Floating Homes

They come in all shapes and sizes, from traditional-looking homes that just happen to be floating on water to ultramodern houseboat concepts that look like they might be able to fly, too. Some are high-end, while others are cobbled together from reclaimed planes, trains and automobiles, proving that you don’t have to have a large budget to take your home to the high seas – or the lake, bay, river or canal. I think this is a really good idea because this would stop flooding and where i am from there is alot of flooding.People are losing homes and things the love becasue of flooding so this was a very good idea.

Eco-House Went Bad

This was building made very eco friendly and was said to show people the beautiful forests of Mexico. But the article says,the owners of this plot of land had an exceptionally difficult series of problems to work around: the land was .5 hectares (about 1.2 acres), covered in slopes and pitted with collapsed caves left over from previous mining on the property. The very small flat, treeless portion of the land had to be used for parking. But maybe most challenging of all was that the existing plant life had to be left untouched. In the end, about 97% of the land was unsuitable for building on. 97% is a huge number to have if it is bad for the land, i really want to know why they would build on the land if it was not good enough.

Luxurious Eco Travel

There are rustic eco resorts and there are luxury resorts with dubious green claims, but EcoCamp Patagonia in Chile is the best of both worlds – a luxurious getaway that is 100% carbon-free. You’ll sleep in a geodesic dome inspired by the huts built by the native Kawesqar people but enjoy modern comfort and convenience, right in the wilderness of the Torres del Paine National Park. This is a except from the article. I thought this was a very good peice because this is a great way to go green. I would more than like live in one of these for a night just to see how it all works.

White Out: Global Warming Is Melting Japan’s Snow Monsters

In Japan there are these beautiful snow caves that have been there for awhile and now because global warming they are in danger.I thought this was good because it reminded me of the time we watched the movie about the guy saying climate change in stay of global warming. In the article it talks about how people arent doing anything to help it out. I feel that people should see these event and think about them in order to help them out in the long run.

Prompt 4

When think about the future your mind just goes in all sorts of different directions because no one will ever know exactly is going to happen with this world. Every person has an idea about how they want their life, their family’s lives, and even their friend’s lives to be but they will never really know. Life is so hard to predict because stuff could happen in the matter of a second and change everything you are trying to gain in life. I feel like people try to create their own future, I am more about if you do stuff right your future will work out and you will be happy. Future is a little word that contains a lot of meaning in the sense that one outcome someone tries to do could change everything. So I am not really sure how my future will turn out at this exact moment of my life. So this paper will be about what will effect and happy better my life, to make me have a good future.


I am not quite sure where my family and I will be in five to ten years because one day stuff could be looking up for us than the next day we could all be having the worst day ever. With today and everything that is happening in the world the future could be all sorts of stuff. One could be because of the environment and all the nature deserters our world could be base of the ideas about strong and better done house some they can hold when things like tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods came through and destroy houses. If I had to choose this would be a great idea because this would help save a lot of lives and homes. This would also help decrease poverty in the United States and would save a lot of problems in the world. The future is a big thing to try to predict and so many ideas go through my head when I saw this topic. If I want to tell my future I would hope for the world to have everything to stop the crime in the world. I feel this way because when I was younger our house was broken into and a lot of family stuff was stolen. So if I wanted one thing to happen in the future would have to be home protection and being about to build house to prevent that from happening.

One other thing I would really like to see would be a better food production system to stop big business from accruing. We watch a lot of videos in class like Food Inc. that showed what business were doing to gain so much control of the food production system so in the future I would like to see someone or something actually is able to stop big business from happening. Back From the Future an article that had a really good saying in it, “You win back your free will in the sense that if you actually attempt to defy the future, you will find that it can never force you to carry out post selection experiments against your wishes” this quote for some reason just got to me. I am not really sure what it means but to me I feel that it means do not try to change or make your future just let it come to you and you will be better off in the long run. I agree with that because I feel that too many people try to change their destiny in the world and people will accomplish a lot more if they just go with it and live life right. This is why I feel that the future cannot be predicted.

What if the future was that there was no dollar amount it was all the same? I feel this is also a good thing for are future because the world we live in now has a lot of money striving people. With people like that it makes the world a bad place. We have people stealing, selling, and doing stuff they don’t want to do because the world now revolves around how much money a person has. When a man name Warren come to class one thing he said stuck out to me, he said he really didn’t need a lot of money. I think this statement is far from true because money has a lot to do with what people do in the world. Gas prices, rent, and car payments are some of the thing we have to have money for these days and when he said he didn’t care if he had money I just feel like that it really far off. So in the future I hope to see the value of money to go down that would help out the world.

So future to me is simple just improve what it is now and we will have a great life. Everyone working together to build what we needed to get done in order to live together and survive together will make this place we call “our home” really our home. I just hope everyone will see that and be able to fix it. This is what I imagine the future will hold for everyone.

Prompt 3

When I think of food, the first thing that comes to mind is obesity and the effects that people do not take in to consideration when eating “food”. I have been one of those lucky one who has not be affected by obesity and the dangerous effects that food have on people. I eat a lot of food throughout the day and before my freshman English class, which I watched and talked about a lot of way people used and misuse food. I used to eat food without any thought about how bad it could hurt me physically and mentally. I would go to Wendy’s and order not only one hamburger I would get three without even thinking how that would hurt me. My opinion on food and the way it is use is people should realize what eating bad and unhealthy food can do to the human body, this way the can live better and live longer.


My relationship with food had changed over and over since I have grown up in to the person I am today. I have never really had to stick to a diet or actually watch what goes in my body because of what I do and how God created me. I grew up in a household where we ate what we wanted to be happy. But after the years and by watching the videos like Food Inc. it has showed me I need to change what goes in my mouth when I eat. Health food not just consider apples, bananas, oranges, and other fruits it is the foods that are grown and are grown right in a way that makes it good for your body to ingest. In health class growing up the talk about the food pyramid and how if you follow this it will guild you to a better life. At that age I feel like it did not impact the way it should. After hearing my teacher talk about it, I forgot about it as soon as I left the room because at that time in my life I did not care what went in my body. So as I got older and became more aware of food itself, I started to read and examine labels of what my mom was buying. After this I thought I should look at the production of the food itself as well. In the article titled Food Physics and Food Safety said, the role of food safety has developed significantly in the last two decades, so today the production and processing of safe and quality food is of primary importance. This stuck out to me and shows me that people thought out the world are realizing how important it is to read what is on the label.

After the stage of reading and examining the labels of food I kind of lost the power to really stand behind it. So my relationship with food was forgotten for quite a long time because I just was getting older and my health was not the important part. I had the “I am young and invincible” mindset which most teens have growing up. At this age in people life they don’t look at what they are supposed to and how they are supposed to treat their bodies. They rather just live and have fun and not care about how they are destroying their bodies. We have to have food to survive but we have to supply our bodies with good food to survive longer. This means that not only do we have eaten well; we have to realize that we cannot live long if we do not eat correctly. I feel to live correctly with the concept of food we would have to be learning what your body need and start at a young age to make sure your body gets the correct and healthy food it needs. Myself at this time, as a college student, I need to focus on the good quality food that is produce now to help better people’s lives.

So my final relationship with food would have to be that now after watching the videos like Food Inc. I see myself starting a better life style by eating correctly and making sure to eat sustainably. Honestly, by watching Food Inc. in class made my mind up for me because I saw what was being done to get food for the people and it was absolutely wrong. Also the video called McBastard showed how fast food might be a little cheaper but will make you not live as long. I truly agree with my relationship with food now and I will try my hardest to accomplish that goal I have set for myself. The way people look at food will always change as they get older and they start depending more on their selves. I feel like my relationship with food on the bigger picture is about the same as everyone else that would to live the right way to be healthy and live longer. With this being said people should begin their relationship with the right way to eat food at a young age. Because I did not and now that I realize what is at stake I’m going to live life the correct way and be healthy.

Nature + Technology Combine to Relax Stressed Urbanites

This article was about the technology being use to help people relax in their own homes by listening to the sounds of music that were supposely the sound that were outside. I chose this article not because I like it it was more because i feel that this is not the right way to go about stuff like this. Our world is going through a rise on obesity and this is another way to make people fat i feel like. Yes, nature help people study i agree with that because it is soothing way to get work and releif stress. The picture above is said to have some of the following music they are talking about but i dont really know how to get it.

Nestle recall of frozen food

In a article on CNNs website it said that Nestle had a recall of a frozen spaghetti and meatballs dinner it manufacturers which may be contaminated with pieces of red plastic. When reading this I thought about the video we watched in class called Food Inc. and the when that little boy die because he ate the bad food that was being sold. I one of those people that really try to stay away from frozen food because i believe they are not completely cooked. So so this piece really stuck out to me. In the article it talks about how they have found the problem and are doing everything they can to fix it and make the food be able to be sold again.

U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High,’ Sees Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsening

I found this article on the New York Times website it caught my attention because nuclear war is one scary thing when it comes to our place in this world. One bomb could ruin everything people have built and created for this place we call home. In the article it talks about how America found this site and because the earthquake and a tsunami last Friday the cooling systems were messed up and it worried the american people. The japanese government said there was nothing to be conserded about so our government has said anything about it since. I feel that this a event that people should be aware of and look in to it.

Project 4

The History of the Hocking River

            People never stop and look at what is right in front of them when they set off to college. At the Ohio University there is just so much history surrounding the campus from the buildings, monuments, and landmarks that are full with new found desires. Every weekend I wake up and head off to work at the Applebee’s in Athens but because I’m a freshman I have to ride my bike. I take the bike path that surrounds the university and there is where I found my inspiration for my  promotional piece, The Hocking River.  After a while of riding alongside it and never thinking, we got the topic in English and I knew this could be the chance to find out a lot of history about the river itself. So I had to think, “What would be the best way to promote the Hocking River?” In high school I was in a lot of computer classes that taught me how to use PowerPoint, so I took that in to consideration and started on my promotional piece. With this in mind I decided to promote the Hocking River, with a PowerPoint to show its important history. With this all in mind I had to figure out a way to grab the attention of my audience. “Who is my Audience?” that all I asked myself for a long time and how can I make it interesting for them. I want them to see and understand what OU has to offer with the history that encompasses it. People sometimes overlook what’s right in front of them, like me when I would drive to work alongside the River every weekend and never realize till I started this promotional piece. So with this and the PowerPoint I will make everyone see the True history of Ohio University.

            The PowerPoint takes people through the history of the Hocking River from the early 1800’s to the river that I drive alongside every weekend. The first slide would be my title slide just to show my audience the topic of my piece. The color choice I used was to have a darker background with lighter color words to be able to see and read the materials a lot earlier. The background is in all shades of blue colors for the water that the Hocking River contains. Each slide contains a picture of the river or the riverbank and history that I thought was interesting. Because the river has been around for a very long time I decided to put the PowerPoint in chronological order to better understand the piece. Each slide will take you through the history of the Hocking River by the pictures that I have chosen and the information. The PowerPoint is like a timeline to show students that past and the present of the river that they might never know without this piece. The background song is called “No Handlebars” by the Flobots, I picked this song because it reminds me of riding a bike on a Saturday morning. Which I do every weekend to go to work so I thought it was fitting for this project.

            Because all the history on the Hocking River, researching was not that difficult. “Hokhokken” or "Hokhochen" were the names that the Native Americans called the Hocking River when they came across it many years ago. When reading the article “ Hocking River: Facts and Discussion”, because of the consent flooding on OU campus the Army Core of engineers re-channel the river during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The beautiful river is also surrounded by the bike trail that goes around the campus that is for the scenic views. This allows people from all over to walk and see the Hocking Rivers outstanding sites. Because it’s a promotional piece I use some of this information to grab my audiences and bring them in to the piece I hope with this and my PowerPoint I am doing such that.

            Hocking River surrounds Ohio University with history from all decades. You can visit it at all hours of the day and take great pictures for parents whose son or daughters are not from Ohio. I chose the Hocking River for my promotional piece for many different reasons. I used this PowerPoint to promote this piece to show the hocking river and the important history. With this said this piece will grab the audience and make them see the history that this beautiful place has to offer. Most students don’t ride on the bike trail everyday like I do, so I felt that it was my duty to promote and show people the history behind the Hocking River and the effects it has on the campus itself.

Place

Well Place can be described in many different ways but to me and my relationship with Place is just who i am today. Everyone has a purpose and a "place" if people didnt do their part the world would not be what it is today. The importance of place is just that you should be happy with who you are no matter how much money you have, who your friends are, and if you are in the "in crowd". You were put on this Earth for a reason, make something out of it to better not just yourself but the others that surround you and influence your live. So my sense of Place would be the guy that will always be there for people and will always give the extra hand to those in need.