Re-Direct the River

In Weintraubs article “River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkling of Hope” he states how the salmon is gone. It affects me emotionaly because what has our world come to. We are running out of food, and water. It makes me feel bad because I have to admit that i really dont take care of water at all. It makes me sad thinking that other people literaly have no water and that because of our actions the salmon is gone.

When the Canal was built towns all along the route from Buffalo to Albany prospered from the revenue and the attraction the Canal brought with it. Whether the Canal was being used for business people, immigrants, settlers of the region, or tourists, the border-towns all had some appeal to these persons. After some time the state was continually asked to expand the Canal from the original route to include connecting canal routes. However, the same towns along the route from Buffalo to Albany had already been established along the lines of the original canal. These towns would need to be relocated in order to obey these new requests. This presented a major problem because the people in these towns had formed a life around the Canal and many of them made their income based of the Canal. The inhabitants of the towns changed their mentality from not wanting the Canal to invade on their lives, to it being an essential part of their lives they depended upon.

“River of Renewal” is a documentary that discusses a long-fought battle between American Indians, pitted farmers, and commercial fisherman over 10 million-acre Klamath River Basin, which spreads into the Oregon-California border. The documentary began by displaying graphics and videos of the American Indians’ side of the story. The Native Americans came from a humble background. They just trying to catch enough salmon from the regional water bend. Unfortunately, the amount of water was not enough to sustain the fish population, so the fish population declined and the Native Americans lost a source of food as well as a part of their ceremonial culture. Then, the documentary discusses the farmers’ side of the story. Their side of the story is

Everyone has a desire, something that they want to achieve or obtain for them. Whether it is ethical or immoral, having desires is almost inevitable. Sometimes these desires make people go through tough times. Tragic occurrences such as death and broken relationships shape the lives of people positively or negatively. In the following essay, “Many Rivers to Cross” and the short stories, “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”, the protagonists of these texts struggle to achieve their desire, but because of those struggles the main characters do eventually come to a revelation.

The River by Gary Paulsen is a Realistic Fiction novel. The River has 133 pages. According to a customer review on Amazon, “I loved how Brian returned just to save people's lives.” I think the intended audience is for 3rd grade and up because there are some terms and words that young children won’t understand.

Have you ever needed easier access to the essential items to stay alive? This is specifically what the residents of the North-East thought around the year 1817. Carol Sheriff argues in her book, “The Artificial River” that the residents of the canal corridor actively sought after long-distance trade and therefore consumer goods that markets brought to their homes. The fact that people supported the Erie Canal at all "suggests that at least some aspired to engage in broader market exchange" (p. 11). The transformation of this region because of the Erie Canal is organized around six topics, each of which is covered by a chapter. They include the; Visions of Progress, the Triumph of Art over Nature, Reducing Distance and Time, the Politics of Land and Water, the Politics of Business, and the Perils of Progress.

Despite the low capacity, there was overcrowding which is directly linked to the crush. When organizing the football match, the organisers were supposed to look at possibilities of people crushing against the turnstiles and other fixed structures or barriers, underfoot trampling, spectator aggressiveness and surging or swaying behaviour of the spectators (Winter, 2012).

McEwen and Weintraub both state evidence on the information on their articles. They both give support which makes me believe them both. In McEwen’s article “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” he states that their is to many problems with legislation and their is no funding, but at the same time everyone els wants to restore the river. In other hand Weintaub in his article “River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkiling of Hope” he is all for it and he wants the changes.

In Tim O’Brien’s “On the Rainy River”, Tim is faced with the most difficult decision of his life. The Vietnam War is unfolding overseas and Tim is drafted into the military. As Tim has the option of staying and fighting a war he doesn’t believe in or facing the embarrassment of fleeing to Canada, O’Brien illustrates how other’s opinions sway our decisions in life more than we think they do. Tim battles himself over what should be an easy choice. Will he stay or go? His hometown is “a conservative little spot on the prairie” (1005). There, it is all about tradition and duty. If he chooses to go, he can already imagine his fellow townsfolk gathering around to talk, shamefully, about how “that damned sissy [has]

Since the beginning of time, water has played a key role in societies all over the world. The earliest recorded civilizations have all been found along large river valleys, such as, the Indus River in India and the Yellow River in China. Water is an essential part of life; it does not just sustain the life of all human beings around the globe, but also sustains the life of every living thing known to this Earth. All of the major cities that we know today are surrounded by large river systems that supply its people with the means to survive in that region. These rivers also link our different communities together and allow us to prosper, but these rivers are being taken advantage of. Our once great rivers are falling victim to pollution and

crowd entering the stadium, in fact, the crowd was much more than we anticipated and expected.

In Cleveland Seller’s memoir, The River of No Return, Seller’s discusses his time in the SNCC. While the SNCC was primarily a nonviolent organization during its inception, in the years prior to its downfall, the SNCC had a major shift into the black separatist and power movement. This transition made the SNCC into an organization that promoted a revolution to overturn racial discrimination which departs from the original founding principle’s the SNCC was created on. While Seller’s involvement within the organization is unquestionable, there is the matter that the memoir is coming from his perspective which implies some bias. While his perspective gives an accurate account of this major transition in SNCC which led to its demise, his bias is

The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South, is a major river in the southern United States of America.[2] The river was named for the red-bed country of its watershed. It is one of several rivers with that name. Although it was once a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River is now a tributary of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows separately into the Gulf of Mexico. It is connected to the Mississippi River by the Old River Control Structure.

Weintraub affected his audience to feel sympathy in his article. In his work, he quotes Moyle saying, “‘We’re doing more than just bringing back a few fish into the system. We’re bringing back a river and that’s going to be amazing thing’” (Moyle 5). Moyle’s opinion provided potential to the river restoration plan, and have it seem as if it’s an accomplishment to California. If bringing the river back is shown to be something to take gratification for, then it makes people who support and who want to support feel

They both relax, and we hear an exhausted breath and thank you from Davidge, who is obviously tired after the