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.