Wal-Mart, the biggest success in the business in the USA, is the top seller of groceries, according to USA TODAY (2003). There is already a Wal-Mart in Carbondale and there is a new project to build another one in Murphysboro area. the question is, is it good or not to build another Wal-Mart in a small town?
First, Wal-Mart is very useful and popular, as said Locke (2004) we can find everything we need with a cheap price, but with the same quality of service that we can find in other big shop. This is good for a family who has a poor income. Wal-Mart is open almost 24 hours on 24 hours and with the internet access, so we have access when we need. The shop also give lot of work for people who wanted it. According to Hoening (2004, par.16), "In 2005, Wal-Mart created 125,000 U.S jobs, and is continuously adding thousands each month". So another Wal-Mart will increase jobs for people who need it, and more access to buy everything we need with two shops.
Second, according to Jacobs (2005), people protest against a new Wal-Mart because they are afraid that this can destroy small businesses and also the quality of life for some citizens, much noise with the delivery. Also Wal-Mart offers a lot of jobs, but not enough insurance; only 48% of their employees are covered, according to UFCWIU (2005). The job which is given by Wal-Mart doesn't give enough income for people who work for them. The annual wages is less than the poverty line for a family of three.
To conclude, Wal-Mart has a lot of advantages for people's lives and building another Wal-Mart can increase this quality. They offer lot of work that is good for people who are looking for work. But two Wal-Marts can destroy small businesses, and also the quality of life for some citizens. All these jobs that they offer have not enough income and they can't cover all the people who work for them. In my opinion, to build another Wal-Mart can have some advantages but for me, there are more disadvantages than advantges. Carbondale is not a big town, so one shop like this is enough.
References:
Hoenig, J. (2004, February). Welcome Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4561
Jacobs, N. (2005, April). Local opposition to future Wal-Mart Supercenter in Murphysboro. Daily Egyptian. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$858
Locke, E. (2004, February). Three Cheers for Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3534
USA Today (2004, January). Wal-Mart's influence grows. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Vacations (fluency exercise 6)
My favorite vacation activity is when I am on the beach in the region called “Landes” in the South West of France. I like to go to the beach because with my friends, we can do different sports on the beach, like beach soccer and beach volley. We can also play in the water with the ball and we can also surf and do body board. It’s very funny and we have some good sensations.
If I can be wherever I want, I would like to be on the beach because I like to go there; it’s a place where I have a lot of good souvenirs and I had a very good time with my friends. I also like sports and water so on the beach I have both. I am a swimmer so water is like a drug for me and also a sport. It’s like I need to do some sport activities to feel good and when I am on the sea it’s so good to do body board with just a board take the vague so good sensations.
If I can be wherever I want, I would like to be on the beach because I like to go there; it’s a place where I have a lot of good souvenirs and I had a very good time with my friends. I also like sports and water so on the beach I have both. I am a swimmer so water is like a drug for me and also a sport. It’s like I need to do some sport activities to feel good and when I am on the sea it’s so good to do body board with just a board take the vague so good sensations.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Sea Turtles threatened with extinction (Argument Essay)
I read in an article that a lot of species are endangered because of global warming and more specifically the Sea turtle, which is the oldest species known in the world (Velaquez-Manoff 2007); it lived during the dinosaurs. Now the change of the climate threatens these species, and if we don’t do something in a hurry, this species will disappear. The increasing temperature (more than 2 degrees these last years) has an impact directly on the turtle’s eggs (Velaquez-Manoff 2007, Brahic 2007). The problem is that more females than males are born; that means the future will be difficult for reproduction. According to WWF (2007), it’s not only the future population which is in peril, because there is also habitat loss and degradation, pollution, disease because of human and marine pollution, and natural predators. As Bhattacharya (2007) said, we need to do something and we can already cut emissions of greenhouse gases, employ new energy efficient technology and use strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These examples will decrease the effect of global warming, and that is good for the sea turtle.
In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased pollution. Different causes are the origin of this change of climate, such as the increased pollution due to cars and factories, too strong emission of gases and of different toxic products. These increased the pollution in the air but also the water like sea where some waste is thrown by the factories. All of these have an impact directly or indirectly on the habitat and the life of the sea turtle, threatening them with extinction and different diseases which have been observed in them.
First, to save the sea turtle we need to start with global warming and to find a solution to decrease it. And the most important is carbon dioxide, which is in big part responsible for global warming. So we need to use strategies to sequester and to decrease CO2, to cut emission of greenhouse gases to protect ozone, and to find new technology and source of energy for our vehicles and factories to decrease all the different emission of gases and toxic products to decrease pollution on the air and on the sea. That is something that government needs to care about and use money to find and to try solutions to save our planet.
Second, if we want to decrease pollution due to human, it’s easy; we need to get all the population to participate and to teach them to care about pollution, because it’s their future which is in degradation. As for human activities and factories, we need to put in place laws to ban and to stop the flow of pollutants into the sea, or to bury them in different place, because it’s not a solution to do that, we just displace the problem. And displacing pollutants affects sea turtles and their environment. And for the air, we need to decrease emissions of pollution due to factories and cars. So we should use our car less and use transportation like bus or train, which are electric so no pollution, more. And for the factories, we should find new sources of energy and technology to protect the atmosphere and environment.
Third, we should protect the sea turtle from human and predator. To begin we need to save some place for sea turtle without human activities, so stop building buildings and roads too close to the beach, because these increase the temperature near the beach by all the emission of gases due to cars and all the activities due to humans. We should find a project to push the turtle to migrate to the North, where the temperature is colder and better for the birth of sea turtles. And when we have found these places, at the beginning some scientists need to be here during the birth of the young turtle to protect them from predators, like human predators or animals. I think it’s important to do that to save the turtle and for the restocking of these species.
But some people who don’t really care about endangered species or the future of our planet and global warming, can say that it’s a cycle of natural species disappearing, and we can’t go against the nature, like dinosaurs. And global warming is not an effect of humans; they don’t really believe in global warming. For them it’s a cycle like before, during the ice age, and now temperature and climate change because it’s something normal, it’s the cycle of the earth. It’s not human activities which did that; it must happen again like before, and we can’t do something to prevent this.
In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered because of global warming and this is an effect of human activities, so to save this species we need to protect our planet from pollution; in this way we can decrease global warming with new technology and sources of energy, we can find solutions to decrease pollution due to human activities, and this will have an effect on global warming and sea turtles, and we can protect sea turtles from human and predators. We are the key to the solution; we are at the origin so we need to solve it, and we can do something to protect and save this species and this will have not only an impact on the sea turtle but on global warming and our future lives.
References:
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007
from: http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1227
Holtcamp, W. (2007) Surf’s up for these sea turtles.
Defenders of Wildlife. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_2007/surfs_up_for_these_sea_turtles.php
University of Exeter (2007, February 22). Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003809.htm
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.htm
WWF (World Wildlife Fund). (2007, February 16). Under threat before they even hatch. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/marine_turtles/marine_turtles_threats/index.cfm
In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased pollution. Different causes are the origin of this change of climate, such as the increased pollution due to cars and factories, too strong emission of gases and of different toxic products. These increased the pollution in the air but also the water like sea where some waste is thrown by the factories. All of these have an impact directly or indirectly on the habitat and the life of the sea turtle, threatening them with extinction and different diseases which have been observed in them.
First, to save the sea turtle we need to start with global warming and to find a solution to decrease it. And the most important is carbon dioxide, which is in big part responsible for global warming. So we need to use strategies to sequester and to decrease CO2, to cut emission of greenhouse gases to protect ozone, and to find new technology and source of energy for our vehicles and factories to decrease all the different emission of gases and toxic products to decrease pollution on the air and on the sea. That is something that government needs to care about and use money to find and to try solutions to save our planet.
Second, if we want to decrease pollution due to human, it’s easy; we need to get all the population to participate and to teach them to care about pollution, because it’s their future which is in degradation. As for human activities and factories, we need to put in place laws to ban and to stop the flow of pollutants into the sea, or to bury them in different place, because it’s not a solution to do that, we just displace the problem. And displacing pollutants affects sea turtles and their environment. And for the air, we need to decrease emissions of pollution due to factories and cars. So we should use our car less and use transportation like bus or train, which are electric so no pollution, more. And for the factories, we should find new sources of energy and technology to protect the atmosphere and environment.
Third, we should protect the sea turtle from human and predator. To begin we need to save some place for sea turtle without human activities, so stop building buildings and roads too close to the beach, because these increase the temperature near the beach by all the emission of gases due to cars and all the activities due to humans. We should find a project to push the turtle to migrate to the North, where the temperature is colder and better for the birth of sea turtles. And when we have found these places, at the beginning some scientists need to be here during the birth of the young turtle to protect them from predators, like human predators or animals. I think it’s important to do that to save the turtle and for the restocking of these species.
But some people who don’t really care about endangered species or the future of our planet and global warming, can say that it’s a cycle of natural species disappearing, and we can’t go against the nature, like dinosaurs. And global warming is not an effect of humans; they don’t really believe in global warming. For them it’s a cycle like before, during the ice age, and now temperature and climate change because it’s something normal, it’s the cycle of the earth. It’s not human activities which did that; it must happen again like before, and we can’t do something to prevent this.
In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered because of global warming and this is an effect of human activities, so to save this species we need to protect our planet from pollution; in this way we can decrease global warming with new technology and sources of energy, we can find solutions to decrease pollution due to human activities, and this will have an effect on global warming and sea turtles, and we can protect sea turtles from human and predators. We are the key to the solution; we are at the origin so we need to solve it, and we can do something to protect and save this species and this will have not only an impact on the sea turtle but on global warming and our future lives.
References:
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007
from: http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1227
Holtcamp, W. (2007) Surf’s up for these sea turtles.
Defenders of Wildlife. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_2007/surfs_up_for_these_sea_turtles.php
University of Exeter (2007, February 22). Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003809.htm
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.htm
WWF (World Wildlife Fund). (2007, February 16). Under threat before they even hatch. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/marine_turtles/marine_turtles_threats/index.cfm
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Vacations (fluency exercise 5)
The best place to take a vacation, for me, is on the South West of France, in the region named “Landes” and the city’s name is “Hossegor; Capbreton” which are two cities glued one to each other; it’s near the beach and there is a big forest which is beautiful to ride, to run or just to walk through. For the teenager like me, it’s kind of fun because there is the beach where we can surf and the beach is big enough to do some activities like beach soccer, beach volley, land everything we want that is fun for the day. For the night, there are some different places where we can eat, drink and dance. It’s also for the younger and the older person, so we can find a lot of activities there, which is why I suggest to go there.
If I have enough money to go wherever I want, I will choose this place in the “Landes’, because I always went to this place for my summer holidays and I passed the best moments of my life with my friends there. So with this money, I will invite all of my friends to come with me and we will rent a big house and pass the best holiday that never past before. I think for the best vacation, we don’t really need money or a specific city where we can go, we just need our friends or family and that is enough for me to pass a great vacation.
If I have enough money to go wherever I want, I will choose this place in the “Landes’, because I always went to this place for my summer holidays and I passed the best moments of my life with my friends there. So with this money, I will invite all of my friends to come with me and we will rent a big house and pass the best holiday that never past before. I think for the best vacation, we don’t really need money or a specific city where we can go, we just need our friends or family and that is enough for me to pass a great vacation.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Environment/Species (fluency exercise 4)
I think that if some species succeed at being saved by people while others do not, it’s because some species are in danger of extinction and if we don’t want to see this species disappear, it’s important to do everything possible to protect them. And when a species has disappeared, we don’t know what will happen afterward, like the sea turtles; if these different species will disappear, knowing that these species lived since the dinosaur, or knowing what is lost from such an ancient and mysterious creature disappearing.
To make them successful, I suppose if my memory is right that they can take one male and one female of the endangered species and they can put them in a zoo to protect them, like the panda which is on the way to disappearance in Central China (I saw a French documentary about that last year). For example, for a long time Chinese fishermen hunted whales; now it is forbidden because it’s in this region of the world that this species is on the way to disappearance. There are a lot of examples like this, in which humans hunted different species in the past and now it forbidden and these species are protected by the World Wildlife Fund for nature.
To make them successful, I suppose if my memory is right that they can take one male and one female of the endangered species and they can put them in a zoo to protect them, like the panda which is on the way to disappearance in Central China (I saw a French documentary about that last year). For example, for a long time Chinese fishermen hunted whales; now it is forbidden because it’s in this region of the world that this species is on the way to disappearance. There are a lot of examples like this, in which humans hunted different species in the past and now it forbidden and these species are protected by the World Wildlife Fund for nature.
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