Farewell to all

I will like to say goodbye to everyone. i hope you all stick to the going green and try to make changes to benefit the earth. if change is needed it must come from you! good luck on your future goals and see ya on campus.. peace out :-D

My Refection blog 12

Reflection on Blogging

I actually enjoyed blogging. People blog everyday, they talk about their lives, experiences and even issues that are occurring in the world today. But what made blogging in this class so much fun was how we were able to connect and communicate with our fellow students. When we start a new class each semester we are shy and don’t like to talk to each other. But when we blogged we spoke to one another with out having to be nerves or shy because were talking to them by via web. And eventually blogging brought us closer. I can’t say I was frustrated with blogging because I am a computer geek; nothing is too hard for me to figure out.

Writing the entry wasn’t hard at all. Most of the topics were fairly straight forward and easy to answer. And it having to be only 250 words was a piece of cake. 250 words are nothing compared to the other writing classes where more then 850 words was asked for.

Meeting the deadline was kind of a pain. No one wants to spend their weekend worrying about if they did their blog or not. I think instead of it being due Sunday it should be due Wednesday because it give people more time from the date the blog was issued. A deadline should be there because if not then everyone will wait till last minute to do them and it will make the commenting harder and It will just be a mess.

Like I said in previous paragraph I enjoyed blogging. I like communicating with my fellow students. Commenting is kind of important because then it shows your interested in what your fellow students are writing and their feelings and ideas on the topic being discussed.

Blogging I can say can’t compare to other kinds of writing. In blogging you get to put your feeling, opinions and ideas in your writing and not so much concern on grammar and spelling like in other writing where that’s what the professors really look at. Me taking other writing classes I never got credit for my ideas in my papers all I got was red marks in my paper on my fragmenting lines which I had a lot of problems with in the past. When in blogging grammar don’t matter as much as your ideas and opinion, which I feel is always more important then you missing a punctuation.

I think I will continue blogging. Their so many issues in the world, many I will like to discuss and blogging allows me to do that. And with blogging it allows everyone in the world to view it with the click of a button, and you never know who will read it. It could be someone who has the power to help change the problem.

blog 11

Here my list from easiest to hardest to go without:

#5 Restaurants- I can go without eating outside. All these takeout places uses too much resources to make there restaurant exciting. For example the kids meals. They use cardboard boxes to make the happy meals and try to make it appealing to the children. When in fact the kids just care about the toy inside they don’t really care about the box it just ends up in the trash. A true
Waste!!!

#4 movie tickets- well I love movies but im sure there other ways to show you paid to see a movie they could stamp your hands to show proof of purchase. That could save a lot of paper used for making the tickets. And also you could just wait till the movie goes on cable which doesn’t take long…

#3 magazines- well I enjoy receiving magazines in the mail ,like cosmo’s or seventeen but most people look at the magazines and when there done toss them away, a much as I enjoy reading magazines it is truly a waste…

#2 Dvds- I love my movies I collect them and I have over 300 and still growing. Even though their unnecessary item, to make sure there not a waste to our environment, When I die I will leave in my will to pass on my movies from generation to generation so they will never end up in a e-waste landfill.

#1 Air conditioner- I can’t live without my air conditioner. I HATE THE HEAT. The fan doesn’t help. Cold showers don’t help I have to be in a.c especially at night. I won’t be able to sleep at night without one. Yes I am guilty of over usage of electricity. But I can say my a.c. is energy saver. So I do think about the environment too ;-)

blog 10 "Peer Reviews"

Reviewing e-waste by Anallely Mendez:

Does the draft have a main point (thesis)?

“The electronic waste from the U.S is affecting the people from other nations, especially China since here is where most of our e-waste lands in”

Find an instance of what you consider an interesting or useful example, image, chart, etc. and explain why.

What I found interesting is in the last paragraph on page 4 when she states “Workers in Guiyu get paid only $1.50 per day”. I found that crazy that they get paid so little to handle these toxic products. With that salary they can’t even afford proper protecting gear to help them from being exposed from these substances.

Find a place in the paper that you consider confusing or boring and explain why.

Well I don’t find nothing confusing or boring about the topic since in doing the same one J but I will just like to point out the only thing I can say that is wrong with the paper is there too many photo’s. I remember the professor stating photos aren’t count as apart of the paper but can be added on. And on just page 6 alone their two photos and one paragraph. I don’t know if that is counted as a page….

Does the draft acknowledge where information comes from IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT?

Yes I think the citation was done properly.

If the draft has a fictional "human interest story," discuss whether it is convincing/imaginative/detailed or forced/tedious/general.

Yes I think the draft was convincing it had a lot of important detail and stated how important recycling e-waste is and the consequences of e-waste. It kept my interested and I like the fact that I was used as an example in the paper. Ha ha that was funny.

Would you recommend that the writer get some help with grammar before turning in the last draft? Why? Why not?

Well I think everyone can use help in grammar no one is that good, but their was minor errors I spotted like in paragraph 1 she forgot to indent the 1st paragraph. But the trick I use is read it out loud to your self that’s how you can spot errors. And also Microsoft word’s spell and grammar check is helpful as well……


Reviewing the Amazon rainforest by Alejandro Andrade:

Does the draft have a main point (thesis)?

“This paper aims to report the social and environmental significance of the destruction of the Amazonian rainforest”

Find an instance of what you consider an interesting or useful example, image, chart, etc. and explain why.

I like the examples he pointed out with the issues were facing and how were trying to go green but were struggling to get there. That I believe is so true.

Find a place in the paper that you consider confusing or boring and explain why.

Not having much of a first draft I think what he has so far is very good I understand everything he saying and I really like the examples used it kept me thinking and wanting to read more

Does the draft acknowledge where information comes from IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT?

Yes I think the citation was done properly.

If the draft has a fictional "human interest story," discuss whether it is convincing/imaginative/detailed or forced/tedious/general.

Yes I think the draft was convincing it had a good argument.

Would you recommend that the writer get some help with grammar before turning in the last draft? Why? Why not?

Well like I stated in my other review I think everyone can use help in grammar no one is that good, the trick I use is read it out loud to your self that’s how you can spot errors. And also Microsoft word’s spell and grammar check is helpful as well……

open topic

Well open topic so many things to say so little time so I am going to keep it short and sweet. I changed my topic over and over again for many reasons. It was either because I couldn’t find enough information or because it wasn’t that interesting to me. I wanted to pick a topic that was interesting to me because if I am writing something boring and I hated reading it how would I expect for my audience to want to be interested in reading it.

I chose to write about e-waste because me being an electronic freak maybe I can understand and learn more about how bad e-waste is. I mean come on I have 3 laptops, 1 desktop, 1 digital camera, 3 cell phones, 2 printers, a pda, 3 portable gaming systems, over 300 DVDs and I can go on and on. Yes people I know I have a problem, I am a consumer with a fetish for electronics.

Maybe by the end of my paper I can understand that their is just too much e-waste in this world and maybe I can help by not contributing to the problem. I mean come on, who needs 3 laptops I only have 2 hands unless I am a octopus which I don’t think I am lol.

So if any of you guys find good information about e-waste feel free to send it to me at diameana2006@tmail.com i know ya are busy with ya own paper but just if ya come across it. I would really appreciate it…..:)

My final topic!!!!!!!!!

Ok people I narrowed it down and finally decided what I wanted to write about. I still kept it in the category of pollution but I just got more specific. The topic I chose is the toxic waste that was being dumped on the costal line in Somalia, Africa.
It wasn’t bad enough other countries was dumping there waste there but on December 26, 2004, when the Indian Ocean had a Tsunami, the tidal waves pushed all the toxic waste into the drinking supply and soil where the people grow their crops and many of the Somalia’s people became very ill and some even died because of it.
The reason I am writing on this topic is because it goes to show where the waste of other countries goes. Before I did this research I never knew this. How could people do this!, Dumping their waste on other counties and even a 3rd world country no less. Its bad enough they deal with poverty and diseases but now they have to deal with there precious home being treated as someone else’s dumpster. You don’t see them dumping toxic waste in the wealthy country’s like Europe or the great United States. Well their dumping in the U.S but in the poor areas, pretty ironic huh.
I think my paper will be interesting to all because I am sure not many people know of the horrible things going on to these poor countries.
I have an article based on a report from United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). As well as many articles and newspaper articles so far and I will try to find more information including photos, interviews and even a video clip of the waste being dumped that would be really good for my report.
I think my main point will be the affects of dumping toxic waste on this country and how the Tsunami helped play the part in not just destroying some of Africa’s land but the horrific effects it had on so many innocent people lives.

Blog 7 (my research paper)

The reason I chose my topic is that it does not affect only the environment it affects all people, animals, and plants. The topic I chose for my research paper is pollution. Pollution comes in different forms. It comes in air, water and land.

Chemical substances being release in the air cause Air pollution. Water pollution is cause by human activity dumping trash and toxic waste into the oceans, lakes and rivers. In addition, Land pollution is contamination of land surface and soil of Earth.

I think all who cares about the environment would want to learn more and would want to read my paper because my paper will have all they need to know about the three major types of pollution.

My paper will be useful to all because I will get down and dirty, and expose all those who are responsible for polluting the earth.

Here are three annotated sources I will include in my paper:
www.lbl.gov/education/ELSI/pollution-main.html. This website has great basic info on air pollution.
www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/waterpollution.htm. This website has lots of info on water pollution including graphs, photos and diagrams.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/land-pollution.html. This website has great info on land pollution. This article has a lot of good information I can use in my paper.