Sunday, October 26, 2008

research paper

I have been thinking about writing my research paper on alternative energy sources. I am interested in this particular topic because I believe that a change to alternate energy sources would boost our economy by limiting our reliance on foreign oil and other foreign sources. I believe that this is a decision that needs to be made in order for our country to advance further into the future.

Monday, October 20, 2008

response post/Sins of the (Grand)father?

A 6 year old boy who was abducted 4 days ago is now back safe with family and police say that his grand daddy may be the reason! 4 days ago Cole Puffinburger was abducted from his mothers home by two armed men posing as police officers. the boy (now home safe with his father) was found on a side street by a bus driver near a Methodist church. The police have now arrested the boys grandfather whom they believe stole millions from drug dealers and was supposed to pay back the money in ransom demands. My thoughts is that while the author of this piece seems rather objective I think the Grandpa should fry! anyone who steals money from serious drug traffickers is only asking for trouble for him and his family. What the man should have done is gone to the police and told the police about these druggies and let them deal with the traffickers instead of stealing from them. Most other news articles are giving sympathy towards the boy but are just as suspicious of the Granddad as I am. My question: how did this grandpa find out about this drug ring in the first place?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

farovite reads

I love to read a wide variety of books but most of them focus on a few themes that still drive me today. Mostof the things I read are either muder mysteries or fantasy war books. I find that I myself want to go into the field of policing and I think that these novels probably had some influence on my educational career path today. As far as the fantasy war books go, I find that if you equate most things in life to war then by studying the great generals of the past you can find a way to solve many of the prblems life throws at you both economically and personally.

collaboration

I have had many projects in the past that have required working with others, most of them have always seemed that I have had to do a good amount of the work. I remember my first time working on a real big school project with anyone was in the 8th grade. I was partnered with a real smart@$$ who really didn't want to do any work. although I managed to push him to do most of the preliminary work I was still the one who ended up doing the main part of the project so it is nice whenever I get to do a collaborative project that has group members who all will pitch in.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Financial Crisis

This financial crisis is nothing new. Serious recessions have been happening for ever since 1926. Personally I don't own any stock so I cant say that I feel any ones pain nor can I claim to know how they feel. What I can say and What I think the author of this article is trying to point out is that recessions are always cause for worry because money is needed to live and while these recessions come and go everyone does have a severe impact on almost everyone in one way or another. Almost any other news source would say just about the same thing. Its simple our economy has always fluctuated and will continue to fluctuate. If I could ask a financial advisor one thing though it would be: why has our economy suffered so many recent recessions instead of its normal pattern?

benefits and difficulties of peer review.

There are many benefits as well as difficulties to peer review. To anyone who does not know what peer review is this is a written review by someone in the same class as the writer being evaluated. The benefits are that you can learn from others what you can improve on while seeing if your composition is at all interesting to other readers. Peer review also allows you to make any corrections necessary before sending it in for grading or publishing. Peer reviews however also have downsides. The first of these is also one of the benefits and that is that you get constructive criticism (sometimes more criticism than constructive). Second, after peer reviews you often have to go back and revise parts of your paper. These reviews also may not always be what you had hoped and you often have to go back and sometimes even revise the entire paper .

ad assignment

The ad is about car repair and customization. This ad uses the images it does because they are flashy but do not take away from the ad text. The written text meshes more with the images then it takes away from them.

http://www.zedworld.co.uk/media/newqua~1.jpg