3rd Response to Blog

The next presentation that i looked at was Sammy's. Her topic was about polution and environment. I know that we have a polution problem in the world, and that the more polution that accumulates the more it eats away at our ozone layer, which could potentially destroy our planet in the long run. But i didn't know that polution was so bad in countries that it caused birth defects. there was a video that i watched in Sammy's presentation about how pesticides can affect people. there were pictures of baby's with no arms and no legs, because there parents worked in tomato fields before giving birth to them. there are so many pesticides in the fields that the workers work in that it gets into there system and pollutes there bodies. i only knew about the polution of the earth, and this video showed me that there is also human bodies being poluted too. another video that was very empowering was a video that said that 30.3% of the polution in the owrld is casued by the U.S.A. and that 33% of chinease people live in cites with such bad air polution that it is equivilent to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day. In russia the smog is so heavy on some nights you cant even see the stars. In Mexico the polution is so heavy that kids when they draw the sky in pictures they rarely use the color blue. all of these statements are very sad to me, because none of them should be true. you should be able to see the stars at night, and draw the sky blue, and be able to live in a city where your not having to worry about getting lung cancer becasue of the area you live in. this video really effected my opinion about polution, it is a huge problem in the world and i dont think that people understand how much it is affecting our world.

2nd Response to Blog

The presentation that i looked at was Kimmy's. I didn't know a whole lot about the history of womens rights, just the general information that most people know. there was a slide in her presentation that didnt have very much on it except two pictures and an arrow. the first picture was of a 60's housewife with an arrow pointing to the second picture of a business woman. i thought that this was a great slide becasue it was simple but it showed how much times have changed. another slide that cought my attention was about Susan B. Anthony. Kimmy said that Susan B. Anthony wanted to vote, so even though the law said that she was not allowed she went ahead and did it anyway. This reminds me of the civil rights movements, becasue it was the same type of thinking, if they dont want us to do something then we will do it anyways and force then to accept it because we wont stop.

1st Response to Blog

The presentation that i looked at was Laura's. her topic was also about Gays and Lesbians, but she focused on being silent. There was a video in Laura's presentation that really stood out in my mind; it was the slide with all of the different groups of people with something covering their mouths whether it was there hand or a bandana. then there was a video in the center of all of the pictures that showed teens of all different backgrounds, genders, and race just standing there in front of the camera not speaking or doing anything, just standing. This video got me thinking that they probably did this because this is what gays and lesbians must feel like everyday they just go through life without speaking or talking about the biggest part of their life, they are just silent. i think that this was one of the most powerful slides in the whole presentation, becasue when you see a video you are expecting to hear talking or some type of music in the background, and it is surprising when you find out that it wasn't your headphones and that it is supposed to be like that. And then you start to watch the video the way it was presented and it is very moving.

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