Sarah Engler's Argument Analysis

Decent Essays
Conversely, author Sarah Engler discusses several ways to stop or reduce the effect of plastic pollution in her article. For me, the most practical solution that she suggests is to buy items in bulk. The goal behind this is simple, to cut down on the amount of plastic used. This is easy for me since me already by many items in bulk including bottled water and assorted foods such as yogurt. And, of course, I recycle. (Engler, 2016)
The EPA is also taking action to combat the threat of plastic pollution. In August 2012, the EPA was tasked by the government to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act is the nation’s strongest law protecting water quality, and its resources are being utilized to enforce laws

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    We are using enormous amount of plastic daily. In fact, we feel that plastic is surrounding us. It becomes indispensable for us (Madren 1). Because it is durable and indestructible and has a low density, it starts to accumulate in huge amounts in our oceans, and moves for hundreds of miles away from the original site of pollution and concentrates in five known ocean gyres (Sun). The situation is really very serious now, because thousands of tons of plastics are polluting our oceans and environment, endangering the whole marine life and ecosystems as well as our own heath Plastics exert its harmful and toxic effect on the marine wildlife as a result of ingesting the plastics, also from leaching of plastic toxins, and from getting entangled in…

    • 1146 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Reading this statement the my first understanding of the quote is defined as, having a society where “fantasies” are demanded by order and are also created by order. This might first be hard to understand but while looking through the work of Laura Mulvey we come to understand that “phantasy” is a mixture of sexual desire and self-image. Mulvey states, “During its history, the cinema seems to have evolved a particular illusion of reality in which this contradiction between libido and ego has found a beautifully complementary phantasy world.” (VP & NC pg. 308).…

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On the topic of participation awards, Lisa Heffernan and Vivian Diller have both published articles advocating either for, or against rewarding children at a young age, regardless if they’ve won a game or not. In terms of making a strong argument, both writers used celebrity testimonies, life experience, and quotes from reputable sources, some tactics more effective than others. In Lisa Heffernan’s article favoring participation trophies, “In Defense of Participation Trophies: Why They Really do Teach the Right Values,” she often pulls from her most powerful and relevant source to her topic- her son. Statements such as “When my son was around eight years old … he scoffed at the very idea that such an award existed.” would play a critical role in setting up a counter argument, but much like her other quotations in her article, it was followed by a statement from Hillary L. Friedman, a sociologist, that initially seems to back up her son’s opinion.…

    • 477 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Sherry Turkle would roughly predict the cell phone trend line would be increased as we move from left to right on the graph. Based on her argument, strong tie relationships will decline as people substitute them with weak tie relationships. More specifically, Turkle states that people are more likely to focus on the virtual community in order to connect with others and avoid too close intimacy. For instance, people do texting while they have chatting and constantly check online email even though they are with somebody else. As a result, people are physically in the same place, but in reality, they are not in the same location.…

    • 272 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Nancy Wood’s published her book, Perspective on Argument, in 1995. Throughout the text, Wood refers to a variety of books that help further the reader’s understanding. She cites these sources with footnotes, as they are located at the bottom of each page. She uses small sections of a variety of sources. Also, Wood uses sources published in the 1990’s.…

    • 1020 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the January 1995 issue of The Nation, Katha Pollitt writes an article entitle, "It Takes Two: A Modest Proposal for Holding Fathers Equally Accountable." In her essay, she attacks Newt Gingrich's current Personal Responsibility Act (PRA) saying that this act only recognizes the responsibility of mothers on welfare and the actions needed to be taken against them. Pollitt argues that the fathers of these children on welfare be held equally accountable by the legislature. To summarize the article, Pollitt states that male politicians always focus on the welfare mother's behavior in "a punitive way."…

    • 1005 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1944 was one of the most unforgettable years in history, families were separated and lives were lost, leaving one another and never seeing them again for the rest of their lives. Many lives were killed during the Holocaust especially ones who were putting there lives in front of their loved ones. As many were killed during these horrifying times many had helped one another to escape these Death/ Concentration Camps. One of the many people who had helped save children from the Holocaust was a young lady named Suzanne Spaak. This young lady left her family, risked hers and the children's lives and hid all of these Jews in a hospital willing to save these children's lives.…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Professor Michael Sandel started the lecture with several scenarios. The first scenario talked about a trolley car on a track. Professor Sandel wanted the audience individually to be the driver/conductor of said trolley car. As one is driving the trolley car down the track, the brakes malfunction; however, the steering is functioning properly. If the driver of the trolley car continued forward, he would crash into five people.…

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Kate Murphy supports Christine Rosen’s argument on the fact that people manipulate a photo to support the view that they want to be displayed. The author says,“With body-slimming, skin-smoothing and age-defying filters and apps , people can make themselves look better than their true selves”(Murphy). People can be so unhappy with themselves that they are willing to go buy these apps or even go to the extreme by getting plastic surgery, just show the world a version of them that won’t be the truth. This helps enrich Rosen’s point because it shows that people are willing to change not only themselves, but the people they love with photoshop because they are so obsessed with how one should look, that we stop caring about the consequences.…

    • 237 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ernestine Friedl claimed that the status of women increases the more they are involved in primary subsistence and the public distribution of that subsidence. Before the validity of this argument can be assessed, it must be determined if the two conditions are met. The first condition, primary subsistence, can be assessed quantitatively. In the hunter/gatherer Kung society, men hunt, while women primarily gather. However, Kung women contribute more subsistence to the family and community, totaling 60-80 percent of all food consumed by weight.…

    • 373 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I agree that her power point was nicely written as a story line about Sue’s care plan. She has been smoking 2 packs for 35 years makes it 105 pack years, which is also a reason behind her lung conditions. She is diagnosed with COPD and as we all know by now that it is very important and beneficial for the patient to join pulmonary rehabilitation. I agree that she needs to go through further assessment for better treatment.…

    • 79 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mary Astell used Descartes’ argument to argue in favor of women’s equality. Astell used Descartes’ argument about the separation of the “mind” and the “body” to argue that sexual gender cannot determine one’s capability to reason. Rather, her philosophy claims that both men and women possess understanding and will. Astell argues that humans must use their understanding and will in order to reach God’s will, the ultimate truth. Similar to Descartes, Astell believes that God is a perfect and infinite being whereas humans are finite.…

    • 258 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Renee has a movie scene in her head. It is a snippet from "The Truth about Cats and Dogs. " The beautiful, blonde airhead of a model is telling her more plain Jane friend "He's in love with you." The scene is the blonde airhead expressing her desire to cede the man to her friend. Renee recognizes the psychic voice in this snippet as Mrs. O'Henry, wife of Henry O'Henry.…

    • 808 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    These regulations and ordinances attack the pollution problem straight to the source, which is a very effective way to reduce the plastic pollution in our…

    • 1930 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever walked down the road and seen hundreds of cans and bottles that were just tossed out the window? The earth is being polluted more and more each day as people are tossing their trash on the ground. Millions of dollars are spent every year, making simple things such as plastic bottles, because people are sending them to landfills instead of recycling bins. The earth is becoming a dirty place and it is already beginning to impact us. The best ways to make the earth cleaner are to recycle, buy reusable items, and stop littering.…

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays