Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

When I go to Maine

I ride my quad into town

It is really fun!

The Three Gorges Dam is located in China and is one of those things where it is getting built and yet some people are still very unhappy with it. I know I dont like the idea at all! Some people say “well it’s already about half built and it would be a waste of millions of dollars to stop now and we would go back to polluting the air with nuclear power plants.” The Three Gorges Dam is designed to generate 18.2 million kilowatts of electricity. That is 1/7 of Chinas total electricity for a year and it equals to 18 nuclear power plants. It will reduce air pollution that would have been made from nuclear power plants and it will control down river flooding. One thing that most people like about the dam is that it lets boats and ships go 1500 miles further inland. Others say “this is damaging the environment just stop now.” The dam will kill many animals including birds and fish. Also the dam will put 150,000 acres under water that include 140 towns, 320 villages, 1500 factories and many historical sites. So as this is all going under water more then 1 million people will be relocated.
So after all there is a debate some people may like the idea of finishing the dam and some may hate the idea. “I hate the idea to finish the dam it will put so many historical sites under water and then the history will be gone!” explained Heather. “Plus”, added Allie “it will cost around 32 billion dollars and it may not stop flooding”. “It will let boats move 1500 miles further inland, but it will slow them down because they will have to go around the dam in the locks or elevator.”

I got my resources from:

www.wikipedia.com

www.googlesearch.com

http://pic.templetons.com/brad/photo/china/boats/img_6946.jpg

http://www.dola.state.co.us/oem/images/floodpic.jpg

http://www.greendiary.com/images/nuclear_power_plant5.jpg

http://www.index-china.com/index-english/images/CHINA%20map.gif

The British created a country called Pakistan for the Muslims. Pakistan had two regions West Pakistan and East Pakistan. They are separated by 1,100 miles of Indian Territory. East Pakistan separated from the country, causing a civil war. India joined the conflict on the side of the East Pakistan. In 1971 East Pakistan became the independent country of Bangladesh. Bangladesh had many reasons for separating from Pakistan. Two of them are that the two countries are very different because Pakistan is a mountainous country with many ethnic groups, while most people in Bangladesh share the same culture. In fact about 98% of the people of Bangladesh speak Bengali. However the second is that by 1970 East Pakistan paid more taxes than West Pakistan because the government was dominated by West Pakistan. Bangladesh has some of the greatest challenges of any country in the world. It is the ninth most populated country in the world. Also did you know that it has half the population of the United States, but they are squeezed into an area that is smaller then Wisconsin?

If I could go anywhere in the world I would go to the Bahamas. I would like to go there because it seems like a wonderful vacation spot. In addition to this I would go to the Bahamas because it is always warm and I love to swim, So I could go swimming at the beach or pool. Plus I have heard that there are a lot of stores for shopping and I love to shop. I also heard that they drive on the right side of the car and I think that would so be fun to do.