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Blog #9:
-http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2009/04/03/reporters-notes-sewag-spills-increaing.
-The issue is how millions of gallons of sewage water gets dumped into California's water's and how the number of dumpage is increasing.
-"More than 20 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into California waterways last year, according to the state Department of Water Resources Control Board. That's not counting the partially treated sweage that makes its way into our water from overflows and sewer systerm malfunctions."
Blog #23
-Fishermen have reported seeing endangered flatback turtles covered in oil.There have also been claims that fish and sea-snakes have been poisoned
Mariyah's Blog
Wal-marts Illegal Run off
Wal-mart's storm run-off has been affecting the nearby waters and now have to pay a $3.1 billion law suit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Storm water laws have been placed, and Wal-Mart is now liable for the storm water pollution. All the Wal-Mart companies (wal mart superstore, sam's club, and wal-mart markets). The government is making sure superstores and big companies follow that storm run-off implementations to the 't'.
New Story #1
Toxic oil spill likely to affect thousands
-Up to fifteen species of whale and dolphin, over thirty species of seabird and five species of turtle are the potential victims of the Montara Field oil spill
-It continues to leak an estimated 400 barrels of oil each day.
New Story #2
-Ship Channel Reopens After Oil Spill
-About 10,500 gallons of oil spilled when a 458-foot tank vessel Chemical Supplier struck a barge close to Brady's Island near the 610 bridge as it attempted to turn around.
-"We actually had one dog, which is a yard dog with one of the local facilities; it was oiled and it was rehabilitated. It was actually cleaned. There was one snapping turtle that was found that was also rehabilitated," said Richard Arnhart of the Texas Land Office.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Blog #25 The Great Gatsby
The last line in The Great Gatsby, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past,” is significant because it represents the ongoing concept of how Jay Gatsby struggles to live in the past and make his dream of being with Daisy, like they were back then, come true. Most of the book, The Great Gatsby was focused mainly on Gatsby's desire and love for Daisy Buchanan. To Gatsby, Daisy is the love that he lost, and can’t get back, when he went to war but now she is married. Throughout the book everything that Gatsby does is to try and capture the attention of Daisy in hopes that he could get her back. “He revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.” This quote proves that his house, everything he buys, and the parties he holds are ways that Gatsby uses to impress Daisy, which doesn't seem logical being she is rich too and she can just do the same things and get what ever she wants without Gatsby.
I think that "so we beat on", can be represented like how someone just moves on in life and look towards the future. The boats would represent Gatsby in that he keeps looking back in the past and doesn't look in the present or towards the future but just the past and the time he had with Daisy. The current, mentioned in the last line of the book, represents how a current has an endless flow and only goes in one direction, Gatsby is also going in one direction, the past, he doesn't try to go a different direction, the present and the future, but just keeps going in the same direction he wants to, the past. "borne back ceaselessly into the past" this represents how Gatsby is focused on keeping everything the same as they were in the past and ceaselessly could represent how he wished that time would just stay in that period of time in the past when Daisy was his so she could always be his and he never would have lost her. Ceaselessly we try to move forwards in our minds but it is the exact opposite for Gatsby he wants to move forward but in the past meaning that he wants to move forward with Daisy and have everything be the way it was in the past when it was just the two of them.
The last line is not only referring to Jay Gatsby but society as a whole because it states "So we beat on, boats against the current" where we represents more than one person. So if it were referring to society as a whole the boat would symbolize all of the character and each of their journey’s throughout the book, the wave would represent the problems and there materialist mind that the characters faced throughout the book. But seeing how Gatsby instead of just living in the moment and getting on with his life he tries to live as if he was still in the past in that one time where he was with his love. He wanted to stay in the past so that he could keep working on getting back the love of his life and so that they could be together again and he wanted it to be where he could marry her like he wanted to before he left for war. So therefore the last line in the book is mainly referring to Jay Gatsby and how he is stuck in the past and his life with Daisy.
Jay Gatsby was actually a fictional ideal character created by James Gatz. Gatsby had changed his name and started portraying the role of the person he wanted to be except for the fact that he doesn't stop acting he just continues to play the role he made up when he was younger for the rest of his life. Even though he is acting like someone who clearly isn't really him yet he still continues to do it because he tries to maintain the past idea or image of himself.
I think that "so we beat on", can be represented like how someone just moves on in life and look towards the future. The boats would represent Gatsby in that he keeps looking back in the past and doesn't look in the present or towards the future but just the past and the time he had with Daisy. The current, mentioned in the last line of the book, represents how a current has an endless flow and only goes in one direction, Gatsby is also going in one direction, the past, he doesn't try to go a different direction, the present and the future, but just keeps going in the same direction he wants to, the past. "borne back ceaselessly into the past" this represents how Gatsby is focused on keeping everything the same as they were in the past and ceaselessly could represent how he wished that time would just stay in that period of time in the past when Daisy was his so she could always be his and he never would have lost her. Ceaselessly we try to move forwards in our minds but it is the exact opposite for Gatsby he wants to move forward but in the past meaning that he wants to move forward with Daisy and have everything be the way it was in the past when it was just the two of them.
The last line is not only referring to Jay Gatsby but society as a whole because it states "So we beat on, boats against the current" where we represents more than one person. So if it were referring to society as a whole the boat would symbolize all of the character and each of their journey’s throughout the book, the wave would represent the problems and there materialist mind that the characters faced throughout the book. But seeing how Gatsby instead of just living in the moment and getting on with his life he tries to live as if he was still in the past in that one time where he was with his love. He wanted to stay in the past so that he could keep working on getting back the love of his life and so that they could be together again and he wanted it to be where he could marry her like he wanted to before he left for war. So therefore the last line in the book is mainly referring to Jay Gatsby and how he is stuck in the past and his life with Daisy.
Jay Gatsby was actually a fictional ideal character created by James Gatz. Gatsby had changed his name and started portraying the role of the person he wanted to be except for the fact that he doesn't stop acting he just continues to play the role he made up when he was younger for the rest of his life. Even though he is acting like someone who clearly isn't really him yet he still continues to do it because he tries to maintain the past idea or image of himself.
Blog #23: Environmental Current Events
-oil slick caused by an accident on a rig in the Timor Sea is threatening wildlife in Australian waters.
-An emergency rig has arrived from Singapore to repair the damage and aircraft and boats have been dousing the slick with dispersants
-what they are doing to help the animals that are covered in oil
Monday, November 9, 2009
Blog #21: Gatsby! Ch 1-4
In the beginning chapters of "The Great Gatsby" we meet our narrator Nick Carraway and he tells the reader that he is a man who doesn't judge others . As we seem him he seems like a good guy because he doesn't drink, do or like anything bad. While with Tom & Myrtle at their party and at Gatsby's party is where he seems like he is detached from his surrounding. The reason why I said Tom & Myrtle's party was because they excessively drank and smoked, Nick even stated that he wanted to leave many times but was always somehow brought back in and never left. When he was at Gatsby's place they way he told the reader felt like he was a loner or felt out-of place because he didn't really fit in or talk to anyone until he found Jordan Baker.
But Gatsby seems to be having the same problem but in a different way. Instead of being one of the people attending a party they weren't invited to, he is the one that is throwing them. But, Gatsby never participates in anything at his parties, instead he watches everyone else enjoy themselves. Most of his guests don't even know him or know where he is during his party, most of them don't even care. Gatsby shares his past on the way to the lunch in with Nick, he describes a past that doesn't connect with what is going on in his life now. He doesn't seem like the person who would throw the ridiculous parties for no reason.
But Gatsby seems to be having the same problem but in a different way. Instead of being one of the people attending a party they weren't invited to, he is the one that is throwing them. But, Gatsby never participates in anything at his parties, instead he watches everyone else enjoy themselves. Most of his guests don't even know him or know where he is during his party, most of them don't even care. Gatsby shares his past on the way to the lunch in with Nick, he describes a past that doesn't connect with what is going on in his life now. He doesn't seem like the person who would throw the ridiculous parties for no reason.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Blog #20: Beginning The Great Gatsby
1. The narrator is Nick Carraway,and his perspective, biases, character traits us that he is not judgemental and doesn't critisize other people because they did not have the same things that he had, in other words he's telling the reader that you can trust me.
2.I think that Ditgerald chose Nick to be the narrator because he is not biased to one side, and the way we read it as if we were Nick flows and if it was through some other person it could be confusing and we are getting a clear and specific view from Nick's point of view.
2.I think that Ditgerald chose Nick to be the narrator because he is not biased to one side, and the way we read it as if we were Nick flows and if it was through some other person it could be confusing and we are getting a clear and specific view from Nick's point of view.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Blog #19: Critique a professional example
1. the most successful element of this work sample is when the narrator is talking the video matches what he is saying.
2. The message of the work is how dolphins are being slaughtered in Japan, and the Japanese people not even caring or paying attention to what is going on. I know this because the government isn't even doing anything to stop this and in the video the narrator talks about how the school kids just walk on by as the dolphins are getting slaughtered.
3. The audience could be anyone who cares about dolphins ranging from teens (like actress Hayden Panettiere who tried to help the dolphins) to old people (like director of "The Cove" Louie Psihoyos, the film is about the dolphin slaughterings in Japan). I know this because many people love dolphins and who would want to see them get hurt and people young and old are trying everything they can to save the dolphins.
4. They show really sad and grafic images of the dolphins being taken away to get slaughtered while the narrator says how the mother and baby dolphins cry out to each other while being carried away, it just makes it sad.
5. they used alot of images and information to capture the audience's attention
6. I chose this piece of work because it delievers a good message and gets people interested in the topic and makes people want to learn how they can help (which was what I did 5 years ago, and now i am a member of the Save the Whales Again! a campaign of The Whaleman Foundation.)
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