One Bottle At A Time Analysis

Plastic isn’t known to be a substance made for consumption, but you may be eating it every day. In “Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic…Are You?” the author Susan Casey is informing us how bad plastic is polluting our oceans. Susan Casey is the author of a New York Times best seller, “The Devils Teeth”, helped publish Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, and is the editor and chief of Oprah Winfrey’s Magazine “O”. She argues that these pollutants are doing damage in multiple facets, such as affecting food chains, disrupts organism reproduction, and directly cause the things we consume to be harmful to us. The author found many creative ways to appeal to all three persuasive appeals which are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. Although the article was great at the end she added things that weren’t needed and seemed to just be there as filler.

At the beginning of this documentary, they talk about how the plastic ocean lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is here that scientists will find a floating island made up of trash, more specifically plastic. Then they specifically go into detail about how the plastic ocean has and continues to have a negative impact on wildlife and the ocean. Essentially this whole documentary brings to light how coral reefs have become a dumping ground for all the plastic that washes into the sea. It is because of our reckless actions that coral reefs are becoming damaged. The Water Brothers then introduce bring up the fact that the plastic also has an effect on seabirds. Due to the dramatic decrease in the fish population in those waters, thousands of seabirds die each year from starvation, as a result of mistaking the plastic for food. By eating the plastic, seabirds are giving this false feeling of satisfaction and fullness. However, the plastic is of no nutritious value and it causes the seabird to dehydrate; which substantially causes them to lose their muscle mass, and become weak. In some cases, this can also lead to disease and death. The Water Brothers then make it a point to explain how the plastic is actually becoming a big part of the marine food chain and as a result marine animals are

Not only does the documentary by Vice instill feelings of despair and hopelessness, but the documentary also provides viewers with an urge to help in any way possible. The documentary shows a clip of sea life swimming in the ocean. What viewers do not know at first is that the water that the dolphins are swimming in is filled with miniscule pieces of broken down plastic. What was most shocking was when one of the Vice journalists got into the same water as the sea creatures and felt a piece of plastic filter into his mouth, and when another journalist was diving and saw a plastic bag floating about, cautiously approaching the thin film of chemicals, thinking the piece of suspended plastic was a jellyfish. Seeing these two scenes causes a strong feeling of helplessness, followed by an urge to help, into viewers.

It is of the belief that one of the great things about being a citizen of the United States of America is, freedom. It is also the belief that freedom is one of the reasons that citizenship in America is highly sought by individuals from other countries wanting to escape the limitations and restrictions of freedom governed by their native country. The United States of America’s Constitution of 1787, was created to form the government while incorporating basic law with the promise to provide fixed freedoms to the American people (Rosen & Rubenstein, 2014). It was determined however, that additions needed to be made to the Constitution that furthered American’s freedom with limitations that the government could impose on them, thus the proposition

I needed to amplify the sound waves of the song "I am a Believer" using a two liter bottle. In order to achieve my goal of playing this song clear with, no fuzziness, and no echo I had to look at my materials. I chose water because the sound waves will resonate off and not absorb into the water, and then the sound waves will exit through holes that I cut into the bottle. The materials we used to make this sound amplify is a two liter bottle, an iPod, and water from the sink.

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave where the prisoners have been since their childhood. One of the prisoners breaks free and leaves the cave. The sun blinds him because his eyes were accustomed to the dark. When the prisoner was removed from the cave and brought into the world, the disorientation would be even harsher; the light of the sun would be even more vivid than the fire. But as his eye adjust, the freed prisoner would be able to observe beyond the shadows. As he begins to comprehend his new world, and sees that the sun is the source of life and goes on an intellectual journey where he discovers beauty and meaning. He sees aspects and reflections in the water. I would believe after he spends some

This video is about living. Sturgill literally sings in it, “Someday you'll wake up and this life will be over.” The beginning of the song has a person waking up and it looks like he or she has aged overnight. Then, in the middle there’s all these things about living, like a gravestone and an alarm clock sitting on it, showing that life is the alarm clock, and that anyone could be dead in a second. There’s flowers that are being watered with a water can, and then they’re not being watered. The flowers showing that in life everyone has to live it and let grow it, before it can’t anymore. At one point there’s an old man riding a motorcycle around, and then crashing into the gravestone, that pretty much explaining how anyone can die at any given moment, even just driving down a road. At the end, it looks as if everyone is being taken up to heaven, like the last judgement in the bible. When they get to “heaven” there’s what appears to be a space ship, which is just a metaphor, because the song that this is album is on, is called, “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.” Also, throughout the entire video is shots of Simpson in a room, all alone, singing and playing his guitar by himself. That just helps to create the mood of the music video, and make it that much better. This video is all about

Central Idea: The quality of the ocean and health of sea life is greatly impacted by the contents that go into the sea, so the people of this world should limit the amount of litter and pollutants that potentially contribute to this problem.

Recycling is a great attempt to preserve our natural resources, but it does not even come close to saving the living creatures of Mother Earth herself. The build up of plastic bags and other unnecessary items in our oceans is a greater cause of ecosystem disruption. An estimated 100,000 marine animals die each year due to suffocating on or ingesting plastic bags. Increased levels of man-made pollutants show up in areas like the Arctic, affecting Polar bears, other arctic mammals, melting polar ice caps and adding to the stress of all climate change and global warming. All plastic bags ever thrown away are stored in landfills, which only some of actually properly dispose

In the documentary “Inside the Garbage of the World”, the main social problem being explained is that there has been a great influx of plastic and other type of garbage in oceans and their beaches. This buildup of pollution has largely affected the wildlife population ranging from animals on the beaches to the creatures of the ocean. In oceans, what is called ‘garbage patches’, a large buildup of garbage that flow to one area in the oceans, are being created. Approximately 50 percent of all plastic sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor but about 2 times that much is actually already on the ocean floor. In fact, according to the documentary, there is a garbage patch that is to the left of California that is the size of half of the United States. Each year, about 4.7 million tons of plastic goes in the ocean a year and it is estimated that by 2050, there will be another 33 billion tons of plastic added to the present amount. Eighty percent of the current pollution comes from the land. According to marine researchers, twice as much plastic debris is one the ocean floor than it was 10 years ago. In the futures, plastic will break down into smaller pieces of plastic, creating a bigger problem from the habitat. This plastic pollution is one of the leading cause for beach and ocean inhabiting creatures be extinct because animals are mistaking these plastic pieces for food. When scientist began to dissect beach animals such as birds, they discovered that at least fifteen pounds of

Do you know that many americans do not know how important recycling is? In the article “Importance of Recycling” by Rinkesh he says, “Recycling is important in today’s world if we want to leave this planet for our future generations.” This statement explains how many americans do not know how important recycling is to keep this planet and many more generations going. Many people do not know the different ways recycling helps out our enviroment. Personally, recycling is important for the environment, which is why I decide participate in it and recycle at home. I like to recycle cans and bottles. In my opinion, there are many factors as to why the environment needs recycling, but to shorten the process I came up with three major needs as to why

The numbers of how much plastic and trash that are dumped into our oceans every year are sickening. According to Julie Mailto (2017) from her website Plastic Oceans, “More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year” (para. 1). Plastic debris in oceans affect more than just simply ocean plants. Around 250 species of ocean animals are affected and are known to suffer from the consequences of severe plastic pollution. Reusable plastics are a great alternative to single use plastics. By using refillable water bottles the amount of plastic waste could be drastically decreased. Not using plastic straws, silverware, and sandwich bags could also lessen the effect of waste in our oceans. Recycling is the best way to cut back on how much debris ends up in the water. I have been recycling since I can remember. If people got paid to recycle then everyone would without question. I believe recycling should be a law in our state because it already is in other states and has been shown to reduce waste pollution so I believe it needs to be implicated in ours.

Recycling and going green has been at the forefront of everyone's mind for the last 10 years. It has become a major concern to able to preserve the planet and reverse some of the damage that society has been inflicting over the last two hundred years. Everyone's concerned with emissions and electric cars but the world is in fact over two-thirds water. So naturally what society should be concerned about should be the oceans in the pollution and negative human impact that people have placed on them. Part of the problem as an initial estimate of the amount of plastic is not accurate. Not to mention incredible environmental and ecological effects the plastic has on marine life. Ocean plastic has reached a critical level where human intervention needs to take place.

Recently, oceanographers and ecologists discovered that about 70% of marine debris actually sinks to the bottom of the ocean. As a result, not recycling hurts the marine life as it leaves leftovers behind to rot. This is important because it affects the whole world we live in. Our mess our the result of our world.

Since I was in second grade, I have had a passion for preserving the environment. I am always looking for more ways that I can share my excitement with my community. So, when I entered high school, I joined the Environmental Club to work with other students who are passionate about environmental preservation. When I joined, it was a group of five students who would collect and sort the school's recyclables. With over 2,500 students and faculty members, this is like recycling for a small community, and while recycling is extremely important, I wanted to make an even larger impact on my community.