An Inconvenient Truth

I sat down with my mom have the conservation. She’s not really that inform in all of this so I tried to mostly stay in the morally aspect of this.

The first thing I asked her was what did she know about the climate changes, what behind all off this, etc…

What she said that she knew very little, only that really stood out was the climate changes and extreme weather. Extreme weather was something I feared the most too. It think this is something scary cause all this extreme weather can cause a lot of uncontroling deaths. It’s something that takes us by surprise

Back to 1983 for a day

"1983? Really? I can do this. Its okay, I'm just going to be without my baby for one day. One day. That's it. " I thought to myself in class when I heard the project description. A day without cell phone, T.V, PSP, when was the last time I have ever lived without those things? Can I live without them? It would be could interesting to try I guess. But I had to smart about planning the day. Of course NOT in Thanksgiving or after, either Monday or Tuesday I thought. Tuesday cause there’s really anything good on TV. Sunday pass I was dreading Tuesday, and when Tuesday arrived it wasn’t so bad.

I personally was surprised how much of a relieved it was to just leave my phone. I didn’t have to worry about missing any calls or text, but the TV was a different story (at first). In the morning I woke and was like “What the Heck am I doing today?” I usually wake up and try to see some re-runs of my one of favorite show (Charmed) but today I was going to have to miss it. I think I sat there for like an hour just laying down. So I read the closet thing me. I think most of the day that’s what I did. I had the now and then bathrooms break and a little snack, I almost finish my book that Tuesday too. I think it wasn’t was hard to leave my baby, because the before when working on my senior project it started making some weird screeching sounds so I was even afraid of touching it for that matter, yet alone turning it on.

The people I usually communicate with on a daily basis are my mom, sister, and a occasional friend or two. But Tuesday my sister stayed home and my mom went to work. When my needs to communicate with us when she’s at work she usually calls me because she knows I’m the one that almost all the time have my cell phone next to me, but Tuesday she knew that I wasn’t going to be answering one so she called my sister instead. Maybe this was considered cheating so nothing really change in that area. I DIDN’T feel the need to communicate with anyone, only when it was really necessary.

What surprised me the most about the experience is how much I missed reading. I really do. I had to re-read my Twilight series so it wasn’t as excited as I would’ve liked, but is still was enough to spark my reading interest.

I think what I learned most from this experience was that I can survive without my phone, and it was just a nice break form all of that. Since that day I don’t watch that much T.V. I read more often, and probably still use much my phone. My baby though, I can’t tell the difference because the only time I really use it is when I’m using it for homework even before this experienced.

Food Inc. Articles

Reflection

Article 1 The Financial Crisis and world Hunger
I thought that this article brought up a very interesting topic about the financial crisis and how it connects to food crisis. With the story in the beginning it really set the mood of the rest of the ARTICLE. I really enjoy how the story went from a small bank "an institution that provides microcredit" to a world-wide buisness.

Article 2 Cheap Food

I think the Cheap Foods article were my favorite cause it really kept my wanting to read more. The information on immigration policies that "guarantee cheap labor" was really interesting because in the article it admitted that slavery still exist on farms and theres been numerous cases investigated but theres still more cases out there that have been undectected

Article 3 Fileds of Poison

This article talks about the pesticides that goes into growing our crops. In the third page it has a list of pesticides and and if it part of the Bad Actor. Info about the pesticides and which fields it's being use is hard to find because it's not fund as much. Info like this very important to inform consumers about how and what it takes to produce our crops.

Article 4 The Scope of the World Food Crisis

In this article they stated the reality of this crisis, which is the rise of cost of food, with a statics about the rise of malnourished people had dramatically gone up. In this article it talked about the reason behind this disaster, which are droughts that happening all over the world, population growth, " misguided international and national policies", etc... One solution for this problem is for countries to have independence from imports. What I read this article it made me very concerned about my future and my children's future, it seems it is very unstable. I just imagine how much more expensive its gonna be in ten or twenty yeaars (if we make it past 2012)

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My favorite article is the Cheap Food one. This is my favorite one because it kept wanting more and there was just so many information that I didn't know. I think it's importnt that people know where and how much it cost us to make our crops, to know how much unfairness goes in the policies that the government makes.

Study Guide

Water Study Guide

14. How is fresh water extracted from salt water during desalinization? What are the benefits and costs of this process?


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Air and Land Use Guide

14. Describe the major ways in which humans use lands

A.) Raise the animals AND fatten them up so later we can butcher them.
B.) Landfills. US HAS 3,091 active landfills
C.) All of the above


Food and Agriculture Study Guide

1. Distinguish between traditional and modern agriculture techniques.


A.)modern agriculture= Better Technology, so like irrigation and planting is easier because we have advanced technology.
B.) Traditional= machinery

C.) Modern techniques= more efficient and healthier ways to produce crops