Introduction
-catchy sentence
-Thesis
-Backround Info
1st Body
-state thesis
-quote: evidence
-explain quote
-connect to thesis
2nd Body
-same
3rd Body
-same
4th body
-same
same for the next 2 body paragraphs
conclusion
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Rough Draft
Thesis: Most Humans ignore the ecological sources of their material needs.
BODY
Part A: Most humans ignore the global situation
Part 1: "Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage along the US Gulf Coast, leaving 80 percent of New Orleans underwater and causing estimated billion in economic damage." (Nierenberg 27)
- After Katrina, US hasn't really prepared for other catastrophic events, like building dikes for cities under sea level.
Part 2: "Livestock are also eating each other. Although regulations in the UNited Kingdom prohibit feeding meat and bone meal to cattle to prevent borine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease)... In the United States for example, it is still legal to feed beef tallow to cattle. Producers also give cattle cow's blood, chicken, chicken manure, feather meal, pigs, and even saw dust." (Nierenberg 30)
-As mad cow spreads, the US seems to not take caution of what is fed to our cattles.
Part 3: "In the oceans, too, fish populations will gradually recover from draztic overfishing. The last time fishing more or less stopped - during the second world war, when few fishing vessels ventured far from part - cod populations in the North Sea skyrocketed. TOday, however, populations of cod and other economically important fish have, slumped much further that they did in the 1930's, and recovery may take significantly longer than five or so years." (Holmes 3)
-The Fish population drastically decreasing due to hunters and the population will bounce back and wil drastically increase.
PART B: Most Humans Are Materialistic
Part 1: "The sign, says, 'Futures Site of Shady Acres Condominiums.'" (Bill 99)
-Like the story of The Lorax, many of our animal's habitats are destroyed for human needs. In Calvin and Hobbes the forest was destroyed for condos so other humans can rent space.
Part 2: "A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these 'resources', but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in..."(leopold final essay)
-As leopold stated, 'resources' of which the earth gives us is being trashed and over used. The earth seems to not have the capability to prevent us from using these resources so it is in our responsibility to use it wisely. At the momment our relationship to the earth is similar to the relationship of a drought to land. We keep sucking the nutrients.
Part 3: "What´s that THING you´ve made out of my Truffula tuft? Look, Lorax, I said. There´s no cause for alarm. I chopped just one tree. I am doing no harm. I´m being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed. A Thneed´s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need! It´s a shirt. It´s a sock. It´s a glove. It´s a hat. But it has other uses. Yes, far beyond that. You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets! Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats! The Lorax said, Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" (Dr. Suess, The Lorax)
-Eventhough this excerpt is from a children's book, the message given by the book proves my belief of the worlds fate. The onceler seems to be the greedy man that fufills our materialistic needs. In real life he symbolizes big corporations ruining our earth but at the same time fufilling our needs.
Conclusion
The world's fate is clearly caused by human actions. The greedy corporations are ruining the land but, humans choose to ignore the fact that the materials of our shirts and homes are being sucked from the planet. Our specie is most dominant of all in the animal kingdom and we are the ones who are destroying our own homes. We ignore and do not take caution of things that happened in our past and instead we fufill our own needs through materials fed to us by big corporations.
BODY
Part A: Most humans ignore the global situation
Part 1: "Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage along the US Gulf Coast, leaving 80 percent of New Orleans underwater and causing estimated billion in economic damage." (Nierenberg 27)
- After Katrina, US hasn't really prepared for other catastrophic events, like building dikes for cities under sea level.
Part 2: "Livestock are also eating each other. Although regulations in the UNited Kingdom prohibit feeding meat and bone meal to cattle to prevent borine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease)... In the United States for example, it is still legal to feed beef tallow to cattle. Producers also give cattle cow's blood, chicken, chicken manure, feather meal, pigs, and even saw dust." (Nierenberg 30)
-As mad cow spreads, the US seems to not take caution of what is fed to our cattles.
Part 3: "In the oceans, too, fish populations will gradually recover from draztic overfishing. The last time fishing more or less stopped - during the second world war, when few fishing vessels ventured far from part - cod populations in the North Sea skyrocketed. TOday, however, populations of cod and other economically important fish have, slumped much further that they did in the 1930's, and recovery may take significantly longer than five or so years." (Holmes 3)
-The Fish population drastically decreasing due to hunters and the population will bounce back and wil drastically increase.
PART B: Most Humans Are Materialistic
Part 1: "The sign, says, 'Futures Site of Shady Acres Condominiums.'" (Bill 99)
-Like the story of The Lorax, many of our animal's habitats are destroyed for human needs. In Calvin and Hobbes the forest was destroyed for condos so other humans can rent space.
Part 2: "A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these 'resources', but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in..."(leopold final essay)
-As leopold stated, 'resources' of which the earth gives us is being trashed and over used. The earth seems to not have the capability to prevent us from using these resources so it is in our responsibility to use it wisely. At the momment our relationship to the earth is similar to the relationship of a drought to land. We keep sucking the nutrients.
Part 3: "What´s that THING you´ve made out of my Truffula tuft? Look, Lorax, I said. There´s no cause for alarm. I chopped just one tree. I am doing no harm. I´m being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed. A Thneed´s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need! It´s a shirt. It´s a sock. It´s a glove. It´s a hat. But it has other uses. Yes, far beyond that. You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets! Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats! The Lorax said, Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" (Dr. Suess, The Lorax)
-Eventhough this excerpt is from a children's book, the message given by the book proves my belief of the worlds fate. The onceler seems to be the greedy man that fufills our materialistic needs. In real life he symbolizes big corporations ruining our earth but at the same time fufilling our needs.
Conclusion
The world's fate is clearly caused by human actions. The greedy corporations are ruining the land but, humans choose to ignore the fact that the materials of our shirts and homes are being sucked from the planet. Our specie is most dominant of all in the animal kingdom and we are the ones who are destroying our own homes. We ignore and do not take caution of things that happened in our past and instead we fufill our own needs through materials fed to us by big corporations.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Metaphor
Descriptive Metaphor:
"Humans are to planet as: A plant is to it's soil"
I imagine a plant whose roots suck the rich nutrients from the soil and also takes the water. The plant also uses the soil of support and without the soil a plant can't survive, only its a water plant like sea weed. Sea weed is good with sushi. Anyways Humans need the planet to survive and keep our posture.
"Humans are to planet as: A Drought is to a farm"
A drought simply dries our a farm, making it useless to other species. A Farm is home to many animals and a drought takes away the water supply which key to survival. We humans rob the earth of it's essential properties and by taking for example the trees, we are affecting other animals and their habitat.
Normative Metaphor:
"Humans are to planet as; bee is to a sunflower"
A bee and a sunflower has a special give-give relationship. We humans should more often give then take since the earth or the planet has been giving so much."
"Humans are to planet as: A plant is to it's soil"
I imagine a plant whose roots suck the rich nutrients from the soil and also takes the water. The plant also uses the soil of support and without the soil a plant can't survive, only its a water plant like sea weed. Sea weed is good with sushi. Anyways Humans need the planet to survive and keep our posture.
"Humans are to planet as: A Drought is to a farm"
A drought simply dries our a farm, making it useless to other species. A Farm is home to many animals and a drought takes away the water supply which key to survival. We humans rob the earth of it's essential properties and by taking for example the trees, we are affecting other animals and their habitat.
Normative Metaphor:
"Humans are to planet as; bee is to a sunflower"
A bee and a sunflower has a special give-give relationship. We humans should more often give then take since the earth or the planet has been giving so much."
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