RJA #15

During this last semister I have learned many useful ways of conducting research. Many of these I will be able to use throughout my college carreer and hopefully for the rest of my professional carrer. Things that i found the most useful were the meta search sites. These make having to find info much faster. All in all this class will remain very usefull to me.

RJA #14A

My progress on the application project is a little slow. Although I have almost 1000 words, I am not to happy with what Ihave done. I am not sure if it is in the correct format for a news article. The things that I am happy with is that I am writting more then one article for the same edition of the paper. This way I am able to cover more then just one topc. I will be done with the paper before the due date, but I am not to sure if I will be happy with my end product.

RJA #13C

http://www.citizensoutcry.org/images/lettertopres.jpg

This link is to a site that has a letter to the President regarding drunk driving. Although I wanted to do a news article, I think this will be a better idea for the application project. So I am now planning on writing a letter from someone in Uravan sent to the President in regards to the closing of the town. If i cannot write enough about that topic I might write a letter that covers how a family is not covered by the 1990 RECA.

RJA# 13B

For my application project I am planning on writing a news article. This article will be based on removing residents of Uravan, Colorado after it was found to be radioactive. I think I will try to write it from one of the residents point of view, showing their outrage at the fact that their health was endangered and no one realized it before.

RJA#12A

Amundson, Micheal A. Yellowcake Town. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. Print
This book deals with all uranium mining towns on the Colorado plateau. This source was one of the sources that I used during my research. It covered the town of Uravan better then any other sources that I found.
Brugge, Doug, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis, eds. The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Print
This is the second most used source in my paper. It mainly focused on what happened during the mining on Navajo lands. It also covered legislation passed by the U.S. to give health benifits to miners, and amedments to that bill.
Chernobyl: 20 Years Later. 13 Apr. 2007. Web. 1 Apr. 2010. .
This source I really didn't use to much. It had information regarding steps being taken in Chernobyl to fix containment issues. It was helpful as supporting evidence for my arguement.

RJA#13A

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1935259/Uranium_Mining_on_the_Colorado_plateau

RJA #12B

For my field reasearch I drove to the old site of Uravan, Colorado. The site was a area that looked fairly normal. There were only two buildings still there but much of the area looks a lot like what I think it looked like before the mining operations. There are signs that warn you not to enter the area, but other then that it looks like the rest of the area.