... fool's gold must be washed and starched or shined into brightness, the sheets of lake water smoothed with the hand and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness. It has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness. and pleated and goffered, the flower-blue sea the protean, wine-dark, grey, green, sea with its metres of satin and bolts of brocade. And sky - such an 0! overhead - night and day must ... her selection as follows: I have several reasons why I submitted P.K. Page's poem "Planet Earth" for Dialogue Poetry. First, the message of the poem -- that our planet must be loved -- is so v...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... tropical rain forests. At one time photographs taken from a satellite of the earth a quarter of a century ago revealed a green belt widely spread interrupted only by the oceans. This expansive ring of vegetation remained unchanged for fifty million years. However, today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 ... this is a premature assumption. There is so much ignorance in our country, and even more in others, the knowledgeable have to se...

• Word Count: 3257
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography

... tropical rain forests. At one time photographs taken from a satellite of the earth a quarter of a century ago revealed a green belt widely spread interrupted only by the oceans. This expansive ring of vegetation remained unchanged for fifty million years. However, today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 ... this is a premature assumption. There is so much ignorance in our country, and even more in others, the knowledgeable have to se...

• Word Count: 3435
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... tropical rain forests. At one time photographs taken from a satellite of the earth a quarter of a century ago revealed a green belt widely spread interrupted only by the oceans. This expansive ring of vegetation remained unchanged for fifty million years. However, today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 ... this is a premature assumption. There is so much ignorance in our country, and even more in others, the knowledgeable have to se...

• Word Count: 3373
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography