The first time I ever set foot in a library was because of comic books and internet access, but other than that I thought it was boring. To tell you the truth I never liked to read until I snapped out of that mentality because reading is the way of life and we got to do it in order to pass anything like college. Talking about college our class went on a trip to the library on bryant park 42 street. First I had to go with my group to the regular library across the street from the "fancy" library after. We went to the library and started our hunt for what each information each floor had, we started on the third floor. That floor was about art inluence and different art cultures. We asked a librarian to search for a grafitti artisit called "Bansky" she ended up flipping out and yelling at us saying the computer is never wrong and she didn't type it wrong. We left the her presence immediately and asked another librarian for help, that he did. We didn't find the artisit but found old grafitti portraits. We went to the fourth floor that was specifically about periodicals and computer classes. My group ended up play tag, we all sat down when we found out they called security on us (pure luck). We went on the fifth floor, it had info on history and socail sciences, biographies, religion, philosophy, and folklore. We went back to the first floor which was basically about traveling and culture. The second floor is about general reference like health, education, job, and accesibility services. After we did that we went to eat and went straight to the "fancy" library. That library was very sophisticated. It had one copy of originals from back then and is updated everytime. We saw the orginal latin "Bible" and the original dolls from Winnie the Pooh. We saw the library and it looks very old inside and very peaceful to do work there.
All the stuff I do to save the planet is on week five and it has still been the same ever since but I'm trying trying to save planet earth and do the same its cool!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
GOING GREEN LIKE "DR. SMITH"
Well what I have been doing to preserve the universe is stop littering and throwing random garbage on the street. I used to litter all the time, didn't care about throwing it in the garbage because my friends did it all the time and was to lazy to throw it away in the proper place. As time went by I started to care and throw away garbage from time to time but still littered gradually. As soon as I saw the movie The Inconvenient Truth, thats when I started to get serious because tragic incidents can happen such as the world being surrounded by water, the earth getting burning to death like my children's grandchildren will not get to live on earth, and just making the earth go to destruction in total. Ever since that day I changed my mentality on saving planet earth it is saving us, with out it we cannot live, so why would we kill something that basically gives us life? I started to throw away any little things and if there wasn't a garbage anywhere I would hold it in my hand and save it until I saw one. It is funny how a simple video can change your whole way of thinking, I think once death goes in the picture people go insane and try to do every way possible to prevent it. I also turn off the lights every time I leave the house, my parents leave all the the plugs connected to the outlets and I'm kind of lazy to unplug it so I confess I don't do that, but maybe I will when I get my own house. Every time I see someone throw away garbage I give them a nasty look, even to my friends, I tell them off, i say "PRESERVE THE EARTH MAN!", which is the funniest thing when you see me in the act. I know i still got a lot of things to do to take care of the planet but its still in process, so for the people who are crazy with preserving the universe don't assassinate me because I'm doing the best I can.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
"Inconvenient Truth" vs. "A Day at The Museum"
Well a day at the museum was quite fun because it was like another scavenger hunt getting to the specific area that was about global warming, but we found after 20 minutes. We finally found the place and searched for the key points that was assigned to each one of us. After we did our work we explored the museum until it got boring and wanted to leave but got lost and went on another scavenger hunt to the exit.
The information that we had to find was greenhouse gases, ice cores, tree rings, and ocean sediments. Greenhouse gasses consist of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The most important is water vapor, is the amount of carbon in the atmosphere increases the more the warmth. Ice cores gives a detailed record of climate for the last 115,000 years, it is important for understanding how the earth climate works. Tree Rings are sentive indicators of annual climate. Thick rings show the rapid growth during warm, wet years. Thin rings indicate slow growth in the dry years. They could also be chronologically extended back to thousands of years, but one can record the local climate. Ocean sediments show us the seasonal changes in biological activity where sediments are deposited. Light layers are formed during winter while dark ones for in the summer.
Overall the museum was very resourceful because it gave us information on the different types of fources that affect climate and how it affects global warming. The information was very easy to find because the place was pretty small and everything was close together. The movie "The Inconvenient Truth" and the "American Museum Of Natural History" were both believable in my opinion. The movie supplies us with a hand full of information, especailly when Al'gore gives us the statistics of how the earth is warming up as time goes by because of the amount carbon dioxide in the world, he also tells us if people keep on littering, waisting light, and pollution we all could be indanger of flooding to even the massive sun burning everything in sight. The museum is also credible because the facts are based on scientist who study, travel in space, and collect artifacts to show everyone who visits that it is a major issue and could get some educational knowledge on what is going on in this world today.
The film, museum, and media are all connected because it all compliments one another. The film and museum are a type of media because it is a type of entertainment but in a educational sense.
It is a pretty clever thing to do because every school, tourist, or even scientist interested in the matter will go out and observe the film and the museum to get an educational trip, amazement of it all, or the whole concept of how people should protect the world before it rejects us.
Humans today do not care about preserving the earth and should because the consequence will be a bad outcome. If we get people to care about little things like polution, recycling, preserving electricity this earth will be healthy and not back fire on us, but if people just stay the same way and not care, planet earth wont care.
The information that we had to find was greenhouse gases, ice cores, tree rings, and ocean sediments. Greenhouse gasses consist of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The most important is water vapor, is the amount of carbon in the atmosphere increases the more the warmth. Ice cores gives a detailed record of climate for the last 115,000 years, it is important for understanding how the earth climate works. Tree Rings are sentive indicators of annual climate. Thick rings show the rapid growth during warm, wet years. Thin rings indicate slow growth in the dry years. They could also be chronologically extended back to thousands of years, but one can record the local climate. Ocean sediments show us the seasonal changes in biological activity where sediments are deposited. Light layers are formed during winter while dark ones for in the summer.
Overall the museum was very resourceful because it gave us information on the different types of fources that affect climate and how it affects global warming. The information was very easy to find because the place was pretty small and everything was close together. The movie "The Inconvenient Truth" and the "American Museum Of Natural History" were both believable in my opinion. The movie supplies us with a hand full of information, especailly when Al'gore gives us the statistics of how the earth is warming up as time goes by because of the amount carbon dioxide in the world, he also tells us if people keep on littering, waisting light, and pollution we all could be indanger of flooding to even the massive sun burning everything in sight. The museum is also credible because the facts are based on scientist who study, travel in space, and collect artifacts to show everyone who visits that it is a major issue and could get some educational knowledge on what is going on in this world today.
The film, museum, and media are all connected because it all compliments one another. The film and museum are a type of media because it is a type of entertainment but in a educational sense.
It is a pretty clever thing to do because every school, tourist, or even scientist interested in the matter will go out and observe the film and the museum to get an educational trip, amazement of it all, or the whole concept of how people should protect the world before it rejects us.
Humans today do not care about preserving the earth and should because the consequence will be a bad outcome. If we get people to care about little things like polution, recycling, preserving electricity this earth will be healthy and not back fire on us, but if people just stay the same way and not care, planet earth wont care.
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