Strategies For Reform Throughout Managed Health Care

Stories are central to the Lakota way of life, specifically their story of how the world came to be. The Lakota Indians believe that the Great Spirit created everything. They say that there was once another world, but the Great Spirit was upset with those people because they had lost the sacredness of the land, so he destroyed it and made a new one. To bring water, he sang a song, but by the fourth song, the Earth was flooded. The flood killed all of the animals except the crow, Kangi, illustrating the necessity of balance in life. Kangi begged the Great Spirit for a place to rest, so the Great Spirit called forth four animals that could survive under the water, they were an otter, beaver, loon, and a turtle. The Great Spirit then asked them to go and retrieve some mud from under the water.

The first example of human manipulation of changes within the biosphere is through expansion. The rapid growth of the population has led to expansion in development; the need for more space is causing strain on other living organisms such as plants and animals. Human procurement of forest, grass, and wetlands has weighed on the animal population heavily. As a result of this domination, animals have lost areas they use to thrive in, causing migration and in more serious cases extinction. Animals are a prevalent source of protein for humans, and when a species is threatened by extinction, it not only disrupts the balance of the ecosystem, but it also disrupts the food chain. The more resources that are required to sustain human life, the bigger the need to migrate to surrounding areas in a short period of time (Haines).

Many plants rely heavily on bees as their main pollinator to reproduce. The main fear is that even though many flowers also rely on mammals and other insects to assist in the pollination process, bees are the biggest and most vital source of this life cycle. As the bees disappear the reproduction process of many plants does not happen as efficiently thus less plants are produced, this

Furthermore bees specifically are particularly efficient with it being estimated that they are the sole pollinators for 50% of the approximate 80% of flowering plants which rely on insects for pollination (Bradbear, 2009). Their efficiency is further illustrated by the fact that a single colony containing 25,000 forager bees is able to pollinate 250 million flowers per day (Bradbear, 2009). As a result of this it can be seen that bees are hugely important as pollinators with many species of flower being completely dependent on them. Furthermore, the importance of bees extends beyond ecological diversity; certain types of bees are hugely important economically. In addition to pollinating a large variety of fruit and vegetables, bees produce Honey; together this results in them having an estimated value of service of £200m a year in the UK (National Audit Office (NAO), 2009). Overall it can be seen that bees are of significant importance that any decrease in population should be treated with concern, as a result of this a large quantity of research has been conducted into identifying possible

considered to be ignorant and hostiles by the “White” settlers, forced to live on reservations, lost

Even though the U.S. got more land from the Indian Removal Act and gave the Indians a new home with covered expenses it was a downcast for many Native tribes and a miserable event throughout history. In the writing of John G. Burnett’s Story of the Cherokees, he discusses how terrible and sad the removal of the Indians were and how it negatively affected the Indians. Specifically, “Woman were dragged from their homes”(2),”Children were often separated from parents, with the sky for a blanket and the earth as a pillow.”(2) In general, all of the Indians and even the women and kids were treated horrible as if they were seen as savages, and as if they were animals. Although, when being treated like savages, were the Indians the true savages or

From its birth, America was a place of inequality and privilege. Since Columbus 's arrival and up until present day, Native American tribes have been victim of white men 's persecution and tyranny. This was first expressed in the 1800’s, when Native Americans were driven off their land and forced to embark on the Trail of Tears, and again during the Western American- Indian War where white Americans massacred millions of Native Americans in hatred. Today, much of the Indian Territory that was once a refuge for Native Americans has since been taken over by white men, and the major tribes that once called these reservations home are all but gone. These events show the discrimination and oppression the Native Americans faced. They were, and continue to be, pushed onto reservations,

One tribe, the Shoshone, were promised “everything necessary to comfortable living” in exchange for fulfilling their side of the Indian Removal act [Document 8]. They remained civil even when adjusting from originally thriving in “every foot of what you proudly call America” to being “content with the little patch allowed”. They were originally promised seed, farming tools, food, and cattle during the arrangement, but the United States did not carry out their side of the bargain; killing their game, stealing their furs, and using the Shoshone meadows to feed their

Many of the Native tribes of the time met the resulting dismissal of their rights as landowners and citizens with confusion, disbelief, anger

Not only were people affected ,but also animals and almost every type of plant species available was taken

In the spring of 1838, about two thousands Cherokees had moved to the west. Chief Ross had instructed his overseers to plant crops. Signaling to his nation that he and they were going nowhere. The US government had already started the removal of the Creeks and Seminoles and was preparing for resistance from the Cherokees. The Cherokees posed a bigger problem to federal authorities. The US ordered troops to cease the remaining Cherokees, imprison them in Stockades in preparation for their force removal. The Cherokees were nearly all prisoners. They were dragged from their houses and then camped to the forts of military posts all over the nation. In Georgia the roundup was brutal. They had no time to take anything with them except the clothes the Cherokees had on. Just preparing to move was viewed as an acceptance of the false treaty. The Cherokee message was “Let the white men live with that memory- if they can”. By mid-June, soldiers had imprisoned most of the Cherokees. The Cherokees were taking to stockades and camps while awaited their force depart to the west. Contractors were hired by the government to feed the Cherokees on the Trail. Contractors got a fixed sum per person per month so they did all they could to increase their own profit reducing the amount in quality they supplied. Sanitary conditions in the stockades were horrible. People

"For each of us, as for the robin in Michigan or the Salmon in the Miramachi, this is a problem of ecology, or interrelationships, of interdependence. We poison the caddis flies

Other services nature provides are more easily taken for granted. We depend on plant life to replenish the oxygen in the atmosphere, and on insects to replace nutrients in the soil. (31) These insects are especially vital, as they are part of the foundation of nearly all ecosystems. Without insects, plant species that rely on them for pollination would quickly become extinct, including many of the species we rely on for food. Following them would be species that feed on insects, as well as species which rely on vegetation as part of their habitats. Finally, as insects make the prime contribution to soil renewal, even non-insect pollinated plant life would begin to decline. (34) The result, according to Wilson, would

Can you imagine a world without bees? Probably not, because bees are exceptionally important to our planet. No matter how insignificant they may seem, their function is essential. This small insect is in charge of a process called pollination. Pollination occurs when a bee collects nectar from flowers and pollen attaches to their hairs and transfers to other plants. Most plants are unable to survive without bees pollinating. Statistically, bees are depended on for at least one third of the food we use to sustain life, but almost three fourths of the crops we plant would not be able to survive without the help given by bees. Without bees, plants would not be able to thrive, and without plants, we would run out of food.

Vultures are not the most beautiful birds but they play an important role in the balancing the ecosystem. People generally fear vultures since they are often associated with death. Over the years and into the modern culture they have received a bad reputation for scavenging and are generally misunderstood by people who label them as filthy because they know no better. In reality, although it seems strange to us, vultures play a vital part in the ecosystem by breaking down and cleaning up the carcasses that stink and would carry disease. Scavengers are as important as any other animal in a food chain. Vultures are the most significant scavengers in the ecosystem because they help in the easy disposal of dead and decaying carcasses protecting the environment and human lives at free cost. Without them, there would be dangerous diseases at large at community and decrease in sustainability in the environment. They can be even termed as “Natural Cleaners” of the ecosystem. Even though they are prime scavengers, they have very low fertility rate and it is very difficult to regain their previous population in the environment in the current declining status. Hence, over the past forty years, the unintentional digestion of the pain reliever Diclofenac has driven the disastrous drop in population of nature’s most successful scavenger and has led to an imbalance in the ecosystem.