Stressed

I wish that more classes could be open and I could get into the classes I want to be in. I did not want to take an 8:05 lab considering I can barely wake up for my 9:10 classes. Literally all the PE's I need to take are closed and I still can't register until Monday. NC State clearly does not have enough classes and teachers for the 30,000+ people that go here. I am also mad that I register on the the last day possible. It should be bases on grades or something, not just random. Every time I log into my pack portal, at least one more class on my wish list is closed. I just wish I could register already and get into the classes that I need to get into. If I can't get into a lot of the classes I need, I will be taking many hard classes at the same time my sophomore year. I like to spread out my harder classes, but apparently that's not possible because I am a freshmen.  I had all my classes planned out and now I have to change them to really bad times that don't fit my schedule because literally everything that is convenient to me is closed. NC State needs to revamp their registration policy.

Mapping Everyday

This article is about how we map out places based on their social statuses'. In the poor areas of DC, we choose to focus only on the crimes that are committed in this area. The media would focus only on the blacks that are committing these crimes. The students feel that this is a major problem because white people commit crimes too. One student says that, "As the media ignores the reality of poverty, crime, and delinquency in DC, it will only be delaying solving the problem and allow it to fester." I truly believe that he is right. If we keep focusing only on the negatives in the black regions, negative things will continue to come out of that area. There should be new ways of presenting information about these poor regions that also highlights any of the positive things that come from them.

180 South

I thought 180 South was a very effective documentary to show how much simpler ones life can be. Jeff gave up pretty much everything in pursuit of a dream. He want to climb Corcovado and did everything he took to get there. I do not know anyone who would give up that much time out of their life to pursue such a daring dream. Not only was climbing the mountain risky, so was everything he did along to way to get to the mountain. 180 South showed this inspiring adventure, but it showed did a great job portraying the beauty of nature. It gave me a new understanding of who and what is affected when a dam is put up in a remote area. It made me more and more grateful for the beautiful parts of the world that are still not affected by man. It made me think about simplifying my life and how much of a change that could make.

Indigenous Resistance

Washington State and British Columbia have tried to assimilate the Aboriginal communities into our own culture. They used education as a way to get rid of the traditions they have within their culture, and make them more like ours. The Coast Salish people resisted the assimilation that the United States and Canada tried to force them into. Marker says that, "Coast Salish students were, in the late twentieth century, still resisting the same oppressive categorisations of identity that their grandparents had struggled against in the nineteenth century." I find this very hard to believe because we were not able to realize by then that what we were doing was wrong. We should have given the aboriginal people the rights they deserve and should not have forced them into assimilation.

Butterfly Lessons 2

I can relate Butterfly Lessons to my project and place by using the analysis Kolbert used to describe the places he talked about. If I use the same techniques in my powerpoint presentations, it will help my audience have a full understanding of every aspect of my place. I can also use his analysis to describe my environmental issue within my place. He did a good job of providing examples and quotes needed to illustrate the claims he was making within his article.

Butterfly Lessons

The main theme of this article is that the climate change has a direct impact on how butterflies and all other species live. Not only does climate change mean the butterflies must migrate, it also means they change when they mate. Webb states it clearly but saying this, "The trick you've got to remember is that the climate is multivariate. The plant species are having to respond both to temperature changes and to moisture changes and to changes in seasonality. It makes a big difference if you have a drier winter versus a drier summer, because some species are more attuned to spring and others to fall. Any current community has a certain mixture, and, if you start changing the climate, you're changing the temperature, but you're also changing moisture or the timing of the moisture or the amount of snow and, bingo, species are not going to move together. They can't." Webb explains the fact that we can not expect species to adapt to changing carbon dioxide levels. We are affecting them just as must as we are affecting the environment we live in. They just can not adapt to it as well as humans can. I took away from this article a new perspective on climate change from a species as little as a butterfly.

How would "people allocating water" write this essay?

As a person who has to the make the decisions about how to allocate water, I have a very different perspective than others who just want to conserve water. In order to allocate water correctly you must consider the deep ethical questions that go along with each aspect of the water process. The decisions I have to make concerns everyone in the world. Everyone needs a certain amount of water to survive, but most want way more than that. When everyone is always in your face about how much water they or their industry are being supplied, it makes it a lot harder than you think to decide who will receive water. It is one thing to understand that we are running out of water, but to tell someone they can not have the water they can pay for is very different. It takes a full understanding of the water we currently do not have to acctept this fact. Most people do not have this understanding or anything close to it. Although I understand where these people are coming from, ultimately we must look at the true ethics involving water allocation and do what is just for our whole world.