...Kirstie Hagmann Professor Holper English 1A 28 Sept. 2012 Water: The New Gold Rush Humboldt County, CA, is one of the last great frontiers on the West Coast. Framed by ancient redwoods, Humboldt boasts a wealth of rivers, forests, beaches and mountains. On the surface, it sounds like nature’s paradise. Dig a little deeper though, and you can still see the same elements of cruelty and greed that have characterized this area since the first settlers arrived, hoping to find gold, harvest lumber, or trap fish and game. In the present day, ruthless opportunists still lurk in the shadows of this rich and fertile land. Some are locals, seeking to line their pockets. Some are politicians, looking for support and voting advantages. All of the ruthless and lawless behavior that characterized the Gold Rush has now been dressed up in legal jargon, and underhanded maneuvers behind closed doors. Only this time, the greed for gold has become the greed for water, a natural resource of ever increasing value. The players may have changed, but the greed is just as ruthless as a gunfight in the Wild West. Take, for example, the Klamath River, one of six rivers in Humboldt County. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that “The Klamath River basin which covers 10.5 million acres in Southern Oregon and Northern California is home to six federally recognized tribes and several National Wildlife Refuges, Parks and Forests. The Klamath River has been the third largest producer...
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...Consequences of Mercury Pollution Coming in Contact with Mercury People can come in contact with mercury in a number of ways. There is increased risk of mercury exposure in the dental, health and chemical industries. People are also at risk of consuming an unsafe amount of mercury if they eat certain things in excess amounts, such as more than 6 ounces of albacore tuna per week, or over 12 ounces of fish like shrimp, canned tuna, salmon, pollock or catfish. Exposure to mercury can cause brain damage, kidney damage, lung damage and various digestive system problems (McCoy). Perhaps the person most vulnerable to mercury poisoning is the pregnant woman and her unborn fetus. Trauma caused to infants and children as a result of mercury exposure is exponentially worse than it would be an adult. In most cases, it causes severe nervous system problems. Exposure A EU study found that “between 1.5 and 2 million children in the EU are born each year with MeHg exposures above the safe limit of 0.58µg/g and 200,000 above the WHO recommended maximum of 2.5µg/g” (Sunderland). Exposure to MeHg in these amounts affects brain development. Stunted brain development leads to a lower IQ. A low IQ lessens one’s earning power. When just looking at the European Union, the consequences are of paramount importance. In the study, Prof Philippe Grandjean explained, "If we convert the effects of MeHg on developing brains into IQ points then the benefits of controlling MeHg pollution...
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...The roosters were crowing before darkness had faded in the riverside Dayak hamlet of Kunsali Patamuan in Kapuas Hulu district, West Kalimantan. Through the cracks of the timber walls in the 122 metre wide long-house, the faint sound of shuffling feet on squeaky floors penetrated to the compartments, as people went back and forth to the kitchens at the back of each living quarter. Not long afterwards, the clattering of tin kettles and stirring of teaspoons could be heard right, left and centre. The long-house was awakening. The village of Malapi is one of the home villages of the Tamans, a sub group of the Iban Dayak. There are about 6000 Tamans in all, their community spread through about a dozen villages in Kapuas Hulu. The village of Malapi is one of them, and consists of a string of four hamlets, one of which is Kunsali Patamuan, and six long-houses. Each long-house lodges between 20 and 40 family units. All are close to the river which runs through the village. Our particular long-house was only recently relocated here as the ever-moving Kapuas river bed had turned its erosive powers right up to the front of the old long-house. The old site had to be abandoned. An increasing rate of riverbank erosion is one of the environmental problems facing this community as a result of upstream logging, both legal and illegal. Every family living in the old long-house builds their own compartment or bilik, and it might take ten years or more before all are completed. The wood used in...
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...Impact: California Gold Rush The Gold Rush of Yesterday and Its Effect on the Environment Today The California Gold Rush of 1848 produced more than a just a fever for the fortune seekers. It also produced an impact upon the environment whose effects can still be witnessed today. In 1848 the call went out across the nation, there is gold in Sutter’s Mill. As the word spread settlers and immigrants began their long treks across the plains and from far foreign lands across the seas to California. Up until the discovery of gold, much of the Californian lands had been unsettled. Between the years 1848 and 1866 some 350,000 emigrants had traveled to California in search of their fortune.1 This massive influx of such a vast number of people placed a huge burden upon the land and resulted in the dishevel of its indigenous people. As the population rapidly increased so did the need for food, water, and shelter. The requirements placed upon the land by its new population were great. The natural wildlife of the area was quickly over hunted for their meat and furs. The rivers were over fished and huge forests were clear cut to provide the demand of construction materials in support of structures and dwelling. In the lower lands trees were cut to clear land needed for farming and to provide fuel material to the mines. Natural water ways were redirected and damned to support the mining efforts. These changes only further exasperated the dwindling fish and fresh water supply...
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...Gold Mining with Cyanide REPORT ON I-147 Repeal of the Ban on Cyanide Heap Leaching in Gold Mining WHAT IS CYANIDE AND WHAT DOES IT DO IN THE ENVIRONMENT Cyanide is a general term, referring to various specific cyanide compounds. Cyanide (CN) itself is a simple, organic anion (negatively charged ion) consisting of carbon and nitrogen. Despite often-heard references to “pure cyanide,” it actually exists only as an anion, so is only a component of other compounds. Even though cyanide is a poison, trace amounts of cyanide compounds occur naturally in our bodies and in many foods. Even over a lifetime of exposure, trace amounts pose no threat to human health. Cyanide does not build up in the body. The liver removes it. As one might expect, cyanide compounds are used in certain herbicides. But some common drugs—including the pain reliever ibuprofen and the anti-inflammatory agent naproxen—also contain cyanide compounds, or are derived directly from them. Today, U.S. chemical manufacturing industries consume more than 10 times the amount of cyanide compounds than are used in domestic gold mining to manufacture products like nylon and other polyamides, acrylics and certain plastics. Cyanide compounds are also used to harden steel and to electroplate copper and precious metals. Cyanide heap leach solutions are very alkaline because at a ph of 8 or below CN vaporizes into the air. In the air, the poison is quickly dispersed and would only be dangerous in a very small area close to the...
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...The Call of the Wild is an example of one of these prolific works. Jack London illustrates his life experiences and the history surrounding him in The Call of the Wild, all while using elements of realism to highlight the sense of believability. In the 1890s, the time period in which The Call of the Wild is set, many movements were were going on throughout America. The most monumental of these movements was the Gold Rush. According to Charlotte Gray, a historian about the Gold Rush, America had just survived a depression and many were rendered poor. The poor Americans went west in hopes of finding...
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...Summary (100 words) change grammar later In the story, when the happy prince was alive, he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. However, when he died, he saw all the misery of the city on a tall column as a statue. A swallow who came from afar stays with the statue of the happy prince and helped the poor with the ruby, the sapphires and the gold covering of the happy prince upon the happy prince’s request. At the end, the swallow died frost. The heart that was made of leaden of the happy prince also broke. Paragraph 3: 150 words. Change grammar later The statue of the Happy Prince in the story symbolized that outward beauty was nothing; it was just a show. The real beauty was the love and sacrifice. The Happy Prince had a lead heart, but this heart was full of sympathies for the poor and the needy. He sacrificed his eyes and beauty just to help them. Now without his eyes and gold covering, he looked so ugly that he was sent to furnace to melt. He lost outward beauty, but with sacrifice and love, he achieved spiritual beauty. God was pleased with him. After his death, he was taken to the city of gold where he would praise God forever. Moreover, personified as a human, the statue illustrated the devotion he had for...
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...The exploitation of the Caribbean landscape dates back to the Spanish conquistadors around 1600 who mined the islands for gold which they brought back to Spain. The more significant development came when Christopher Columbus wrote back to Spain that the islands were made for sugar development. The history of Caribbean agricultural dependency is closely linked with European colonialism which altered the financial potential of the region by introducing a plantation system. Much like the Spanish who enslaved indigenous Indians to work in gold mines, the seventeenth century brought a new series of oppressors in the form of the Dutch, the English, and the French. By the middle of the eighteenth century sugar was Britain's largest import which made the Caribbean that much more important as a colony. Colonialism has been regarded as a significant and common experience that has been reflected on Caribbean people of today’s culture and values, based on the events and circumstances that occurred during the 16th ,17th and 18th century . A great example of colonial influence that has been made part of the Caribbean culture is food. Everything in Caribbean culture displays this forced adaptation and the influence of several cultures mingling, from the time of slavery and the days of early settling. Caribbean food, for instance, features salted and preserved meat and fish, dried peas and beans, chili peppers and pastries of various kinds, all of them dating back to the days of sailing ships...
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...of which can be seen all over the Caribbean today. The Arawaks came to the Caribbean from the Orinoco region to Trinidad then spread through the Caribbean. They were of average height, well-shaped and slightly built. They generally wore no clothes except for the married ladies who wore a cotton loin cloth (nagua). It was a common custom for them to do body printing, they would paint their faces, eyes and noses. They wore embellishments made of gold, or an alloy of gold and copper (guanine) in their noses. Tainos, as they called themselves, had organized societies where they lived in villages, carved wood, made pottery, wove cotton and practised religion based on respect for nature and their ancestors which was directed by priests or shamans. They hunted, fished and also planted crops especially cassava in amounts which were adequate for their families. Various types of fish, shellfish, turtle and manatee were consumed. These were captured with nets, hooks made of bones and harpoons; the turtles were caught with a remora (sucker fish). Small animals like the agouti, utia and iguana were hunted with the assistance of the alcos (small dogs that could only growl). Pineapples, mamme apples, star apples, naseberries, guava and cashews are some of the fruits that they consumed. The Arawaks were exceptional farmers, this was exhibited in their process of planting corn where the grains were first soaked then planted in rows. Root crops like the cassava, sweet potato and ground...
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...Endangered Species Act The Endangered Species Act is a federal law that protects endangered species and threatened species from becoming extinct (dying out).Some individuals may think the Endangered Species Act would not make a difference to today's current society. Should the Endangered Species Act still exists after 10 years ? Generally speaking, the endangered Species Act should still exists because it’s gonna have a huge impact later on for our future generations. One main reason for the endangerment of certain species is because of poachers. The main things poachers are mainly know for is hunting illegally and selling animals parts that are illegal to hunt. Poachers have also killed aproxximentky...
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...struggle of the California Clapper Rail is decidedly real. Many people don’t know that the California Clapper Rail, or Ridgway’s Rail, is a prime example of the victims of habitat destruction in the bay. Though driven to the brink of extinction by the miners of the Gold Rush, the Rails have been coming back lately and their numbers are recovering. However their progress to normalcy as a species is disrupted by the various factors, including non-native predators, a plant called Spartina, and destroyed habitats. The Rails’ disappearance is impacting the food chain and other native animals’ lives. Background California clapper rails have been endangered for quite a while. Their current state is mostly caused by...
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...The men in the Islamic societies are responsible for taking care of the family’s needs such as getting food while the women take care of the house and prepare the food. For example, in “The Story of the Fisherman” the fisherman goes out every day to fish. (Lane et al., The Fisherman) In return, his family will have the opportunity to eat fish, and he would also be able to sell the fish and use the gain to his advantage. Trading is a very important concept in the Islamic society. Merchants trade throughout the surroundings countries. (Lane et al., Merchant and the Jinni) There are many different things that the society traded. For example, the trading of brass in the copper market. (Lane et al., The Fisherman) Gold in the society is used as the currency, and things with the seal of Lord Suleyman is considered valuable. In the society, iron is not considered valuable, and it is dreaded to receive iron. (Lane et al., The Fisherman) This shows how the Islamic society’s trading system and valuable vary greatly with other...
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...Medium of Exchange - a commodity that is valued and demanded for its own use, before becoming used as money. • Store of Value - a benefit of money - being able to store the products of our labor. • Unit of Account - another benefit - being able to make business calculation. 5. How money originated At first people traded directly one good for another - barter economy. Then some goods were used as medium of exchange to obtain other goods - indirect exchange. Today we are still using a sophisticated form of indirect exchange. 6. Barter exchange Barter means that one good is directly exchanged for another. For example, a fisherman may exchange a bucket of fish for 50 eggs. Limitations are that the scope of goods to trade for is very limited. For instance, it can be harder to find a willing buyer for a violin than bread. And the time of trade is limited - I can not be sure that my fresh fish will be demanded in the future. 7. Indirect exchange Money allowed to trade a wider variety of goods. Now a violin maker could exchange his violins for money and then buy whatever he needed. He no longer had to convince a shoe-maker to trade shoes for violin. Money could be saved for later use, for a better trade opportunity. Thus freeing up time for innovation and specialization - resulting in...
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...19 | Executive Summary In this report, we used Best Fit model in Hong Kong Gold Coast Hotel. This report provides analysis and evaluation to measure an F&B manager’s performance in the hotel and provides the relevant rewards. We suppose the F&B manager is a man. We analysis the internal and external situation for the hospitality industry to find out the opportunities and threats to see that how our hotel can get the benefit through the opportunities. Then we have the job analysis to formulate what employee is suitable for the position, so we decide to draft the job description and job requirements. According to the job analysis, we have to set some standard to measure the employee’s performance. After that we use different appraisal methods to evaluate the employee and give some rewards to him based on his performance. Chapter 1. Introduction Our objective is using the performance management program to increase the F&B manager’s performance and enhance the performance of F&B department to catch the opportunities that we found in situational analysis of best fit model to increase the company’s competitive advantage to achieve the company’s goals. The Hong Kong Gold Coast Hotel is the city's foremost 5-star beach resort hotel and conference center which was developed by Sino Group and completed in 1993. The development occupies an idyllic location adjacent to the Gold Coast Marina and Yacht Club, and is set amid 10 acres of beautifully landscaped lush...
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...Over the course of many years mermaids and sirens have been combined into one character. Originally mermaids were half human half fish creature and sirens were half human half bird who sing to lure sailors to their death. In many movies, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, mermaids and sirens are combined into one creature. In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, characters refer to mermaids as a half human half fish creature that sing to lure sailors to their death. I am using this mermaid/siren creature as an example of a siren, since they have sired characteristics. My archetype is temptresses in greek mythology. The difference between greek mythologies and the movies trademark characteristics is their form. In greek mythology Sirens are half human and half bird and in the movie Sirens are half human half fish. This affects their setting as well....
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