Response to Articles

The information from these articles did not really have that big of an impact on me. My mother is a librarian and she tells me all the time how she does not see as many older kids come through to read books as they used to. I personally do not like to read for fun. I believe that some people really enjoy it while others cannot sit still long enough to read the first page. I am one of those people. I believe that reading comprehension is very important and a necessity with today's society. Better jobs are being offered to those who can read and write at a more educated level; They are getting higher paid jobs with better hours and working conditions. Writing expectations have gone down over the years which really is only going to hurt our generation in the long run.

The U.S. Economy

The American Economy is a bismal. This article talks about how the American dollar has lost value over the past couple years and how our economy is headed into rough times. The American money directly effects several other countries which could prove to be a problem. How are other countries economies supposed to survive when the economy they rely on goes downhill? Why can't the United States pull together to get our economy back on track? The United States is struggling right now and what is there to do? Banks are struggling to meet peoples needs, gas is at an outragous price, things are just getting to a point where Americans are furious. As our economy continues to decline, we have to ask ourselves, Where is our country headed?

Issue of Global Warming

Before I watched Ted Talks, I thought that global warming was a recent problem which evolved in the last..say 10 years. However, I was very wrong. Global warming is a very serious problem which has been around for a very long time. Now I have learned that global warming is just becoming more evident with the passing of the years. Over all the time people have been trying to find something to make global warming better, we've acheieved close to nothing. However the way Ted sees it, we have all the ideas and technology to achieve these goals...just not the plan to get these goals achieved. Over the next few years, I really hope that we get global warming figured out because if we don't - it will be our generation and the ones after us that will have to deal with the aftermath.