Energy, Climate, Environment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.07.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Final Questions
  5. Intermission
  6. Minamata Bay
  7. Activities
  8. Appendix A
  9. Appendix B
  10. Appendix C
  11. Student References
  12. Video clips -
  13. Chloracne sites
  14. Chemical persistence
  15. Acknowledgments:
  16. Bibliography
  17. Endnotes

Toxic, Persistent Chemicals in Human Environments: Case Studies of Agent Orange Use in Vietnam, 1965-1970 and Methyl Mercury in Minamata Bay, Japan, 1932-1968

Jeffrey C. Davis

Published September 2009

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Student References

"The Vietnam War." Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm (accessed July 14, 2009).

Digital history website - including links to the Vietnam Declaration of Independence, 1945, maps, images, timelines, lesson plans, and more.

Carlton, Mike. "Dispatches from postwar Vietnam - Opinion - smh.com.au." Sydney Morning Herald - Business & World News Australia | smh.com.au. http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/dispatches-from-postwar-vietnam/2008/06/27/1214472765352.html (accessed July 14, 2009). A Vietnam veteran returns to Vietnam 35 years later and writes about his experience. Exerpt - "We were met everywhere with gentle courtesy. Almost everybody seems to be under the age of 30 and for them the American war, as they call it, is history"

"Reflections From Vietnam." University of Southern Maine. http://usm.maine.edu/~atkinson/semesteratsea/pages/reflections_from_vietnam.htm (accessed July 14, 2009). A visitor from Maine learns about Vietnamese people.

McCornac, Dr. Dennis. "It's a Country, Not a War." Teaching the New Vietnam. www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/3c/95/9d.pdf (acessed July 13, 2009). How Vietnam is today, and how it has changed - this is a detailed and comprehensive description.

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