ollin Woodward's "Ocean's End -- summary of chapters one, two,
ollin Woodward's book "Ocean's End -- Travels Through Endangered Seas" provides a complex explanation regarding the current condition of the planet's natural world. The writer aims to raise public awareness by making it possible for people to observe the way that man's actions damaged the surrounding environment. The text covers a series of locations and the degree to which they have been damaged in recent years with the purpose to demonstrate that the effects of pollution can already be felt massively.

The first chapter, "Dead Seas," in the book begins by documenting the author's journey on the Black Sea as he tries to identify all the ecological disasters that occurred there during recent years. The writer wanted readers to comprehend that they too are likely to be among those responsible for not caring about oceans and the way they are treated in…...

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Chapter three, "Run on the Banks," provides a more intricate account of particular regions affected and the domino effect that one species' disappearance would have on the others. Fishing is emphasized as being one of the many actions that people perform and that have the oceans' destruction as a result. The existence of much of North America is owed to people fishing Cod in large quantities over the years. The disappearance of Cod is just one of the examples demonstrating the way that the world's seas are being affected. This makes it difficult for people in North America to concentrate on other aspects of pollution in oceans, as they tend to focus on the short-term effects rather than on their chances of survival as a community.

Chapter four of the book, "Muddied Waters," concentrates on Louisiana and New Orleans as being among the most vulnerable regions as a result of being exposed to catastrophes like hurricanes and rising seas. This is one of the best examples of the effects that global warming has on the environment. The authorities have a complex understanding of the situation and have organized evacuation plans in case of a serious disaster. With irrigation plans and a series of other actions damaging marine and river ecosystems in these regions, thus leading to a decreasing number of animals in the area and less habitable conditions in general.

Woodward, C. "Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas." (Basic Books, 2001)

Extra-Credit Questions
Questions on Readings

There are different kinds of peril that a person can find himself (in this case) in, and Macready and Macon Detornay find themselves embedded in several of them, in large measure because of their own actions, including their own attitudes about the position that they hold in the world in which they spend their lives. Detornay is more clearly culpable for the problems in which he finds himself because these are dangers into which he places himself. Lacking what he perceives to be an authentic life, he casts off the superficial markers of the community in which he has been raised and to which his life has accommodated him, he pretends that he can live a more authentic life by becoming what he sees as an urban black. Not only does this place him at occasional physical risk but on a consistent basis in moral and psychological…...

While Poe relates these as true stories, as opposed to the works of his own imagination, one can't but read them also as the fantastical longing of husband wanting to deny death's ability to separate him from his beloved wife.
After Virginia died, Poe went on a frenzied search for a female replacement. Not that any woman could have truly replaced Virginia in his eyes, but only that he found himself quite incapable of maintaining himself without a woman's influence. Poe pursued and was briefly engaged to poetess Sarah Helen Whitman, however the engagement dissolved largely due to Poe's growing reputation as a drunk. After Whitman, Poe passionately pursued Annie ichmond, though for her marriage to another man, their relations remained platonic. At the same time Poe was writing impassioned love letters to ichmond, he formed yet further platonic bonds with Sarah Anne Lewis, and poetess Susan Archer Talley. Finally,…...

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References

Bio. True Story. (2010). Edgar Allen Poe Biography. Retrieved December 11, 2010, from  http://www.biography.com/articles/Edgar-Allan-Poe-9443160?part=0 

Bloom, H. (1985). Edgar Allen Poe: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House

Publishers.

Poe, E.A. (1983). The Unabridged Edgar Allen Poe. Philadelphia: Running Press.