Earthquake in Japan

Authors note: At first I thought that I should do a project on the earthquake in Japan but I already had a project that I was working on so I decided to do a content essay on it instead. In this post I am focused in transitions (again) because in my last one on one, Mr.Roehl said that I had some advanced transitions and I didn't even know that they where advanced so I decided to try to do mostly all advanced transitions.

In Japan we know about the earthquake that devastated Japan. The earthquake and tsunami has killed thousands of people. We have started to help them already with clean up but we can't use to much money because the U.S.A. is already about 15 trillion dollars in debt and that number is steadily going up.With the debt and destruction the Japan earthquake and tsunami is the worst natural disaster of the century.

If the debt reaches a certain point we won't be able to do anything. We need to help but we need to in a very cheap (not costly) way. If we can do this we may be able to rebuild Japan in a year or three.

If we rebuild Japan we may be able to rebuild it ready for earthquake and tsunami. The two combined devastated Japan, leaving 2,000 dead in one city alone, and hundreds missing in another city. There are 100,000 ground troops searching for bodies and rescuing people.

So many people died in this horrific disaster that they ran out of body bags and coffins, so now other country's are bringing them. With the coffins tens of thousands of soldiers and people to help are pouring into Japan every day to dig in the debris and to find survivors.

Also for people who survived, life isn't much better. Over 1.4 million people don't have safe water to drink because of the radiation from the reactor that exploded. in affected areas people can't buy fruit, veggies and dairy products. There are also 2 million without electricity. This was horrible!

This is the most severe crisis since the WWII bombing. We need to help and now that I have risen awareness of exactly happened there you should tell people and get them to tell other people. If you want to see a video of what happened this is a link to it(the video is on bbc.com): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12786619

sources:

"BBC News - Japan tsunami footage to help predict future waves." BBC - Homepage. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. .

"aisa-pacific." rfi. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. .

"baltimore sun." baltimore sun. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. .

"earthquake statistics." Japan 9.0 earthquake statistics. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. .

Spring

Authors note: I am continuing “Autumn” and “Winter” (two previous posts that are in like an order. Like a series of books. I am again focusing on transitions.

I am in the woods (again) and I look up and see the sun shining through the trees. As I walk along the path in the woods I now realize how much things have changed since I was out in the woods last. There are no more icicles hanging from trees and the snow is starting to melt. I continue walking and I see the small stream again. It has many little pieces of ice floating down it as it continues on. I walked through the tunnel lined with crystals shining in the dim light. I slowly climbed down the narrow path to the bottom of the cliff.

When I got to the bottom I looked around and thought about how it would be if I had never found this place. Probably boring. I brought a saw a hoe, a shovel, and a
wagon of bricks. I was going to make a brick path to the cabin I found.

I started hoeing to the cabin. It was hard work and it went till noon then I ate a lunch and started sawing off the tree branches that I could walk through the path without hitting my head. Then I shoveled into the ground where I wanted to put the bricks I placed them in and filled in the cracks with dirt then I used the hoe to scrape the excess dirt off of the top of the bricks. I was finally done.

I was tired so I went to the cabin that I found with the flag fluttering in the breeze. When I got in I turned on the heating and took off my coat. In about five minutes I was surrounded in warmth and was asleep.

My dream was one of the worst I ever had.

I saw one of my close friends. Then a giant tree fell down and hit them. They were struggling at trying to hold the tree up. I tried to run towards them and help but when I ran… I never got closer. Then the worst thing happened… they couldn’t hold it. Crash! The tree squished them. I woke up and looked around. I was still in the cabin. I was fine.

I looked at the clock and it said it was 6:07 AM. I decided to get up and watch some TV to get my mind off of the dream I had. I eventually left and went home. I walked along the path I made and thought that it was pretty smooth. When I arrived at home I told my mom about my dream.

I continued hanging out in the woods whenever I could. And after a few weeks I had completely forgotten about my dream. I had better things to think about, like summer break which was coming up in a few weeks.

My Birthday

Authors note: I am focusing on using transitions.

          My birthday was just like any other day, I got up went to school and worked. The day was good over all. I wish it could happen again. the whole thing starts with me waking up.

          In the morning on the announcements they said it was my birthday and that is pretty cool. As the day went on I went to computer pub, and lunch. I told people it was my birthday and they where like "No way" and I said "Yeah" I went to gym and got really tired so I was happy when it was over Then I went back to the academy and had my one on one.

          After I got new tasks I eventually went home. We went to Moe's to sign Josh up for Baseball. then we went to noodles and got some food. When I got home I ate chocolate moose pie. I then opened a present. and went to bed.

It was a very interesting day but at school it was mostly normal. I enjoyed it more at home though (because of the pie and the presents).