Make sure you read Carson's A Fable for Tomorrow (359-362), Helvarg's The Storm This Time (103-110), and Harris' How to Keep Air Clean (Week 5 Lesson folder).
Watch the YouTube video below on air pollution.
Answer 3 of the 5 questions below. Be sure and remember to reply to at least two of your peers.
1. Relate Joni Mitchell's, Big Yellow Taxi to the Carson essay.
2. Find a video on YouTube that mirrors the story that Helvarg tells in his essay, The Storm This Time. Compare and contrast the video you chose with the information in the essay. You can either provide the link to the video or embed the code using the last icon on the toolbar that looks like a piece of paper with a yellow arrow in the corner (the Source icon). The embed code is next to the YouTube video under the url code. You must hit the Source icon before you paste the code in the message box.
3. Helvarg took the photographs that accompany the essay. Compare the photograph of the marked door on Page 105 with the author's description of it in Paragraph 6. Does this photograph add to the description in the essay, or is the author's description so vivid that the photograph is unnecessary? Explain. Now it is your turn to find a Katrina photograph and describe it in words. Be sure and insert the image and cite it according to MLA guidelines. Write your description below the photograph.
4.Sydney Harris never once mentions what we can do as individuals to keep the air clean. Imagine you are going to write an essay on this subject. Find at least two other credible sources on the internet on what individuals can do to keep the air clean. Be sure and cite your sources using appropriate MLA format.
5. Carson imagines a fictional town that has changed for the worse. Consider a place you know well that has changed for the better. You might focus on a renovated school, a rehabilitated neighborhood, a newly preserved park, etc. Contrast the place before and after the change. Describe the effects of the change.
Jared did an outstanding job on his post and replies to his peers.
Discussion Forum 4 Post
by Jared at 2/10/2010 8:52 PM
1.Big Yellow Taxi basically explains Carson essay, except in more poetic way. Mitchell’s songs talks about man’s desires over personal items, a materialistic society. That we as a society never think of the consequences, we leap and never look back. The songs message correlates at the end of Carson’s essay. When the town gets hit by a famine and everything starts to die. Man can do nothing to stop it, because the actions previously taken can’t be reverse. I believe I have a good grasp of the message of both the article and the song. If you don’t take the time to appreciate the natural world, everything will be lost. The world of the future will be become gray, with no shades of colors to go along with it. Just like in the song maybe one day we will have to visit a tree museum, just to see a tree.
2.I found a video clip called Hurricane Katrina Images, it show the devastation after the hurricane hit. In the video clips it shows many images including, national guards, the army, and rationed food supplies. Helvary while visiting Katrina describes seeing national guards, keeping the peace and creating road blocks. Just like images of destroyed homes, Helvarg recalls visiting a man’s house that has been completely destroyed. Helvarg talks about organizations trying to give food to people in the city, just like the images portrayed people giving out food. However there are some differences between the video clip and Helvarg’s article. While reading his article he correlates a lot of what he sees to past experiences. For instance he references a lot about New Orleans destruction similar to when was a war correspondent, and the damage he saw in those countries. Helvarg also is more interested about the environmental damage of New Orleans, as opposed to the physical destruction the video clip shows. The video clip showed more of a general consensus of people’s emotion about Katrina, as to Helvarg’s perception of what he saw there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E971oBiu9Z4
4.I believe the steps of keeping our air clean is through personal responsibility. While reading the article I noticed the main pollutant was fossil fuels, or the most expressed. Right now we are two heavily dependant on fossil fuels to stop cold turkey. Though what we can do is lower the amount fuel we need per year. For instance people should drive cars only for pure necessity. Perhaps maybe there should be a federal mandate, that homes of certain sizes should have solar panels. Maybe we a need a policy implemented by the federal government to have 35% of renewable sources by 2025. There are many different solutions to solve this, but by combining them we could change the future. So by lowering our demands for fossil fuels, we lower the amount of pollutants put into the atmosphere.
Tips to improve your Gas Mileage." Fuel Economy. Web. 11 Feb. 2010.
"50 Tips To Prevent Air Pollution - Home And Garden News Story - KIRO Seattle." Seattle News, Weather, Traffic, Video and Sports I Pacific Northwest News I KIRO 7 Seattle, Washington. Web. 11 Feb. 2010.
Re: Mckenzee Discussion Forum 4
by Jared at 2/10/2010 8:59 PM
I thought how you described the yellow taxi to Carson's essay was excellent. You brought out points I never even thought of saying. I have no other comments to make, keep up the good work.
Re: Discussion Forum 4
by Jared at 2/10/2010 9:06 PM
I like the points you brought out about yellow taxi baby, and Carson's essay. Also the story of Disney's re-renovation. However you lacked in both answers your initial P.O.W, in grabbing your audience and making your claim.
This was a very good assignment that opened the eyes of the students. No one ever really realizes how much we destroy our environment in our everyday lives until someone tells us. The way we pollute our earth has always been a problem, but I believe it is getting worse and worse everyday and if we do not do something about it, there is going to be a very neagitive outcome.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Anderson
Did you go to Earth Day today at FGCU. I heard the fashion show was terrific with people wearing recyclable wear.
ReplyDeleteThis was a very good assignment and I do agree with Jennifer it does open the eyes of students. The hurricane images were very touching to me.
ReplyDeleteEarth day at FGCU, was really cool. Jennifer is right, we really don't know how much it is of a negative impact we have on the enviroment, until someone really breaks it down for us and shows us. The things we do, to the environment, how we depleate what is necessary, and how we insert what is harmful, is horrible, and truly will have effects that last a life time, and affect the generations after us in great multitudes. It's very sad.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this weeks videos because I like learning about how we are harming our environment. It helps me to be informed and I think this was a great assignment because more people need to be aware so that we can begin to change.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I did not like this week’s blog assignment. I could not find anything that interested me other then the song, because I love it! I had a hard time in relating with the questions and writing something meaningful. Of course we all have those topics that we don’t find that interesting, you just so happened to find one of mine. The assignment was clearly organized and thought out, for that I give you kudos!!
ReplyDelete