This week I read the article Code Blue. This story was about an oceanographer named Sylvia Earle who has a new and unique idea; make ocean sites national parks. One particular site she has in mind, The Sargasso Sea, is two-million square miles and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This area is unlike any other in the sea because massive mats sargassum, a waterborne golden-brown seaweed. Earle claims this is "the golden rainforest of the sea" because light reaches below the mats on millions of coral eggs. She is trying to make this area marine protected in order to keep it beautiful and safe.
This article was from TIME magazine and written by Bryan Walsh. TIME magazine has won countless top awards for magazine excellence. Bryan Walsh first worked for TIME Tokyo and Hong Kong before moving to New York. He writes about environment, energy, and alarming diseases for the magazine.
The exigence for this article is that previous to Sylvia Earle's idea, no one had thought of making any part of the ocean a national park. It is a very unique idea that could change our environment. The purpose of this article is to try to make the public aware of this new idea, and help with this positive cause. If more people know about it, more will then support it. Walsh wrote this article to apply to one's ethos, pathos, and logos. It is logical because we already have national parks on land, so we should have them in the ocean too. It is emotional because the site is beautiful and supports living creatures, and it is also credible because Sylvia Earle is an oceanographer who has been studying the area for years. Walsh did accomplish his purpose, because I strongly agree that the site should become a national park.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2020806_2020805_2020796,00.html
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