"Stung" by Elizabeth Kolbert Annotation

     I would summarize this article as a first hand experience on beekeeping that stemmed from an article on the colony-collapse disorder. Elizabeth Kolbert read beekeeping manuals and catalogues to learn more in depth information on bees and beekeeping. She learned things such as "different "races" of honeybees, each with its own "dialect"", different diseases, different hives used to hold bees, and different bee suits from these beekeeping manuals and catalogues. Readings those was a great way for Mrs. Kolbert to gain secondary research, which to me is information that's gone through two or more people. But to get more in depth, first hand research she bought her own beehive. She says "But by that point I wasn't sure whether I was writing the story to keep bees or keeping bees to write the story" which show she was getting caught up in her writing and it became an excuse to pursue a newly found interest.
     Her research goes into details about variety of bees all with scientific names such as, Andrena florea, a small European bee, relies exclusively on the delicate white blossoms of bryonty plants. She researches different traits of honey bees; for example, Apis mellifera, meaning that it will feed on just about anything that is blooming. She also goes into details on how honey bees are very common and that they are used to pollinate crops.
     She gives examples of the dependence on bees. A good example would be how California's increasingly large almond industry is almost entirely honeybee-dependent.
    Elizabeth Kolbert describes the moving of bees, how they are typically shipped by flatbed trucks, the hives are stacked on pallets then unloaded with a forklift. But that this hard on bees and keepers expect to lose at least ten percent of his queen bees simply as a result of the jostling. A con to this is that mass movement on honeybees spreads parasites and disease.
    She uses a primary source, David Hackenber, to further her research on the colony-collapse disorder, CCD. David Hackenber gives details on how his hives grew tremendously from when he started. He tells her the amount of travel bees go through in a season.
     Mr. Hackenber was the first to see CCD. He tried to come up with a reason why it was happening but couldn't come up with anything promising.
     Mrs. Kolbert then goes to tell about her experiences on owning a hive, how she went to a bee organization meeting to gain more research. She also talked to Van Engelsdorp, a Penn state apiary inspector, who David Hackenber contacted earlier about the CCD.
     This Article was helpful for me, not for my topic of research, but on my knowledge of honeybees and how they are kept. This article could be used to shape many arguments on honeybees such as, are they being kept properly, are they being mistreated, or that is there a viral disease spreading through them that may end up being able to come in contact with humans. This topic hasn't really affected my thought on illegal immigration because it's really hard to relate to that topic, unless you think of it as a disease but that seems inhumane to me.

Something that I feel is important for people to know about?

A great topic that I finally decided on, after many brainstorms of great ideas, would be certain things that affect school. And I don't just mean affect the school itself but things such as, what motivates students to actually go to school? such as someone going to see their friends or to increase their social standing on the food chain of high school or college. Or student athletes go to school to get good grades or at least passing grades, so that they could play sports. Another one would be different clubs, drama, cheer leading, literature, etc. etc., where you have to participate in school to join them or attend them, either that or they happen during school hours so you must go to school to go to the clubs activities. All these things affect school, because they motivate individuals to put forth the effort and go to school, go to their classes, and turn in assignments. But then at the same time, what are all these different "environments" so to say having on the bigger picture? Such as bringing the community closer, people who live in that town go to athletic events such as Friday night football games and cheer on those student athletes, or people go to attend different plays put on by the drama club or attend a coin drive to help fund different clubs. So this is a topic that i feel is important to me, well at least important enough to bring relevant to the class.

Class work, answering questions on Bouldering's article 9-20

Chad Durkin

Itzel Ponce

Mitch Longerbone

“Can there be world citizenship” by Boulding

1. How does Boulding describe the problems with the current state of “World Citizenship”? Find a quote or two that helps support your claim.

-Boulding says that there is a number of problems with making world citizenship today such as “The (same) issue of assimilation versus creative diversity faces the world in the institution of the United Nations Itself.” “Conflicts per se among humans are inevitable because each of us, Is a unique person, but responses to conflict are learned.”

2. Describe the term “three-fold citizenship.” What would this proposed global community look like in reality? Do you have any personal examples?

-Three-fold citizen can be broken down into local, state, and international. Your role in the community, your role in country, and what you can do globally. It’s really making people be more self-reflective, but gives you the sense that we are all one cooperative civilization. Examples: Role as a family member, friend, team mate.

3.  Does this proposed “governance for the planet’s citizenry” seem possible? What are the restricting factors? What seems possible?

-No, it’s idealistic though. It’s more of a less tangible idea, where a lot of people want this idea to happen, but don’t want to make change for it, to a certain extent. Economic variables, lack of communication, people want to stay in their nitch, they want to do what’s convenient for them even if it affects others negatively. Given time we can see humanity come together eventually, but that’s just one of many futures the world can hold, at any time something could change and affect the whole world, either for the better or for the worse.

"Can There Be World Citizenship?" reading response

     First of all this article was writen in a way where you had to read it about three or four times before you understood what the guy was talking about. It was written in probably the most complex way possible.
     "Can There Be World Citizenship?" is the question Elise Boulding asks for her topic of this article. I will tell you now that this question, how she approached it in her article, is pretty much impossible for one person to grab every perspective there is on it. She brings up that there is a "three-fold citizenship for every human being" and how she describes each of the three citizenship's makes it easier to understand what the point she is trying to get across. Which to me, her point was simple: "we the people of the United Nations" should all be treated fairly, but fairly in the eyes of the beholder, not treated how other people believe "fairly" is. That when a state or local government law restricts us from doing something that is part of our culture or binds us to land, we should go to a higher government, in this case the United Nations, and have something done about it.
    She states "conflicts per se among humans are inevitable because each of us, is a unique person, but responses to conflict are learned. People can learn to use violence in the face of differences, or they can learn to resolve differences peacefully" and I agree with this statement, but it is way easier said then done. For one person to prove another person wrong, it's going to upset that person, and not everyone can handle being wrong as well as others. So there is going to be cases where one person will lash out at another person, its just inevitable. The idea, the thought, of resolving our differences peacefully, is something of a far greater society that we have yet to become. Or will become for many generations. So I say, go for it, try to reach these goals, it won't be easily accomplished, and here is where I answer the question, "Can there be world citizenship?" from my perspective, I know there can be, but it'll be practically impossible to achieve world citizenship anytime soon. Because to reach world citizenship, one must persuade and show others how you can resolve differences peacefully, and that it is possible to resolve something without violence. But the problem that they will encounter, is different cultures believing different ways of resolving things. Someone would have to find a middle ground for all society's and for all cultures to meet and agree on something.
     The two articles "Generation Me" and "The Why-Worry Generation" go to show why we won't be able to achieve world citizenship for generations to come. These two articles state how our generation is all about themselves and only looking out for number one, you. For there to be world citizenship we would need a generation that care more about society becoming one, and cultures coming together, or how Elise Boulding put it "If we of the 10,000 ethnic groups put our imaginations to work on the world as it could be and on the United Nations as it could be. Serious vision work during this United Nations Decade dedicated to a Culture of Peace can eventually guide our strategies toward a workable action program.....to bring that citizenship into action."

Generation Y Reading Response

     In these two articles, "The Why-Worry Generation" and "Generation Me", both writers discuss how "Generation Y", which happens to be my generation, are a bunch of narcissists who think to high of them selves and are to confident. This is stereotyping 101, just because a couple people here and a couple people there thing highly of themselves, and believe that they are number one on the society food chain, or because some one has really high standards of what they want to do with there life, does not make our generation narcissistic. The fact that people can stereotype our entire generation as narcissists is ridiculous. But in "The Why-Worry Generation" I like the point they make near the end about how our generation's ability to stay positive, even though our elders are losing their jobs or drowning in debt, is whats keeping our generation alive.
     Some hot spots in these articles, or things that stick out to me, would be how blunt they are or how quick they are to call us narcissists or spoiled brats. An example in "They Why-Worry Generation" article about how blunt the writers are could be found in the first paragraph when he calls us "entitled whiners" or writes how other people think we're "entitled whiners", but even better is the rest of this quote," Spoiled by parents who over stoked their self-esteem..... trophies on any player who showed up." In the "Generation Me" article Raina Kelley writes "Gorged on a diet of grade inflation, constant praise and materialistic entitlement, I probably would have succumbed to a life of heedless self-indulgence." To be honest I think these writers are jealous. Jealous of how success full our generation is going to be. They see the technology we're going to event, the diseases we're going to cure, the wars we're going to end, and natural disasters we're going to prevent, and instead of pushing us forward and motivating us to keep going and achieving greater things, they chose to sit back and call us spoiled brats? why? because we're success full. That is one of the most ignorant claims I have ever heard.
     I disagree with these articles for the most part, about how they talk about our society and generation so negatively. But I do like in "The Why-Worry Generation" how he actually turns what he says around in the end of his article about how that over confidence our generation has might actually play out in our favor, it's whats keeping our heads up in these bad times.

"The Ways We Lie" 10 examples

"We lie. We all do. We exaggerate, we minimize, we avoid confrontation, we spare peoples feelings, we conveniently forget, we keep secrets, we justify lying to the big-guy institutions".

1. The White Lie - Wife "Honey does this new outfit I got from the farmers market on sale look good on   me" Husband looks at it and thinks for a second "Of course it does"
2. Facades - A slob who has trash all over his house and is a mess constantly, goes out and buys a nice suit for a date or a job interview to make who ever he's seeing think he's high class or that he takes care of himself pretty good.
3. Ignoring the Plain Facts - A highly honored officer in the military has been getting complaints about crossing the line while in action and doing things he shouldn't be doing. Instead of giving him dis-honorable leave, his commanding officer just moves him to a different base or stations him in a different state, instead of addressing and fixing the problem then and there.
4. Deflecting - My brother is being accused by my parents for leaving garbage everywhere, and he deflects the topic by telling on me saying,"Well Chad got an F on his test" so now the accusations are on me instead of him.
5. Omission - My friend tells me he got in a fight over the weekend and him and his buddy's beat the guy up for trying to start something, but leaves out the fact that the guy beat the snot out of him before his buddies jumped in and helped. Or he just leaves the buddy's part out of it and say he beat some one up.
6. Stereotypes and Cliches - "That blond girl trying to read the menu must be having trouble because she's probably dumb because she's blond"
7. Groupthink - John is at a buddy's house with his friends talking about girls and his friends are saying very vulgar things about girls, and John himself has a girlfriend, and instead of speaking up and disagreeing with them he goes along with what there saying.
8. Out and Out lies - Mom,"Chad did you eat the cookies" Son,"No mom the cookie monster did"
9. Dismissal - A friend tells his buddy that he doesn't want to go to a party because he's scared of the consequences, and the buddy tells him that he does want to go to the party.
10. Delusion - When someone forgets there home work and is giving the teacher excuses why he forget it and he is giving the teacher so many excuses that he sees them as facts, when truly they aren't.

Free Write about our rant 9-8

Chad Durkin
ENGL 130 (12:30)
Mrs. Tellesen
9-8-11

Free Write about our Rant

My rant was on the topic “Laziness” but in my perspective. It was late at night when I finally got to my rant and I was thinking about what topic I wanted to write on all day. I had finished cleaning up after my room mates (my brother and his girlfriend) right before I did my rant, and I was extremely tired so I didn’t write my rant on what I truly wanted to write it on, but on Laziness.

Some features of my rant would include, different types of laziness, how easy it is not to be lazy, and the difference’s between wants and needs. I used examples for most of the “features” or topics of discussion in my rant, such as personal experiences of being lazy and what my Dad use to tell me about the difference between doing something you want to do and doing something you need to do. There’s not many tangent examples other then a person being lazy, if you would even put that under the category of a tangent example.

250+ word Rant 9-7

"To do things you want to do instead of things that you need to do, to be able to tell the difference between wants and needs, the lack of motivation to do something or the irresponsibility of not doing things that need to be done" this is my interpretation of laziness. Today laziness is growing more and more popular, getting out of shape, not doing chores, or procrastinating to the last minute to finish something. So many Americans fall under this category, including myself. But for me, through out high school I definitely fell under this category. I procrastinated to do homework assignments, and most of the time didn't fully complete the assignment or just ended up not doing it at all. I wasn't necessarily out of shape, but I was lazy in the term of not doing things to be in shape, such as working out. I kept telling my self that I was going to work out, but always made up excuses that I'll do it later. But now its like i don't have enough time in the day to do everything i want to do, then find my self staying up late and having lack of sleep and having to catch up on my off days because I don't want to go to bed until I'm satisfied that I've completed and accomplished enough tasks for that day.
     Bad roommates also fall in this category, people not wanting to do the dishes or help out around the apartment or house even when it comes to simple, small things such as picking up after yourself. People cant see the difference in needs and wants. My dad use to tell me, and still does, that on Sundays, his only day off, he wants to relax and enjoy it, but he knows that there is yard work that has to be done. He says, "Nobody wants to do the things that need to be done, hell I don't even want to, but now that I do it I don't have to worry about it later on and I can continue my day doing things that I want to do after I finish the things I need to do."
     Everyone talks about being out of shape and wanting to be thinner or leaner in some cases. And I understand that it is genetics that people look how they do and theres not much you can always do about it. But for those who let themselves get out of shape out of pure laziness is ridiculous, because it's not that hard to simply go out and exercise. And by exercising it can be from walking down the road or back, something simple, it doesn't have to be some hard work out. For me my coaches and everyone always bugged me about working out because I'm a bean pole, and I know it. Through out high school I wanted to go work out and put on weight, or simply just get bigger. But I was lazy and made up excuses why I didn't want to work out that day, or I'd tell my self that I'd do it over some break, then end up not doing it because I "wanted" to do something else instead of doing something that I needed to do.
     To be honest I am super tired and really wanted to do a rant on something more broad such as the topics, Illegal Immigration and how people could think that it is okay, or the current war we are in and rant about the thought of how Americans can speak so lowly about our military service and what they are doing right now. So I hope we get an assignment such as this one later on so I can rant on those topics. But for now I will have to settle for ranting on laziness because my self got caught up in different things that kept adding up today. Such as cleaning up after my brother and doing a boat load of dishes that he was suppose to do, and he was putting off, and I saw them as something that needed to be done now not later. Then I got caught up on cleaning up around the apartment, taking out the trash throwing boxes away because some people, *cough* my brother and his girl friend *cough* simply didn't want to take the 1-3 minutes it would take to take care of it themselves.

p.s. I apologize if there are a lot of uncapitalized i's because I just started typing and unfortunately auto spell doesn't work so great on the blog like I thought it would so I probably missed a few in there.

"Why Don't We Complain" class work 9-6

Mitch Longerbone

Chad Durkin

Itzel Ponce

1) Sitting on the train, dying of heat, and he goes to ask the conductor to turn down the temperature and the guy next to him looks at him as if saying, "What are you doing?" in a shocked tone, as if its bad to speak up. He believes that the American people "are all increasingly anxious to be unobtrusive, we are reluctant to make our voices heard, hesitant about claiming our right."
2) 1."and not one of them....consigned to suffer"
    2."When our voices are finally mute,....incapable of feeling"
    3."We have less and less say about the shape of events which shape our future"

• He feels that it'll eventually turn us into unemotional robots, that the society lacks the voice needed to shape our own future.

3) People are still scared to speak up to authorities for the chance of being wrong, or unjust. And the ones that do are frowned upon as if they should be an outcast. But we are more vocal about our own issues instead of society's own issues, or in other words we care more about person or "trivial" issues when we should be caring about more "grave" issues that could have a bigger impact on the society as a whole then "trivial issues.

"Online guidlines" Class work

    "Cleaning up the "mess" will be hard but you can do it one polite rebuke at a time." He saying to try and stop the corruption of our society's view on people with different opinions or beliefs by using "polite rebukes" which to me seems just like a smart ass way to tell some one your right and they're wrong.
Some of the online guidelines my group put together would include:
1. Get a sense of humor (Widen your mind, don't just focus on the "wow I don't believe he just said this")
2. If you disagree, stay away