Fresno Pacific University

The author is addressing the debate of a small island called Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands, located northeast of Taiwan and in the East China Sea. For some time, the Islands were ignored until the Chinese, Japanese, and later Taiwanese claimed to have discovered the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands. This debate has been brought to light once more by the purchase of some of the Islands by the Japanese. This purchase has been predicted to initiate war between the Chinese and Japanese. Each country has their own…

In Cold Stream,1966 I believe Twombly attempts to internalized Mallarme’s boundless confidence to search for his ideal and transforms an empty blackboard into an endless voyage within the sea. The sea, symbolic, becomes a vast expansion of divine chance. Abysmal and ever evolving, the sea is in constant motion whether on the surface or beneath just like the conscious and unconsciousness of our minds. The sea and the mind’s violent turbulence, the clarity of its stillness, ever changing, we…

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the planets biggest cluster of soaring trash, there are greater than 79,000 tonnes of plastic in the ocean in just a 1.6 million square kilometer area. The sum of garbage is up to sixteen times bigger than past measurements. This essay will discuss why it is important for people to have an awareness of “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” through how it was initially discovered, how people can change it positively in many ways, and greater issues that will occur…

“I will like America, and I will have fun in the U.S.” I said to my parents when I had decided to America in 2013. I was seventeen years old that year, and I did not study very well in my high school. I even could not go to university in China. So my parents sent me to America. Studying in America is really an important turning point in my life, and I learned a lot in the U.S. I knew that if I can overcome all the difficults, I will have a good result. Before I went to the U.S., I felt very…

Plastic In the hour long documentary, TOXIC: Garbage Island by Thomas Morton, a group of adults venture to the North Pacific gyre for 21 days to find a spinning current with tons of chemicals and plastics that will not biodegrade in order to show society how serious plastic pollution is. Throughout the documentary, the VICE team documents the plastic that has polluted the Pacific Ocean. The main argument that is used in the documentary is that most Americans do not think about plastic pollution…

For my Tuesdays with Morrie project, I made waves of the ocean crashing into the shore with poster board and a lot of construction paper. Boarded by construction paper, I have ten aphorisms. The idea for my project was about the time that Morrie compared himself to a small wave seeing the waves ahead of him crash along the shore, and the wave knows his time will come to crash on the shore as well. Morrie compares him to the wave realizing that his death is coming upon Morrie just like…

There’s Something in the Water Relaxing on a beach or fishing on a river are fun activities. The water always looks clean and fresh. No one wants to look across the ocean, lake, or river, and see candy wrappers and plastic particles. Unfortunately, New Jersey waterways, specifically the ones in northern New Jersey, have been plagued with an abundance of plastic. This is a major problem that needs to be fixed is the contaminated waterways because they cause problems. The plastic pollution in…

Sea Walnut, Rippenqualle (German) Venus' girdle, warty comb jelly, these are just some of the names for the Comb Jelly. This animal is “any member of a common genus (Mnemiopsis) of gelatinous, planktonic marine invertebrates of the order Lobata (class Tentaculata, phylum Ctenophora).” (""sea Walnut"." Encyclopædia Britannica.) Because of its pronounced abundance in estuaries in the heavily populated parts of the US and its precarious population growth after the 1980s, the Mnemiopsis Leidyi or…

Every time you litter it always ends up in water. This pollutes the water and makes the animals very very sick. In the pacific ocean there our 2 garbage patches in the western part and the northern part. Nearly every city, town, and waterside settlement discharges some type of pollution, even us. People are treating the ocean like trash bins, around 80 percent of marine litter…

MUSIC, DANCING, BEAUTIFUL SCENERY!!! That’s just some of the amazing things in Ecuador. First thing first Ecuador runs along the equator which makes it quite warm in the region. The lands are very lush and full of vegetation, making it a place where most fruit can be found. Overall Ecuador is a warm tropical area with great views and lively homes. Ahh Ecuador, it’s where the most beautiful mountains sit, where the glistening shoreline sway, and where powerful volcanoes rule. Ecuador has some of…