Persuasive Speech - Should We Eat Organic or Inorganic Foods?

                Every day we consume food for energy, for work, for our brains to work, to move, for exercise, etc., but are the food that we consume healthy or unhealthy? We never pay attention to the nutrients, where the food came from, how our food grow, what chemicals are there in our food…etc. So what is the different between organic food and inorganic food?

                Organic foods are foods that are grown without fertilizers and synthetic chemical pesticides. Consumers buy organic foods to avoid chemicals. Organic productions reduce the health risk. According to the EPA, they considers 60% of all herbicides (weed killers), 90% of all fungicides (mold killers), and 30% of all insecticides (insect killers) as potentially cancer causing. Organic farming keeps harmful pesticides and chemicals out of the food and drinks that we consume. Eating organic products also reduces the risk of your body creating dangerous antibiotic-resistant pathogens from antibiotic in animal feed. The USDA predicts by the year of 2000, organic farming may be one of the few survival tactic left for the family farm and rural community.

                Inorganic foods are foods that are grown with fertilizers and chemicals to extend the life of products and to kill bacteria. Inorganic foods do not contain E-coli, common in animal manure. It also takes less land to grow nonorganic foods. Inorganic foods are easier for consumers to find, and its’ appearance is more appealing to the consumers’ eyes.

Did you know that if you consumed an average apple you would be eating over 30 pesticides, even after you have washed it? Even though organic foods are more expensive than nonorganic foods, organic foods are known to contain 50% minerals, vitamins and nutrients than produce from intensively farmed.

Reflected Journal - Staring Speech

                                                                                                                                                      09/08/11

When I was doing my speech, I knew  what I was talking about, so it helped a lot. I was there when it happened so I knew the story mood. I was doing the body movements without knowing that I'm doing it. I walked around and that helped to calm me down too, even though I was not nervous at all. Everyone was being very respectful to me when I did my speech. The story brought some attention to it so everybody was listening.

CNN Student News - 9/11 Memorial

1) What happened on September 11th, 2001, the day that all Americans remember, and the day that we lost our people.
2) On 9/11/01 at 8:45 am, American Airline Flight 11 crashed into the  north World Trade Center tower. Then at 9:03 am, United Airline Flight 175 crashed into the south World Trade Center tower. All New York airports were closed; all tunnels and bridges into Manhattan were closed. People were evacuated, and firefighters and rescue patrol were the only people who stayed back and help. At 10:05 am, the south World Trade Center collapsed. At 10:28 am, the north World Trade Center collapsed from top down. Then at 8:30 pm, President George Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office. Americans cannot forget about 9/11, the day that we suffered. In New York, it has 2 waterfalls on the same place that the 2 towers were placed, with names of people around it.

3) I will pray for the innocent people died on that day and their families. My school has an assambly for 9/11 today and everyone has on something white, red or blue.

CNN Student News - Hurricane Katia and Typhoon Talas

09/08/11

1)There are hurricane Katia getting closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast and Typhoon Talas hit Japan.

2)As of Sept 1, 2011 Katia is now a category 1 hurricane. It is moving west at 20 mph and is about 1065 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Katia could become a major hurricane by the weekend. The storm is passiing north of the Caribbean and is moving to the east coast and could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast over the weekend. There will be as much as 6 to 12 inches of rain on the Gulf Coast by Saturday.
After dealing with the 9.0 earthquake earlier this year, Typhoon Talas, a tropical storm as bad as Hurricane Irene, hit Japan and killed 47 lives and 450,000 people evacuated, and left them 26 inches of rain in one night.      

          

3) I think if we change the way we live in nature like less polution, stop killing trees and grow more, everyone start recycling, etc then this would not be happening right now and killed many lives.