C) In addition to chat room's many socializing abilities, online chat rooms have also become a great source of communication for other purposes. Chat rooms are very effective resources because they have even allowed me to converse with other members of my Biology class to discuss the lectures and labs. The chat room can provide a learning environment outside of the classroom. A lot of classes around campus have the chat rooms set up privately for only the students registered in that class.This is a security device that makes sure people who do not belong to a particular class do not gain access to the room. The chat room is a good resource to use inside and outside of the classroom. It provides convenience and a way to catch up on things if someone were to miss a day of class and needed notes or help.
D) In Los Angeles the use of dogs in the police force has been rejected and the use of weapons is preferred. During the Watts riots officeres employed guns as means of protection and some looters and perpetrators were killed. Dogs served as the preferred alternative to excessive force around housing developments off campus for students attending the University of California Los Angeles. At UCLA, canines were first introduced in 1979 to aid university Officers in protecting the safety of students from nearby gangs and as a result the canines caused the gangs to relocate. The purpose of canines in the police force is to provide an alternative to excessive and deadly force.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Kitman and Moore
Jamie Kitman and Patrick Moore are both supporters of protecting the environment. Kitman is the New York bureau chief for Automobile Magazine and writes about Hybrid cars not being as environmentally friendly as everyone assumes. The battery, if not recycled properly, is a big issue to the environment according to Kitman. Also, the Hybird SUV's are worse on gas mileage than regular cars. People still purchase them for better parking passes, use of special lanes of traffic, and tax breaks. The Hybrid cars are more efficient around town but when taken to the interstate, other cars get much better gas mileage.
Patrick Moore's piece discusses another way of energy for cars, nuclear energy. He states that nuclear energy is the only alternative to fading fossil fuels and the only way to save the planet from drastic climate changes. The ability to construct massive nuclear weapons from nuclear energy is a set back to this being done. Although, there are precautions are trying to be maintained or created to keep this from happening. In Japan, to make it more difficult to sell this nuclear energy in civilian materials, the Japanese have made a system where the plutonium is never separated from the uranium.
In my opinion, when a writer has experienced their topic it definitely makes me consider the opinion because it comes from knowledge and understanding. Not from estimated guesses.
Patrick Moore's piece discusses another way of energy for cars, nuclear energy. He states that nuclear energy is the only alternative to fading fossil fuels and the only way to save the planet from drastic climate changes. The ability to construct massive nuclear weapons from nuclear energy is a set back to this being done. Although, there are precautions are trying to be maintained or created to keep this from happening. In Japan, to make it more difficult to sell this nuclear energy in civilian materials, the Japanese have made a system where the plutonium is never separated from the uranium.
In my opinion, when a writer has experienced their topic it definitely makes me consider the opinion because it comes from knowledge and understanding. Not from estimated guesses.
Revision
Today almost everyone looks for a way to disown consequences for their actions. No one wants to deal with something they did not want in the first place. Abortion is another way out in most cases. No one knows what it literally means. It is a term. @(Therefore), you never hear of the problems women have emotionally, physically, or mentally after they have an abortion. You only hear that it makes a problem disappear. *People are not educated well enough on the issue and it is entirely too sugar coated.
In my policy paper I will discuss a policy that says that people need to know what goes on during and after an abortion. @(For example) what types of abortions there are, the effects on a woman's body it can have, why so many people never know what they are really doing, and so on to show how important it is not to protect people from the truth about the process of this act. @(Also), how I propose to deal with it is to have education classes for women who want this done. I think I have enough sources to support what I am going to write about.
In my policy paper I will discuss a policy that says that people need to know what goes on during and after an abortion. @(For example) what types of abortions there are, the effects on a woman's body it can have, why so many people never know what they are really doing, and so on to show how important it is not to protect people from the truth about the process of this act. @(Also), how I propose to deal with it is to have education classes for women who want this done. I think I have enough sources to support what I am going to write about.
Tiger Burn
The decision to not go through with Tiger Burning this year, I think is a respectful one. The recent events of the seven students who died in a fire is still very upsetting to many students. It would just be to hard on students effected by the fire to watch something be burned to death and think it to be funny. It will definitely effect the USC society in a positive way. I also think that it is good that the traditions of USC can still be somewhat lived out and not completely cancelled or anything that would make events at USC no fun any more. We are simply thinking of the respect that should be given to students who died in Ocean Isle as well we should for they deserve all we can give.
Monday, November 12, 2007
CR Chaper 7 Question 4
In Jeffrey Kluger and Richard Lindzen's articles they discuss global warming. They differ in their approaches to the discussion. Of course they both talk about the cause and effects of global warming but then they give different points of view.
In Jeffrey Kluger's "Be Worried, Be Very Worried" Kluger discusses how global warming is being caused by people and what is taking effect with global warming now. There have been many natural disasters and he seems to believe that the CO2 emissions are what is causing these disasters all over the world. It is believed that the increase in CO2 is causing the glaciers and ice caps to crumble and slush causing a rise in sea level that could "swallow large parts of coastal Florida and most of Bangladesh." He states that scientists have predicted global warming occuring and that most have concluded people are the cause of it. Another example he gives is feedback loops occuring causing soils to warm up and decompose therefore releasing gases in the air. This occurance could lead to warming and permafrost thaw. Permafrost thaw happening could cause a loss of thermoregulation, giving warmer oceans and colder continents. All of it mainly goes back to the overproduction of CO2 causing and environment for plants and animals to slowly disappear.
In Richard Lindzen's "Climate of Fear: Global-Warming Alarmists Intimidate Dissenting Scientists into Silence" Lindzen has differences in the way he discusses global warming. He feels like people overreact about this issue. He agrees CO2 should be a factor in the global warming but states "...what the public fails to grasp is that the claims neither constitute support for alarm nor establish man's responsibility for the small amount of warming that has occurred." His finding on the Iris Effect, where cirrus clouds with high temperatures can give negative climate feedback that reduce the response to growing amounts of CO2, he believes was discredited because it went against global warming. He basically believes people play it up bigger than it really is.
I agree with Lindzen's standpoint that global warming is made out bigger than it is but Kluger's article was much more effective. He had much more effective evidence and was much less biased than Lindzen was. Klugen knew how to support his theory on what he was writing. Lindzen did so poorly.
In Jeffrey Kluger's "Be Worried, Be Very Worried" Kluger discusses how global warming is being caused by people and what is taking effect with global warming now. There have been many natural disasters and he seems to believe that the CO2 emissions are what is causing these disasters all over the world. It is believed that the increase in CO2 is causing the glaciers and ice caps to crumble and slush causing a rise in sea level that could "swallow large parts of coastal Florida and most of Bangladesh." He states that scientists have predicted global warming occuring and that most have concluded people are the cause of it. Another example he gives is feedback loops occuring causing soils to warm up and decompose therefore releasing gases in the air. This occurance could lead to warming and permafrost thaw. Permafrost thaw happening could cause a loss of thermoregulation, giving warmer oceans and colder continents. All of it mainly goes back to the overproduction of CO2 causing and environment for plants and animals to slowly disappear.
In Richard Lindzen's "Climate of Fear: Global-Warming Alarmists Intimidate Dissenting Scientists into Silence" Lindzen has differences in the way he discusses global warming. He feels like people overreact about this issue. He agrees CO2 should be a factor in the global warming but states "...what the public fails to grasp is that the claims neither constitute support for alarm nor establish man's responsibility for the small amount of warming that has occurred." His finding on the Iris Effect, where cirrus clouds with high temperatures can give negative climate feedback that reduce the response to growing amounts of CO2, he believes was discredited because it went against global warming. He basically believes people play it up bigger than it really is.
I agree with Lindzen's standpoint that global warming is made out bigger than it is but Kluger's article was much more effective. He had much more effective evidence and was much less biased than Lindzen was. Klugen knew how to support his theory on what he was writing. Lindzen did so poorly.
Topic Proposal for Policy Paper
Today almost everyone looks for a way to disown concequences for their actions. No one wants to deal with something they did not want in the first place. Abortion is another way out. No one knows what it literally means. It is a term. People say "I do not want this baby. I am going to have an abortion." You never hear "I do not want this baby. I am going to get a powerful vacuum to suck the baby apart into a trash bin." Oh no that would be way to harsh. You never hear of the problems women have emotionally, physically, or mentally after they have an abortion. You only hear that it makes a problem disappear. People are not educated well enough on the issue and it is entirely too sugar coated.
In my policy paper I will discuss a policy that says that people need to know what goes on during and after an abortion. Like what types of abortions there are, the effects on a woman's body it can have, why so many people never know what they are really doing, and so on to show how important it is not to protect people from the truth about the process of this act. I think I have enough sources to support what I am going to write about.
In my policy paper I will discuss a policy that says that people need to know what goes on during and after an abortion. Like what types of abortions there are, the effects on a woman's body it can have, why so many people never know what they are really doing, and so on to show how important it is not to protect people from the truth about the process of this act. I think I have enough sources to support what I am going to write about.
Point IV for Policy Paper
There are three things I covered in my exploratory paper. First, I discussed a little about what exactly abortion is and why it is so controversial, like the definitions and the methods used. Second, I showed the pro-life side of people who believe it is wrong to have an abortion. I gave examples and reasons to support this side and show their points, like the Bible and ethical controversies this creates. Third, I showed the pro-choice side of people who believe that a woman has every right to have an abortion and it is not wrong to do so. I also gave examples and reasons to support this side and show their beliefs, like the Bible being misinterpreted and how the definitions vary to say it is not "murder".
I think the side most dominant is the fact that it is ok to have an abortion and people do not see anything wrong with this. I think this because when people hear of abortion the word is sugar coated so much that people do not really understand what this intells. People do not see what the doctors really do or the effects it has on people afterwards. They just know it as a way out of a sticky situation. No responsibility for something they do not want. People are not educated enough on the issue.
I think the side that should be dominant is the fact that it is not ok to have an abortion. I think people need to understand what they get into if they go through with this act. An abortion generally happens when a woman gets pregnant and does not want the child. Why should we give yet another way out for people to not take responsibility for their actions by getting rid of an innocent victim.
This can be enforced as a policy to make people understand what they do before we allow them to make such an action and only allow this under strict circumstances. Show the women other options if they do not want the child, ex. giving it up for adoption.
I think the side most dominant is the fact that it is ok to have an abortion and people do not see anything wrong with this. I think this because when people hear of abortion the word is sugar coated so much that people do not really understand what this intells. People do not see what the doctors really do or the effects it has on people afterwards. They just know it as a way out of a sticky situation. No responsibility for something they do not want. People are not educated enough on the issue.
I think the side that should be dominant is the fact that it is not ok to have an abortion. I think people need to understand what they get into if they go through with this act. An abortion generally happens when a woman gets pregnant and does not want the child. Why should we give yet another way out for people to not take responsibility for their actions by getting rid of an innocent victim.
This can be enforced as a policy to make people understand what they do before we allow them to make such an action and only allow this under strict circumstances. Show the women other options if they do not want the child, ex. giving it up for adoption.
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