Getting Into Character Assignment As Terry Mcafree

Every morning when I wake up, I hear the morning bird’s call and the running of the stream. When I’m camping, I wake up around five in the morning. When I step outside, my mom already has my hot cocoa ready, my dad has made breakfast, and there is a chair by the fire with my name on it. Seriously, I sewed my name on my chair, so it literally has my name on it. Sometimes when we’re out camping, my mom let’s us have cookie dough for breakfast. It’s not the healthiest thing to have for breakfast, but it does give us a lot of energy when we’re hiking.

In her essay “The Obligation to Endure”, Rachel Carson alerts the public to the dangers of modern industrial pollution. She writes about the harmful consequences of lethal materials being released into the environment. She uses horrifying evidence, a passionate tone, audience, and the overall structure of her essay to express to her readers that the pollution created by man wounds the earth. There are many different ways that pollution can harm the environment, from the nuclear explosions discharging toxic chemicals into the air, to the venomous pesticides sprayed on plants that kills vegetation and sickens cattle. The adjustments to these chemicals would take generations. Rachel

Jobs and protecting the environment, important or not? George Will wrote his essay, “What Price Clean Air?” to convey the message that most of the Navajo Nation run and work at the power plants in Arizona, but as the growing change in protecting the environment, those Native Americans are forced to alter their livelihoods. George Will directs his essay to the American people, to persuade them to help find a change. Using the best equipment and spending billions of dollars on new technology may be affected by the uncertain environmental movement. With ethos, logos, and pathos, George Will effectively uses the rhetorical devices to convey his argument about the social and economic damage brought on by the federal government.

Homer Hickam thoroughly details much of his childhood and early to late adolescents in his novel “We Are Not Afraid.” Outlined in 4 parts where Hickam details the positive aspects of surviving and making a living working the coal mines. We Are Not Afraid primarily follows working-class Caucasian men, outlining both the positive and negative aspects during this time. As a whole, the novel’s purpose is to turn a disheartening time in history into a time full of pride and happiness. Similar to the memoir Warriors Don’t cry, by Melba Beals, a strong religious atmosphere is present. Coal Miners realize their job is exceptionally dangers, and anticipate the end of their lives. In today's society death is not as prevalent, but it is essential to take death into consideration.

According to mom, Dad thought all I was good for was working there as a clerk” (Hickam 45). Sonny realizes his father thinks nothing of him and only expects him to live upto the norm in their society. His mom tells him that no matter what he does, he needs to prove to his worth to his dad and proves that he belongs with everybody. The mine’s cruelty firmly describes the importance to its residents. It represents their daily hard work and desire to make a living and to support their families. The mine, essential to the residents, holds the town together. Many people get the chance to work for the mine, but they simply do not meet the standards while working. As the superintendent, Sonny’s dad bears the duties of announcing the men whose services are futile to the mine. In Chapter 4, Sonny’s dad makes the announcements that could possibly change the lives of some men forever. “Twenty-five men were cut off from the company. The phrase was apt. Not only were the men separated from their work, they were cut off from their homes, credit at the company stores, and identification as a Coalwood citizen. The miners cut off were required to leave their houses within two weeks” ( Hickam

Are you for coal or against coal? Maybe better yet, are you for the preservation of the mountains and nature or are you against it? These questions held such a deep meaning and understanding that on the surface seemed immaterial to large corporations such as the Coal Mining Industry or political leaders within the State of West Virginia. Combating Mountaintop Removal by Bryan McNeil gives us the views of what it looks like from a grassroots environmental activist within the West Virginia coal country. In the book you see how the social and moral arguments are framed from different agents such as the Ant-MTRM (Mountain top removal) organization, the Coal Miners and Union works, to the Coal Mining Companies, and finally the State through political

Topic: This story is mainly about children who lived in towns with coal mines and what their life was like.And how the coal mines affected them.

In the bestselling memoir Rocket Boys by Homer (Sonny) Hickam, the setting, Coalwood, Virginia, is an important role in Sonny’s story. Coalwood is a small mining town that had a culture and common beliefs of its own because all of the residents had family members that worked for Olga Coal Company, which provided their houses and furniture. Everybody in Coalwood expected that as kids graduate from high school, they go to work in the mine. When Sonny started building rockets, it was a nuisance to the town because everybody (except his mother) believed he would only ever grow up to work in the mine, and “It didn’t take long before every missing thing in town was blamed on ‘those rocket boys’” (Hickam 146). Coalwood and its people were not supportive

Anthracite coal mining consisted of differing levels of skill and precision that could be lucrative depending upon the miner’s luck. A coal miner would be lucky to find steady employment, or to even survive to the day’s end. The procedures involved in preparing the coal from the mines to the shipping was filled with dangers that led the “industry” as “one of the world’s most hazardous.” Mine owners to maintain “overhead costs” and keep mine workers in the industry, would tactfully engage in underemployment. This left workers in state of constant need for more work, or higher wages to offset working part-time. These Anthracite miners were largely paid more than the average miner, but

Mining has historically been one of the most important industries in West Virginia. It’s so important to us. Miners are strong, tough, hardworking people who work or has worked in dangerous conditions. It’s difficult to imagine the miners didn’t see the possibility of an explosion every day they went to work in the mines. Perhaps they did and they still went, aware of the possibility but going anyway because their families needed to eat.

In the “NAACP Press Release” on November 16, 2012, members of the NAACP and its supporters express the eminent danger facing families surround coal-fired power plants. Many health issues have arisen in these areas such as asthma, bronchitis, heart conditions and birth defects according to the NAACP. NAACP President and CEO stated that “children are getting sick, grandparents are dying early, and mothers and fathers are missing work.”

This story shows us that greed and wealth blinds many of the priceless factors that come along with the decisions that are made. To the coal company the land was an opportunity to grow their business and distribute coal, a major necessity to the world. However, to the residents and visitors of the area, the land was sentimental and memorable for them and could not be replaced. Although the coal company could possibly be highly profitable, the moral choice in my opinion would have been to tend to the citizens majority requests to operate around their cherished landmarks or to find a new location.

The dump prior to a massive dump fire served as home and work for thousands of families and individuals. Those who inhabited the toxic dump made it their home, source of income, and meals on which they survived. Some of the more fortunate who depended on the dump for income lived in tattered settlements surrounding the dump, built by the trash collected. Life in the dump on the account of one resident was a “living hell”.

I strongly believe that people should be educated about the December, 1907 3,000 coal mining deaths. In 2001 there were 42 coal mining deaths. All these deaths meant wives loosing husbands and sons. These deaths cause the lost of the bread winners in many house-holds; which, would later add to poverty and single parents.

I wake up every day before sunrise. All men are required to hunt for food, we start as early as twelve years old, I have been doing this for six years now. Trust me when I tell you the only way to get out of it is if you 're on the brink of death. The women can either work at what 's left of the factories during the day making hunting and farming equipment, or teach classes to girls and boys about what is and isn 't safe in the forest. Hunting is finished at sundown then we head over to the factories for a proper shutdown. Hunting is the utmost importance, without the woods and rivers my family and the townspeople will die.