Researching all around us!

this chapter of the book talks alllllll about research. it goes into great detail about how to write a research paper. it starts from the very start, from forming an idea and ends with how to polish off your essay to make it great and unique. one part of the chapter that caught my attention was when it talked about researching in neighborhoods. i thought this was interesting. i feel as though this isnt really done anymore and it would be a fun and creative way to do research for when i do my research paper. the part about the communitys citizens was interesting. "People who have lived in the community for a long time can tell you about the history of the community or about their perspective on the affects of past events". this to me was perfect. my community is made up of mostly older citizens which would be perfect for my research project. with my topic perhaps going to be school budget cuts, perhaps i could make a survey of some sort to take around the community?

Comanies lend helping hand in a crucial time

The article that was about a conference that talked about Companies in the bay area helping out in their communities. The conference was held in Palo Alto just the other night. The speakers urged other fellow businessmen to get their companies to become active in their communities. They stressed that this doesn’t have to be a donation. It could be building a playground or helping out a soup kitchen. There was a catch to this meeting. It was said by “Bret Waters, chief executive of Woodside software start-up Tivix, told those gathered that consumer surveys show people will buy products that they associate with companies that do good, all other things being equal”. This would give businesses an incentive to help out the community. As I pondered the thought of this I thought that it was a little shallow, I mean they should be helping out in the community in the first place! As I thought though it was okay with me! These corporations and businesses are helping out in a time of need. Many schools around the bay area and the country are being cut of millions of dollars. If these companies and corporations are helping schools in any way shape or form, hey that’s wonderful! People are not doing so well economically speaking. These companies cannot be doing very well either. It is nice to see and hear about companies lending a hand and helping out the community. One non-profit organization called HandsOn Bay Area is committed to helping corporations get involved in their own communities. They aim to give these businesses an opportunity to return the favor back to the community. The thought of these huge corporations giving back gave me hope that there were still people out there who care about the communities that they working in.

solar all around us.

as i clicked around on the San Jose Mercury news i found one article that realllllyyyy peeked my interest. the solar industry is one of the best booming regions in the economy at this time. even though there has been a huge slump in the economy the industry seems to be doing just fine. the amount of companies that we are seeing are increasing every day. "California is 70 percent of the solar market," said Jeff Wolfe, GroSolar's CEO. the reason why i picked this article to write about is becasue this is an industry that i would like to be involved in some how one day. i believe what Jeff Wolfe was saying was true. i mean with the world and the country especially California wanting to "go green" it will be the next industry to boom. one day i would perhaps like to work in this industry. i think that within the next 20 to 30 years that this industry will really just blast off. the green industry will be generation Y's future. if everything goes as planned for me, getting into this indusrty before it booms will mean LOTS of money coming up in my late 30's to 40's. as i looked up to company GroSolar i found that they were connected in a number of jobs including a job at Feneway park. they put there solar water heating and incorporated into the water system where the world renowned Boston Red Sox play. the solar water will be used in the restaurants and on the field and supply the park with gallons of water every day.

wayyyy to long!!!!!!????!!!!????

my impression from this text book makes me wanna stab myself in the eyes. i am sorry but it is just the way i feel. i feel like i am on the im falling asleep as i read. when i read i find when i read i am reading for no point. the stories that are in this book seem to be wayyyyy to long and mostly repetitive.the drag on and on to get the point across. the take 12 pages that really could be condensed into 3. anyway thats my venting for the day. although i dont much care for the reading i did read it none the less. a story that is 12 pages long on advocacy??? cool. i got the point of the story within the first three pages. it seemed to me to be a little unnecesarry to drag that article out that long. do you guys feel the same?? just a little reflection on the text book so far. k really im done now.

the story about Beck to me didnt even really compare to the story of the AVODAH. they seemed like completely different types of Advocacy. the AVODAH didnt protest. they simply hepled kids in the community that they were in. Beck on the other hand protested and travleled around the country to help get her point across. the one thing that did interest me in this article was that she was studying at Cal Berkeley. i felt as though her point was to help developing countries that wasnt her point. she was more concerened with taking down the big businesses, not with helping the groups in the small countries. this is why the two groups seem so different to me. the differences in the people i found that the poeple in the second story were just hippies from around North America. the other story, about AVODAH were mostly more "normal" people who gave up their time to help the organization. the differences in the people that they are helping is that; AVODAH's organiazation is helping people in their community, people who are close, with in U.S. borders. where as Beck's organization was trying to help third world countries and people who live in the U.S. most likely do not have a direct connection with. the way they shape their advocacy seems similar and different at the same time. they both are fighting for something they believe in but ones more of and actual organization and the other is just kind of a group that tries to tell people about their program as they go along, and hope that they can get supporters as they travel around the country.

My Thoughts

as i read through the chapter i felt as though it was a little bit repetitive. after the second article i got the idea of ethos. But none the less i read all of the articles. when i read the first article, about Mr. Cooper. i though of my history class. History of the American people. when Adams was mentioned it made me think of the revelutionry times and back to a time when the U.S. was young! i thought of when i would sit in my history class last semester and listen to my professor ramble on about the creation of the United States. as i paged through and read the rest of the chapter and read the article Walking the Line, i began to think of my childhood. the way he described the mountains in wyoming. i began to think of where i used to live in canada. every summer we would go up to a lake in northern saskatchewan. in the cabins the water had to be heated and it was surrounded by miles and miles of forrest. as i looked at the picture on the begining of the article i began to picture lake tahoe and the sierra mountains.
as i finished the chapter and started to write this blog i realized that things that i read about made me think about other things, if that makes any sense???? hahaha.

Iphone

Hahaha now I can post from my new iPhone app pretty cool I guess now I can be anywhere and be blogging hahah

-- Post From My iPhone

San Jose A's?

as i was looking through the San Jose Mercury News online i saw something that grabbed my attention. the A's coming to San Jose???? I had known that they were perhaps coming to Fremont but San Jose would be a totally different story. as i read the article i thought to myself; where would the stadium go? where would the money come from when are economy is slipping? the reason why this article interested me so much was the fact that i had thought that the A's organization had already struck a deal in Fremont and that is where they were going to be relocating to. when the idea of the A's coming to San Jose it struck some ideas in my head. it made me think about how people in San Jose would react to this. would it affect the ticket sales of other teams such as the sharks or the Stealth? or how about the San Jose Giants a minor league team whose stadium is located right by our own sjsu south campus. the article was also interesting to me because i am interested in sports. so anything to do with our local sports team is something that i would be interested in writting about. it is apparent that by doing further research into this subject that many citizens with the downfall of the economy and the traffic that the stadium would produce that they do not want the stadium to be built in there city. perhaps the city of san jose will be getting a professional baseball team??