Although this article is short, it's very important to this area. It's absolutely stunning to me that Knoxville has more victims of asthma than anyone. How could it be that Tennessee is like that? I know that Tennessee is one of the most obese states in the US. I also know that there was such a smog problem, that the state lowered the speed limit on I-40 in the Knoxville area from 65 for 55. Memphis was 5th worse. The top five asthma problems are all in the southeast. It's so amazing to me, that these are issues that my children will have to deal with.
Everyone knows these bad things about Tennessee. The studies hold all the evidence that it takes to keep someone out of here. I am now concerned with this problem.
If this article includes cultural information, it's the fact that the culture of Tennessee involves something that causes this high asthma rate. And not even in Tennessee, in the Southeast in general. If a fieldworker were looking for more information, they might ask the population of the Knoxville area. They might try to find out a vehicle preference. They might also try to see how people in the area feel about the problem. The questions of the field workers would differ because they fieldworkers would try to find out the meat of the story. They would just report it, like this particular article did, they would ask the questions not covered, like I gave examples of.
A field worker would interview the asthma victims, and get their take on living in Tennesseee. The worker would find out if the victim thought it was worth it or not. The worker would also talk to Scientists and find out what really causes the problem. A field worker would probably use historical facts, such as the progression of pollution in this area. Also, they would try to find the the rate of people with asthma throughout the years, and find out the increase. To find this information the field worker could go to the Knoxville Court House or look at online reasearch databases.
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Did you read any of the comments posted below the article? Very quickly a number of big cultural issues surface: environmentalists and the people who hate them, smoking, taxes, transportation, etc.
This is a good article o examine for culture, especially since it isn't one that immediately screams "cultural event" on first glance. Good find.
I thought this was a very interesting article. I did not know that Knoxville had this high asthma count. Knoxville seems to be a very dirty city, so this would all make sense to me. It does have a good look at the city of knoxville and that something may need to be done about it.
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