Week 1

1. The Pacific Trash Vortex is something that should be brought to our attention because it shows how much trash we humans dump in the oceans. Plastic debris from beaches and rives has accumulated in the Pacific Ocean and is now floating in a collection of trash, circulating with the wind patterns. This Plastic Vortex, is now estimated to be twice the size of Texas! Not many people think of this detrimental factor, and this is unfortunate because it is not only harmful to marine life, but also to us, when we eat fish and other seafood that has been poisoned by toxic chemicals released from plastic. I chose this topic because I think that it is important for us to understand how we, people, are harming our environment and the world we live in.

Heres a link that explains about the pacific trash vortex:

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/videos/planet-100-the-pacific-trash-vortex-explained.html




2. The debate was pretty good and each speaker gave good points and arguments overall. I thought that the government had a good argument of how people should know what is really happening during war, and that people should know how the setting is like, being prepared to go to war because they've already seen the horrors of it beforehand. I thought the weakest argument was on the opposition side when they said that people wouldn't understand what was shown to them, because, in a way, that implies that we aren't capable of it.