Rock Salt

When dealing with glass objects such as a glass beaker or thermometer, be sure to hold the item. In instances where glass is broken during the experiment, do not clean up the area yourself! Notify your instructor immediately.

The 1954 film Salt of the Earth directed by Herbert J. Biberman, is set in New Mexico and is about the Hispanic miners working for Delaware Zinc, a mining company, and the plot of the movie is about how the miners go on strike till they are treated equally the same as the other non-Hispanic miners. The miners’ strike goes on for months and the company decides to hold out on the workers by scaring the old workers with new miners to take their jobs, and during that time the wives of the miners decided to take it upon themselves to put themselves on the frontlines with the men because the women are also fighting for something else sanitation. News gets out about the strike and many supporters send letters with money

Despite a family history of geophysicists and rock enthusiasts, I’ve never found the subject of rocks particularly fascinating. However, an exploration of Earth Science has lead me to the discovery that rocks are actually hidden gems (often literally), and that there’s more to the topic than one would think.

World War Two resulted in a chaotic destruction that overwhelmed Europe. These feelings of dismay are concisely summarized in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt of the Sea.. An impactful quote states, “war had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.” The war in 1945 had drained any and all feelings of hope and spirit out of European people. In it’s wake, the war left a cloud of devastation and despair. Florian and Joana have to overcome this war, their fate, and guilt in order to return to their past selves and survive their journey in a German and Russian warzone.

The only resource currently used the Canadian Government for de-icing the roads during the winter is road salt. Yet scientists have found through research that the continued use of road salt is not only harmful to the environment (Novotny, & Stefan, 2012; Equiza et al., 2017) which is also harmful to the health and general well-being of the population. Such reports have been published across countries and specifically in Canada (Priority substances list assessment report, 2001). Furthermore, the Canadian government has also conducted a report that highlighted in detail the negative environmental impacts of road salt. (Priority substances list assessment report, 2001). However, road salts are still used by governments to create

Salt – the only rock we eat – has made a glittering, often surprising contribution to the history of humankind.

One of our first writing assignments in class was the One Word assignment. My word was optimistic, but since then, I have been faced with the toughest challenge in my life so far. Once in a while, when I am feeling extremely down, I remember that assignment and it gives me the strength to continue going with my head up high. Thus, I thank you for the assigning it even when we had a hard time connecting it to the AP test and felt it unnecessary because of it. Also in the meantime, reading Salt to the Sea has helped me calm down and be distracted when I felt overwhelmed. I first complained about having to read a book for the class because I have not enjoyed a majority of the books I have read in my English classes in high school. However, Salt to the Sea turned out to be one of my best reads and I am happy you assigned it. I feel much

The 1954 film Salt of the Earth explores a wide variety of social issues that would come to the forefront of social conscience in the coming decades. The film examines the economic and social inequalities perpetrated by the economic system in the United States, racial prejudice, and gender equity. The script is based on a real-life labor strike and uses the actual miners involved in the labor dispute as actors. The movie was made outside the studio system by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson, director Paul Jarrico, and director Herbert Biberman.

Salt of the Earth has a good claim to being one of the most controversial and notorious American movies of all time. Normally a film with such an infamous public reputation would be expected to have transgressed societal proprieties with regard to the use of sex and violence. However, that is not the case with this New Mexico set movie about a miners strike. Salt of the Earth was the film that suffered most at the hands of the McCarthyist witch hunts that were doing the rounds in early fifties America. Without wishing to condone the political attitudes of the time, it is to a degree understandable why this was the case as the film is one of the most impressive pieces of agit-prop drama imaginable.

“Salt, A World History,” is an extensive aspect of world history by Earth’s one edible rock - salt. The book begins at the start of recorded history, and highlights humanity’s dependence on salt, up to roughly present day times. It focuses on the effect salt had on, and its contributions to, humankind. The book details how salt affected, economics, religion, science, and culinary practices all over the world.

The creators of Salt of the Earth “had a consciousness of radical activism” (Aptheker 2015). Paul Jarrico, Michael Wilson, and Herbert J. Biberman made connections between the Cold War anti-union sentiment and what was happening in the lives of the community at Hanover, New Mexico (Balthasar 353). "Salt fuses the antiracist, anti imperialist sensibility...with the central popular front icon and narrative form- the strike tale. In this sense Salt is not simply an expansion of a 1930s political aesthetic; it is the fulfillment of it” (Balthasar 356). This included thinking about how different forms of oppression impact people. Their final film implicitly critiques the United States’ imperialist policies and treatment of minority groups (Balthasar 355), a dangerous move in the era of high tensions due to the red scare. This, along with affiliations with the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL) made them targets of the United States government (Balthasar 354). Their careers had been destroyed, since no one wanted to make themselves a target of the U.S. by being friendly with people that were accused of being communists, and their film was blacklisted. The leading actress, Rosaura Revualtas, who had already radically starred in what is recognized as the first lesbian film (Aptheker), also faced punishment for starring in Salt. Though she was here legally, participation in the film was grounds for her deportation. Furthermore, she was banned from acting in Mexico (Aptheker). Clint

The worlds most famous female rap trio group from Queens, New York called themselves Salt-N-Pepa. The group consisted of Cheryl James (“Salt”), Sandra Denton (“Pepa”) and their DJ Deidra Roper (“DJ Spinderella”). In the late 1980’s, the group was dropping their third album Blacks’ Magic. During this time, it was a period of hip hop flourishing and its artist finding away to come into their own. The 70’s rap artist already laid the foundation for the upcoming generation. This was a period of expression, women empowerment, and individuality. One of their big hits was “Expression” on this album. As the hook goes “Express yourself, you got to be you and only you baby. Express yourself, let me be me. Express yourself, don’t tell me what I can not do baby” it give you that empowerment feeling that you can do what

This book’s main focus is essentially the transformation of the land on the Arabian Peninsula due to the American oil explorers who want to exploit the land to gain access to the huge oil reserve that is the Middle East, in this case Saudi Arabia. The Americans are first described as harmless except by Miteb al-Hathal, who senses that they are devils who cannot be trusted and that something bad will happen because of them, which no one believes. It turns out, in the end, that he was right and if the Emir had realized what was going on earlier and actually worked to stop it then things wouldn’t have turned out so bad for the people.

The book Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys is definitely one of my favorite books that I have ever read. This book never once lets you put down and away for good as you always want to continue reading it so they you know what happens to the group next. It also helps to not only entertain but also educate about a lesser known tragedy in history, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, which killed more than the Titanic or Lusitania ever did. This book made me cry, smile, and even get angry at the characters whenever they did something that I didn’t like. I personally liked the part of the book where Florian revealed who he was to the others and got aboard the ship with the sweet man, called Shoe Poet, and the wandering boy, named, Klaus, because

Depending on what the sedimentary rock is formed by, determines whether is known as clastic or chemical. Clastic rocks are composed of particles from weathering. They are then sorted by grain size, gravel being the largest and clay being the smallest. A few examples would be sandstones and shales. Chemical sedimentary rocks are biochemical, and contain ions in the solution from weathering. These are also further classified. First you have limestone, which can be either organic or inorganic. An example would be fossiliferous or chalk. Next is dolostone, and it is formed from dolomite. Chert is next; and can be organic or inorganic also. Flint and jasper are some examples of chert. Rock salt and gypsum are what are known as evaporites. These form from the evaporation of saline waters in an arid environment. Finally there is coal, which is organic and forms from buried plant remains and carbon. There is one more type of rock that is classified the same way as the previous two.