Apostrophe S

Next, we have my Honors Earth Science class project. During the class, we studied some interesting things. The two big ones were Coal and Cod. That’s right, a flammable rock and a fish. It was a lot more interesting than it sounds. It is amazing the influence coal has had on the development of modern society. Without coal, there would be no industrial revolution, no mass transit, and probably less electricity. We don’t think much about coal, but even today almost all of the electricity in the United States is produced by burning coal.

Cod may seem even more out of place. But in reality, the history of the fisheries in the Northeast is an interesting one. Basically, back in the day the oceans provided a seemingly unlimited supply of cod, but as technology improved and the number of fisherman fighting for a share of the catch increased, we nearly fished cod into extinction. Cod fishing was banned, and the cod fishing industry crumbled, leaving thousands out of work. It is interesting how mother nature takes her revenge.

Anyway, the final project was supposed to be a creative project. So I thought I would be very cliché and ask everyone in the class to submit a haiku or two about the subjects we studied this semester, and then I would package them into a nice little book that I would give to everyone in the class. The book is titled, “Means To End,” because humanity has always been the means to its own end, plus it was the last thing I had to do before the end of the semester. It worked out pretty well, and you can download a pdf of that, too, right here.