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Native Americans Environmental Racism
1,110 wordsNative Americans: 500 years of Racism and Oppression "In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. " This little saying is something that I'm sure we all learned as children, to help us remember the year that Columbus discovered America. However, Columbus did not discover America, it has been here as long as Spain, England, and the rest of the countries in the world at that time. Although not as nearly technologically advanced as the countries of Europe, the Native America...
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Individual Or Group Environmental Racism
1,531 wordsCommunities are not all created equal. Have you ever heard of or considered the concept of Environmental Racism and what role it plays in the lives of Afro-Americans? I presume your answer is no. Well then, have you ever wondered why so many housing projects, which are majority Black occupied, are located near industrial parks? I presume you havent even noticed. Well, I have. Growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, I often visited my older cousin who resided in the Red Hook Housing...
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction Negative Influence
2,564 wordsEco feminism Eco feminism is the term that connects concepts of ecology and feminism. Ecology is the study of environmental systems and of human influence on the good functioning of natural communities. Human inappropriate and unlimited use of natural resources had resulted into the pollution of soil, water, and air, which caused the extinction of various animals and plants. However, ecology is not only limited to the factors of pollution, but also includes the research on population. People sta...
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Individual Or Group Development Of An Individual
1,273 wordsEveryday, seven-year-old Juan Santiago leaves his small, dirty apartment for his walk to school. On the way through his predominantly African-American and Hispanic neighborhood he passes a toxic waste site and later, a landfill. On the other side of town, young Kelly Johnson leaves her large, comfortable house on her way to her bus stop. On her way through her predominantly White neighborhood she passes a few oak trees and some shrubbery. What is wrong with this picture? Environmentalism is defi...
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People Of Color Present And Future
2,169 wordsThe Non-ethical Practice of Environmental Racism To begin with, a definition of environmental justice is necessary. This may be accomplished quite well by using &oclc; The Principles of Environmental Justice&our; . They contain 17 principles &oclc; drafted and adopted&our; in Washington, D. C. on the 24 th through the 27 th of October 1991 by delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. 1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecologica...
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Middle Class Families Don T Care
432 wordsThere is a political theory of justice that was created by John Rawls that states, that all rational members of society in the original position should make decisions. Rawls called this method as a? veil of ignorance. ? This is used as an instrument to make decisions in developing local projects. In the United States there is a spectacle called Nimbyism, which stands for Not-In-My-BackYard. This is when a group of a local community members protest about developments or a certain development in t...
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