The Gadget Graveyard By Matt Wade

In the article, “From Gadget to Garbage: Tackling The Problem of Discarded Technology” from the Orange County Register, the NewsELA staff states, “No one is sure how much e-waste ends up being exported from the U.S., the EPA says, but “the United States government is concerned that these exports are being mismanaged abroad, causing serious public health and environmental hazards.” The quote explains that by exporting e-waste incorrectly, public health and the environment are being put at risk. The quoted statement implies that e-waste shouldn’t be exported and should stay in it’s country, for public health and environmental safety. When the author uses the word, “mismanaged” it means the incorrect handling of things, which in the article the

This paper will discuss what e-waste is, what is happening to the e-waste and why it is a problem. The paper will then discuss what can be done to improve the situation.

Throughout history, the circumstances that people were born into were not equal. While some people were born on hospitable lands where people and animals could flourish, others were born on desolate and isolated lands that proved unsuitable for livestock. These uncontrollable circumstances as well as others, such as climate, created the different types of lifestyles that people have adopted. Through the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond illustrates the five themes of world history by explaining how a chain of effects starting from the first people interacting with their given environments and resources led to how they live in the present. While for the world it may seem apparent that one group of people seems to have the upper hand in the social hierarchy, Diamond shows his view that, in actuality, it only became this way because of the conditions that different groups of people had to cope with in the past.

As used electronics is becoming a waster hazard worldwide local governments such as where I live include programs at local waste stations purely for electronics. This encourages local residents to freely drop off their electronic waste, like TV’s and computers and mobile phones to these locations where the waste is sorted and than shipped to facilities that can process this waste appropriately which also includes recycling as much material as possible. This has a

Throughout history, the circumstances that people were born into were not equal. While some were born on hospitable lands where people and animals could flourish, others were born on desolate and isolated lands that proved unsuitable for plants and livestock. These uncontrollable circumstances as well as others created the different types of lifestyles that people live by. Through the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond illustrates the five themes of world history by explaining a chain of effects stemming from the first people interacting with their given environments. Diamond aimed to show his view that the social and racial hierarchy of the present only developed because of the conditions different groups of people had to cope

The plan crashed The theme of Gary Paulsen’s hatchet is sometimes in life one might be able to survive in the wild. The pilot was suffers a massive heart attack and he dies . Brian mind screamed at the pilot and try’s to fly the plane .Then he turned back in the seat feeling the front and put his hands still on the wheel controlling it.

In the book, “Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond, Part Two talks about the roots of guns, germs, and steel, geographical differences relating to food production, causes of the spread of food production, development of ancient crops that are still used today, and domestication. Jared Diamond mostly likes to talk about the development of the Eurasian society and why they are more powerful. Instead of proximate causes that get straight to the point, he takes a different route that leads to ultimate causes. Ultimate causes go deeper in information and include many details unlike proximate causes. He does this and ultimately bothers with ultimate causes because proximate causes are common and shallow explanations. Ultimate causes trace

Jared Diamond is a Geography professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has many fields of interest ranging from physiology to evolutionary biology and biogeography . Adding to that, Diamond also has published countless articles and authored multiple books. His most decorated book “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and is widely regarded as a groundbreaking scientific work.

Global civilization is a phenomenon that is complex. Various civilizations experienced different effects with regard to development. Food production, poverty, economic, and technological advancements are all related to how each society was civilized. This paper responds to the questions raised from the books “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond; “The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the 21st Century” by Robert Marks; “A History of the World in Six Glasses,” by Tom Standage; and the “Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System” by Raj Patel.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman has proven to fit within the Gothic definition of Harmon’s, Handbook to Literature. Gaiman’s novel has elements of “magic, mystery, and chivalry,” (Harmon 220). There were ghosts who would reveal themselves on one special night and a baby who is granted the ability to see and interact with ghosts. In chapter 2, one of the ghosts that live in the graveyard explains some of the special abilities that the child is granted, unlike other living humans. He explains, “While you are here, you can see in the darkness. You can walk some of the ways that the living should not travel. The eyes of the living will slip from you,” (Gaiman 38). These special abilities give him a sense of safety while he is in the graveyard.

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is about three heroes trying to free an imprisoned goddess before their enemy kills her. Jason Grace wakes up on a school bus without his memory. As soon as he arrives at the Grand Canyon, three wind spirits attack him and his friends.

In her essay, “The Story of Stuff: Electronics”, Annie Leonard discusses certain technology manufacturing processes, and the growing ecological problems of technological “e-waste” that they cause.

Clayton Eshleman’s poem, “The Power Room”, in his book, Juniper Fuse, is a walking poem travelling in and out of nature, and in and out of the mind, suspending itself in a moment (a moment Eshleman discusses within the introduction of Juniper Fuse) of elevated consciousness or the act of becoming more self-conscious (xvii). The poem begins with acknowledging the “spiritum” of the path. This is a reference made to the spirits of those whom inhabited the land prior to the speaker’s arrival. In Gary Snyder’s essay, “The Place, The Region, And The Commons”, he wrote, “The sum of a field’s forces becomes what we call very loosely the “spirit of the place” (38). In Eshleman’s poem, these “forces” include, the sum of “the rockface” and the

Death is usually portrayed as both grim and darkly humorous in many pieces of literature and short stories is one of the forms that allows writers to do both. Machine of Death is a two book anthology series of stories, one page cartoons and illustrations edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo and David Malki. These were written and drawn by them and several other authors and illustrators by conveying their own take on how they believe their character would handle it if they were forewarned and forearmed of their own demise. These stories are varied by genre, style, approach and technique but they all have two things in common. They all feature the titled “Machine of Death” which is a fictional device created by the editors (and a fictional team of scientists and engineers) that allows any of the characters involved to pay a fee (it varies from ten to twenty dollars depending on the story), stick their finger in a slot to have their blood taken and a card pops out to reveal exactly how they die and they are never wrong. However, if anyone expected it all to be as simple as that, this is where the added twist that ties everything together is used. These cards only reveal the “method” of how they die. For example, if a card said “CANCER” or “STARVATION”, that is all the information they receive. It does not state how these circumstances come to be or exactly when they die and that is where the existential crises of it all comes into play. These stories explain how

BAN found that 50 to 80 percent of e-waste collected in the western U.S. for recycling is actually exported to countries like China, India, and Pakistan. The investigative team witnessed the toxic dumping of lead-laden cathode ray tubes in open fields and rivers not far from populated areas, the open burning of plastics and wires, and exposure to toxic solders from circuit boards. They also documented hundreds of thousands of migrant workers (men, women and children), who were forced to break apart and process obsolete computers, completely unaware of the health and