Lake

The essay “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White is about how he takes a trip back to the lake where his family spent their summers. He decides to take his son back with him. On the way to the lake the father starts to wonder if anything has changed at the lake. When him and his son get to the lake he starts to remember the time he spent at the lake when he was younger. The main idea of the essay is that there are always memories that will give you the illusion that you are in the past but no…

the City of Torrance, answered my questions about the Machado Lake Trash TMDL project. "You start with the regulations", he said. (J. Dettle, November 7, 2015). The US Environmental Protection Agency declared Machado Lake impaired in 1998 and 2002, and in 2008 the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the Los Angeles Regional Water Control Board (LAWB) established a total maximum daily load (TMDL) of zero trash in Machado Lake (LAWB, 2008). The TMDL states "agencies can comply with…

AD, the Yueyang Tower has guarded the Northern gateway to the Hunan province, the point where the Yangtze River meets the Xiang River at Lake Dongting. The site, once a platform for the Wu Kingdom (222-250 AD) general Lu Su to train his naval troops1, offers a beautiful and strategic panoramic view of the surrounding area and a near bird’s eye view of the lake – one of China’s largest bodies of fresh water. The tower had already been through numerous reconstructions, most recently during the…

acres on lakes. Chinampas were small, rectangular islands that were artificially made by the Aztecs and contained vegetation on top that would allow up to six crops to be grown at once (Aghajanian 2007). Small rows were strategically placed in between the chinampas in order for canoes to fit through, allowing easier access to the crops. Irrigation systems, such as aqueducts and damns, also created by the Aztecs themselves, provided the water for the crops as did the water from the lake. The…

The woman that was first elected as a senator and made history in the United States is Debbie Stabenow, who is the senator for the state of Michigan, and part of the Democratic Party. Senator Stabenow is passionate about many issues like saving the lakes in Michigan, and making healthcare affordable for everyone, but she in not passionate about the immigration issue and fixing the immigration problems that the United States has. Senator Debbie Stabenow was born in Gladwin, Michigan, and lived…

should be paying attention to Daphnia Magna is because of pollution in our lakes. This pollution can affect a lot of actions that we do in our daily lives. Pollution can lead to mutations in fish, frogs and other animals that live in water. This can affect our food supply as well as the quality of the food we eat. Another reason recognizing pollution in lakes is a good idea is that it is the first step in reducing pollution in lakes. In the beginning of this project I was looking for a way to…

Abstract The Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria, Africa in 1954 to counteract the drastic drop in native fish stocks caused by overfishing (Lowe 2000). ¨They originally comprised 80% of the total fish biomass in Lake Victoria, but have now decreased to less than 1% offish catches from the Kenyan waters of the lake¨ (Lowe 2000). A 2003 study in the journal Nature examined algae records from the bottom of Lake Tanganyika and found that over the last century, warming waters have driven down…

One of Child Soldiers International's campaigns is specifically addressing the recruitment and use of child soldiers in three Great Lakes countries: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda. The Great Lakes program combines country specific advocacy, locally-based monitoring, capacity building among local community-based NGOs, and public education. The organization supports local NGO partners' advocacy efforts…

It was a little after nine when we finally got into the city, and we were all sure there was place we had to go. The others had talked about how much they had wanted to Navy Pier before we even left; even the two other people from Chicago want to go. No matter how much they wanted to go, I couldn’t get myself to want to go as much as they did. The thing is that Navy Pier is one of the most touristy places in the whole city, which means that it’s always filled to the brim with people, and I’m not…

Michigan are so lucky to have a never ending supply of fresh water lakes, streams, rivers and creeks. It is these fresh water sites which fisherman from all over the world can take advantage of. There are so many places to visit if you are an angler hoping to catch bass. Not only does the state of Michigan provide beautiful clear waters to fish in, but it also provides many activities which one can do with their family around various lakes and rivers. Fishing can get quite lonely at times so…