American Droughts Book Review

In the article, “Decade of drought”by Anne Capeci and “Drought reports” they both discuss the effects of droughts and use photo graphs to show evidence that droughts are everywhere to begin “decade of droughts” explains how people have no water.for example in Africa they had no fresh water. Without water livestocks will die and wild animals will die from hunger and dehydration additionally the article continues to explain about drought through pictures for example they use pictures to show about what was affected by the drought Capeci reports destructive wildfire are common during droughts in southwest some say that Johnson's article is better but most people would agree that her information to tell about the drought.

In the two short stories “Drought” by Roz Spafford, and “The Provincials”, by Daniel Alarcon, there is one common problem; a drought. In the story “Drought” it is a literal drought causing survival difficulties between a married couple, Chrissie and Clay, and their baby. It continues to get tough between the couple as they distance themselves from one another slowly falling apart. In “The Provincials” however there is a metaphorical drought in a Mexican town, where the father Manuel used to live and the son, Nelson the aspiring actor, lives and the residents lack the necessities to improve their lives while corruption attacks any generation that follows. The lack of essential necessities in “Drought” signifies death while the metaphorical drought in “The Provincials” leaves the town with no money or opportunity signifying causing hopeless lives.

During the 1930’s the southern part of the Great Plains of the United States of America was affected by a severe drought

I would like to make an assessment based on The Largest Drought in American History: Funding for Science is Drying Up article. The article tried to arouse the public’s attentions on the current situation that government funds for science research is shrinking. As a result of this shrinkage of funding, the science area is facing multiple difficulties. As was mentioned by authors LaBeaud AD and McKeating H as an example , the funding for neglected tropical diseases and other areas of areas of science has failed to keep up with the inflation rates for years, and this relative shrinkage of financial input to the raising costs has delayed progresses of researches. Other consequences such as lacking of budget to support new scientists, lacking of training of the scientists in all level, and the increased career uncertainties of being scientists are also

Some places have a greater chance of drought, like California, Southeastern United States, sub-Saharan Africa, and Australia. Droughts are difficult to predict. In fact, the usually tropic parts of the Amazon river basin were struck by drought in 2005. Some regions are more likely to have droughts than other areas, including the Midwest and South of the United States.

Michael Schroeder, health editor and staff writer at U.S. News, an online news provider and book publisher, discusses the possible health risks that are related to the drought happening in the West Coast. Schroeder introduces the article’s topic by stating that although most believe drought mainly affects land and water, it also holds a great impact over air quality. Schroeder explains that air quality is decreasing as the amounts of forest fires increase, leading to the rising production of pollutants, such as carbon dioxide. Using research collected by the American Lung Association (ALA), Schroeder illustrates how inhaling these harmful substances allows these dirty particles to enter the lungs, which may later result in respiratory issues,

In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis charts the unprecedented human suffering caused by a series of extreme climactic conditions in the final quarter of the 19th century. Drought and monsoons afflicted much of China, southern Africa, Brazil, Egypt and India. The death tolls were staggering: around 12m In the 19th century, however, drought was treated, particularly by the English in India, as an opportunity for reasserting sovereignty. A particular villain was Lord Lytton, son of the Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton ("It was a dark and stormy night...") after whom, today, a well-known bad writing prize is named. During 1876 Lytton, widely suspected to be insane, ignored all efforts to alleviate the suffering of millions of peasants in the Madras region and concentrated on preparing for Queen Victoria's investiture as Empress of India. The highlight of the celebrations was a week-long feast of lucullan excess at which 68,000 dignitaries heard her promise the nation "happiness, prosperity and welfare and over 6m Indians in 1876-1878 alone. The chief culprit, according to Davis, was not the weather, but European empires, with Japan and the US. Their imposition of free-market economics on the colonial world was tantamount to a "cultural genocide". Lytton believed in free trade. He did nothing to check the huge hikes in grain prices, Economic "modernization" led household and village reserves to

Frank and Mustard gather the historical information from the sixteenth century and note that the authorities during this period recognized that famines were “man-made rather than natural disasters” not because food was not available but because of the lower classes inability to obtain it or “gain access to it” (p.3). The state interfered, which angered farmers, producers, and merchants and contributed to the grievance against Charles I and the Civil War. The Tutor-Stuart program of food relief, this policy change subjected England to nearly two centuries of periodic famines, food riots because of distribution and not production (p.4).

To relief the systemic problem of over-production in Capitalism, the bourgeoisie has to conquest new market—the world market. For example, British created the East-India Company to trade with Indians and Chinese. The global economic exchange brought about social changes in non-capitalism country. The cheap prices of the British commodities attract huge demands overseas while destroy the outdated framework of society in the market.(p.69) For the capitalists, the American colonies and East and South Asia, are good place to pour their over-produced commodities. For the people native to the less-developed or even barbarian nation, such commodity invasion is a real “suffer”. In the British rule of India, Marx reviewed the British intruders blew up the entire economic basis in India. However, the obsolete union of agriculture and manufacturing economy is doomed to die. The capitalists, although drove by interest, caused a social revolution in India unintentionally.() Like in India, capitalism spread over the world, devastating the old and self-sufficient economy system in secluded nation and enforcing the more advanced and inter-dependent economic system. (p.69) China, for instance, isolated itself from the rest of world in Qing dynasty by opening just one port Canton to foreign trade. The British capitalists, unsatisfied with the status quo and anxious to win more market, launched the British Opium War in China. Chinese defeat

In this chapter “ Capitalism and Industrial revolution” talks about how it expanded across the Europe and many other countries. The section I am going to address is Asia and the Industrial revolution and how it became about. In this section, it describes how the British took over India to make Britain more Industrialized. The author analyzes how was India technology superior to Britain's. Also, he discusses How was India more industrially advanced than capitalistic. Was the British benefit of the capitalism , industry ?

As Trivedi begins to discuss the importance of global trade in the first chapter, the reader is given a basic background of India’s economic development first through the Dutch East India company and then later Britain’s rule of the country. What she provides is the historical narrative common to colonial rule and domination of a country and its resources. Like other countries who experienced English rule under the crown, India remained in the clutches of Britain’s control until a full Indian parliament was strong enough to take the lead of India. Millions of Indians refused to remain under the rule of British systems which controlled nationwide extraction of raw materials. Hand spun fabrics and clothing produced by local cottage shops which supplied the British markets with their goods, were cut off.

The British government opened soup kitchens to “distribute free food” (Kinealy, Death-Dealing Famine 9). She stated that this intervention directly addressed the problem of starvation, and many people, over three million, were fed on a daily basis (Kinealy, Death-Dealing Famine 9). Although the soup kitchens did provide free food, the government was unable to sustain that aid, because it only lasted for a very brief period of time (Kinealy, Death-Dealing Famine 9). Therefore, the aid did not last long enough for it to be considered an improvement on social conditions in Ireland. Also, we must consider that the government stopped previous relief works before they opened the soup kitchens. According to Mary E. Daly, relief works were closed in March, and soup kitchens were opened in May (Daly 133). In that gap, many people suffered and died from starvation, since they lacked any relief from the government (Ferriter 15). This government intervention was poorly planned and did not improve the social conditions in Ireland. Although the soup kitchens did eventually feed a large amount of people, it must be taken into account the just as great amount of people that died, due to the lack in planning on the government’s part, by terminating relief projects before instating another.

1Kings 17 gives an inside look of what it is like living in Israel during tough economic times, specifically for the widow. For three years Israel experiences a drought. During the drought, Elijah encounters a widow living outside of the city of Zarephath who is suffering from the drought. Both she and her son are at the brink of death because of the limited resources they have during the drought. In the end the widow learns a lesson in sharing her limited resources despite her sound reason of preserving both herself and her son. Although it is considered wise to preserve self, when the vulnerable consider to share their resources with others that are in need, the LORD will sustain them and have enough.

You are sitting reading a book; you are walking down the street. The writer is telling you what to do. By using second person the author manages to place “you”, the reader, wherever they desire. In “The Drought” by Leigh Gallagher, the author makes the choice to have the story written in second person point of view. By making this choice the audience is immediately placed in the story and it creates a sense of involvement since they experience it first hand. Through the world, Gallagher slowly unveils her true motive behind her conversation to Paul. The reader is lured in and kept as a stand in for Paul because of the shared humanity that exists between the characters presented and the reader themselves. Gallagher also shows parts of the world

Annually, many countries undergo the experience of natural disasters including: floods, droughts, typhoons, earthquakes, forest fires and volcanic explosions. Even with today 's advanced science and technology, people cannot control them. The causes and effects of droughts are of as much importance as well as possible solutions for dealing with droughts should they occur: as goes the old adage,’ know thy enemy’. A drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry length of time with in a region, where there is not enough water to support healthy growth of plants, and a sustainable water supply, and is heavily influenced by climatic regimes. Drought brings impact on people as well as on nature, such as New Zealand being particularly affected economically as the dairy industry suffers in these events as the grasses wither and dry. The effects ' of a drought event on nature as well as people carries potential for catastrophe; these catastrophes can form effects that combine with other hazards such as landslides or wild fires to create further devastation. Exploring the relationship between climate change and drought particularly will be of interest in order to reveal potential future scenarios and what to expect should current expectations on these events change in time.