UPDATE V2

 My idea for my English paper is to explore the habits of college students and recycling. My theory is that students will recycle if they can do so easily and they will not if they have to make a bit of an effort to do so.

I have 35 responses to my survey. Many of them seem to have been legit responses, but some were spam. The legit ones seem to go along with my theory.

here is the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KQD92W7

Update

 My idea for my English paper is to explore the habits of college students and recycling. My theory is that students will recycle if they can do so easily and they will not if they have to make a bit of an effort to do so.

I have 33 responses to my survey. Many of them seem to have been legit responses, but some were spam. The legit ones seem to go along with my theory.

here is the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KQD92W7

Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival

The article "Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival" by Michael Marker is about the Coast Salish people who live in British Columbia and Washington State. The Salish people are having to deal with unification or assimilation with the 'American' culture forced on them by the government. They governments of both the United States and of Canada are attempting to assimilate them into the school systems. The Salish did not want anything to do with the assimilation an wanted to keep there customs and traditions. With the Salish revolting against the assimilation the governments both failed in bringing down there culture.

food and sustainability of Valdese

Aside from relying on the world around it Valdese, NC would not be able to provide enough food for its residents or be able to sustain itself very long. When acting will the surrounding towns, county's, and states the town of Valdese is able to survive. Since there are no large farms or food processing facilities the town has to rely on imports into the local grocery stores and the several small restaurants in the town. Valdese used to be a place that was very sustainable, there used to be many large factories and now there are only a few, many have been outsourced. In the future I think that Valdese will not be able to sustain any small business and that many more of the jobs will be outsourced. 

environmental “ethics”

This article is about Bioethics 11th world conference.  Bioethics is the official journal of the International Association of Bioethics

 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01966.x/pdf

550 ppm 450ppm or 350ppm

"Climate crunch: A burden beyond bearing" describes how the number 350 ppm became the goal to shoot for in CO_2 levels. At first it was noted that we were currently at 382 ppm and that we were increasing at 2 ppm a year. The mark that James Hansen thought we should not pass was initial 450 ppm and we had not reached it yet. Hansen then questioned him self and seeing the consequences we are ready facing at 382 ppm realized that 450 ppm was too high. He determined that 350 ppm was what was needed to shoot for. In earlier studyies it had been thought that 550 ppm was the mark. It was later determined that 550 ppm was way to high. I think that if we want to limit the amount of carbon emission we need to limit what we burn. We need to stop relying on the burning of coal and fossil fuels. 350 ppm will be attainable if we all work together.

http://www.nature.com.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/news/2009/090429/full/4581091a.html

EPA: Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Contamination Synthesis

                        The topic of fracking seems to be very controversial to me. It is known that fracking causes pollution to the air and to the ground water. There was no reason that the companies had to use the process. All that they were caring about was themselves, they did not care about anyone else or the environment. It also seemed that they blatantly lied to the EPA. They were even supplying water to residence that had contaminated wells. It was very obvious to see that the companies only cared about themselves and the money they made.

            It also seemed that the EPA was doing a poor job and there is some underground information that they are not releasing.  If they were able to tell that there were problems in the 1990’s why is this an issue today?  Why is the company still drilling?  This article was written in 2011 so that was nearly twenty years going by without the water being cleaned or the investigation being finish.  It was also poor for the EPA to be lied to so easily and to be accused of bias.  It seems that both the EPA and they drilling company only cared about their money.  It’s funny I thought the Environmental Protection Agency would want to help the environment more that it would want to make money. They are almost making their standards lower than what they make us abide by.

            People need to care more about the environment than about money. Making money is important but when it comes between money and people safety and the environment, peoples safety and the environment come first.  The downfall of America and the rest of the world will be caring too much about money and not what negative effects are from our actions.