You state "Till death do we part" or stay together for the kids. From personal experience being the child involved with her parents separating, staying together just for the kids is not fair. It’s not fair for the children or the parents pretending to love when they know they don't. Three and a half years ago my parents decided not to be together anymore, it was a sudden shock to me and my siblings. We all thought about how and why this had happened. The day before everyone seemed fine, all hunky dory, and the next, I got the biggest shock of my life. I could never see my parents separated, we were the perfect family, so I thought.
I don’t want my whole life story out on the net so long story short I finally worked up the courage to ask them what had happened and why the all of a sudden change in heart. They proceeded to explain to me that because of us kids they didn't want to mention anything, they just wanted to pretend everything was okay. I think that tore me up more than anything. Just because kids are involved does not mean that two people are supposed to stay together. The parents deserve to be happy as well as the kids. The kids will learn when they are old enough to understand, why their mom and dad did not stay together.
If the parents are good parents they will know exactly what to say to their kids. No need to "bash" the other parent because they are still the mother or father of their kids. They wouldn't have those kids if it weren't for the other parent.
My parents will always love each other, but it's not the type of love that married people have. It's the type of love that two parents who share kids have for each other. My mom will always love my dad because he is my dad; and vice versa for my dad about my mom. I know your opinion is your opinion and you have it for a reason, and don't misunderstand I am far from calling you wrong. BUT...the fact that parents stay together and pretend to love each other just for the kids’ sake is wrong. Trust me, it’s not fair and it hurts even worse to know that the whole time you were basically being lied to by your own parents. I do however believe that two people should at least try to make it work because of the children. In this case it would be like and unexpected pregnancy. Those two parents may think that it will never work between them and all of a sudden a baby happens, they should try. If it doesn’t work, well that’s what trying is for.
This so called journey that I have been through with them has taught me a lot about relationships; what they should and should not be. Because of my parents I know that pretending is not the way to go and they need to be happy also. The children will learn that the decision their parents made was only for the best, not meaning to hurt anyone in the process.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
The Road-Cormac McCarthy
A book written by Cormac McCarthy called "The Road" was the last reading assignment given in my Engl 112 class. We were assigned to read this book and be prepared to be involved with the class discussion. I started reading the book over Thanksgiving "break" and finished it by the second week of December. In the beginning it was quite difficult to keep open, nothing in the book was catching my eye; but I got over that and just kept reading. I knew it had to be done.
The boy and his father are walking along a road somewhere in the United States. We are never told exactly where but we do know that they are walking south. The narrator is describing the surroundings as very ashy. First thing I think of is "oh, there was a fire, the whole city is burned, and basically nothing left of this place." Well as they keep walking, the description of the surroundings never changes. Now that’s a little odd to me. How would the whole entire country looking like this? Burned to nothing.
The boy and his father continue down this road to what seems to be no where. Many times throughout the book the boy wants to stop and not continue on anymore, but his father won't have it. He encourages his son to continue on down this road, even though they are always hungry and always thirsty, they still go on.
That to me is very inspiring, the love that this father has for his son, the goal he wants to reach and knows they can, all of it. It's absolutely wonderful. This place they are walking in being as it is with nothing left, leaves the source of food very unlikely to have; drinks as well. The water is filled with dirt, ash and even dead bodies. I would go thirsty as well. Whenever they do come to houses that look just safe enough to walk through they search for canned foods. Anything they can salvage to take and eat when they stop for the nights.
Throughout the book they do find food and very rarely drink, but they still manage to walk and keep up high spirits. They are thankful to be alive, nothing could be better than being alive and having each other. They run into trouble a few times including crazy people who cook human parts to eat. Thankfully the dad carries a gun in case anything life threatening comes their way; something did, he needed the gun to save his son and himself.
The father is not feeling to well as the book continues. He wakes up coughing so hard that he starts to cough up blood; he is not doing too well. As they stay walking down this road he doesn’t get any better, in fact he gets worse by the day. Toward the end of the book the dad ends up dying but thankfully another family who is also walking the road runs into the boy. They allow him to join with them and continue on their long journey to what still seems to nowhere.
The boy and his father are walking along a road somewhere in the United States. We are never told exactly where but we do know that they are walking south. The narrator is describing the surroundings as very ashy. First thing I think of is "oh, there was a fire, the whole city is burned, and basically nothing left of this place." Well as they keep walking, the description of the surroundings never changes. Now that’s a little odd to me. How would the whole entire country looking like this? Burned to nothing.
The boy and his father continue down this road to what seems to be no where. Many times throughout the book the boy wants to stop and not continue on anymore, but his father won't have it. He encourages his son to continue on down this road, even though they are always hungry and always thirsty, they still go on.
That to me is very inspiring, the love that this father has for his son, the goal he wants to reach and knows they can, all of it. It's absolutely wonderful. This place they are walking in being as it is with nothing left, leaves the source of food very unlikely to have; drinks as well. The water is filled with dirt, ash and even dead bodies. I would go thirsty as well. Whenever they do come to houses that look just safe enough to walk through they search for canned foods. Anything they can salvage to take and eat when they stop for the nights.
Throughout the book they do find food and very rarely drink, but they still manage to walk and keep up high spirits. They are thankful to be alive, nothing could be better than being alive and having each other. They run into trouble a few times including crazy people who cook human parts to eat. Thankfully the dad carries a gun in case anything life threatening comes their way; something did, he needed the gun to save his son and himself.
The father is not feeling to well as the book continues. He wakes up coughing so hard that he starts to cough up blood; he is not doing too well. As they stay walking down this road he doesn’t get any better, in fact he gets worse by the day. Toward the end of the book the dad ends up dying but thankfully another family who is also walking the road runs into the boy. They allow him to join with them and continue on their long journey to what still seems to nowhere.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Divorce, it sucks for the kids
Here's a thought, Divorce. I never really thought much about it until last night as I was waiting for Joshua to hurl. A guy and a girl fall in love. They think they are perfect for each other, and they marry and have kids. Somewhere along the way, they realize they were wrong. That either, one, or both have changed, that they were immature at the start, something happens, that makes them separate. They jump through the legal hoops, yada yada yada, and everything is hunky dory, right? Wrong.
What about the kids? They are made from, and only from, parts of the parents. Obviously it isn't a 50/50 ratio, but a kid is made up of both. Now when the parents split, what sort of outlook to the future does that give the child? "Mommy and Daddy can't live together anymore, but that doesn't involve you, you'll be fine." Think of the inner struggles a child can go through. It was easy for the parents to just give up, to split, but what about the kid? They can't just leave parts of themselves. The child is stuck as this chemical makeup, which has been proven to be volatile, or at least unstable. But instead of separate identities, it is all in one cornucopia we like to call a person. What did that child do to deserve this constant internal conflict?
Moral of the story: Till death do you part; or Stay together for the kids.
What about the kids? They are made from, and only from, parts of the parents. Obviously it isn't a 50/50 ratio, but a kid is made up of both. Now when the parents split, what sort of outlook to the future does that give the child? "Mommy and Daddy can't live together anymore, but that doesn't involve you, you'll be fine." Think of the inner struggles a child can go through. It was easy for the parents to just give up, to split, but what about the kid? They can't just leave parts of themselves. The child is stuck as this chemical makeup, which has been proven to be volatile, or at least unstable. But instead of separate identities, it is all in one cornucopia we like to call a person. What did that child do to deserve this constant internal conflict?
Moral of the story: Till death do you part; or Stay together for the kids.
Free Write
Pregnancy…what to say. It’s a blessing from God. A very crazy experience for any girl to go through, it has its ups and it has a lot of downs.
There are too many things I am told not to do, which I ignore, and I’m pretty sure my ignorance is what got me into the hospital three times in the past month. All three times hooked up to IV’s because of dehydration. Too much sugar can send a pregnant girl into labor. My favorite part of staying in the hospital was getting woke up by the nurses so they could check my blood pressure and pulse. It really sucks having that elastic band wrapped around your belly all day and night! My baby didn’t like it! She kicked it all night. That’s really the best part of this whole experience. Knowing that she is okay helps me sleep at night. My worst fear is going to the doctor because I wasn’t feeling her move and them telling me that she’s not okay. I couldn’t imagine how someone could feel knowing that there was a baby who was healthy and perfectly fine one day and the next not. I haven’t had her yet and I will tell you I have never been more attached to or in love with anything in my entire life! It really is true that you can love someone without even meeting them. That someone is your child.
It really sucks that no man can ever experience how it feels to be pregnant. They say a dad really knows what it’s like once they see their child for the first time. But a woman knows while she’s pregnant. Feeling the baby makes it seem so real. It’s so hard to explain to anyone. Even to a woman who’s had a baby. Its love! Something that can’t be explained. I wonder how a dad feels about his child (ren). I wonder what goes through man’s head when he looks at or holds his child for the first time.
I wonder how different my life will be. I am always told that my life will be over and new one will begin, called “our” life. My life had changed a lot since I’ve been pregnant. Just knowing made me change so many things I do and the way I do things. Believe it or not my driving has changed dramatically! Maybe it’s because I don’t have a job and I know can’t afford a ticket, OR maybe it’s because I’m scared something might happen and I don’t want to hurt my baby.
I’ve been told that when you’re pregnant you have crazy dreams! A friend of mine has told me about crazy dreams and even day dreams she has had. She says she used to daydream about drowning her daughter, or how her daughter was having an asthma attack in the back of the car and the radio was up too loud to hear her so she died. That makes me nervous about what I may think about. I have had dreams about going to bed pregnant and waking up with a baby!
It’s crazy what you think about, not just about yourself, but others too.
There are too many things I am told not to do, which I ignore, and I’m pretty sure my ignorance is what got me into the hospital three times in the past month. All three times hooked up to IV’s because of dehydration. Too much sugar can send a pregnant girl into labor. My favorite part of staying in the hospital was getting woke up by the nurses so they could check my blood pressure and pulse. It really sucks having that elastic band wrapped around your belly all day and night! My baby didn’t like it! She kicked it all night. That’s really the best part of this whole experience. Knowing that she is okay helps me sleep at night. My worst fear is going to the doctor because I wasn’t feeling her move and them telling me that she’s not okay. I couldn’t imagine how someone could feel knowing that there was a baby who was healthy and perfectly fine one day and the next not. I haven’t had her yet and I will tell you I have never been more attached to or in love with anything in my entire life! It really is true that you can love someone without even meeting them. That someone is your child.
It really sucks that no man can ever experience how it feels to be pregnant. They say a dad really knows what it’s like once they see their child for the first time. But a woman knows while she’s pregnant. Feeling the baby makes it seem so real. It’s so hard to explain to anyone. Even to a woman who’s had a baby. Its love! Something that can’t be explained. I wonder how a dad feels about his child (ren). I wonder what goes through man’s head when he looks at or holds his child for the first time.
I wonder how different my life will be. I am always told that my life will be over and new one will begin, called “our” life. My life had changed a lot since I’ve been pregnant. Just knowing made me change so many things I do and the way I do things. Believe it or not my driving has changed dramatically! Maybe it’s because I don’t have a job and I know can’t afford a ticket, OR maybe it’s because I’m scared something might happen and I don’t want to hurt my baby.
I’ve been told that when you’re pregnant you have crazy dreams! A friend of mine has told me about crazy dreams and even day dreams she has had. She says she used to daydream about drowning her daughter, or how her daughter was having an asthma attack in the back of the car and the radio was up too loud to hear her so she died. That makes me nervous about what I may think about. I have had dreams about going to bed pregnant and waking up with a baby!
It’s crazy what you think about, not just about yourself, but others too.
My Moods
I'm a moody person. I think I've always realized this, but only recently I'm learning how much my moods, and changing of moods shape my life. I don't know if it's something I should work to overcome, or something I should learn to accept as part of me...Where is the line that defines the difference between a low self-esteem and a constant desire to be more than what you are?
I was thinking that I have never given my full attention and devotion to any 1 thing for an extended period of time. Sure, I've felt inspired from a book and changed my outlook on life and sometimes my behavior, but whether I've lost focus and drive, or was so successful in integrating that change that it now feels normal, I'm not sure. Part of the necessity to read books is the mnemic ability to keep yourself accountable. I don't think I posses that skill. That doesn't mean I'm not going to read, but it possibly means that I don't know how to read effectively.
At church on Sunday, I couldn't keep focus because there was a gentlemen a few rows in front of me that was taking notes, it seemed at least, and he filled at least 5 notebook pages. I want to know why these people take notes. Is the simple act of writing it down enough for them to gain an extra level of retention or comprehension? Do they save the notes? Do the ever really refer to their notes later? How much later? Will this strategy work for me?
That’s the real question though. We all have our own tricks and skills and downfalls. At what point do we accept our abilities and deal with what we have? Do we believe that we can maintain a constant state of better ourselves in our lives? Someone could dedicate their life to improving themselves in all areas, but even then they’d probably fail to do anything worthwhile because they spent their whole life learning.
Sometimes, I’m in the mood to read. Sometimes, I want to improve my abilities to understand and comprehend. Sometimes, I’m so sick of it all I just want to give up and do nothing. Sometimes, I just want to sit around and talk about it all. Sometimes, there’s no time for any of that.
I was thinking that I have never given my full attention and devotion to any 1 thing for an extended period of time. Sure, I've felt inspired from a book and changed my outlook on life and sometimes my behavior, but whether I've lost focus and drive, or was so successful in integrating that change that it now feels normal, I'm not sure. Part of the necessity to read books is the mnemic ability to keep yourself accountable. I don't think I posses that skill. That doesn't mean I'm not going to read, but it possibly means that I don't know how to read effectively.
At church on Sunday, I couldn't keep focus because there was a gentlemen a few rows in front of me that was taking notes, it seemed at least, and he filled at least 5 notebook pages. I want to know why these people take notes. Is the simple act of writing it down enough for them to gain an extra level of retention or comprehension? Do they save the notes? Do the ever really refer to their notes later? How much later? Will this strategy work for me?
That’s the real question though. We all have our own tricks and skills and downfalls. At what point do we accept our abilities and deal with what we have? Do we believe that we can maintain a constant state of better ourselves in our lives? Someone could dedicate their life to improving themselves in all areas, but even then they’d probably fail to do anything worthwhile because they spent their whole life learning.
Sometimes, I’m in the mood to read. Sometimes, I want to improve my abilities to understand and comprehend. Sometimes, I’m so sick of it all I just want to give up and do nothing. Sometimes, I just want to sit around and talk about it all. Sometimes, there’s no time for any of that.
Drama/Gossip
I have discovered that there are few things in this life more annoying than “gossipers” and this town seems to be full of them. Crawfordsville seems to me like it is the central hub of the world for gossip, because no matter what if something happens, EVERYONE knows about it within ten minutes of it occurring. I think what makes this worse for me than your average Joe is that I unfortunately happen to work at a place chocked full of drama, Wal-Mart. No matter what, there is always something happening at work with someone in some department. Someone is making someone else mad, or someone called in a left someone else with all of the work...I would love for just one day to go to work and not have to deal with all of the drama that occurs, is that too much to ask? I think that this world relies too much on drama today, and unfortunately we all listen to it entirely too much, maybe we should take more seriously that age-old adage “if you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all”
The Road
“The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy was a very interesting book. There were so many things that you would miss if you weren’t paying attention. It was not the fact that you missed words, but how they were said in the story. You could almost hear the man speaking. I know that the story wasn’t really the big upper that a lot of people would have liked, but it did leave you with a little glimmer of hope. I know that this is morbid, but some of my favorite parts were where he described certain gory scenes. I could almost see all of the people that were in the basement of the farm house, and I could hear their screams when they cried for help. I know how the man felt for his child and I knew that I would be the same way with my own children. I would keep going for them; I would starve myself so they could eat; and I would sacrifice myself to save them. I know how this man feels for his son; but I don’t know it to the extremes that the father did. The father is the perfect image of what every parent should feel if all hell breaks loose. I enjoyed this book, though it ended in a cheap way.
Weddings for Cheap
I am getting married on Sat. Dec. 13th and I am really looking forward to it, but there are so many things that have come up that I never thought would affect a wedding. The main thing that caused us problems is the fact that we are poor college students with two kids. Another thing that caused problems was finding a place. We had to search all over for a place that didn’t cost too much. In the end we found out that we could use our church because we are members of the church. I know that you all are not interested in my troubles, but I also know that if you talk to someone who has been through all the stress; it takes some of it off. Some things are important to remember: fake flowers are cheaper and you can arrange them yourself and they still look good, find a close friend who can style hair, have wonderful sisters that help find you dresses and the fake flowers, and of course find a church that you belong to (that way you can use it for next to nothing). I know this doesn’t help much, but if you are in a pinch; these are the things I suggests.
Halloween
I know that Halloween has been over for a while now, but I do love that holiday. You see all of these children running around as spider-man, batman, tinker bell, witches, and who knows what else. Everyone is usually very friendly and you see a lot of people having a good time. The house that I grew up in was known as the best house to go to for trick-or-treating. It was not because of our candy, but because my father used to scare the crap out of anyone that came up to our house. I know that adults and children alike say that Christmas is their favorite time of year; and they say that you will always feel like a kid at Christmas. For me, Halloween gives me that joy. There is a fact that you don’t know what candy you are going to get and you sometimes never know what costume you are going to wear till that night. What also makes me excited is the fact that I have children of my own now and I am going to share my love of Halloween with them. I want them to enjoy dressing up and letting their imaginations take them far away.
CHRISTMAS :)
Christmas time is one of my favorite times of the year. I love all the Christmas decorations and all the Christmas spirit. It means a lot to me to get to spend so much time with family and get to celebrate with them. I like picking out gifts for everyone. I like how all the stores are decorated so nicely and everyone seems to be so busy. A lot of people get stressed out about Christmas but I try not to let it get to me.
I think sometimes Christmas has gotten out of hand and people forget what the real meaning of Christmas is. It seems like people are only worried about the gifts. Yes, the gifts are part of it but that is not what it should all be about. It should mainly be spending time with your family and just realizing how blessed you are to get to celebrate Christmas with your family. There are many people in this world that will not get to celebrate with their families, if they even get to celebrate at all. Everyone just needs to keep in mind how blessed they really are to be living in a free country and being able to celebrate with their families.
I think sometimes Christmas has gotten out of hand and people forget what the real meaning of Christmas is. It seems like people are only worried about the gifts. Yes, the gifts are part of it but that is not what it should all be about. It should mainly be spending time with your family and just realizing how blessed you are to get to celebrate Christmas with your family. There are many people in this world that will not get to celebrate with their families, if they even get to celebrate at all. Everyone just needs to keep in mind how blessed they really are to be living in a free country and being able to celebrate with their families.
Losing Trust in a Good Friend
I have been dating my boyfriend for almost a year. His sister and law and I are pretty close. We talk a lot and tell each other pretty much anything. I trusted her with everything I told her until a couple of months ago. The only problem is sometimes I think she’s jealous that she not the only woman in the family anymore besides Ray’s mother. We were talking one day and I told her something that I only wanted her to know. The next thing I knew she had told Ray’s whole family and made a huge deal out of it. I called her and confronted her and she told me that that’s something she could not keep a secret and she felt that they should know. She not only told everyone, but she turned it around on me and made me look like the bad guy. It turned into a big situation and I felt like after all this happened Ray’s family no longer felt the same about me.
She really hurt me in this situation and I no longer trust her with anything anymore. It was hard to let a really close friend go, but after all that happened I no longer felt like she was a friend at all. I learned from the situation not to trust everyone especially with something I did not want anybody to know about. It was hard getting through all the drama but after a couple of weeks everything went back to the way it had been before. It was a bad situation because I was afraid I was going to lose the relationships I had with Ray’s whole family. Everything is better now. Ashley and I get along, but it is definitely not like it used to be.
She really hurt me in this situation and I no longer trust her with anything anymore. It was hard to let a really close friend go, but after all that happened I no longer felt like she was a friend at all. I learned from the situation not to trust everyone especially with something I did not want anybody to know about. It was hard getting through all the drama but after a couple of weeks everything went back to the way it had been before. It was a bad situation because I was afraid I was going to lose the relationships I had with Ray’s whole family. Everything is better now. Ashley and I get along, but it is definitely not like it used to be.
The Road
I thought The Road was a very good book. It was a book that you did not want to sit down because you wanted to know what happened next. I just wish it would have said why everything was burnt and why the world was the way it was. The man took care of his little boy the whole way through. That is what you call a good dad. He always put the little boy first. If they were both starving he would always let the little boy have the food first. It was amazing that they never gave up. If I had been in their situation i would have wanted to give up so many times. The man always encouraged the boy to keep walking and just keep moving. It broke my heart at the end when his dad died. I was scared the little boy would have to continue the journey alone. He found a nice family that took him along with them. It was a very good book and i would reccomend it to anyone to read.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
For every 1 gallon of gas we burn, 19 pounds of carbon dioxide are being released into the air for our family, friends and selves to breathe in. Due to this, in 1989 1 out of every 4, 15-25 year olds were diagnosed with lung lesions and chronic respiratory problems and also in 1990, 41 cases of Stage 1 Smog Alerts were announced. Is this how we want to live our lives? Obviously it is because someone out there killed the one thing that was most certain to save our lives. Yes! That one thing would have reduced global warming & money problems, but most importantly it would have reduced the medical problems that the people we love are suffering from today. That one thing was the Electric Vehicle (EV).
The electric car was made in California and Arizona to be tested out and hopefully receive good consumer reviews to one day have the EV the main source of transportation. The reviews and remarks this vehicle received were amazing! Everyone who drove it loved it and many of those people purchased this car and drove it everyday like they would any other. If this vehicle received such great reviews, why had I not heard of it until now? Why do we not see these vehicles out on the roads as main sources of transportation? What happened to this miracle that could have been?
Alan Lloyd, the chairman of California's Air Resources Board held a meeting for one person from each vehicle company to come propose why the EV should stick around. Everyone thought they had 10 minutes to talk, Lloyd cut there time down to 3 minutes. Absolutely no time for anyone to sum up a 10 min talk. Lloyd killed the mandate in 2003. They EV was no more. Reason being there was no demand for the vehicle. President Bush explained that the state recognized car companies were unable to meet the "Clean-Air" Rules (10% of vehicles from 2003-2008 must be electric or zero-emission). So instead of bringing back the 100% electric vehicle, they settled for the Hybrid; which still uses gasoline and in turn still pollutes the air.
The EV ran solely on battery and ranged from 75 to 100 miles per full charge. The average person drives 29 miles per day. That is ⅓ of a full charge. How was there no demand? Why would anyone say "no" to this wonderful piece of machinery? If the EV were to be brought back and offered to everyone, I would definitely give it a chance to see what it was like and if it could meet my needs as a mom, student and employee. I do a lot of driving, but most of it is not needed. I really believe this could change our world in making it a cleaner and safer environment for everyone!
The electric car was made in California and Arizona to be tested out and hopefully receive good consumer reviews to one day have the EV the main source of transportation. The reviews and remarks this vehicle received were amazing! Everyone who drove it loved it and many of those people purchased this car and drove it everyday like they would any other. If this vehicle received such great reviews, why had I not heard of it until now? Why do we not see these vehicles out on the roads as main sources of transportation? What happened to this miracle that could have been?
Alan Lloyd, the chairman of California's Air Resources Board held a meeting for one person from each vehicle company to come propose why the EV should stick around. Everyone thought they had 10 minutes to talk, Lloyd cut there time down to 3 minutes. Absolutely no time for anyone to sum up a 10 min talk. Lloyd killed the mandate in 2003. They EV was no more. Reason being there was no demand for the vehicle. President Bush explained that the state recognized car companies were unable to meet the "Clean-Air" Rules (10% of vehicles from 2003-2008 must be electric or zero-emission). So instead of bringing back the 100% electric vehicle, they settled for the Hybrid; which still uses gasoline and in turn still pollutes the air.
The EV ran solely on battery and ranged from 75 to 100 miles per full charge. The average person drives 29 miles per day. That is ⅓ of a full charge. How was there no demand? Why would anyone say "no" to this wonderful piece of machinery? If the EV were to be brought back and offered to everyone, I would definitely give it a chance to see what it was like and if it could meet my needs as a mom, student and employee. I do a lot of driving, but most of it is not needed. I really believe this could change our world in making it a cleaner and safer environment for everyone!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Control Room!
This stupid movie is bullshit! We went into Iraq with hopes to find the man behind September 11, so when we were sure he wasn’t coming out of the town we bombed it! Ok they are giving us hell for us bombing them, showing the nation pictures of all the dead people from the towns that are under turmoil... Ok how about we show them the pictures and footage from what they did to us. We didn’t make a deal out of it, no so while they slept sound in their beds that horrible morning, we were in a state of shock! Not only did they demolish the World Trade Center(WTC) , but they took two of our own planes to do it in! When we bombed them, by got we did it with our own planes, our bombs and our troops!! They didn’t have the balls to even do that!
Also it wasn’t just the Americans who went over there! They say that we have no god, and no humanity, yet what about theirs. IF they hadn’t started this shit in the first place we wouldn’t be over there finishing it! Don’t start something if you don’t want to finish it, or you don’t like what becomes from the results of your actions. You don’t like what happened to your country; well we didn’t like what you did you ours that beautiful September morning. Don’t mess with a powerhouse if you can’t compete!
I don’t agree with the way it was handled no, but how would you handle something like that, I mean what would you have done if you’ve got a nation behind you who wants revenge on the pain that they caused us! If you do nothing and try to handle it diplomatically you are a coward, while on the other hand if you “bring the rain” you are a tyrant! How can that be? Are we to just sit here and do nothing while those assholes get away with what they did; no that isn’t the American way… When you are young you are taught to stand up for yourself and what you believe in, so what are you going to do if someone comes out of nowhere knocks the crap out of you, are you going to stand there and let them get away with it, no they will do it again. So what do you do, you hit them back, you stand up for yourself and what you think and your person you are! Do you want to be known as a coward or a strong mental person who doesn’t let people walk all over them. We didn’t become number one just because when someone kicked us we stood there, no we kicked back harder than they did till we either as a nation or a single person were the last one standing, that is how it works, always has and always will!
This movie isn’t showing the entire story, it is making the American people out to be the bad person, yah ok I think enough is enough, and we get the picture, poor you. Well that’s just too bad, you don’t like being bombed, hey guess what we didn’t either. Another thing is that the news is the news, you can’t just pick and show what you want, you show everything, and even if it doesn’t show what you think is right. The American people have a right to know what is going on over there, I mean after all we are the ones paying for it, right? So wouldn’t you want to know everything that is going on, not just what the news teams want you to see, to make you think that the Iraqis are bad? I would, I would want to know exactly what my tax dollars are paying for, what my troops, who are not only just American soldiers, but our friends, brothers, husbands, fathers, uncles, grandpas, mothers, daughters, wives, sisters; people who we have known since grade school, or before! They are our family, and the American people!
I understand that you have pride in your own nation, one of which you love with your whole body, and you are going to stand up for what you think is right. You know they say what we did wasn’t right, we shouldn’t have gone into their nation to bomb them without them knowing, but if you remember right they did the same thing to us. They high jacked not one or two or three, no they took four of our commercial airline planes, flew them into our buildings; two went into the WTC, the first plane went into tour1 at 8:45am, it collapsed around 10:30a. The second plane crashed into tour2 around 9:03 and exploded, that tour collapsed around 10:05a. One crashed outside of Philadelphia, PA. that was flight 93, and the fourth went into the Pentagon building in Washington DC. Sorry if I’m not sorry for what we did, but what they did isn’t any worse then what we did only we used our own stuff. I can still remember the state of shock I was in when I was sitting in class and the principal can over the intercom asking all the teachers to turn their tv’s onto CNN News channel that the WTC had just been bombed. We hadn’t had our tv on but 2 minutes on when the second plane crashed into the second building, all I could do was sit there and think, and pray for all those poor peoples and their families. All the while hoping that the sick person behind all of this would someday get what they deserved…
This stupid movie is bullshit! We went into Iraq with hopes to find the man behind September 11, so when we were sure he wasn’t coming out of the town we bombed it! Ok they are giving us hell for us bombing them, showing the nation pictures of all the dead people from the towns that are under turmoil... Ok how about we show them the pictures and footage from what they did to us. We didn’t make a deal out of it, no so while they slept sound in their beds that horrible morning, we were in a state of shock! Not only did they demolish the World Trade Center(WTC) , but they took two of our own planes to do it in! When we bombed them, by got we did it with our own planes, our bombs and our troops!! They didn’t have the balls to even do that!
Also it wasn’t just the Americans who went over there! They say that we have no god, and no humanity, yet what about theirs. IF they hadn’t started this shit in the first place we wouldn’t be over there finishing it! Don’t start something if you don’t want to finish it, or you don’t like what becomes from the results of your actions. You don’t like what happened to your country; well we didn’t like what you did you ours that beautiful September morning. Don’t mess with a powerhouse if you can’t compete!
I don’t agree with the way it was handled no, but how would you handle something like that, I mean what would you have done if you’ve got a nation behind you who wants revenge on the pain that they caused us! If you do nothing and try to handle it diplomatically you are a coward, while on the other hand if you “bring the rain” you are a tyrant! How can that be? Are we to just sit here and do nothing while those assholes get away with what they did; no that isn’t the American way… When you are young you are taught to stand up for yourself and what you believe in, so what are you going to do if someone comes out of nowhere knocks the crap out of you, are you going to stand there and let them get away with it, no they will do it again. So what do you do, you hit them back, you stand up for yourself and what you think and your person you are! Do you want to be known as a coward or a strong mental person who doesn’t let people walk all over them. We didn’t become number one just because when someone kicked us we stood there, no we kicked back harder than they did till we either as a nation or a single person were the last one standing, that is how it works, always has and always will!
This movie isn’t showing the entire story, it is making the American people out to be the bad person, yah ok I think enough is enough, and we get the picture, poor you. Well that’s just too bad, you don’t like being bombed, hey guess what we didn’t either. Another thing is that the news is the news, you can’t just pick and show what you want, you show everything, and even if it doesn’t show what you think is right. The American people have a right to know what is going on over there, I mean after all we are the ones paying for it, right? So wouldn’t you want to know everything that is going on, not just what the news teams want you to see, to make you think that the Iraqis are bad? I would, I would want to know exactly what my tax dollars are paying for, what my troops, who are not only just American soldiers, but our friends, brothers, husbands, fathers, uncles, grandpas, mothers, daughters, wives, sisters; people who we have known since grade school, or before! They are our family, and the American people!
I understand that you have pride in your own nation, one of which you love with your whole body, and you are going to stand up for what you think is right. You know they say what we did wasn’t right, we shouldn’t have gone into their nation to bomb them without them knowing, but if you remember right they did the same thing to us. They high jacked not one or two or three, no they took four of our commercial airline planes, flew them into our buildings; two went into the WTC, the first plane went into tour1 at 8:45am, it collapsed around 10:30a. The second plane crashed into tour2 around 9:03 and exploded, that tour collapsed around 10:05a. One crashed outside of Philadelphia, PA. that was flight 93, and the fourth went into the Pentagon building in Washington DC. Sorry if I’m not sorry for what we did, but what they did isn’t any worse then what we did only we used our own stuff. I can still remember the state of shock I was in when I was sitting in class and the principal can over the intercom asking all the teachers to turn their tv’s onto CNN News channel that the WTC had just been bombed. We hadn’t had our tv on but 2 minutes on when the second plane crashed into the second building, all I could do was sit there and think, and pray for all those poor peoples and their families. All the while hoping that the sick person behind all of this would someday get what they deserved…
blog 4- Visual Cues
Since November is drawing ever closer, we see more and more commercials of both of the nominees telling us who we should vote for in the presidential elections. There is a lot that you have to pay attention to when you watch them. Sure they have their messages stating their reasons for why they should be president, but there is also visual information that might also be catching your interest. All of these visual cues play a part in the commercial; these visual cues are what I am going to try and interpret in my own words.
As I have been watching these commercials, admittedly they are mostly Barack Obama’s commercials; I have noticed that when they are talking about John McCain’s plans for the country, the lighting gets darker, and the speaker’s voice gets angrier sounding. This is something that will try and get you feeling as they do about senator McCain. They want you to feel that McCain is not the right person for presidency and they want you to feel upset by the thought that a man like McCain would even run for office. Another thing that they do is also show pictures of Senator McCain and President Bush hugging, shaking hands, and/or laughing together. This is trying to instill the thoughts that McCain is just like president Bush. When they show these pictures they usually have white writing across the picture to make the writing stand out. These words are usually about how we don’t want the same thing as President Bush, and how senator Obama would help change this. There was one commercial that did get my attention the most. If you go to barackobama.com and hit the media button; you will see a list of other media related things to the far right. The one that I clicked on was the button for ads. There is one that was really sweet that I liked; it didn’t really state too much about McCain, but it did talk about his family some more. The ad’s title was called “Buster” and it was talking about how his grandfather fought in General Patton’s army, his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line and how his mother woke him up at 4:30 every morning to go over his lesson with him. It showed pictures of each of them doing something similar to this. He also stated that his grandfather told him that “we are Americans. We can do anything if we put our minds to it.” All of this is trying to show that he is from this country; that he isn’t a terrorist as some people accuse him of; his grandparents and his mother were white middle-class Americans; and that he lived an ordinary American boyhood. All of this is trying to convince the people watching that he is like you and me. Personally I think that the commercials are beautifully done because they do kind of suck you in by their facts, which they do have, and then an uplifting message at the end. It’s like when you have a stressful day at work. everything seems to be going wrong, you’re in a horrible mood and nothing seems to be making it better; then at the end of the day, you get home, see your family, and you know that everything is going to be alright. That is an uplifting feeling, and that is the feeling that he tries to leave with you at the end of his commercials. He is trying to say that he is going to make everything alright. You get this from how the light changes and the sound changes. Everything brightens up when he is on the screen and when he is talking. After watching a lot of Obama commercials this week, these are the visual cues and subtlety that I have seen.
P.S. Vote for Barack Obama Nov. 4th.
As I have been watching these commercials, admittedly they are mostly Barack Obama’s commercials; I have noticed that when they are talking about John McCain’s plans for the country, the lighting gets darker, and the speaker’s voice gets angrier sounding. This is something that will try and get you feeling as they do about senator McCain. They want you to feel that McCain is not the right person for presidency and they want you to feel upset by the thought that a man like McCain would even run for office. Another thing that they do is also show pictures of Senator McCain and President Bush hugging, shaking hands, and/or laughing together. This is trying to instill the thoughts that McCain is just like president Bush. When they show these pictures they usually have white writing across the picture to make the writing stand out. These words are usually about how we don’t want the same thing as President Bush, and how senator Obama would help change this. There was one commercial that did get my attention the most. If you go to barackobama.com and hit the media button; you will see a list of other media related things to the far right. The one that I clicked on was the button for ads. There is one that was really sweet that I liked; it didn’t really state too much about McCain, but it did talk about his family some more. The ad’s title was called “Buster” and it was talking about how his grandfather fought in General Patton’s army, his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line and how his mother woke him up at 4:30 every morning to go over his lesson with him. It showed pictures of each of them doing something similar to this. He also stated that his grandfather told him that “we are Americans. We can do anything if we put our minds to it.” All of this is trying to show that he is from this country; that he isn’t a terrorist as some people accuse him of; his grandparents and his mother were white middle-class Americans; and that he lived an ordinary American boyhood. All of this is trying to convince the people watching that he is like you and me. Personally I think that the commercials are beautifully done because they do kind of suck you in by their facts, which they do have, and then an uplifting message at the end. It’s like when you have a stressful day at work. everything seems to be going wrong, you’re in a horrible mood and nothing seems to be making it better; then at the end of the day, you get home, see your family, and you know that everything is going to be alright. That is an uplifting feeling, and that is the feeling that he tries to leave with you at the end of his commercials. He is trying to say that he is going to make everything alright. You get this from how the light changes and the sound changes. Everything brightens up when he is on the screen and when he is talking. After watching a lot of Obama commercials this week, these are the visual cues and subtlety that I have seen.
P.S. Vote for Barack Obama Nov. 4th.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Arguing with Respect
My grandmother and I have never been as close as we both would like, and I believe that this was due to the distance between our homes fro so many years. She has always lived up north and I lived in the south, up until three years ago when my family moved here to Crawfordsville.
My grandmother is a wonderful woman! She is very well educated and she is always up for helping others before herself. She had to have that quality in order to be the boss to many nurses at a hospital in Chicago. My grandmother was great at her job and still would be! She got all the nurses what they needed when they needed it! She was the perfect boss!
Many years ago my grandmother retired from her career as a nurse. However, she never left the “boss” side of her at the hospital. She has carried that with her and will continue to do so until the day she dies. That has been the big problem between us for so long. We argue about so many things from the type of milk I drink to the type of vegetables I don’t eat. I have never opened up to her when we were disagreeing and fully told her how I feel. I usually just bite my tongue and walk away. But this time was different; I couldn’t do that during this argument. Maybe it was the pregnancy, maybe not, but whatever it was my feelings came out and I made sure she knew exactly how I felt!
This disagreement we had was about my baby shower coming up next month. She wanted to help with the shower because according to her, the mom-to-be is not supposed to do it. I didn’t care though; I began to plan it months ago only because if I did it I knew it would get done. We got together one day to discuss all the plans I had already made, from the games, to the decorations and the food. Now I think I should tell you that when my grandmother wants to plan something, or have people over, no matter what the occasion she always has to be in charge and do it all herself the way she wants it done.
So back to the day we got together and began discussing my plans. I started with the games and she agreed. “Wow.” I thought, “This may actually be easier than I thought.” I should’ve known because once I mentioned my cake and the fact that I was purchasing it that must have turned her stomach because she blew up and said “I’m not paying that much for a cake when I can get one made for free.” Well we argued for a bit back and forth and I finally told her that the cake was not getting any changes because that is how I wanted it.
That was the first time I had ever opened up and talked to my grandmother that way. I have too much respect for my family to talk to any of them that way, but I don’t know what it was about this time I guess I just couldn’t take the fact that she wanted to take over and change everything. I regret talking to her like that, I feel really bad and I understand that the way she thinks and does things are different and not everyone likes it but we all must deal with it because she is family and we all love her. I have dealt with her being the way she is and I will continue to do so, out of respect and the fact that she is family.
I’m still not sure why I blew up like that and I know it was silly, especially over a cake, but that was the only thing that I spent a lot of time on. I looked for the perfect cake and when I found it, I knew it. We still have a lot of things to do for my baby shower and not much time. One thing that’s marked off the list is the cake because I finally got her to agree to let me take care of it. I knew I would get at least one thing I wanted!
My grandmother is a wonderful woman! She is very well educated and she is always up for helping others before herself. She had to have that quality in order to be the boss to many nurses at a hospital in Chicago. My grandmother was great at her job and still would be! She got all the nurses what they needed when they needed it! She was the perfect boss!
Many years ago my grandmother retired from her career as a nurse. However, she never left the “boss” side of her at the hospital. She has carried that with her and will continue to do so until the day she dies. That has been the big problem between us for so long. We argue about so many things from the type of milk I drink to the type of vegetables I don’t eat. I have never opened up to her when we were disagreeing and fully told her how I feel. I usually just bite my tongue and walk away. But this time was different; I couldn’t do that during this argument. Maybe it was the pregnancy, maybe not, but whatever it was my feelings came out and I made sure she knew exactly how I felt!
This disagreement we had was about my baby shower coming up next month. She wanted to help with the shower because according to her, the mom-to-be is not supposed to do it. I didn’t care though; I began to plan it months ago only because if I did it I knew it would get done. We got together one day to discuss all the plans I had already made, from the games, to the decorations and the food. Now I think I should tell you that when my grandmother wants to plan something, or have people over, no matter what the occasion she always has to be in charge and do it all herself the way she wants it done.
So back to the day we got together and began discussing my plans. I started with the games and she agreed. “Wow.” I thought, “This may actually be easier than I thought.” I should’ve known because once I mentioned my cake and the fact that I was purchasing it that must have turned her stomach because she blew up and said “I’m not paying that much for a cake when I can get one made for free.” Well we argued for a bit back and forth and I finally told her that the cake was not getting any changes because that is how I wanted it.
That was the first time I had ever opened up and talked to my grandmother that way. I have too much respect for my family to talk to any of them that way, but I don’t know what it was about this time I guess I just couldn’t take the fact that she wanted to take over and change everything. I regret talking to her like that, I feel really bad and I understand that the way she thinks and does things are different and not everyone likes it but we all must deal with it because she is family and we all love her. I have dealt with her being the way she is and I will continue to do so, out of respect and the fact that she is family.
I’m still not sure why I blew up like that and I know it was silly, especially over a cake, but that was the only thing that I spent a lot of time on. I looked for the perfect cake and when I found it, I knew it. We still have a lot of things to do for my baby shower and not much time. One thing that’s marked off the list is the cake because I finally got her to agree to let me take care of it. I knew I would get at least one thing I wanted!
blog 3
Disagreeing with someone that you know very well and respect is really hard mentally and emotionally. You have to think about how your argument is going to sound to them, and you have to be careful not to offend them. The one person that I respect more than anyone else in the world is my father. He has been there for me through everything. He has always been the one I call up if I ever have a problem. There is one thing that he and I have not been able to see eye to eye on; who should be president. I hadn’t realized how much we disagreed until recently, when Barak Obama and John McCain were nominated to run for presidency. I do share a lot of the same feelings towards certain issues. We both believe that the government should butt out of peoples personal lives, lower taxes, and better health care. Unfortunately, I think that Obama will help us achieve some of these goals, and he thinks McCain will achieve these goals.
I think a lot of how my father feels about Obama has a lot to do with the fact that Obama has a Muslim background, and he is half African American. My father was raised in an era where African Americans weren’t treated equally, they still aren’t treated as equally as they should, and I think he does have more prejudice feelings towards them then he lets on. I know for a fact that he doesn’t like Mexican Americans; mostly because he was fired and replaced with Mexican Americans. A lot of this can lead to the resentful feelings that he seems to have towards people of different races; and I think that is why he is voting for McCain. Whenever we talk about the presidency and who we think should win; he completely shuts down and says that Obama is a terrorist and that he loves this country being a democracy and doesn’t want it to become a communist country. My father completely shuts off when it we talk about the presidential candidates. So it makes it hard to even try and discuss the election.
I think a lot of how my father feels about Obama has a lot to do with the fact that Obama has a Muslim background, and he is half African American. My father was raised in an era where African Americans weren’t treated equally, they still aren’t treated as equally as they should, and I think he does have more prejudice feelings towards them then he lets on. I know for a fact that he doesn’t like Mexican Americans; mostly because he was fired and replaced with Mexican Americans. A lot of this can lead to the resentful feelings that he seems to have towards people of different races; and I think that is why he is voting for McCain. Whenever we talk about the presidency and who we think should win; he completely shuts down and says that Obama is a terrorist and that he loves this country being a democracy and doesn’t want it to become a communist country. My father completely shuts off when it we talk about the presidential candidates. So it makes it hard to even try and discuss the election.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Blog 2- A Convenient Enough Truth
The leading documentary of global warming called, An Inconvenient Truth, seems to be changing the opinions of everyone concerning global warming. The documentary is actually based around former Vice President, Al Gore’s speech. When I think of Al Gore, I think of all the horrible things my parents said about him. I grew up in a conservative, very Republican household. Where bill Clinton and anyone affiliated with him were considered evil; So Al Gore was just someone else who got criticized a lot in my household. Even when he was running for president against George W. Bush, I was rooting for Bush. How naïve was I? The economy is falling apart; we are in a war that should have never been started; and gas prices are so much now that I can’t drive around to get to school. Bush hasn’t even tried to approach the global warming crisis at hand, but now I know that Gore would’ve.
Thinking back to when I first heard about global warming; I think of a huge man who had this enormous, booming voice that you could hear from down the stairs, and into the cafeteria. My ninth grade biology teacher tried to get us aware of the fact that it was a major problem that needed to be dealt with. He told us how the greenhouse gases worked and how it would affect us. After school that day I went and talked to my mother about this whole new concept, and she agreed with him. Since then I have been aware of the global warming crisis and hoped that scientists and the people in charge, aka the government, would do something to fix it. Unfortunately nothing has happened to help. Now after I graduate, this movie comes out. Al Gore, someone I was taught to despise, is talking about something that I really care about. So I watch the movie, and I am blown away. Al Gore is talking sense. How can this be? Sure he talks about himself a lot, and he get annoying after awhile; but I really soak in his message. I learned a lot from all the facts that he gave to everyone in the documentary. I didn’t know that so many things were happening around the world showing signs of this catastrophe. I will admit something to all of you that read this; I am a tree-hugging, animal loving, wannabe hippy. so as I watch, I learn that more and more animals are becoming extinct; polar bears have been found to have drowned because they can’t find thick enough ice to lay on; pine trees are being ravaged by pine beetles that were once killed off because of the winter months, but no longer are because of rising temperatures; and that the glaciers in the Himalayas are receding so much that they are not longer giving the water needed for some people to survive. This totally boggles my mind that the United States of America, the wannabe world police/saviors; we’re not doing our part to help. We are also the only country in the world that has signed the Kyoto Protocol treaty but we are the only ones that have denied ratifying it.
How does this all tie into Al Gore? He informed me of important lessons to learn; not only for myself, but for my own children as well. So now I am left regretting one thing I thought I would never do; I now wish that we could go back in time and stop war-mongering George W. Bush from winning the presidency. I wish Al Gore had won; maybe he would have made things better. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows for sure? I do know one thing now; I can’t keep wishing for change. If I want something to change; I have to do something that brings about that change. It all starts with one little step into the inconvenient truth.
Thinking back to when I first heard about global warming; I think of a huge man who had this enormous, booming voice that you could hear from down the stairs, and into the cafeteria. My ninth grade biology teacher tried to get us aware of the fact that it was a major problem that needed to be dealt with. He told us how the greenhouse gases worked and how it would affect us. After school that day I went and talked to my mother about this whole new concept, and she agreed with him. Since then I have been aware of the global warming crisis and hoped that scientists and the people in charge, aka the government, would do something to fix it. Unfortunately nothing has happened to help. Now after I graduate, this movie comes out. Al Gore, someone I was taught to despise, is talking about something that I really care about. So I watch the movie, and I am blown away. Al Gore is talking sense. How can this be? Sure he talks about himself a lot, and he get annoying after awhile; but I really soak in his message. I learned a lot from all the facts that he gave to everyone in the documentary. I didn’t know that so many things were happening around the world showing signs of this catastrophe. I will admit something to all of you that read this; I am a tree-hugging, animal loving, wannabe hippy. so as I watch, I learn that more and more animals are becoming extinct; polar bears have been found to have drowned because they can’t find thick enough ice to lay on; pine trees are being ravaged by pine beetles that were once killed off because of the winter months, but no longer are because of rising temperatures; and that the glaciers in the Himalayas are receding so much that they are not longer giving the water needed for some people to survive. This totally boggles my mind that the United States of America, the wannabe world police/saviors; we’re not doing our part to help. We are also the only country in the world that has signed the Kyoto Protocol treaty but we are the only ones that have denied ratifying it.
How does this all tie into Al Gore? He informed me of important lessons to learn; not only for myself, but for my own children as well. So now I am left regretting one thing I thought I would never do; I now wish that we could go back in time and stop war-mongering George W. Bush from winning the presidency. I wish Al Gore had won; maybe he would have made things better. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows for sure? I do know one thing now; I can’t keep wishing for change. If I want something to change; I have to do something that brings about that change. It all starts with one little step into the inconvenient truth.
blog 2
Today is September seventeenth two thousand and eight, we just got done watching a movie in English class, and the movie is called “An Inconvenient Truth” . What the movie is called really isn’t important it is what the movie or I guess you can call it a documentary is what it entails. The opening scene is of a beautiful stream that could be right in your backyard that’s how common it is. I guess that really isn’t important either. What really is important is Al Gore opening statement he makes to this entire room of people. He says “It isn’t isn’t what we don’t know that gets us into trouble, it is what we know” which struck me as odd. I think here is a former Vice-President of the United States of America the most powerful country in the world telling me that our knowledge will get us into trouble. I find that troubling in itself, I’ve always thought that knowledge was power, the more I knew the better I would be for my family and the better a life I would have for the future, now I’m just not so sure anymore, and here is why.
What is Global Warming? That is a common question these days in the classroom, and to many people it has different meaning, most know the same facts but it means different things to people. Some think it is just a government conspiracy while others see it as a real threat. What does it mean to you? To me Global Warming is a bigger problem then I ever thought it to be, I mean I knew it was a very bad thing that the people of today’s world were trying to fix but never did I see it to be this big of a problem. Just a little fact that I’m sure everyone already know what it never hurts to hear more then once, you know that co2 makes the ozone thicker correct? Well I bet you didn’t know that because of the admissions of our cars and trucks the co2 levels are going up and up they are actually almost off a chart that we have used since 1970, or the start of this becoming a big problem, and due to that the ice caps are melting, I know you’ve already heard that, but it is true. The western ice shelf in Antarctica is supposed to be one of the largest in the world yet it is slowly becoming smaller, and it keeps breaking off into the waters of the ocean. We can’t afford to have all that ice that is stored down there to melt and drain into the ocean, that will cause ocean levels to rise more then 25 feet, that is over half the cost of Florida and San Francisco, yah that will not be there anymore it will be under water, not to mention New Orland’s which already has most of its city under sea level.
We keep having worse hurricanes then the year before last, have you ever stopped to think why? I know our scientist have, they knew how bad the storms will get, and they told us what the damages would be. The storms keep getting stronger because the oceans are becoming warmer, they are getting that way because the suns uv rays are going right into the water instead of reflecting off and back into space, thus causing the water temperatures to rise. In India the summer of 2005 was the hottest summer that they had ever had in recorded time it was 122’F that was also for a period of days, and that was the average, not just the day. Which wasn’t even that past two years, I would like to know what the record is now?
I guess what I’m trying to say is something needs to change, we have the technology to make the world a better, more efficient place, why aren’t we? Also if we are one of the smartest nations why are we the biggest contributor to this problem we emit over 30.3% of the earth’s co2 levels and we don’t even have the biggest population. They say that old habits and old technology isn’t a bad thing, but what happens when you have new technology and you are still fighting old habits? We should all do something to help the planet, and I’m not a tree hugger but this is home, we only have one planet people. So what will you do? Are you going to change. Here is a website that you should check out if you care at all about the place you live, willyoujoinus.com . If you believe in pray, pray that people find the strength to change.
What is Global Warming? That is a common question these days in the classroom, and to many people it has different meaning, most know the same facts but it means different things to people. Some think it is just a government conspiracy while others see it as a real threat. What does it mean to you? To me Global Warming is a bigger problem then I ever thought it to be, I mean I knew it was a very bad thing that the people of today’s world were trying to fix but never did I see it to be this big of a problem. Just a little fact that I’m sure everyone already know what it never hurts to hear more then once, you know that co2 makes the ozone thicker correct? Well I bet you didn’t know that because of the admissions of our cars and trucks the co2 levels are going up and up they are actually almost off a chart that we have used since 1970, or the start of this becoming a big problem, and due to that the ice caps are melting, I know you’ve already heard that, but it is true. The western ice shelf in Antarctica is supposed to be one of the largest in the world yet it is slowly becoming smaller, and it keeps breaking off into the waters of the ocean. We can’t afford to have all that ice that is stored down there to melt and drain into the ocean, that will cause ocean levels to rise more then 25 feet, that is over half the cost of Florida and San Francisco, yah that will not be there anymore it will be under water, not to mention New Orland’s which already has most of its city under sea level.
We keep having worse hurricanes then the year before last, have you ever stopped to think why? I know our scientist have, they knew how bad the storms will get, and they told us what the damages would be. The storms keep getting stronger because the oceans are becoming warmer, they are getting that way because the suns uv rays are going right into the water instead of reflecting off and back into space, thus causing the water temperatures to rise. In India the summer of 2005 was the hottest summer that they had ever had in recorded time it was 122’F that was also for a period of days, and that was the average, not just the day. Which wasn’t even that past two years, I would like to know what the record is now?
I guess what I’m trying to say is something needs to change, we have the technology to make the world a better, more efficient place, why aren’t we? Also if we are one of the smartest nations why are we the biggest contributor to this problem we emit over 30.3% of the earth’s co2 levels and we don’t even have the biggest population. They say that old habits and old technology isn’t a bad thing, but what happens when you have new technology and you are still fighting old habits? We should all do something to help the planet, and I’m not a tree hugger but this is home, we only have one planet people. So what will you do? Are you going to change. Here is a website that you should check out if you care at all about the place you live, willyoujoinus.com . If you believe in pray, pray that people find the strength to change.
An Inconvenient Truth
To be honest, before watching “The Inconvininent Truth” I did not know very much about global warming. If someone came up and asked me what I thought about global warming, I would probably have nothing to say about it. After watching this documentary, it has really opened my eyes to global warming. I can now see how big of an issue it is in our world. It is actually very scary to me. It just makes me wonder if most everyone just ignores this issue, what is going to happen to the world? It makes me wonder throughout my lifetime what is going to happen? Not to mention if someday I have kids what are they going to go through?
One of the points that he brought up really sticks out in my mind. He was saying that polar bears have been found dead. Some of the polar bears have been drowning because they have had to swim so far that they could not make it. That is very sad to me. So much ice is melting that they are having to swim a lot more. Does this mean that one day polar bears are going to be extinct? From the sounds of it yes. The sad thing is that it’s not just polar bears that rely on the ice and the cold weather. Many other animals need the ice. If the glaciers are melting everyday, then eventually we will have no glaciers on our earth. I can’t imagine the earth without any glaciers.
He also said that we have had more natural disasters that have been caused by gloabal warming. When the water temperature gets warmer the storms get worse. The water temperature is rising so does this mean the huricanes and other storms are just going to continure to get worse? I can’t even imagine the weather getting much worse than what it is now. The hurricanes in the past few years have wiped whole cities out. If they keep getting worse I can not even imagine the tradgedies that are going to occur.
He also said that the ten hottest years occurred during the last fourteen years. He said that 200 cities in the west hit all time record highs. I don’t know what people are going to do if it gets much hotter than what it has been. If it gets much hotter there are going to be more droughts and possibly more wildfires in the west.
It just seems like our country is worried about so many other issues that this one is overlooked. I guess I was guilty of this too. I just wish everyone could watch this movie and realize how big of a deal this really is. This really scares me.
I think that there needs to be more awareness on global warming. Before I watched this documentary I did not think that global warming was that big of a deal. Now I realize if something is not done about this issue, its going to continue to just keep getting worse. I would encourage anybody that I know to watch this movie. It is a very serious issue that people need to know about. If everyone could come together and work against global warming we could put a stop to it.
One of the points that he brought up really sticks out in my mind. He was saying that polar bears have been found dead. Some of the polar bears have been drowning because they have had to swim so far that they could not make it. That is very sad to me. So much ice is melting that they are having to swim a lot more. Does this mean that one day polar bears are going to be extinct? From the sounds of it yes. The sad thing is that it’s not just polar bears that rely on the ice and the cold weather. Many other animals need the ice. If the glaciers are melting everyday, then eventually we will have no glaciers on our earth. I can’t imagine the earth without any glaciers.
He also said that we have had more natural disasters that have been caused by gloabal warming. When the water temperature gets warmer the storms get worse. The water temperature is rising so does this mean the huricanes and other storms are just going to continure to get worse? I can’t even imagine the weather getting much worse than what it is now. The hurricanes in the past few years have wiped whole cities out. If they keep getting worse I can not even imagine the tradgedies that are going to occur.
He also said that the ten hottest years occurred during the last fourteen years. He said that 200 cities in the west hit all time record highs. I don’t know what people are going to do if it gets much hotter than what it has been. If it gets much hotter there are going to be more droughts and possibly more wildfires in the west.
It just seems like our country is worried about so many other issues that this one is overlooked. I guess I was guilty of this too. I just wish everyone could watch this movie and realize how big of a deal this really is. This really scares me.
I think that there needs to be more awareness on global warming. Before I watched this documentary I did not think that global warming was that big of a deal. Now I realize if something is not done about this issue, its going to continue to just keep getting worse. I would encourage anybody that I know to watch this movie. It is a very serious issue that people need to know about. If everyone could come together and work against global warming we could put a stop to it.
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