels in the North American waters. As the ship uses Ballast water to balance the ship, the...
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...Some 30 to 40-plus years ago, the Port Hood Bees were a force to be reckoned with throughout Cape Breton hockey circles in both intermediate and senior competition. One such squad, the 1975-76 edition, captured the Maritime Intermediate “B” Hockey Championship. I chatted recently by telephone with the coach of that club, Brian “Coach” MacInnis. “The Port Hood Bees were started in the early 1970s by Dougie Gillis and Alex ‘Moose’ MacDonald. Gerard MacEachern was another spearhead guy,” said MacInnis, who is employed in the race-horse business in Ontario as well as sunny Florida during winter. Every summer, however, he makes it back to Port Hood for a one-month stay. “I played with the Bees for a while, but then I got hurt,” MacInnis told me. “I then took over coaching until just after we won that Maritime title in 1976. I then moved to Sydney to work. I wasn’t involved too much in hockey after that.” Interestingly, leading up to playoff competition that season, the Bees’ opposition consisted mainly of teams from various leagues throughout industrial Cape Breton and the mainland, not to mention a couple of Sydney high school squads. “There was no league for us to play in,” MacInnis recalled. “So we would bring in teams on weekends from Sydney, North Sydney, Glace Bay and Antigonish for exhibition games. We’d also travel there to play. We took in the Sydney Academy and Riverview high school teams coached by Dugga MacNeil and Bob MacKenzie respectively. Those schools had...
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...Toxic Algae in Lake Erie – There Appears to be More Questions Than Answers A Review of “Huge toxic algae bloom expected for Lake Erie: Blue-green algae feeding off phosphorus from farm fertilizer that runs into lake” INTRODUCTION Blue-green algae blooms continue to be a problem for the ecosystem of Lake Erie and Raj Bejankiwar, a scientist with the International Joint Commission, estimates that there is a 99% chance that algae will once again be an issue this summer. Blue-green algae remove the oxygen from the lake, which contributes to the deaths of other plant and animal life in the lake. Blue-green algae require phosphorus to survive and thrive, and phosphorus has become increasingly available due to the use of large amounts of fertilizer on farms and the subsequent run-off that enters Lake Erie. It is important for farmers to use soil tests and do as much as possible to retain the phosphorus in their soil with minimal leakage. However without laws in place, it is up to individual farmers to decide how they will contribute to decreasing the phosphorus waste. The article’s objective is to provide information on the cause of the blue-green algae boom and indicate certain ways to reduce the excess phosphorus that contributes to the large amount of algae in Lake Erie. REVIEW The article, targeted at a general audience, provided the basic information on the issue of blue-green algae and their necessary food source of phosphorus, focusing on fertilizer as the primary...
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...THE WUHAN ERIE POLYMERS JOINT VENTURE The Erie Performance Polymers division supervisor in China and general manager of Wuhan Erie Polymers joint venture, has quite recently gotten an approval for his request for transfer to divisional base camp in the United States. In setting up the division and joint enterprise for the change, a key choice concerns his successor. He has gotten data on six applicants under thought and realizes that his proposal will convey overwhelming weight in an official conclusion. The general chief has endeavored to instill in his Chinese workforce a thankfulness for Western business practices and capacity to institute them. In the meantime, recognizing their generous contrasts, he has attempted to blend components of both Chinese and Western qualities in making a distinct culture for the joint endeavor. He accepts emphatically that his successor must be receptive to the tensions between the significant societies. As he thinks about them, he ponders which competitor has the best arrangement of characteristics to succeed him as general manager. Name/age | Nationality | Language Skills | Functional Background | Strengths | Weaknesses | Boulanger/46 | French | French/English | | Intelligent, Energetic, experience in sales and marketing | Emotional, Quick Tempered, Chinese language | Deng/46 | Chinese | Chinese/Basic English | | Hard Working, Detail Oriented, conscientious | Believes in traditional Chinese approach towards management | Klemm/41...
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...The Erie Canal’s Change in America The Erie Canal, built in the 1800’s and finished by 1825, was not only an economic booster, but helped America fulfill Manifest Destiny, by being an easier path West. It helped to expand trade throughout the country and although it cost $7 million to make it brought shipping down. Written about by Jessie Hawley and largely supported by New York’s governor DeWitt Clinton, the canal changed America. The Erie Canal was a water railroad which built America up to become what it is today. The Erie Canal helped improve the economy and the shipping industry. Shipping cost $100 per ton before the canal opened. After, the cost of shipping dropped down 90% to only $10 per ton, increasing the amount of traffic...
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...Name- ABHISHEK WADHWA Student number-640048899 Wuhan Erie Polymers joint venture INTRODUCTION ERIE speciality chemicals was a company which is based in Cleveland, Ohio, which moved to china due to the key support provided by them in expanding their industrial capacity relating to chemicals. In order to expand its production in China performance polymers had merged with Wuhan plastics factory to form Wuhan Erie Polymers (WEP). Stanley Wong was the manager of the team that negotiated the joint venture and soon became general manager and then chairperson of the Joint venture. Though he was very pleased with his transfer back to Gary, he wasn’t finished yet. He wanted to nominate a successor who would take the company to another level. He was a great leader as he motivated his employees in many aspects and he had also created a unique culture between the Chinese and the western practices. Ans1) if I had to advice the organisation on who to succeed Wong then I would choose MR Henri Boulanger as he has been in the organisation for the past 16 years and he also has 24 years of work experience. Though he lacks Chinese skills he yet gets along well with his Chinese subordinates. He has also been very effective in his current position and he has also introduced certain techniques such as marketing and networking which is very important for any organisation. According to me due to his intelligence and energetic levels he would also be able to inculcate leadership and adapt...
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...Lake Erie Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Change Denise McSalters SCI 256 November 13. 2013 University of Phoenix Lake Erie Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Change Carved out by glaciers during the last ice age the Great Lakes contain 20% of the earth’s fresh water. The lakes provide the majority of the basin’s human population with drinking water, commerce and recreation. Lake Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes, relatively shallow, and is exposed to prevailing winds. Lake Erie ecosystem supports a diverse group of aquatic and land-dwelling organisms who use the ecosystem during important life stages. The lake support high production of both residential and migratory species and is a center for regional biodiversity. (US Department of the Interior; US Geological Survey, 2013) Because Lake Erie is exposed to prevailing winds, it is particularly susceptible to intense wave actions and wind-generated changes in the lake level. The “seiches” or changes in the lake tides interchangeably flood and drain the coastal wetlands systems. The costal wetland systems encompass southeastern Michigan, northwest Ohio and southern Ontario. The Watershed is almost completely urban or agricultural. The major urban cities are Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo. (US Environmental Protection Agency, 2013) The most obvious forcer of Lake Erie ecosystem change was due to the input of excessive amounts of phosphorus from mainly agriculture and water treatment plants. At...
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