ST313 bacterium

Salmonella is a drug resistant strain of bacteria gains in Africa. The drug resistant has emerged a high death rate in the last decade in Africa and it’s been causing unusual number of death.

Deadly Agent: the drug resistant ST313 bacterium (in red)

The drug’s resistance genome was decoded by researchers from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and researchers in Kenya and Malawi.

Most salmonella bacteria cause diarrhea and are rarely fatal, this one cause’s death in 1 of 2 cases among children and vulnerable adults in some African regions. Many of the victims have been weakened by AIDS, anemia, malaria or malnutrition.

Salmonella circulates in animals and humans through food poisoning. After sequencing the bacterial DNA found in about 50 Africans suspected of infection, researchers said that ST313 strain appeared to be mutating to circulate in humans independently of animals.

Dr. Chisomo Msefula says ST313 “has rapidly gained resistance to many of the commonly used antibiotics in the field.” The author of this article said that “poor countries needed greater access to sophisticated genetic sequencing machines that could spot tiny DNA mutations like the ones making this germ so fatal.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/health/01glob.html?ref=africa

Rwanda Joins British Commonwealth

The republic of Rwanda was admitted to the British Commonwealth on Saturday. It became the 54th nation joining the post colonial group. The members of BC admitted the central African country after it applied for membership in 2008. This decision was made due to the effort made in the country in the last 15 years, Rwanda’s government spokesperson said in toe capital Kigali.

Diplomats as also have seen a promising step in the country’s political development under Paul Kagame as president, after the genocide in 1994.

Rwanda’s application which was made along with Mozambique initially came under consideration because of criticism of its human rights record.

Rwanda was first colonized by Germany in late 19th century and then by Belgians. Later, the country held close ties with France, which were severed after 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Afghans Say Poverty, Not Taliban, Main Cause Of War

The main cause of war in Afghanistan is not the Taliban, but the poverty. Unemployment and government corruption are the main causes of war.

After 3 decades of war Afghanistan is remains one of the poorest and least developed country in the world. Unemployment rate stands around 40 percent and more than more than half the country lives below the poverty line. Violence is at its highest level since U.S. backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in late 2001.

A survey of more than 7000 Afghans by British charity Oxfam and over groups, found that 70 percent of people who completed the survey, see poverty and unemployment as the main divers of the conflict. Almost a half of them said corruption and ineffectiveness of their government are the main reason for the continuous war while 36% thought the Taliban insurgency was to blame.

“Repairing this damage can’t be done overnight. It will take a long time for the economic, social and psychological scars to heal… Afghanistan needs more than military solutions.”

There are 110 000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan 68 000 Americans trying to strengthen Talibu insurgency that has spread to previously peaceful areas. President Obama is deciding where to send the other 40 000 troops. The Afghanistan’s frustration is the slow pace of development – widespread corruption, inability of Afghan and international security forces to stop the violence.

Even though there are billions of dollars in aid poured into the country, very few Afghans have seen few changes in their lives.

“Many individuals felt that though much had been promised to the Afghan people, little had actually been delivered – creating frustration and disillusionment and ultimately discouragement stability” – Oxfam said.



http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/18/world/international-us-afghanistan-survey.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=poverty&st=cse

I think this is a very interesting article. People are trying to figure out what is the problem and how it started and this is the first step of solving a problem, identifying it and also knows how and why it started. There is a progress in development in Middle East.

The fact that people don’t feel the change its being made, even though there are a lot of money doing into Afghanistan, it is repeated a lot of times that there is a constant corruption in that country, there is no surprise there.

I think pathos is very well used when the person said; - Repairing this damage can’t be done overnight (….) economic, social and psychological scars to heal- the psychological scar, shows through how much terror they have and are being put under .

Sponsor of Corporations EDIT

Homeless people belong to the streets no matter what. People with money are brought into media and are given more money.

Big companies are paying people to advertise their products, their name and make the world aware that they exist.

A homeless person in the middle of New York is watching TV on the side walk that is advertisement. Two young college students are saying First USA in each conversation they have no matter whom with; they get paid the college tuition.

Chris Barrett and Luke McCabe are the two talking head of this section. They are going to share their story with us while a number of conventions will make us visualize what they have to say. Tiger Woods is shown through video montage where he is wearing a Nike hat. That was Chris and Luke’s inspiration; they are telling us through voice over that the famous sport played must get a lot of money for wearing the hat. The two representatives of First USA started doing small advertisements for different products. While telling the story, archival footage of them wearing different message t-shirts are shown, them advertising brands of cereals.

The talking heads are explaining how they started working for First USA and the company is paying their college tuitions. During video montage is shown of them two doing different things for the company, the voice over is mentioning how they got into the media saying First USA on TV, and taking every opportunity to advertise the company that is supporting all their expenses.

At the end of the section, Luke and Chris are sharing a deeper side of their story, using ethos pathos and logos, they make us aware that the company is paying their college so they have to do what they are told to do, which is logic, how hard it is to mention one company’s name into a conversation. Ethos is pathos are used when they start saying that they trust the company and they should be trusted and if not, it’s a mistake not to trust them make the best out of it. First USA will always be there for them and will always help them. People around these two enlightened them and have faith in them.

In this section, ethos come in right at the beginning where the homeless person probably make more advertisement for that TV than Chris and Luke are doing for First USA. There are a lot more people walking by in a busy New York City than two people can talk to. The poor homeless person doesn’t know how much good he does for TV companies, so what he is doing is not intentional and he doesn’t get paid, while the two college students are aware of their job, are doing for the money and are getting paid. That is an emotional point touched, the unfairness done to those in need.

Diarrhea is taking children away

Diarrhea kills 1.5 million children every year in developing countries. This is caused by dehydration. Only 4 in 10 people who need oral rehydration get it. Diarrhea kills more than AIDS malaria and measles.

All the attention has gone to more glamorous disease but the basic one has been left behind. Mickey Chopra, chief of health at UNICEF is trying to put diarrhea back to the global health agenda.

His observations say that rich nations spend too much on AIDS which requires lifelong medications, comparing to diarrhea and other killer of children, pneumonia which can be treated inexpensively.

Recent data had shown progress in reducing child mortality and treating people with AIDS.

There is competition for foreign assistance. President Obama had increased with 2 percent the senses on H.I.V. and AIDS for 2010 and 6 percent for maternal and child health. Global health care said that even with the American help, the big child killers are remaining.

In Nigeria and Ethiopia, the main African targets, the number of deaths in 2007 of AIDS was 237 000 which is less than 540 000 the number of children under 5 years old killed by pneumonia and diarrhea.

This year, $ 750 million USA is spending on H.I.V. and AIDS in the two countries not only dwarfs the $35 million it is spending there on maternal and child heath, but is also more than $646 million spend on maternal and child health in the world’s countries combined.

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel a bioethicist from Syracuse University had contended that international aid for health is limited and would save more lives if increases focused on maternal health and the “mundane but deadly diseases” that is killing the children. Such choices are necessary if the United States decides whose lives their going to save. While USA has invested heavily in fighting against AIDS, other wealthy nations should pick up on other costs for other deadly diseases. Jeffery D. Sachs Sais “rather than tearing down what’s working, we should continue to invest in what’s needed.”

Mr. Obama promised to put more focus on maternal health and percent and proposed a 53% increase in the fight for malaria in the next year.

Even thought a lot of money is put into fighting deadly diseases in Africa, still more than half the people who need drug treatment are not getting it. Two million people died of HIV AIDS in 2007. Pneumonia killed 3 million children under age of 5 and diarrhea killed another 1.5 million, out of almost 9 million young children who died last year.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/30child.html?ref=africa

This is an interesting article and I think it makes the audience aware of some of the good part of the USA. There is always the question, what does US get out of this?! What ever that is, if there is something, I was suprized wit how much money they invest in Africa. What I dont understad, is why are they investing mostly in Ethiopia and Nigeria, why not in all the countried in need. If really US want to save people, then money would be send all other the world where people really need help. The developig countries are their only solution, mostly Africa which is continuously fighting against disseases and total poverty!

Sponsor of Corporations

There is a homeless person in the middle of New York who lives on the street, on the side walk of the street, his roof is a plastic foil, but he has a TV. The voice over tells us that people go and take picture with him and it would be interesting if the company would sponsor him. A close up of his eyes is shown, you could read the sadness on his look, he does have problems and he is homeless. The next shot its two people (Chris Barrett and Luke McCabe) getting into a MBW car.

They saw Tiger Woods on TV wearing a Nike hat, a close up of a picture is shown, where the Nike sign is clearly visible, had and figured out that he is paid a lot of money to wear that. Chris and Luke thought they could do that for someone else. Archival footage of Chris and Luke advertising cereals of products is shown while they tell us how they have advertised and got money for school. Archival footage continues showing us the two advertisers on TV talking about First USA on TV, advertising First USA and getting money for their college just for mentioning First USA on TV.

Talking head of these two is presented and they are telling us their story how they know the First USA will always be there for them and will always help them, people they are working for enlightened them and have faith in them "because if you don’t, then it's just not good!"

Luke and Chris are paid by First USA for mentioning their name where ever they are going, and they are paying their college tuition and are working for them. They created a connection between the company and then two, they know they can rely and trust First USA and should have trust in them, while the homeless person in New York get nothing for advertising the TV's gets nothing for making people away of how important the TV is and how aware makes you of what happens around. He doesn’t get paid, either he doesn’t know he should, or the company just uses him, as they use all of us.

Incapacity to experience guilt edit

Leaders of the companies are not aware of all the damages are created around them. The grid for money and power gives them indifference and incapacity to experience guilt.

The environment is destroyed, animal habitats are being destroyed, people are born deformed, and chemicals are thrown into running water that causes millions of deaths.

What we have seen in the documentary is people being aware of this, thought different conventions, habitats of different animals are destroyed, and video montage is being used for that. Pollution is represented in an animated way and archival footage is used as well. The voice other makes us aware of how much damage is being made and also that “the industry has known about this” and no one has done anything towards fixing it.

Samuel Epstein a professor of environmental medicine plays the talking head role and makes us aware that chemicals that are released in the atmosphere are killing individuals and animals. Archival footage is used to show picture of deformed people and animals dying, touching our emotions through soft and slow music in the background. On top of that, voice over, the talking head, tells the audience how this is also largely responsible for this “overwhelming epidemic kind of cancer.” There is a chance that one in every 3 women gets cancer in one life time.

Monsanto is one of the biggest “killer” of all corporations. Because of people’s incapacity to experience guilt, “there is no evidence through of side effects, we don’t use antibiotics.” This is Monsanto’s argument. While Samuel is saying this, video montage is used to present young children drinking Monsanto’s poisoned milk and cereals. The talking head make popular that evidence also shows that they “had lied through their teeth.”

The film makes are showing this in such a way that logos, ethos and pathos are well defined. Logos is used to show us that the answer was always under our nose. People had always died of different diseases and weird illnesses and now women are dying of cancer. Ethos is represented by the talking head, Samuel who is a professor and he is aware of what the world and people endure from people hungry for money and pathos is represented by the slow music in the background and the emotional pictures shown. These two are created and brought together into this documentary especially to touch the sensible parts of peoples’ hearts.

Incapacity to experience guilt

This section argues and shows how people working for big companies, do not experience any guilt or moral obligation for the damage are creating. This is shown by animation, video montage, archival footage, animal’s habitat is destroyed, flora and fauna is dying, deformed animals are shown and slow music is played on the background for the audience to feel the emotion. People are born deformed, and “industry has known about this”, and government has not done anything towards fixing it. Our talking head, Samuel Epstein, a professor of environmental medicine, stated that chemicals that are released in the atmosphere, those that deform people and destroy habitats and organism are killing individuals and animals. A person disinfecting the streets is shown through video montage, while voice over makes us aware that companies industry is aware of this, and it’s also largely responsible for this “overwhelming epidemic kind of cancer.” There is a chance that one in every 3 women gets cancer in one life time. This is presented by video montage with the voice of Samuel over. Monsanto is one of the biggest “killer” out of all corporations. Their argument is that “there is no evidence of side effects, we don’t use antibiotics”, the talking head tells us. Evidence also shows that they “had lied through their teeth.” While stating this, images of children eating cereal milk are shown through video montage.

This idea is presented by the film makers in two ways. First the talking head and the voice over is giving the audience information that is not available for everyone. At the beginning, slow music is played on the background along with pictured of deformed animals and people. The causes of the corporation’s damages are shown through dramatic pictures and effective music. When the talking head starts talking each problem individually, normal pictures are shown, showing that the bad is there, but we don’t see it, no one realizes it, but the results affect all of us.

First country to run out of water.

Dilapidated tankers traveling mountain roads and across deserts to bring Yemenis water, which only the rich can afford, others must replay in rain fall, charity or crime to stave of thirst.


Yemen is the first country in the world to run out of water. This provides as test of the conflict and a mass movement of population towards better places with natural resources.

The government and experts agreed that Yemen's capital Sanaa has enough supplies but the city's population keeps on increasing and people will be forced to leave other areas because of water shortage.

In Yemen, the battle lines are tribal wars have traditionally followed the lines of the desert valleys that become rivers when rare rains fall. Amid, one of the world's highest rates of population growth, 3.46% last year, the water storage there was critical and is driving civil unrest.

Hanna a 18 year old mother from Lahej, said that in “in a good week we'll have water supply all week, but then the following week there will be water only for a day or two." She and her husband factory workers, pay £9 for a week's water supply. With an income on £60 per month, the family spends half of it on water.

"A lot of people, who can’t afford it, have to rely on their neighbors to help" Hanna said. Anisa, a 40 year old citizen said that when the water goes, it's a sign of trouble in the community.

Water available in Yemen is around 100-200 cubic meters per person each year, which is far below the international water poverty line of 1000 cubic meters.

Groundwater is used faster than it can be used. In Sanna water ground basin used to be 20 meters below, not it is 200 meters deep and even with rainwater tanks on the roofs of most houses.

In Taix, in the south, pat water is available once every 45 days. In Malhan in the mountains, the north district, women and children climb 1.500 m mountains to collect water from a spring, often in the small hours to avoid long queues.

Honsy Khordagui, director of the Water Governance Programme in Arab states at the United Nations Development Programme, says that if people will not find a solution people will encroach on big citied forming slums, rise in crime, venereal disease, violence, even commitment.

Yemen citizen’s line on scarce water supplies for thousands of years but the problem was always solved by the widespread production of the local drug of choice, qat, which consumes up to 40 % of water. About 70% of Yemeni men chew the leaves each day. Qat trees are often the only spots of green in the dry landscape.

The Deputy Planning Minister, Hisham Sharaf, admitted there is a water shortage which reflects in fighting between the people. If so much water will continue to be send on qat, Sanaa has about 10-15 years.

The Government is considering a desalination plant for seawater, but that is an expensive solution that might come too late. Other solution is to cut down the agriculture industry, importing more food.

Corporation

The sections talks about how people working and leading the big companies don’t care about the damages they are doing, the pollution their factory is creating. Individuals with high posts they care about the money the have in their pocket, not of being nice or care for others.

There is never enough, once they got the taste of money, there is never enough. Companies are not doing anything for sustainability, and that makes them feel bad but no one actually care enough to change something that might take off money from their accounts. Some day there will be laws against pollution and for sustainability of the company, then most of the people, the rich people will end up in jails. Some leaders did not even visit their own factories they are getting the money from. Not been there ones.

These people find opportunities. Wars are created to make money and opportunities to double the amount of money are coming in the posse.

Ethos: credibility
Ethos is used in this section because people who are watching this are manipulated. This documentary is made to make people straight believe what expects are saying and what the voice over said. Its made to inform people to give them the information they want the audience to know about them. How each company had to look like they care about the environment but actually they don’t care about anything but how much money they are getting.

Pathos: emotion
Pathos is used in the section with the pictures of the war, when people are burning and everything they had is burning under their eyes. People running down the streets. Its also used when the talking head, the expect says that he feels bad about the damage its company is creating and he feels bad but he cant do anything, and at some point there will be law abut it and most of the leaders who are leading the world right now will end up in jail.

Logos: logic
It is logic that people don’t care, are cold and aggressive. As long as money come out from what they are doing, nothing else matters. They will not be nice over taking money from their pockets. They don’t care and don’t want to see the conditions under which people are working, don’t want to see the poor conditions they are living. That’s why they are leading the world because their cold and will do anything for money!

Best Antidote to Poverty!

The antidote for poverty is education. Economy can grown in the long term by a mass of education. This is what its called " the most important escalator out of poverty" and that is education. The teacher quality is what matter is education and dedication to it.

One of the best books in recent years by two Harvard economists, claims that the obstacle of education and getting out of poverty isn't teachers, but the problems at home, uninvolved parents and broken down communities. There broader problems are very difficult to solve. The answer to those is to improve education.

Teachers have been extraordinarily effective in some of very troubled regions. The variance from class to class in elementary school is greater than the variance from school to school.

There is another problem, most affective teachers from America reserve for upper middle white class kinds and are less effective for troubled kinds who already have disadvantages. A solution to that would be a combination of higher compensation to draw teacher to more challenging schools.

This is part of a civil rights issue. Black members of Congress are not helpful on school reform, are not involved in it, but there are some black politicians who have been pushed for evidence based school reform, including Cory Booker and Barack Obama.

Moral Obligations

Should individuals within a company bound for moral obligations?

This is a come and go question. It depends, if the person we are talking about is doing the lower job, the labor let’s say in a factory, the person is doing the manufacturing stuff, then no. for those people I don’t think there are any other choices, most likely they are working for more than one person, the salary is very low and there is no other job they can get, or nothing that would pay better. For these people, there are no moral obligations, other than, what they are going to feed their family the next day.

If the person has a higher post, is going the paper work, yes it could be. Wither he/she will get another job where there are no bounds, or try to change something, but then again, that person may not even know the damages are made by the company he/she is working for. No, that middle employee shouldn’t feed any moral obligations if there is no other choice, or it could feel bad about it, but he/she takes the pressure in order to live a poorer life.

If the subject here has a much higher post, and is part of the leadership of the company, then definitely yes! That person can make a change, it may not be easy and it might take off from his/hers pocket, but that wouldn’t be a problem. The company’s defects or trashes are harming the whole world and affects everyone else around it especially those who make it happen, who make the company go, then that person shouldn’t sleep at night until it finds a solution either to diminish or clear out the problem.

World poverty and awareness of overseas aid

Now it is not the time to cut British aid to the world’s poorest countries. Mortished views the promises made my Britain as no more than a “meaningless number.”

There are two arguments, Britain should break its word poorest during a year, time when the World Bank estimates that 50 billion or more people will fall into extreme poverty, and the public money shouldn’t be used to inform people in schools about the lives of the poor in deprived countries.

Britain disagrees, the increase of aid have played a significant role in the helping of millions of children into schools, medical centers for sick and had an important role in strengthening the local communities also Brittan helped communities to stand on their own feet.

Making teenagers in UK school aware of poverty, it’s nothing political, but a well rounded education.

Hundred British charities worked to make sure that people in the developing world are not trapped in needless poverty. The approach of helping is something to celebrate not to denigrate and rightly enjoy the widespread support from millions of citizens across the society.

Half Kenyan president disappointed

The half Kenyan President, Obama, think his father’s country can do so much better. Kenya is ruled by the Obama’s Administration that reflects the White House’s frustration with the African government. The U.S.A president expects so much more from his father’s home country.

Unlike other African nations, Kenya is one that hasn’t felt under poverty and corruption. Kenya is Washington’s top partner in the region and has been the West’s mainstay in East Africa for a long time.

After the 2007 elections, threatened Kenya to split it along the ethnic lines. But the US brokered a power-sharing deal but since then, repeatedly warned that it wants faster reform.

Mr. Obama thinks that Kenya is the one country in Africa that should do much better than it does. He decided not to visit his father’s home land in his first job trip to Africa. This was supposed to show his disappointment on the Kenyan government. Last Wednesday Kenya was excluded Kenya from the meetings with Mr. Obama. Hillary Clinton made it clear that the US government is expecting some action from Kenya.

Proposal (ethos, pathos, logos)

Ethos: credibility


• 23% of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at this moment

• Ice bergs are melting

• The global temperature will increase in the next few years more than it did up until now.

• The atmosphere is running out of oxygen,

• Yellowstone burned for 3 months in 1988

• 25000 firefighters tried to stop the fire

• Greenland’s ice cap has accelerated six times the average flow of the Colorado river

Pathos: emotion

• People will die in slow painful rhythm

• Diseases chances will increase with the flooding and weather conditions

• Human activities are destroying what generations had to work for

• People had lost their homes, lives and everything they had build their whole life

• We have worked so hard to build up the world and how we are working so hard to destroy it

• We need a break

• Think about actions, all we do is enjoy destroy and not care

Logo: logic

• Rise of temperature causes ice to melt and sea level to rise

• If temperature rises, wildfire chances increase

• Weather conditions will change drastically

• Agriculture will be affected and people will starve

• Poverty will increase

• Plants cannot keep up with the pollution created by human actions.

• If no carbon dioxide will be emitted into the atmosphere for a year, the plants will be able to collect all the pollution from the air.

• In that time we will have time to think about our actions and also find other solutions that we, humans will put in practice

Global warming

Global warming


Ideas:

- Heat

- Money

- Carbon dioxide emissions

- Lack of food

- End of the world

- Technology not the solution

- Weather events

- Death of people and animals

- Evaporation

- Melting icebergs

- Burning forests

- Human greed

- New world

The problem is global warming, which means the whole world is heating up. Other major problems result because of this. Humans have to do something about it, otherwise we are all going to die, or we are going to find another place to live in, another world.

NASA is already looking for another planet to move on, when the world will be totally destroyed by human actions.

Solution:

Stop any kind of human action for a year, enough time for the plants to extract the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Logos:

If we are going to stop all the activities the level of carbon dioxide will have time to lower down.

Pathos:

If we continue harming the environment and not take actions, all the world will die slow and in great pain.

Ethos:

Statistics show that the world will end or the end of the world will start in 2012. All predictions and the calculations were assumed until 2012.

The Green Revolution and its consequences

No progress is without its problems but more food is produced per capita now than before the Green Revolution.

By:

Martin Geake (Scientific Alliance, Cambridge)

Dr. Tina Barsby (Tunbridge Wells, Kent)

Barrie Bain (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge)

Martin Livermore (Send a Caw, Bath)

 

Since the green revolution started, more food is produced and more land is being used. Artificial fertilizers are being used for a faster and greater productivity, but that is not part of the green revolution. If only natural fertilizers would be used, more than half of the world's population would starve.

Agricultural production increased the use of chemical fertilizers, which helps farmers make more money. By 2050 the world's population will increase to 9 billion people from 6.7 billion now. This will make the agriculture production to double in the next 40 years. There is a limited available land for agriculture and available water for irrigation.

We, humans have to reduce the environmental foot print of agriculture and increase the efficiency of production based on natural fertilizers.

The new technology helps crop growing but the carbon emitions are greater. The large productivity of agriculture absorbs the carbon from the atmosphere while the ground is still affected by the chemicals. Without the contribution of inorganic nitrogen, agriculture would not be able to feed more than 4 billion people.

The alternatives in agriculture that prove an effective way out of poverty, is not the usage of chemical fertilizers but to find solutions to use and increase the farmer's local natural resources to increase substantially yields of crops and vegetables.

Farmers need to find a long term strategy to double the agriculture productivity and also address concerns of environmental protection and water availability and the change in climate. The usage of natural fertilizers and increasing human working will have a better result and less poverty results made by the agricultural productivity.



Times UK

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6835855.ece

How can you rebel in a society where everything is packaged?

Most teenagers these days are not rebellious anymore, only very few of them are and those are called weirdoes or stupid. From what I have seen, people adopt the rebellions later on in life. More people become rebellious after their teen years, when they are supposed to be rebellious, not copiers.


Personally I don’t think teenagers are rebellious anymore, not these days. All they do is copy those who they think their cool. That is their rebellion. Although some of them are being what they think “rebellious” by their interpretation of those copied styles. There are very few teenagers that are being rebellious, meaning, they do everything their way, no matter what others are saying, if possible, they’d do it exactly the opposite. For example, when a rebel goes and buys a pair of jeans or a t-shirt, they buy something that no one else would buy or something they like and then they’d go home and change that thing. Write things on it, rip it away, or adding new stuff, like adding pockets they would ever use, but they like the idea and know that no one else would do that and also, others will call them weird or stupid.

Teenagers today, are copping styles of whom they like or fancy and try to do it their way. The way they interpret someone else’s style and make it their own, could be qualified as being rebellious, but it’s nothing original, everyone does that. A lot of teenage girls are fans of Hanna Montana who is a 16 year old famous star. Today, all teenagers who like her and are fans of her, are copying her, are wearing nice clothes, height hills, lipstick, hair bandanas, and all sorts of accessories. Most wear their down as she does, and doing all sorts of things like her, thinking their rebellious because they got to choose whom they like.

Growing up, maybe in college, you as an individual, don’t depend on your parents anymore, you get to choose if you go to classes or not, you are basically on your own. That is when people usually realized what silly individuals they were during height school, when they were copping the popular kids, or the famous singers. In college, they kind of realize that is them they are talking about and they way of seeing things. They start doing everything their way. If they don’t care about education, then they just go out get drunk, not carrying about anything else but having fun, how much fun a rebel, who is usually a loner, can have, if they care about school and the money and everything else, then they would just go to classes and decide what they want do with their free time. In college they start to buy things and then modify them until they like it, when they get to the level of all heard turned because people like or dislike what they have, that thing they made themselves, then they will stop either destroying the cloth or modify it.

Teenagers are not rebellious anymore, but those who are, usually wear black make up, unusual clothes because their modified, do everything their way, not care for anymore or anything and don’t listen to anything others tell them. Teenagers that are not rebellious, are copiers, they copy what they like and make it their own. Young rebellious come in later, in their 20-30’s when they decide what to do and how to do, but those that are rebellious, usually end up having nothing, but the memories of wasting time, or not caring, just having fun.

Income poverty and health insurance coverage 2008

This article found in NEW YORK TIMES, September 10th, talks about statistics for 2007 compared with 2008 economic situation. These calculations were released by Census Bureau.

by atherine Rampell

 2008 American Community Survey (ACS) estimated that from 2006- 2008 for income and poverty for places with populations of 20 000 or more. The median of money for household income for the nation was $ 50 300 in 2008. This media declines with 3.6 percent from 2007 (real terms). The start of the decline started in December 2007.



 In 2008, the official poverty (a person’s income is less than $1 a day) rate increased up to 13.3 percent from 12.5 as it was in 2007. Today there are more than 40 million people in poverty. The median of the earning of men and women who have worked full-time ( 5 days a week, 8 hours), decreased from 2007 to 2008. People are working more, and earning less.



 The number of people with no health insurance increased to 46.3 million in 2008 from 45.7 million in 2007. The 2008 statistic of the uninsured people increased with 15.5 percent.







http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/poverty-rate-rises/?scp=1&sq=poverty&st=cse

what is cool?

• Cool is what's fashionable and attractive at the time.

• You can get cool on every corner, for the right price, highly addictive and its effect is short live. If you go for cool today, tomorrow, you will come back for sure.

• Cool is an attitude, a behavior, comportment, style influence and a product of the zeitgeist( the spirit of tine or the spirit of age)

• Because cool is so varied and is changing connotations, as well as its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning.

• It has associations of composure and self- control

• Often used as an expression of admiration or approval.

• A set of movements, postures, facial expressions and voice modulations that are received and taken on strategic social value.

• It can also refer to a lack of conflict (harmony) " cool spiritual heart"

• Such things, like the state of harmony, " the land is cool" or " cool spiritual heart" have an African origin

• Attitude widely adopted by artists, politicians and other celebrities, who are entering the popular culture. This attitude is adopted by teenagers and people at all ages, famous, and non- famous, all the time.

• This phenomenon is spread to every corner of the earth, so widely that it's lost its true meaning

• According to Dick Pountain and David Robins, concepts of cool have existed for centuries in several cultures.

• What we call cool today its around 50 years old, but its roots are older than that.

• Ancient origins in Europe, Asia and African cultures, it was often part of the African - American jazz scene in 1940's

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(aesthetic)
• http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=164865
• http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=338
• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&rlz=1I7GGIE_en&defl=en&q=define:cool&ei=O2unSuTEFMTZ-Qa7kOjJCA&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Disney

Founded in Los Angeles, California, U.S. in October 16,1923 by Walt Disney and Roy Disney.

Industry in media and entertainment

Divisions:

Studios:

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  Walt Disney studio entertainment
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  Disney ABC television group 
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  Disney interactive media group 
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  Disney consumer products
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  Walt Disney parks and resorts 
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  Disney interactive studios
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  Radio Disney
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  ESPN inc
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  Disney cruise line
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  Disneyland resort Paris
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  Disney internet group
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  Movie.com
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  Familly.com
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  Disney.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company
http://cooporate.disney.go.com/corporate/overview.html

Students today

• My average class size is 12 students

• I think all o my teachers know my name

• I complete 90% of the reading I am assigned to me, only 40 % relevant to my life

• I bought a few books that I’ve never opened (assigned from the school and never used them)

• My colleague's parents pay 70 francs for each class, but he doesn’t care so he is not here.

• I will read 8 books this year

• Hundreds web pages and a few Facebook profiles

• I will right 100 pages for school this year and over 60 emails

• I get 6 hours of sleep each night.

• I don’t spend time watching TV, 1 or 2 hours each week.

• I used the chat 2. 1/5 hours a day, before I go to sleep

• I listen to music when I relax, 2 to 3 hours a day.

• I spend 30 min a month on the phone

• I spend 5 hours in class

• 3 hours eating

• I work 5 hours a week, 3-4 hours studying every day, 7 days a week.

• I am a multi - tasker, I don’t have to be, but it helps

• I will earn at least 50.000 after college

• I know what I want

• Over 1 billion people makes less than $1 a day and we were given laptops from the school

• At least one person died so I'd have this laptop

• When I will graduate, I will probably have a job that no one cares about. Blogging this, won't help me get there or deal with life problems.

• I didn’t ask for problems but I have to find the solution

• Technology helps go to our graves, it saves us from the disaster we created

• I decided not to Facebook thought my classes, I decided Facebook won’t get me in college

• All my school work is on this laptop, so I have to bring it to class, weather I like it or not

The broken hopes of a generation

The broken hopes of a generation
by Lisa Abend / Vigo
time magazines


Lorena Dominguez, a 23 year old Spanish girl, daughter of a longshoreman and a housewife , worked at Citroën automobile factory. She had a well paid job. She made plans for the summer to move in with her boyfriend and travel. She pus her apartment on the market. After that, he crisis came and she had to lower her apartment price, that was when she started to feel the crisis affect.


After that, she made plans for the summer, but in December, Citroën let go to 3.000 workers, 90 % of them with an age below 35 and she was one of them. Until them she always thought she would end up better than her parents, she realized it turned into an impossible dream.

In this new disappointed generation, one out of 3 people younger than 25, are unemployed. This generation grew up in a time with twice as strong economy, their parents generation always did better than the generation of their parents and so on, going backwards. A lot of the Spanish people cant afford living in their apartments, so they had to move back in with their parents.

"   A whole generation is having its ambitions thwarted"

Until the crisis, Spain used to be one of the most success stories. Its GDP was 70% of the E.U. average in 1992.

The Citroën factory opened in Vigo, a proudly working class in 1958 when it used to manufacture 547000 cars a year and it used to be one if the highest producing plant in Europe. It used to be one of the largest company of Galicia region, directly employing 10000 local people.

Spain's GDP is expected to shrink to 1.6% in 2009.

Kids were raised with consumerist expectations and now they feel frustrated when they can't maintain them, what is more frustrating is happening to their expectations and dreams for the future.



The broken hopes of a generation by Lisa Abend / Vigo - time magazines

TV’s and cars in Fahrenheit 451

In Fahrenheit 451, cars and TV-s are presented. The TV is called now a parlor and the car is the beetle. The parlor is part of the family. Mildred was talking to it and was pending all day watching her favorite shows and talking to the people in it, participating to games and so on. Her marriage is suffering because of it. The lack of communication is always present and the lack of trust because of the parlor, she believe all that was saying and not questioning the information given, while he husband, Guy was trying to explain her the way he feels and what is on his mind. Because of the parlor she set on the alarm because the ladies in there started crying and were bothered by Guy's poem. The parlor is part of the family, its got the most attention while her life is ripping apart.

The cars, the beetle are used when people are angry, go and drive fast, kill rabbits, dogs and in some cases people, how Clarisse was run over by a car. Guy was almost killed by someone driving the beetle with over 150 miles per hour. When Guy felt weird, guilty and was very upset because of the books and his boss, Beatty, his wife's response to his intention of talking to her, was to go and take the beetle and drive fast in the country, that helps her, it makes her feel good, it calms her down when she hits rabbits or dogs.

Both cars and TV's are presented in Fahrenheit 451. Both have a negative impact of people and society. The TV is more like an imaginary friend who’s receives uncontrolled trust from its audience and the cars are used to calm you down and make you feel good when killing things.

Cars and TV

Long time ago, cars and TV were just some words that not everyone knew what they were, or what they do to you. Now, everyone knows what they are and how they work, but not everyone knows what damages can do to them. When cars were available, were used for emergencies, or for long distance travelling, of course only the wealthy people had them, before that, people were traveling by foot, with the help of the animals, trains and so on, but nothing technology advanced.

Not long ago, everyone started to have a car. They could travel faster, they could travel a long distance, they didn’t have to plan it before, and weather was not a big obstacle in front of the journey. It was a good deal to get a car. What people usually like to do is to take everything that is good and turn it into bad, over use it, and forget its first role. People these days have cars, big cars, small cars, expensive, with loads of horse power, big engines beautiful tuned. It is true that it looks good and it gives the world a more developed aspect, people are still traveling and use them for transportation. As the world developed, the car industry developed as well, people don’t use cars only for transport, they use them for traffic of drugs, people, illegal races, to prove what car is better than the other one, how fast in can go, and who passes the finish line first gets the money, that is another type of fraud, illegalness. These days, cars are also used for publicity, either for the specific car brand or for other products. Also their used for food transport and that is good, gives firms good wholesale trade, commerce good profit and foreign trade good opportunities or making money for paying less for transport. People also use cars to run away from government, from police, when they break the law and the sequential is to go to jail or get any kind of punishment. As I said before, there are all sorts of cars and most of the times, those particular individuals have stronger engines than the police, and they get away with it.

There are many other examples of how people changed over the years. The main idea is that, at the beginning, Ferdinand Verbiest, the man who invented the first car, probably never thought about all these that happen now, he had a good intention, he build the car for simple, emergency transport, not for breaking the law and get away with it, not for illegal races, not for making dirty money, not for crime for either of these. A car gives people freedom, but sometimes it gives too much freedom. The kind of freedom people can’t have because they don’t know what to do with it, so they choose the easier way, the bad way of enjoying it.

VS

TV on the other hand, was invented and was commercial after the cars were. Their first job years ago, was to spread the world with news that people did wanted to know about and were actually affecting their lives, other than the American football games, but that was entertainment. Now televisions are used for pornography, tell people how many victims were killed in one night. It is true, it still talks about wars and things that happen in the world, but the pure truth is far away from what explosive bombs people present on the television. It’s also used for entertainment, cartoons for children. What televisions represent is good, only the way they doing it, gives people wrong ideas about what they should do and what examples they should have. First thing in the morning, the morning news, information, good, bad information, it depends, is it true? We don’t know, we don’t always have the source to verify, so we have to believe what they are saying. Next, a show, does it teach you anything, not necessarily, I mean it could show you illiterate someone can be, or you just take that as an example if you are nowhere above their level. There is a bad example, you as a watcher can easily get the wrong impression on what is there. Then it’s a movie, a funny one, again entertainment, occupies your time, or it takes you time from more important things you have to do. Again news, people die, people steal, people kill themselves, someone started a war, or rarely the war stopped. Now and then there is a good thing you hear in the news, the bad news though, in the other day, can ruin your day. Teleshopping is next, I think that would be a good idea if people would be fair, but their now, so there is cheating, stealing, breaking the law again. Horror movie, children are watching, they like it, they see blood, they see action, weapons, what do they learn? That killing is good, that cheating is good, and fighting is an everyday activity and so on.

(looks like a microwave)  VS


Cars and television are kind of the same, even though they don’t look the same and have the same job in the society, those two, both started with a good intention, a calm and welcoming intentions and people turned them into easiest ways of cheating, stealing and breaking the law, committing frauds. These two both, take out our time and I can’t say it’s a useful time, more like a wasted time we got used to it and we need it. Plus, they both pollute the environment, cars more than televisions, they both make people die and get them sick, especially those who are making them, so we can have the luxury of it. Cars and televisions are good entertainment for humans, but their one of the main source of destroying who we are, or who we used to be.

Fahrenheit 451 vs. Handmaid tails

In both, Fahrenheit 451 and Handmaid tail, people are controlled by the government and both stories include the enjoyment of suicide, of killing in character's behavior and thinking.



In Fahrenheit 451 and Handmaid tails , the government imposes people a way of living. In 451, books are not allowed, because they talk about how it used to be in the past, how people used to have a free will, and they used to be able to chose their own way of being happy, nothing was being imposed. Also books are forbidden because it only has words that say nothing and make people sad. On top of that, they'd have to think about what the words say, such thing might hurt the government idea of controlling the world, and they'd loose control.

In both books, the female characters, those with a weaker personalities, have suicide behaviors. They have been totally manipulated. Mildred loves driving fast in the country  and enjoys the feeling of killing rabbits and dogs. On the other hand, in Handmaids tails, the female character loves the blood smell and also loves how blood flows down the floor. Either of them are being touched by the pain they are causing. The control of the society washed any kind of sentiment, their left with no feelings.

Money and education (freedom)

· When you enter this world, you don’t get to choose whether you are going to be part of a wealthy family or not.
· Some people don’t have the choice of having money or not, they either have it or not.
· There are some people who are able to work their way out and get a decent salary or scholarship to go to school, but even so, you still need to have something to give out. You even need luck to get through height school, and then go to college and then you could say you have a chance to either make money or not, but that is a long way to survive and have people helping you or not; if you are one of those who’s got nothing, who left from zero.
· Poor people usually tend to want to go to school. The first few years it’s free, up until 8th grade, so they are going, they are trying, they like it and they want to continue, but after that, no one cares if u can go further on into the game. What they care about, is, do you have the money to do that? And that is the problem, there are people who are probably capable of being an A student through out of college, but most of the time, they’ll never know because that’s why they are poor, they don’t have the money to do it, that is when they depend on others.
· Rich people or people, who can afford going to a higher education, don’t put much value into it. They already have the money, or their parents do, but either way, there are founds to support them and give them all they want. Basically what they do is to consume without producing anything.
· It is funny how those who can do something with their lives, they either don’t care or just take the chances for granted and those who don’t have a choice but to starve or live at a minimum financial situation, are sometimes fighting a whole life to get a decent way of living, not worrying about what they’re going to put on the table tomorrow.
· What I am trying to say, is that … I am not the materialist kind of person, but what I realized lately, is that you need the money, and as long as you have it, it’s ok, if you don’t have it, then it’s another game, you are living to make the money to be able to live. Once again, people who want to do something with their lives, most of the times, don’t have the money to do it. School costs, and that it’s not cheap, is unfair. On top of that, some governments don’t support any costs. Those who have no idea what they want, their families already have the money, so they don’t see the point of going to collage if they have all they want with no effort, just by asking. Sometimes they are the problem, and they are the ones who are pointing fingers and laugh at those who don’t have the financial situation but what to make a change, and they call them names because they actually have a will in life, but it’s not like that, not at all, probably most of those who are bullying around won’t have a future on their own and maybe, why not, at some point, they are going to depend on those who worked.
· Money is needed in life and education is necessary, so these two go hand in hand, but when u have one, you don’t really want the other one, but when you don’t have both, you fight until you get at least one, unless you please with little.