10/20-10/27 #1

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10/13-10/20

Well the article I located is about how the high price of copper has led to many copper related robberies. If thieves can find copper wiring they will remove it from whatever it is connected to and take it to the nearest recycling depot and get money for it. In the state of Georgia thieves have stolen the copper wires for the flood lights that light up the football field for night practices. So instead of night practices now they have to have twice as many teams on a field so they can practice during the day light. I think that if you close down the places where you could get refunds for your copper then the thefts will stop. There is no point in stealing something that is not going to benefit you, and the thieves do not get money for what they stole then they will just move on to something else. Another way to curb this problem is to bust the people that are addicted to meth, which comprises of 90% of metal thieves. If police can bust more meth houses and therefore lowering the availability of meth then there will be less people doing the drug and less people being able to get hooked on it. I think this authors view is that he is sad for the people this crime effects. Such as the children that can’t play football or the farmers that get their irrigation pipes stolen. One good thing that has happened is that copper theft now carries a fine of the value of the copper plus the replacement cost which has turned the crime into a felony. However if someone really wants drugs then they are going to do whatever they physically can to get them and the penalty of getting caught is most likely not going to stop them. My question would be how to protect copper and make it less accessible to thieves?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/copper.theft/index.html

10/13-10/20 #1

One of the first things the author touches upon in the article is that all the images and television advertisements influence us on what we should look like. I feel that the people that make the advertisements are making them to look like what someone would want to see. True, we don’t want to look at some obese person wearing Abercrombie & Fitch clothing but society wants beauty and its everyone’s fault it has come to this.
The second point I think she makes is that in these times anyone can have plastic surgery and its almost normal to have it done. I don’t that’s true, I think that with all the media attention it gets it leads people to believe that its popular. But just because it happens on television shows and actors and actresses doesn’t mean that the entire population is going to the doctor’s office and making appointments for surgery.
In the authors next point she described that many teenage girls are feeling the need to excessively diet. If that is true than how is it that the United States has one of the biggest obesity rates in the world? If all the girls in the U.S. were throwing up to keep the fat off wouldn’t there be more of an uproar about what is going on?
The author determines that for someone to be attractive that you have to have big boobs, a flat stomach, and long thin legs. How then do people fall in love? Because pretty sure about 99% of the girls I see aren’t perfect. If someone has to be perfect to be able to look at them or even talk to them then how does society function?

10/6-10/13 #3

The story that I read about was the stock market opening today and going up over 11%. The main reason behind this was that a number of international leaders met over the weekend to discuss the economic crisis affecting us. Also a number of global initiatives were announced to try and bring the stock market back to within normal levels. The only non-encouraging news was that the credit markets didn’t react to the stock market going up. Also GM and Ford stock went up today after a free fall ever since the market started its downfall. After the market worst week ever the beginning of this week will have some people stepping away from the balcony. I think that this is a sign of things to come in the economy. I would hope that this is the first step in the right direction and that the market keeps going up for the rest of the week so that it can restore some confidence in consumers. I think that it was long overdue that the global leaders met together and got something done since our faltering economy has brought down those of other nations. I also think that when the market starts to rise and is done with all its drops that oil prices will once again rise but will not be anywhere near as inflated as before. The author of this article was happy this event occurred because the last couple of weeks have been so depressing. She also doesn’t talk about anything negative happening because of this and the fact that the bailout hasn’t even had its positive affect on the economy yet. One question I would like to explore is what the rebounding economy means to the presidential race. I’m sure one candidate’s policies are more aimed towards fixing the economy and if the economy is rebounding before he comes into office then what use are his policies?

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/13/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?postversion=2008101315

10/6-10/13 #2

These attacks have been received with the highest alarm. While meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, the President said he would like for church and state to become harmonious in working together to solve this problem. Earlier the pope stated there were obvious signs that pointed towards social tensions. As recently as last week the Italian Parliament went back and forth as to wether they are facing a racism emergency. Roberto Maroni, the interior minister, stated that he thought that the attacks were at random and people should not be overly concerned.



The confrontations have resonated at the highest levels. In a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Quirinal Palace in Rome this month, President Giorgio Napolitano called for church and state to work together “to overcome racism.” He cited a recent speech in which the pope pointed to “worrisome new signs” of deepening social tensions. Last week, Parliament debated whether Italy was facing what newspaper headlines referred to as a “racism emergency.” The interior minister, Roberto Maroni, of the separatist Northern League, said that the attacks were isolated and that the alarm was overstated.

10/6-10/13 #1

The article I found describes how Italy now has a increase in racist driven crimes. The amount of crime has become so troubling that the Italian president and the pope recently met to discuss how to prevent future incidents. A reason this troubling behavior could be happening is that the percentage of immigrants in Italy rose 17% last year. The problem is that the native Italians aren’t used to having so many immigrants and obviously aren’t used to treating them as they should be treated. There is even a bill passing through the Italian Congress calling for greater immigration controls. Obviously Italy is not ready to become a multi-ethnic society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/world/europe/13italy.html?ref=world

9/26-10/6 #2

Many people do not enjoy doing peer review although they are a necessary evil. Peer reviews are always going to be need and are always helpful in supporting a person’s paper or changing it. Some advantages with peer reviews are with the ability to have someone point out the mistakes you might not notice. The people reviewing you r paper can notice your bad writing tendencies and point them out because after awhile you sometimes don’t notice grammatical errors. When doing these exercises you take care to notice sentence length and how they put their words together. Another good thing about these reviews is that not everyone is on the same playing field in the writing sense and they can be a good learning tool to help people write better writing pieces. A bad thing about peer reviews are that they are time consuming and sometimes you just cant find anything wrong about their papers. In that case people sometimes just bull shit them about things in the paper that aren’t actually wrong and then the person gets it back and fixes things that don not need to be fixed. Another disadvantage to them is that you spend so much time looking over someone else’s paper when you really should be proofreading your own.

9/29-10/6 #1

Well I was looking at the Sports Illustrated website and followed a link to the NBC Sunday Night Football Cookbook. The ad invites me to “Feed My Football Appetite”. The Logos part of the advertisement is that they have a video link with Faith Hill explaining the product and telling us what kind of recipes are in the cookbook. Another outside source would be that it says that there are recipes from several different well known celebrities. Also on the video it shows people actually making some of the meals to show how easy it is.
For ethos there are numerous customer reviews that were informative and gave me another opinion about how good the product is. They also have a couple negative reviews that are helpful in informing me what the product is lacking.
For Pathos they try to get emotion out of me by telling me that the proceeds are going to charity. Then additionally they also have a picture of the cover of the book showing delicious food that I would love to make. The cover is also telling me that it is from Sunday Night Football so that plays on the fact a lot of the people that visit the Sports Illustrated website most likely watch football also.
I feel like the words do take away from the advertisement because the picture only takes up 1/5 of the space. I also think that pictures sell you point better than words would in this case.



http://www.amazon.com/NBC-Sunday-Night-Football-Cookbook/dp/160320797X/ref=sr_11_1/105-3226399-2870867?ie=UTF8&qid=1223335441&sr=11-1