How We Evolve

In Benjamin Phelan's, “How We Evolve” Phelan talks about how we evolve. He starts out by talking about where we came from and how we got to this place. He evolve to keep up with the changing environment. The only problem is with us wasting and polluting the planet the environment is changing more rapidly. Phelan thinks that this will have a negative effect on evolution which will eventually cause our extinction.

In my opinion i think that Phelan could be right and he could be wrong. I think that it is a possibility that what we are doing would have a negative effect on evolution but i don't think that it will lead to extinction. When we evolve we change so that we adapt to our new environment, so even if we have to evolve to rapidly to this climate change, i don't think it will kill us all.

The Ethics of Climate Change

In John Broome's The ethics of climate change Broome talks about how future generations will suffer harmful effects of global climate change. The only thing is they will be a lot richer then we are. This brings up a very hard ethical choice. Do we change our ways to help the environment or do we stay course and help future generations to become richer. In my opinion I think that most people will not change there ways. People want to be richer, and they will do anything to no matter what the costs to the environment. That is why i don't think people will change there ways. When people here ways to get richer they will do whatever they can to get more money. If people hear that they should help the environment they will agree because they don't want to hurt the planet but then money is the thing that will cause them not to help because they don't want to spend it. This show that people will do anything no matter who or what it hurts to get richer.

Small Object of Just Add Water

In my opinion i think that the small object of Just Add Water is the Rite Valu sign. I think that the town and the sign are alike. If you change a few letters on the sign it will be correct and better. This is like the town because if you change a few things in the town like get rid of Dirk and get water back in the lake, than the town can improve and finally become prosperous again.

Creative destruction

IN Michael Specter’s “Big Foot” he puts in John Elkington’s claim that “We are in an era of creative destruction." I completely agree with that claim. In the past decade or two we have come up with a lot of good inventions. The only problem is some of these inventions can cause bad things and pollution when they are either made or disposed of. I think this is because for us we don't really care about the consequences. We just want the best products no matter what it causes.

Myself as a consumer i don't at all feel that i am responsible for global warming. I think that it is the company who is making these products fault. They are the one hurting the environment. They are the one putting these products on the shelves. Us as consumers should be responsible for the consequences of these products. These companies should put products on the shelves if they can cause these results.

My Opinion on Blogging

For me, blogging is a writing experience that I don't really like. I don't really care if other people read my blog or if they comment, but i don't like commenting on other peoples. I don't really like to give comments on other peoples work. I feel like i never have anything good to say or anything that would help them. Another reason that i don't like blogging is that i would get my work done on time a little more. In the 1st semester when we had to hand in paper homework's, i would never hand one in late. But then we went to blogs and you gave us a certain date when they all had to be due, which made me slack off and do them right before that final due date.

The Writing Center

When i went to the writing center i brought the small object essay. I personally didn't really feel like i got much help when i went there. The person that was helping me didn't really get the point of my essay. It was also hard to explain the essay to him. Me and the person that was helping didn't really click. It is hard because my essay was on hockey sticks and to a person that doesn't know anything about hockey. It would be kind of hard to help me.

I haven't gotten to changing my essay yet. He gave me some ideas that will kind of help but other than that i am just gonna use Dr. Lay's great comments to make my essay better.

“Do we create what we observe through the act of our observations?”

“Do we create what we observe through the act of our observations?” This is a very good question. It basically means that do we only observe certain things when you already have an opinion on a subject. In my opinion i think that this is very true. It is very hard to notice things when you already are bias to a certain way. For me this happens a lot in sports. I myself am i big mixed martial arts fans. For people who don't know what that is it is cage fighting that implements all different types of martial arts. The UFC is the biggest mixed martial arts company in the world. When i am watching the fights it is hard to see what one fighter is doing good when you already like the other fighter. When my favorite fighter is fighting i always think that he is winning and then if he loses i will be like that is bull shit he won that fight. But if it was just 2 fighter that i didn't really like i would probably agree with the judges. When you already have an opinion on a subject it is hard to see the good things in it if you already have so many bad things to say about it and vica-versa, when you have something that yo love it is hard to point out the bad things in it.

Greed

Greed looks like a spoiled little kid. This kid just wants every little thing that he sees. No matter what it is he has to have it. This kid will do whatever it takes to get what he wants. He will throw temper tantrums, he will cry, he will do anything to get that one thing that he wants. And this happens with everything. No matter what the object is they want it. The child only things about himself. All he will think about is that he wants whatever the product is and it doesn’t matter if he can’t have it or he is not allowed to have it, cause he will keep trying until he gets it.

Faustian Economics

Are we really that wasteful? Well according to Wendell Berry’s Faustian Economics we are. Throughout this article Berry talks about how we are wasting natural resources at an extremely high level. He also talks about how greedy and wasteful people are getting. I couldn't agree more with him. People know a days could care less about the natural resources that they are wasting. People know a days drive everywhere and could care less how much gas they are wasting. People back in the day would walk to where ever they had to go unless it was to far. They wouldn't want to waste they gas that they had in the car. They would walk or ride there bikes so they can save there money and stay in shape. That is also in my opinion one of the big reasons why people drive so much, because they are out of shape. People now would rather sit and home or drive to a place then exercise or walk. Especially kids now a days. Kids now would rather stay at home a play video games rather than go out side and play sports or do other things. This is very wasteful. You are wasting all this electricity on playing video games while you should be doing something productive. This is how we are getting people would rather waste money then do anything productive to help themselves.

The Making of Knowledge

A lot of people say that you can't make knowledge by your self. They say that you need to talk to other people to make it. In my opinion this is right and wrong.

On one side i think that you can make knowledge by yourself. You can find things out all by yourself. You don't need someone else to help you find out certain things. You don't need to ask someone am i a certain height after you measure yourself, or you don't have to talk to someone about a food tasting good. You know that it tastes good, or your a certain height without talking to someone about it.

But one the other side you wouldn't know somethings without talking to someone before hand. Going back to my first example. You can find out that you are a certain height without asking someone, but you need someone to tell you what that height is. You wouldn't know what height it without someone telling what it is. So i guess in the end you do need to talk to someone to make knowledge. You can't decide something without being taught what that certain thing is, so you need to know these things before you can make new knowledge about these certain topics.

“Derrida: Fear of Writing”

I Derrida's fear of writing, Derrida talks about how powerful the written word is. For some people this might create anxiety. The might be worried about how there writing will affect people. In my case i don't worry about the power of my writing. I think this is mostly because i don't really care about that kind of stuff. I feel that the only time i will write is when it is for school, and when it comes to school i only really care about what kind of grade i am going to get. This makes me only worry about what the teacher will think of my writing. I don't write so that it will make an impact on many people. I write because it is just something i have to do.

Language is a slippery vehicle

Language is a slippery vehicle. At one point you can be trying to say something and then all the sudden you say one thing and the point you are trying to make completely changes. It is also slippery because it can be interpreted differently. You can say something that you think means one thing but another person might interpret it very differently.

Questions

1. Thematic strand-
Body, lips, eyes, neck, nose, hands, ears, legs, feet

2a. Where does the data appear?

Shakespeare uses imagery of body parts throughout the entire play. I found that Act 1, Act 2, and Act 5 have body parts being mentioned multiple times within each of the acts.

2b. In what context?

In the beginning of the play Shakespeare uses body parts to show feelings towards another person. But towards the end body parts lead to a lot of fighting because people think Viola and Sebastian are the same person

3. Obsessive use of the data retrieved?

Shakespeare uses body parts a lot to make you feel how he wants you to feel

Usefullness

After using the Shakespeare concordance i found out that it was very useful. It is useful because it can help you find a theme of a story by just putting in a few words. For example body parts. When you put different body parts in you find out that in the beginning of the story body parts are used for love but in the end they show how looks can hurt people.

Prelim findings

In the Shakespeare concordance i used body parts. In my preliminary findings i noticed that body parts are mostly used to talk about how people like each others physical appearance. It is used to show how people love each other because of how they look. But then at the end i noticed that body parts started hurting people because people thought that viola and Sebastian were the same person so they started trying to hurt them and other people.

Paper 1 experience

For me, writing the small object/large subject essay was both fun but tough. I think that it was a fun essay to do because i got to write about something that i know about. Almost every essay I have had to write was about a topic that i had no interest in. This cause me to not want to write the essay so i wouldn't end up doing my best on it. But because it was something that i know a lot about and enjoy i did a better job because i wanted to write it. The essay was also tough though because it wasn't that easy to make the examples. It was hard for me to connect my object to what society feels and use example for it. But in the end i did have fun and i did a pretty good job on the essay.

Twelfth night questions

1. How did Olivia's brother die
2. Why does sir Toby want Sir Andrew to pursue Olivia?
3. Why does Olivia fall in love with Viola?
4. Why does Olivia hide her face?
5. Why does Viola dress like a man?
6. Why does Orsino want to pursue Olivia?

iPods

In the past decade the iPod has completely changed how people listen to music. Instead of having to carry around ten different CD's for only 11 different songs, now all you have to do is carry around an iPod. I think this is a really good thing. It makes life so much more convenient. Instead of having this big thing to listen to music and all of CD's now all you need is to carry around your iPod. and play them in any order

For those of you who may have been living under a rock for the last ten years and iPod is a music player that was created by Apple. An iPod depending on the type can hold from 500 to 20,000 sogs. It can take all different songs from any CD or record and play them in any order. There are a few different types of iPods. The first two are the iPod classic and the iPod nano. This 2 just hold music. The classic is larger and can hold more songs, and the nano iis tiny but it holds less songs. The other type is the iPod touch. They touch can have songs on it but it also has different free or paid applications , in which you can play games, and do a lot of other things.

To be able to use an iPod you need a few different things. First off you need a computer and the iPod. Then you need to plug the iPod into the computer and download iTunes which holds all of you songs on the computer. Then you put you CD's into tge computer and download the songs, or you can buy songs on iTunes. Once you have all the songs you want on the computer, iTunes will transfer the songs onto your iPod and then you can start listening.

This product show that producers assume that Americans want a music player that is convenient. I think this because the iPod puts all your songs in one place. This shows that people want there music in one easy to use place so they don't have to worry about looking for different CD's to play.

To Take Wildness in Hand abstract

In the last few years there has been a lot of talk about global warming. They say that the earth is getting warmer every year. In "Taking Wildness in Hand: Resuing Species," by Michelle Nijhuis she talks about how some organism aren't really adjusting well to the climate change. Because of this these organisms are becoming extinct. She talks about the The Torreya taxifolia. These trees grew so much that they were used as Christmas trees and fences. But over the years because of climate change the number of theses trees has gotten a lot smaller. She then goes on to talk about how to talk about all different ways this climate change is affecting America.

Virtual Iraq Abstract

One of the biggest things that plague war veterans is P.T.S.D. otherwise knows as post traumatic stress disorder. What happens is these veterans will either have bad dreams or bad memories of things that happened while they were over seas. His memories drive these veterans crazy and a lot of them end up committing suicide. In Virtual Iraq by Sue Halpern, Halpern talks about a new experimental technology that is helping these veterans deal with P.T.S.D.. What it is is basically a video game. They put on a helmet and goggles and a simulator reenacts scenes that happen at war. This is used to try and help them get over things that they have seen. This is done is small stages so the veterans don't get completely scared. The veterans that have used this say it really does work and it has helped them adjust to civilian life.

High-tech trash abstract

Whenever you get a new piece of technology two things usually happen. One you throw away your old one and two you will probably be throwing that one away to in a few years. In the National Geographic "High-tech Trash" an article by Chris Carroll Carrol talks about what happens after we throw out our old technology for new models. Most of this tech trash gets discarded illegally in third world countries. In this article Carrol focuses mostly on Ghana. In Ghana the amount of tech trash has been growing for years. Most civilians will try and salvage the spare parts to sell. But the rest of the e-waste is actually very harmful to the environment. If we continue to throw away this trash unresponsively this can potentially destroy the planet.

Google Abstract

In is Google making us stupid the author takes about the negative aspects that google and new technology in general has on society today. At the beginning he starts out by talking about how the internet has changed how we look up information and do research. He says that google might have made it easier to find information but it is also making us lazy. Then he starts to talk about some of his friends experiences and how now these people who were lit majors now can't even read long articles because of how they just skim for information. He finishes by comparing the world to how it is in a movie and how people are starting to become like computers.

Is google making us Stupid

In Carr's Is google making us stupid Carr talks about how technology has made people stupid. He talks about one person who was a lit major who doesn't even read books anymore. He says he cant do it because hes so used to skimming through articles on the internet.

I kind of agree with Carr. I think that people of new technology people have become worse at reading and writing. Most people now will shorten words or misspell them when they write because that is how they text or im. This is also making people worse readers. People are now reading these messages and forgetting the right way to spell some words. They are also becoming worse readers because they are just skimming. This is causing people attention spans to get smaller and now they can't read long articles or book.

But i don't think this is necessarily making people stupid. The internet in my opinion actually makes people smarter. Now because of the internet people can research things so much quicker. People used to not know things because of the time it would take them to look through books to find the information. Now people can find this information in minutes as apposed to hours or even days. People also now can know things a lot quicker. New information can be discovered minutes ago and people already know it because it can be put on the internet. Now since people can find these things a lot quicker, now they will actually find out more information because it isn't so time consuming.