The Ottoman Empires Revolution
The Ottoman empire was a middle eastern empire where some of the geographical features included dry deserts. The empire’s water supply would have come mostly from wells and the lakes that were within the empire lands. This would have been acceptable if the revolutions did not appear. When the agricultural revolution had appeared, the empire would have been faced with the problem of providing water not just for themselves but also for the animals and crops that they had begun to grow and domesticated. They would also have to worry about having to provide water to the people who were coming into their empire, as the population slowly grew. This would also lead to waste being released. Animals and humans, which produced waste, would directly lead to drinking and other water supplies. This could have been fixed with the industrial revolution, as new ideas would flow it is almost guaranteed a plan for the water supply to be clean would appear. However, the industrial revolution mostly focused on factories and mass production which could have produced even more waste within the empire. This would eventually lead to water sources whether drinkable or not being contaminated.
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The Industrial Revolution In Modern Eyes
The ongoing flux of the Industrial Age continues to impact our challenge in many ways in this current national form. The Industrial Age has transformed us into a city and has provided more and more technology. It also improved transportation, communication, and banking. The Industrial Revolution improved the standards of living for most people but resulted in tragic living and working conditions for the working class. During the Industrial Revolution, people began migrating to the cities for a better life. We have been evolving and evolving over the centuries. It has challenged us now because we have a surplus amount of technology and a surplus of communication which is causing us to have fewer and fewer supplies that we can grow or build because of all these buildings that we build for technology. With all these new technologies the prices get higher and higher causing a higher rate of homelessness because they don’t have enough money to pay for what they need to pay for.
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Water In Hawaiʻi Nei |
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A few solutions however if this revolution was to delay progress in solution would be more personal. People would have to learn how to collect water, purify it, and store it properly. This is why the education of that knowledge should be taught to everyone if this does occur. This is probably the best way we can provide people water if we are unable to find a solution to the challenge with a revolution.
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In Hawaii, we are known as one of the top states in the USA for purified FRESH water. However, when it comes to local beaches we have the most debris. So, our “challenge” is to strive for healthier and cleaner salt/freshwater sanitation. The HDH has proposed that they assess the susceptibility of public drinking water sources to contamination, protect public drinking water sources from contamination, and use source water assessment information to meet drinking water requirements. Also, runoff in Hawaii is very polluted to where we can do nothing about it. However, we want to prevent environmental degradation due to a nonpoint source pollution increase the number of resources devoted to the control of polluted runoff and focus on collaborative efforts to utilize limited resources and provide outreach and education to the community in partnership with other agencies.
The criteria for revolution occurs when there is unrest between the multiple classes of the countries social order. When the people are treated wrongly and change is the only way things will get better for the people in unrest. You can see these signs in America and Hawaii currently, with the people of the lower working class being treated poorly. The people are in unrest and there is tensity between the other classes of the social order. For example, some of the working class living in unclean and below standard housing, while the top wealthy live lavishly. This major difference causes unrest and tensity between the two classes, soon this will lead to conflict. |
Hui O Koʻolaupoko Service ProjectDocumented by Media Designer: Caleb Ledesma
The planned community service was to partner with an organization called Hui O Koʻolaupoko (associated with 808 Cleanups). Our group agreed to set the date of January 3rd, 2020. We would serve from 9 am-12 pm and get there in our own transportation. When I got there I texted my friends to ask where they were. One of them didn’t respond and the other said they could no make it. So, I was the only one in my group that went to the service. I met up with the people from the organization. To my surprise, I was the only volunteer that was there. The two other ladies were apart of the organization one was named Jamie. Jamie then proceeded to tell me that the volunteers fluctuate from 1 to 50 people. It just so happened that I was the only one that showed up that day. |
What went well was that the work itself wasn’t that bad. I cut down wauke trees and other shrubs just because they were too many of them in the area. We then pulled invasive weeds that grew around native plants like ʻilima and aʻaliʻi. Lastly, we put mulch on top of where we pulled the invasive weeds. Jamie told me throughout the service what they do in the nonprofit of Hui O Koʻolaupoko. They mainly focus on the streamside if the fishpond and the agriculture and water quality in the area. What could have gone better was definitely more people to lighten the workload, but I compensated by pulling double the weight. This overall made me feel a lot better to know that I did something to impact the community.
My understanding has definitely improved not just the service, but my mindset has changed. After the service, I felt proud that I did something with my morning than just sitting at home. The project has taught me to be a servant leader and to lead by example. By doing something around your peers you can encourage them through your actions and not by only your words. |
Native Workforce and EconomyNative workforces have affected our culture so much that it is almost so natural to see a struggling native person in Hawaii. Our people were exploited for the physical manpower of a job and yet they only were paid so much. Used merely as tools and were told to focus on their jobs. Yet, through the hardship, we tend to believe that our natural resources are still available within Hawai’i. However, this is not the case. Due to the constant use of the land for work and natural runoff, along with nobody focusing on the maintenance of the water, the natural resource of water has been contaminated. Hawaii now must get the water from below its surface. An estimated 90% of all drinkable water on Hawaiʻi is found underneath the surface.
In Hawai’i, we can see the form of exchanges because we get about 80% to 90% of our food imported to us here on Hawai’i. We get our imports from all over the world. In Hawai’i, most of our clothes or our things we use daily are made from like China or Thailand and not from Hawai’i. We use big amounts of money buying all these essentials that we need for life that are not even made in Hawai’i but they are all made in China or Thailand. Colonization was another big impact on Hawai’i. Hawai’i has gotten more and more expensive to live in and is causing lots of people to become homeless. From having lots of plants and trees around the island we are now seeing lots of buildings and houses. Every day we can see something new that is going to be built. Hawai’i is changing constantly every day. |
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Exchange throughout History
As the Hawaiian Nation, we can handle this by getting these people who don’t have sanitized water some sanitized water so they are not drinking dirty water and are getting diseases because they don’t have clean water to drink. As a nation, we can start a fundraiser that will go towards giving people in need of clean water to drink. I know not everyone will want to donate but we just get $1 from everyone we will be able to collect $1,000,000 around Hawai’i because that is the population that lives in O’ahu. Collecting money for people who need water is a big thing we can do as a nation. We have clean water in Hawai’i from the rainfalls that drip down from the volcanic rocks and now we can drink that water. The government can help us by supporting our fundraiser because we are trying to raise money for a good cause and not for a bad cause. So all we need from the government is just there support and money because they more money we get the more people that ger sanitized water.
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One of the most impactful changes based on the four major concepts is Exchange. Within the 1700 and 1800’s Hawaii was heavily exposed to Western technology and mindsets. This brought upon it well such as Kamehameha using Western and Hawaiian strategies and technologies to become victorious. However, along with the technology came the diseases and invasive species the West brought us. With the introduction of measles and smallpox within 30-50 years over 300,000 Hawaiians died because they were not immune to these diseases, unlike the foreigners. Now, it can be seen in the environment around us. With the service to Heʻeia, all of the invasive mangroves have taken over all of the native species which have no “immunity” to the mangrove. This affects our goal of Clean Water Sanitation because if the mangrove continues to grow the water around it will become stagnant and not suitable for marine life. Verses, if the mangrove were eliminated then water can flow freely within the pond thus creating clean water throughout.
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