My Favorite Piece From This Year

My favorite piece of literature this year was the one of a kind book, Into the Wild. Already knowing the plot of the story, I started reading the book thinking that it is going to be an adventure where the main character “miraculously” survives the dangerous forest and returns back to his/her family. Although, this was something different. Chris McCandless left his family and friends for an adventure in Alaska, a place considered treacherous for what he was going to do. Taking an unusual path, he did finally end up where he wanted to. Why did I enjoy this book? What was so different about it? The actions in this book went against everything considered normal. At the start of the book, I hated the main character. Chris McCandless had 25,000 $ in his bank account, his parents were going to buy him a new car, he finished his university. He was now in the stage of life where a person finds a suitable job for them and continues working and enjoying their life. McCandless threw all that away. As the story progressed, I started thinking like him. I realized that he did not need any of those things. All those were irrelevant now, and had no value. After I finished this book, I spent nights imagining how my adventure would be, how I would go on trying to be different. This book opened eyes for me. I had always thought that being different is substandard, but now I strive to be different.

Voyage of a Lifetime

If money were no object, I would have the adventure of a lifetime. I still remember now when I thought the earth was flat, having edges and corners. Although, I soon learned that it is round, and if you end up going one way for a long enough time, then you would return to the same place. That is an adventure I would want to take. I would follow the equator line from one location, circle the world and return to the same place. For this adventure, I would need a trailer car, an RV, in which I would live in and drive through land. I would also need a huge yacht, which could be towed by the RV. The yacht must be big and strong enough to be able to carry the RV when crossing oceans. My starting point would probably be somewhere in South America, since it is the closest place to my current location. No matter if I have to cross a desert, a dangerous forest or an overpopulated city, I would do it. Also with some basic hunting gear, I would hunt animals such as deer and birds, catch whatever fish I could find, and barbeque them. I would stock up enough food in South America that would be enough to get me across the ocean to Africa. Even if my food runs out, I can simply fish during the voyage. Entering forests and wild areas that I go through in Africa, I would record everything I see. Through the Indian Ocean I would cross through southern Asia, and return to the Pacific Coast where I would soon return to South America. This is a trip I would brag about.

Drilling Rule

“U.S. to Impose Offshore Drilling Rule: Report:

By: Eric Beech

Source: Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/us-offshore-drilling-rule_n_7044794.html

                In a couple of days it is the five year anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico spill. It was a huge disaster that killed eleven men and sent millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This disaster occurred since the drill pipe malfunctioned. This certainly was a horrible disaster that President Barrack Obama faced. It took almost forever to clean that gulf, and officials are unsure if it has spread to other areas that they did not search. Obama does not was any more catastrophes similar to this. In order to stop disasters like this one happening, President Barrack Obama is imposing an offshore drilling rule. The government is sure that this rule will play a major role in stopping further catastrophes from happening. This regulation that the government proposed would be the third biggest new drilling equipment regulation. The Obama administration has really been trying to fight this. The rule on the drilling equipment is expected to tighten safety requirements on blowout preventers, which are devices that are the last line of protection to stop explosions in undersea oil and gas wells. The Obama administration has also announced that new areas of federal waters off the Southeast Atlantic Coast for drilling will open up. Environmentalists have gone mad. They are infuriated with this idea from the President.

                Obama is taking a big step in imposing this drilling rule, expecting to stop catastrophes similar to what happened in 2010 at the Gulf of Mexico to not happen. Will the President succeed in providing the county with safety? Results will show.