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??

whoooooooo carrrresssss???!!!!???!???!!!

As I read the first couple of essays on the site I thought they were boring. Reading about how blogging has inspired people to do all sorts of different things. When I read the essay about the women how was oh so interested in knitting, I thought to my self, why? As I read most of these to be completely honest I thought there were dumb. I feel as though I can make much better use of my time then spending it writing about my personal life on the Internet for millions of people to read, and really, who is going to want to read my blog? Who the hell cares what I, and 18-year-old college student thinks!? Yeah, I mean I guess FaceBook and Myspace are considered blogs. But on those sites it isn’t like I’m pouring my heart out to the public. Maybe ill change my mood or status but that’s about the extent of it. I think that blogging has yes changed the way the people use the Internet, sites such as Youtube, or Facebook wouldn’t have been created if it weren’t for blogging. Perhaps this what I am writing right now could be considered a blog. Although my opinion about blogs is obviously that I don’t like them, one of these articles that I read about intrigued me.
The essay by Caralton Clark."I Don't Really Want to Go into Personal Things in This Blog" It talked about how he was nervous before teaching a new semester and how he always new that his students would be nervous, but he didn’t think that his students knew that he got nervous as well. The reason why I thought this article was interesting was because it actually showed the interaction of the blogging. There is his post within the essay and then the responses from a few students. The other reason why I thought this one was my favorite was because it was something that I can easily relate to. When you walk into a classroom for the first time, you can hear a pin drop. For me I find this very awkward because of my out going personality. I always seem to be the one that will break the ice. I seem to always be the first to talk in the class. The teacher will respond usually in a positive way to me. It is easy for me to relate to this topic because it is one I have experienced before. Considering I don’t have a blog at all it is a little bit harder for me to relate to the other articles written. Who knows? Perhaps the academic blog we will do in this class will change my opinion about blogs.