ANWR, Drilling?

Author’s Note: Document Based Questioning, Should the United States Drill for Oil in Alaska’s Wilderness?  That’s the question, for Social Studies we were asked to write an essay revolving around.  In seventh grade we are to perform a smaller form of the eighth graders DBQ, that’ll prepare us for High School.  With research to back up my opinion here’s what I came up with.

Should the United States drill for oil in one of the major sanctuaries for arctic animals?  In one simple word my judgment could be explained; NO!  The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is the dominant place they have thought to drill in, is 1.5 million-acres for arctic nature to live his or her life cycle.  The citizens had an idea for the ANWR to perhaps be a vicinity to lower our gas prices. This mentioning will only cause dreadful cons in the near future.  It shall not be destroyed, is what all the research that I’ve gathered proves, but there are recommendations on the other side of our debate.  Drilling for oil in the ANWR is horrible advice to our country in my opinion, but it’s only a suggestion, there are additional alternatives.

There are so many ways the Alaskan environment could easily be affected by the United States drilling for oil.  Drilling in these areas would spoil the fragile environment and potentially kill many species of life. The national parks would lose their beauty and be unavailable for use by the general public, fi.edu stated.  This con fit very well with what’s going through my mind.   What’s not going through my mind properly is why our scheme was to drill, it will just build waste of additional oil because in the close years to come the United States will have invented electric cars. Electric cars will help Alaska of all the states the finest because, it’s the largest state.  If we do need extra oil in case electric cars take longer than expected to be designed, we can make substitutes.  That’s what lake.k12.fl.us suggests. Maybe find a new area to drill from.  Why drill in Alaska, why not China, it’s larger than Alaska and would supply more oil?  Or another backup would be to discover a technique to save oil.  

My secondary topic is the economy, if you assume the atmosphere isn’t going to deal well with the drilling, consider the cost-cutting measure. Why does everybody assume that the drilling will make us more money?  I would furthermore like to bring to your awareness, tourist will no longer be fond of vacationing to this state.  I also imagined an estimation of the cost to travel the machinery up to Alaska to drill.  That’s nuts.  Machinery is transported a big number of times to make gas prices go down but, this is diverse.  “Gas prices will go down [if the United States drills in Alaska]” a website I visited quoted.  The other websites that I’ve visited brought up a point of, gas and tax prices will only rise further in undersized years to help manufacture the environment to how it was originally.

Finally, the economy won’t be the only thing affected by the drilling so will the safety, which is the most important in my head.  The native’s critters, plants, and even the Alaskans could have a very likely chance to be injured by the drilling.  Emotionally and psychically, it can harm their hearts.  Not being able to get up with the sight of gorgeous doe in their backyards, could end in emotional harm to the hearts.  Kids can have an even harder time with breathing than adults because their lungs have yet to develop completely which would cause physical damage to their hearts.  I have a idea to avoid the harm.  In China, which I brought up before, the descent is spread further than Americans across the country.  To help safety of harass toward their country, moving closer to each other could assist making that a dream come true.  With the parts of villages not being occupied, they could drill from to get the oil we are in need of.

There are additional alternatives, instead of the horrible advice given to our country of drilling for oil in the ANWR.  Environment, economy, and safety concerns are highly like to erupt.  Choosing a side to consent with wasn’t difficult for me.  The government is able to take my recommendation any day.  

Sources:

·         "BalancedPolitics.org - ANWR Oil Drilling (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against, Advantages & Disadvantages)." BalancedPolitics.org - Free Balanced, Non-Partisan Discussion of Political & Social Issues for Debate (Pros and Cons - Decision Making Politics). N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2012. <http://www.balancedpolitics.org/anwr_drilling.htm>.

·         "The Secret Lives of Energy - The Energy Problem - Discussion Topics." The Franklin Institute - Home - 215.448.1200 . N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2012. <http://www.fi.edu/guide/hughes/topic3.html>.

·         "Should the United States Drill for Oil in Alaksa's Wilderness?." Should the United States Drill for Oil in Alaksa's Wilderness?. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2012. <http://lake.k12.fl.us/16722057105751950/lib/16722057105751950/_files/Alaskan_Oil-Student_Packet.pdf>.

What did the Child Call?

Author's Note: People don't understand how to truly cherish every living second of life on the Earth. I can’t say that I don’t, well I can now, now that I’ve read A Child Called “It”.  I will be responding to that story in my essay.

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them,” stated by Oscar Wilde.  I thought this quote related very well to the book because; many children forgive, but for children like Dave Pelzer, his “Ten Outstanding Young Americans” and “Outstanding Young Persons of the World” honor merit say there’s no logic to kiss and make up. He’s not the only person that isn’t able to laugh off what happened to him.  For the one out of five people in the world who are abused, according to “A Child Called It”, which is an estimation of 3 million children, can agree to this statement. With that said, this book pleased me because of it's bits and pieces of laughs and smiles it gave me, how it can compare to the other books and the real world.

I giggled for the first time when he calls his mom “a name”; the second time that I smiled was when he told the reader’s he was going to survive her games.  A Child Called “It” isn’t necessarily pleasing as in satisfying and peaceful, but it’s good in a way to keep me turning pages.  My most cherished, incomparable part of the book is the beginning, which is usually not the case, but in the beginning they give you limited knowledge of the future. Dave Pelzer is his own super hero.  Heroes are often in a ginormous majority of the books I’ve read since I can have a ball reading a non-fictional story with a bitter side, but heroes take away that factor from the equation. On that note, comparing A Child Called “It” to Perfect can take place because they’re both all about healing.  Perfect isn’t like A Child Called “It” in an additional way in the behalf of, the most marvelous morsel in A Child Called “It” is up in front and Perfect’s number one segment is the end.  

Although this book made me laugh a few times, it still was heartbreaking because of the fact that it truly happened. In the real world people take as gospel that their parents are ruining their lives because, they won’t let them get a phone, but they don’t know Dave Pelzer’s definition of hard. Dave Pelzer’s mind is set to the definition of hard as: not being fed at all in 7 days. Hard is referred to in our heads as having something we don’t like on our plates.  Opinions are opinions; I can’t really relate to this book.  We can’t dismiss the fact that some parents are being abused by their children, it’s not always the children being abused.  Guess I could relate to that since my friend always yells in her mom’s ears, and licks her face, and hits her until I say “You know what that’s not cool,”; I think I could be her savior, such as Dave’s dad.  Although in the book, his dad has to work and can’t always save his butt; likewise with me, I can’t sleepover every night.    

The bits and pieces of laughs and smiles it gave me, and how it compared to the real world and other books is why A Child Called "It" pleased me.  Too bad he wasn’t able to cram this in the back of his mind, the only part not contained with his mother’s rules. This point can relate to the quote “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it,” which was stated by Helen Keller. Why I chose that quote is because in A Child Called “It”, Dave Pelzer was full of suffer in the beginning, but he overcame it in the end. That’s why this tragedy is such a good read.  

Perfect or Not Perfect?

Perfect or Not Perfect?

Author's Note-- My 20th piece is my second literary analysis.  About a book I would recommended to all and rate 5 stars. I hope I've improved.  I've been working on writing a proficient conclusion, using AB transitions, and increasing my proficiency in sentence fluency.  If I do say so myself, I'm quite proud of this piece.  I bet I can recite this by heart now all the times I've re-read.  Thanks Mrs. Mundt for all your help.  I hope I give you all a better look upon bulimia.

Wouldn’t a book titled Perfect be about someone who’s oh I don’t know, what’s the word I’m looking for, oh ya PERFECT?  I stand corrected.  Perfect is a superb book.  It’s nowhere near being about a perfect human being.  Truly it’s about two flawless people who don’t know that they’re sublime.  It’s one of those books you want to jump in and scream, “YOU ARE PERFECT!” and have them do a double take.  In Perfect Natasha Friend, the author, perfectly captures the message of; going bulimic is not the road to take when tragedy hits.  

Just in case you don’t happen to be familiar with bulimia; it’s an eating disorder when people purposely make themselves throw up after eating.  One of the emotional effects of bulimia included in the book was putting yourself down ,but not putting yourself down is one of the steps to becoming perfect.  Isabelle, the main character was effected in this way by not feeling that she is worthy of living and she is against her look.  A few minor effects would include depression, fear of gaining weight, anxiety, dizziness, shame, and low self-esteem.  Visualize a minority of major emotional effects of bulimia. To believe this is the second most common eating disorder because of hopelessness, that’s heartbreaking. 

While still visualizing a minority of major emotional effects of bulimia, don’t over-look the physical effects of bulimia.  Very few of the physical effects of bulimia included blood in the puke, hair loss, dry skin, dental damage, organ damage, immune system damage, weak muscles, irregular heartbeat, problems with digestion, and decrease in body temperature.  In the book the second main character, Ashley is familiar to bleeding after vomiting.  Even writing this makes me nauseous.  So now let me ask you.  Why in the world would you think going to the extreme of becoming bulimic is the path to take? 

            Going bulimic is not the road to take when tragedy hits, Natasha Friend captured this message strikingly in Perfect.  This author, once wrote, “If you believe in something stand up for it even if everyone is sitting.”  That quote was stated by Trish and to me that reminds me of Rosa Parks not giving up her seat to a white person.  There's no right or wrong answers in belief, which is the point Natasha is trying to get across in Perfect.

Lyrics to Live By

Lyrics to Live By

Author's Note-- You know it's a good song when your learning it on guitar and want to sing along even though you know your a bad singer.  It can be a sign when it's the song your mouthing in drama.  Sometimes songs are special. 

Mr know it all
Well ya think you know it all
But ya don't know a thing at all
Ain't it something y'all
When somebody tells you something bout you
Think that they know you more than you do
So you take it down another pill to swallow

Mr bring me down
Well ya like to bring me down don't ya
But I ain't laying down
Can't nobody tell me how it's gonna be
Nobody's gonna make a fool out of me
Baby you should know that I had not follow

[Chorus]
Oh you think that you know me
That's why I'm leaving you lonely
Cause baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me

You ain't got the right to tell me
When and where to go, no right to tell me
Acting like you own me lately
Yeah baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me

Mr play your games
Only got yourself to blame
But I ain't falling back again
Cause I'm living my truth without your lies
Let's be clear baby this is goodbye
I ain't coming back tomorrow

[Chorus]
Oh you think that you know me
That's why I'm leaving you lonely
Cause baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me

You ain't got the right to tell me
When and where to go, no right to tell me
Acting like you own me lately
Yeah baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me

[Bridge]
So what you've got the world at your feet
And you know everything about everything
But you don't
You still think I'm coming back but baby you'll see

[Chorus]
Oh you think that you know me
That's why I'm leaving you lonely
Cause baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me

You ain't got the right to tell me
When and where to go, no right to tell me
Acting like you own me lately
Yeah baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me

Mr know it all
Well ya think you know it all
But ya don't know a thing at all
Yeah baby you don't know a thing about me
You don't know a thing about me 

Mr. Know it all by Kelly Clarkson is a song I listen to over and over on my iPod.   I think what she is trying to sing out and spread the word of, no one knows you as good as you know yourself.  People think they know every little detail of your life and they think they know when your sad and they think they know why.  It's a lot of what's happening in my life change can be for the better like finding new friends but, then someone will always be jealous and you'll have to choose.  So, what if you get a few new things for Christmas.  You start wearing brown mascara instead of clear.  You put a cheetah print skirt (which everyone loves) and a lace vest (which is something almost everyone should and or does have in their closet) together and there's a big transition, from jean skirt to printed skirt.  Vest with jeans to vest with skirt.  WOW! :)

Hearts in Weird Places

Hearts in Weird Places

Author's Note-- This creative writing piece tells everyone you can find love in the oddest places.  You just have to keep your eye out.

 

It's nice to see that even nature is full of heart.  My eye is drawn straight to the heart in the center that's parsley hidden.  To me that shows that true love is hidden you have to look.  You think this picture was something you saw but, didn't have to look for.  NO!

L-O-V-E

L-O-V-E

Author's Note-- This creative writing piece tells how love can get in the way of the little things in life. 

“What I would give to be loved back.  I love but, only if I were lucky would I be loved back.  Am I lucky?  No!”    As, I presented my monologue for drama, people look at me in sympathy.  I look straight into my crushes eyes and he was already starring.  That’s the best feeling in the world.  I got red in the face and quietly walked awkwardly back to my seat.  This was the only class that I could be myself, drama was my life.  My monologue wasn’t something I needed to act out it was that someone I was.  Like I said in my monologue I’m not one to be known as lucky.  To prove my point my seat was right next to my crushes.  “Meet me outside after school and I’ll walk you home” my crush whispered into my ear.  My heart dropped.  Everyone knew that was the first sign that your crush liked you back.  I whispered, “Okay” back and he looked me straight in the eyes and smiled. 

The only reason I think I didn’t faint t was because, I couldn’t wait for him to walk me home.  I met him outside and we started walking in silence, my house was 2 miles away from school and it’s raining.  “Was that monologue you presented today about…?” my crush said in his beautiful voice.   “… me?”, what should I say, should I lie?  I’m the worst liar though, my friends tell me all the time.  “Yes” I couldn’t stop the words as they came out my mouth.  He leans forward head cocked to the right slightly and all I can help but, think is this is the moment that I will remember for the rest of my life.  I breathe out and tilt my head to the right slightly.  I look at him, his eyes are closed and as I begin to close my eyes I think, this is what happens in the movies, what my monologue was all about.  Our lips meet in the center and my arms wrap around his neck and his around my waist his right hand rested on the small of my back.  I never wanted it to end.  It was pouring by now and I release my lips from his and he holds his hand out for me to hold.  We walk in silence until, “You made the wrong turn.”  “I know” he says all nonchalant.  I turn and see a tree house and he leads me up we talking for 2 straight hours until I kiss him goodbye and run home to think I’m dead, I didn’t tell my parents.  

Point of View

Point of View

Author's Note-- Have you ever thought to yourself, what do you think this object's point of view is?  What do you think they like or dislike about being them. For this writing piece I was told to write from a point a view of an object I got for Christmas and I knew exactly what I wanted to write about.


I hated just sitting on that hook looking at all of my other North Face friends colored black and white. Picked off their hangers and taken home with blind people. I'm the prettiest color of all, purple!  Then one day this nice women picked me off my hook and took me home.  I knew I'd be a Christmas present so, I'd be stuck in a box for 9 hours but, it was all worth it (did I mention I'm claustrophobic).  I'm now worn all the time and help keep the cold away from Emma, my owner.  If I would've gotten picked off my hanger by a stinky, ugly person I would've have killed myself if I could.

I mean I have nothing to complain about I have the best life in the world, I get to see happy faces when I'm opened and worn all the time while bragged about.  Emma being my owner makes life even better than the best life, her smile when she opened me, priceless and she tells everyone how much she loves me and how comfortable I am.  There's only one bad thing about being me.  If I'm broken I get  locked in a box back to North Face to be fixed because, North Face will fix your zipper if it's broken and then I have to be locked back in to travel back to this stupid person's house; at least Emma's not one of those people.  It's not that hard all you have to do is jiggle the zipper up and down right then left (not left then right, then it'll break the zipper even more) and it's fixed.

I'm glad I didn't turn out to be like my friend.  Speaking of my friend he hasn't written me in 6 months, do you think my friend's okay?