Friday, October 14, 2011

Are You Proud Of Your Country?

Authors Note:This is about how proud I am of my country.

Are You Proud of Your Country?
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I am proud of my country because my country that I live in is free. Instead of a king we have a president so our country is different with each president. We don’t have slaves because slavery is terrible and we don’t have slavery because of our army. Thanks to our army we are a free country, we aren’t ruled by kings or queens and we are helping other countries to get freedom.In Iraq we are helping citizens to be a free country without a king that gives out orders here and there.
I am also proud of my country because all of the soldiers we have to protect the Untied States. It isn’t like it’s everyone for themselves; we have people to fight for the country. We have a navy, an air force, marines, army, and don’t forget policemen that protect the streets. Then on the other hand in other countries around the world they don’t have police or army force even. I feel safe and proud that the country I live in has police and army forces.
Another reason why I am proud to live in the United States of America is people think that the country we live in isn’t good enough for them and they want more and more. They think it’s all about them! Well it’s not all about them because in other countries around the world kids don’t have any food and they are starving may be even dying, or they might not have any money, or shelter. They might live in the streets and drink out of extremely polluted garbage water.
We should all be proud of the country we live in because you never know maybe one day we will be a terrible country and not be free and we all might be slaves and have a king or queen. I am very proud of the country I live in.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Pollution

Authors Note:I was very excited to write an essay that I got to pick the topic so I decided to write about the tragedies pollution causes. It is depressing and only humans can prevent it.
Pollution is terrible. Can You Prevent It?

If you took a minute and thought about what is pollution and where does it come from? Well if you didn't know what it is or where it comes from. Pollution is a substance that has harmful or poisonous effects. All the pollution is caused by all the garbage, oil, and gas from the boat engines, and the poisons in the water and the air. Pollution is terrible and can harm animals and kill them.
People throw a lot of trash in the oceans, lakes, etc. It’s entirely humans fault for all the animals dying in the bodies of water. First off, fish are dying because of all the trash, and sewage in the water. Especially it’s common in rivers and gulfs to find a bunch of fish dead with nasty pollution all in their gills, in their mouth, and in their stomachs.
Not just fish are dying, birds are dying also. of birds die every year because of pollution and oil spills in the water and pollution in the sky. Take a pelican as an example they eat fish and if the fish are polluted with oil spills they will die because of people who pollute. Another way birds could die is from toxic oil spills…. It gets on their wings, makes their wings sticky, slimy, and heavy. When the birds wings are matted down with oil and gunk from trash in the water they cannot fly. If they can’t fly the birds die because their wings and sometimes beaks are stuck, and if they can’t breathe they suffocate. Then when birds can’t fly they die of exhaustion from exhaustion from pollution. Birds can also die from the poisons in the air from all the pollution. The birds could swallow it and drop out of the sky dead after a certain amount of time from flying in it.
Don’t forget all the sea creatures in the ocean such as dolphins, turtles, whales, and all the animals in the oceans because there is an estimate that 100,000 marine animals die each year. When you throw trash or spill oils in the oceans all the wonderfulanimal life in the oceans are being harmed too. When you throw trash in the ocean it goes out in the ocean and get swpet through the currents and sits there and sooner or later an animal will get caught in it if they are smaller. They will eat the pollution and it won’t digest or will get caught in a blow hole of a whale or a dolphin and they will suffocate and die because of the trash. If there was an oil spill it could get on their fins and also go into their blow hole and then they will have taken in a breath toxin from the oil.
I think you should think about these poor animals that die because we pollute. When you drop trash, spill oil, or pollute think about all the animals you will kill if you do that. If you don’t care about the animals’ then think about if you were and animal that was about to die from pollution and maybe that will change your mind. That’s what pollution does to innocent creatures. This is what pollution causes, and you can prevent it!