Possible to save sea lions

Sea lions are rapidly disappearing from one of the last great wildlife strongholds of the world, and no one knows why. In the last few decades, the weather is been dramatically changing and climate change affects the habitats’ animals, such as sea lions. According to the resources, experts show 2 possible factors in the decline of sea lions’ population.
First, one possibility cause of the decline in the population of sea lions is localized depletion of food resources, particularly in winter, caused by intensive commercial fisheries. Furthermore their most important food resource has started to become extinct because of climate changing. According to the U.S. Government Biological Opinion (Andy, 2008) “while other factors are also contributing to the decline in sea lion numbers, competition with fisheries in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska that target their most important food resources is a significant factor in their decline. It further concluded that continued fishing for groundfish, including pollock, Atka mackerel and Pacific cod, under existing rules is likely to jeopardise the western population of sea lions and to adversely affect their critical habitat” (para. 24). Therefore sea lions have started changing their places to find prey because they do not have enough food to eat and their population is declining.
Second, possible reason for the decline in the population of sea lions is that fishermen threaten sea lions because of salmon, which is the main food of sea lions and main support in fishermen life in the Columbia River. In other words that factor of decline is a cause of competition between sea lions, salmon and fishermen. In “Sea lions vs. salmon: Restore balance and common sense”, the author said that each year more hungry sea lions come to the hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River, especially in May, which is the season salmon pass through the dams and they feast on significant number of salmon. The salmon is protected under the Mammal Protection Act (Ritter, 2008) and it is a main resource of commercial fisheries. Because of this the sea lions are not only being killed legally under predator control permits by the British Columbia fish farming industry in 1999 to keep a balance between sea lions at dams and salmon in Columbia Rivers, but also they are being killed illegally by impatient fishermen, when they find the sea lions are eating salmon which are hooked by that fishermen. However, in “Salmon Advocates Say Kill Dams, Not Sea Lions” (Bowmer, 2006) the author said the sea lions were not real factor of decline in salmon population, and that these dams have to be responsible for salmon deaths according to the result of research that was about whether sea lions were the real reason for the extinction of salmon or not. The result of the research showed that the sea lions feast on just a small percent of salmon at the dams, and it is not a hazard to the salmon population. In fact the real reason is these dams, because the salmon population was reduced haphazardly after the installation of these dams. Nonetheless the fishermen think that sea lions are main reason for the extinction of salmon, and they have started killing them.
Sea lions are rapidly disappearing from one of the last great wildlife strongholds of the world, and no one knows why. Nevertheless, the main reason for all these problems of decline in sea lion population is human activity. For example, human activity is encouraging environmental changes in the Bering Sea ecosystem, such as warmer ocean temperatures, altered ocean currents and atmospheric conditions, and these changes affect sea lion habitats and their main food resources. Moreover an example is that sea lions are affected by hydroelectric dams in the California River. According to this example, humans are the most selfish in the world, because first they affected to change these species’ habitats by changing their environment with any kinds of every days life activities, and then they tried to blame sea lions for responsibility for all death of salmon. That is so strange why people, who kills or give permission to kill sea lions for keeping a balance between sea lions and salmon, can not realize that sea lions are not the main reason for extinction of salmon, because they have coexisted for thousands of years. They should know the salmon is endangered by dams in direct and indirect ways, because the habitat of salmon were changed by the dams, and the salmon reservoirs behind the dams attract sea lions. Moreover a consequence of dams is that the salmon have started to spawn in waters closer to sea. For this reason, more than a half percent of baby salmon die. There are three possible solutions to solve these problems and to protect both of species.
First, in order to protect them, these dams should be eliminated, with the help of the governments of U.S. and Canada. Of course, that way might cause many other problems to eliminate these dams, because they are the largest hydroelectric power producers and they are hyge constructions. Therefore, it requires government’s help, also residents of these areas should elect the right government, which promises to eliminate these dams. If those dams can be eliminated, the salmon will have their habitat restored, and salmon will come back at Columbia River. Also, it probably can reduce the salmon baby’s deaths. Another advantage of eliminating the dams is that the risk of salmon deaths would be reduced, when they pass through the dams, because these dams inspire to the sea lions to feast on the salmon. Even though that solution would take a long time and require a lot of money, that solution is a very useful way to protect sea lions from the attack of fishermen because of salmon extinction.
The second solution to protect sea lions is to reduce intensive commercial fisheries, especially salmon, which is main food of sea lions. In this case, sea lions are hungry because of localized depletion and their food resource is reduced and they will not stop gathering at the dams, even though they are endangered. Therefore the solution of killing number of sea lion is not the right decision, and it does not work to remove them from their “salmon buffet” (Ritter, 2008). In order to reduce intensive commercial fisheries, especially salmon, the fishermen should find new resources for supporting their lives. It is might be impossible to reject commercial fisheries because the various species of salmon have been a vital part of the local economy for thousands of years. However, that solution does not mean stopping commercial fisheries completely; that means reducing a percentage of fisheries. To do this, the environmatilsts and economists must work together to find what percent of decline in commercial fisheries will prevent salmon extinction, and they have to do it step by step as a long term project. If this project is done successfully, the large number of sea lions will stop gathering at one place and feasting on the great number of salmon, especially in their breeding season. In other word, sea lions will stop dying because of not only decline in food resource but also fishermen’s shoot.
The third solution to prevent the decline in sea lions is to protect sea lions under a protection act for a long time, until the decline in population of sea lions stops. Moreover, protection of that species is not only experts’ job but also everybody’s responsiblity. In order to protect them, people have to know about who really threatens sea lions and what the main reason of decline in sea lions is. Therefore, children should be educated about how to protect wildlife and species; the reason they should worry about them is that the wildlife might depend on them. If they know about sea lions pretty much, they probably will love that animal and stop to threating them. The sea lions are really as smart an animal as a dolphin and they learn something more quickly than other marine species; therefore, they entertain in the circus and the Navy. There are many facts about sea lions helped many people. “The sea lions, part of the Navy's overall security plan, were sent to the Gulf after the Navy picked up reports that terrorists may use divers to lash explosives to the bottoms of ships” says Josh Frey (Frazier, 2007, para, 25)
In conclusion, the population of sea lions is increasing dramatically in recent years, and the greatest factors of declining sea lions are reduced food resources caused by localized depletion, danger of fishermen and the main reason for that is negative human activities on the wildlife. The solutions for protection of sea lions are kind of complicated, because the problem is a kind of cycle connection among the involved parties. That means, the protected sea lions feast on the protected salmon, and for this reason the protected sea lion is endangered by fishermen, who hook the salmon to supply their living. Furthermore commercial fisheries lead to decline in sea lions because they do not have an enough food to prey on salmon and other fishes, which are main food resources of sea lions. Fortunately we have some solutions to protect them and prevent their extinction, such as eliminating the dams, which is the main factor of danger of extinction, reducing intensive commercial fisheries, and educating children about how to love or protect wildlife. However, all these solutions will take a long time to see a result and they are not easy to make. If we could solve these problems through ways as I mentioned before, everyone will be happy about the consequences of these solutions. Also, we have to start to do useful things to protect sea lions, if we do not want to see the extinction of sea lions.

Reference:

Andy, F. (2008, Feb 15). Sea lions vs. salmon: Restore balance and common sense. The Seattle Times. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://www.critfc.org/text/press/20080215.html.

Bowmer, R. (2006,March 31). Salmon Advocates Say Kill Dams, Not Sea Lions. USA TODAY. October 29, 2008, from http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-03-31-sealion

Frazier, J. (2007). Fisherman go after protected sea lions. USA TODAY. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://www.usatoday.printtis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=F

Jones, N. (2008). Kill sea lions to save salmon?. The great beyond. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://blogs.nature.com/news/

Killing come amid a battle over salmon protection on west Coast.(2008). BBC News. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24457199/

Ritter, J. (2007, April 16). Sea lions show salmon what endangered really is. USA TODAY. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/

Abstract

The topic of this paper is the fact that sea lions are endangered and they have a danger of extinction because of decline in their food resource and fishermen. Even though the sea lions are already protected under the Protection act, the sea lions’ population is still declining. There are three arguments to save sea lions. The first is to reduce commercial fisheries of salmon, which is main food resource of sea lions, and the second is that dams should be eliminated, because they are main factor of danger for both sea lions and salmon. The third is that as much as possible, people should protect their environment and save the sea lions by educating ourselves about wildlife and animals from early age.

Practice Exam

Online shopping

So far we have started to spend much time on the Internet because we can find every kind of information and services, whatever we want. This Internet gives us lots of opportunities and freedom. Moreover, people have been pretty busy to catch the development of technology and they do not have much time for shopping because everyone knows it is a waste of time, even though we have to buy some necessary stuff. Therefore, many people like to do online shopping because it is a great timesaver (Stay, 2006). Buying online is not only a timesaver but also a money saver. If we buy some stuff, such as books, clothing, and many things, we will spend less money than buying from shopping because there are many online shopping sites and the always offer lower prices.

Nonetheless, even though online shopping has many advantages, it is quite dangerous and risky. Robertson (2006) said, “According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, there were over 205,000 complaints of Internet commerce-related fraud reported in 2004” (para. 2). As he said, it is not only a problem, but also there are many disadvantages and these depend on online shopping or products.

 

First, the most common danger is to have a credit card information stolen. Therefore, when we do online buying, we should be careful and we should be sure about the security of that online shopping site because it is impossible to check all these online shopping sites. According to the Mulrean (2008), “Consumers’ biggest fear about shopping online was the possibility of having their credit-card number stolen… Credit-card companies lose about $1 billion a year to credit-card fraud” (paras. 5-8).

 

Second, sometimes it is difficult to buy good products from shopping online, because we do not know the quality of products from a long distance, especially when I buy some clothing, I always have a problem to choose the right size and color. Even though we see the picture of that product before ordering online, it is possible to receive unexpected products, which are different from what we want to buy. The problem is picture because I think the picture cannot show us the real object. For this reason, sometimes we spend more time and money to return that product than going to the shopping center.

 

Last, shopping is fun, especially for women because we do shopping not only to buy product but also to spend time with our friends. Therefore, it is a kind of way of reducing our stress. If we do everything online, we will stop to communicating with people and we will spend all our time in the cyber world, which is not the real world. This is dangerous because we have started to lose our civilization by doing everything on the Internet.

 

In conclusion, even though buying online is convenient, it is not the right solution to save our time and money because it has many negative consequences. We should go shopping and communicate with people, instead of sitting the front of the computer. Even though it is a waste of the time, it might protect our money from fraud.

 Reference:

Robertson, C. (2006, Jan 03). Stay safe while shopping online. Majon International.   Retrieved Dec 04, 2008. from http://www.majon.com/articles/

Mulrean, J. (2008, March 12). Protect Yourself. MSN Money. Retrieved Dec 04, 2008. from http://www.moneycentral.msn.com/content/

If i don't remember, it didn't happen

In my life, every single day makes memory. However, time runs pretty past and sometimes I can not recognize what is going on. Indeed, I really do not like any kinds of memory, because it makes me sad even though that memory is happiest moment in my life. That sound might be strange, but I really miss that lovely moment and person who were with me at this moment. I think a lot of things remind a memory and it is depend on what kind of memory and what I am interested in at this time. For me, songs mostly remind me my memory, but there is some words, which are “If I don’t remember, it didn’t happen” always remind me my friend. We really did not know these words would lead us to love each other. One time he showed me those words on the t-shirt and we started to make a joke with those words. We had such a fun time together and we always said to each other ‘’I don’t remember, so it didn’t happen”. However, when I left him, I really couldn’t think it did not happen, because I remember every moment when we were together. Moreover, when I listen to the song which was popular song at this time, I really miss him. However, I hope it is not only memory; we will make more lovely memories in the future.

Vacation

My favorite vacation activity is a camping in the forest. Almost every weekend I go camping with my friends or family because I think this is more interesting and effective rest than others. While camping we stay in a tent or Mongolian traditional home and cook a meal, especially barbeque on the fire and feel beautiful nature. If we stay at near the coast of river, I like to listen to the sound of the river while looking at the sky because at this time, I almost forget all my stresses and just I feel like I am a free bird and imagine of flying. Also, in the night everyone enjoys camping, like sitting around a camp fire and telling funny stories. In summer, I prefer to go to the forest and river, but in winter, I always go to the mountain to ski or play with new snow. After camping, I really feel tired and sleep like a baby, but it does not mean bad; that means I just throw away all my stresses and next day of camping I feel fresh. We call it “hit by wind.” That’s why this is my favorite vacation.

Being alone

Mostly, I don’t have a time to be alone or enjoy my free time because I have been pretty busy since I was in high school, especially in medical university. When I have a free time, I like to hang out with my friends and my family. However, sometimes I really want to be alone when I am extremely tired or I want to be by myself. During this time, I do everything whatever I want to do, because no one tells me what I have to do. If I want to be alone, I prefer to stay at home all days and watch my favorite movies and eat snacks without carrying how much calories they contain. Actually, I like making an off day in rainy or cold day, even though I have a work, I really do not like to go out and just stay on the bed all days. I think it is good relaxing. Also, another reason of being alone is I have a time to think about me, such as what I did, what I need to do next because sometimes I can not know do I do right or wrong. On the other hand, I think how to care my family and friends by surprising them suddenly. When I am busy, I truly can not care them, and they always complain about I do not have a time to hang out with them and help them. Maybe that sound seems as I am selfish, but that time is very important moment to successfully complete my education. Even though being alone is good time to be by myself, I really can not be alone for a long time, because we are social animal and always want to be with someone.

FE #5

Election

The American presidential election has just finished and almost all of the Americans are satisfied with the result because they were waiting for a new president who could change unsuccessful economics, politics and stop the war. I read tons of information about the American election and candidates in the class. In the beginning I had no idea about that and I did not understand what was going on, because the American president election seemed to me pretty complicated and it took long time, about 21 months of campaigning. Moreover, the rules of election are a little bit different from my country’s president election. After the result, when people knew who won, most all people in Carbondale went to out and celebrated. Gathering and celebrating was not only in Carbondale, also a half million people gathered in Chicago to see Obama’s speech. That moment was very exciting, even though it was not my business, because the American people were very proud their nationality, and they were an extremely optimistic. In my personality I really like Obama; that’s why I am happy for him. Also, I’m pretty glad to see the big historical event in America. 

My dream of charity

If someone asks what my dream is, I can tell them my imagination or anything about my future and goal. I have had being a big dream since I was child – helping poor children in my country. When I was child I saw some children living like a dog, maybe worst than some of dogs. Also, the children who are suffered by poverty are not only in my country but also around the world. I really want to help them as much as I can. I know it is not easy to do it but doing or making a real is better than just dreaming. However helping means not supply them with food and clothes just couple times; that means to lead them to nice future and prevent from new homeless children. For doing it, I have to obtain good education through studying abroad and to find a way which is more useful for helping them and I have to be strong to cope with many problems. Moreover, I can not do it by myself so I need a help from other people who has same opinion as me and government. In contrast, I am afraid of giving up my dream because of any reasons, such as sometimes when I have a problem, I think that if I can not help to myself, how will I help to other people. Also, I am not rich, so I will be probably faced with money problem. However when I see like kind of children, I really want to help them because it is not their wrong; they did not choose that kind of life. My dream is every child in the world is happy with their parents, if it is possible…

We can solve a problem

Summary and Response #2

In “Fishermen go after protected sea lions” the author talks about competitions between sea lions and salmon; and that between fishermen and sea lions, because the fishermen are upset that sea lions feast on salmon at the Dam at the Columbia River. For this reason, some fishermen have shot the protected sea lions and some of the fishermen have already been fined because of the shooting. According to the article, the impatient fishermen are extremely disappointed in the sea lions and they think that the declining of salmon growth is dependent on them. However, A small percent of sea lion’s population eat just a small percent of salmon, which is hooked by fishermen at the Dam. So, we can understand that sea lions are not a serious reason for depletion of salmon.

There is a very interesting question to point out that if sea lions endanger to the salmon, why have they coexisted for thousands of years? Also, why were the salmon populations reduced haphazardly after the dam was built? According to the questions, all sea lions do not have to be responsible for these dead salmon. In truth, the construction of dams were a serious reason for depleting the salmon population, because the habitat of salmon were changed by the dams, and the salmon reservoirs behind the dams attract sea lions. The first consequence of dams is that the salmon have lost their habitat and they have started to spawn in waters closer to sea. For this reason, more than a half percent of baby salmon die. The second negative consequence is that dams inspire to the sea lions to feast on the salmon.

There are two agreements to solve that problem, which is how to save the sea lion and the salmon. Some people agree that they should kill small percent of sea lion population for keeping a balance between the sea lion and the salmon, because they think that the sea lions are responsible for salmon deaths. On the other side, some people totally disagree with that opinion because they think those dams are leading to salmon deaths. In my view, the solution of that problem is to eliminate the dams in the Snake River. If those dams can be eliminated, the salmon will have their habitat restored and they will come back. Also, it probably can reduce the salmon baby’s deaths. Another advantage of eliminating the dams is that the risk of salmon deaths would be reduced, when they pass through the dams.

In conclusion, that problem is very complicated to solve, because the problem is a kind of cycle connection among the involved parties. That means, the protected sea lions feast on the protected salmon, and for this reason the protected sea lion is endangered by fishermen, who hook the salmon to supply their living. Therefore, if experts of the protection act do not want to kill the sea lions; and on the other hand the fishermen want to prevent the extinction of salmon, they should focus on eliminating those dams. That solution will probably work for all of them.

 Reference:

Frazier, J. ( 2007). Fisherman go after protected sea lions. USA TODAY. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http:// usatoday.printtis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=F

 

The haunted barn

 Last week, CESL had a trip and it was postponed because of bad weather. However, after canceling the trip, the weather was very nice and everyone who planned to go was upset. For me, i really do not want to stay at home on such an interesting day, and i went to the haunted barn, because some of my friends said "it is very interesting." That barn is in Marion, and actually, it was very funny more than scary. I have never been in a scary place, even though i know a similar kind of place in my hometown. I thought i would cry because of being scared, but I almost cried because of teasing my friends. After that we went to the Pinch and i met with my friends and they wore costume. I had a very hard time recognizing them because they really could change their appearance. At this, i felt it was somewhat strange situation, because most people were drunk and they were really emotional. That's why i felt that place and stayed at my place. Next day, I heard about some people who always destroyed something and made a problem on this day in Carbondale.

Halloween

Today is Halloween day and I had a CESL party in Faner. Actually, the Halloween day started last week and I have really enjoyed it because I celebrated the Halloween day first time in America. In my country we also celebrate the Halloween day, therefore I am familiar with it. However, I have noticed some differences between American Halloween day and Mongolian Halloween day. In America, that day is very popular and people are very exiting to wear a costume because that day is a big chance of being who you are and who or what you want to be. I think the American girls like dressing up very sexy and guys binge on drinking an alcohol. That’s why some bars are closed in the Halloween day in Carbondale because a binge drinking leads to violent crime, especially when no one can know who they are. Also, according to the tradition of the Halloween day, children knock the door and take a candy corn and chocolate home to home. I think that is very dangerous for their health because a blood sugar will be increased by tons of candy and chocolate. Maybe, it is one of the reasons of more than half population of Americans has a high blood sugar, because it inspires children to eat a lot of sugar. The most interesting thing of Halloween is a pumpkin and almost everyone or every family carves the pumpkin, whatever they want. In my country, we do not carve the pumpkin and we do not dress up like Americans. In Halloween day, we always make a joke with our friends by giving them a scare and we go to the party or disco bar. Also, we have a Mascara party. If I want to go to that party, I must to dress up like the 13-16th century ladies dress and wear very nice mask. The Mascara party is very elegant and luxury, because it always organizes in most expensive palace and famous people participate. Anyway, it does not matter how to celebrate the Halloween day; I am just wondering why people celebrate the dead day.

Summary and Response #1

Oyun
EAP2 Writer’s Workshop


To protect or to threat

In “Sea lions show salmon what it really means to be endangered; Wildlife officials in a pickle as one protected species feast on another near dam” the author writes that some part of the Columbia system has a new problem to protect two disappearing species, sea lion and salmon, at one time.

The sea lions are one of the protected species under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, because they were almost disappeared because of some other reasons. Fortunately, the number of identified sea lions has increased because of the successful protection act and large numbers of sea lions travel the Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, Oregon Fish and Wildlife department has a new issue to protect other species of fish, especially salmon, which are protected under the Endangered Species Act, after the growth of the sea lion. The serious problem is, one protected species threaten another protected species, and feasts on them, and it is difficult to protect both of them. Furthermore, experts have not found a useful way to deal with that problem; however, they have tried some methods. The most important problem of protection of sea lion and salmon is that every year, the number of sea lions that come at the dam in Bonneville, where salmon gather and spawn at is increasing, and they eat them more than before. That’s why experiments have tried to kick the sea lion out at the dam.

First, they have tried to make the sounds of killer whales, which feast on sea lions, that sea lions will take fright underwater and they chase salmon. However, that is just a temporary way to protect the salmon and not useful, because the sea lion probably would come to back and prey on the salmon again. Second, they have installed a new floating barge for the sea lion to rest on and that barge helps them to leave that dam, and also, when the sea lion rests, they do not chase the salmon. That is useful and a better way to bring the sea lion downriver, and get them to stop staying at the dam. Third, some people think that too many sea lions eat too much salmon, so they have requested for permission to kill some number of sea lion to keep balance between sea lions and salmon. But, some experts are against killing them to solve that problem, because they have done many protection acts to help the sea lion grow. On the other hand, they did not expect the salmon to become extinct.

According to the article, the author shows us a complicated problem to solve and tells about some of the protection acts. As everything has cause and consequences, the successful protection act of the sea lion has become a cause for the number of salmon to declined for years. Leaving those two species in nature without control is a good way to save them, if the protection act does not work to protect both of them. Those animals have existed for a long time in nature without any help of people, and they have always evolved new strategies for survival. That’s why, when we try to protect one species, that action threatens another species.

Reference:

Ritter, J. (2007, April 17). Sea lions show salmon what it really means to be endangered; Wildlife officials in a pickle as one protected species feast on another near dam. USA Today,p11. Retrieved October 24.2008, from LexisNexis.

Journal exercise#2

There are many kinds of relationships between people, such as friend, family and couple. The most complicated relationship is between man and woman because when they fall in love with someone, they can not control their feeling and they just think they live only for loving someone. Everyone has been trying to describe and explain what love is and what a rule of relationship is. I think, no one can explain how to make successful relationship because there is no rule and people play their own style.
However, all relationships do not always bring happiness, also, any kinds of suffer might be happened, therefore that relationships will be finished an unexpected day by any kinds of reasons. I prefer to be make friendship because that is easy to communicate with people. Also, if I have many friends as possible as I can, I feel that life is easy. Oh course, not like that easy, but when I have a problem, my friends always help me to solve my problem and also, I always share my happiness with them. However, the finding right friend is very difficult because most people hide their real faces and it is same as puzzle to find who is.
There are many ways to meet with people and they choose the right way, which will work with them. For me, I like an unexpected meeting, because I never forget that in future. I have some friend as we have known each other like that way and when we meet, we always talk about our funny story and tease each other.
In my country, we mostly meet with new people in a public area where many interesting people gather at. For me, I go to many various places, if I want to meet with someone. In truly, I had been in relationship with my boyfriend since I was in the high school, so I do not exactly have an experience of making a new relationship. However, I understood that a long distance is really good challenge of checking my relationship. Sometimes, the goal of my future seems me more important than my relationship, therefore I am here. Sometimes, I regret I left my boyfriend and, at this time, I really could not recognize that our relationship would be failed by challenge of long distance. Next time, if I leave someone, I should choose which one is important in my life: my boyfriend or my education.

FE#2

Travel and enjoy

Everyone likes to travel around the world and wants to know the most appealing places. I travel to as many as countries as I can and in my opinion of the world, all nationalities’ life style has changed. In other words after all my exiting travel, I have gotten more information than before. If you ask me about where you should travel, I will probably suggest to you, “Singapore”. I have not been to many countries, but, Singapore is an exciting and attractive country. I went there 3 years ago to study the English language. However, I really did not study the English language, because it was too short a time and there was no environment to study in, even though the official language of Singapore was the English language. Indeed, I did not want to spend all my time studying instead of enjoying myself with my friends. We always went out interesting new places and mostly, we were all the time on Sentosa Island. Sentosa Island is the one of the famous islands and if you go there you never get bored, because there are many interesting events for tourists. Moreover, I met there many nationality people, who were also traveling, and enjoyed learning about their countries, especially culture and some kinds of strange culture. Mostly, all people of Singapore are tourists and they just spend their time perfectly, because that countries government’s goal is for tourists. That way, every tourist is satisfied to travel in Singapore; also me, and it is really an ideal place to relax

Consquences of climate changing

Oyun
EAP2 Writer’s Workshop
Summary and Response #1

Tom Hursh (2005) in his article, “Animals’ hit by global warming”, discusses climate changing and the reaction of animal to global warming. The climate is changing, the procedure is going rapidly, and all of us can notice that, and all animals, especially migrating animal have started to change their life habitats and their places. Some species of animals could not adopt new strategies to survive quickly, and they are going to be extinct.

The article explained about these procedures and they mentioned about sea turtles, because the sex of turtles is changed by sea temperature getting warmer than before. Also, global warming threatens some animals that live in the poles and they have started to disappear because of melting of Arctic sea ice. These are global problems because migratory species of animals always change their place. That’s way all experiments gathered together and they focus on global warming and try to find ways of solving those problems.

Global warming is very complicated issue, so we have to solve that problem step by step and everyone has to be responsible. Moreover, we have to realize that we are part of the world. On the other hand, we should start to do useful things, such us we should plant tree instead of cutting them, to stop climate changing. Even though nature has always been changing and animals have evolved new strategies for surviving changing climate condition, we have to solve that climate changing, spreading desert, and other environmental problems.

Reference:

Hirch,T. (2005, October 5). Animals’ hit by global warming’. BBC NEWS. Retrieved: October 20, 2008, from http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/431

Journal exercise#1

My one of tha crazy break

I had a long summer break from July to October in Chicago. Truly, I had a class, but it was not hard like CESL and I really enjoyed rest of summer with my friend, who comes from Mongolia for his vacation. When I met to him in Chicago was big surprise, because I did not expect he would come to Chicago and stay there until in September. It was the most enjoyable and crazy summer in my life. Actually, we did not care what time did, how much money we were spending. At this time, only important thing was how to make a fun and what we would do next and I always planned to go new places. Also, there were many our friends, we did parties almost every weekends and we always made small picnics. One time, we went to beach in the night with other my friends and we played there until in the morning because that day was extremely hot and everyone wanted to swim. It was kind of scary and crazy night. Can you imagine how much I was scared? There were no lifeguard, only, my friends and all my friends swam in the dark ocean water, except me because I can not swim...

When my friend came back to his country, my summer break was finished in Chicago. I came to Carbondale before starting my class and at this time was CESL break. I did not tell to my friends that I would come in here. It was so funny, because when I met with fmy riends, they just asked me what I was doing here instead of saying “hi!”. First few days were so boring in Carbondale, because here is almost nothing to go out and enjoy. I just stayed in my room and slept full day, and that was I had dreamed for 3 months in Chicago. Also, Chicago was very cold before i came and i really enjoyed nice weather in Carbondale. Anyway, as nice or happy things are always short, my break is finished very quickly.

FE#1

'' Collage life"

Actually, when i was in University in my country I did not live on campus, but I have heard a lot of funny stories about student life on campus. However, I am living on campus in Carbondale and I am really enjoying that. In my opinion, there is a big difference between SIU and HSUM ( The Health Science University in Mongolia), such as student life style on campus. They live together because of sharing with rent and mostly they always have home parties at home, and most students of SIU do not sleep until late at night because they go out with their friends. Even though they have tons of homework, they do not live without parties. On the other hand, they do class assignments and class attendance well. Indeed, I do bot understand how they can keep a balance between parties and paper work. Moreover, we do not do part time jobs when we study in University, but SIU students do that. Maybe, that is a big difference between SIU and my home country's college. They know how to earn money, enjoy their life and study successfully.