Week 3 Writing Homework
Prompt : You are a local journalist investigating a recent surge of littering in your town’s parks and gardens. Write a short feature article (~400 words) for the local newspaper to convince the town to take action against this issue. Include a powerful hook, at least one statistic, a persuasive device (simile, metaphor, imagery), a quote from a local expert and finally a call to action.
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Wild Dogs on the Mountain: A Nuisance to the Neighbourhood?
Since the Hong Kong Government forced the citizens of Upper Wong Tai Sin to leave their homes and live in the government subsidised apartments in Lok Fu and Lower Wong Tai Sin, Lion Rock Mountain has become a place where wild dogs roam since the 2000s. The dogs were originally domesticated dogs living with residents in Upper Wong Tai Sin. When the government forced the residents to leave, the dogs weren’t allowed into the subsidised apartments. If the owners left the dogs to the government, they would be unfairly euthanised by the government. Therefore, many residents chose to leave the dogs out on Lion Rock Mountain, near their original homes. Once nearby residents started complaining to the government, they were caught and euthanised unfairly. Do you want stray animals to stay happy? We need some action to help them!
The dogs have been breeding ever since and spreading infectious diseases such as rabies. Wild dogs must be domesticated every time they breed to prevent them from being annoying, fierce and shy. When these dogs breed, the next generation includes 6-10 wild dogs per family. Since there were about 600 abandoned dogs originally, the population is getting out of control, with over 2000 wild dogs in 2008. More dogs mean more annoying howling, but can they help it? It is their nature to howl at the moon in packs. After all, they are descended from wolves. After they started howling, that time, residents of Wong Tai Sin and surrounding areas were calling pest control and the government because they feared howling “wolves” in bed.
The government started going on trips to catch wild dogs. Once they caught a few dogs, they would be brought back to the HKAMC to be euthanised. Dr. Lee, a veterinarian for NPV stray animal medical clinic, said, “The population is getting out of control, and NPV is trying to help the situation. Many dogs are getting sick on the mountain, and they eat leftovers from restaurants. The government said they are happy with euthanising 1~3 dogs per 15 days, but even the citizens of Wong Tai Sin are protesting now, even though it was them who reported the cases in the first place. They didn’t want the dogs in their lives, but they never meant to cause harm to them.” The dogs of Lion Rock Mountain are first transported to Animal Management Centres, where they are deemed able to be adopted, or chosen to be euthanised because they have diseases, even when stray medical hospitals like NPV can still give them surgery and help them recover.
The government is now gradually reducing trips to euthanise dogs; instead, they are helping the NPV clinic with its “Trap, Neuter, Release” programme and letting the public adopt the dogs. But this isn’t enough! Why not consider donating to stray animal clinics to support stray animals receiving compulsory surgeries? They depend on the government and you to keep them healthy. You could also consider adopting a stray animal! With the help of the local communities, we can help these stray animals forget their old memories of eating scraps. Help the stray animals on Lion Rock and everywhere else now!
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In our world today, a litter of crippled packets of chips, crunched plastic bottles and plastic bags fill the world up in pathways. This waste of rubbish is damging the nature in our land and killing animals that live in seas and in land. The plastic waste has significantly been replacing the nature in hardens and parks. Therefore the only solution to this problem is to take action by saving the environment.
Satistics show that approximately a billion tons of plastic waste has been affecting the land and animals. It has been estimated that the solution to plastic pollution is a billion USD. ” The plastic pollution land fill in our oceans has been significantly affecting the animals under water and also humans” says Dr Jack combs a professional scientist. A recent study showed that the effect of littering has resulted in microplastics in our body.
Therefore the effect of littering has been damaging the environment and the animals as well as humans. This plastic pollution is like feeding people posion. There must be an action to take to saev the environment. Otherwise if we don’t our oceans would remain in a stink smell with crinkled Pringles, damaged bottles of beer and a strong stinks smell of plastic.