english bitch

after three hours of extensive research (and ym-ing), im nearing to finish the second part of my term paper, which is due today 10:00am. and the time? 3:24pm. :))

making the chickenpox as an excuse to pass this late, im still pissed off with the limited number of words to write about two VERY GENERAL topics: The Status of the World's Environment Today and The Philippine Economy in relation to the World's Crisis.

format: font size 12, font style arial, margins 1", double space, two pages only for each topic.

wth?? seriously? i dont like our english teacher.. since day 1.
i must be grateful, actually, that we're given a short assignment.
but it shouldve been specific topics! how can i squeeze everything into 4 paragraphs
when your topics are very general?!
and i hate my first write-up. bitin. and, blah, some lines are sort of missing.

The Status of the World’s Environment Today

Tagging on a fishing boat, Tsumaranai Otoko, a young eight-year-old, glazed his eyes over the vast cerulean bay of Wakayama City, Japan. “What are you and your crew fishing today, daddy?” the boy asked his father. Their boat stopped as it reached a 300 meter distance away from dry land, “You’ll see.” Juvenile to the crew’s preparation of their fishing equipment, the child sat on the deck as he attentively observes one mother whale and its young swimming under the fiery Sunday morning sunshine. Then, without wasting any second, his father readies and shoots the whale with a whaling harpoon. As soon as the explosive weapon rests inside the pitied animal’s carcass, the merciless crew patiently waits for the whale to die. “Why did you kill it?” asked the boy. The father sits beside the troubled child, and pats his head, “It’s for science, Tsumaranai-kun. The government is paying us. There’s a center near the city that studies whales.”

Among others, whaling—the viscous hunting of whales for their prized meat—is but one of the cruel schemes of mankind. But unaware of the wearying results of causing extinction to whales and other species, men still thrive to make fraud approaches, implied in the happening situation in Wakayama City, to achieve their monetary and selfish gains. Though debates over the conservation of the whale sovereignty have been conducted in the past three decades, still, major countries, namely United States, Canada, Norway, et al, have all legalized the said controversy but have limited the practice to the natives who are accustomed to whaling. Poaching, on the other hand, has also driven a number of species—Tigers, Giant Pandas, Crowned Solitary Eagles, to name a few—to their endangered status. Thus, extreme caution and forced breeding must be provided to most of these mentioned animals, which are enlisted in the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threatened Species, by captivating them in nature-like reserves miles away from their innate habitat.

With the advent of animal extinction, biodiversity—the cycle wherein each species depends on the services of other species to ensure survival—is likely to become disrupted. Once an outflow occurs in a balanced ecosystem, both man and animal are going to suffer from the lack of sufficient resources (e.g. food, medical drugs, pollution breakdown, climate stability, etc.), of which can be only harvested as products of biodiversity. Continuous onset of pollution, in general, has also been approved as one of the causes of impaired biodiversity. To mainstream much of the Filipino society’s disgrace, two cities of Bulacan, namely Meycauayan and Marilao, are enlisted as two of the most polluted places in the world. Other leading environmental concerns include: deforestation, irrigation, cyanide fishing, waste disposal and the list goes on. Continued frequency of these blunders gives off unwanted perils that may not only affect the environment, but also the whole human race and the climate.

The following morning, the young Otoko, oblivious to the changes sustaining around him, walks to the local elementary school. Their teacher assigns the class a short essay about what they want to be in the future. Eager to finish early, the young boy starts off by writing “I choose to be a fisherman, just like my dad.” One great scholar once mentioned that each of us is given the free will to choose between doing good and doing bad. In Otoko’s case, he chose what he thinks is right. As the young boy left the classroom, his small piece of paper silently lies on the teacher’s table, etched with his final scribble “Yet, at the same time, I choose to change the world…for the better.”