THE FINAL BLOG !

The only meaningful adulthood experience I can think of is how I have grown up alone. Yeah, I have siblings but they are way older than I am. My mom decided to have a huge gap between us. It came to a point where sometimes I would ask my mom why she had me sooo late! Like what was she thinking? I often times wished I had a twin that I could have of grew up with. I was the youngest of what used to be four. But as far as now I’m the youngest of three. I had an older sister that passed away when I was four years of age so that left me even lonelier. I also have two older brothers that have lives of their own. We aren’t that close and I think that if we have gotten the chance to grow up together we would be inseparable. When I was younger, all the kids at school thought I was the only child because I would never talk about my brothers. There were days where I would like being the only child at home simply because I was getting all the attention, but that’s when I was younger. Being nineteen almost twenty is a totally different story.

 My mother and I are incredibly close, but at the same time we’re very different. The mother daughter relationships can be intense sometimes, but it is worse when you’re the only child still living at home. I think that it would be a better situation if I had brothers and sisters around my age that were still living at home with me. They would be the only ones who would know and understand the details of my life apart from my parents. I have always felt older than my age and grew up more quickly than my peers because I was in adults company all of the time. As a result of that, all of my friends are older than I am, I feel like I can relate to them better than I would someone my own age.

Now I have gotten to that age where I’m leaving home and what’s sad is that my parents are miserable about it. They are always caution about me going places by myself and my response would be “if only I had siblings around my age”. That is another reason why I wished I had siblings that were close to my age to take all of the focus and attention off of me sometimes, because if there were other children around, my departure wouldn’t be such a big deal. I have a massive amount of love for my parents and I feel bad that I’m going to hurt them one day when I’m ready to move out and establish by own place. Then, they’ll realize I will no longer be their babygirl. Still to this day I wished I had the chance to experienced growing up with someone other than myself. Someone that would get on my nerves, someone that I would have fights with then start talking to them like nothing ever happened.  By experiencing not actually growing up with siblings as a child, when I become a mother I will not leave an enormous gap between my children, so that they will have the opportunity to grow up and establish memories together.

The Effects of Light Pollution on Birds and Sea Turtles

The desired goal for my research paper is to discuss the effects of light pollution on birds and sea turtles and the volunteer efforts to protect and save animals from this unaware problem.  I have chosen this specific topic for my research paper simply from watching the documentary film The City Dark. Immediately after watching the film my heart felt for those poor birds that are threaten by excessive city lights and the disorientation of hatching sea turtles. It reminds us as humans how big of an impact light pollution has on these creatures.  In addition to writing about the effects on light pollution on birds and sea turtles, I hope that I would be able to publicize this life threatening issue.

In order for my point to get across to the reader’s, I’m going to include rhetorical appeals which will help demonstrate the aim of my paper. I plan to use pathos to persuade readers with emotions providing them the knowledge of what’s really happening to these poor innocent creatures. As well as, kairos considering that effects of light pollution on animal are becoming more of an issue each year.

 

The information I intend to incorporate from the documentary film The City Dark involves Ian Cheney and his crew by showing the dead birds that have had a deadly collision from buildings all along the ground and also when they were on the beach watching how the newly born sea turtles became disorientated, struggling to make it into the water. I think by incorporating these two sections of the documentary film into my research paper, it would help grasp my reader’s attention emotionally, to the point they feel that they have to help prevent the birds and sea turtles from losing their lives due to the excessive light pollution.  

The sources that I have found will help me provide the information about the effects of light pollution on birds and sea turtles. Also, what we as people can do to help save the lives of birds and sea turtles. In my research paper I plan to first discuss how birds use the bright stars in the sky to determine their route and how the city lights interfere with their view, causing the birds to become confused and disoriented. In addition, it causes some birds to give in to deadly collisions with buildings and other objects in the sky that may be difficult to see when "blinded by the light".  Secondly,I will discuss how light pollution is at the heart of the decline of sea turtles. It impacts their nesting habits and the ability of young hatchlings to survive, as seen in the film. With the excess light pollution in the cities, birds and sea turtles will eventually become distracted with the city lights and as a result, lose their lives. As I provide this information in my paper, the readers can obviously see that it is very important for light pollution to be solved in order for the birds and sea turtles not to be deceived by light pollution but instead use the stars and moonlight as their guide.   

With all things considered, my goal for this research paper is to give knowledge and understanding to the readers about this issue in hopes that individuals will become more aware of the situation and prevent it from happening. Instead of the number of poor innocent birds and turtles death rate increasing, I hope that it would take a turn and decrease.