Final Draft (WATER)
Hannah Coursen
English
Paper 3
05-06-08
Water, Water, Water
Water, in some form (ice,water or vapor) has been around since the beginning of the earth–we are the blue planet! Without water, nothing could have or will continue to survive. Water sustains all life on this planet. We need it for drinking, agriculture, commerce, recreation, industry, mining, oil and gas extraction, even for hydroelectric energy. Amazingly, only 2% of the water on this planet is usable and yet we have not run out. But water availability and water sustainability has become a heated debate in the world over the last century. We can no longer afford to waste water. We must implement water conservation measures in every way we utilize this resource in order to assure that it will be available for our future and our children’s future.
Water has a very historic past in shaping the world we know today. By bringing water into our homes families have improved their sanitary and living conditions. It has also driven the Industrial Revolution. According to “Industrial Revolution” by Joseph Montagna, “Advances in agricultural techniques and practices resulted in an increased supply of food and raw materials”…(Pg. 1) With the advancement of irrigation systems small farms became huge agricultural farms. However, one of the biggest problems with the history of water usage is that people never thought about conserving it. No one realized that eventually it would run out. Now that our population is growing we need to think about different ways to conserve it. For example, “the population in 18 western states has grown 7 fold from 11.2 to 77.2 million in one century”. ( Instream flow protection pg. 297)
Society and government knew that there needed to be a change in the way that we viewed water rights. Western storage projects caused a loss of instream flow which caused loss in aquatic riparian habitat, recreational opportunities, and According to “ How low will it go?” by Matt Jenkins pg(3-4) In order to address these problems they developed water rights and water compacts. Water rights grant rights to whoever first use the water. However, the Colorado river compact is a contract between seven states crafted to enable mutual coexistence. Under this compact Colorado and Utah, Wyoming, and new Mexico, reserved there share of river water, but at the same time assure that the lower basin gets there share. Water compacts were addressed so that the flow of rivers wouldn’t get so low that, people (like Native Americans) could use water as transportation. According to the Instream Flow Protection by David Gillian and Thomas Brown (Native Americans used certain areas in the rivers to fish). “ Using spears, nets, weirs, and a variety of other tools, the first Americans caught these fish where the river channel narrowed or provided other obstructions.” (Pg 9) People needed the rivers the way that they were to survive. One of the biggest resources to the western civilization was the Colorado River. The Colorado River flows through 4 states: Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and California. This river used to have a steady flow through all 4 states and ended in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, this river trickles into the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, the Colorado River Channel has also narrowed. These changes to the Colorado River, led to a need for storage of water so the hoover Dam was built. This Dam now stores water in case of a drought, It provides hydro-electric power, and insures a consistent flow rate through all 4 states. It assures that by the time the river reaches the Gulf of Mexico it wont be a dry bed.
Currently people in the U.S. are realizing the desperate need to conserve our water. Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, and United States Geological Service have helped lead efferts to conservate water and protect water quality. According to the EPA Region 8 they state that “Our Region is arid, placing a premium on the availability and quality of water resources to meet competing demands from farmers, municipalities, recreationists and ecological needs. Many rivers originate in the Rocky Mountain states including the Missouri, Rio Grande,Colorado, Arkansas and Platte Rivers; their waters are a vital source of life for people,plants and animals.” (EPA region 8) More importantly the average human can play a vital role in trying to find ways to conserve water. You can do little things like: turning off the water when you brush your teeth, or timing your showers, but you can also do big things like buying low flush toilets, low water washing machines, planting low water plants, or even recycling all the water you use in your house. In the end, what you do can really add up! In businesses that we currently have now billions of gallons of water is necessary to make these industries work. For example: boilers, furnaces, cooling towers, shell and tube heat exchanges, and breweries. Water is not only a vital resource to survive, but it also comes with all the luxury items we like to have as well.
For the future of ourselves and our kids we need to think about different long term ways to protect the remaining water that we have. If we don’t do something soon there wont be enough water to even grow the food we need to survive. In “How long will it go”, In a severe drought, in fact, cities and farms within the state could be pitted against each other in a fight for water”. (pg. 1) Hopefully sooner rather than later we can find a solution to this problem. We also need to find a solution to turn salt water into fresh water. We have so much water that can’t be used because it salt water. 96% of the earths surface is salt water. If we could figure our a way to take the salt out of the water, it seems like our water would never run out. With maybe an easier solution we could pass laws about what our water can be used for. For example: if we limit the amount of water we use for producing oil, or even the amount of water certain companies can use. We also, need to think about the climate change and how this would effect the availability of fresh water to us. An even bigger issue with climate change with water could mean more storms would be prevalent. We could eventually get bombarded with tons of hurricanes and floods. This could mean we would fear water rather then try and protect water. It would be our killer not our savior.
Hydroelectricity is also going to be a huge accomplishment to conserving and reusing our water. In USGS, “The theory is to build a dam on a large river that has a large drop in elevation (there are not many hydroelectric plants in Kansas or Florida). The dam stores lots of water behind it in the reservoir. Near the bottom of the dam wall there is the water intake. Gravity causes it to fall through the penstock inside the dam. At the end of the penstock there is a turbine propeller, which is turned by the moving water. The shaft from the turbine goes up into the generator, which produces the power. Power lines are connected to the generator that carry electricity to your home and mine. The water continues past the propeller through the tailrace into the river past the dam”… “A hydraulic turbine converts the energy of flowing water into mechanical energy. A hydroelectric generator converts this mechanical energy into electricity”. (USGS website) If we could use this theory more often we could not only reuse our water, but save the enviroment from producing more green house gases then needed.
Understanding the past of water, can hopefully protect the future of our water. Knowing different ways to conserve and reuse our water will this will not only benefit us, but our kids to come. Hopefully someday we can figure out all the mysteries of water and how big of a resource it could become. With everyone trying to protect and save our water hopefully it will still protect us rather then turn against us.
Water BA. 10
water= H2O
Water is in 3 states: Liquid, solid, Vapor
71% of the earths surface
When born we are made up of 75% of water
We need water to survive.
Water is one of the biggest resources we need to survive. We can only live 8-14 days without water. It depends on the individual and how you use the water that is in your body. Urine, tears,.. etc. Water makes up the majority of a human body,(55-75%) and the majority of the earth (71%). So since water is every where how come some people still struggle to get the water they need to survive. People all over the world still can’t get clean water and have to walk miles to even get water for there families.
How else do we use water other then to survive?
We use water everyday in the U.S. We take showers, we swim, we water our lawns, but how much of this water is being used to help and clean us and how much is being waisted and is being used to excessive amounts. For example when people brush their teeth and leave the water running the amount of water that goes down the sink before you rinse off your tooth brush is being waisted and going down your drain for no reason. According to Suite101.com they state that a single person uses 1,189 gallons of water a day. But how much of that actually went to good use? IF you had a leaky faucet at home and it only dripped 5 times a minute it would waste 7,200 drips a day which equals 1 liter in a day, 173 gallons per year, which is the equivalent to 3 baths in a year. But lets say you had a faucet that leaked 60 times a minute you would waist 86,400 drips a day, 5 gallons a day, and 2,082 gallons a year. This is like waisting 41 baths a year! This is according to the USGS website.
How much of our earths water is suitable for mankind?
Our earth is made up of 71% of water and 97% of this water is salt water. 2% of the usable water is in Ice caps. Leaving only less then 1% of this water as fresh usable water. Good thing that’s alot of water! or is it? A lot of people in this world and especially in the U.S. we take water for granite. But what if it runs out? Will we melt the Ice caps. Find a way to get the salt out of the water.
Paper 2! (B.A. 5) Rough Draft
Hannah Coursen
Thorn
4/19/09
Paper 2
I can still remember the smell of the chlorine overflowing into the dining room of the hotel. I can still hear the splashing of the waterfall. Most of all I can still remember the day I meet some of the most influential people to my identity. Knowing very little information about these people, but knowing enough to know that they are related to me in some way through someone.
Sitting and eating, just listening to the chatter of the grown-up’s talking. Pretending like I didn’t care looking around me like I was bored out of my mind didn’t bother them. My mother knew that’s how I took in the information. I was like an ADD sponge. I absorbed and heard everything around me, but you wouldn’t think that I was listing because of the constant movement that I made. After their conversation grew to a long and drown out halt, I got up out of my seat and walked over to the pool where I knew I would get their attention. My mother smiled at me knowing that I was gonna jump in. SPLASH!! I jumped in and got the whole deck of the pool wet. I looked over at them and they all started to smile. My mother told me to get out and go put some dry clothes on because Grandma and Granddad had a present for me.
On my way back to the hotel room I formed a wet trail of 6 year old foot prints behind me. Not really noticing or caring, I was thinking about what my mom said. She said Grandma and Granddad. But I already had 2 sets, my Mom’s and my Dad’s. Who are these people. I had never seen them before and I’m supposed to call them Grandma and Granddad. It sounded so awkward. I didn’t want to do it until I had a full explanation of what and who they were. So I got my dry clothes on and walked back to the table where everyone was sitting down and asked the question I didn’t want to ask the whole night. Who are you? They looked at my parents like what do we say.
My mom turned to me and said “do you remember me talking about David, your birthdad?”
Yeah of course I did I wasn’t stupid.
“Yes” I replied.”
These are his parents. Your birth grandparents. I sat there in wonder, trying to put this whole puzzle of the night together. It makes so much more sense now. Why didn’t they just explain this in the first place.
After, I got acquainted with this new part of the family they gave me a present. It was a small porcelain, blond hair, blued eyed doll. They said that they got these dolls made for every single one of their grandkids including me. I was just sitting in awe. They said it was made to look just like me. I was so excited. It made me feel like I was apart of their family, my family, I knew part of where I came form.
My Grandparent’s were my blood. I couldn’t remember a time before this that I had met someone of my own blood. Not that this had mattered a whole lot before, it was just an experience that I hadn’t remembered happening before. I was trying to put my thoughts into words after what they had told me, but I couldn’t it was just coming out all gargled. As the night drew on I was getting tired and all this thinking of where I had come from was wearing on me. I just lay in my granddad’s lap looking at the doll that they had got made because of me, having his arm’s wrapped around me in comfort and realization I fell asleep.
This is how the mysterious night of wondering to knowing ended. It ended in comfort, in question, but most of all in identity. Some of my identity was sitting here in front of me. Some of it wasn’t, but I had an idea. A 6 year olds idea, but an idea none the less.
BA 7
Being with a girl is one of the most craziest ideas in the whole world, but we just can’t help it. Girls are the most clingy, pain in the ass, moody little B**che’s ever. They demand everything there way. They want everything they see and half the time they don’t even appreciate it, but still knowing this we don’t do anything about it and we still love them or at least pretend to like enough.
Whenever we are with our friends, that’s when they want to be all over us and apparently need us the most. We never get 5 seconds to ourselves and they always throw those little baby fits. They of course can’t be all over us when we are alone. No! they never want us then always when we are with our friends. It’s always Baby hold me…. Baby I need you…. and …. Baby come lay by me, I miss you. And of course they always miss you the 5 minutes you aren’t talking or giving them attention and it’s always in that super annoying little baby voice. An then to make matters worse if you don’t go over to them or hold them or do something with them they throw a fit and walk out of the room like you are the biggest JERK in the world and you never give them attention.
Have you ever noticed that when you buy them nice things or a little treat they expect it. Like you HAD to do it. It wasn’t an option. You can never do it because you love them or you want to be nice. Just remember it’s not optional, it’s mandatory. Oh, and if you ever get them a present just remember that it has to be bigger then the last one you got her. Don’t let her down or else you will never live it down. She will remember you as the person that jiped her out of her present.
One last thing, don’t take her fits seriously… you can make up for whatever you did later. She will always come back to you if you make her feel loved. Whether you want to give her all of your attetion or not this is the easiest way to get her to crawl back to you.
Just remember girls are the biggest pains in the asses ever, but we can’t help ourselves to still love them… or at least pretend enough.
B.A. 6
(Boss)
Sometimes talking to you can be a difficult task. Knowing what to say and how to talk to you can sometimes be a challenge because I have known you for a while, but you are still a respected figure and I need to treat you like you have authority. I have learned that talking to you like I do to my friends can sometime not be appropriate. Respectfully saying hello and asking how you are doing seems to be more appropriate then “Hey Dude what’s up.” So as you can see learning how to talk to different people can be a more respectfull thing as well as a better tool used in the work place.
(Friend)
Hello. YO YO what up. Hey Baby. Yo Dude. Hey How are ya? Talking to a stranger or someone you haven’t known very long can be hard and nerve wrecking, knowing how you should talk to them can be an even bigger one. And DUDE! Your first words can be the biggest impression on someone and you don’t want to mess it up. So you can start formal with a “Hello” or informal with “Hey dude, what’s up?” (like we always talk) And Dude you know how you talk to your homeboy’s don’t talk to your boss that way. They may think you are way dumb! The majority of us don’t think about it, but we can change the way we talk about 10 or more times a day. This of course depends on who we see and what we’re doing. Like with a GF or BF it’s more of a “Hey Baby!”, but with a boss or someone you just meet it might be a “Hello, how are you doing today.” Learing how to change how you talk can be one of the most important lessons of your life.
BA5
I can still remember the smell of the chlorine overflowing into the dinning room of the hotel. I can still hear the splashing of the waterfall. Most of all I can still remember the day I meet some of the most influential people of my life. Knowing very little information about these people, but knowing enough to know that they are related to me in some way through someone.
Sitting and eating, just listening to the chatter of the grown-up’s talking. Pretending like I didn’t care looking around me like I was bored out of my mind didn’t bother them. My mother knew that’s how I took in a the information. I was like an ADD sponge. I absorbed and heard everything around me, but you wouldn’t think that I was listing one bit. After there conversation grew to a long and drown out halt I got up out of my seat and walked over to the pool where I knew I would get there attention. My mother smiled at me knowing that I was gonna jump in. SPLASH!! I jumped in and got the whole deck of the pool wet. I looked over at them and they all started to smile. My mother told me to get out and go put some dry clothes on because Grandma and Granddad had a present for me.
On my way back to the hotel room I formed a wet trail of 6 year old foot prints behind me. Not really noticing or caring, I was thinking about what my mom said. She said Grandma and Granddad. But I already had 2 sets, my Mom’s and my Dad’s. Who were these people. I had never seen them before and I’m supposed to call them Grandma and Granddad. It sounded so awkward. I didn’t want to do it untill I had a full explanation of what and who they were. So I got my dry clothes on and walked back to the table where everyone was sitting down and asked the question I didn’t want to ask the whole time I was there. Who are you? They looked at my parents like what do we say. My mom turned to me and said do you remember me talking about David, your birthdad? Yeah of course I did I wasn’t stupid. “Yes” I replied. These are his parents. Your birth grandparents. I sat there in wonder. Trying to put this whole puzzle of the night together. It makes so much more sense now. Why didn’t they just explain this in the first place.
After I got acquainted with this new part of the family they gave me a present. It was a small porcelain, blond hair, blued eyed doll. They said that they got these dolls made for every single one of there grandkids including me. I was just sitting in awe. They said it was made to look just like me. I was so excited. It made me feel like I was apart of their family, my family, I knew part of where I came form.
Practice Intro’s
Into’s:
”Ma’ma when is papa gonna wake-up”.
These are the last words I remember telling my mother.In under an hour I lost both my parents one to a disease and the other to not being able to live without her partner, my father. I was just 5 years old when I was abandon by my own parents. Or were they really my parents? I was finding out the biggest secret of my life that only a handful of people knew.
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Causing tension is something I have always been good at. I don’t cause tension by my looks, but by what I say. I say the truth, what other people want to say but can’t, and sometimes the psycological unknown. I know what people are thinking at all times, the conversations that you have in your head I know the whole thing when I look into your eyes.
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Thesis:
I think children that have an open adoption are more likley to be less anxious, have better relationships and have fewer worries about where they came from than children that have a closed adoption.
Children that are adopted either have an open adoption (where they know there birthparents) or a closed adoption (where they don’t know there birthparents). I think children with an open adoption will worry less, have better relationships, and have less family worries then children that have a closed adoption.
A writing process envoles many steps. Everyone has there own writing process, but mine envoles a somewhat drone sounding topic and a not anybetter middle paragraph sometimes I can pull the conclusion out enough to have a small impact at the end. I know I need to use better sounding adjetives and more organization. If I can do these things I think I could get my papers to a more vivid picture to the audience.
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If your are adopted how do you feel? Is one emotion or several? Do you know your birthparents and if yes or no would you change that? We would get a slu or different answers from a variety of people. Does being adopted have an effect on your life? Does being adopted make you feel abandoned or lonley? Still to these questions to we would get many different answers with many different reasons.
I am adopted. Knowing that I am adopted doesn’t effect me. It’s more what goes along with being adopted. You have 2 mommys, 2 daddys, 4 sets of grandparents, and maybe some siblings. Wheter or not you talk to them or send them letters or e-mail them or don’t even talk to them at all they are still out there. Whether you want them to be or not. Sometimes its not even the adoptee that wont admit it or aknowledge it, sometimes its the birthparent. And sometimes there is no communication with either birthparent at all. I have 2 of the 3. I talk to my birthmom, her husband, my siblings from her and her parents. With my birthdad there is no communication at all. It’s like I Don’t exist in his world. He hasn’t even told some of his family.
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B.A. 3
“Blowin’ in the wind” is a very powerful song that talks about people not paying attetion to what is going on in the world around them. They are acting like they don’t see the slavery going on around them. People just can’t see or is it they wont see. Are the inisint or ignerant? Blowin’ in the wind you can use as a modern day problem as well. People don’t see that instead of it being black people now its on gays and lesbians or religion. People will always be discriminant.
I’m am going to compare and contrast “Blowin’ in the wind” with
Final Paper 1
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama were and are both in leadership roles. They both have had to overcome obstacles and fight for rights of there own. Still, both willing to risk their lives for other people, they fought for African American rights, fought through segregation, and worked hard to overcome challenges. These are some things that both these African American Men had to deal with and are fighting against. Martin Luther King Jr. fought so our nation could become “one” and Obama is the evidence that our nation could come together and become “one”.
Our nation has been surrounded by the Black American experience for quite some time. Some of us have been fighting for their freedom and others of us have been trying to destroy it. Having Martin Luther King Jr. help free the blacks impacted our community and Nation as they knew it. Having Obama as president is a huge step in recognizing that Black’s have just as big impact on our nation as white people do, and they might even have a bigger impact because of how far they have come.
To my generation having African Americans be free may not seem so big because we didn’t grow up with segregation, but that in itself is evidence that our nation is becoming ”one” and understanding all races. Our Nation as a whole has learned that we can all come together and become one. From Martian Luther King Jr.’s time to now we have gone from black people having to use different drinking fountains to Obama being president. They fought through going to different schools, playing and living in different areas as white people, and riding on the back of the bus. Rosa Parks stood up for her right on the seat of the bus and because she was black and didn’t sit in her “assigned” section she got put in jail. It was acts like this that pushed people to give blacks there rights. In MLK Jr’s famous I have a dream speech he said ”I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers”. ~ (Martin Luther King) He had a simple dream of wanting all children of different colors just to play together.
MLK Jr.’s consistency of fighting for his people’s freedom was amazing. Martin Luther King Jr. had to overcome many challenges as being the leader of this group of people. Now Obama has the privalige to be the leader of all American people black or white. MLK Jr. didn’t let the distress of people calling him names, lighting crosses on fire in his yard, and beating his people down get in his way of fighting for the rights of blacks. Obama didn’t have to deal with people burning crosses in his yard, but he too did have to overcome some obstacles. He has to try and get through to people who are still racist, people who want him to die because he is black, and his danger for being assassinated his higher just because of the color of his skin.
Sometimes knowing what other people have gone through can make us more sympathetic towards them, but sometimes our views change when we know what they look like. Having Martin Luther King Jr. help free the Black’s and Barack Obama being the evidence of his hard work proves that over time a dream can become reality.
Rough Draft 1 paper 1
Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama were and are both in leadership roles. They both have had to overcome obstacles, fight for rights of their own and for other people, and be in a position that they could die for their country. Still, both willing to risk their lives for other people, working hard to overcome challenges, and fighting for rights so our nation can become “one” is something both these African American Men did and are doing for our Nation.
Our nation has been surrounded by the Black American experience for quite some time. Some of us have been fighting for their freedom and others of us have been trying to destroy their freedom. Having Martin Luther King Jr. help free the blacks and give them their freedom impacted our community and Nation as we knew it then. Having Obama as president is a huge step in recognizing that black’s have just as big impact on our nation as white people do, and they might even have a bigger impact because of how far they have come.
To my generation having african americans be free may not seem so big because we didn’t grow up with segregation. Our Nation as a whole has learned that we can all come together and become one. From Martian Luther King Jr.’s time to now we have gone from black people having to use different drinking fountains to Obama being president.
MLK Jr.’s consistency of fighting for his people’s freedom was amazing. He didn’t let the distress of people calling him names, lighting crosses on fire in his yard, and beating his people down get in his way of fighting for the rights of blacks. Obama didn’t have to deal with people burning crosses in his yard, but he too did have to overcome some obstacles. He had to try and get through to people who are still racist, people who wanted him to die because he was black, and his danger for being assassinated his higher just because of the color of his skin.
In MLK Jr.’s I have a dream speech, he talks about our nation coming together to become one.
