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Civil Action, A (Jonathan Harr)


Civil Action, A (Jonathan Harr)
True story of court case re: death of children by leukemia resulting from industrial chemicals. Focus on grief of parents, reasons for settlement.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages) | 2 sources | 2001 United States


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"In the book A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr tells the true story of a major court case involving the deaths of a number of children by leukemia, perhaps caused by the poisoning of city wells with industrial chemicals. The case developed as the mothers of the town began to investigate why there was a leukemia cluster in their small town in Massachusetts and continued as they determined that there was a need to confront the companies that may have done this to them and their families and to stop those companies from hurting anyone else in the same manner. In coming to this conclusion, the women went through the series of stages that have been identified in the literature as the stages of grief.
In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross published a book entitled On Death and Dying in which she presented the results.."

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APA Citation:

Civil Action, A (Jonathan Harr) (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Civil-Action-A-Jonathan-Harr/10325

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"Civil Action, A (Jonathan Harr)" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Civil-Action-A-Jonathan-Harr/10325>




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