Monday, October 22, 2012

In class Zeitoun

In Dave Eggers book, Kethy  has been described as a be loving mother, that would do whatever it takes to keep her family in safe. Besides that Kathy is showing her humanity to care for others that needs as much help as she does. The difference between Kathy and Zeitoun has shown when they split each other to a different direction. Kethy for the safe of her family and Zeitoun for a new adventure of becoming an explorer. In the passage that Kathy called Zeitoun "Please leave," she said " Tomorrow."(Eggers 89). It makes me understand that Kathy has find out that Zeitoun had save most of they're house stuff, and now she wants him to leave. But Zeitoun has made his mind of staying behind and look after the house. He wanted to be part of the Hurricane by exploring and try to help others with as much as he can.

Monday, October 15, 2012

blog 4

From the book" Zeitoun", author Dave Eggers, is characterizing two main personalities, which changes from the day that Hurricane Katrina approached to their life. What Eggers is transmitting to us is the importance and the safety of the family rather than work. Eggers describes these unbalanced personality in Zeitoun and his wife Kathy. He describes Zeitoun, a father that would do whatever it takes to see his family happy and healthy. His wife Kathy a mother that is looking after her family also to see her kids growing up 
What i have learned from this book so far is the care of a mother to think of 
What have we learned about Zeitoun and Kathy from the book so far, and how do you think their personalities affected their decisions as Hurricane Katrina approached?

Monday, October 1, 2012

blog 3



    My name is Erjon and this is my argument about Global Warming that McKibben has written to pursue many facts of Climate Change.

      In his book The Global Warming, Bill McKibben has stood his attention to a major catastrophic issue of Climate Change. Based on his studies and science McKibben, is sending e message to us that the earth temperature is rising little by little and the cause of it is us. We as human being, living in this earth that was create for us to be lived on are creating devastated changes to the main sources of life, air and water. The abuse of it and the burn of fossil oil have made CO2 level rising up which has influence the temperature of the ground. The big one is that McKibben’s call for a “carbon disinvestment” movement aimed at breaking the hammerlock that the fossil cartel has on our civilization is a big step forward. It’s not the only step we need to take but it would make a huge difference. 2°C of warming maximum is the semi official inter governmental global temperature target and it’s extremely, dangerously high. McKibben makes the case here well and briefly, and correctly notes that the ubiquity of support for the 2°C target is a sign of our desperation. 2°C of warming would very likely be a catastrophe. And the way things are going, we’re not going to come anywhere close to holding the 2°C line.
     
       Some people believe the climate data that has been collected is not enough to show a trend in rising global temperatures. Other scientists believe that are signs of global warming, they are not interpreting data with an objective mind. And still others say that global warming is just a natural climate shift and that plants and animals can adapt to such a shift. And it's not just the science that's being debated. Lawmakers are also in disagreement over whether the costs to implement global warming policy outweigh the risks that global warming potentially poses. Many believe legislation could eliminate jobs and even if the United States changes energy policies, it does not guarantee that other countries that pose environmental threats would do the same. Many people assume that Climate Change is just a theory that science has spot it out as commercial purposes, but in reality Climate Change is growing among the earth which has put on alert McKibben and many other sciences to brake open many characteristics that would prove the truth of global warming. Scientists estimate that humans can pour roughly 565 more gig tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by mid-century and still have some reasonable hope of staying below two degrees. His argument against Climate Change has include many politicians that are not taking this issue as a consideration of human being, but just as a business that involves countries that have rich nature sources as fossil oil and natural gases that would raise the profit and the economy up high. From this perspective many politicians are ignoring the fact of Climate Change, because it would cause government money and it would drop the sales of fossil oil with other countries to half.
    
      Many organizations like IPCC in 1995 have concluded that humans were worming the planet and the reasons why are many devastated examples like: 1- Burn of fossil fuel to produce electricity.2- High production of cars running on burning fuel.3- Cut of many trees for business purposes.4- Heavy industries and factories releasing toxic smoke in the air. One the one hand some American geologist hold the opinion that from the calculation of relation between the quantity of carbonic acid in the air and the quantities that are transformed, has raised the ground temperature to that level to raise the sea level by melting the icebergs. According to this view James Hansen also committed a story in New York Times about Climate Change. Right after that he wrote a book called The End of the Nature. Hansen’s been screaming for years that the sky is falling.(http://newsbusters.org/people/james-hansen). He includes the results of year’s high summer temperatures in the States, as well as for the European heat wave of 2003, the Russian heat wave of 2010, and other extreme weather around the globe in recent years.
    
      Apparently we see few people that are aware of this major change to the earth but does everyone knows? We as humans are we prepared to survive to any catastrophic event? We were born in one world. A world we could count on to support us, but now we live on a new world without any assurance. A grate saying for us, to understand that is never late to put out effort to create and build e clean environment which would decrease the CO2 level and have our world balanced again