40% of the global plastic production came from China and that 27% of the mismanaged plastic also came from China. Furthermore, banning sing-use plastic is not an effective way to save our ocean because it disrupts the economy, it is cheap and convenient and other alternatives for plastic is not as productive as plastic. Plastic is a cheap, lightweight and convenient material that Canada and other European countries planned on banning by 2021.

Banning sing-use plastic disrupts the economy. According to Polymer Database, more than 2 million employees in the U.S will lose their jobs if plastic industries were shut down. In addition, 359 million metric-tons of plastic is being produced worldwide every year. Coca-Cola is the largest plastic-using company and it uses about 3 million-tons of plastic is. If we ban sing-use plastic, millions of businesses and companies that manufactures plastic will be bankrupts or worse collapse. Not only that but more than 2 million people will lose their jobs in the U.S. These things could lead to the money cycle moving slower which means the economy will be worse.

Single-use plastic is a cheap and convenient material. The productions speed is relatively fast compared to other materials that is being produced, which means the price is going to go down since the supply is really high and the demand is lower, plastic is cheap, and it is affordable to most of the people. In addition to being cheap, it is also quite easy to carry too, single-use plastic is strong and durable and very lightweight which has a drastic difference with metal. Therefore, single-use plastic is a cheap/affordable and convenient material to use.

Opponents may suggest acrylic and metal as another alternatives to replace single-use plastic. Acrylic is a lightweight material and a cheaper material than plastic. However, single-use plastic is more durable and much more productive than acrylic. Metal could be a good choice as well except the material is heavier and expensive, not as convenient. Convenience is one thing, but renewability is another. Metal is an unrenewable material because there is a limited amount of metal on earth according to Craft Chind. Consequently, other materials are not as good as single-use plastic.

Banning sing-use plastic is not an effective way to save our ocean because doing that disrupts the economy, it is cheap and convenient and that other alternatives like acrylic and metal are not good enough. Millions of businesses will collapse and thousands of people will lose their jobs if we ban single-use plastic.

“Positive thinking will make it easier to manage your life, reduce stress, and also help you take care of yourself better”, says an article about effect of positive thinking. Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon, one of the eldest gods, but also a typical middle schooler who cannot control his emotions and always think about his life negatively which causes him to feel depressed about his life. Percy can have a much more delighted life by managing and controlling his emotions and thinking positively at all times, he should always try to not release his anger and think about the bright side of life.

Percy should manage and control his emotions to have a better life. “‘I am going to kill her,’ I mumbled” Said Percy when Nancy Bobofit is throwing food at Grover who is Percy’s only friend. The way Percy said he wants to kill her shows how furious and outraged he is and how he is uncapable of controlling his emotions in this situation without Grover holding him back. “Your emotional responses don’t necessarily have much to do with the current situation, or to reason, but you overcome them with reason and by being aware of your reactions.” Says an article about managing emotions by SkillsYouNeed. suggests that you can control your emotions by being aware of your reactions or response or to apply a reason to an emotion you are expressing, for instance, you could ask yourself questions about possible courses of actions like: “How do I feel about the situation? What should I do about it?”. This could improve Percy’s ability to control emotions which could help in several different ways. Percy should always control his emotions because his loss of control could lead to serious problems in his life such as being suspended from his school and also some more serious problems like hurting other people. “Positive actions could help you manage emotions.” This suggests that always having a positive action instead of a negative action could help manage emotions as well. Constantly expressing positive emotions and action could help Percy develop a habit of reacting to things positively in which it could help him stay out of danger like hurting someone accidentally.

Percy can have a better life by thinking positively all the time. “And I was absolutely miserable,” said Percy isolated in his cabin and thinking negatively about how horrible and miserable his life is. “Constant negative thinking could lead to stress and can lead to more serious problems like depression.” Said an article about the non-beneficial facts about negative thinking, this explains the consequences Percy’s negative thinking about his life could lead to stress and depression. On the other hand, thinking positively is beneficial to Percy’s life. “Feeling positive emotions could help you identify more possibilities and options in your life and people who have positive thinking can deliver those options which could build new skills in life.” This suggests that Percy should stay positive all the time because it could help him build new skills and give him the ability to learn things faster which would help him achieve more at camp half-blood. “Positive thinking will make it easier to manage your life, reduce stress, and also help you take care of yourself better. And those things are important to help you recover from serious diseases.” This piece of evidence suggests that positive thinking can not only help you with curing stress and depression, but also such things like helping you to recover from diseases which is one of the factors that improves Percy’s physical health. By thinking positively, Percy could develop skills, learn faster and help with recovering from diseases which could help him become more successful and mentally and physically healthier.

Even as the son of Poseidon, such problems in daily life still bothers and effects Percy. In order to become much more delighted about his life, he must manage, and control is emotions in order to not hurt anyone on accident and can have more positive effects on his life, and also thinking positively all the time which can help with his mental and physical health and can make him become more successful . Such factors could help him in life because of its effects to Percy’s life. These advices can help not only Percy, a demigod himself, but also other normal people as well.

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Percy should study more in his boarding school to get better grades. When Percy is talking about all his teachers at the boarding school, he said to himself desperately, “My grades slipped from Ds to Fs.” This shows how bad Percy’s grades. The reason to start studying is because studying could improve someone’s studying skills and learning ability. That way, he will have a skill that can help him become successful when he goes to camp half-blood.

Accumulate:

To add up or to collect

I have accumulated years of minerals consisting of sapphire and aqua marines.

Arduous:

Something that’s very difficult or exhausting.

I had an arduous practice at the basketball  training today.

Vague:

Something uncertain or indefinite

The true secret of the universe is vague.

Ambiguous:

Have a double meaning.

The word “current” is ambiguous, it means right now or a flow of electrical charge.

Abroad:

Out of a country.

I am studying abroad for 4 years at Stanford University.

Intrigued:

Chiron paused, as if the question intrigued him.

His potential to manipulate his power intrigued me.

Resent:

I started to understand that Luke’s bitterness and how he seemed to resent his father, Hermes.

I started to resent in my friend because he betrayed me.

Combustion:

“Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr.D,” Chiron put in.

Joan of Arc experienced combustion.

Aura:

They have a strong aura, a scent that attract monsters.

People who usually is attractive and has a special quality has an aura.

Converged:

Everyone converged on the creek as Luke ran across the friendly territory.

The soldiers converged by the military base.

Materialize:

Ms. Dodds materialized next to us.

The ghost materialized in front of me in the haunted house.

Pulverize:

Something about the way she looked at the freize, as if she wanted to pulverize it.

The magical spell book pulverized and left sparkles of gleaming light.

Mournfully:

He looked at me mournfully, like he was already picking the kind of flowers I’d like best on my coffin.

I looked at my friend mournfully after he broke his mother’s favorite vase.

Superstition:

“Is this like a superstition or something?” I asked.

The scene we saw yesterday at the hospital might be a superstition.

Glumly:

“Okay,” I said glumly.

I replied to my friend glumly because he is requesting for 3 dollars from me.

Shriveled:

She was a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws and a moth fill of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me into ribbons.

Mary’s grandpa’s face is shriveled.

The nebula gleamed in neon pink.