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…
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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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