Nature and the Environment

Kissena Corridor Park is located on Queens, New York. The park itself is 100 acres and there are many sections like biking and a number of soccer fields, tennis courts, baseball fields event a community garden.

These are some of my writings that did I in the garden.

The fresh scent and wind make me feel like I am flying around the sky and I don't want to stop. For reason I feel calm and energized that is halt to describe.

As the wind moves and flows it brings the sense of nature, and it's fulfilling.
The rose stretching with all they have to get out, dancing gently with the wind
The dense green that it can see looks like all the green and effect of the universe was used.
The combination of plants are a handful of memories
I can see my grandmother as I was a little boy. She used to have most of the plants I can see where the people are walking around like lost souls

    The Kissena Corridor Park is right across the street from my school. It is a huge park.   It has a community garden, which people in the neighborhood call the Korean Community Garden. It has a baseball field, handball field, track field on one part of it. The other the parts have some swings. There's a playground. Many people come to this park to exercise, play, or work on the garden.

    For a month we have been working on the community garden. We choose a plot and write about it. The garden is big, you can find many different plants, vegetables, fruits, and even flowers.
   
 

I'm learning more about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: What happened to all the birds in the Gulf of Mexico. I was researching this question online, and this news item caught my attention because... I chose this item to read because my English teacher introduced it to me. It's called "Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)". This article was really interesting. It was really tragic that many of the marine creatures and the birds are suffering in this disaster. There was this one part that had sparked up my interest:

"Birds: 820 have been collected, with 298 of these visibly oiled. 597 birds were dead; 223 were captured alive. 28 have been released.
Sea Turtles: 289 have been collected; 243 were dead; 46 were alive.
Mammals, Including Dolphins: 33 have been collected in the spill zone; 31 of those were dead. Determination whether oil was the cause of death is pending for 30 dolphins"

www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05pelican.html

In this recent oil spill, not only did the oil spread to a large area. It had also covered the birds who swim this

gulf in oil. In the picture on the link above is a pelecan that had been a victum of the oil spill. It is getting treated

and soo are other expected birds.

Suprisingly many pelecans had gotten involved in the oil spill. This spilling of 600 oil barrels has left many

pelecans dead and very few alive. More than 612 birds were damaged. The bird's habitat has been ruined by all of this.

I'm learning more about helping people right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is "Is the president doing anything to help solve the problem?" I was researchingthis question online and this news item caught my attention because It seem like it had a lot of information about the oil spill. Also because it's showing what president Obama thinks about whats going on.

"Now I don’t have a problem with BP fulfilling its legal obligations, but I want BP to be very clear they’ve got moral and legal obligations here in the Gulf for the damage that has been done. And what I don’t want to hear is, when they’re spending that kind of money on their shareholders, and spending that kind of money on TV advertising, that they’re nickel-and-diming fisherman or small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time.”

The quote I chose here is basecally saying that the people from th Bp are using the dissaters as a way to advertise them selfs. They should be thinking on how to solve the problem nt trying to gain money becuase even if money is gain none is really spend on helpind the ocean.

   I am learn more about animal habitatin the oil spill right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: What happen to animal habitat in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? I was researching this question online, and this news item caught my attention because... It give good detail about how this oil spill is dangering them, and type of animal are in danger.

    "Efforts are under way to keep the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from reaching birds, mammals and critical shoreline habitats, but some marine biologists worry about the effects of the oil slick and the use of chemical dispersant on life underwater."from: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/28/us/20100428-spill-map.html

   The quote I choose here is basically saying that people caring about the animal habitat, or stoping the oil to get to them, but they are using other chemical to clean up.

I am learning more about the oil spill and in particular what I'm wondering about is why didn't any rules or regulation to stop this. Why didn' the  EPA complain like they usually do, did they get paid, off shore drilling has a tremendous effect on the environment.  BP is so getting killed.

"The gulf’s deeper water harbors 10 species of threatened sharks, 6 species of endangered turtles, manatees, whales and innumerable fish.

I'm learning more about the Gulf of Mexico OIl Spill right ow, and in particular what I'm wondering about is how long will it take to stop the flow of the oil to other places. I was researching this question online, and this news item caught my attention because it said that the oil spill might not be cleaned up until fall. This sparked my interest since it can seriously affect many people and manhy jobs around the U.S. coast.

"Adm. Thad W. Allen, the Coast Guard commander, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS that BP officials were working to secure the cap over the wellhead and to gradually increase the amount of oil recovered. But he said the only solution to the problem would be the successful completion of relief wells to finally stop the flow from the bottom of the 18,000-foot-deep well, a job that will not be completed until August at the earliest."

The quote here I chose is basically saying that it will take as long asthe end of summer to fully clean up everything. It would take this long since the well is so deep down and so much oil is flowing out each day.

In my plot there are purple flowers. There so many beautiful flowers there are huge rocks on the floor. there's a green bucket on the ground. (It looks like a bucket to me) they're green plants on the ground. it seems like they have been growing kind of quickly. there are bricks on the floor. There's like four or more bricks on the floor. There's so many yellow flowers they look like daises. there kind of long. for me the purple flowers were prettier than the yellow flowers. they looked more alive. :) i would rather want the purple flowers. the weather that day was really good. it was hot and very sunny that day. like it seemed like i was getting a tan.

I'm learning more about the oil spill right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: How is the wildlife is being affected by oil spill? I was researching this question onine, and this news item caught my attention because it showed how each animal is being affected. When I read the title I saw that it was exactly what I was looking for.

Brown pelicans and other seabirds often dive into the oil because the slick makes the water look calmer. If they are coated in oil, they will be unable to regulate their temperatures, leading to hyperthermia.

The quote I chose here is basically saying that even brown pelicans that aren't even living in the water are being affected. The oil causes them to be unable to regulate their temperatures.

As we were in class my teacher had brought up a topic that is nationaly known. People have been talking about it for a while and it never occured to me because it really didn't affect me. I never go to beaches but today I realized it affects all of us. The BP oil spil has been going on for 3 weeks now. It occured on the gulf of mexico. It has taken the lives of many sea creatures. This may be the biggest oil spill that the world has ever seen. BP should take responsibility for since it was theirs to begin with. However the world wants to stop this as soon as possible. The oil spill isn't really a apill it more  of a bursting leak. This leak is still spilling into the ocean.I have researched this online and found an interesting website, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spill..., and I've found an article on the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm learning more about the Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill right now, and in particular what i'm wondering about is : "How will this problem affect the society in the future?" I was researching this question online, and this article came up.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/us/06spill.html?scp=1&sq=wildlife%20in%20gulf%20of%20mexico&st=cse
This stood out to me because the title. It is saying how the Caps slow loss of oil, but the engineers are moving cautiously. I think this is was interesting because they probably they move slowly i guess because they think that if they don't move carefully that they could make the situation worse. Also the picture is a bit interesting because it shows these men in suits helping to clean it up a bit.

Essay:

Across the street from my school we have our community garden and playground, Kissena Corridor Park. The park is for everyone, there really is no age limit. To little kids, the park is a dream come true. A playground with monkey bars, slides, and swings. For teens there are the basketball, handball, and kickball courts. Even adults enjoy the track and workout stations. The park is even fit for the senior citizens that live near here. They like to relax on their little piece of heaven, their plot of land where they can grow anything from flowers to food. My English class has been visiting the garden for a couple of weeks now writing down a description about the plot of land that we chose.

I'm learning more about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: How are the animals being affected by the oil spill? I was researching this question online, and this article "Concerns Up and Down the Food Chain" because I thought it would tell me about the wildlife being harmed.

"But biologists are increasingly alarmed for wildlife offshore, where the damage from a spill can be invisible but still deadly. And they caution that because of the fluidity between onshore and offshore marine communities, the harm taking place deep at sea will come back to haunt the shallows, whether or not they are directly hit by the slick."

The quote I chose here is basically saying that many wildlife even offshore are being endangered. I think they're taking some actions to save the animals. This food chain affects our food and wildlife.

1. What happened in the Gulf of Mexico?

2. What is the long term impact?
   "Unless the underwater spigot is shut off quickly, an unlikely prospect, the continuing flow of oil will at least create serious short-term impacts.

Chris Granger / The Times-Picayune archiveIn September, 2005, three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a cormorant covered in oil walks across the top of a levee in St. Bernard Parish. Oil spilled from Murphy Oil in Meraux inundated blocks of houses -- and wildlife -- with oil."We are in a breathless waiting game," said Baton Rouge-based Melanie Driscoll, director of bird conservation for the National Audubon Society. "Every oil spill is different, and so what this one will do depends on a long list of factors.

Across the street we visit out to Kissena Corridor Park or Korean Garden. In our ELA class we went out to garden. So there we wrote about the plot that we chose in the garden. We wrote about everything we saw in our plot.At first I didn't knew which plot to choose so I walked around the garden to see different plots. Then finally I chose my plot. My plot was at the direction of south west.

In my plot I see flowers and bushes. In my plot I can see flowers of purple color. I really got no idea of what is the name of the flowers. In my plot I can feel rough surface rocks. there is a flower which is long and got spikes on top of it. Unfortunately, I don't know the name . I see some different kind of bushes. There are a lot of little rocks and some bricks. There are some flowers and bushes that are still growing. Also my plot looks kind of dirty. There is a fence that shows a border or separation of 2 different plot. My boundary is made up of wood and some big rocks. There is a plant that caught my attention because it has a green stem but it got spikes on the top. There are a lot of bushes that are growing in my plot. My plot looks dirty.

I think the seals should be allowed to remain at Children's Pool. They need this area for pupping season. We have taken so much habitat from the animals they deserve this spot. Children have so many different places to go have fun. This is a perfect area for the seals to have their pups and that people will leave them alone. It is also a nice treat for the people to come and watch the seals up close and in their natural habitat. This is why I think the children's pool should not be taken from them.

The children's pool was funded by Ellen Browning Scripps in the early 1900’s. She left her money to many different projects, schools, libraries, hospitals, etc. She was an extraordinary woman and many want to keep her wishes of the Children's Pool alive. Thats why there is so much controversy on who should have the pool. But over the last couple of years the seals have taken over the children's pool. Animal right actives believe the seals should stay even though the pool was intended for children.