Alternative Energy Question

Please answer ONE of the following questions in the comment section.

1. Many types of alternative energy were discussed in the presentation. Which one or two do you think have the greatest potential to solve the worlds energy problems?
2. Where do you stand on the ethanol/biomass controversy? Do you think the US should pass legislation to increase ethanol production?

Nuclear Energy Question

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1. Discuss the pros and cons of nuclear energy.
2. The primary problem with nuclear energy is the radioactive waste that is produced. How would you suggest we deal with this waste as a country?

Fossil Fuels Question

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1. How have the demands for energy changed in the past few decades? What countries are responsible for most energy consumption?
2. What technologies are available to allow fossil fuel use for energy without so many negative impacts on the environment?

Climate Change Questions

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1. How do scientists reconstruct past climates? Where do they get the data?
2. What consequences are expected by the end of this century if global warming continues at current rates?

Atmosphere Question

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1. What atmospheric problem was addressed by the international community in recent years and solved by the Montreal protocol?
2. What changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations have occurred in the past 50 years and how do scientists account for this excess carbon?

Populations Question

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1. What factors have impacted the population of the earth over the last 5000 yrs?
2. What population challenges are the United States and the world facing today? What are some possible solutions?

Populations

The top 3 countries in 2008 with highest population are China, India, United States. The population over the last few thousand of years has increased rapidly. In the early 1700's is when it started to increase. The U.S. has alot of immigrants because we are so close tp the border. U.S. is the number one country with the most immigrants.

Alternative and Renewable Energy

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Nucelar Energy

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Fossil Fuels and Energy (oil, natural gas, coal)

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Climate Change

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Atmosphere

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Populations

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Science of the election presentations

This particular post will have three parts.

I. Attending presentations on Friday, October 17th, 2008
You will be required to attend Friday's presentations of Environmental Science students, who will discuss various topics relating to "The Science of the 2008 Election."

II. Note-taking
Prior to this date, you will be given a list of topics these students will present on. From each group, you will select ONE topic to focus in on and take detailed notes. This means that at close of presentations, you will have taken notes on SIX speakers (since there are six over-arching topics with one student per topic). You will then POST YOUR NOTES TO THIS WEBSITE NO LATER THAN 8:00 A.M. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 2008.

III. Topic Response
Since you have taken good notes, you will be asked to respond to questions about the topics discussed. You should respond to three of the six topics presented on. Your deadline to respond is no later than 4:00p.m. on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 (Questions will be posted later this week: October 13-17, 2008).

IKE

Well first of all who evacuated, and were to, and for those who stayed, How are you coping, hows the family. It would be nice to hear from everyone see how, your doing, I am really bored for one, we dont have school untill tuesday, and I am out of candy so.......... anyone?

Diagnostic Writing

A diagnostic writing assignment isn't all that new. Though the topic was a first for me. Going through it didn't really show anything new about my feeling towards writing. I like to write though I usually don't like being to write something. It's just seems like writing isn't the same if someone tells you what to write about specifically. I feel this way because I see writing like something to express your feelings or to vent. Though when told to right it might be about something that you don't really care about. So thats my opinion, but other than that I do like to write and so far my view on writing is still the same.

Forrest Gump

I didn't really discover anything new about my writing, I've always known I love to write it"s in my blood. the process that I followed was basically to free write my way into a good paper. It was kind of difficult to compare my writing to a movie that I haven't seen in years. At the end of the day, there's still me overcoming obstacles. Where there's a will there's a way. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your'e gonna get."

Diagnostic

It was a new thing that I have done with comparing my writing to a movie. Although it didnt show me anything new about my writing because im used to writing essays and other type of writing work since a long time ago. Well I use the outline process in order to accomplidh my assignment and it wasnt hard to do.

Well i really did like this assignment. it made me want to check out the movie called a "Rebel Without a Cause". When i looked at the list of movies, i thought, "How can i compare what and how i write to a movie?". But when i saw this one title it kind of just hit me like it was saying, "Duh!". i figured that when we write we could be like rebels. We write with no limits just writing what it is we are thinking or feeling. No one can tell us, no we can't write that. This assignment was easy and it was well nice.

Lion King

I love this movie. I thought in doing this paper it was kind of difficult. I think i can explain more about the movie verbally instead of writing.

Maritza Alejandre

With the writing assignment I did learn something new because I would have never thought to compare my writing with a film such as "Finding Nemo". To complete this assignment I just thought about any film that I had already seen, and the first one that popped up in my head was "Finding Nemo" So I was thinking about a way to compare it with my writing and did. In my opinion it wasn't that hard to accomplish this assignment.

East Early College III

I think that the assignment was simple enough, although it was a little challenging to find a movie that expressed my feelings about writing. I did realize some new things that i didn't know before about the way I use writing. I used to think it was about making up stories and pleasing your teachers but now I know that I use it for more than that. Sometimes it can be used as therapy, it sounds kind of funny but it could work. The first thing I did was think of movie, I chose Freedom Writers because of the title, then I realized expressed a lot about why a lot of us write outside the classroom. I think that this assignment help me see writning on a whole new level.

Writing Diagnostic reflection

Please write a small paragraph as a response to the assignment. Some questions to consider: Did you discover something new about your attitude toward writing? What process did you follow to complete the assignment? Was it difficult to accomplish?

Please post your responses as a comment to this blog. Also, be sure to comment on at least one or two other people's reflections. The purpose is to faciliate a dialogue about writing without taking up class time. Your ONLY grade on this assignment will be to post and comment here, so be sure to do so by the end of the week (Friday, September 5, 2008).

Welcome to English III at East Early College High School. We will be using this forum for discussions, homework questions/postings, and a general forum for all things American Literature.