I don't find Earth day necessary because people should be eco-friendly to environment every day instead of being reminded to be for one day of the year. Being eco-friendly to the environment for one day will have minimum effect. However, people need to start being friendly to the environment or else global warming will be more of an issue plus other environment issues that may soon harm humans.
Even though it is important to raise awareness, i still believe that most people will still continue living their same regular life littering, wasting electricity, etc. To be honest, I'm not really sure where I send and at the moment, I kind of don't care because I'm going to be up all night doing homework on my birthday! Okay, whatever.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Motivation and Science
What motivates me to learn chemistry this year?
Honestly, getting good grades is what motivates me the most. Because my parents stress about getting good grades to get into a good college, getting excellent grades is what drives me to learn and try to excel in chemistry. Also, because I'm a competitive person, getting better grades than my peers is what also motivates me.
However, even though getting good grades is what motivates me the most, there are some others that motivate me. I find that out of all the subjects I am learning, chemistry is the most interesting and fun. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do in the future but doing something in the future with science is definately an option. So, I guess that trying to figure out if I want to do something along the lines of science or more specifically chemistry motivates me.
Honestly, getting good grades is what motivates me the most. Because my parents stress about getting good grades to get into a good college, getting excellent grades is what drives me to learn and try to excel in chemistry. Also, because I'm a competitive person, getting better grades than my peers is what also motivates me.
However, even though getting good grades is what motivates me the most, there are some others that motivate me. I find that out of all the subjects I am learning, chemistry is the most interesting and fun. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do in the future but doing something in the future with science is definately an option. So, I guess that trying to figure out if I want to do something along the lines of science or more specifically chemistry motivates me.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
What is the purpose of grades?
My parents are the complete opposite...
They evaluate my learning based on my grades. So basically, all they care about is grades.
Also, with the whole balancing out your life idea (academics, sports, social life, and spiritual life), my parents are not too fond of that idea either. It's either school or tennis. This is all my parents basically care about.
The thing is, my parents don't understand that learning is more important than what grade you get. They believe that getting into a good college is the ultimate goal based on the grades one gets. I mean don't get me wrong, everyone wants to get into a good college, but along the way to achieving it, the students should learn instead of worrying about grades nonstop.
So, feel free to try to convince my parents that grades aren't everything. I highly doubt that they will ever change their minds about grades.
They evaluate my learning based on my grades. So basically, all they care about is grades.
Also, with the whole balancing out your life idea (academics, sports, social life, and spiritual life), my parents are not too fond of that idea either. It's either school or tennis. This is all my parents basically care about.
The thing is, my parents don't understand that learning is more important than what grade you get. They believe that getting into a good college is the ultimate goal based on the grades one gets. I mean don't get me wrong, everyone wants to get into a good college, but along the way to achieving it, the students should learn instead of worrying about grades nonstop.
So, feel free to try to convince my parents that grades aren't everything. I highly doubt that they will ever change their minds about grades.
Science and Politics
I don't have a clue about what to write because I am not familiar on this topic, and this is such a broad topic. Well anyways, I'm going to write ideas that I think of when it comes down to science and politics.
Okay well onto the basics...
Obviously the government affects science by funding for research or vice versa. Some examples that are widely known about when it's about science and politics are global warming and stem cell research.
People have been arguing about stem cell research for a long time. Others disapprove while others want to keep on researching about it. Personally, I think that the scientists should keep on researching because ending it without finding the answer would be a waste of money and time spent.
The other widely know topic is global warming. It starts to scare people when there is a dramatic change in weather that isn't supposed to happen. People are funding to research more about global warming and how to reduce it. Also, the gov. has been trying to keep the environment with less pollution as possible.
And this is all I have to say about the topic, science and politics.
Okay well onto the basics...
Obviously the government affects science by funding for research or vice versa. Some examples that are widely known about when it's about science and politics are global warming and stem cell research.
People have been arguing about stem cell research for a long time. Others disapprove while others want to keep on researching about it. Personally, I think that the scientists should keep on researching because ending it without finding the answer would be a waste of money and time spent.
The other widely know topic is global warming. It starts to scare people when there is a dramatic change in weather that isn't supposed to happen. People are funding to research more about global warming and how to reduce it. Also, the gov. has been trying to keep the environment with less pollution as possible.
And this is all I have to say about the topic, science and politics.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Nuclear Power
Because I didn't really know much about nuclear power, I decided to briefly research about it. I found out...
Advantages
-emits low amounts of carbon dioxide, only contributes a small amount of green house gases (little global warming)
-technology is already available
-can generate produce a lot of energy in one plant
Disadvantages
-the waste is extremely dangerous
-impossible for a plant to be 100% secured, if accident happened, hurt humans and nature
-target for terrorist attack
-production of nuclear weapons
-energy source=Uranium is scarce
-building nuclear power plants take awhile
So the question is...
Should we use nuclear power to meet our energy needs?
I say that we should use nuclear power. Even though I've typed up more disadvantages than advantages, I still think we should go for it. To begin with, there are other things that are extremely dangerous. Also, you can't have it all. If theres little green house gas, theres a price to pay for that. In addition, there isn't really a lot of things that have 100% security. Plus, I think it should be a risk were willing to take. And the terrorists should know not to mess with us....or else... As for the nuclear weapons, we have used them before and won. Furthermore, too bad if its scarce. We're running out of gas, and we're still using it. As for the time issue, great things take time.
So all in all, I say we take this and fly with it. It's not like the earth is perfect right now with no dangers. We live in a dangerous world already and what's one more going to do to us? Plus, personally in our life time, its not really going to affect us immensely. It's not really going to be our problem at the moment, but people that live generations from now.
Advantages
-emits low amounts of carbon dioxide, only contributes a small amount of green house gases (little global warming)
-technology is already available
-can generate produce a lot of energy in one plant
Disadvantages
-the waste is extremely dangerous
-impossible for a plant to be 100% secured, if accident happened, hurt humans and nature
-target for terrorist attack
-production of nuclear weapons
-energy source=Uranium is scarce
-building nuclear power plants take awhile
So the question is...
Should we use nuclear power to meet our energy needs?
I say that we should use nuclear power. Even though I've typed up more disadvantages than advantages, I still think we should go for it. To begin with, there are other things that are extremely dangerous. Also, you can't have it all. If theres little green house gas, theres a price to pay for that. In addition, there isn't really a lot of things that have 100% security. Plus, I think it should be a risk were willing to take. And the terrorists should know not to mess with us....or else... As for the nuclear weapons, we have used them before and won. Furthermore, too bad if its scarce. We're running out of gas, and we're still using it. As for the time issue, great things take time.
So all in all, I say we take this and fly with it. It's not like the earth is perfect right now with no dangers. We live in a dangerous world already and what's one more going to do to us? Plus, personally in our life time, its not really going to affect us immensely. It's not really going to be our problem at the moment, but people that live generations from now.
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