Research Paper
Abstract
In recent years, the whole ecosystem on earth has changed either as a result of nature itself or of human actions. High- technology is advancing and developing, and we need the petroleum industry to generate various kinds of products. Therefore, we have increased the amount of oil that is being used. However, many people do not know the effects that oil production has on ecology, especially oil spills. Not only it influences birds, fish, and other aquatic life, but it will also impact human life and future generations. In this paper, I will discuss various solutions to oil spill and oil pollution issues, such as making laws to prevent oil pollution, getting more education on the problems of oil, and developing organizations to protect the environment.
Oil pollution in Russia
Russia is one of many countries that has serious oil pollution problems. According to BBC NEWS, more migratory and sea birds died this year than in any other years. The major cause for their deaths is oil polluted water. Although some people may think that this issue is not important, but I personally believe that if we don’t come up with solutions to this problem, it will influence the quality of human life. This paper will discuss the cause of oil pollution and it’s impact on animal and human life. In addition, I will present some possible solutions to the prevention of oil spills and pollution.
According to Bray (2004), Russia has many maritime transport of oil. Every day tankers transport oil to many places. The problem is that if this kind of ship, such as a tanker, leaks, it will taint the water supply and can afflict those who drink water in Russia. For example, there is a case about an oil spill that caused water pollution from a ship in Alaska. In 1989, there was a tanker that was transporting a huge amount of oil and turned over in the ocean near Alaska. This may be because the tanker was too old and had a leak, causing some oil spill to spill, or the tanker may have hit a rock that made a hole. Because of "with the current demand for Russian oil, and the obvious need for increased maritime transport systems" (para.3), then Russia should improve the quality of their maritime transport system first. Pipeline leakage, war, and oil industry drill oil are also reasons that cause oil pollution in water. According to EIA.doe.gov, the most serious problem is in Chechnya. EIA says that in Chechnya, there is “an estimated 30 million barrels of oil [that] have leaked into the ground from the region's black market oil industry" (2004, para.9). Moreover, another article states that oil contaminated water caused a huge number of migratory birds to die in the Baltic. According to resident Anatoliy Kramskoy, who has been living on the Baltic coast for 30 years, he said that "this is the first time I have come across such an event"(Naumov, 2005, para.3).
Oil spill influences water quality around the beach area in Russia. Every year, oil can be found at the coast. Oil pollution not only causes birds to die, but it is also harmful for marine life, humans, and the environment. This type of problem will damage lakes, rivers, and wildlife, pollute drinking water, destroy natural resources, increase global warming climate, and influence the food chain and human food resources (Environmental Protection Agency, 1999, p.5). In the Baltic case, the huge number of birds that died reminds us that oil polluted water will be harmful for our lives in the future. There are several reasons for why oil spills will cause so many birds died. First, the birds may not be able to adapt to the heavily polluted environment in Russia. They may have come from an environment that is very clean, and suddenly coming in contact with the pollution in Russia will cause a group of them to die together. Second, eating toxic fish and aquatic grass will also result in death of the birds.
Russia may not know that oil spills will cause so many environmental problems and affect the ecosystem. However, the huge number of birds that died may also mean that it is a threat to human life. Many species also drink water every day and eat fish as their food resource. Therefore, maybe we also have to worry about the toxic element that comes with groundwater and food resources. The Russian government doesn’t have any plans action to solve this problem because Russia is a developing country. They think that the economy is more important than the environment today, because it costs a lot of money to clean oil spills, the Russian government would rather to spend their money to advance their economy. However, the government should protect their residents and animals. If the Russian government does not pay attention to this crisis, they will have to pay more expenses later in the future, a lot of people getting strange diseases or dying suddenly and needing more money to recover the environment like other developed countries. Therefore, we need to find solutions to solve this problem.
I think there are three possible solutions to solving oil pollution. First, the Russian government should make some laws and preventing oil pollution and strictly enforcing them. For this situation, I think the government should have more environmental knowledge. They not only have to think about how oil pollution can influence the environment and animals, but also how in can impact themselves. If they know this crisis is bad for their future, they will do something to solve this problem and not just care about their economy. The government may then regulate the amount of oil that tankers are allowing to transport or the amount of tankers they allow to transport oil. For example, they can build a building by the side of the sea to control the amount of oil and tankers transported. They also can punish the tanker which over the amount of oil. Next, increasing the fines for persons or companies who dump oil into the sea is also a good idea. In this way, the government can both solve the oil pollution problems and earn money. Finally, this money can be used to improve maritime transport systems. The government can increase budgets for maritime transport companies to buy new tankers or fix their old tankers. This will improve the oil spill problem during transportation of oil to other countries, especially since “at current levels, the rate of oil pollution incidents occurring in EU waters is considered unacceptably high” (Bray, para.4).
Second, not only should the government have more environmental knowledge, the residents of Russia should also be more educated about the environment. For example, they can have an ecological class in their primary, second, and high school that teaches their children more about environment. They also can make a TV commercial to inform the public about the problems of oil pollution. Another way is to build a billboard to advertise about oil pollution. These options can inform their residents more about oil pollution, environmental knowledge and how oil pollution influences their lives.
Third, Russia should find ways of protecting migratory birds. After people know more about the problems of oil pollution, maybe some people will want to protect migratory birds. For example, the international ecological organization Greenpeace Russia that is an organization defends the environment and ecosystem in Russia. An organization can be developed that gets money to clean the environment or to help sick animals. This will also help the government to solve the oil pollution problem. Moreover, maybe some people will also want to make a stronger organization that protests against people who will hurt animals. For example, this type of organization may have parades to protest people who cause oil pollutions that results in animals dying. According to Mite, the environmental group sued LUK Oil Company who drilled oil in a sensitive area near the Baltic Sea, because the company ignored ecological concerns. The international ecological organization Greenpeace Russia in Russia is worried that LUKoil plans to drill more oil from the Baltic (2002, para. 1, 10, 13). This is a good example that makes an organization to protect our environment. Sue them, give them a penalty or publish their bad behaviors that are organization can enforce.
In conclusion, tanker spills contaminated many area in Russia. This impairs oceanic life, animals, human, and the environment. This is an issue that we cannot ignore. The effects will hurt our species in the future. Therefore, we need solutions to solve this issue and prevent Russia’s harm to the environment and the ecological system. Some possible solutions may be making laws to prevent oil pollution, getting more education on the problems of oil pollution, and developing organizations to protect the environment.
Reference:
Naumov, A. (Feb. 16, 2005). Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill. BBC News. Retrieved 3/31/05, from Lexis Nexis.
Bray, J. (2004, Oct. 7). Russia oil export boom poses new concern for European safety: This year the focus is on challenges and opportunities surrounding the maritime transportation of energy from Russia and central Asia. Lloyd’s List. Retrieved 4/07/05, from Lexis Nexis.
EIA.doe.gov (2004,May). Russia: Environmental issues. EIA country Analysis Briefs. Retrieved 3/29/05, from the World Wide Web: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/russenv.html
Mite. V. (2002). Russian environmentalists sue Oil Company. Green Nature Home. Retrieved 3/28/05, from the World Wide Web:
http://greennature.com/
E.P.A. (1999, Dec.). Understanding oil spills and oil response. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 4/25/05, form the World Wide Web:
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Argument Essay
Mandy
EAP2
April 18, 2005
Argument Essay
Oil Pollution in Russia
After I read some articles about oil pollution in Russia, I recognize oil spill is a big problem in Russia, especially in the Baltic. Every year, oil can be found at the beach. Oil spill influence water quality around the sea area in Russia. According to Bray (2004), Russia has many maritime transport of oil. Every day they transport oil to many places. For example, tankers export oil to many places every day. The problem is this kind of ship such as a tanker taint the water supply and could damage those who drink water in Russia. Maybe the tanker is too old and has a leak and some oil spill. Another way is if the tanker hits a rock and gets a hole. Bray said "with the current demand for Russian oil, and the obvious need for increased maritime transport systems" (para.3). A huge number of migratory birds died because of oil spill in the Baltic. According to a resident Anatoliy Kramskoy who has been living on the Baltic coast for 30 years. Kranskoy said "This is the first time I have come across such an event."(Naumov, 2005, para.3).
The oil pollution not only kills birds but also hurts marine life. Moreover, this pollution pollutes the water supply for Russia. For solving the problem of this oil pollution, I think there are three possible solutions. First, Russian government should make some laws and for solving this oil pollution strictly enforce them. For this situation, first of all, I think the government should have more environmental knowledge. They have to think about more that oil pollution can influence not only environment and animals, but also themselves. If they know this crisis is bad for their future, they will do something to solve this problem and not just take care about their economic. And then the government will regulate the amount of oil that tankers are allowing to transport or the amount of tanker they allow to transport. For example, they can build a building by the side of the sea to control the amount of oil and tanker. Next, increase the fines for person or company who dump oil to sea is also a good idea. In addition, they also can punish the tanker which over the amount of oil. If the government uses this way, they can both solve the oil pollution problems and earn money. Finally, use this money to improve maritime transport systems. The government can increase budgets for maritime transport company to buy a new tanker or fix their old tankers. It will improve the oil spill problem during they transport oil to another country. According to Bray, he said "with the current demand for Russian oil, and the obvious need for increased maritime transport systems" (para.3).
Second, not only the government should have to know more environment knowledge, the people of Russia also should have more knowledge about the problem of oil pollution. The Russia residents should be more education about environment knowledge. They can have an ecological class in their primary, second, and high school for teaches their children to know more about environment. They also can make a TV commercial to inform the public about oil pollution. Another way is build a billboard to advertise about oil pollution. These two ways can tell their residents more about oil pollution, environment knowledge and how oil pollution influences their lives.
Third, Russia should find ways of protecting migratory birds. After people know more about oil pollution problem, maybe some people want to have a responsibility to protect migratory birds. Then they will make an organization that gets money to clean the environment or to help sick animals. This is also helping the government to solve oil pollution problem. Moreover, maybe some people want to make a more strong organization that protests against people who will hurt the animals. Maybe this kind of organization will have a parade to protest people who make oil pollution that cause animals died.
In conclusion, Russian government didn’t have any action to solve this problem. The reason is Russia is a developing country. They think economy is more important than the environment in this day. It costs a lot of money to clean oil spills, and the Russian government would prefer to spend their money to advance their economy. However, the government is supposed to protect their residents and animals. First, birds are died by oil pollution then later this will happened in human being. If Russian government did not notice this is a crisis, later in the future, they just have to pay more expenses such as a lot of people get strange disease or died suddenly and more and more money to recover the environment like developed countries. Therefore, that is why we need to find solutions to solve this problem.
Reference:
Naumov, A. (Feb. 16, 2005). Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill. BBC News. Retrieved 3/31/05, from Lexis Nexis.
Bray, J. (2004, Oct. 7). Russia oil export boom poses new concern for European safety: This year the focus is on challenges and opportunities surrounding the maritime transportation of energy from Russia and central Asia. Lloyd’s List. Retrieved 4/07/05, from Lexis Nexis.
Research Paper Proposal
Mandy
EAP2
April 15, 2005
Research Paper Proposal
Oil Pollution in Russia
After I read some articles about oil pollution in Russia, I recognize oil spill is a big problem in Russia , especially in the Baltic. Every year oil can be found at the beach. Oil spill influence water quality around the sea area in Russia. According to Bray (2004), Russia has many maritime transport of oil. Every day they transport oil to many places. For example, tankers export oil to many places every day. The problem is this kind of ship such as a tanker taint the water supply and could damage those who drink water in Russia. Maybe the tanker is too old and has a leak and some oil spill. Another way is if the tanker hits a rock and gets a hole. Bray said "with the current demand for Russian oil, and the obvious need for increased maritime transport systems" (para.3). A huge number of migratory birds died because of oil spill in the Baltic. According to a resident Anatoliy Kramskoy who has been living on the Baltic coast for 30 years. Kranskoy said "This is the first time I have come across such an event."(Naumov, 2005, para.3).
This is not only bad for birds, but also for marine life, people and the environment. There are several reasons for this. First, there is too much difference between Russia and the area where the birds migrate from, then the birds may not adapt to the heavily polluted environment in Russia. They may have come from an environment that is very clean, and suddenly they come in contact with the pollution in Russia and a group of them died together.
Second, the birds ate the toxic fishes and aquatic grasses then died. The sea is polluted. Then all the aquatic grasses and fishes are suffering from toxic elements. When birds drink water and eat food every day, toxic elements become a continued cause of damage to the birds. Then one day they will die and nobody will know the reason.
Finally, Russia may not know that oil spill cause so many environmental problems. They may not know there are lots of birds who died because of the oil spill. Russian government does not have enough environmental knowledge. They ignore the importance of environment. The reason is Russia is a developing country. They think economy is more important than the environment in this day. It costs a lot of money to clean oil spills, and the Russian government would prefer to spend their money to advance their economy. However, the government is supposed to protect their residents and animals. First are birds died then later this will happened in human being. If Russian government did not notice this is a crisis, later in the future, they just have to pay more expenses such as a lot of people get strange disease or died suddenly and more and more money to recover the environment like developed countries.
The oil pollution not only kills birds but also hurts marine life. Moreover, this pollution pollutes the water supply for Russia. For solving the problem of this oil pollution, I think there are three possible solutions. First, Russian government should make some laws and for solving this oil pollution strictly enforce them. Second, Russia should find ways of protecting migratory birds such as makes a organization. Third, the people of Russia should have more knowledge about the problem of oil pollution.
I have already found some articles that talk about the problems that oil pollution cause and why they have oil pollution in Russia. I still need more information about the government's solution and how oil pollution influence human beings and the whole environment, or some articles that talk about their maritime transport and the Baltic.
Reference:
Naumov, A. (Feb. 16, 2005). Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill. BBC News. Retrieved 3/31/05, from Lexis Nexis.
Bray, J. (2004, Oct. 7). Russia oil export boom poses new concern for European safety: This year the focus is on challenges and opportunities surrounding the maritime transportation of energy from Russia and central Asia. Retrieved 4/07/05, from Lexis Nexis.
Russia Looks to Baltic Neighbours over Oil Spill
Russia Looks to Baltic Neighbours over Oil Spill
In “Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill” by Aleksandr Naumov from BBC new talks about a huge number of waterfowl died on the Baltic shores because of massive fuel oil slick. (Aleksandr, 2005, para. l ) This is a largest birds died collectively have ever been.( para. 3) Almost of them are migratory birds. The correspondent explains it is difficult to protect birds to live in water with oil.( para. 5) However, investigators cannot find out the truly source where is the oil from. If they find out the chief offender, Russia government will punish huge money of fines.
In my opinion, I think there maybe some possible reasons that why birds died. First, There is too much different between Russia and the area where the bird migrates from, then the bird may not adapts to heavily polluted environment in Russia. Maybe they come from the environment is very clean, and suddenly they contact the pollution in Russia and group of them died together.
Second, birds eat the toxic fishes and aquatic grasses then died. The sea is polluted. Then all aquatic grasses and fishes are suffered toxic element. When birds drink water and eat food every day, toxic element is continued cause damage to birds. Then one day they will die and nobody knows the reason.
Finally, Russia’s government should have more environmental knowledge. Russia is a developing country. They think economy is the most important thing in this day. They ignore the importance of environment. Later in the future, they just have to pay more money to recover environment like developed countries.
In conclusion, no matter the reasons of died birds. The result is there are a huge number of birds died is that means it also threaten human live. This is a potential environment intact. Human also drink water every day. Maybe we have to worry about that the toxic element comes with groundwater. First it killed all the birds, next time it will threaten the lives of our human beings. Russia’s government should have to pay more attention in their environment.
Reference: Naumov, Aleksandr. (Feb. 16, 2005). Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill. BBC News. Retrieved from Lexis Nexis.
About Big Fish
In the book Edward talks to the girl who takes a shower in the river, but in the movie he doesn't have any chance to talk to ger. I like this stage direction. This is more mysterious. We never see the girl's face. We don't know her appearances. But we have an empty image to imagine her ourself. I like this idea more. So i prefer the movie more.
Infernal Affairs
I want to introduce a movie, the name is Infernal Affairs . This is a very famous and popular movie in Asia. It has famous actors and actresses and two good directors. This is a good story between chastity and villain, good and evil. Two main actors are very good to play the mental aspects of the role. Both of them won the best award for a chief actor at the Golden Horse Awards in 2003 and 2004. Moreover, this drama will played by Hollywood. It is s same story, but different players.
Plot: The police want to pursue a very big and powerful criminal gang. Therefore, they have a big plan to catch the leader of the sinister gang. They dispatch a very intelligent policeman to be a stool. It’s to get closer intelligence about the gang. However, the sinister also use the same way. They want to evade the police’s pursuit. They want to be successful in every crime. They also dispatch a faithful stool to be a policeman. Then, the fire is starting.
Setting: Hong Kong
Character: A sergeant, a leader of sinister gang, a secret policeman, a stool from sinister gang, the tool’s fiancée, a psychology physician.
Actors/actresses: Andy Lau- the stool from the sinister gang
Edison Chen- the young stool
Leung, Chiu Wai- the secret policeman
Yue, Shawn- young policeman
Sammi Cheng- the tool’s fiancée
Kelly Chen- the psychology physician
Eric Tsang- a leader of sinister gang
Anthony Wong- Wong Sir
Time Sequence: Flashback style
MY FAVORITE SINGER-YANZI
My favorit singer is Yanzi. She is from Singapore. She can creat wonderful songs with the piano. By the way, she is a intelligent singer. And i love her smile very much.
The little Golden Bird
Mandy
AE2
The little Golden Bird
"The little Golden Bird" is not a traditional story that has a beautiful princess and handsome prince. It's kind of parable that inspires people’s notice. This story is talking about how a bird tries to remind the dazed monks to stick to their religion and help them get out of the confusion. Once upon a time, there were several monks who lived in a temple. They concentrated on prayer and study meditation. One day, a young monk from the city came to the temple; he told them how wonderful the city was when he was there. The monks started to be confused, and they were excited to go to the city. During the turn for the last five monks to leave the temple, a golden bird flew above their head and gave them the strings. The monks held the strings and the bird brought them to the city. The monks realized the city wasn't as good as they thought when they saw it, and it was full of hate, misery, and violence. After they went back to the temple, the golden bird circled three times overhead and flew away. Finally, the monks realized it was the Buddha, and it come to help them find the pathway to true happiness.
Golden bird is good. It gives a warning to monks. A young monk is not good, not bad. Some people may say the young monk is bad, because he told several monks how wonderful the city was and upset their peaceful lives. But some people may say several monks cannot withstand temptation; it's not the young monk's fault. I think the young monk does not have a bad heart. He's not purposely upset their peaceful lives. Anyway, the story is principally tells us don’t let people change your mind easily. You have to be your self and be more confident. Finally, it's a very good and edifying to children.
