Math in the real world project

Fracking

Fracking is a very serious environmental problem. Fracking started in the 1860's as a huge future problem when liquid was first used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in the ground. In the 1930's people tried to inject a non explosive in the ground to stimulate a well which would force gas and oil to the surface. In 1949, a company called Halliburton became the first company to use hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas. Fracking started many years ago and has become a big problem that many people did not see coming.

Fracking is even a problem to drinking water and our environment. Fracking uses heavy amounts of fresh water filled with chemicals to get the gas and oil out of the ground. Most of the time none of that water is reused but just left in the ground. Since 1949, when hydraulic fracking was started it has been releasing huge amounts of pollution into the air! One day, if fracking continues due to all of the pollution it creates our air could possible become hazardous to breathe. Since the early days of fracking it has caused mini earthquakes to occur that have even damaged homes! Fracking causes many environmental problems and should be stopped.

Sources: http://www.alive.com/articles/view/23262/fracking_in_canada

http://youngpetro.org/2013/05/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-fracking/

 

http://www.sciencedump.com/content/pros-and-cons-fracking-infographic

 

Paragraph on Recent book I Have Been Reading

Recently I have read the book "Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins." In this book there are many teenagers but the main character is a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen. She is a normal teenage girl but she lives in the future and has to hunt for animals to eat because she is poor and lives in a place where most people are poor. I think she is different from most teenagers because she poaches animals and has to fight to the death in an arena. I think this book is a little unrealistic but anything could happen in the future.

MIss Representation blog post 2

Last week, I watched a movie called "Miss Representation,", it was about how women are mistreated, discriminated, unequal to men, and described as less than a man everyday in almost every situation. During this movie there where many examples of how women are discriminated and mistreated in things like movies, tv shows, and magazines. Examples are video games like Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row, People Magazine, the show "Two Broke Girls" and almost every movie pg 13 or higher rating that involves women. The biggest example was television where girls where forced to have surgeries to make them more "beautiful" and they where photo shopped to look unrealistically beautiful. That made other girls in real life think that they would have to live up to those standards or they aren't beautiful.
 Here is a link to some news on this topic http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24522060
My final point is that women are discriminated, mistreated, and treated as lesser people than men for basically no reason and it is wrong. None of these things happen to men, and women deserve the same treatment as men. Nobody deserves to be treated in the same way the women in the movie are treated so I think that we have to change how we act.

"Miss Representation" (Tyson and Jade)

We recently watched a movie called "Miss Representation". It is about the equality of women in the media and how they are discriminated against and expected to reach unreachable beauty in order to matter. We also did some notes about what we think during the movie.
These are my notes/ examples of Irony in the film:

The girls look at a photo shopped person and think they can’t be beautiful but in real life that person isn't that beautiful they just had been photo shopped.
Girls think they aren’t beautiful unless they are skinny but realistically being too skinny can cause health issues.
Most movies aren’t about women even some chick flicks.
Some people view women as objects in media but realistically there is much more to women. Women are forced to have surgeries for beauty but they are already beautiful. People think women can’t lead because they aren't equal but women are equal in every way.

This movie was about the equality of women.  Personally  I thought that this movie supported the equality of women, describing why they are equal to men. It used  irony because in the media they where making girls have beautification surgeries to be on television. Definition of irony: An outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. Irony is used to get the filmmaker's prospective across because it showed the bad ways women are abused and treated in real life around the USA.

 The point of the filmmaker is that women are mistreated in the media and in most ways are never equal to men and that they should be treated the same and have the same rights.

Lego Gun Project

click here for my presentation video That is my presentation for my lego gun passion project! Thanks for watching!

Garden Expirament Project By Tyson