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.

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

Washington Post. Retrieved on October 23, 2007, from Lexis Nexis.

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

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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

Henderson ,A(2007). Hawks ,hendu ,hot 107.9 helping homeless. Retrieved September 26,2007 , from http://www.nba.com/hawks/community/Hawks_Hendu_Hot_1079_Helpin-62954-33.html