Glen Canyon Dam :: Debate Lake Powell Papers

Glen Canyon Dam This extended essay 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 novel that stands like a dam Glen Canyon and the struggle for the soul of the West), and Jared Farmer (Glen Canyon dammed inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon country). There are always two sides to an argument, champion for one against. All seven authors write of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the controversy surrounding the draining of Lake Powell. All of the authors do not actually want the dam to be taken d give birth. Each author talks about what was destroyed by filling Glen Canyon up. They all recognize that Glen Canyon can not be saved, entirely another dam can be prevented from happening again somewhere else. A pamphlet handed out at the visitors magnetic core of Glen Canyon Dam states The mission of the Bureau of Reclamation is to manage, develop, and p rotect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the absorb 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 educate people as to the uses of Glen Canyon. The dangers and the fun that can be had on the lake that was made by the Glen Canyon Dam. about of the shoreline around Lake Powell is loose and can slip 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 numerous to mark and can appear quickly subsequently a change in the water level or after rainy weather. (Glen Canyon Dam) The author is saying that not every dangerous area can be marked. By writing this the author is ensuring natural rubber against lawsui ts. 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, Consider 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 have their own opinions.