Death In Toms River :: essays research papers

When I first dictum Linda Gilik and I was told that I had to listen to her presentation I didnt fully realize how much(prenominal) it was going to move me. She is a wo spell who had a healthy flub boy, and then after(prenominal) loving this normal child for three months was told that he was diagnosed with cancer of the nervous system. She was very retainn back by what she was told and knew that thither was something wrong because it came out of no where. It is very rare for a cross to get cancer, this type of cancer occurs in one in a million babies.      She went to Sloan Keteran a world famous cancer hospital in New York City. She was sitting on her sons floor which had 40 beds filled with children patients, and saw that 7 or 8 of toughs beds were children from Toms River New Jersey. She started talk to some of the parents of the children from Toms River and they decided to investigate and maybe go through out the reason this was happening to their chil dren. Her son Michael was diagnosed with this cancer in 1979. He is now 25 social classs old and lives at home. He is a 25 year old in a 7 year olds body because of the cancer and the procedures he has to go through.      After a friction match of years of investigations and several years later, a nurse at a hospital in Philadelphia in the cancer ward saw that once more a lot of the children that were there were from the same place, Toms River. She called EPA 3 to report what she was see they called EPA 2 who called the New Jersey department of health. Then a man named Michael cull made a report of what was going on called the Berry report in 1995. This was going on 16 years after Lindas son Michael was diagnosed, they still didnt have a clew and the cancer rates of children in Toms River were getting bigger.      Finally, they decided to start examination the water in Toms River to have some kind of clue as to what is happening. When the y tested the water from the schools, they found many cancer causing chemicals.      What happened was a man named Mr. Fernicola was supposed to destroy drums full of chemicals. Instead, he was lazy and paid the sanitation workers off so that he can just take them and dump them in the landfill.