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There are very high mercury levels in dolphin meat.  It is also proven that there are very high mercury levels in the ocean, and that the dolphins swimming in it gets mercury poisoning.  The researchers suspected that the water was very high in mercury, and that the dolphins had high mercury poisoning because of this.  To prove their point the researchers set up a mini lab in a hotel room and tested some dolphin meat; it tested positive. This proves that there were really high mercury levels in the water and dolphins.  Even though the government knew this meat was poisonous the still made it mandatory for school kids to eat it.  In conclusion the mercury levels in dolphins are really high which makes them unsafe for anybody to eat.

The people of Japan are killing thousands of dolphins each year.  Every September in Taijii, Japan in a little cove thousands of dolphins are being slaughtered.  The cove researchers needed to get proof that this was what was happing.  To do this the researchers snuck into the cove and placed hidden cameras all over it.  What they saw was horrific, the saw people rounding up dolphins by the dozens and inhumanly killing them all even they baby’s.  The point is these people are doing it behind their countries back. In conclusion the mass murders of these dolphins have to stop.            

Persuasive

            Canada is well known for keeping the peace but we are becoming a major player in the world arms trade.  We have the trade show called ARMX held every two years in Ottawa.  It’s were people from all over the world come to by guns.  There have more than 20 million people killed since the last world war and most of them in  third world countries.  We claim to be able to control were our weapons go but after we sell it we can’t tell them what to do with it.  When we sell guns to poor third world nations, they pay big bucks, this worth money they can’t afford.  They could be spending it on schools, food for there people and heath care.  So instead of spending it on heath care the almost the exact opposite and spend it on killing each other. Don’t forget many of these people are just kids.    So is it okay to sell guns to these people just so that they can kill each other?

Quests and Adventures

In many books the characters are put through gruelling exertions in which they have to fight of a whole army or dragon. To my though the character usually starts out cowardly. Like in the movie The Four Feathers He starts out a coward but then does more heroic acts than probably any one in the army. This seems like a common trait to me. Also nobody can all those feats on there own, they usually have some one to help them. These are the traits that make up these types of books.

A couple years a go I read a very good book called The Door Within. It is a bout a teen that is very shy and socially awkward who goes to a mirror realm that is like knight in shining armour type times. At first he was a coward but as the book wore on he figured that he could be a hero, and he was just that. It tells of what you can be if you believe in yourself. The character in this book though always had a friend to help him whether it  was a dragon or his best friend he always had help. By the time the story was over this teen was almost a legend. He took on a whole army by himself just to save his friend. That’s what I call courage.

Science Fiction

Science Fiction is book that is usually is placed in the future.  The book usually tells of how technology will end the world because of nuclear and atomic weapons.  If you take something a book like War of the Worlds it is kind of ironic that bacteria can kill those aliens but in all our bombs and missiles that we have couldn’t hurt the aliens.  It makes you wonder if all these weapons are actually necessary.  This is the point of Science Fiction.

The Chrysalids is a perfect example of science fiction.  It tells of  how a bomb went off and even though it is the future the people live in the past. It tells of a world of people that do not believe in change.  The people believe that the old people were all killed by God but actually it was a bomb.  They believe that the old people became to advance for their own good, so they refused to accept the future and change.

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and the Chronicles of Narnia, all have very distinctive protagonist and antagonist.  Usually after the first chapter you know who the good is and who the bad is.  Like in Harry Potter, Harry is good and Voldemort is evil.  But let’s not forget those characters like Snape, you never know what side he’s on till he stabs you in the back or saves your life.  In lots of fantasy books the main character or one of the characters dies and comes back to life. Take Lord of the Rings for example, in the first book Gandalf dies and in the second he comes back to life.  The Chronicles of Narnia, the lion dies and comes back to life.  In both these books these characters sacrifice their lives for others and come back to life.  These are the traits of Fantasy books.

One of my favorite fantasy books is Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien.  This book is a perfect example of Fantasy, right off the get go you clearly know who is good and who is evil.  The hobbits, Gandalf, Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli you know are all good. But you know Saruman was good until he betrayed Gandalf.  Boromir attacked Frodo but then gave up his live to try and save Merry and Pippin.  Gandalf sacrificed his life to save everyone and then comes back to life in the second book. But there is also all these make-believe characters like orc’s dragons and elves that don’t exist.  These are the traits that make The Lord of the Rings fantasy. 

The Unexplained

Crop circles, UFO’s, the Bermuda Triangle all these thing are unexplained.   Crop circles are one of the most common unexplained events there is.  Many people believe that the farmer wants publicity, or some people are just trying to pull off a Hoax.  Everybody believes in different explanation.  What do you believe?  Many people that they have seen UFO’s but there is no scientific evidence that they exist.  Have they just seen a shooting star or if there actually is UFO’s it will always remain unexplained.  The Bermuda Triangle is a place where planes and boats go missing.  This is where a whole squadron of bombers went missing.  I personally think something is going on there, because there is never any sight of them again. 

The Bermuda Triangle is a large region that runs through the western part of The North Atlantic Ocean.  It is known for when a lot planes and boats go through there, they disappear.  Experts have lots of different explanations for what is happing.  They believe that the reason these planes and boats go missing is because of human error, but I believe that there are too many accidents for them all to be error.  Like when a group of five training bomber all were lost when they were flying over it.  Also the rescue teams will never find any bodies of the ones who were lost.  Some people think that there is piracy and acts of war.  The thing that surprises me is that there are no survivors from what I’ve heard.  Other people just think it things like hurricanes, rouge wave, and under water currents.  I don’t know what is causing all these accidents, but I  do know is that there is too much of them, that I know that they are not coincidence.

Mystery and Suspense

          Mystery and suspense intends to create a mood that wants the reader to read more.  There are lots of distractions or misleading parts that lead up to the climax. This would be called your rising action.  Usually mystery and suspense books get right to the good stuff. For me if a book is boring in the first ten pages I can’t read it.  Mystery and suspense novels are very hard to predict, they will always have some sort of twist that you never thought of before.  That is why they are my favorite books to read.

            The Death Trap,  right away the title gets my interest peaked because it hints what might happen later on in the book, and starts my imagination guessing on what might happen even though I haven’t even started reading yet.   Then it gets right into the story, by telling that the Sheriff is out to get Armando.  It then tells you about all the characters, this is so you get anxious and want to find out what is really happing, by doing this the author creates suspense.  Then the author throws in some rising action, like when we are told the sheriff booby trapped the strait jacket.  We are then told it is impossible to get out of this thing, the author did this to say that the Great Armando was doomed.  Then when Armando goes under and the crane stopped we thought he was dead, but the author decided to put one last twist in the book.  When the crane comes up he is gone. The author never really tells us what happen to Armando, all we know is that the strait jacket was gaffed.   We don’t know what happened to Armando, the author left us to guess but did give us an idea.