Sumblog #13

 

We were assigned to do our own known impact on ourselves. I have done one of these before just to see how much I really use. I noticed that I used a lot more energy when I was younger. I was uneducated and didn’t care much about it because my parents always paid the electric bill. But now that I am an adult and am now living like an adult I really pay a lot more attention to it. Now that I am living on my own I am constantly turning lights off, using less water and trying to keep things completely unplugged. I try my very best to not use my car, I either bike or walk everywhere I go. It is easy living on a campus and now using my car but when I go home I notice how much I have to use it. There is no other choice. Living in the city helps with transportation but when I am back at home living in the country it is very difficult getting around without it. I try to carpool as much as possible. I always try to use my electric bill like a game, every month I try to see if I can get it lower and lower. It is crazy the amount of energy is taken from one household. It is always nice when we have classes to constantly keep you thinking about the environment and how we someday will not always be blessed with what we have. It should be required that everyone should try to lower their carbon footprint at least once a month. And to continuesly be educating people about the effects electricity has on the environment. We only live once and once in the world so we minus well try our hardest keeping it clean and safe.

I posted a site with a carbon footprint calculator! Please take the time to see what yours is!

http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/

Sumblog #11

In globalization this week we watched a video about Kibera. Kibera is an area of slums that lacks sanitation because of overpopulation. This video ties into what we have been discussing in class because of the examples it shows with overpopulation. Even though these people live in the slums they still seem to be able to put a smile on their faces. They are living in an area where they can become an easy target for disease and many other sicknesses because of the lack of sanitized areas they live in. There are many time throughout the video that it shows that they could be completely miserable in their living situations but they find the little things to keep them happy. They are happy with just having their families, friends and just the fact that they are alive.  The programs that are wanting to help them seem to be scaring some of the families of Kibera because they believe that they will destroy their homes. If these people do not want help we should not be forcing them to corporate. If they are happy with what they have not then that is refreshing to hear. Living without material things and being able to be happy seems to be thing in the past and to see that there are still people out there that can survive with what they have then the more power to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawdH2DA6HE

I posted this video because it was nice seeing all the different classed that these kids have and how they all are enjoying themselves during school. It seems like in America education is sometimes taken for granted and these young kids are really enjoying themselves while they get an education.

sumblog #10

In globalization we brought up the topic of being overpopulated. It is said that people believe that America is over populated because of migration, immigration, and lack of birth control.  So do they think if immigration was completely eliminated  would it help with overpopulation or would making people be on some sort of birth control help eliminate overpopulation in china they have the strict rule of the one child policy. They couples in china are only child are only allowed one child per family. If the man and women were born into a family where they were the only child then they were allowed the option of having more than one child. Some will wonder what would happen if America had this role, would it work? I believe that it would cause a huge controversy. That rule almost seems like a slap in the face. To be told that you cannot have the amount of children you want

I once read a book called “Matched” this book was extremely interesting. It was about the future and they had complete different things than how we live in our society today. They had a rule that they would match you up with your perfect match. They would look at everyone’s chips which were filled with information about yourself. When you turned 20 years old you would get married to them. They would look at your background and would get you a job and tell you how many kids you could have. The craziest thing about the story was that once you turn 80 years old you were “let go.” Which in a sense means that they killed you. Everyone was on a strict diet as well. To prevent disease or illnesses. They were only allowed to indulge when there was a special occasion happening. It would be interesting to see if such a huge change would work?

This book is a series of books so I posted the website just to show all of the books that they are! Just incase someone wants to read them!

http://www.matched-book.com/

Sumblog #9

In globalization we started to talk about religion, I feel as if this is can be a touchy subject for many situations. I was raised as a Christian but I enjoy learning about other religions. It is crazy how people can get offended from talking about religion. They put “under god” in the pledge of allegiance it wasn’t as big of a controversy like it is today. I remember when I was in about 3^rd grade we would say the pledge of allegiance every day and one kid would not have to stand up because it said god in it. This kids parent told the school that he would not be participating. I feel as if this was not right in my opinion. People should not have the right to not stand up for the country they live in. There are strong men and women who serve this for this countries freedom and to not stand up for something as simple as the pledge allegiance because of the word god seems a little wrong. For us to live in a world were church and state coexist we should have them work together. Churches do amazing things for the community and I believe everyone should take that into consideration for when there is times in need. Yes I respect other peoples religions and how they live there life but I would not make my child have the feeling of being singled out in a classroom but because of a word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yoEzNVZy0

I posted a video of a controversy about the allegiance to show how some schools handle this. This helped me understand a little bit better about what goes on in schools now a days. I believe that there is a life lesson that is learned in every kid when they began to learn the pledge of allegiance.

Sumblog #8

This last week in globalization we talked about the hacktivist group anonymous. We watching a video on them called “We Are Legion”, my feelings about this video are so up in the air and I don’t really know how to feel about it. It is crazy to me that something that seems so harmless can cause such disaster. People who are just sitting in their mother’s basement and are bored can make a statement just by using technology.  These people seem to think that the government is hiding things from the rest of the society. This is where anonymous comes in and tries to express freedom of speech and to have fairness. They would start with internet pranks and as the technology increases they seem to be getting bigger and stronger. Yes, they have done some bad things to protrude the message. But I believe that their intentions can be positive as well. They seem to just want the government to stay true to what they say. They want to inform everyone that the government does wrong and what the government is planning and acting.  I liked how they shut down the racist guys radio station! They used what they do in a positive way instead of a negative way. That man clearly deserved what he got.

http://live.wsj.com/video/us-warns-on-hacking-group-anonymous/66EFD4D7-D177-4519-A5EA-556AD861F351.html#!66EFD4D7-D177-4519-A5EA-556AD861F351

I posted this website because there is a video on there that helped me understand a little bit more about what’s going on. This explains what they are doing and plan to do. It also shows that the government believes that they are powerful enough to shut down the internet. They also talk about how they want to be in the eye of the public. It seems it will be are to advertise this if the power will be shut down. Which would just conclude into making people mad.

Sumblog #7 Education

Education is a very large aspect when it comes to globalization. Education is something taken very seriously worldwide. After completing high school and going into the real world many can find themselves thanking the fact that they completed high school. Many may even take the next step to enter themselves in college. People even are able to study abroad and this has been a huge improvement throughout the last couple of years. Being able to study abroad changes someone’s education tremendously. With a higher education many are able to get better paying jobs and with studying abroad in the back ground they will have an even better chance because they have experience.

The problem with education can always back track to money. Education is extremely expensive! If education is so important to so many countries then why are we constantly being forced to pay more and more?

I feel as if we as a world is becoming better by trying to make people of different areas and cultures feel welcome. Places are starting to show different languages throughout the store and restaurants are starting to become more diverse. And I feel that schools are going to make it soon a requirement to have at least a few years of a different language. At this university they make us as sociology majors take a semester of Spanish 102. Which I agree is extremely important due to the fact that we will be working with many different types of people!

I love that we get to put a media part on your sumblogs. I always try to dig deep and try to find a “homemade” video of some sort. This video I posted shows interview of what people think about globalization and education. This also pinpoints many facts that people would not be fully educated on. I defiantly learned new things from this video.  Many compare the different educational systems from the different cultures they have lived in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw_PwtnxWi8

Sumblog 6

With all of the craziness going on with the government lately, I was really happy we were able to talk about economic related topics. Talking about this stuff helped me be able to understand it a little bit better.  We were given an extra credit worksheet and I took the opportunity to complete it. The questions made me do some research on how the dollar was being spent and how much are world market really works. I brought up that in this world today people are very money hungry. It only makes sense to why people would always what money seeing how all the media puts out there is what the new treads are and how to make yourself look better. I believe that a lot of it has to do with technology. Technology has grown rapidly over the past decade. It amazes me the things that people are coming up with. I thought that I had a nice phone but apparently there are a lot nicer ones out there. I cannot deny it, I like the newest thing but I feel as if I can live without some of the stuff they have out there! I was watching TV the other day and saw a commercial for a phone that is a wrist watch! Now that is ridiculous to me. Technology is defiantly taking over how the way people live. It seems that you can do anything with technology including shutting down the whole world system.

I posted this short video to explain how crazy things have changes over the years. It is saying facts like 1 in 8 people have gotten married from meeting online. They also say that there is on average 31 billion google searchs a MONTH! Also stating that in 2006 it was 2.7 billion. That is a crazy difference!