The Bhopal Gas Leak
Gunnar Hayden
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Word Count: 1192 words
Word Count in Process Paper: 497 words
The reason that I chose my topic “The Bhopal Gas Leak” is because I wanted to choose a topic that involves science. I am fascinated with anything to do with science. I especially chose the gas leak in Bhopal because I wanted to find a scientific disaster that not only affected a small part of people but lots of people. I chose a topic that not lots of people have heard about to tell people about. I wanted to choose a topic that had a giant impact on the world that nobody else has done before. I want to help people realize that because of the Bhopal disaster and many other chemical leaks the idea of safety is much more important to this day.
I first searched my topic was on badger link. I searched up my topic to get a broad idea of what barrier it was breaking and other information. I then started to search about my disaster, and I was looking for .org, .in or .gov to ensure they were reliable. I made a google doc and copied down all the links of the sites I thought were good. After I found 10 websites then I went through them to see if the information in all of them were similar. If a site was bad, I would delete it. After reading about this topic several times I started adding these link to my research document we created in social studies and wrote annotations.
I first started to create my website in class when we got our website numbers. I did most of my research in class but sometimes I would work at home. When I got all my information sorted out at school then I would slowly start to correct my errors to make it sound formal. Now that I had my information, I ended up spending most of my class workdays to format and make the website look presentable. When I was done adding color and images, I copied and pasted my sections in my text boxes. I then worked on my process paper and bibliography on the last workday. I created to different sections dedicated to those categories.
The Bhopal gas leak connects to Breaking Barriers in history by breaking bad safety habits. This means that 40 years ago before this gas leak killed thousands of people, people didn’t care about following through with safety percussions because they thought it was important. Later after Union Carbide blew up people realized how not updating dangerous thinks like factories could kill them and their environment. This caused lot of people to protest for making laws that would update safety in factories. This ended up impacting the whole world because hundreds of counties now have laws that are followed through with and won’t be taken advantage of. If this were to never have happen there would still be chemicals leaks all over the world that wouldn’t only kill humans, but it would kill the earth.