{"id":22197,"date":"2024-04-20T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-flight-from-conversation-by-sherry-turkle-published-in-the-new-york-times-april-21-2012\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:21:49","slug":"the-flight-from-conversation-by-sherry-turkle-published-in-the-new-york-times-april-21-2012","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-flight-from-conversation-by-sherry-turkle-published-in-the-new-york-times-april-21-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flight from Conversation\u201d by Sherry Turkle, published in The  New York Times, April 21, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cContaminated Water\u201d Proofreading Practice WRT101<br \/>\nEvery year contaminants from agricultural fertilizers and dairy waste find<br \/>\n(its\/their) way into hundreds of rural family wells. The contaminants seep into<br \/>\nunderground (stream\/streams) which (is\/are) the water source for the wells and<br \/>\noften (supply\/supplies) the water.<br \/>\nMany of the more potent fertilizers (has\/have) been banned by the state.<br \/>\nToday\u2019s agricultural fertilizers still (retain\/retains) some contaminating elements if<br \/>\nconcentrated in large quantities. Many of the wells tested by the county\u2019s water<br \/>\ndepartment (exceed\/exceeds) the maximum level of contaminants for drinkable<br \/>\nwater; as a consequence, many rural families (drink\/drinks) bottled water.<br \/>\nRecently, a rural resident filled a lawsuit against local farmers (they\/he)<br \/>\nwant the farmers to pay for the purification process required to make the<br \/>\ncontaminated water drinkable. In addition they are seeking an injunction against<br \/>\nthe farmers from using any fertilizer containing the contaminants. In the past such<br \/>\nlawsuits took years to process (provided\/providing) little relief from the problem.<br \/>\nArguing that their livelihood is dependent on fertilizing their crops, local<br \/>\nfarmers (continue\/continues) to use the fertilizers which (exacerbate\/exacerbates)<br \/>\nthe problem further. Contaminants from older fertilizers (was\/were) more<br \/>\npotent than today\u2019s fertilizers can remain in water sources for many years, thereby<br \/>\nmixing with the more current contaminants to produce a toxic brew. The problem<br \/>\nof water contamination in large agricultural areas (has\/have) always existed. While<br \/>\nthe situation is better today than it was twenty years ago, it is still unacceptable to<br \/>\nanyone concerned about the quality and safety of (his or her, their) water. &nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 16px; cursor: auto;\">Please carefully proofread &#8220;Contaminated Water&#8221; and submit<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cContaminated Water\u201d Proofreading Practice WRT101 Every year contaminants from agricultural fertilizers and dairy waste find (its\/their) way into hundreds of rural family wells. The contaminants seep into underground (stream\/streams) which (is\/are) the water source for the wells and often (supply\/supplies) the water. Many of the more potent fertilizers (has\/have) been banned by the state. Today\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[3],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22197"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22197"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}