WEEK 2 EOC "Erin Brockovich"

Between 1952 and 1966 in San Francisco California company water PG&E had put corrosion in cooling water letting more than a few families use the water. The families started getting super sick with brain tumors, cancer, and it was messing up their spines. A little girl who wanted to be a swimmer couldn’t reach her dream anymore because her spine was too weak now for her to reach her dream. Ms. Brockovic started working for a small attorney firm, she found out about this case. Within 18 months she did a lot of research; gather much information for the case. The case was settled in 1966 for 333 million dollars it was the largest settlement made in history. The law firm received 133.6 million dollars Ms. Brockovich received 2 million dollars for her efforts! I think it was great that she made that much effort not for the money but to help out all the families. Being a single mother of 3 she understood the pain that they were going through. The whole time she was broke and barely had any money. She was very smart but no one saw that in her except Ed Masry who the lawyer for the case was. They had a very weird relationship, they would argue a lot, but she pushed him to the limit to do everything in his power to win the case. She was a smart allelic when it came to the workers that were sent from the PG&E water company. Her personality was very strong which was perfect for this case she was fighting against a multimillion company, who would send in different workers offering money to the families. Ms. Brockovich felt that they did not have enough money to pay back the pain that had been going through or their body parts. I really enjoyed learning about Ms. Brockovich she was a very strong independent woman fighting for what she thought was the right thing to do. She is one of my new inspirations!