Breaths of Nature

It’s amazing what fifteen minutes in the park can do for the mind. I didn’t fill my ears with music from my ipod and I shut my phone on silent. For a December day, it was quite warm out and there was very little breeze in the air. The three o’clock sun was shining through [...]

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The Dirt in the Dirt in the New Machine

“The Dirt in the New Machine” fails to support its initial condemnation of cell phone use. As the article progresses, Blaine Harden (its author) names factor after mitigating factor that diminishes the link between cell phones and coltan mining. Moreover, he fails to demonstrate that coltan mining is truly a detrimental practice. [...]

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Summary of the Dirt in the Machine

The Dirt in the New Machine
 I have a cell phone.  Many say they “need” cell phones.  I highly doubt that even a small amount of cell phone users has any idea what colton is or where it comes from.  I had never heard of it before reading the article.  The hardest thing about the situation is [...]

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Summary of Final Paper from SP

I read part 1 of Breakthrough by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger.  I agree that many environmentalists have been so wrapped up in protecting nature that they’ve actually been blinded by their attempt to negate others actions and remove things that we do, instead of coming up with concrete, counteractive ideas to create anew. I [...]

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Kurosawa Film Response from SP

I don’t think a system of honor and shame makes sense in relating to other species.  And it’s not that I think that other animal species don’t have this same way of relating to each other.  It seems that when dealing with another species we have two things to rely on to communicate: observation and [...]

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DIRTY IN MY MACHINE!

Hey y’all. Stasia here.
 I responded to the Coltan issue with “The Dirt in the New Machine.” and ashamedly I bow my head. To be blunt, I do not feel obligated to feel guilty about my cell phone use because I’m not sure how to connect the dots from the people there to me and my [...]

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Final Summary

I answered question 3.
I think the best way to go about getting a fast change in a group of people is fear.I think the future of the world is open until it becomes too late and we cant do anything to change it. People are scared of the truth, based on scientific research the planet [...]

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It’s come to this

It’s come down to the wire. I’m revisiting old blog assignments that have yet to be posted and posting them now.  Perhaps I give this preface because I’m writing from the computer lab and I question the validity of this environments worth on the Perfect Storms blogsite.  But it’s actually very fitting.Wires. The air is cold, [...]

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Response to the films

I really like the films we watched in class, especially the one about the peach orchard. That was the film that inspired me on some of my ideas for Fables of La Fontaine. During the procession in the forest it seemed like the actors were using a technique called Suzuki which I found very effective. [...]

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Anthony’s 15 Minutes of Observing Nature

yawn
breath
stillness, nothing is moving
it looks like nothing is moving
stretching reflection of a red exit sign
my shadow is reaching to the left of me for about 5 feet
It is me sitting up against a wall.
yam
I’m having thoughts about other people in my life and I’m not really looking at anything in front of me
It makes me [...]

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