The Refuge

greatest refuge,” to describe what industrialization will do to the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. The general argument in Carter’s forward is that this Arctic refuge should not be developed for industry. First, he uses facts and evidence to build his claim. Then he uses word choice and imagery to support his argument. His purpose is to persuade his audience that development will have negative consequences for the Arctic refuge, in order to protect this unique awe inspiring wildlife refuge. He…

National Wildlife Refuge. In his defence of his position, Carter effectively uses a combination of factual evidence, style, and appeals to emotion to persuade the reader of his ideas. Carter starts the foreword off by describing a time when he went to the Arctic Refuge with his wife, and recounting all of the Refuge's natural beauty, from the "brilliant mosaic" of plant life to the "spectacle" of caribou migration. This use of imagery helps create the feeling that the Arctic Refuge is sacred…

This was a story of around 2009-10; I was living in Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal. I was born and raised in refugee camp and lived until I migrated to the U.S. I was only fifteen years old when I graduated form high school. Back in place where I came from, we finished our high school in 10th grade. I was not only first one in my family but in my communities to finished high school. I was so enthusiastic and excited. In the same, an election for community committee chairman was going on. I had…

I lived in Goldhap, a refugee camp in Nepal, for nearly half of my life; My family’s hut was bamboo wall and a thatch roof. While in Nepal, I experienced the everyday struggles of living under the threshold of poverty, sometimes eating lentil beans and rice for two of our meals, breakfast and dinner, for four to six weeks at a time. In the camp, families were granted farm land to grow food. My parents worked in fields from morning till dark, earning a dollar a day to provide a household of six…

faced with an ethical issue, this issue caused many of them to compromise what was wrong and what was right. Around the 1980’s the U.S was having trouble producing its own oil and wanted to drill for oil near an Alaskan wildlife refuge known as Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR). Although some Americans thought this was okay there were many reasons why this should not happen. These reasons included environmental pollution, harm to wildlife, as well as the consumption rates of oil. One…

Gavin Garry EC 361 Section 1 Short Writing Assignment #4 Heintzelman Question: Should we allow drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge? There are many things one needs to consider when determining the answer to this complex question. Things such as the actual amount of oil in the land matter a great deal in finding wether or not drilling is a viable source for oil. This directly ties into if the benefit of drilling itself is economically worth while for the land. Also, the…

have written about Refuges and their problems. Brilliant minds are currently thinking of safety and contentment to all people who live all over the world and some solution to end migration. Subhankar Banerjee ,who wrote a personal experience, began to provide his essay with concrete evidence and logical reasoning in order to convince his readers with the idea that show the migration of tens of thousands of refugees when he was camping and hiking in these region of the Arctic Refuge. The article…

According to the Merced County San Luis Wildlife Refuge website, a quarter of the refuge is covered in wetlands which provides “major wintering ground and migratory stopover of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other water birds.” In spring, the water levels recede and eventually evaporate which allow wildflowers like purple clovers and goldfields to grow. The plethora of flowers create a colorful scenery. Aside from the flowers, the refuge “contains approximately 300 acres of cultivated corn and…

I chose an article called "The American Way of Refuge", written by Kori N. Schake and it was published in January of 2016 by the Hoover Institution. Mrs. Schake establishes that America should accept more Syrian refugees for various reasons by using strong examples to appeal to her audience. Schake has written this particular article to appeal to all American voters in an effort to gain more support and agreement with her claim. Also, in the article, she suggests that Americans are acting as…

habitat can see the importance of preserving our wildlife. In Jimmy Carter’s attempt to save the wildlife refuge in Alaska he uses reasoning, evidence, the past, and personal experience in the wild. Carter argues that preserving this extraordinary pure land in it’s “pure, untrammeled state” would be a “Great triumph for America”. Jimmy Carter starts by exonerating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and describing its natural beauty and magnificence. He does this to get the reader to relate and…