Alec Toufexis
INTD-105-19
Terry Tempest Williams explains in her essay that the United States Government put its priorities in protecting the entire country by testing nuclear bombs. But the government did it on land that didn’t belong to them and the radiation that emanated from the test sites in Utah caused cancer in the author’s family. She received no recompense for the wrongful act when the U.S Government was exonerated under the “legal doctrine of sovereign immunity”, which is a practice from the English Monarchy and the King. This situation is similar to one near my hometown. The love canal was a site where a chemical plant dumped tons of toxic chemicals. Years later the plant went out of business and the canal was covered up with dirt. A school was built on the site along with a community and there were many cases of birth defect in the subsequent years. The government didn’t do anything to prevent the situation however the land as of recent has been evacuated. I don’t believe a situation like this would happen again because there are many proponents of preventing government negligence.
I really enjoyed how you didn’t necessarily just summarize about what the piece was, you took it and interpreted it in your own words and thoughts.