Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart was the first supercenter I went to when I just came to Carbondale. I bought everything I needed in Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart also has played an important role in America. According to Hopkins (2003), “Wal-Mart’s influence on the U.S. economy has reached levels not seen by a single company since the 19th-century rise of Standard Oil, economists and historians say” (par. 3). Wal-Mart is planning on building a new supercenter in Carbondale-Murphysboro area. Some citizens will worry that the new Wal-Mart will influence the area that they live in.

First, Wal-Mart provides cheaper price. Money is a very important thing for international students. Most international students spend a lot of money to study in the U.S. So they need to save money for living in the U.S. Wal-Mart can provide the good price for everyone. Hoenig (2006) says that “The truth is that all Wal-Mart does is provide low prices, serve communities with long hours, …” (par. 17). Cheaper price also can make low-income shoppers be able to afford the price for their daily lives. Wal-Mart is also very convenient because Wal-Mart is open 24 hours and provides big free parking lots for every customer.

Next, Wal-Mart also provides more jobs. New Wal-Mart can provide hundreds of jobs. According to Hoening (2006), “In 2005, Wal-Mart created 125,000 U.S. jobs, and is continuously adding thousands each months” (par. 16). People have jobs to do and they can live by themselves. The social problems will decrease.

Finally, Wal-Mart pays the big taxes for government, because most people want to save more money and they go shopping in Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart also makes a lot of money and needs to pay big taxes. Hoenig (2006) says, “The truth is that all Wal-Mart does is provide low prices, … and pay millions of taxes – over $61 million in the state of Illinois alone” (par. 17). The more taxes government gets, the more development government can do.

Wal-Mart is building now. Opponents claim that new Wal-Mart will make more stores close. The obvious example is that Kroger was closed in recent months. According to Jacobs (2007), “Some Murphysboro and Carbondale residents are protesting new Wal-Mart supercenter in Murphysboro because they fear it will destroy the town’s small businesses and the quality of life for some of its citizens” (par. 1). But I think that survival of the fittest can give those opponents an answer. If small businesses have high quality and good service, residents will still to go to their store. But if they don’t have enough ability to compete with their opponents, they will eliminate through competition. I also believe that good stores will be saved even though new Wal-Mart will be open.

In conclusion Wal-Mart is the biggest warehouse in the U.S. Wal-Mart provides low price for everyone. People can save more money to do other things or keep good lives. International students can have lower pressure for studying in the U.S. Maybe Wal-Mart makes some stores close. In this society, someone can make customers happy and someone can survive in this society.

References

Hoenig, J. (2006, February 10). Welcome Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved November 27, 2007, from http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4561

Hopkins, J. (2003, January 29). Wal-Mart's influence grows. USA Today. Retrieved November 27, 2007, from http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm

Jacobs, N. (2005, April 1). Local opposition to future Wal-Mart Supercenter in Murphysboro. Daily Egyptian. Retrieved November 27, 2007, from http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$858

Argument Essay - Sea turtles are endangered

Sea turtles are ancient animals on the earth. They have lived on the earth over some 200 billion years; they saw the dinosaurs survive and they saw them die (Velasquez-Manoff, 2007). Even though sea turtle can survive for a long time, they are in trouble in the current time. They have become one species of endangered animals. This is like a big dig in their very long existence on the earth. But it is a truth we need to face. Global warming that people made has threatened sea turtles. The problem is climate change. Temperature rising causes the sea turtle to be endangered because temperature is the important key to the gender of sea turtles’ babies (Hawkes, Broderick & Godley, 2006). Higher temperature will cause the sea turtles’ babies to be female. Male turtles will be fewer and fewer. Higher temperature also causes the sea to rise. Sea rising also destroys their habitats. There are fewer habitats for their incubation. Global warming also causes an unstable climate. There are more hurricanes and they are bigger in summer. They destroy everything, including the homes of sea turtles. So we need to notice that global warming actually causes sea turtles to be in danger of extinction, and find a method to save them. Human is also a murderer, killing sea turtles; fox is also a murderer of killing sea turtles (Canberra Times, 2007). The tourists and needs for food and medicines for humans cause sea turtles to have fewer habitats and be endangered.

Humans have responsibility to find some method to save sea turtles and to stop global warming from being worse.

First, Stopping increasing carbon dioxide is the major factor to improve the global warming. The greenhouse effect is the major factor to cause the earth to be warm. Greenhouse gases that contain water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone keep the heat in the air. But there are more and more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. Humans’ activities make a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, like all kinds of air pollution from cars, airplanes, and factories. The best way to reduce global warming is to cut CO2 emission. There is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and it absorbs heat, which makes our earth warmer and warmer. We have to stop global warming from being worse. We should take mass transit as much as possible because cars make exhaust gas in the air. Using new clean power should be a goal for every country, because thermal power plants will produce more waste gas in the air. The government should play an important role in alleviating global warming because we need to maintain this beautiful earth for our next generation.

Next, making a new law will save the sea turtles. Humans are also murderers of killing sea turtles. Every year a lot of sea turtles are killed by commercial fishing. Humans catch sea turtles for specimens, food, and medicine. The problems are still serious because most countries don’t make a law to protect the sea turtles. We sincerely appeal to every country’s government to pay attention to these problems and to make a law in order to protect these endangered animals. We don’t want them to be in danger of extinction because of humans’ needs. If humans don’t have any demands from sea turtles, we will decrease by one factor the causes of sea turtles being endangered.

Third, we have to establish a safe reserve for sea turtles. Sea turtles have fewer and fewer habitats to live in (Velasquez-Manoff, 2007). People establish new buildings on the beautiful beaches that sea turtles live on. They destroy the beaches to make places for vacationing. Sea turtles’ homes become scenic spots for tourism. People come here in order to see what sea turtles are like and how they live on the beaches. But this action has influenced habitats of sea turtles. Sea turtles need quiet and safe habitats to live forever. Government needs to make a law and establish several beaches for sea turtles’ lives. The special reverse that is especially for sea turtles is necessary to keep sea turtles existing in this world.

Global warming actually is a big problem of the current time. Opponents claim that global warming is a natural phenomenon and it is just a big cycle of the earth’s life. They may be right, but if they are wrong, we do not have time to rescue ourselves form this serious problems. Humans must also be in danger of extinction. Scientists do many kinds of research to prove that global warming actually threatens our daily lives. We can see a lot of data that points out that climate and the situation are different from before. Larger hurricanes appear, the sea is rising, and temperature is increasing more rapidly than before. The carbon dioxide is also increasing more rapidly than in past centuries. We believe this is a serious problem on this earth. We also need to spend time and money to do research and solve this problem. Even though it is a big cycle, we just waste money and time. If we do nothing at all and it is a real serious situation that we will not have any chance to rescue our beautiful earth. Extinction of humans will be our ending.

In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered and they also need our help to save their lives because humans cause this situation. Sea turtles who are sensitive to temperature change have a crisis for their lives. Who is the next one? We think it will happen to human beings sooner or later. Saving sea turtles will also save our humans. If we can start to find some method to solve global warning problems, and make some laws to protect sea turtles’ lives, our next generation will still be able to see sea turtles and we will exist on the earth for a long time.

References

Anitel, S. (2007, February 20). Male shortage and global warming. Softpedia. Retrieved November 04, 2007, from http://news.softpedia.com/news/Male-Shortage-and-Global-Warming-47561.shtml

Hammond, P. (2007, July 6). Australian outlook grim. Nationwide News Pty Limited. Retrieved November 04, 2007, from http://www.lexisnexis.com

Hawkes, L., Broderick, A., Godfrey, M. & Godley, B. (2006, January 29). Investigating the potential impacts of climate change on a marine turtle population. Global Change Biology. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 13, 923-932. Turtle under siege as the environment. (2007, January 29). Canberra Times. Retrieved October 29, 2007, from http://www.lexisnexis.com

Velasquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007, from http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.html

Summary and Response #2 - Turtles are threatened by environment change

In this Canberra Times (2007) article ”Turtle under siege as the environment", the author expresses that global warming actually is a big trouble for Murray turtles. Global warming also makes water dry in the habitats of turtles and there are about 10,000 Murray turtles who died in this situation. The author also says that water temperature is also a big problem for turtles. It influences their digestion rate, growth and aestivation periods. He also mentions that foxes are the biggest enemy for turtles. Foxes eat turtles’ eggs and kill turtles for their food. Finally, the author argues that temperature is also a factor of turtles’ extinction. The higher temperature will cause that cause most baby turtles to be female. Climate change actually is a big problem for turtles.

It is clear that climate change is influencing turtles’ lives in this current century. A lot of animals are also facing the situation of extinction like polar bears, penguins, and sea turtles. Scientists are looking for the best way to prevent this situation from being worse. Environment change actually makes them almost die out even though they have lived for 200 billion years in this earth. Sea turtle will be extinct in the future or they will still be living in the future. Solving the problem of global warming is the important key to stop climate change. Stopping killing sea turtles and giving safe habitats for sea turtles is also the important thing we need to do.

Scientists seriously claim that global warming is the big factor to cause climate change. Global warming causes the temperature to rise. Even though the temperature just rises two or three degrees, they have caused a lot of problem to all kinds of species. Especially some animals are sensitive to temperature, such as sea turtles. Higher temperature make the eggs be incubated to female sea turtles. More female turtles and few male turtles will cause sea turtles to be endangered. Stopping rising temperature is the major problem we need to solve. And this way also can save sea turtles’ lives.

Return the beautiful beach for the earth. Overexploitation of the beaches actually threatens turtles’ reproduction. People develop the tourism by destroying beaches to establish some buildings. This development will attract people and bring income from tourism. After people visit this beach, they leave garbage on the beach. Garbage pollutes the beaches and the habitats of sea turtles are also polluted. The habitats are smaller than before and sea turtles are facing death at the same time. So what can people do? All that people can do is maintain the original beaches to be suitable for sea turtles, and design an area for protecting habitats of sea turtles. They will have more chances to live in the world.

Stop catching these endangered animals. Any animals have authority to live on this beautiful earth. People don’t need sea turtles as food. So people don’t have any reason to kill sea turtles. The government needs to make a law to forbid this cruel behavior and protect them. Therefore, the problem of sea turtles will be respected.

In conclusion, climate change actually influences sea turtles’ lives. People also destroy habitats of sea turtles. More and more people understand this situation is worse and worse. But people are not sure whether climate change will really kill all sea turtles or not. Maybe sea turtles will adapt to this new climate because they are the most ancient animals and survived in even the dangerous climate that caused dinosaurs to die.

Reference

Turtle under siege as the environment. (2007, January 29). Canberra Times. Retrieved October 29, 2007, from http://www.lexisnexis.com