Friday, October 30, 2009
Reality TV
Watching reality TV is the same principle as when you are driving down the street and you just can't help staring at the car wreck. Eventually people become desensitized to it however. These shows only tend to last a few seasons and then someone else comes along and makes a new show. Producers make these ridiculous shows because somebody will watch them, and there are so many to chose from. Shows such as Survivor pit people against others to win a prize, they lie to each other, they make pacts with other team mates or they become genuine friends. Then there are the shows Nanny 911 and the Biggest Looser. At least these shows offer some sort of help to the people on them and the viewer. The most pathetic of all are the many, many shows of washed up old famous people making fools of them selves, Rock of Love, Surreal Life, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Run DMC's Runs House and the list goes on. They are watched because the public wants drama, they want to see other peoples problems so theirs lives don't look so bad. It is easier to make fun of other peoples lives than pick at our own. It is a prime time soap opera, it is a look at others lives.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wind farms
Wind farms are being touted as a domestic and inexhaustible energy supply that is the wave of the future. Wind power is one of the fastest growing energy sources based on percentage. The demand for this technology is on the rise in European countries with US demand is slowly growing every year the future of these farms are looking bright. These farms are also very likely to have a major impact on economies and regional stability around the world. With the costs of wind farms falling and their efficiency improving the global impact can only be positive.
While the US is still lagging behind Germany in producing clean and safe wind power more and more wind farms are opening. The world's largest wind farm became fully operational on October 1, 2009 in Texas. This farm has 627 wind turbines creating 781.5 megawatts which is enough to power 230,000 homes. Currently a few problems with this technology exist like that power grids must be updated for this power and power lines must be run from the farms to the plants. This is going to cost tax payers millions of dollars to secure this for future generations. Before wind farms can be successful on a global scale their cost must continue to decline and become completive with other exhaustible energy sources. With current US government the cost to produce wind energy is now more competitive than ever provide the infrastructure is in place.
Wind energy has many advantages over other energy sources. It is cleans and inexhaustible facts that most people know and understand. Other advantages of equal importance this is a beginning point to the US becoming less dependent on other countries for our energy. While the cost to replace old energy infrastructure and building these wind farms will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars this is just a small percentage of the money we send overseas to countries that are not always our friends. If we invest in this for our future we are spending this money in house not only providing energy but jobs to Americans.
The US economy will see quick results in the US economy as this sector creates new jobs and keeps energy costs stable. This stability puts the US in charge of its energy instead of other countries in the Middle East or South America. This technology also provides the same benefits to other countries willing to make this investment. Africa is currently building its biggest wind farm in Kenya that will provide stable energy baron land. Wind farms also provide a limited treat of collateral damage from a terrorist attack and can be rebuilt and maintained quickly and easily.
This can be a true answer for global energy needs but we must invest in it now. While this cost to utilize the winds full potential will be cost heavy in the beginning we are spending this money now anyway and killing our planet at the same time. Wind energy allows us to cut our dependence on foreign fuel while helping the environment and bolstering our economy. The potential to wind power is enormous. U.S. winds could generate more electricity in 15 years than all of Saudi Arabia's oil, without being depleted.
While the US is still lagging behind Germany in producing clean and safe wind power more and more wind farms are opening. The world's largest wind farm became fully operational on October 1, 2009 in Texas. This farm has 627 wind turbines creating 781.5 megawatts which is enough to power 230,000 homes. Currently a few problems with this technology exist like that power grids must be updated for this power and power lines must be run from the farms to the plants. This is going to cost tax payers millions of dollars to secure this for future generations. Before wind farms can be successful on a global scale their cost must continue to decline and become completive with other exhaustible energy sources. With current US government the cost to produce wind energy is now more competitive than ever provide the infrastructure is in place.
Wind energy has many advantages over other energy sources. It is cleans and inexhaustible facts that most people know and understand. Other advantages of equal importance this is a beginning point to the US becoming less dependent on other countries for our energy. While the cost to replace old energy infrastructure and building these wind farms will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars this is just a small percentage of the money we send overseas to countries that are not always our friends. If we invest in this for our future we are spending this money in house not only providing energy but jobs to Americans.
The US economy will see quick results in the US economy as this sector creates new jobs and keeps energy costs stable. This stability puts the US in charge of its energy instead of other countries in the Middle East or South America. This technology also provides the same benefits to other countries willing to make this investment. Africa is currently building its biggest wind farm in Kenya that will provide stable energy baron land. Wind farms also provide a limited treat of collateral damage from a terrorist attack and can be rebuilt and maintained quickly and easily.
This can be a true answer for global energy needs but we must invest in it now. While this cost to utilize the winds full potential will be cost heavy in the beginning we are spending this money now anyway and killing our planet at the same time. Wind energy allows us to cut our dependence on foreign fuel while helping the environment and bolstering our economy. The potential to wind power is enormous. U.S. winds could generate more electricity in 15 years than all of Saudi Arabia's oil, without being depleted.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
There are many appeals to both the left and right wing. Everything seems to be all gloom and doom and someone else's fault. Each side masterfully uses a variety of persuasion techniques to stir emotion, outrageand action by the readers. Both sides have their similarities and differences each seeking to gain your trust and your vote on Election Day. Both the left and right organizers of these blogs seek to inform readers about what their political parties are doing to help their constituents and why they are far better for the country than their counterparts. Both love to lay the blame for our problems on each other rather than always voicing constructive solutions and bipartisan solutions.Each attacks each other for attacking them and cry outrage when anyone disagrees with them. Each of these blogs are clearly Republican orDemocratic and both focus on their parities first and what's right or best for the country second. The major differences found of these blogs seem to big the redistribution of wealth. Democrats want everything for everybody. Healthcare, homes and money while Republicans want to be able to keep everything they earn.
The Daily Dish features a blog called "Those Useless, Spineless,Rudderless Democrats" uses repetition to undervalue Democrats efforts while another blogs provide many reasons why America is in the mess we arein today. This includes everything from high infant death rates, a poor economy, and an out of control deficit. There is an endless amount of blogs slamming the Democrats. The same can also be said about the Democrats talking about the Republicans. They use persuasive techniques including the same ones listed above as well as many comparisons and agitate and solve.The Daily Kos provides up to the minute updates of the state of the nation and says that a favorable opinion of President Obama is growing and that the nation is beginning to recover under Democratic leadership.
Blogs from both parties consistently use persuasive techniques to sell themselves just like advertisers do to sell a product. They use repetition and comparisons to sell themselves and explain their actions while showing the alleged failures of the other party. Like everything else you cannot believe everything you read online. Differing views can be found in everything involving politics and if readers are not getting the whole story they can easily are pulled to one side over the other.
The Daily Dish features a blog called "Those Useless, Spineless,Rudderless Democrats" uses repetition to undervalue Democrats efforts while another blogs provide many reasons why America is in the mess we arein today. This includes everything from high infant death rates, a poor economy, and an out of control deficit. There is an endless amount of blogs slamming the Democrats. The same can also be said about the Democrats talking about the Republicans. They use persuasive techniques including the same ones listed above as well as many comparisons and agitate and solve.The Daily Kos provides up to the minute updates of the state of the nation and says that a favorable opinion of President Obama is growing and that the nation is beginning to recover under Democratic leadership.
Blogs from both parties consistently use persuasive techniques to sell themselves just like advertisers do to sell a product. They use repetition and comparisons to sell themselves and explain their actions while showing the alleged failures of the other party. Like everything else you cannot believe everything you read online. Differing views can be found in everything involving politics and if readers are not getting the whole story they can easily are pulled to one side over the other.
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