Preview

Environment and Severn Suzuki

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
603 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Environment and Severn Suzuki
MY ROLE MODEL

Severn Cullis-Suzuki is an outstanding role model for people across the world.

Severn Culllis-Suzuki was born on November 30, 1979, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a Canadian environmental activist and speaker. When she was six, she carried signs with her first protests on them on Bernard Avenue. In grade four, she established an organization, the ECO, Environmental Children’s organization, where the children would teach each other about the environment. At age twelve, she successfully landed in U.S.A and presented the Earth Summit a speech warning the world not to harm the environment. In 2002, she graduated from Yale with a B.S. in ecology. She is known by the name “The Girl Who Silenced The World for Five Minutes”.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki put together an organization, the ECO, and ran it with her companions over years to raise money for supporting environmental matters. I believe it is a very extraordinary accomplishment, for it is not just winning a trophy. In order to have a victorious organization, you must follow various rules and character traits. Putting together an organization is a lot of hard work because you need to sacrifice and be perseverant. It is very likely for most people to give up almost immediately facing such a big challenge. But Severn Suzuki took that challenge and showed perseverance and leadership. Secondly, it is difficult to get the organization working at the beginning. Everything starts off really messy and unorganized, but Severn Suzuki chose to be initiative and planned her activities very well. Most children do not care for anyone but themselves, but Severn Suzuki loved the environment and made an organization to prove it. It is just unbelievable how a nine year old can show so much passion and enthusiasm towards the way we are living.

Severn Suzuki was first introduced to publicity for her remarkable presentation given when she was twelve. She got the title” The Girl Who

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    In many cases, most people in the United States; even around the world do not acknowledge that our planet is being polluted by coal plants and other industrialized nations. Climate change is a problem and threat to the world. In the reading of “Environmental Warriors Going To The Root Of The Problem” by Greg Jobin- Leeds and AgitArte, it talked mainly about the Earth being polluted and the reasons for that. The people that aren’t wealthy are affected by the plants that are built in the cities around them. The non wealthy do not have the authority to stand up and make the environment better for themselves.…

    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    It is a reoccurring problem that whenever an individual sets forth to do something they solely think in the present, rather than the future. This becomes a conundrum because in the end other people, or things, might be negatively affected. Rachel Carson, noted biologist, published "Silent Spring", a book that pertained to the environment and was written to change American'a attitude toward the environment around us. In "Silent Spring" Carson targets the hostile actions committed towards birds which result in other animals also being negatively impacted. Carson uses an array of rhetorical strategies, ranging from creating a serious and justified tone, to exaggerating the situation, and lastly by using rep it ion to get her point across. To begin with, the start of…

    • 670 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    People may not know who she is, but she had truly changed medical history. In her 23 years in the Red Cross she had managed to do so much. Throughout her lifetime she had become very important to the medical…

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The thesis of this essay is in “the Road from Rio”, David Suzuki argues that there is too much organizing and talking about how to save the planet, but not enough action is being taken and he is successful in achieving his aim.…

    • 795 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    the adversity she overcame growing up to get there. And later, in the profound research in her…

    • 1480 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    David Suzuki

    • 1948 Words
    • 8 Pages

    * CBC Radio-Canada, 2012, David Suzuki: Scientist, Activist, Broadcaster, accessed 18 February 2012, <http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/media/topics/663/ >.…

    • 1948 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    have both a sense of the importance of the wilderness and space in our culture…

    • 953 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Artillery - Essay

    • 10282 Words
    • 42 Pages

    Historically, artillery (from French artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles during war, served by a crew of men. The term also describes ground-based troops with the primary function of manning such weapons. Artillery is sometimes known as "The King of Battle". This term includes coastal artillery which traditionally defended coastal areas against seaborne attack and controlled the passage of ships, using their ability to deny access through the threat of coastal fire. It also includes land-based field artillery. With the advent of powered flight at the start of the 20th Century, artillery also included ground-based anti-aircraft batteries.…

    • 10282 Words
    • 42 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Distinctive Voices

    • 1073 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Severn Cullis-Suzuki was only 12 years old when she ‘stopped the world for 5 minutes’. She spoke in…

    • 1073 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Physician-assisted suicide is the act of a physician prescribing a drug to a patient which the patient is able to take on his or her own without the assistance of a medical provider or another person. This drug generally results in unconsciousness within five minutes and death within thirty minutes. Physician-assisted suicide became legal in the state of Oregon on October 27, 1997. From the date of legalization through December 31, 2000, there have been seventy reported cases of people utilizing the law to end their lives. The debate over physician-assisted suicide has never been a simple one. In 48 states the practice remains illegal and the issue has only grown more complicated in recent years. Since 1992 the legalization of this practice…

    • 1504 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Role Model

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages

    From the day we where all born we watched and observed everything on front of us. We watched our family, classmates, television, Internet and everybody around us. Role models have a great affect in our society. A role model must have the ability to show leadership, planned out ideas, and able to make a difference in the society. Role models have a dramatic affect on future generation of young minds. The influences of a role models have on young people are great. The most important part of being a role model is to be positive and responsible show good moral standing because young people are relying on role models today.…

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    My Role Model: Dad

    • 259 Words
    • 2 Pages

    MY role model is my dad Robert, he is an amazing guy. He was a little wild as a teenager but over came that after a couple years. He met my mother back in 1982. They both started dating; she jokes and says he wanted me for my chicken, because she was working at church’s chicken. I found that really funny growing up. When I came along they were stationed in Germany where I was born in September 1983. I don’t really remember to much about Germany other than my dad had his own race car and would race on the weekends. My dad and mom did so much with me as a child; at a young age he would have me help him. I was always side by side with him. In April of 1986 came my sister. Through the years my dad has always taught us if u starts something you must finish it. My dad always told me to be truthful because at the end of the day the only person you’re lying to is yourself. Be proud of you and all your choices and you shouldn’t ever have to say what if. My dad is my role model because he has served 32 years in the army and 4 deployments, he has always supported his family and never let us down. I’m so proud to call him my father and my role model. He was a little wild as child but grew up to be a man that everyone respects and acklowdges.…

    • 259 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Lying As A Role Model

    • 2092 Words
    • 9 Pages

    One person I have always looked up to in my life is my older brother for his constant persistence in handling adversity. Constantly, my brother has been assaulted and beaten down by some of the harshest difficulties that life has thrown in his face, but constantly he has gotten back up and persevered. Most of the challenges he has overcome have been physical, but it all started with his persistent mentality.…

    • 2092 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Environmental justice strives to treat nature and its resources in a fair and organic way. Verdana Shiva and Maria Mies in “Introduction to Ecofeminism” discuss how their similar theories on environmental justice have connotations with the feminist movement. They depict environmental justice as crises and link it to feminism by questioning the notion “that the impact on women of ecological disaster and deterioration was harder than men.” (Mies and Shiva 2) The deterioration now affects the lives of women more, and therefore becomes a part of their struggle against male emancipation. Generally speaking, women are the first to protest, the authors tell us. The women’s natural instinct is now being brought to the argument which emphasizes its importance to the lives of women. They essentially depict environmental justice as part of the feminist war against oppressive male and World Bank figures. So how do they link feminism and environmental justice? By making it…

    • 1855 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Best Essays

    CASE STUDY

    • 2049 Words
    • 9 Pages

    A series of decisions made by Nugan contributed to the huge success of the Group. Being an inexperienced and business training-free woman, she courageously…

    • 2049 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Best Essays