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Look at the effects of fossil fuels and compare them to the use of alternative fuels. Then look at other ways of obtaining energy and their effects on the environment.
Thesis: The immense consumption and release of fossil fuels into the atmosphere need to be addressed and alternative forms of obtaining energy be found in order to prolong the existence of our Earth's environment for future generations.
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The sources that I am using now have allowed me to find adequate information on my topic, so far. All of them have been giving background information on fossil fuels and their uses and why we still use them today. Then again other source are showing that renewable energy are just as good as a source of energy just with a few downsides but not as many negatives as the ways we are doing things right now. I feel like I'm going to need to look at more in depth and specific topics and compare the use of say solar energy to the use of burning coal, to come up with an effective argument on my topic.
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So far Im starting to see that it is harder to differentiate between just the general speculation of saying that fossil fuels are bad for the environment and that green energy is 100% good. Most articles are many one sided and biased towards on or another. But Im finding some success in the information I need to be gathering. To help avoid this problem I am going to do specific research on the different methods of obtaining energy like just buying coal or drilling for natural gas. Then formulate a specific position of my own in order to reduce the amount of bias given by the articles and sources I'm using right now.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Resources
1.http://energy.gov/fossil
I picked this article because its gives a good basis for what the definition of energy is and how it is obtained. It explains the process of going into the earth and getting fossil fuels and the controversy about it. As well as giving a good supporting argument for green energies.
2.http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/fossil_fuels/
This article just tells the reader what exactly fossil fuels are so it should provide some solid facts about coal and oil. But also I like the way it was formatted and showed some very good diagrams explaining the process. Another cool thing was showing the energy outputs of all the major countries, such as India, China, and the US.
3.http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/energy/
In this article is showed a lot about how the green world of energy interacts with everything else. It showed how to obtain green energy and what you can do to help with it also. So I thought it could help out a lot with explain to people what exactly renewable energy is without just boring them and teaching them what they already know.
4.http://www.renewablepowernews.com/archives/1413
What I thought was useful in looking at this article was how it shows both sides of the energy world and compared renewable to burning coal and oil. Since oil and coal have been used for more than 100 years it seems to be outdated but still in use. It should provide a nice basis for an argument to make in my paper.
5.http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9928068-54.html
This article is similar to my 4th resource but it gives a little different perspective on the argument with some more statistics involved so I can have more points to make in my paper. But it does have nice graphs that shows stats on the energy output of each type of method, such as coal vs solar and other things like that. So I mainly like it for that reason and thought it would be very helpful when comparing the two in my paper.
I picked this article because its gives a good basis for what the definition of energy is and how it is obtained. It explains the process of going into the earth and getting fossil fuels and the controversy about it. As well as giving a good supporting argument for green energies.
2.http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/fossil_fuels/
This article just tells the reader what exactly fossil fuels are so it should provide some solid facts about coal and oil. But also I like the way it was formatted and showed some very good diagrams explaining the process. Another cool thing was showing the energy outputs of all the major countries, such as India, China, and the US.
3.http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/energy/
In this article is showed a lot about how the green world of energy interacts with everything else. It showed how to obtain green energy and what you can do to help with it also. So I thought it could help out a lot with explain to people what exactly renewable energy is without just boring them and teaching them what they already know.
4.http://www.renewablepowernews.com/archives/1413
What I thought was useful in looking at this article was how it shows both sides of the energy world and compared renewable to burning coal and oil. Since oil and coal have been used for more than 100 years it seems to be outdated but still in use. It should provide a nice basis for an argument to make in my paper.
5.http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9928068-54.html
This article is similar to my 4th resource but it gives a little different perspective on the argument with some more statistics involved so I can have more points to make in my paper. But it does have nice graphs that shows stats on the energy output of each type of method, such as coal vs solar and other things like that. So I mainly like it for that reason and thought it would be very helpful when comparing the two in my paper.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Research Topics
1. The unquenched thirst for wealth of big corporations
I think that would be a good topic because it is something that interests me very much since I cannot stand how big companies can sit there and complain that they don't make 100 million when they make 50 million. And how 10% of Americans do not have a job right now and cannot provide for their family. It seems illogical to how people can always want more money when they make a handful that pays the bills and still have enough left over to buy luxury items. But more than just money the human race itself is never satisfied with anything they do, they always want to have more....
2. The effects of fossil fuels on the environment in comparison to green energy
This topic is done many times over but it is still a very pressing matter since we only have 1 earth and when its gone, its gone for good. Things such as even buying a water filter can make a huge difference in the plastic output for a family consumed every year. Currently there are many new cutting edge means of getting energy than just burning coal and other fossil fuels that put harmful chemicals into the atmosphere that eat through our ozone layer.
I think that would be a good topic because it is something that interests me very much since I cannot stand how big companies can sit there and complain that they don't make 100 million when they make 50 million. And how 10% of Americans do not have a job right now and cannot provide for their family. It seems illogical to how people can always want more money when they make a handful that pays the bills and still have enough left over to buy luxury items. But more than just money the human race itself is never satisfied with anything they do, they always want to have more....
2. The effects of fossil fuels on the environment in comparison to green energy
This topic is done many times over but it is still a very pressing matter since we only have 1 earth and when its gone, its gone for good. Things such as even buying a water filter can make a huge difference in the plastic output for a family consumed every year. Currently there are many new cutting edge means of getting energy than just burning coal and other fossil fuels that put harmful chemicals into the atmosphere that eat through our ozone layer.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thesis and Ad
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
I like to argue
Through out todays society it is well known that humans are quite shallow people and that people expectations of how a person should be physically "beautiful" is an almost impossible feat, and can lead to destroying peoples lives. People in the United States in pre-fastfood seemed to be very fit and muscular, but as it seem in recent years the average body fat percentage has been raised on an exponential scale. Due to the major fast-food chains such as McDonalds and Wendys, they have single handedly caused a huge upraise in the health of Americans. Lobbyists for these corporations say that they aren't forcing the food down their customers throats, but if you get in your car and take a ride down the street there will be at least 1 fast-food place every mile, if that. If that isn't clear enough every fast-food place has the use of yellow, red, or orange and these colors have been proven to encourage appetite, once again the marketing camping in designed around getting the average person to consume their heart attack on a bun.
While opening up a magazine there will be countless ads of these "beautiful women and men showing off some product that will magically make you more attractive or help lose weight. Every person is always looking for that extra boost in confidence to seem more attractive to the opposite sex. In turn believing that if they purchase this product it will do that for them. This is where the marketing campaign board makes there paycheck, by getting inside the head of their target market.
Even in cartoons for kids the characters are never out of shape and are disproportionate to what they would actually look like in real life. For instance, the barbie doll has a very small waste, abnormally long legs and neck, not to mention her bigger than average chest. The book does a good job of depicting this very well in a real life photo of what the Barbie doll would look like compared to a super model, and its not good.
While opening up a magazine there will be countless ads of these "beautiful women and men showing off some product that will magically make you more attractive or help lose weight. Every person is always looking for that extra boost in confidence to seem more attractive to the opposite sex. In turn believing that if they purchase this product it will do that for them. This is where the marketing campaign board makes there paycheck, by getting inside the head of their target market.
Even in cartoons for kids the characters are never out of shape and are disproportionate to what they would actually look like in real life. For instance, the barbie doll has a very small waste, abnormally long legs and neck, not to mention her bigger than average chest. The book does a good job of depicting this very well in a real life photo of what the Barbie doll would look like compared to a super model, and its not good.
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