Global warming has been going on for a long period of time. Recently, it has been much worse than we’ve thought. The average temperatures have been above normal and more of the arctic is melting away. We have tried to make an Eco-friendly version of things that add more Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. Smart cars, new ways for power and recycling have been proven to be helping and Eco-friendly. Although they are new, they will have a positive outcome for the environment.
Cars today produce greenhouse gas that has a negative effect toward our environment. Smart cars are run off of electricity and a very small amount of gas. This minimizes the amount of pollution that they cause. They also require less material to build. All electric cars have been starting as well. Some are the Tesla Model S, and Nissan Leaf. For power, we have been trying to start new more eco-friendly ways on how to get power and not affect our environment. Solar power is a source of energy people can use with solar panels. They will use it for energy that can be used for lights or appliances. Wind turbines will help power generators to help create electricity. These two have been helping to go into an eco-friendly for powering houses. For a while we have been just throwing our waste out and it has been affecting our world in a negative way. Recycling can help save wild animals and Mother Nature from getting in a worse state. When in landfills, plastic can take a long period of time to biodegrade. It ranges from about 450 years to even 1000 years. Recycling will help out in trying to stop landfills and help out our environment. Because of Global warming, we have found good ways to try and help slow it down and prevent it. It will take a long period of time and effort to try and stop global warming but it could happen. Everyone has to take their part and stay with it. If not then our environment would change and could affect wild animals and possible cause some to extinct. Hopefully in the future we can put an end to what we do that causes pollution to affect Global warming.
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Trump has made many promises during his campaign for the election, and is still for them today. He would say whatever it took to go against other republican nominees, and Hillary Clinton. Some of what he said he would do, he has already denied in his first one hundred days in office. While running against Clinton, trump had kept referring to it being a rigged election. He had said he promised he would do many things if he won the election. One is that he promised he would hardly take vacations while he is president. So far he has gone golfing much more than expected. Another is involving ISIS and taking them out very quickly. During his campaign he had said that we would bomb them basically until they’re dust. A third thing that he has said goes against what’s been proven for years now, global warming. He still says that it is all a hoax, even though we all know it really is happening. The day after the election I was shocked to hear that he had won. I still can’t believe he is where he is now. It made me nervous on exactly what could, and more likely would happen during the next four years. With what he has done so far, I am surprised that they haven’t really tried to get him impeached at all yet. I’m more concerned over if he gets rid of the Affordable Care Act. It has saved many people since it had been passed while Obama was in office, and now Trump wants to get rid of it. He also said that he would start “Trump Care” which would be much worse than how “Obama Care” for us right now. For my life, I know how it can be to go through tough times medically, and some people rely on “Obama Care” to afford it. Without it some people could end up dying, all because of Trumps move to get rid of it. Hopefully within the next four years he will get impeached, but if he is not then who knows what could really happen to us. One thing I do know is that people will continue to protest him and some of his choices during his time in office. For the people that voted for him, I hope in the next four years they will understand why they shouldn’t have supported Trump. I’m worried about what could happen to us if he pushes it too far with North Korea and even with Russia. One wrong move and who knows what could happen. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/tracking-trumps-promises/ The other day I had two options for what I could do: Go visit my grandmother on my mother’s side, or go visit my grandmother on my father’s side. I did not want to make the choice because either way I’ll have some guilt. I decided to go with my mother for a visit, although I had wanted to go with my father as well. While we spent most of the day over there I kept thinking about my choice. It’s moments like these that I always hate being the one that makes the choice.
Later that evening around dinner time I had asked my father if they were back home yet. When he told me they were I had took a walk for a couple blocks and went to go visit him and my little sister, as well as their dog. When I got to the house I had went straight to the basement and nobody else besides them knew I was there. I had spent almost an hour there just talking and messing around with their dog and my little sister. Everyone was surprised that I decided to come over out of nowhere. When I had sat down to talk to them, their dog had done his usual and started to lick me. The one thing this dog does that the other two here do not do at all. Everyone, including myself was laughing as that happened. After I had gone upstairs and said hello to everyone else I started to get ready to leave. On my way out my father had started to walk with me up till the main intersection. That’s when I gave him a hug and thanked him for allowing me to come for a visit. Coming up when I will be at my grandmothers for a couple days i will more likely walk back over there again at least once. After a long day in school I had felt very tired. I felt completely exhausted as though I was going to fall asleep any second now. I had slowly started to walk up the stairs as the sun was blazing. When I reached the top I had felt a relief. After such a long day at school it had finally ended. I opened the door and immediately feel a blast of cooler air. To me, it was something I was waiting for throughout the whole day. Then I heard someone in the background call out to me, “Hey it’s the bubba.” It was my grandfather, James Charles Edwards or as we would all call him JC. Although I had just gotten home from school, he would always cheer me up.
•Question #1: How does this episode fit into the narrative mode?
It is in first person form. It would show exactly how he feels for all that was happening, whether it is good or bad. •Questions #2: How does Mallman's story connect to the hiraeth story you are writing in this class? Consider his discussions about home and childhood. Both involve something that we enjoyed. Whether it was a hobby or a person, the way he enjoyed doing what he liked to do, it reminds me of how enjoyed I felt seeing someone. •Question #3: What major ideas/themes from this episode connect to ideas/themes from our composition course? Consider Mallmann's argument about composing a good dish, examining his life environments, and being productive. He stays where he is at and will do things that he likes to do when he chooses. For the people that join him, he tries to teach them how to do it and enjoy that moment. It shows that he can get along with others and willing to teach them a little about what he does. The second semester has gone on for a couple months now, but feels like it has flown by. So far throughout this semester, there have been some ups and downs, related to class or things outside of college that could have some effect toward me. The three classes I’ve had have been going good and one of the three is my first online course. I was kind of nervous to try an online course but after a few months I’ve liked it and considering that for some time in the future. The other two classes I have had started off a little more on the down side for me. In my opinion, writing to me is something that I personally feel like when I write I don’t get to the main point, no matter how many times I look over it. Now for my on campus tech class, it was one that I wish is not required at all no matter what major anyone is trying for, just like with a class I plan on getting over with next semester since it is one thing that I hate doing; Public Speaking. This tech class is just the basics on the computers now a days and getting to know the basics. Before this year started I did not take any technological class once in high school. When this semester started I was nervous for it and how the class would be. Now I’m starting to enjoy it, but would still rather not have it at all. I’ll just be glad to get it out of the way and move on once this semester is over. Overall to me, the classes for this semester have gone well and, even with a few struggles, I have enjoyed each one.
Nick Irvin
English-100 Assignment #3: Film-Based Assignment The Sixth Sense, written by M. Night Shyamalan, is about Cole Sear, a young boy who claims he can “see dead people”. While this is going on Dr. Malcom Crowe, a child psychologist comes and begins speaking to the boy about him seeing ghosts. For Cole seeing ghosts is very frightening and everyone around him questions why he is frightened since they cannot see what he sees. Lynn Sear, Cole’s mother, at first has no idea why Cole acts like this from time to time. She originally doesn’t believe him about seeing ghosts, but later she eventually catches on. Personally I feel that Lynn, even with at first not believing in her child, is a good mother for Cole as she has stuck with him and tried to help Cole in any way she could. Although people don’t understand what Cole goes through, they try to help Cole in any way they can. Dr. Malcom Crowe is the main person that helps Cole Through the majority of the film. Since he is a psychologists he understands better than others on ways that can show some relief to Cole with him seeing dead people. Out of all the people that Cole sees, Dr. Malcom Crowe is one of them. The surprise to the movie is that he is one of the people that only Cole would notice. Even though Dr. Malcom Crowe is dead the entire time he still manages to help Cole out with seeing the dead and changed Coles thoughts about it in a more positive way. Lynn does not fully understand what Cole is going through but she still shows her care for Cole through and through. For the moments Cole is in a panic, Lynn would be there for him. The only problem Lynn had was she just couldn’t understand what was happening. But that didn’t necessarily matter since Cole was her son. Once Dr. Malcom Crowe came she had tried to understand it better through what he knew. Another thing for Lynn is that she is willing to help Cole find possible Solutions to what he is going through. One is Dr. Malcom Crowe. As a child psychologist, he has a better idea then Lynn on how to help Cole handle what he is going through. During the movie, Crowe starts to show Lynn some ways on understanding how to help Cole while he notices people who in reality is not there for his mother. Because people don’t understand what Cole is going through it makes it harder for them to help Cole even though they’re trying their best. Lynn had done what she could at her best to help Cole although it didn’t have any effect on helping Cole before Dr. Malcom Crowe came. Dr. Malcom Crowe did show some understanding of what Cole is going through and had started to change Cole in a more positive way. Along with helping Cole, Dr. Crowe had also helped Lynn with how she can look over Cole while he notices dead people. Film-Based Project Assignment Sheet: Please post a scratch assignment sheet for our film-based project. Include the following:
•Prompt (feel free to provide multiple questions that relate to the film) Describe how the kid sees his view of what he goes through and how others around him see it? •Purpose To have an idea from everyone perspective. •Audience Make sure the people have an idea on how each character sees the kid and how he sees himself. •Focus What is the purpose of the movie? •Style Write it from a third person view point. Film Review [Category: Film-Based Project]: Please write a summary and critique of the film. In the post, include at least three meaningful quotes and provide a title that is linked to the IMDB account.
In the film “The Sixth Sense” there is a young boy who apparently can see dead people while everyone around him can’t. His mother has no idea what is going on with him so she has Malcom Crowe, a psychologist, check on him. Crowe try’s his best to understand the child and help him the best he can. Later, the boy starts to understand better on what’s happening in his life with all this and sees it differently than before. As Crowe is spending time trying to help the boy with what he’s going through, he eventually runs into an ex-patient that he had in the past. This patient has not been cured and has found Crowe and shot Crowe and himself. Critique: I have never heard of this movie before and find it to be a really good movie. For the kid, I can’t tell if he’s seeing things as though they are ghosts or if he happens to have a mental disorder. This has been a real interesting movie that I recommend to some people I know that enjoy movies, like this one. The film “Remember the Titans” is about T.C Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia during 1971 when they had allowed it to be a mixed race high school. In the beginning of the movie it starts off with the ending scene where all the characters are at a funeral for their friend Gerry Bertier who was in a severe crash ten years ago near the end of their high school’s football season and was paralyzed from the waist down. As this goes on, the narrator of the movie starts to go back to the start of that year. As it starts the story, in 1971, the high school had gotten a new head coach, Herman Boone, for its football team who was the first African-American to lead that team. While talking to the now assistant head coach, Bill Yoast, Coach Boone described his previous positions at different schools where he had won a few championships and told Yoast the one reason he came there was to win.
During the summer, Coach Boone had a meeting with all the soon to be students who wanted to play football and described how training was going to be. While doing so, Coach Yoast had brought the rest who originally wanted to be the team and interrupted Boone while he was telling the plans for training. When they were getting on the buses to go to Gettysburg College for the training, Coach Boone had all the students divided between who would be on offense and who would be on defense. Once they went into position, Boone started to pair them up with the opposite race to try and get them to change the way they would act with one another. Once there and in the dorm rooms, some had started a fight that lead to several more joining in. When Coach Boone had stopped it, he had told them to control the anger for the field and took them to start practice. While the first practice hadn’t started the way Boone had wanted, he had made them keep doing more and more exercises until night hit. The next day Coach Boone and Coach Yoast had woke the team up early for a long run that had led to Gettysburg. While there, Coach Boone had described the battle of Gettysburg with the purpose of it and related the reason for it to how the team had been acting previously. It had helped him get most of the team to start to change and get along with one another. During their next practice as they kept trying over and over to perfect a play, the chaos that the players had between one another had finally stopped. Once school had started and football season had begun Coach Boone had been told that if he were to lose just once that he would be kicked off the team and Yoast would be the head coach again. This was something that had surprised Boone but also was motivation to keep training the team in any way to make sure they will succeed. Although it had ended in a victory for the Titans, it had also been a struggle. As their running back had now switched to the defense and their first quarterback got injured, things weren’t looking too good. Their backup quarterback had doubts on how he thought he could do, but during his first game he had surprised everyone with his skill. Near the end of the season as the celebrate making it to the state championship, Gerry Bertier had sadly gotten into a car accident that paralyzed his lower half. This had shocked the whole team, and his mother. While he was in the hospital he had talked to coach Boone and coach Yoast in a positive way about it to lift the depression away from the thought of his injury. Later that week was the Championship game. A game that both Coach Boone and Yoast were looking forward to throughout the entire season as they had the team practice over and over to try and be the best they could be. While Gerry was recovering he had started to watch the game. During it he would yell at the TV to cheer or go against plays by either team. In the last few seconds of the game Coach Boone had gave them a play that lead to fooling the enemy team and they ran the ball in for a touchdown and the first championship game for T.C Williams. After high school was over for all of them they had not meet up for a while until Gerry’s funeral in 1981. This had showed that they had all changed in a positive way toward one another and showed care for people they originally did not over ten years before. |
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