Monday, October 27, 2008

What I want to learn more?

I don't really know what i really want to learn more or interested in honestly. But after the class today about the rules of the US election, i found that it's interesting to know more about it because of two reasons. First, in my country, we have only one party, Republican party, so we don;t have so many things happen during the election such as negative ads, slogan and so on. The second reason is some people are not satisfied with the rules of the US election. Some people say that not a lot of American citizens go to vote because they think that their votes are useless or weightless. Consequently, they argue that how can the government choose the next president while the lack of voter are enormous. So i think if we stick with this article, it would be interesting.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

the story of stuff

This video is all about the process of a regular product from the beginning to the end. According to the video, the process is divided into 5 basic steps which are: extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Each step has its own problems such as the running out of resources at the first step, or the containing toxic of the production, or the exploiting of workers of the third step and the pollution into the land water or air of the disposal. Generally, the scene seems really bad. However, we can change it because all of the problems are from ourselves, our behavior. We have to recycle all of the stuff that we can. Beside that, we have to make the whole process become "green" which means not harm environment by sustainability, using green energy.

I think this video is such a valuable evidence which proves that the affects of globalization on global warming. As we can see, through the video, it discussed mainly about two problems which are the bigger consumption of consumers and the loss of climate. The more consumers need, the more products will be produced. Consequently, the climate will be harmed more.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

what's the healthiest diet if all?

I chose to read this article about diet because i think that it's really interesting because of two reasons. First, i know that nowadays, a lot of people are suffering from obesity. Meanwhile, millions of people are living and don;t know whether they have food to eat tomorrow. Second, you have to take your responsibility for what you have eaten, don't blame on the fast food company.

Back to the article, the main point of this article is all about the Mediterranean which the author think is the healthiest diet. To prove , through the article , there are evidence from studies that Mediterranean is very healthful such as decrease Parkinson's disease, heart disease.

I don't really know what kind of diet Mediterranean is. I think, however, the best diet is up to you, the one who chooses what to eat and what body shape you want to have. I think nowadays, people avoid admitting their mistakes rather than accepting and solve it themselves.