From Dani's blog I read that she was going to take old pictures from Sunset Cliffs and then take new ones herself of the same area and compare them. It's a great idea and I think it would be able to get a great message across if I were to choose a photo essay.
Dani's Blog: http://danielatoscano.blogspot.com/
From Hallie's blog she mentioned something about the pollution having any effect on animals in the ocean. She mentioned whales and how she would go whale watching. That is a great idea. Observing an animal in their habitat would be an excellent way to see if they are effected in their day to day habits.
Hallie's Blog: http://halliechavis.blogspot.com/
While reading Deejay's Blog, I thought to myself. "I could literally ask the people at the beaches what they think of the beach, and if they would still come if they knew it was dirty, or if it got dirtier."
http://deejayplaysguitar.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Blog #15
I am interested in either a documentary that addresses the question "How does the pollution effect the public's opinion?"
I am also interested in a photo documentation that addresses the question as well. I will base my video off of Jessica Matthews video. I really liked the interviews and then the facts in between. http://mediasavesthebeach.org/ "Jessica Matthews."
I am also interested in a photo documentation that addresses the question as well. I will base my video off of Jessica Matthews video. I really liked the interviews and then the facts in between. http://mediasavesthebeach.org/ "Jessica Matthews."
Blog #14
How does Pollution effect the public's opinion?
If so, Why does it effect their opinion? What if the situation isn't as bad as they think? What would happen if all of the public's opinion was negative?
If so, Why does it effect their opinion? What if the situation isn't as bad as they think? What would happen if all of the public's opinion was negative?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Blog # 13
"In a striking change of direction, the California Coastal Commission yesterday voted 8-4 to give San Diego its third exemption from pollution standards set by federal Clean Water Act."
San Diego is getting its third exemption from standards that every other city in California has to meet, It will take $1.5 billion to retrofit the treatment plant to meet these standards.
There is no information on what happens to the wastewater after it gets into the ocean. There are no statistics or visual confirmations.
I would get facts about the size of the contaminated area (if it is even able to be tested) and also write about what the contract was that will make the city come back in two years for a check-up.
San Diego is getting its third exemption from standards that every other city in California has to meet, It will take $1.5 billion to retrofit the treatment plant to meet these standards.
There is no information on what happens to the wastewater after it gets into the ocean. There are no statistics or visual confirmations.
I would get facts about the size of the contaminated area (if it is even able to be tested) and also write about what the contract was that will make the city come back in two years for a check-up.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Blog 11: Media Saves The Beach
Why haven't a lot of sharks shown up around the Children's Pool? Just interesting to me that I've heard no shark sightings around an area so intensely filled with their food.
How does human interaction effect Mission Bay? I heard about the alcohol beach ban loophole, and how a bunch of people drank literally on the water. I was wondering what happened to all the trash that fell off their boats and if it effected it at all.
How does pollution effect the public's opinion? This is just all around interesting. If a beach is dirty will someone still go to it? what if it has a reputation for being dirty? and vice versa.
How does human interaction effect Mission Bay? I heard about the alcohol beach ban loophole, and how a bunch of people drank literally on the water. I was wondering what happened to all the trash that fell off their boats and if it effected it at all.
How does pollution effect the public's opinion? This is just all around interesting. If a beach is dirty will someone still go to it? what if it has a reputation for being dirty? and vice versa.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Dying For Dixie
In the American South some will say that a “war” is still being fought from its origin back in the 1800s. This war is not over land, it is not over money. It is over race. The mere color of a man's skin. Sounds pretty ridiculous if you ask anyone outside of this area. Both sides of the fight are pitted so against each other that they won't even swim in the same swimming pools. It appears that the 1960s and the civil rights movement didn't reach these areas or maybe just didn't even have an effect. There was a case back in 1995 of a man, Michael Westerman, from Guthrie on the Tennessee and Kentucky border being shot and killed for him having the Confederate flag on the back of his truck. This man was not a believer in the preachings of such people as the KKK and Aryan Nation. He merely thought the red of the Confederate flag matched his red truck and made it look “sharp.” This man was killed over something as trivial and irrelevant as this. In Todd county, people were going hysterical over this tragedy. Things went way overboard.
State officials wanted to remove the Confederate “Rebel” flag mascot from the school. Most of the residents and parents refused and were pitted in a pointless argument over the fact. African-American parents were afraid to stand up for their children and themselves to remove the flag from the school and the state. One woman named Frances Chapman stated, “Slavery was not all that bad. A lot of people were quite happy to be living on large plantations. Blacks just need to get over slavery. You can't live in the past. Blacks don't really have anything against the flag. They just don't want us to have it. They want the best jobs, the biggest money. Now they want this. If we lose the mascot, it'll be just a matter of time before we lose everything. Don't us where they used to be.” Apparently she believes that since the African-American parents and families want to feel safe, that they are slowly taking away her freedom.
This “Southern Pride” these people of Todd County share, is simply just a false ideal of a life and belief. Todd County, or whatever the area was called during the era of the civil war, supported the Union. Not the Confederacy. So their “Pride” is simply a facade. Jefferson David, The leader of the confederacy himself said in his last speech and was engraved on a statue, “The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future. :et me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished- a reunited country.” You can see that even the leader of the Confederacy wanted to become a united nation and not have struggles and hate for no real reason.
State officials wanted to remove the Confederate “Rebel” flag mascot from the school. Most of the residents and parents refused and were pitted in a pointless argument over the fact. African-American parents were afraid to stand up for their children and themselves to remove the flag from the school and the state. One woman named Frances Chapman stated, “Slavery was not all that bad. A lot of people were quite happy to be living on large plantations. Blacks just need to get over slavery. You can't live in the past. Blacks don't really have anything against the flag. They just don't want us to have it. They want the best jobs, the biggest money. Now they want this. If we lose the mascot, it'll be just a matter of time before we lose everything. Don't us where they used to be.” Apparently she believes that since the African-American parents and families want to feel safe, that they are slowly taking away her freedom.
This “Southern Pride” these people of Todd County share, is simply just a false ideal of a life and belief. Todd County, or whatever the area was called during the era of the civil war, supported the Union. Not the Confederacy. So their “Pride” is simply a facade. Jefferson David, The leader of the confederacy himself said in his last speech and was engraved on a statue, “The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future. :et me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished- a reunited country.” You can see that even the leader of the Confederacy wanted to become a united nation and not have struggles and hate for no real reason.
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