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Answer two of the following questions, and respond to at least one other student’s post afterward for a total of at least 400 words.

1. According to Sternheimer, what is the larger issue behind focusing on or blaming media for various social problems? What does the author believe are the more important underlying issues? Why might politicians, the public, and the media itself be reluctant to discuss these issues, in your opinion?

2. Why does Sternheimer believe that social context is so important in understanding fears about media and popular culture? What are “moral panics,” and what examples of moral panics does she provide in 20th century music? Do you see examples of similar, current moral panics in American culture?

3. What is “agenda-setting theory,” and how does the media itself ironically stoke public fears about media influence on children? How might a constructionist approach to social problems provide us with a more nuanced understanding of the supposed “harm” of popular culture?

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Q1

According to chapter one, Sternheimer explains blaming media that televisions and video games are the cause of social problems can distract our attention from essential issues and causations. The largely contemporary issues she analyzes including education, violence, early pregnancies, poverty, and family instability. The most serious challenge American children face is poverty. The families don’t get enough benefit from their works. And, schools in poverty area are not safe and qualified. Kids are in danger. However, people ignore the real causation but attribute the issue to popular culture which is derived from media. In my opinion, politicians and the public don’t have the ability to solve these issues. Instead of looking at the cause of social problems, they are content to simply blame popular culture and media. So, the media will reluctant to discuss these issues to avoid unnecessary trouble.

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final Environmental Issues Project is due. Make sure that you have followed the requirements and made any corrections that were needed. Your final paper should address the following key points:

• The Controversy: Identify the controversy
• The Major Players: Who is involved? Why are they involved?
• Important Facts: State relevant facts concerning the issue. Try to separate fact from opinion. Try not to show your own bias. Properly use APA citations
• Side One: Arguments; state briefly and cite your sources
• Side Two: Arguments; state briefly and cite your sources
• Your Opinion and Rationale: I believe that… We should… I feel that… Use supporting arguments and rationale. What arguments would you use to present to those who disagree with you? Cite all of your sources.
• References: Alphabetize your sources. Make sure there are sources representing both sides of the issue.

You must use a minimum of six sources. The final paper should be a 6- to 8-page Word document with citations in APA format.

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The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

The purpose of the journal article titled The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon is to explore if the possibility of the preservation of the world is through wilderness. According to the author, William Cronon, wilderness is not what we may assume it to be and as a result wilderness is a human creation that does not stand apart from civilization. In other words, wilderness is influenced by the cultures and histories of humans that has in one form or the other been contaminated by some type of human development. Wilderness is also made of all the memories that a person gets while walking through a natural path in a natural environment, which are also influenced by a cultural creation. In the late eighteen century the word wilderness meant to be a savage, deserted, and waste (Cronon 8). The word wilderness has also been mentioned in the bible to referrer to the place where Moses wondered for forty years with his people. Wilderness in the early years also referred to a place where a person went against their own will with fear. It was also a landscape where supernatural activities occurred. For instance, God seemed to appear in the most sublime places where a person was reminded of their mortality (Cronon 10). These sublime places are now located in The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, and Zion because of the emotions that these places induced.

William Wordsworth, an early romantic writer and artist, described his sublime experiences in his poem The Prelude, which is based on the terror he felt while he crossed the Simplon Pass and climbed the Alps. Other writers, liked John Muir, captured the domesticated part of the sublime wilderness, which is extremely different than the writings of Wordsworth and Thoreaus. In Muir’s writings on the North Dome in Yosemite Valley, he describes the place as being a religiously connected without pain or fear. Although there are some differences in the way these writers chose to express their perception of wilderness, they all have one thing in common and that is that they are participating in the same cultural tradition of mankind’s myths. Mankind’s myths have caused Americans to protect their wilderness and national parks for the preservation of the nation’s important sacred myth (Cronon 14). The protection of these landscapes was influenced from the vanishing frontier lands that sparked Americans’ fears of losing their history. The vanishing frontiers caused American leaders, like President Roosevelt, to protect the wilderness landscapes from becoming wiped out. The vanishing frontiers in America also created strong nostalgic emotions that lead to the creation of frontier gender myths. In the frontier wilderness, for instance, men were able to be real men without civilization threatening their masculinity. This impacted people to remember the frontier as the greatest place in the history of America.

The years that followed the wiping out of the frontier, the rich community saw the wilderness as recreation places and places to travel to. The developments of these touristic places for the elites lead the Native America Indian population to be forced to move to other locations. In the eyes of Native American Indians, the myth of the wilderness being a virgin uninhabited land is seen with cruel eyes because their land was taken away for touristic purposes. This lead to the concept that the American wilderness is truly a myth because it has all been invented. There is no uninhabited wilderness in America that was not previously inhibited by Indians. In order for the wilderness myth to be perpetuated Indians were removed from their homes, which had also been the homes of their ancestors. This is a reminder of how invented the American wilderness concept really is because the actual history of the wilderness is denied.

Wilderness is meant to be a place of freedom in which a person can find their true self and also a place to come back to after living an artificial life. In other words, wilderness is the ultimate place for authenticity where a people can come and learn more about themselves. The problem with wilderness is that it can also be used as a place where a person comes to escape responsibilities and not take accountability for the past. In the long run, I found this journal article to be genuine and well thought out compared to the ideas of other writers. The author, William Cronon, did an excellent job in explaining the historical myth events that have led humanity to become separate from the wild environment. For instance, Thoreaus has approached wilderness as a spiritual place where human beings can come and heal. Cronon on the other hand, remained emotionally indifferent towards the spiritual and emotional opinions of wilderness. He instead wanted humankind to take responsibility for the separation that exists between cultures and wilderness.

Sources:

Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Enviromental History Vol 1 (1996): 7-28. Print.

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Question 1

You are an industrial hygienist conducting personal sampling on a worker who is overseeing a production process involving use of acetone (Note: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established a Permissible Exposure Limit of 1000 parts per million (ppm) of acetone). You are able to measure the following exposures:

700 ppm for 3 hours

1300 ppm for 2 hours

900 ppm for 3 hours

What is the calculated TWA? What would you tell plant management in terms of exposure to acetone and compliance with the PEL?

• there is a 200 word minimum response required.
• Credible reference materials, including your course textbook(s), may be used to complete the assessment.

Question 2

Please solve the following problem, indicating your response on a Word document and submitting the document via File Upload.

Using the following formula, solve the problem below, and show your work.

TWA = CaTa + CbTb + … + CnTn

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TWA      =             Time-Weighted Average

Ca           =             Concentration of contaminant during the sampling period “a”

Ta           =             Time of sampling period “a”

Cb           =             Concentration of contaminant during the sampling period “b”

Tb           =             Time of sampling period “b”

Cn           =             Concentration of contaminant during the sampling period “n”, where “n” is the last of a series of contaminants

Tn           =             Time of sampling period “n”

Note: All concentrations are in parts contaminant per million parts of air or milligrams of contaminant per cubic meter of air.

Air Sampling Problem: You are an industrial hygienist that is conducting personal sampling on a worker who is overseeing a production process involving use of toluene (Note: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established a Permissible Exposure Limit of 200 parts per million (ppm)). You are able to measure the following exposures:

500 ppm for 1 hour

100 ppm for 4 hours

225 ppm for 3 hours

What is the calculated TWA? What would you tell plant management in terms of exposure to toluene and compliance with the PEL?

• there is a 200 word minimum response required.
• Credible reference materials, including your course textbook(s), may be used to complete the assessment.

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REPLY TO EACH POST 50 WORDS MIN

1.  I decided to do my PowerPoint presentation on pesticides killing off honeybee populations and what various forms of mitigation exist, as well as what negative impacts this has in other areas of agriculture.

One thing I found very interesting and surprising in “duh” sort of way, was how many other insects contribute to the pollination of so many different flowering plants around the planet [1]. For example, not all pollinators fly. Ants can conduct pollen exchange by simply walking from flower to flower.

This also correlated to some of the other plants that can be affected negatively by either the current pesticides being used or what substitute is introduced.

2.  I wrote about oil and gas in Alaska as it is one of our biggest sources of state income and is also a large contributor to the environment. Until Deep Water Horizon, the Exxon Valdez spill was the largest oil spill in history. It was so impactful to the pristine waters and shoreline of this state and affected animals, people, the environment and there are still aspects of the environment that are still recovering.

One thing I found interesting while doing my research was that the price of oil in Alaska is consistently higher than places in the lower 48. Gas at the pumps is almost always at least $0.70 more than anywhere in the lower 48. Part of this is because there are different types of crude that get developed into different types of oil/gas. So Alaska doesn’t produce enough to sustain the entire state, so we have to coordinate with other refineries and that can drive the price of gas at the pump up. There are tons of other factors and there is so much to determining the cost per barrel, and etc. so it was very eye opening to get a glimpse into the complex world of oil.

3.  I did my presentation on the litter in WV and how we should address the problem.

I won’t be presenting y power point presentation.  I will leave you with the thoughts and knowledge that I have gained through the course contents as well as the  professor and all of you.  The idea of sustainability now more than ever should be our goal as a society.  These times we are living are truly unpredictable and this can effect our resources as well.  More than ever we should be looking to wind and solar, renewable sources of energy that in times like these can be accessed by individuals.  If anything this should prove even more how important it is to relieve ourselves from certain forms of energy.

I will now mere than ever begin to committ to a more earth friendly self sufficient life style.  The gardening the hunting and the search for a company to install solar panels.  We have decided to go all in with solar and look forward in seeing the benefits in the near future.

We are also committed to reducing our footprint by cutting our driving time and reducing our use of plastics.  Res usable sacks are going to be are main device when coming and going from the store.

Most of all I enjoyed learning that there are people like me out there.  Concerned and hopeful for the future.  We can turn the tide if we all just do a little something.  Maybe our actions will become a contagion and others will also join in.

4.  I am not sure if my week 7 power point presentation was exactly what was required. I did mine about how the Military’s lack of cleaning up their test sites in Alaska  has caused caused contaminated soil and water. Harming water quality, salmon habitats, and beluga whales populations. The left over bombs contaminated the ground with white phosphorus, lead, cobalt, chromium, beryllium, dinitrotolulene, RDX, and lindane killing wildlife and harming humans alike. What I learned from my research is that SUPERFUNDS doesn’t have the money or resources to needed to clean up all the sites contaminated, however they do find the previous owners of the sites and force them to pay for the clean up. So why isn’t the Military paying for the clean up of the sites they contaminated?

5.  I did my power point presentation on the air quality in Fairbanks Alaska. I know we went over air pollution so it seems like I chose an easy topic but it goes way more in depth than what we talked about. Considering that the air quality is one of the worse in the world I figured it was a big enough deal to warrant going over again. The biggest controversy on it, that most people don’t really see or consider, is that most of the pollution is caused by wood burning and that is what people use to heat their houses. So the solution seems pretty easy and right there it ends up coming down to letting people stay warm or  fixing the air quality. Since other heating sources are too expensive for a lot of people. Regulators are about to come in and just do whatever it takes to fix it despite that fact, since to them the state can’t get it under control themselves and to them the most important thing is getting the air within the set regualtions. It gets a lot more interesting the more research you do on it.

6.  While conducting my research on Eielson’s power plant, I came across some interesting articles that discussed more of why burning coal is so damaging to the environment.  I understood before that coal came from biomass that had been buried for eons, keeping the carbon they were made from contained in the earth.  This carbon gets released back into the air when it’s burned for energy.  What I did not understand, until this course what how long we are damaging that cycle.

I grew up playing and working in the woods and could see the cycle of trees growing, dying, decaying and creating new growth.  This cycle moves at a pretty rapid pace compared to the creation of coal from plants dying and being buried before they can decay and release their carbon back into the cycle.

I have seen drastic shifts in that cycle due to forest fires which makes the fact that we burn coal so much worse.  Forests can grow again, capturing some of that released carbon; however, it’s hard to imagine the amount of forest that would have to grow, die and be buried in the earth for us to recapture the carbon that has been released from our burning of coal.  I hope that renewable energy sources continue to improve and we can stop using coal for energy production.  If we stop, we can at least give nature a chance to recapture some of the damage we have caused and return more carbon back into the ground.

7.  Is it just me or did these eight weeks fly by? To be honest I was very skeptical about taking this class since I personally never enjoyed Science and was never good at it but I am glad I took this class. This class was enjoyable and we learned something new every week in regards to our environment and how we are slowly destroying it and the things we can do to improve it. For my week seven assignment I decided to discuss the air pollution in Los Angeles, California in which is always in the top 10 for worst air quality cities in the United States.

During my research, I came across astonishing numbers that were a result of the poor air quality. Some of these numbers included over 3,000 premature deaths for those over the age of 30, over 140,000 asthma attacks, over 400,000 days of lost work and many other issues (Jacquot, 2018). This is a major issue that I was not aware of and I am glad I took this class to bring it to my attention as well as others that were not aware of. I will attach my PowerPoint presentation and feel free to critique it so I know what I need to do to improve my PowerPoint/research skills. It was a pleasure taking this class with all of you and I wish you the best of luck in your future.

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