An Analysis of the Essay, The Courage of Turtles by Edward Hoagland Essay

I read Edward Hoaglands essay The Courage of Turtles. I like turtles so I decided to right my essay on the related to ecological issue in Hoaglands essay. Another essay that I read for English is Malcolm Xs A Homemade Education. I think that Malcolm has some ideas in his essay that is related to Hoaglands essay, so I will include a quote from Malcolms essay. Turtles are interesting creatures, or as Hoagland puts it "personable beast." These beasts are part of an ecological system around a pond or lake. Ecological systems are sensitive to change. Take away a piece of the ecological system, such as turtles, the system will disintegrate rapidly. This happened in a small lake not to far away from where I grew up in Washington State. The city decided that there were too many ducks in this lake and had then all removed. The lake quickly became choked up with waterweeds. The ducks had been keeping a fast growing type of waterweed in check by eating them. What if a main piece of the ecological system was taken away, like the lake as in Hoaglands essay. The system would be devastated. Look at rainforest in South America and Madagascar. The destruction has gotten so bad that satellite photo show the erosion of the land into the sea. That can not be good. What of the turtles that live in places like these? The turtle in Hoaglands essay hopefully in up in "boxes in boys closets." Some turtle from Hoagland essay followed their instink and "dug themselves into the into drying mud for another siege in the hot weatherthe drying mud baked over them and entombed them." The turtles from the rainforest also have it hard. If the turtle are not killed by machines and fires used to destroy rainforest, the turtles can go deeper into the forest, stay and live with the people who now live in their old home, or...

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