final draft of letter post:

Dear climate change activist group,

I am writing you this letter because I believe that something needs to be done about the growing number of human participation in destroying out planet.

Human use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases. By driving cars, using electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. Our waist and toxic chemical waste has no way of being destroyed. Instead of a recyclable cycle, humans have created a one direction process in which goods are made. They are made to make money quickly and be thrown away so that one may have to go buy another.

Because of the staggering rate at which people can save money by disposing greenhouse gasses and other toxic wastes in habitually harming ways, the few people in charge of the biggest companies in the USA do so unsparingly. More and more waist is being dumped because of your ever soring population. If nothing changes, within the next few years will begin to see more and more natural disasters, climate change, and human deaths due to the lack of caring about our planet. The lack of understanding that humans caused climate change is a large issue as well.

Deforestation keeps occurring, which greatly affects the rate at which “global warming is occurring” occurs. We are eliminating our only chance at keeping clean air for our grandchildren to breathe. Deforestation is another significant source of greenhouse gases, because fewer trees mean less carbon dioxide conversion to oxygen. The world’s rain forests could completely disappear in a hundred years at the current increasing rate of deforestation. The biggest contributor of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by planting more crops and cutting down forests and burning brush and lumber debris in something  known as “slash and burn” agriculture. Loggers are also one of the main reasons forests have disappeared so rapidly. Loggers often illegally chop down protected forests for gross profit paying to attention to the animals, and beautiful plants they destroy. A job is a job.

On the other hand, some deforestation is caused by a combination of human and natural factors. Wildfires and overgrazing (that prevents baby trees to grow) often take part in hurting the overall sustainability of forests. It amazes me that people can’t see the direct correlation between climate change and deforestation. We continue to produce more toxins, and destroy our only source of clean, life sustaining air. This makes absolutely no sense.

Not enough people believe global warming is happening, relevant, or even important.  People today put daily life and consumption above how badly we have hurt our planet by doing it. The evidence that our waist has been negatively affecting earth has been around for a long time and gradually growing. Many people still chose to believe that our toxic waste, our greenhouse and other gas emissions, and our unrecyclable goods have had a negative impact on our planet and our future here. Only 18 % of Americans felt that destroying our over populating planet should be “highest” priority for President Obama and Congress in a January Washington Post/ABC News poll. Our own planet, the one that the congress and the president live on, is less important than the other eight subjects asked about in the poll.

In 2009 according to a “Pew Research Center survey”, the general public is unsure, therefor afraid about two major things when it comes to climate change: just about 69% believe that it’s happening, and only 42 % say it’s mostly because of humans. That means there are still so many people who don’t care about our own planet that me may never be able to fully recover from the damage we are causing. More than one-third of the public believed climate scientists who say “global warming” is real make their conclusions based on money and politics, not on hard facts. Most importantly, in a March Gallup polls, 6 in 10 people don’t think global warming will seriously threaten them during their lifetimes. That means that people have become accustomed to exploiting earth for its resources and atmosphere for short term profit, money.  Business, large corporations, and oil is what our planet is worth today?

What good will your money be if you have no planet to spend your money on.no strip malls, tanning beds, cars, apartment’s; everything just gone, turned into a wasteland. In my opinion if we don’t start to try and conserve our resources and find alternatives to dumping trash and greenhouse gases, our planet will be uninhabitable in no time at all. The population growth keeps escalating, which means more humans, more uneducated humans that don’t see the devastation headed our way. What needs to happen is that everyone needs to realize that this is no longer a warning, global climate change is happening, and we need to take action, to give our future generations a chance.Please consider my words encouraging, and hopeful for change. I would really like to help save earth.

 sincerely, Ali Prentiss

Bibliography

1)      http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/22/how-americans-see-global-warming-in-8-charts/

Clement, Scott. "How Americans See Global Warming — in 8 Charts." Web log post.Washingtonpost. N.p., 22 Apr. 2013. Web. 27 May 2013.

2)      http://earthreform.org/deforestation-a-major-threat-to-the-destruction-of-our-planet/

Badwal, Karun. "Deforestation: A Major Threat to the Destruction of Our Planet." Earth Reform RSS. Earth Reform, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 28 May 2013

3)      http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/

"Deforestation." National Geographic. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.

1000 word draft of paper

Dear climate change activist group,

I am writing you this letter because I believe that something needs to be done about human participation in destroying out planet.

Human use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases. By driving cars, using electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. Our waist and toxic chemical waste has no way of being destroyed. Instead of a recyclable cycle, humans have created a one direction process in which goods are made. They are made to make money quickly and be thrown away so that one may have to go buy another.

Because of the staggering rate at which people can save money by disposing greenhouse gasses and other toxic wastes in habitually harming ways, the few people in charge of the biggest companies in the USA do so unsparingly. More and more waist is being dumped because of your ever soring population. If nothing changes, within the next few years will begin to see more and more natural disasters, climate change, and human deaths due to the lack of caring about our planet. The lack of understanding that humans caused climate change is a large issue as well.

Deforestation keeps occurring, which greatly affects the rate at which “global warming is occurring” occurs. We are eliminating our only chance at keeping clean air for our grandchildren to breathe.

Deforestation is another significant source of greenhouse gases, because fewer trees mean less carbon dioxide conversion to oxygen. The world’s rain forests could completely disappear in a hundred years at the current increasing rate of deforestation. The biggest contributor of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by planting more crops and cutting down forests and burning brush and lumber debris in something  known as “slash and burn” agriculture. Loggers are also one of the main reasons forests have disappeared so rapidly. Loggers often illegally chop down protected forests for gross profit paying to attention to the animals, and beautiful plants they destroy. A job is a job. On the other hand, some deforestation is caused by a combination of human and natural factors. Wildfires and overgrazing (that prevents baby trees to grow) often take part in hurting the overall sustainability of forests. It amazes me that people can’t see the direct correlation between climate change and deforestation. We continue to produce more toxins, and destroy our only source of clean, life sustaining air. This makes absolutely no sense.

No one believes global warming is happening, relevant, or even important.  People today put daily life and consumption above how badly we have hurt our planet by doing it. The evidence that our waist has been negatively affecting earth has been around for a long time and gradually growing. Many people still chose to believe that our toxic waste, our greenhouse and other gas emissions, and our unrecyclable goods have had a negative impact on our planet and our future here. Only 18 % of Americans felt that destroying our over populating planet should be “highest” priority for President Obama and Congress in a January Washington Post/ABC News poll. Our own planet, the one that the congress and the president live on, is less important than the other eight subjects asked about in the poll.

In 2009 according to a “Pew Research Center survey”, the general public is unsure, therefor afraid about two major things when it comes to climate change: just about 69% believe that it’s happening, and only 42 % say it’s mostly because of humans. That means there are still so many people who don’t care about our own planet that me may never be able to fully recover from the damage we are causing. More than one-third of the public believed climate scientists who say “global warming” is real make their conclusions based on money and politics, not on hard facts. Most importantly, in a March Gallup polls, 6 in 10 people don’t think global warming will seriously threaten them during their lifetimes. That means that people have become accustomed to exploiting earth for its resources and atmosphere for short term profit, money.

What good will your money be if you have no planet to spend your money on. In my opinion if we don’t start to try and conserve our resources and find alternatives to dumping trash and greenhouse gases, our planet will be uninhabitable in no time at all. The population growth keeps escalating, which means more humans, more uneducated humans that don’t see the devastation headed our way. What needs to happen is that everyone needs to realize that this is no longer a warning, global climate change is happening, and we need to take action, to give our future generations a chance.

Bibliography

1)      http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/22/how-americans-see-global-warming-in-8-charts/

Clement, Scott. "How Americans See Global Warming — in 8 Charts." Web log post.Washingtonpost. N.p., 22 Apr. 2013. Web. 27 May 2013.

2)      http://earthreform.org/deforestation-a-major-threat-to-the-destruction-of-our-planet/

Badwal, Karun. "Deforestation: A Major Threat to the Destruction of Our Planet." Earth Reform RSS. Earth Reform, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 28 May 2013

3)      http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/

"Deforestation." National Geographic. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.

first 500 words of my argument letter

Topic:

What caused the climate change crisis?

Evidence:

Human use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases. By driving cars, using electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. Our waist and toxic chemical waist has no way of being destroyed. Instead of a recyclable cycle, humans have created a one direction process in which goods are made. They are made to make money quickly and be thrown away so that one may have to go buy another.

Analysis:

Topic:

Deforestation keeps occurring, which greatly affects the rate at which “global warming is occurring” occurs. We are eliminating our only chance at keeping clean air for our grandchildren to breathe.

Deforestation is another significant source of greenhouse gases, because fewer trees mean less carbon dioxide conversion to oxygen.

Analysis:

Topic

No one believes global warming is happening, relevant, or even important.  People today put daily life and consumption above how badly we have hurt our planet by doing it. The evidence that our waist has been negatively affecting earth has been around for a long time and gradually growing. Many people still chose to believe that our toxic waste, our greenhouse and other gas emissions, and our unrecyclable goods have had a negative impact on our planet and our future here.

Evidence:

Only 18 % of Americans felt that destroying our over populating planet should be “highest” priority for President Obama and Congress in a January Washington Post/ABC News poll. Our own planet, the one that the congress and the president live on, is less important than the other eight subjects asked about in the poll.

In 2009 according to a “Pew Research Center survey”, the general public is unsure, therefor afraid about two major things when it comes to climate change: just about 69% believe that it’s happening, and only 42 % say it’s mostly because of humans. That means there are still so many people who don’t care about our own planet that me may never be able to fully recover from the damage we are causing. More than one-third of the public believed climate scientists who say “global warming” is real make their conclusions based on money and politics, not on hard facts. Most importantly, in a March Gallup polls, 6 in 10 people don’t think global warming will seriously threaten them during their lifetimes. That means that people have become accustomed to exploiting earth for its resources and atmosphere for short term profit, money.

Analyses:

What good will your money be if you have no planet to spend your money on. In my opinion if we don’t start to try and conserve our resources and find alternatives to dumping trash and green house gas’s, our planet will be uninhabitable in no time at all. The population growth keeps escalating, which means more humans, more uneducated humans that don’t see the devastation headed our way

If I could change anything in my society/community, I would change...

It amazing me how many people today lack the ability to care about the world around them. On your commute to school you might see a girl doing their makeup in the mirror while swerving, and someone else fully turned around reaching into their back seat to grab something unimportant while completely forgetting to look at the road in front of them. But the human capacity to overlook major threats and aspects of society is not just limited to driving, no. every day as a Santa Cruz local I witness blunt ignorance and defiance of all things smart. I have seen police officers down town giving homeless peoples tickets for having their bikes on the side walk. How do you expect a homeless person to pay a ticket? Society in my opinion really needs to look at its own self destructive nature, and figure out how to break the cycle. Why do we no longer help people acquire a home and a steady job after getting out of prison? The truth of the matter is, the government needs to stop being controlled by “major money” and needs to start thinking about the bigger picture. What good will your money be if our planet is destroyed? Our over populated planet will not put up with our disrespect and neglect forever. If I could change one thing about our world, it would be the way that humans view their mother earth. If every human had a universal respect for the earth, not only would it unite people, but our source of life would be around for much longer and thrive with us taking care of it.

The fact of the matter is, we know very little about our ocean. So we dump our waist there. We know very little about the vast outer space. So we dump more of our waist there. I hate human blatant disregard for anything that they can’t control or aren’t fully accustomed too. It is ignorant to think that we are the only living things like us in our universe. What will more respectful “beings” think of us when they see all the trash we mindlessly have been dumping for years? What will they think when they see the huge floating mass of trash the size of Texas floating in the ocean? What would you think if you saw jersey shore and knew nothing about the kind, loving, caring aspect of human nature? I believe that what we have been brainwashing the average person with is very dangerous to our future. Not just in a self-destructive kind of way. I believe that the radio waves, TV shows, and trash we send out into space may cause us to accumulate a great deal of enemies, not just earthy enemies. Why human sare not ashamed of what we have become as a whole? One word: money.

MLA Information

For my Iranian topic report i used online sources.

Spacing

In MLA style, the works-cited page is double spaced, with the same spacing within and between citations.

Order

Citations beginning with names and those beginning with titles are to be alphabetized together. Numbers in titles are treated as though they have been spelled out. For names, alphabetize based on the letters that come before the comma separating the last name from the first, and disregard any spaces or other punctuation in the last name. For titles, ignore articles such as "a" and "the" (and equivalents in other languages) for alphabetization purposes.

What to include

The title "Works Cited" indicates that the list you provide contains only the works you actually cite in your paper. If you wish to also include in your list works that you consult but do not cite, give your page the broader title "Works Consulted."

Works Cited

Alvarez, Gloria. "Teacher Recalls Land of Rising Sun; Audience Hears Tales of Japan."East New Orleans Picayune 14 Oct. 2001: 4. Print.

Burgum, Edwin Berry, ed. The New Criticism: An Anthology of Modern Aesthetics and Literary Criticism. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Print.

Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1946. Print.

Cassatt, Mary. Mother and Child. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita. American Painting: 1560-1913. By John Pearce. New York: McGraw, 1964. Slide 22. Print.

Day, Nancy, and Alec Foege. "Geisha Guy: Arthur Golden Isn't Japanese, and He Isn't a Woman. But He Does a Brilliant Impersonation in His Smash First Novel." People Weekly23 Nov. 1998: 89. Print.

Delaroche, Paul. Portrait of a Woman. 1829. European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum. By Carol C. Gillham and Carolyn H. Wood. Chapel Hill: The Museum, University of North Carolina, 2001. 93.

Falk, Thomas H. "Herland." Masterplots II. Women's Literature Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 3. Pasadena: Salem, 1995. 1022-1030. Print.

"Gardening Experts Give Insights on Plants that Grow Well Here." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette28 Apr. 2002. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 15 Oct. 2002. <http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/description.php?EIDID=12>.

Gigli. Screenplay by Martin Brest. Dir. Martin Brest. Perf. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, and Christopher Walken. Columbia, 2003. Film.

Gill, Brendan. "B.C. to A.D." The New Yorker 58.13 (17 May 1982): 110-115. Print. Rpt. in "Athol Fugard." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jean C. Stine. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. 173-178.

Haas, Stephanie. "Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications." School of Information and Library Science. U. of NC at Chapel Hill, Jan.-May 2007. Web. 16 Apr. 2009. <http://www.ils.unc.edu/~stephani/dbsp07/home.html>.

Hirota, Akiko. "The Tale of Gengi: From Heian Classic to Heisei Comic." Journal of Popular Culture 31.2 (Fall 1997): 29-68. Print.

Iko, Momoko. "Gold Watch." Unbroken Thread: An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women. Ed. Roberta Uno. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. 105-154. Print.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Boston: Faber, 1989. Print.

Kincaid, Jason. "The Sorry State of Online Privacy." TechCrunch. N.p., 26 Apr. 2009. Web. 28 Apr. 2009. <http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/26/the-sorry-state-of-online-privacy/>.

John's First Birthday Party. Personal photography by Lisa Newman. May 22, 2009.

Motley, Archibald John, Jr. Mending Socks. 1924. Oil on canvas. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC. ARTstor. 30 No. 2010, <http://www.artstor.org>

"Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk - and the Whole Town Loves Him." The Charlotte Observer 8 Oct. 2002: 10A. Print.

Reider, Noriko T. "The Appeal of Kaidan Tales of the Strange." Asian Folklore Studies59.2 (2000): 265-284. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Feb. 2002. <http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/description.php?resourceID=1265>.

Willett, Perry, ed. Victorian Women Writers Project. Indiana U., Apr. 1997. Web. 16 Apr. 2009. <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.

Windholz, Anne M. "An Emigrant and a Gentleman: Imperial Masculinity, British Magazines, and the Colony That Got Away." Victorian Studies 42.4 (1999/2000): 631-658. Project Muse. Web. 27 Feb. 2002. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v042/42.4windholz.pdf>.

This was a good example of how to use an MLA citation correctly. in the beginning it tells you what you will need to do a MLA citation  and what order they should be in. the link also described what sort of spacing to use and punctuation. this information helped me correct my paper. library 10 is moderately helpful. they give you plenty of examples. having to teach yourself is not easy though. some of the videos they wanted me to watch online didn't work, so i had to guess. library 10 shouldn't be required, it is a really hard thing to keep up with while in your regular English class.

narrative

Narrative

Ali Prentiss

When the leader if Iran wants to influence the minds of his people he uses propaganda and strict censorship (how original). For centuries Iranian people have fought for basic freedoms that Americans take for granted: such as reading a suggestive or revolutionary book, watching porn, or hearing about wars on the news and radio. Film makers in Iran have to make movies about very precise religious material, or something that doesn’t conflict with any of the ways of life that the government has lain out. The government’s control over aspect of art has greatly affected the artist’s evolution and progress in Iran. The strict rules inflicted have also developed a new kind of blogger culture (even President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has one). Iran got hooked up to the internet in the 1990’s right after Israel. Even when at the same time, it is not possible to dial an Iranian number from an Israeli telephone because of lack of communication between the governments. Today about 11 of every 100 Iranians are online. In 2003, officials announced plans to remove and block more than 15,000 websites. They also evolved pirated versions of US filtering systems into their own type of fire wall/ filtering system. Worldly news Web sites, like BBC have been blocked, the head leaders have also periodically shut down social networking sites, making it difficult for information to reach the outside world. Cinemas suffered because most movies were not allowed in theaters, and the movies that did play were not very interesting. Iran doesn’t have a “Hollywood.”

The Revolutionary Guard is a powerful part of Iranian security.

The Guard created a "Cyber Army" to train more than 250,000 computer hackers.

The censorship in Iran has decreased the news that enters the country, there for blocking further knowledge of the world around it. Isolation in humans leads to the lack of understanding other cultures customs, and today's conflicts. Keeping the people of your country uneducated about what is going on is a very abrasive way to control a population as a whole.

            David S. Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence said,

"Today's designations further demonstrate our resolve to put a stop to the Iranian regime's continued efforts to deny the Iranian people access to information and the ability to speak freely." The United States as a country always thinks that we can go in and help a situation, when in reality, we usually only make problems worse. Sending reporters in during the last election proved to be very dangerous. Many reporters were beaten, threatened, or killed trying to voice what was really going on to the rest of the world. The leaders of Iran have been manipulating media of all kinds for years, changing the way that Iranian people. We are all products of our environment, but what happens when your environment has been tampered with. Changing the way that a large group of people see the world can be very dangerous, and will undoubtedly cause wars and protests. Freedom of speech is something that many Americans take for granted, while n Iran, you may be killed for voicing your opinion.

 

 

Bibliography

 

CHRISTOPHER RHOADS and FASSIHI, FARNAZ. "Iran Vows to Unplug Internet." The Wall Street Journal.    Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 19 Dec. 2011. Web. 3 Mar. 2012.

 

"Media Group Asks Nations Not to Recognize Iran Results." CNN. Cable News Network, 15 June 2009. Web. 14 Mar. 2013.

 

persepolies review # 1

Persepolis review # 1


Persepolis is a regular girl with big ambition. She just so happened to be dropped onto the earth in a very complicated entanglement of alliances and disputes the. The book begins with Persepolis, ten years old, in 1980,  the middle of one of the most violent wars planet earth has ever seen. One of the many changes that occurred because of the emending revolution at the time, was that woman must wear veils when in public at all times. As a young particularly feisty little girl, Persepolis was not thrilled by this new law. She did not understand why covering our face was so important, she did not understand why the country she lived in, was trying so hard to extinguish whatever freedoms they may have left. From a little girls perspective, no one should be able to limit freedoms, creativity, beauty, or fun.
 In my opinion it is not the governments job to tell people what to wear, or to relate religious aspects of life to daily political problems. The governments rights should never stretch as far as they have in the middle east. the "Cultural Revolution" that was being forced upon the Iranian people said that bilingual schools are a sign of capitalism, and that they should be banished.
the people of the country were not going to take to these new rules easily as you can imagine. there was many demonstrations held in the streets. people where shot, and beaten. many civilian casualty's during the breaking up of the rally's.
When a photographer takes Persepolis mothers picture as she marches in a demonstration for their rights, she becomes a target to the government and all those who supported to revolution. She had to dye her hair and lay low so that she wouldn't be discovered and killed.
Persepolis wants to be a profit. She sees everything wrong with the world and wants to be the one to make it right. She wants to fix the faulty government so that it may be of service to its people. She wants no old people to suffer. She wants to be able to wear whatever she wants when in public.