week 5 sketch 5

Pavement change from light to dark, rocks of all sizes on the ground,, rubbish, sticks, and branches on the grass, tree starting to grow more leaves. Flowers starting to bloom, In half of the shade other half sun. as it beams down on me from over the wise. 8 windows on the side of Maxwell with a door on the bottom sides all kinds of different trees around. Fire fly comes righ next to me, someone walks by with a dakine backpack brown, with alighter shade of brown on the inside, bathing suit on with brown flip flops, little kids playing in the drains, sticking ropes down to touch the water. Thining about how much longer this is going to take. When do I have baseball? What do I wear or if it is going to be colder, as I think of these things more and more people are getting out of class, and I see more people walking back to my dorm. More people coming out of the wise.gold cart going by, white. 2:27 waiting to go back to my dorm just 3 more minutes.Just 2 more minutes now. 2:28.

Week 5 Sketch 2

Pavement change from light to dark, rocks of all sizes on the ground,, rubbish, sticks, and branches on the grass, tree starting to grow more leaves. Flowers starting to bloom, In half of the shade other half sun. as it beams down on me from over the wise. 8 windows on the side of Maxwell with a door on the bottom sides all kinds of different trees around. Fire fly comes righ next to me, someone walks by with a dakine backpack brown, with alighter shade of brown on the inside, bathing suit on with brown flip flops, little kids playing in the drains, sticking ropes down to touch the water. Thining about how much longer this is going to take. When do I have baseball? What do I wear or if it is going to be colder, as I think of these things more and more people are getting out of class, and I see more people walking back to my dorm. More people coming out of the wise.gold cart going by, white. 2:27 waiting to go back to my dorm just 3 more minutes.Just 2 more minutes now. 2:28.

Week 5 list sketch

Gas station, 4 pumps
3.83, 3.03. 3.65
3 cars in the parking lot
1 car about to leave
other the person is getting out of the car
Jeans on with a white shirt, with a folder in his hand
Opens the door to Jakes with his right hand as he walks in
As cars keep passing
Navy blue caravan
Black Dodge truck
Tan Honda Pilot
Someone walked into a red mini van with a stripped sweater
Blue, white, and navy blue
As she gets back out of the car walking towards the wise
Feet clicking against the pavement
Jeans on
Navy blue that are faded in the middle
Big Shaws truck just went by
White, 18 wheels
As the street gets silent for about 30 seconds
Then I hear something in the distance as it gets louder and louder
A silver Honda goes by
Now a Toyota, a light grey color
With a bike rack on top
That has a red specialized sticker on it

week 5 Qote Response

Officer Delinko is asking Dana questions, that Dana answered by saying " Why dont you just kiss my big fat butt" Officer Delinko is trying to find out who is doing all the vandalism at the construction site. Dana answered this way because he was offended that Officer Delinko thinks it is him. Dana is the bully that has been picking on Roy, and hes not an eco terrorist.

Outline on Hoot Paper

Paragraph #1 – Talk about who kids are and why they get involved with owls
- Roy Eberhardt (new kid)
- Moved to coconut Grove, Florida
- Has no real friends , always sits alone, there is a bully that teases him
- Dana Mathews (the bully)
- If dana mathews never put roys face up to the bus that one day he would of never seen the tow headed running boy, and if he never saw him he would have never seen Beatrice, and if he never saw beatrice he might never had discovered the owls living on the corner of East Oriole Avenue
- Roy learned about owls from running boy and mullet fingers and got interested in them
Paragraph #2 – Talk about Pancake House and why they want to build on that property – don’t care about owls and just want to build the property5
- Construction company begins building a Pancake house but Roy knows that the owls are burrowing under the ground on the site
- Construction company ignores that the owls are there and keeps building but the kids want this to stop.
- In order for the company to stop building, the kids feel they have to vandalize the construction site to save the owls

Paragraph #3 – What the kids do and why you think it is justified despite the rules against vandalism
- Specific acts that the kids do are:
- Take stakes out where the company is planning on building
- Spray paint windows of cars
- Something about an alligator
- Goal is to try to stop the construction company from building, or at least buy a little more time to save the owls
- Kids know that what they are doing is against the rules (policy officer talks to them and warns them – quote from book?)
- Kids still want to do anything they can to save the owls and are willing to get in trouble – eco-sabotage

Paragraph #4 – A real incident that happened in real life of where eco-sabotage worked
- Find a situation where it really worked
- Find out what people did and what outcome was

Conclusion
- Sum up why eco-sabotage ok in certain circumstances
- Why was it ok with the owls
- Is it worth the risk

week 4 sketch 5

Dark with street lights, sound of bbirds, winds howling, people walking by, coming back from structured, hearing laughing in the distance. Cloudy, with a moon, some stars out. Ground damp from the rain, now getting warm, as it is almost time to go to bed. People walking in and out of my room, 1,2 ,3 people, now it is time for bed, 11:00 , about to brush my teeth blue tooth brush, and cresent tooth paste with a Poland water.

First Paragraph "Hoot" 4/17

Eco sabotage the destruction of property by vandals is ethically justified. Eco sabotage has been successfully used since the 1970s. It has helped re-shape environmental laws throughout the world today. Eco sabotage was formerly known as Monkey Wrenching, a term defined by Edward Abbey. Edward Abbey’s novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang presented the idea of monkey wrenching to protect the South West. Groups like “Earth’s First” began using Edward Abbeys tactics. Examples of some successes are saving owls and changes in fishing nets to help save dolphins from getting tangled in the net. In the book Hoot written by Carl Hiaasen, three children engage in eco sabotage to save a family of owls from a construction site. This is justified because they are trying to protect a family of owls, and this is more important to them the following the laws prohibiting vandalism.

Quote response week 3

"every little bit helps when your trying to get ahead"

In this quote Roy is talking to Officer Delinko when he says this quote. This quote is saying that if you get ahead on things it helps that much more. It will help you understand what is going on better if you get a head start on it.

Sound Sketch Week 3 #1

Bing bong digidy dong swoosh with the car
Nile nnoose nooodiles walks by with ppoodles
With the voice of the videolope with a big pop
Shloopp woop snap snicker snattle hearing ding dongs as the cars go by
Big 16 wheeler tieler going by
Blingg ding ding ding ding
Click clack shoes click scoop doop loop.
Chirps of birds cluddler of words
Wind blowing the flag “flap flap lfap”
More voices deep low high soft
Skweeky, sheeky, micky, dicky,
Pop ,whsisle snissle, clap kshhhh, stomp,kshhhhhhhssbeats boommm boom ,chika boom , whooooop , pop chingy chingy chiny chingy.rolly rolly,

Articles on eco-terrorism

) In California, construction was halted on the San Bernardino Medical Center and, later, on a neighboring subdivision to protect the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly. Near Bakersfield, Calif., a farmer was arrested in 1994 by Fish and Wildlife officers for inadvertently killing five Tipton kangaroo rats while plowing his own soil. His tractor and plow were seized as "murder weapons." Under the ESA he faced heavy fines and three years in prison.


This small article is relevant to my paper, because it shows how this construction can not only harm the animals habitat, but it can also kill them. The trucks could harm the animals by running them over, or barrying there homes underground. In the book Hoot, they are having the same problems with the construction in the area with the owls.

2) As for the eco-terrorists who destroy property and (in the case of the Unabomber) even harm or kill people, they would not be so brazen in committing terrorism were in not for the moral sanction they currently derive from the anti-human philosophy underlying environmentalism. Furthermore, governments stripped of its power to sacrifice people to nature would have more resources and resolve to track these criminals down and bring them to justice.

This relates to what is going on in the book because they are destroying the property so it cost more money to replace it, and it waste time. This shows how far the ELF or any anti eco-terrorists will go to save the environment.


3) It motivates environmentalists to protect endangered species with so much zeal that they are oblivious to the harm inflicted on people

This also relates to the book, because they are trying to safe a specific species (owls) from the construction that is going up in that area. They will destroy property, and do anything just to help the endangered species, that are in the area. They don’t want to kill there envirornment and make them go to a different place where they might not be able to adapt to.

Brain Storm

1. Eco-sabotage, the destruction of property by vandals, is ethically justified in certain circumstances.
Stakes pulled/wholes filled/alligators in port potty/slashed tires/spray paint cop car to bring attention to the owls.

Positives
*They are trying to save the owls from leaving their natural habitat.
* They are trying to prevent another large store from being built
*Looking for a change of policy
Negatives
*Breaking the law
*Sabotage towards Construction Company.
*Wasted money

During the past several years, special interest extremism, as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. Generally, extremist groups engage in much activity that is protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Law enforcement becomes involved when the volatile talk of these groups transgresses into unlawful action. The FBI estimates that the ALF/ELF have committed more than 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 43 million dollars.

-From FBI website
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/jarboe021202.htm

Extremist special interest groups seek to resolve specific issues, rather than effect widespread political change. Special interest extremists continue to conduct acts of politically motivated violence to force segments of society, including the general public, to change attitudes about issues considered important to their causes.

During the past several years, special interest extremism, as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. Generally, extremist groups engage in much activity that is protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Law enforcement becomes involved when the volatile talk of these groups transgresses into unlawful action.
Special interest terrorism differs from traditional right-wing and left-wing terrorism in that extremist special interest groups seek to resolve specific issues, rather than effect widespread political change. Special interest extremists continue to conduct acts of politically motivated violence to force segments of society, including the general public, to change attitudes about issues considered important to their causes
Since 1977, when disaffected members of the ecological preservation group Greenpeace formed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and attacked commercial fishing operations by cutting drift nets, acts of "eco-terrorism" have occurred around the globe. (Caused attention and now in many cases are using different types of nets…)
In recent years, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has become one of the most active extremist elements in the United States. Despite the destructive aspects of ALF's operations, its operational philosophy discourages acts that harm "any animal, human and nonhuman."

Earth First is known as an eco terrorist group, however they have helped change many environmental policies. Biscuit Old Growth Forrest etc.

Hoot Quote Response 2

"it;s not the content of the letter so much as the tone"

In this quote I think he was saying that his parents were telling him that it was thoughtful for writing it but how he apoligized wasnt polite to say,

Sketch 4 week 4

Down town main street is infront of me, there is a crow right behind me, kaing noises as i hear the hush of cars going by, 4x4 chevolt just went by. Newhampshire license plate , across the street a gourmet garden, speed limit sign says 30MPH, As i walk p the street, keepi seeing new signs, no parking, wood crest village, country house, Gulf gas station. Crossing the street,a memorial right next to me. It says "The srgent common" subway across the strett, in a yellow building, siitting down on campus watching people wlaking around, as i look around campus, seeing a bunch of hand rails that would be good for skiing, IN the back round dozons of birdas, and old volvo just went by with a rust covering the bottom. Behind me yellow house in the distance new london police department just drove by 10trees in just drove by 10 trees in a row going down the street boarding the side walk as one older tree in the middle. I keep moving on my journey, walking down the street , as i walk downt he side walk and old lady in a grey jacket, as i greet her on the way by. backwhere i started the new london in , clikcing my heels as i walk by , ground is dmap forom the mist, hand cold with the cool breeze coming through, lake sunapee bank, as i see courtney infront of it. Blue shutters 8 of them american flag right out the door , 24 hour ATm insidem sitting on the step at the bak where epople walk around inside , I see a bees nextrs avadon from last summer.

Hoot Quote Response 1

The policeman nodded grimley. "alligators"


This quote was unique because there arnt alligators up here, and it was wierd to find an alligator of all animals. Instead I thought it would have been a racoon or a skunk or something that lives around here.