Project Proposal

Things That Bug Me

Human Trafficking in the U.S

Teen Dating Violence

Redistricting of Bridgeport

Mc Donald’s and other fast food places sponsoring schools

Affordable College Education

Child Abuse

Animal Cruelty

Stereotyping of Bridgeport

Depicting unreal standards of beauty in magazines

No Child Left Behind

Sports Players being paid un-necessarily high amounts of money

For my project I have chosen the topic of affordable college educations. This is a dilemma that is facing many high schools now and anyone that desires to go to college. For example, a study shown in the New York Times showed that since 1985, college tuition costs have risen by 559 percent. This is an astronomically high increase, especially compare to the fact that the cost of just about everything else has only doubled. Especially since the economy has been down and people have been losing jobs, parents can’t afford to pay what they used to. The cost of sending children off to college is making college become a less and less attainable dream. Even if a person is able to pay for college using loans, they graduate with debt and more often than not, without a job. Student loan debt just happens to be the one debt that is non forgivable for banks. I just think that something needs to be done to make college more affordable because as a nation, people are so supposed to be encouraged to go to college to get ahead but with these prices , its saying just the opposite.

I can use change.org to start a petition. It’s helpful because there are many different sections, including one about education, in which people write about anything pertaining to educational system. I found that it would be a great section to get my petition started. This is especially true because there seems to be a high success rates with the petitions on change. Org. One petition in the education section to stop Sallie Mae from charging  an unemployment penalty got them to at least stop pocketing those fees. Also, it showed me how to write an effective petition. For example, many started out with a vivid description of the situation and were full of pathos in addition to some logos. I found it to be a great jumping off point.

Global Warming timed synthesis essay

The earth. 70% water, 30% land. Host to all of the humans in the world. The earth is the only place that humans have to live. Over the years there has been much controversy over the issue of global warming and how people treat the earth, especially in the political arena. In all, I believe that there are three main things that politicians should focus on when making legislation pertaining to global warming. The rising ocean temperature, the fact that humans have contributed to global warming and that many places inside and out of the U.S are already making more comprehensive global warming legislation.

Global warming has affected many things that humans and therefore politicians should be focused on when making legislation, one of them being the rising ocean temperature. As the earth has heated up, so have the oceans. Over the past 150 years, the ocean temperature has risen by about .20 degrees (source b) . That might not seem like a lot, but for the way nature works, that is a large amount in a relatively short span of time. Politicians should be concerned about this because rising ocean temperatures mean that the ocean is expected to rise by around a meter (source e). Rising ocean levels and such could wreak havoc on some seaside communities and affect us all, which is why politicians should have this in mind when making global warming legislation.

Although there are still some skeptics, it is widely accepted that humans have contributed to global warming. Shockingly, the United States and Australia together account for one-quarter of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions (Source A). To think that the U.S plays such a large part in global warming and yet we are a relatively small portion of the world.  Even more, our carbon emission level had risen 12% above the 1990 level in 2004 and was predicted to rise by 30% in 2012 (source e). Since we as humans and more specifically as a nation have contributed so much to global warming, we now have to take steps to protect the environment and keep if from getting any worse. Politicians need remember this when deciding on how comprehensive legislation should be or if we should have any at all because… global warming is to a certain extent our fault.

Finally, when making global warming legislation, politicians need to consider that other states in the U.S and countries across the world are already making comprehensive global warming legislation.  For example, with the Kyoto Protocol, which is meant to reduce global warming, “One hundred forty one countries ratified the treaty.” (source a) The U.S, which is one of the biggest contributors to global warming, did not ratify it. Right there, there are one hundred and forty one nations that are progressing past the U.S at least in terms of environmental reform. More over, starting in 2005, “eighteen states, including power hogs California and Texas, have set requirements or goals for renewable energy” (Source C). Even individual states in the U.S are choosing to get one step ahead of global warming. As a nation we are supposed to try to be progressive in every sense of the word and we are not. So much so that states within the nation have realized it and are changing. Again, this is something politicians need to keep in mind when making global warming legislation.

It is time that politicians get up,  shake the dust off of their shoes and get going when it comes to global warming. The environment depends on it. Hopefully these reasons will light a fire under them to get moving.

We are all going to die ( because of global warming)

It’s a beautiful summer day. The air is fresh with the smell of flowers, you can here the bees buzz and the birds chirp all around you. Little children play in the background and their giggles and chit chat blend in with the chirps, buzzes and all the other sounds. Natures perfect symphony.

The scene represented above is beautiful, isn’t it? Something many people have experienced before and hope that the younger generation will get to see too. While this might seem all and well, I have some relatively startling news; we have been slowly killing off everything in our planet. That includes our future and current generations. Thanks to humans’ lack of care regarding global warming, we are ensuring the extinction of the human race!

To all those idiotic skeptics who believe that all this talk about global warming and its consequences is just a bunch of hot air, there are numbers to back it up. For example, as shown in an Inconvenient Truth, the average surface temperature of the earth has increased by 1.2 to 1.4°F just in the 20^th century. That might not seem like a lot, but in terms of the earth, that is a RIDICULOUS amount of increase. If we keep going like this, the human race might eventually burn itself to a crisp.  If heat isn’t your thing, experts think that sea level could rise by about two feet in the next 100 years. How do they know?  Well, sea levels have already gone up by 4-8 inches across the world this last century. While this seems unthinkable, it's happening right now. As Al Gore in an Inconvenient Truth so clearly showed in his diagram, New York, India and other parts of the world will be completely under water.  Our families and everyone and thing on earth will drown if climate change isn’t reversed  (kind like the poor, poor polar bear). This is not much better than burning up if you ask me.

Please, recycle, reduce your carbon imprint and be kind to the earth. Your life depends on it, and so do the lives of others ( Al Gore taught me that). Maybe you might feel like eliminating the human race and all living creatures, but I am sure there are many other  people who would like to live, so be considerate. Again, this is the only earth we have to live on so take care of it .. or face the horrendous consequences.