Starfish poem

The starfish poem has a very deep and complex message because, it is about a man having a lack of faith and belief for the power of one. The poem goes like this, as a man was walking along the shore side he had noticed a boy picking up and gently throwing things into the ocean. Out of curiosity the man had walked up to the boy and had asked what he was doing. The boy replied i'm picking up and throwing starfish back into the ocean. The man replies whats the point its not like your gonna be able to help all the starfish back into the ocean and the boy says i Don't need to help all of them to make a difference, as long as i help one it makes a difference for that starfish. 

As you can tell this poem is all about having resilience and faith because the man was doubting the power of one. A wise man once said the waterfall only starts with one drop of water. 

The GPGP

 Pollution in the Eastern Pacific Ocean 

A man named Charles Moore had come across a large patch of trash within the Eastern part of the pacific ocean while sailing on his way home. The GPGP is an area of the Pacific ocean containing billions upon billions of plastic waste that has degraded over the years into tiny microplastics. The GPGP was formed because of pollution by humans and gyres. A gyre is a circular current in the ocean that occurs when the wind is blowing in the shape of a circle, because of this current it often pulls in trash.

The cause of all of this rubbish ending up in the pacific ocean is the wrongdoing of humans, by this I'm talking about people littering, fast food restaurants & supermarkets using plastic bags, straws, cups, lids etc etc. We know that us humans are the cause of all the plastic waste ending up in the Pacific Ocean because plastic was invented by mankind and it was also thrown around by (mankind), because the plastic is just sitting around doing nothing it gets pushed by the wind into the ocean killing and affecting our marine life and our environment.

The GPGP affects our environment & marine life because our marine species like seabirds, turtles and fish etc. They tend to mistake plastic in the ocean for food. Once they ingest the plastic, after a couple of days they start to feel sick and not too well and this is the part where they start to die of starvation and sickness and it's sad because knowing that these poor creatures that were just desperately looking for food died because of (our) actions is just sickening and this is why us humans (the problem) gotta clean up our act and start taking accountability for our actions.

Sustainable fishing

Is sustainable fishing even possible? 

How is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and sea bird life? By catch in the fishing industry is when fish or other marine species is caught unintentionally while trying to catch one specific specie (tuna). Commercial fishing conducted within the coastline of French has a large impact on dolphins. The reason being is because dolphins play an important roll in keeping their environment balanced. They eat other animals - mainly fish and squid themselves are a source of food for some sharks and other creatures. without dolphins, the animals they pray on would increase in numbers, and their predators wouldn't have as much to eat.

The greatest showman

 The album ''this is me'' is a song featured in the popular film The greatest showmen. The reason i have chosen to blog about this song in particular is because it has great meaning and depth. As you can tell by the title, the song is all about people expressing their true inner selves by letting the world know that how they were born was who they were destined to be. ''The greatest showman'' is all about breaking the stereotype of discrimination towards people because of there appearance/race/belief. In the film a group of abnormal people come together to preform the greatest show of all time. I personally love the movie all though there was a lot of missing pieces that would have made the film a lot better but overall it is a great movie . Here is a link to the music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjxugyZCfuw

Shark finning

What is it? Shark finning is the work done by humans where they cut the fins off of sharks then throw the bodies back into ocean.

Why is it a delicacy? Shark soup is a very common dish within the Asian community especially in Countries like China & Hong Kong. I'm not too sure as to why shark fins are so special/important to these countries because after all it doesn't have any taste and it has the consistency of noodles. However, i do bi believe i know the reason as to why it is such a delicacy to the people of the living within places like china and Hong Kong. It is believed that shark fins are good for your health and that it increases virility and that it may even give you longer life however, the fin is purely cartilage the same compound in human, cow and other vertebrates. Cartilage has no nutritional value. Any benefit would come from the broth and other ingredients added.

How is this impacting our oceans? Shark finning has a big impact on our oceans because as top predators  their disappearance will disrupt our entire oceans ecosystem so they're better off alive than dead. According to my personal circulations at the rate of which we are cutting shark fins and dumping their bodies back into the ocean they are more then likely to go extinct within 14 - 15 years, i came up with this estimation by dividing 73 million by 1 odd billion and it totaled to 14.

The great pacific garbage patch

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aWeQoTKLYOTqxBr-qzjd80ioTywsgu0KjjeSlKxqR2g/edit#slide=id.p

Resilience & growth mindset

 A growth mindset is having the power to be able to believe that you can evolve the simplest of your abilities into so much more through dedication an hard work. Having a growth mindset plays a big roll in having resilience because, resilience is the having the will and dedication to keep on pushing forward despite being knocked down for E.g the song ''The power of yet'' it is a song that changes your mindset from a negative to positive by teaching that you can do what you want. Quote dont see the world as it is. See for what it could be.