Glen Canyon Dam :: Debate Lake Powell Papers

Glen canon Dam This extended move will analyze the rhetoric of authors discussing the Glen Canyon Dam. These authors include Jeff Rubin (The Place No One Knew), John McPhee (Encounters with the Archdruid), Russell Martin (A story that stands like a impede Glen Canyon and the struggle for the soul of the West), and J bed Farmer (Glen Canyon dammed inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon country). There are always two sides to an argument, one for one against. All seven authors frame of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the controversy surrounding the draining of Lake Powell. All of the authors do non actu on the wholey want the dam to be taken down. Each author talks about what was destroyed by filling Glen Canyon up. They all recognize that Glen Canyon can not be saved, but other dam can be prevented from happening again somewhere else. A piece of land handed out at the visitors totality of Glen Canyon Dam states The mission of the Bureau of Reclamation is to manage, develop, and protec t piss and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public (Glen Canyon Dam) This statement ensures the reader that the dam was built for the people doing this without stating any facts that prove the statement. This statement also does not state why the U.S. government built Glen Canyon dam. This pamphlet wants to grow people as to the uses of Glen Canyon. The dangers and the fun that can be had on the lake that was do by the Glen Canyon Dam. Some of the shoreline around Lake Powell is loose and can put down and fall. (Glen canyon Dam) warning the public as to what to watch for. The pamphlet goes on to say Dangerous sections of Lake Powells shoreline are too legion(predicate) to mark and can appear quickly after a dislodge in the water level or after rainy suffer. (Glen Canyon Dam) The author is verbal expression that not every dangerous state can be marked. By writing this the author is ensuring safety against lawsuits. In Glen Canyon Dammed Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country, Jared Farmer agrees with the draining of Lake Powell. Farmer goes on to write, delve the river that flows through Grand Canyon its not the real thing. Its the programmed discharge from Glen Canyon Dam. (Farmer pg. XIII) In this statement Farmer is saying that he does agree with the dam coming down, although saying that people retain their own opinions.