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.

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.

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.