The Amazon forest is good for the eyes and more for the health. That’s why we need to keep our forest in good condition. The governments around the world are facing this illegal logging problem. People are still doing this illegal logging, even though they are breaking the law. Illegal logging’s definition is cutting trees and timber without government authorization. They cut down the trees because they want to make money by selling it to some other country. ”Amazon tree-cutting reached its highest level in decades, according to statistics released by the government two weeks ago. Last year, more than 10,000 square miles were cut down” (Reel, 2005, para. 8). We can see that the government is trying to stop illegal logging, but it is still going on. Forest is nature and they should appreciate it.
Green house affect is one of the problems that came from illegal logging. Green house affect is because of less trees and less of oxygen. Our world is getting hotter everyday because of illegal logging. It all started from illegal logging. They cut trees and sell it to some other country. This will make the trees in the forest getting lesser. These trees are very useful to us because it can give us many benefits. One of the benefits is the trees produce oxygen and we need the oxygen to breath. If the trees is on the right time to cut is better but if it’s too young, it is bad because the young trees have no change to grow. If the trees have been cut down, a lot of species will die because their habitat is gone. For some species will go to another place and that is a risk for the animal because some species is not used to other places. We need all this types of species because there contribute in some other ways that we can’t see. Example, bird need trees to live but if they is less trees, the bird species will be less too because lack of trees.
Many people do illegal logging because there is no one stopping them on doing it. This is a problem because government is not watching them doing illegal logging. Maybe there are some watching but it is weak because they still doing illegal logging. The government must wake up and see what illegal logging is doing to their country. But sometimes they use people inside to make this happen, with people helping them, it is easy to do logging in illegal way. This is why there are many illegal logging going on in this world. We can change that if we tightened the law. Change the people inside that helping them to a responsible people. Furthermore, illegal logging tend to promotes corruption in some other way, because when they do illegal logging they usually will do it again. If they did not start at first they will not do illegal things. Many people keep on thinking about money and money is the most dangerous thing. This is because money can make people want to do illegal stuff example like illegal logging. They do this because illegal logging is easy to get money. In other words, if they try and make profit out of it, they will do it again. So, they get money from illegal logging and happy about it, this will make them do illegal things again because they are successful for the first time. Illegal logging is really bad because people can practice corruption.
These are ways that we need to take to stop illegal logging. First, we should give everyone an education to learn about illegal logging. Next, we should find the roads that they use for illegal logging and block them. Similarly, we should tighten the law by punishing them really strictly. Finally, make them think about the future.
An education is the most important thing in our life. So, if we teach the younger people how to protect our forest, maybe they will follow what they learn. For instance, when we teach our kids, it is easier to teach them compared to the older ones, because the kids will listen but the old ones sometimes will not. For the kids, we just let them know about the bad things in illegal logging and will think it more when they grow up. But we need to provide a class for the old people too. This is because we need to tell them about the problem we are facing right now illegal logging. Also, we need to do a class in college about the environment and make everyone take that class, even though some people don’t like that class. In that class we need to teach them about how to take care our world because we need all that trees in the forest. Example, if the person already learned about the environment in college, obviously the person knows about the deforestation. The person will think before, anything goes into the person mind of doing something like illegal logging. It can change some things around us by giving them an education.
One way is find the road and if the road is found, destroy it. If they want to do illegal logging they need a road to steal the trees. So, if we block the road we can stop them from doing illegal logging. They cannot enter the place anymore, so they won’t do logging. Same as if they use the right road but someone just let them go through because they are friends. This is corruption because they do illegal thing letting his friend go through. For example, if we put someone in charges that are responsible, maybe this will not occur. We also can use a satellite to track down the people doing illegal logging in the forest because satellite can see from on top of the forest. First, they need a computer that connected to the satellite so that they can use the satellite to look down on earth. By using this they can see anything from above the earth. Use this satellite to track down all the loggers and find them if they are illegal. Some forest gone in the middle and the side still have trees. This is one of the illegal logging actions because they don’t want people to know so they just take the timber from the middle of the forest. They just can find out using a satellite of a helicopter. After we know, we can catch them and put them in jail. This will slow it down or stop it.
Illegal logging is an action that breaks the law. Illegal logging is still going on because their laws is not that tight. But some do illegal logging in different way, like when there want to export to another country they avoid taxes. There are someway they do that but only them know it. This is called illegal logging because export timber without taxes. This is because they more profit out of it that why they avoid the taxes. Therefore, the law will take action if they get caught. The loggers also know that they are breaking the rules, but they still do it. If the law get tightened maybe they will get scared. For example, punish them with $100,000 fine and 10 years in jail if they get caught. The punishment is very bad that people don't want to think of doing illegal logging. That is one of the punishment but the second time they get caught they will spend the rest of their live in prison with $200,000 fine. The loggers will think twice before they want to start illegal logging. According to Astor (2006) “Police arrested 46 people, including 16 agents of the federal environmental protection agency, for allegedly operating illegal logging operations in the Amazon rainforest and in southern Brazil, the environment ministry said Wednesday” (para.1). This is because the punishment is so heavy that they don’t want to take the risk doing it. In “Illegal logging threatens 98 percent loss of Southeast Asian rainforests by 2022 –UN” the author said that the habitat of tens of thousands of endangered orangutans has been threatened (2007). This is because illegal logging disturbed many things in the forest. Illegal logging needs to be stopped.
My opponents said that they don’t care about illegal logging. Abetz (2006) said that “PNG governments had turned a blind eye to illegal logging”. This argument is simply wrong because they don’t think about the future. Do they think about their kids future? If they just ignore illegal logging, there will be more of these actions happening. Whose is going to get the consequence? Our kids will get it because they are people of the future. This is bad felling that our kids will never see the beauty of the green forest like we seen it before. This is all because some people do illegal logging with cutting more trees in the forest to get money. According to Larsen (2002-07) “ in brazil, with the world’s most deforestation rate, where an estimated 80 percent of logging is illegal; in Mexico, which is losing over 1 million hectares each year; and in Ethiopia, where in just 40 years forest cover the plummeted from around 40 million hectares to 2.7 million, only half of which is natural forest” (para. 12). The oxygen will be less and less; this is coming in the future. Also, global warming will occur and the greenhouse effect. This will make our world hard to live in.
In conclusion, these are some of the ways to prevent illegal logging: give everyone an education about illegal logging, block the road that they use for illegal logging, tighten the law by punishing them really badly, and make them think about the future. We really need to stop the illegal logging because our world will be destroy if they don't stop it. There are many bad things about this illegal logging, for example like green house affect, corruption, environmental damage and animal loss habitat because of illegal logging. If this illegal logging is stopped maybe they can plant more trees in this world and do it legally. People will be happy if there is no illegal logging and many people don't need to make corruption everyway. This action needs to be stopped so that we can live in a better world. If illegal logging is stopped, we will be in a great place in the world to live.
Reference
Astor, M. (2006, August 9). Brazil police arrest 46 in major crackdown on illegal Amazon logging. Associated Press Worldstream. Retrieved on December 04, 2007, from Lexis Nexis
Government ignoring illegal logging. (2006, June 28). PacNews (Pacific Island News Service). Retrieved on November 8, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Illegal logging threatens 98 pct loss of Southeast Asian rainforests by 2022 –UN. (2007, February 6). AFX International Focus. Retrieved on November 8, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Larsen, J. (2002, May 21). Illegal logging threatens ecological and economic stability. Earth Policy Institute. Retrieved on November 1, 2007, from http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update11.htm
Reel, M. (2005, June 12). As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks. The Washington Post. Retrieved on October 23, 2007. from Lexis Nexis.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wal-Mart is getting larger with time to time.
There are many stores in Carbondale, but the biggest is Wal-Mart. Everybody likes Wal-mart because it is cheaper and easier. People prefer to go to Wal-Mart rather than other stores because it is so big that people can get everything there. Moreover, Wal-Mart is increasing the economy in the U.S.; according to USA TODAY (2003) “Wal-Mart’s influence on the U.S. economy has reached levels not seen by a single company since the 19th-century rise of Standard Oil, economists and historians say” (para.1). One of the most successful companies in the history of business is Wal-Mart (Locke, 2004). Wal-Mart is very successful because the man who started Wal-Mart is very smart. Wal-Mart is beneficial because it provides jobs and people can save a lot of money.
Wal-Mart provides jobs for many people. For example, in Carbondale many people are working in Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart needed more workers because it opens twenty-four hours every day, seven days a week. This is good for some people because some people cannot find jobs and they can find jobs easily in Wal-Mart. Hoeing (2004) says in the year 2005, Wal-Mart give 125,000 American jobs, and is still giving a thousand each month. This is really helpful for them that sit around at home with no jobs because they can work in Wal-Mart. According to USA TODAY (2003),”Wal-Mart’s key role in the 1995-99 economic boom came partly because of its legendary use of technology to analyze costs and speed delivery of goods from its 30,00 suppliers to dozen of sprawling warehouses, say retail and financial analysts”(para. 28).
Secondly, Wal-Mart always advertises their store and says “low price guarantee”. This quote really attracts people’s attention. This is also true because the things inside Wal-Mart are cheap. Like Hoenig (2004) says,“the company’s “low price guarantee” shouldn’t be dismissed as a marketing catchphrase: estimates suggest the average Wal-Mart can save a family over $2,000 a year compared to shopping at higher priced alternatives” (para. 6). This is really helpful because if people can save that much money they can buy something else. For example, with that much money people can buy a chair, bed, or T.V.
My opponents say that Wal-Mart is giving more jobs to men. For example, Drogin (2003) says, “women comprise 92% of Wal-Mart’s cashiers, but only 33% of its managers.” (p. 10). This is so irrelevant, because women usually stay at home to become a housewife and man has to do the work and find money, and this is a normal human life. Many women are cashier, because they may be young; that is just wasting their time waiting for a result or finding schools. Many of the managers are men because men do work fast and well. This is why fewer women work in Wal-Mart and more men are managers.
In conclusion, Wal-Mart is beneficial because it is cheap and gives jobs to people. This store can make us save a lot of money. This is why Wal-Mart is good for the society. Building a new supercenter in the Carbondale-Murphysboro area is nothing wrong because it will give more benefit for people around it because it is closer.
Reference
Drogin, R. (2003). Wal-Mart. NY times. Retrieved on November 27,2007, from http://www.walmartclass.com/staticdata/reports/r2.pdf.
Hoeing, J. (2004 February). Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 27, 2007, from http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$858.
Locke, E. (2004 February). Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 27, 2007, from http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3534.
Wal-Mart. (2003 January). USA Today. Retrieved on November 27, 2007, from http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm.
Wal-Mart provides jobs for many people. For example, in Carbondale many people are working in Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart needed more workers because it opens twenty-four hours every day, seven days a week. This is good for some people because some people cannot find jobs and they can find jobs easily in Wal-Mart. Hoeing (2004) says in the year 2005, Wal-Mart give 125,000 American jobs, and is still giving a thousand each month. This is really helpful for them that sit around at home with no jobs because they can work in Wal-Mart. According to USA TODAY (2003),”Wal-Mart’s key role in the 1995-99 economic boom came partly because of its legendary use of technology to analyze costs and speed delivery of goods from its 30,00 suppliers to dozen of sprawling warehouses, say retail and financial analysts”(para. 28).
Secondly, Wal-Mart always advertises their store and says “low price guarantee”. This quote really attracts people’s attention. This is also true because the things inside Wal-Mart are cheap. Like Hoenig (2004) says,“the company’s “low price guarantee” shouldn’t be dismissed as a marketing catchphrase: estimates suggest the average Wal-Mart can save a family over $2,000 a year compared to shopping at higher priced alternatives” (para. 6). This is really helpful because if people can save that much money they can buy something else. For example, with that much money people can buy a chair, bed, or T.V.
My opponents say that Wal-Mart is giving more jobs to men. For example, Drogin (2003) says, “women comprise 92% of Wal-Mart’s cashiers, but only 33% of its managers.” (p. 10). This is so irrelevant, because women usually stay at home to become a housewife and man has to do the work and find money, and this is a normal human life. Many women are cashier, because they may be young; that is just wasting their time waiting for a result or finding schools. Many of the managers are men because men do work fast and well. This is why fewer women work in Wal-Mart and more men are managers.
In conclusion, Wal-Mart is beneficial because it is cheap and gives jobs to people. This store can make us save a lot of money. This is why Wal-Mart is good for the society. Building a new supercenter in the Carbondale-Murphysboro area is nothing wrong because it will give more benefit for people around it because it is closer.
Reference
Drogin, R. (2003). Wal-Mart. NY times. Retrieved on November 27,2007, from http://www.walmartclass.com/staticdata/reports/r2.pdf.
Hoeing, J. (2004 February). Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 27, 2007, from http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$858.
Locke, E. (2004 February). Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 27, 2007, from http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3534.
Wal-Mart. (2003 January). USA Today. Retrieved on November 27, 2007, from http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Illegal logging make the forest shrink
The Amazon forest is good for the eyes and more for the health. That’s why we need to keep our forest in good condition. The governments around the world are facing this illegal logging problem. People are still doing this illegal logging, even though they are breaking the law. Illegal logging’s definition is cutting trees and timber without government authorization. They cut down the trees because they want to make money by selling it to some other country. ”Amazon tree-cutting reached its highest level in decades, according to statistics released by the government two weeks ago. Last year, more than 10,000 square miles were cut down” (Reel, 2005, para. 8). We can see that the government is trying to stop illegal logging, but it is still going on. Forest is nature and they should appreciate it.
These are ways that we need to take to stop illegal logging. First, we should give everyone an education to learn about illegal logging. Next, we should find the roads that they use for illegal logging and block them. Similarly, we should tighten the law by punishing them really strictly. Finally, make them think about the future.
An education is the most important thing in our life. So, if we teach the younger people how to protect our forest, maybe they will follow what they learn. For instance, when we teach our kids, it is easier to teach them compared to the older ones, because the kids will listen but the old ones sometimes will not. But we need to provide a class for the old people too. This is because we need to tell them about the problem we are facing right now illegal logging. Also, we need to do a class in college about the environment and make everyone take that class, even though some people don’t like that class. It can change some things around us by giving them an education.
If they want to do illegal logging they need a road to steal the trees. So, if we block the road we can stop them from doing illegal logging. One way is find the road and if the road is found, destroy it. They cannot enter the place anymore, so they won’t do logging. We also can use a satellite to track down the people doing illegal logging in the forest because satellite can see from on top of the forest. After we know, we can catch them and put them in jail. This will slow it down or stop it.
Illegal logging is an action that breaks the law. Therefore, the law will take action if they get caught. The loggers also know that they are breaking the rules, but they still do it. If the law get tightened maybe they will get scared. For example, punish them with $100,000 fine and 10 years in jail if they get caught. The loggers will think twice before they want to start illegal logging. This is because the punishment is so heavy that they don’t want to take the risk doing it. In “Illegal logging threatens 98 percent loss of Southeast Asian rainforests by 2022 –UN” the author said that the habitat of tens of thousands of endangered orangutans has been threatened (2007). This is because illegal logging disturbed many things in the forest. Illegal logging needs to be stopped.
My opponents said that they don’t care about illegal logging. Abetz (2006) said that “PNG governments had turned a blind eye to illegal logging”. This argument is simply wrong because they don’t think about the future. Do they think about their kids future? If they just ignore illegal logging, there will be more of these actions happening. The oxygen will be less and less; this is coming in the future. Also, global warming will occur and the greenhouse effect. This will make our world hard to live in.
In conclusion, these are some of the ways to prevent illegal logging: give everyone an education about illegal logging, block the road that they use for illegal logging, tighten the law by punishing them really badly, and make them think about the future. This action needs to be stopped so that we can live in a better world.
Reference
Government ignoring illegal logging. (2006, June 28). PacNews (Pacific Island News Service). Retrieved on November 8, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Illegal logging threatens 98 pct loss of Southeast Asian rainforests by 2022 –UN. (2007, February 6). AFX International Focus. Retrieved on November 8, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Reel, M. (2005, June 12). As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks. The Washington Post. Retrieved on October 23, 2007. from Lexis Nexis.
These are ways that we need to take to stop illegal logging. First, we should give everyone an education to learn about illegal logging. Next, we should find the roads that they use for illegal logging and block them. Similarly, we should tighten the law by punishing them really strictly. Finally, make them think about the future.
An education is the most important thing in our life. So, if we teach the younger people how to protect our forest, maybe they will follow what they learn. For instance, when we teach our kids, it is easier to teach them compared to the older ones, because the kids will listen but the old ones sometimes will not. But we need to provide a class for the old people too. This is because we need to tell them about the problem we are facing right now illegal logging. Also, we need to do a class in college about the environment and make everyone take that class, even though some people don’t like that class. It can change some things around us by giving them an education.
If they want to do illegal logging they need a road to steal the trees. So, if we block the road we can stop them from doing illegal logging. One way is find the road and if the road is found, destroy it. They cannot enter the place anymore, so they won’t do logging. We also can use a satellite to track down the people doing illegal logging in the forest because satellite can see from on top of the forest. After we know, we can catch them and put them in jail. This will slow it down or stop it.
Illegal logging is an action that breaks the law. Therefore, the law will take action if they get caught. The loggers also know that they are breaking the rules, but they still do it. If the law get tightened maybe they will get scared. For example, punish them with $100,000 fine and 10 years in jail if they get caught. The loggers will think twice before they want to start illegal logging. This is because the punishment is so heavy that they don’t want to take the risk doing it. In “Illegal logging threatens 98 percent loss of Southeast Asian rainforests by 2022 –UN” the author said that the habitat of tens of thousands of endangered orangutans has been threatened (2007). This is because illegal logging disturbed many things in the forest. Illegal logging needs to be stopped.
My opponents said that they don’t care about illegal logging. Abetz (2006) said that “PNG governments had turned a blind eye to illegal logging”. This argument is simply wrong because they don’t think about the future. Do they think about their kids future? If they just ignore illegal logging, there will be more of these actions happening. The oxygen will be less and less; this is coming in the future. Also, global warming will occur and the greenhouse effect. This will make our world hard to live in.
In conclusion, these are some of the ways to prevent illegal logging: give everyone an education about illegal logging, block the road that they use for illegal logging, tighten the law by punishing them really badly, and make them think about the future. This action needs to be stopped so that we can live in a better world.
Reference
Government ignoring illegal logging. (2006, June 28). PacNews (Pacific Island News Service). Retrieved on November 8, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Illegal logging threatens 98 pct loss of Southeast Asian rainforests by 2022 –UN. (2007, February 6). AFX International Focus. Retrieved on November 8, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Reel, M. (2005, June 12). As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks. The Washington Post. Retrieved on October 23, 2007. from Lexis Nexis.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
summary response #2
Mike Imbayan
Writer’s workshop
Summary response #2
Mr.Leverett
10/29/07
Mr. Osava(2005) talks about the soybean and the forest today. Brazillian companies are not going to buy soybean from deforested areas. Deforestation has been decreasing in the last few years and the government is taking advantage of that, so they can make the forest beautiful. They can focus on a new law on public forests if they can stop illegal logging. Soy plantations are very bad for the future and will pollute the water. Export firms are now trying to preserve the jungles. They are now protecting the Amazon forest by negotiating with the traders. Greenpeace is protecting the future and the Amazon people and soy traders are helping them now. They set up a working group and found that the jungles have been deforested to make way for the soybean.
The Amazon forest is good for the eyes and more for the health. So, we need to keep the forest safe from the traders or the people that do illegal logging. Maybe in the future there will be less oxygen in the air and also fewer trees. Therefore, society needs to take care of our forest and needs to take this problem seriously. The forest is not the problem, but the people are the ones who make this problem. Why do they do such a thing to the beautiful forest? People must prevent the illegal logging because these actions make the forest thinner. There are some of the ways to stop illegal logging: don’t let them cut down the trees, tighten the law and make them realize the results.
People cannot just cut the trees down if there is no government involved because that is illegal. The government is the one that checks the trees if it is time for them to be cut down. The forest is like our oxygen. So, if there is less forest, the oxygen is getting less too, and oxygen is the thing that makes us breathe. If there are fewer trees in this world, it can affect the greenhouse gases because less oxygen causes the greenhouse effect. Maybe there will be fewer fresh air in the future if cutting down tree is still going on.
Illegal logging is something connected with the law, because illegal means breaking the law. The law needs to be tightens so that there is less illegal logging. Make the law tight, like catch the people that do illegal logging, and put them in jail for two years and fine them fifty thousand more than the usual fine. Maybe that will slow it down, because maybe they are scared of the law. Some people don’t want to disturb the law because they are scared that they will go to jail and ruin their life. Some people just do it for money and this type of person needs to be put in jail; because of them, some of the people get poorer. This is because people that can get trees legally did not get them, but people who do it illegally are getting the trees. This is so unfair for the society.
These people that are doing illegal logging need to realize that they are doing a bad job, because if they are the people that are getting the trees, someone else cannot get them. How would they feel if people do that to them? Maybe they will get mad because of that situation, because other people do it illegally and they do it legally. So, these people need to feel as if they are in a different position. Maybe they don’t realize that their kids will not get to look at beautiful nature because their father ruined it. When the time comes, then they will realize that.
In conclusion, these are some of the ways to prevent illegal logging: take care of the trees, make the law dangerous, and get illegal loggers to see a different view. If all these ways are followed in the future, they will still have a nice forest. Kids will still get to see the nice forest in the future. People will get fresh air every time and the government will not make the law tighter. No doubt that the forest will be beautiful again if the they use these ways.
Reference
Osava, M. (2006, July 7). Brazil: Soy industry pact can help save Amazon rainforest. Inter Press Service. Retrieved on October 29, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Writer’s workshop
Summary response #2
Mr.Leverett
10/29/07
Mr. Osava(2005) talks about the soybean and the forest today. Brazillian companies are not going to buy soybean from deforested areas. Deforestation has been decreasing in the last few years and the government is taking advantage of that, so they can make the forest beautiful. They can focus on a new law on public forests if they can stop illegal logging. Soy plantations are very bad for the future and will pollute the water. Export firms are now trying to preserve the jungles. They are now protecting the Amazon forest by negotiating with the traders. Greenpeace is protecting the future and the Amazon people and soy traders are helping them now. They set up a working group and found that the jungles have been deforested to make way for the soybean.
The Amazon forest is good for the eyes and more for the health. So, we need to keep the forest safe from the traders or the people that do illegal logging. Maybe in the future there will be less oxygen in the air and also fewer trees. Therefore, society needs to take care of our forest and needs to take this problem seriously. The forest is not the problem, but the people are the ones who make this problem. Why do they do such a thing to the beautiful forest? People must prevent the illegal logging because these actions make the forest thinner. There are some of the ways to stop illegal logging: don’t let them cut down the trees, tighten the law and make them realize the results.
People cannot just cut the trees down if there is no government involved because that is illegal. The government is the one that checks the trees if it is time for them to be cut down. The forest is like our oxygen. So, if there is less forest, the oxygen is getting less too, and oxygen is the thing that makes us breathe. If there are fewer trees in this world, it can affect the greenhouse gases because less oxygen causes the greenhouse effect. Maybe there will be fewer fresh air in the future if cutting down tree is still going on.
Illegal logging is something connected with the law, because illegal means breaking the law. The law needs to be tightens so that there is less illegal logging. Make the law tight, like catch the people that do illegal logging, and put them in jail for two years and fine them fifty thousand more than the usual fine. Maybe that will slow it down, because maybe they are scared of the law. Some people don’t want to disturb the law because they are scared that they will go to jail and ruin their life. Some people just do it for money and this type of person needs to be put in jail; because of them, some of the people get poorer. This is because people that can get trees legally did not get them, but people who do it illegally are getting the trees. This is so unfair for the society.
These people that are doing illegal logging need to realize that they are doing a bad job, because if they are the people that are getting the trees, someone else cannot get them. How would they feel if people do that to them? Maybe they will get mad because of that situation, because other people do it illegally and they do it legally. So, these people need to feel as if they are in a different position. Maybe they don’t realize that their kids will not get to look at beautiful nature because their father ruined it. When the time comes, then they will realize that.
In conclusion, these are some of the ways to prevent illegal logging: take care of the trees, make the law dangerous, and get illegal loggers to see a different view. If all these ways are followed in the future, they will still have a nice forest. Kids will still get to see the nice forest in the future. People will get fresh air every time and the government will not make the law tighter. No doubt that the forest will be beautiful again if the they use these ways.
Reference
Osava, M. (2006, July 7). Brazil: Soy industry pact can help save Amazon rainforest. Inter Press Service. Retrieved on October 29, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
summary response -illegal logging
Mike jermaine j.imbayan
Writer’s workshop
Summary response
Mr.Leverett
10/24/07
In Reel’s (2005) article entitled “As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks” he points out that illegal logging can affect the people that are living in the forest. Five Irantxe tribesman go in to the Amazon forest and see that it is a different place. It looks like it is not a forest anymore. Many trees have been cut down and in many cases it is illegally. They all think about money; that's why they do illegal logging. When a member of the government took a look at the tribes land he got shot in the chest with an arrow, because the tribe thought they were bad people. Some agency is protecting the forest and they are focusing on it. Some agency is helping the tribe by letting them buy anything they want, but they refuse, and they said they just want their land protected. This situation needs to be looked at seriously.
People in this world don’t really think that some situation is really a problem that can affect many things. This is because illegal logging is really bad for the people and the environment. There are many bad things about this situation. Is this what people in this world want our environment to be? They don't appreciate the things god made. People in this world should appreciate what they have and not ruin it for the sake of money. Illegal logging is criminal because they destroy the forest, disaster will happen and less oxygen in the air.
They don’t know that the habitat in the forest will be gone if they do the illegal logging, because some animals need trees to live. For example, birds need trees to live because they live in them. If many of the trees have been cut down, how will the bird live? They will die, because there are not enough trees. Moreover, not only birds, but many species, will die because the forest has been disturbed by logging. This is not good for the species or the environment.
There are many problems that will occur, like landslides, because if there are no trees, landslides will be likely to happen. This is really dangerous, because disaster will happen. When landslides happen with floods, it will make a big disaster and sometimes it is likely to take lives.
In this world no humans like disaster and bad things that happen to them. We just want a peaceful place to live in this world, for instance, with a nice forest to look at in every direction. Humans like green with many green plants there is more oxygen and people will breathe in fresh air. Also the tribe will want a good place to live. This is really good if there is no illegal logging and people control the logging. They can recycle things and control the cutting of the trees.
In conclusion, illegal logging is really evil because species will be gone and natural problems will occur. That's why illegal logging can affect many things in this world. So, people need to look at this problem seriously so that this problem can get lower.
Reference
Reel, M. (2005, June 12). As Amazon crops grow, a forest shrinks. The
practice summary response
Mike jermaine j.imbayan
Writer’s workshop
Summary response
Mr.Leverett
10/21/07
In Bhattacharya’s (2004) article entitled “Global warming threatens millions of species”, she points out that the temperature nowadays can make the species die. When the temperature changes they feel like they are in a new place, and this will make many of the species disappear. Some species will move to another place because their habitat is gone. Some species will survive but they try their best to live. Although some species will die, some will live when they migrate to different places because of the temperature. The new environment for the species may always be smaller than the one that they lived in before. Action needs to be taken as soon as possible.
Global warming is bad for our earth because it can kill many animals and plants. Whose fault is it that this happens? We think that it is our fault that global warming occurs because some of these people on this planet don't really think about what they have done. Some people don’t care about global warming until it affects them, then they become aware of it. This is something really serious, because it can affect our lives too; not only the people that make this happen, but also the innocent people will get the effect. So, people in this world must work together to take action and solve this problem, because the future will get affected.
This is not good for the future because we all need animals and plants to live. Every person in this world today needs food to live and the food they get is from animals and plants. We need to take care of these species because they all are useful. Because of all these species in this world effect us in different ways, so we need to thank them for the one that make us live in this world. Furthermore, we need to keep all the species alive, because they are living things in this world. They contribute something in many different ways; maybe we don’t know how but they do. This will make our world really nice to live in.
Similarly, the temperature on this earth is getting hotter and hotter and this is really bad. The greenhouse effect will affect everybody in this world. One of the effect is the ozone will get thinner and thinner every time the greenhouse getting worse. This is also because many people cut all the tree on this earth and there is less oxygen in the air. It can cause the greenhouse effect and the atmosphere will be thinner.
All the people in this world will be really angry because they cannot live in a better place because there are many disasters happening in this world because of the global warming effect. For instance, many flood disasters happen in this world because of the temperature rising. The sea level is also getting higher and higher and this is also because of the temperature. The ice in the arctic is melting and the sea level goes up. This is not good for the humans that are living in this world.
In conclusion, global warming can affect the whole world. This will get worse if the people in this world did not take action as soon as possible. This is because we are the one that get the effect, and it is really serious if we just don't care about this global warming. Everybody in this world must care and think of a way to solve this problem, because it is our responsibility
Reference
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, Jan. 7). Global warming threatens millions of species.
NewScientist.com. Retrieved on October 16, 2007, from
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
essay
Mike Imbayan
EAP 2 writer’s workshop
Ms.Wright
Essay
September 6,2007
Professional athletes income
Do you know that the average salaries of basketball player in NBA?. Its around 2.2 million per year. But for superstar Micheal Jordan received $200,000 for every shot that counts(“Show Me the Money”,1997). All professional athletes work hard to get to the point that they are called “professional athletes”. Even though they have a lot of salaries but they are human and human is all the same. They still work for money and sometimes they work hard to earn more money. They build commitment to themselfs to be professional altheles. It is hard to be a professional athletes because they need both fitness and mental ability to be one. Professional athletes should be allowed to make big salaries because they need the talent to use in the games, they need the private life to get compromised and they need a commitment to be a professional athletes.
Firstly, to be a professional athlete is really hard because not everyone can be an athlete. The lucky person with a talent will be a professional athlete. Talent did not come from a normal person but it comes from extraordinary person that he knows he got the talent. For instance Allen Iverson in the NBA is a superstar and he play very well in basketball because he got the talent and the talent he got make him a professional athlete. For example, when he play basketball he will beat the other team because he use the talent and bring his team to a victory. But some people can build the talent from young like they spend the whole life trying to be a professional athletes and also dreaming about becoming one someday. This is why all professional athletes get a lot of money.
Moreover, it need a commitment person to be an athlete. This is because if they want to become a athlete they need to be a better person that people will respect. People do not want athletes that are bad in life. For example an athlete man who rape a twenty year old college girl. This is a bad example to the society if this is one of the athlete. Therefore,athlete need to maintain their lifestyle and behavior. Such as, just don’t be crazy to people control the behavior and when meet people greed them. Moreover, they help the charity by donating money,cloths,food and pants. According to Henderson from the hawks team on NBA(2007) “the Hawks organization and HOT 107.9 FM are teaming up to help the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless by holding a coat drive”(para.1). That is what people want professional athletes to be a role model to every young ones and also give credit to this athletes because they help people to get a better life in future. They are many reason professional athlete to have money and this is one of the reason.
Furthermore, athletes are busy and they need to have private life in someway. Many athletes private life has been disturbed by being a professional athletes because they are really busy in life. For example, they leave their family at home and go to a basketball tournament and won’t be back at home in two weeks. Also they only have around one day to be at home and spend time with their families. After that they are going to another tournament. Sometimes they do a commercial and have no time for family. For instance, like magic Johnson have children to take care of but he is always not at home to have some time with his children. Professional athletes private life get compromised every time. Moreover, they always have the passion to be a successful athlete. This is why athlete get paid so much money to be a professional athletes because it is not easy.
Opponents of the athlete the got huge salaries is the think it is only a game that people play and like to watch and also that easy to get that much money. However, this is untrue because it is not that easy to be become an athlete. It is the life they had putting on risk they make. For example, they risk their families at home and go to a game that are so far away from their families.To be a professional athletes is like putting a life on the edge that will fail. For instance, like basketball game they love to play and know how to play but sometimes they put their life on that game. Like Tracy Mcgrady , he love to play and also put his life on it to become a professional athletes. This is because all of the professional athletes get huge amounts of money.
In conclusion, professional athletes is fare enough to get a huge amount of money because they got the talent, commitment and risk they put on. To become professional athlete is hard because it needs a pontential and talent people. They still need be passion in life to become a professional athlete that get a huge amount of money everyday is set your mind on it. Everybody can get what they want but the talent can go higher than the average people.
Reference
Show me the money! Do pro athletes make too much money?(1997, may 5). Retrieved September 6,2007,from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n26_v96/ai_19437488
summary response
Mike jermaine j.imbayan
Ms.wright
Summary essay
September 15,2007
According to Zussman(2005) article “ Fighting Corruption Is a Global Concern” he discusses about the corruption around the world nowadays. Example like anti-corruption conference in
Corruption is very bad for the people, government, and life. According to Worldwide Corruption Continues to Block Development (2006) the author says “Bribery, nepotism, and other forms of corruption exist to a greater or lesser extent in all countries, but its corrosive effects hurt poor nations the most. The World Bank considers corruption one of the greatest obstacles to economic and social development because it undermines the rule of law and weakens the institutional foundations upon which economic growth depends”(para.1 ). It makes people go crazy thinking about corruption and this can ruin people’s life. So corruption is dangerous. This is the reason we must work to find the solutions to corruption because it interferes with econonomic development, the wrong people get the money and will creates gap between rich and poor people.
This shows that people need to make the economy grow properly without corruption. Economy is very important to the society. Example , society need economy to live and they need a good economy then they life would be easy. Besides that, it can also effect the country’s economy. Then , the country’s status will drop because of the corruption is still going on. Such as,
Therefore, this corruption can really make people angry because the money goes someway else. For example , a contracter that have a lot of money bride the man that incharge to build a building and suppose to be the other contracter that always get that job did not get it. As a result, the contracter that has a lot of money get project and not the usual contracter. Thus, this situation cannot be going on everytime because later people will think that money is everything. So,keeping the money in the right hand is always the good choice. Every people use money to buy food, cloths but not to use money in bribing people. For instance , there is man that always get the project building pipe lines so, one day someone richer than him bought over the project and then he lose everything that he put in to the project. This is why we need a solution to clear this problem.
Similarly, the rich people become more richer and the poor people become more poorer and this is a big problem. The rich people always make corruption because they have the money and the power to do that. For instance, the poor people will need to find another job. Example , the poor people will get a normal jobs but the rich people can bribe some contracter to get money they want. This will make the difference between the rich guy n the poor guy. Furthermore, the opportunity to get a jobs lowers for some company. This is because they afraid that many people will make corruption in their company. Example , a company that sells furniture and this guy come and bribe a friend in the company to get some of the furniture in really low price so that he can sell it to someone else on a high price.
In conclusion, corruption is very dangerous and can make many bad things to everyone. Therefore, it needs a solution to make the economy go up so the right people get the money and there is less crime. If the society is very honest , corruption will not happen and the country will be in a good shape of economy. This will make more people happy and more people get jobs .
Reference
Worldwide corruption continues to block development.(2006 july,24). Voice of
News. Retrived October 1,2007 ,form Lexis Nexis.
Zussman, D (2005 , October 11).fighting corruption is a global
concern.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
research paper
Can credit cads help you or ruin you ?
Mike Imbayan
EAP 2, writer’s workshop
Heidi Wright
October 5,2007
Abstract
The topic of this paper is credit card. It argues that credit cards are bad for the society. There are four reasons for this argument. Firstly, it can make people suffer. Second, people can get physical sickness. Third, it can also ruin people’s credit rating. Lastly, it can make people go bankrupt easily.
Mike Imbayan
EAP 2, writer’s workshop
Heidi Wright
October 5,2007
Abstract
The topic of this paper is credit card. It argues that credit cards are bad for the society. There are four reasons for this argument. Firstly, it can make people suffer. Second, people can get physical sickness. Third, it can also ruin people’s credit rating. Lastly, it can make people go bankrupt easily.
can credit cards help you or ruin you ?
Do people know that credit card can ruin someone life ?. but for some people credit card is like the power to buy everything but they don’t know the debt is getting high and will regret later on. This credit card is easy to bring around but this card is not good as it seems to be. However, this card is harmful to some people. Some people think that credit is useful but for others it is bad. Recently, people like to use this card very often but do they know that if they pay the credit card late the interest will double up.Credit cards are bad for the society because it can make people suffer from emotional, make people get a physical sickness, ruin people’s credit rating and make people bankrupt.
A credit card is “a plastic card bearing an account number assigned to a card holder with a credit limit that can be used to purchase goods and services”glossary of bankcard (n.d, para.12). This card people bring around where ever they go because it is like money. According to (Bellis,2007) credit card is a card that have identification number on it and customer will buy things without money. This card has a interest if the card is used. People can use this card everyway in the world. People need to pay this card every month and if they pay late after the due date the interest rate of this card will be more higher than the original payment. Credit card started in the
This plastic card also known as credit card really can make people go emotional sickness . In other words , it can make people suffer in life because of the debt is too much. For example, when a person get back his bill regarding his credit card and the amount is around two thousand dollars. He struggle to find money because the bill is so high and he is scared that if he don’t pay it now the interest will go up. Furthermore, some banks have interest too high until some society cannot afford. For instance, a man used his credit card and then he forget to pay on time due to some problem he had. Immediately his interest goes up to double the usual interest rate. Such as ,if his interest is 5% it will goes up until 10%. According to (Destito,2006) late payment surely will rise the interest percentage up to 30 points. This is one of the example that society need to control the credit card usage because it is dangerous for some people.
Moreover, people sometimes get physical sickness because of credit cards. One reason is stress because need to think so much about how to get more money to pay the debt. Such as, a person always complaining about his head hurts everytime when he thinks about the bill that he going to pay about his credit cards. This person is having stress problem because he need to think a way to pay all that debt around fifteen thousand dollars. Sometimes a person cannot sleep because need to think too much and this will disturb his life style also will not have much consentration in work. When someone think to much always they will got headache. Therefore, too much people are now suffering from headache , hard to sleep and stress because of credit card debt. So,credit card can make people die because of stress and this makes that credit card is not good for society.
If a person did not pay for his credit card it will ruin his credit rating. This is because all banks are connected and they will know if a person did not pay his credit card or not. This will make a problem when a person need to get a loan because he got a bad rating in credit card. For example, when a person need to open a small business like a restaurant he needs a loan to open the restaurant but if he got a bad credit rating it is imposible to get a loan from the bank. So , many bank will not accept this person to get a loan. In addition, if that person need to apply another credit card from another bank as a result he cannot get that credit card because they already know that person has a bad credit rating. Moreover, if a person needs car or a house he needs a gud credit rating. For instance, most bank will not approve a loan to a person that is bad in credit rating so this person will not go out of debt . he will always in debt eventhough his credit rating is getting better. This is bad things about credit card and so credit card is bad for the society.
Similarly, credit card can make people bankrupt. According to Heffter (2006)” for those already struggling to keep up , higher payments could push them into bankruptcy” ( para.2). this mean if someone have a big problem with their bills it might come to an end that person will be bankrupt.For instance a person did not pay that credit card surely he will be file for bankruptcy. This will make that person in lots of trouble. For example, people will not ask for your help and will not help this person because he is already bankrupt. When the person already listed as a bankrupt man he will not get away because his name is on the list of bankrupt people’s. So , this will make him hard to open a business because if someone need to open a business he or she need to get a loan but if that person already listed as bankrupt it is really hard to get a loan because he is already been bankrupt before. Since this is really bad obviously credit card is also bad because this plastic card really can make people go crazy.
Opponents of the high interest says that many banks give a low interest in credit card. Which can help people establish good credit. However, this statement is irrelevant because interest is still money and people work for money to live a nice life and not waste on something that not beneficial. For example, person work to get money and he get interest like fifty dollars a month. If the fifty dollars spent on food, it will be good because we can get satisfed on food and not on interest. Some of the interest will go up and down depending on which banks people use. But the interest makes the credit card look bad. For instance, if there is no interest in credit card maybe people will get a credit card but it is impossible because that’s a credit card rules. That is the reason bank introduce a card that can be used in different ways. Not only that , credit card itself also not good because it makes people need to use money.
In conclusion, credit card is bad because of the interest that make it worse, suffer from it, easily get physical sickness ,ruin people’s credit rating and make people bankrupt. This shows that credit can make people get worse in life . It also make people got a lot of problem in life. Not only that but people will realize that credit card is not that good as people saying about it. Credit card is so dangerous and really can make people use money without realizing it. People need to control of their money and card so that they can be successful in life. Everyone in this world want to be success but there is many different ways to reach the goal.
Reference
Bellis ,M(2007). Who invented credit card?. Inventors. Retrieved on
September 27, 2007 , from
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/credit_cards.htm
Destito,R (2006,February 9). Assemblywoman destito: shady creditor tactics
could cost you money. US States News. Retrieved on September
27,2007 , from Lexis Nexis.
Glossary of bankcard (n.d) 1st
September 27, 2007 , from
http://www.1stamericancardservice.com/Glossary.html
Heffter ,E(2006,January 9). Credit-card rule changes may break your back.
Seattle times. Retrieved on September 27,2007 , from Lexis Nexis
Hudson,E; Schwartz,M(1989, November 5). Hightower’s credit card controversy.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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