Sunday, November 7, 2010

Nova intereactive

This little interactive instrument on this website, I think, is trying to open our eyes. It shows the density, growth, cities, water, air, climate, forests, land, and habitats. If you compare all of them you can certainly see in a few decades, we're going to have major problems. Most of them having to do with the amount of people on the planet.

What do you think is going to happen within 100 years?

"The battle of Billionaires: China vs. India"

The issue with the number of people in India has been going on for ages. Now many people see how big of a deal it is. There are so many people, the economy just can't handle it. True there are more workers and fighters, so some people may see it as a good thing, but to an extent, it's not. There are so many people, job opportunities just can't keep up. There may be twenty people applying for the same job with no more options. I don't believe it's bad for the government to force families to have small families. Because of the economy, most families couldn't handle many children anyway. Though when you look at it like they government is suppressing them too much, you have to realize, that's basically what the government is there for. They put rules into place to help people. We're being like children sometimes when we complain about the rules. Like children that aren't aloud to have a big ice cream sundae every day because it's just too bad for them.       "India’s population is growing more than twice as fast as China’s — 1.4% versus 0.6% annually." this statistic shows if some law isn't put into place, It'll just get worse.

"Do believe the hype" Article

The author of this article, to me, seems to think we’re in competition with these countries that are starting to grow and prosper. What he’s forgetting is, though they’re rapidly growing, so are we.  The example he used here, with the banking system shows these places in fact are starting to get smart and as he said, due to the “rising number of skilled technologists,” They are starting to catch up to us with the help of technology like computers and cell phones. It’s not like we’re not growing though. Even with little advances like the Ipod, Iphone, Ipad, or whatever. These little things are helping create more useful advances in technology. These things they’ve created are great for their economy. They’re able to access, withdraw, and send money to where ever they like for a loved one or such.  We could even start using technology like that, in some respect. Who wouldn’t want to be able to stop carrying around one more thing? To compact everything into one seems like our goal, and this is another great idea to do so.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Israel, Palestine conflict


Though this article gives true facts, you can tell Later on who this article is biased towards. In the beginning I was kind of sketch on who this article approved of, but later on it calls Israelis ‘Nazis,” because they created a  “Human shield,” It says. It says that’s the reason why they keep everyone in their homes for long periods of times, so they can be human shields. They don’t, However, mention all the bad things the Palestinians have been doing, and how maybe those curfews were put there to keep the people in check while they were out searching for a suicide bomber.  They only lightly brush on the fact that the Palestinians were fighting back. In the article, they called them “Half-crazed.” And made it seem as though the Israelis were just using that as an excuse to keep them all in their houses, when in reality, America would probably do the same thing. If there was a bomber, We’d probably have to stay in our house for a while for our own protection. To me, the outline of this conflict with the government and army seems like a child with an overbearing parent. Always so strict and the first to ensue  punishment. Palestine would obviously be the child, and this article would be like the child’s diary, Saying how horribly their parents treat them.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Shiites and Sunnis

The Shiites and Sunnis are compared most to Catholics and Baptists. It's disturbing to think that the main people making decisions of if we should intervene or do anything other than flat out ignoring them are so clueless. I think it's important that the leaders of our F.B.I.  Know at least a little about what's going on there if they're thinking of interfering. And if they're not,  stop bothering them. We obviously have no idea what their customs are, not even where which of them lives where, so why would anyone in their right minds think it was ok to just march in there and try and help. We would end up being more destructive and creating more mayhem than what was there before.

Monday, September 27, 2010

9/11


    Until 9/11 I was able to go to the airport and get on my plane within an hour. Now, you're lucky if you get on time to your plane when you get to the airport five hours before." What happened?" you may ask. The day 9/11 happened, All planes were grounded. The government was at a loss of what to do for the time being. They argued over their options and decisions on how to protect the planes from more happenings. Also airports fired many people, and others had to go back to school for new positions.  Caption Joe prater was quoted to say "After the attacks of 9/11, our profession paid a heavy price to help our industry survive the downturns and bankruptcies that followed." Also fewer people want to become pilots or flight attendants due to the risks of terrorists or other such disasters.

mozambique


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Population: 21669278
Life Expectancy: 41
Total Fertility Rate:5.13
Religion(s):Catholic 23.8%, Muslim 17.8%, Zionist Christian 17.5%, other 17.8%, none 23.1%
Literacy Rate:48/5
Independence Day: 25 june
Labor force by occupation: 81% agriculture industry 6% services 13%
Population below poverty line:70%