Jacob Robertson's Comp. 2 Blog: Unit 4 Blog – Tech Crunch

Jacob Robertson's Comp. 2 Blog: Unit 4 Blog – Tech Crunch: "Source: http://techcrunch.com/ I read the Tech Crunch blog website of..."

It is interesting to hear about this because I am pretty much a newby when it comes to technology and I am always asking for help to find out about certain technological things. I am from an older era and don't know much so I definitely need to get as much information possible about technology. It's good to know of this website where I can get some of that information I so greatly need. Information I especially need if I plan to keep up with my children. Thanks for the tip.

Unit 4 Blog - "Parent Bullying"

Bullying

You are probably familiar with the term “bullying.” It is mainly defined as the act of being habitually cruel and overbearing to others, especially smaller or weaker people. This has been something that some say has always existed. Bullying has caught a great deal of attention causing grief and discontent because recently many young adults and children have committed suicide because they were being bullied.
We have mainly heard bullying as students harassing students. Unfortunately, bullying has led many children to commit suicide . I found a blog that talks about a different type of bullying which is not about a student being bullied by other students, but its about being bullied by your own parents. I found this article interesting because I had not thought that the pain and suffering that children go through from being bullied could last far beyond childhood, it can last through the rest of their life.
On this blog you can “hear” the agony in the words of this bullied person. The photograph used is one that makes you feel the emptiness a child goes through when being bullied.
The article served as a tool to remind us of thinking before we speak to our children to ensure that the words we use are not ones that will make them feel afraid, hurt, uncomfortable, or by any means miserable.
　
http://bullyinglte.wordpress.com/

Response to Jacob Robertson's Comp. 2 Blog: Unit 3 Blog: Global Warming

Jacob Robertson's Comp. 2 Blog: Unit 3 Blog: Global Warming: "While I was reading through the two articles I felt that the article written by Richard Lindzen was more of a disagreement of what Al Gore h..."

I agree with you. I felt the same way about Mr. Lindzen's article. I didn't feel it was really focused on global warming, I felt it was mainly focused on what he thought of Al Gore. After a couple of paragraphs I started loosing interest in the article because it was not really focused on what the title was about, "global warming." but I still kept on reading and as you I did not learn much about global warming. He pointed out some statements but as you mentioned they were not backed up by supportive material. On ther other hand, Biello's article was totally focused on the fact of global warming and provided some facts that were supported by IPCC.
Great job.

Comp II - Unit 3

Jacquelina Patena
Ms. Davis
Comp II – Unit 3
December 1, 2010

Global Warming

We are comparing Richard Lindzen’s article to that of David Biello. Mr. Biello’s article to me seemed more convincing because it gives information about what risks we could fall into if we don’t take conscious about what is happening with the global climate. We all use the world’s resources and just because the world has existed for so long, it does not mean that we should take it for granted and that in fact we ourselves could be destroying it.
Mr. Lindzen says that there is no global warming but does not really convince me because instead of focusing directly as to whether we have global warming or not he is mainly focused on the fact that it was presented in a movie by a political figure. He seems more upset about the fact that politicians are involved rather than of what is happening in the world we live in. The title of his article did not seem to have much with what he was really talking about. It seemed more of a political article that an environmental one. When I saw the title I wasn’t thinking of reading politics at the time so I soon lost interest in it.
He says that “nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science.” Does this mean that just because politicians don’t care about earth issues, then we shouldn’t care either? I did not see much evidence from him providing information to make me think different -that indeed there is no “human influence on global climate.”
The only thing I do know is we live in this world and that we should take care of it. If we have to be scared by scientist in order to start being more considerate of our resources then that is probably the only way we would actually listen to a topic like this. I sure thought about the consequences that Mr. Biello addressed and actually put me to think, what can I do to help?