Oil Can Wreck the World

Authors Note:  People can get influenced by oil, but this amount of oil isn't worth drilling.

Six months, that’s how long we could last on Alaska’s oil according to source one. Six months of oil isn’t long enough to drill somewhere that the US has been preserving for years.  As well as Drilling in Alaska would barely change the price of gas.  Wildlife that is part of the ANWR would get destroyed.  Do the positives out way the negatives of drilling in Alaska? No, the US shouldn’t drill in Alaska, it would destroy the environment and only give us six months of oil.

Environments can get destroyed no legitimate reason.  Helpless animals can die; Sights that will never be seen again can get destroyed all for one reason.  When people want things they will do almost anything to get them.  People want to drill in Alaska, but we need more people to understand why we shouldn’t.  In source two they mention the Inupiat people who live there,  they’ve been living there for generations .  What if you were at your house and someone came in your home and destroyed everything around you that you have been living on for as long as you can remember,  that’s would could happen in Alaska.

           
Money is the main reason people want to drill.  Prices are already rising steadily, and drilling for oil would only give us 6 months of oil which isn’t enough to change prices.  Money is what changes people’s minds, and once people figure out that drilling would barely change prices no one should want to drill in Alaska.  America wants to lower prices but destroying the place we have been fighting to preserve for years isn’t the solution.

              
America has been trying to preserve Alaska.  Since Alaska is one of America’s last untouched wildernesses  we should put up a fight before the government attempt to destroy it. Once anyone take a trip up there they can see that Alaska deserves to stay the same.  The wilderness is protected by the ANWR.  The ANWR was created to protect Alaska and now we are threatening to destroy it. According to source three Eagles, polar bears, seals, and elk all live in Alaska. 

            
Bottom line the US shouldn’t drill for oil in Alaska.  Instead we should invent alternative sources of energy.   According to source one the US only produces 3% of oil in the world and we use 30 %. The US needs to use less and make more but Alaska isn’t the way to do it.  Oil can wreck the world but it shouldn't destroy Alaska.

1: Document C: Courtesy of the Arctic Wildlife Organization, Washington, DC, 2004.

2: Document D: Jacob Adams, an Inupiat Eskimo, in an open letter to Congress, Barrow, Alaska, June, 1995
3: "Alaska's Animals, Alaska Department of Fish and Game." Home Page, Alaska Department of Fish and Game. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. <http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=animals.main>.

Water of Life

 Authors  Note:  Life lessons are a very important aspect of life that should be appreciated.  Pendragon Black Water by D.J.  MacHale  is excellent example of this.   
 
What if you were magically teleported to a jungle world full of vicious lizards with nothing but yourself.  In the book Pendragon Black Water written by D.J. MacHale is a great fiction book.  There are a ton of life lessons that can be learned just from reading this book


One of the life lessons to be learned  is that just because some people don’t play the rules doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t fallow the rules too.  An example of this is in Pendragon Black Water is when the Saint Dane breaks the rules and encourages the good character to break the rules too.  This lesson can be followed in real life when you see someone else doing something wrong, so you decide to copy them and you end up being wrong as well.


While breaking the rules is important if you think of situations before they happen you can be prepared.  In real life during the presidential race you can predict the result of each candidate to decide who you’re going to vote for.  in this book the main character needs to predict what the bad guy will do so that he is prepared.  Preparing is a huge skill in school because if you don't prepare for a test you could easily fail.


Being prepared is helpful but you also need to adapt to situations.  Adapting to events is probably the best lesson to be learned because if you can’t figure out the rules or predict the unexpected you can only survive as long as you know happening.  If the human civilization couldn’t adapt we might not have anything we have today.  


Lessons are a key part of life,  who knows where we’d be without them.  Since life lessons play such an important role in Pendragon Black Water, the book should be considered an amazing book to read.

War of a Lifetime

Authors Note:  Pendragon the Never War is an amazing example of a book in the middle of a series that preps for the next book and comes of the first one even better.
 
The book Pendragon the Never War  written by D.J. MacHale is and excellent combination of historical fiction and scientific fiction.  Along with all of the life lessons that can be learned.  The author did an amazing job at connecting the Never War to the rest of the books in the series.  
The author, D.J.MacHale seems to never run out of ideas for his books.  Every book has a different environment  that the main character explores.    

For example In the Never War is based on the Hindenburg airship disaster in 1937.  The giant airship known as the Hindenburg was an airship that traveled from Germany  to the US that crashed in New Jersey.  Nobody knows exactly why it crashed but there are a ton of guesses out in the world.   All of the theories combine to make an amazing book.  
   
The Hindenburg crash is an excellent example of what life can throw at you.  Two life lessons include to never give up on your goal and you have to look at the good side of things. An example of never giving up is when the main character is trapped inside a burning building tie to a rope with almost no chance of survival, but he doesn’t give up.  As well as that things aren’t going to well for the main character, Bobby Pendragon, but that doesn’t matter when his friends teach him how to look on the good side of things.  
   
All of life lessons put together with the realism of the book makes it feel like the author was actually there.   In 1937 there were a lot of things going on that people didn’t know about.  There were gangsters everywhere, the Germans plotting for World War 2, and all of the advancements happening.    The war didn’t start until 1939, but all of the main strings started falling in 1937 with the Hindenburg crashing.  
   
Pendragon The Never War, by D.J. MacHale is an amazing example of the historical events that happened in 1937.  Life lessons can be learned almost anywhere and are excellent examples of what is important in life.

What pictures can mean

Authors Note:Note just quotes have meanings.  Pictures can have meanings too.

If someone saw this in real life they would be amazed to see such a big animal have the ability to jump out of the water.  If you only see the picture though you can look at it in a whole new way.  When the whales are in midair they turn, and if you see it that way its like turning a new leaf or starting over.  Whales don’t always jump though sometimes they just come up for air which they need to survive.  That meaning could be that Even if you don’t do something amazing it could lead to something better.

A Famous quote

Authors Note: You can look at a quote any way possible.  

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Laurence J. Peter

This quote proves that just because you think something is your idea.  People tend to remember what they hear and call it their own idea. Everybody should be inspired to make something new, but considering how much there already is it’s much easier just to innovate in stead of inventing.   Originality should be recognized more because there is probably something like it. For instance if you make a waffle maker with additions, its not original because someone has already invented the waffle maker. Just if you think something is new doesn’t mean it is.  

Challenges in Life

Authors Note: Pictures have meanings some mean more than others.  This picture means a lot to me.

Most people would look at this picture and assume that there is a tough road ahead. That thought is right but not in the way you would think. What I see in this picture is much different. I see that life in the future is going to be much harder. The fact that on the sign the road twists from being straight probably means that something unexpected is going to happen that could cause a delay. Every picture has a meaning this picture just has a little clearer meaning to me.

Oregon Pride

Authors Note:   The point of view of objects can be one of the hardest point of view to create.  Since Oregon isn't respected enough they deserve more than they get now.  

I’m an Oregon sweatshirt ordered online that got shipped to a small town in Wisconsin named Pewaukee.  Since I’m so warm i can be worn almost anywhere and meet all of my rival teams.  
    

My owner, a young 12 year old boy, wears me a ton.  He wears me in school, outside if it’s warm enough, and anywhere that he can support Oregon.  Although I don’t get supported everywhere I go my owner wheres me anyway.  
    

When I get worn around I can see all of my rival teams and remember how much better I think Oregon is.  I see Wisconsin a lot because my owner lives in Wisconsin.  It gets really cold up here in Wisconsin, but that’s why I’m extra warm on the inside. 

One of the best moments that I was being worn was on January 2nd, 2012.  That day was The Rose Bowl.  I got worn to some strangers house with people full of badgers clothes on and I was the only Oregon thing in the house.  Even though i felt left out when we one it didn’t matter.  
    

The Oregon Ducks may not be the most loved team ever but when I got un-wrapped by this kid on Christmas I knew that he would wear me.  Whenever I see someone that doesn’t like me  it doesn’t matter because I am loved.