Global Pollution

     Well, in History with O' Malley, I'm writing this research paper. Its supposed to be four to six pages long. I chose the subject of water pollution since it seems pretty fascinating. Well, we've spent like a month in the computer labs doing research and stuff like that. We have to do these steps for our research paper or Mr. O' Malley won't accept our final draft and fail us. There's like eight steps and right now I'm on like step seven, the rough draft. I haven't even started to think about writing the rough draft. I hope I can concentrate enough to write some of it everyday so that I won't have to stay up until like four in the morning Monday morning finishing it. -.-. I'm not really worried that much about my research paper, but like I hope that I can get this thing done and over with. Now that I've just like talked about what I'm working on. I'll tell you some stuff I learned or find interesting about my topic and vent my anger and such I guess.

     So water pollution is any foreign substances or objects being put into water sources. The biggest contributor to water pollution is us humans of course. We are so irresponsible, creating plastics and glass which can't decompose fast. We haven't taken any big steps to solving this problem or any other environment type problems.
     I think that we should be focusing on environmental problems and keeping animal and plant species from dieing out. Water pollution doesn't have to be such an issue if we actually paid any attention to it. Once in class, we watched a video about a gigantic island of trash made of plastic. Not many people even knows about it. That's all i have to say.

October 14, 2009 Spanish

      So I can't really think of anything to write about right now. My mind is like...bleh. So I think I'll just write things about Spanish. So I have Spanish with Ms.Castro or however you spell her name. She's Ok, but like in the middle when it comes to niceness. I had a Spanish teacher in eighth grade who was sooo nice. She was probably nicer than like all the French teachers together. Her name was Ms.Canfield and she never called on you unless you raised your hand. It was like, my favorite class ever. But now, in Spanish 3, I get so nervous. I hate getting called on since I don't remember shit from the previous years. (XD) 

     I have Spanish three days in a row which is pretty depressing since two of those days, I have like an hour and a half. The time go by sooooo sloowwwww in that class. Everytime i look up at the clock, the minute hand like dsappears or something. Yesterday, the teacher called on me and I thought i got it right. Then she was like, don't you understand me? I was like uhhm. noo.... The class sort of  laughed and then I finally found out what she was saying. She was telling me to conjugate obtain and i was like ohhhhh... wth. the rest of the day went by pretty quickly. I hate events like this where I don't know what the hell the teacher is saying and then I just look at her and shes like, looking back without saying anything. I think this only happens in Spanish since all my other classes, we speak in English. I just don't understand why like all the teachers expect us to remember everything that we've learned from the past  two years of our lives and then automatically pull it out. I mean there's like a two month gap between the end of last year and the start of this year. I can't remember anything from last year. And no. im not going to sacrifice my break after like six months of school. I dont think I can concentrate long enough to study every day of the summer anyways.

Vietnam's Toxic Problem

          I recently read about a article pertaining to Da Nang and the Vietnam war. Apparently, the U.S government sprayed something toxic into the air. The agent that the U.S military sprayed is called "Agent Orange" which is basically an herbicide containing dioxin, which is basically one of the world's most  toxic pollutants. After the war, the United States and Vietnam have been debating who was responsible for the deployment of Agent Orange. The reason we are still fighting over this problem is because Agent Orange is still affecting people today. Luu Thi Nguyen, mother of a young daughter as cursed with the ill-effects of Orange. Her child has been infected by Agent Orange, even though neither she or her husband was affected. So this isn't just contact with the herbicide that kills you, it's also being passed on genetically. Like all confused, and scared people, Nguyen isn't blaming anyone , she just wants this to be cleaned up. The U.S finally takes action and tests the soil around Da Nang's airport. The results were astounding. There was more than a hundred times as much dioxin in the soil than the standards. After testing the soil, the U.S finally sees the error and plans to give Vietnam three hundred thousand dollars out of a sixty million dollar project. Although our government is reluctant to own up to this problem, Vietnam may not need our help anymore. Recent studies have shown that Vietnam's economy is growing rapidly. But even though the Vietnamese government knows about the toxic pollutant, they aren't checking which areas are affected. This lack of communication is the reason why the herbicide is still killing people. I think that the main reason that people are still being exposed to this deadly toxin is because the government hasn't really made any kind of effort in warning the public. Like I stated before, Luu Thi Nguyen and her husband gave life to an Agent Orange victim. The reason? Simple. They had eaten dioxin riddled fish. Not only should the U.S take responsibility, they should create a program to gradually rid infected land. A join operation with the Vietnamese government which will save thousands of lives.