Clarence Said:

could somebody check spelling and grammar in this paper.?

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The Bhopal Disaster took place in December 3, 1984 in Bhopal, India. Disaster was caused by the release of 27 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas from a Union Carbide India Limited, pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide.

Union Carbide had 14 factories in India, one of them was in Bhopal. During the nights of December the 2nd and 3rd, 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate began leaking, there was no warning and none of the six safety systems were working. People woke in their homes to fits of coughing, their lungs filling with fluid and screaming in pain. Deadly gas was dusting their eyes. They couldn’t breathe, they were choking in their own blood and they weren’t able to control their bladders. After several hours there were thousands of dead bodies on the streets.

Breathlessness, a persistent cough, diminished vision, early age cataracts, loss of appetite, menstrual irregularities, recurrent fever, back and body aches, loss of sensation in the limbs, fatigue, weakness, anxiety and depression are the most common symptoms among survivors. The alarming rise in cancers, reproductive health problems and other conditions such as growth retardation among children born after the disaster remain undocumented.

Aziza Sultan stated "At about 12.30 am I woke to the sound of my baby coughing badly. I saw that the room was filled with a white cloud. I heard a lot of people shouting. I started coughing with each breath seeming as if I was breathing in fire. My eyes were burning too. People were dying on the street! It was horrible!”

Exactly how many thousands of people died, no one actually knows. Carbide says 3,800. Municipal workers who picked up bodies with their own hands, loading them onto trucks for burial in mass graves or to be burned on mass pyres, reckon they shifted at least 15,000 bodies. Survivors, basing their estimates on the number of shrouds sold in the city, conservatively claim about 8,000 died in the first week. Such body counts become meaningless when you know that the dying has never stopped. People left the city. They waited, and when the clouds of deadly gas had gone, they came back again.

Every plant in this city was poisoned. Environments was covered by hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste. Environmentalists have warned that the waste is a potential minefield in the heart of the city, and the resulting contamination may lead to decades of slow poisoning, and diseases affecting the nervous system, liver and kidneys in humans. Studies have shown that the rates of cancer and other ailments are higher in the region since the event.

In a partial settlement with the Indian government, they agreed to pay out some $470 million in compensation. However the victims were not consulted in the settlement discussions, and many felt cheated by their compensation of between $300and $500 - which equates to about five years worth of medical expenses. Today, those who were awarded compensation are hardly any better off than those people who weren’t awarded anything.

The Indian goverment charged Union Carbide but nobody was convicted and Bhopal haven’t been cleaned up yet.

If we don’t want such accidents as in Bhopal we must take care of those factories which use dangerous chemicals and turn one’s attention to those problems.

Ida Said:

Toxins found in cheap shoes-has anyone else heard about this?

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Thrown away in your local landfill? How about what's going to happen when people wear them?!

Here's a web site which shows the effects of cheap flip flops (some of the pictures are very graphic and gross):
http://www.lamanaphotography.com/walmart…

The answer is, the chemicals in these cheap shoes are going to enter our clean drinking water systems, and the food chain.

I've actually known about the problem with rubber products from some of those countries for quiet some time. You'll find the same chemicals in many cheap dog toys (nice, huh?).

This is one of the reasons I spend a lot of money on high quality, made in America, footgear.

My flip flops are leather, with a high quality rubber sole, and an arch support. They are $50 for a pair. I've been wearing mine for about 5 years (and they get hard use here on our farm in the summer!). We purchase high quality, leather boots (made in America).

Eventually my husband and I both want to have custom made/fitted White Boots. They are an American company that has been in business for over 100 years. At about $500 per pair of boots they are a no kidding investment in foot gear.

Link to White's:
http://www.whitesboots.com/history.php

Few people consider what happens to their shoes after they toss them out.

A good way to dispose of old shoes is Soles4Souls. They recycle everything. If they cannot use it to rebuild a new pair of shoes for someone, they recycle every scrap of material. None of it goes to landfills. They want GENTLY USED SHOES, not complete garbage. They are a charity trying to help people and the earth (not a garbage service for gross shoes).

Here's the link to them:
http://www.soles4souls.org/index.html

People need to think about their footgear, where it came from, and how it was made. I wonder how many people reading your question have ever owned a pair of leather boots with leather soles they have had resoled? My husband had his favorite pair resoled about 15 times before the cobblers said they could no longer repair them.

Imagine how wonderful to support a nice local, family owned cobbler business as well! People can do that, by purchasing quality footgear and taking care of it over the years.

~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Ron Said:

Generation gap between children and parents in India is increasing. Is it a matter to worry?

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The variables tested and the yardstick adopted to interpret the responses are overtly based on western perceptions on sex and family relationships. In India parents have not been discussing sex and child birth the way, the Health Ministry with its western educated experts expect of it. And there has been no significant problem of deviancy on this score for generations. Premarital sex (dating), partner disharmony (laregely due to sexual incompatibility followed by behavioural maladjustments, financial indiscipline etc), litigation and divorce, etc have not been problems of significance before.

Now western influence especially in the higher economic category had resulted in the propagation of values and sentiments that conflict with native perceptions and practice. The media mainly playing to the tastes of aristocrats, celebs and aspiring ultra moderns also portray western perceptions of family relationships as ideal / 'Modern' (syn: liberal), which got up with the younger generation in significant way particularly in the urban areas. The impact of this is already felt in the increasing cases of infatuations miscalled love, elopements, divorce and other aberrations of discord, unknown to our society for long.

So I reject the interpretations of the survey as displaying any aberration, because of erroneous application of tools of ealuation of the values on the basis of western norms (which has no record of harmony in family life at large), upon a more coherent community that had preserved family integrity and harmony in a great way, without things like explicit education in sex and child birth.

It is like taking the temperature of fever patient as standard and declaring a normal one as being 'sub normal'

Daisy Said:

Can you name one stable vegan culture or civilization?

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There is no civilization in the history of the Earth that has thrived eating as vegan. Veganism is only possible in today's world of "special" ingredients and things made with all sorts of unusual substitutions.

Civilizations throughout history eat what they can get, and they certainly don't complain if they eat honey, or an egg (for heaven's sake).

Look, you can be a vegan now... it works. But if the supermarkets closed and all the vegans went hungry, you can guarantee they'd be eating some animal products.

Sally Said:

How do I put this in MLA format?

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We can't show you 'how it would look' because this blog does not allow any kind of formatting like spacing, underlining or italics.