Ai Weiwei More than just an artist; political activist‚ sculptor‚ photographer‚ and architect Ai Weiwei merges traditional techniques and imagery with personal experience in order to show his tumultuous relationship with the Chinese government. “He Xie‚” an installation of thousands of porcelain crabs. They are (not too carefully) arranged in a large circle piled up on one another. The individual objects become one pile which makes them virtually indistinguishable from each other. The piece is
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In January 2012‚ the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released their Preliminary Data for the Leading Causes of Death in the United States. Their report showed that cancer is ranked at number two once again. As cancer rates remain high‚ it becomes increasingly important to understand what kinds of carcinogens‚ or cancer-causing agents‚ are around us‚ and how much they impact us. The known carcinogens that are well documented in terms of cancer death rates include smoking‚ alcohol consumption
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apart from increased thyroid cancers‚ "there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure 20 years after the accident." * Resettlement of areas from which people were relocated is ongoing. The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture
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The night of December 2‚ 1984 could have been like any other night in Bhopal‚ but around 11:00 PM‚ one of the world’s largest industrial tragedies in history decimated the city and scarred its inhabitants for life. Imagine the feeling of waking up in the middle of the night‚ unable to breathe‚ eyes burning‚ and chaos erupting in streets. Death and disarray in every place you look and life as you know it ending in agonizing flooding of your lungs as they collapse in upon themselves. This terrible
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result of this tragic chemical disaster on the night of 2-3rd December 1984. Half a million people were exposed to the gas and 20‚000 have died to date as a result of their exposure. More than 120‚000 people still suffer from ailments caused by the accident and the subsequent pollution at the plant site. These ailments include blindness‚ extreme difficulty in breathing‚ and gynecological disorders. Moreover‚ the Bhopal Disaster is claimed as the worst industrial disaster in history. 01. Cause
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Francisco Avila Composition 2 Essay #2 Rough draft Some Things to Improve Our Community Are There are some things that we can to do to improve our community. A lot of people think that the city council is who should be in charge of improving the community. They have reasons‚ but to have better results the neighbors and the city council must work as a team. The most important things that we should do to improve our community is create an assembly of neighbors‚ create some civil teams‚ and
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The 2011 Tohoku Pacific Coast Earthquake or more commonly referred as the ‘3/11’ disaster; first began as an undersea earthquake‚ off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Then‚ the submarine earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0‚ transformed to a 15-meter tsunami waves (Akira‚ 2013). In the blink of an eye‚ the east coast of Japan‚ especially Sendai was engulfed by the massive tsunami waves‚ and led to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants. In the documentary
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welding equipment‚ plastics‚ industrial chemicals‚ pesticides‚ and marine products. Their pesticide plant in Bhopal gained worldwide attention as a result of the disaster. At the time of the disaster UCIL was ranked twenty-first in size among companies operating in India‚ with revenues of 2
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Climate Disaster Tucked away in the vast Alaskan wilderness only assessable by boat or plane‚ lays the state capital‚ Juneau. This isolated town‚ and the people born and raised in it have seen a sight that many people can’t fathom. Many Americans see the world climate change‚ but don’t take action because they have not seen the major effects of it. Being born and raised in Juneau‚ Alaska I have sadly seen over a dozen glaciers recede at a rapid rate‚ each year being a record-breaking year. Years
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Landslides The landslides are simply defined as the mass movement of rock‚ debris or earth down and have to include a broad range of motions whereby falling‚ sliding and flowing under the influence of gravity dislodges earth material. They often take place in conjunction with earthquakes‚ floods and volcanoes. The Himalayan Mountain‚ the north-east hill ranges and the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris experience considerable landslide activities of varying intensities. Also called landslip; Downward
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