Topic: In the modern world we take a lot for granted. We sometimes don't realize that before the industrial revolution there was not all the convinences that we now have. No medicne, food storage, or sanitary conditins like we have today. There are always side effects to industrialization. Water and food sources become dirty and nature almost dissapers.
Source: I have seen many small towns become vicims of industilization. They are helped by this at first but as it continues they suffer. Jobs are lost and people are hurt. Nature takes the hardest hit though. The water becomes dirty, and the air becomes hard to breath. Trees are cut down for buldings and whole grasslands are plowed to make way for strip malls. It is truely a sad sight. All of these things happened to the small town of Lincoln. I saw before my very eyes trees and grasslands that had stood unchanged for as long as I could remember be destroyed.
Relation: Many people around the world are loosing who the are as industialization takes hold. They lose their culture and way of life that they had known their whole lives as a more efficiant way takes hold. Their water and air becomes dirty as smoke stacks rise into the air and a culture slowly dies.
Analysis: Change can be a good thing. We are now living longer because of a better diet and medicne. We must realize that everything we do has negitive effects as well as positive ones. We must not completly destroy nature because as much as some may not like to admit it we are a part of nature. I like modern convensices as much as the next person, like cars, easy food and the such, so I know that there are a great many good things that we can get form having an industialized world. We should also look at the other cultures and see what they want not just tell them that our way is the best way.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Development
Source: For this discussion I draw upon my own life. Before coming up here to Humboldt State I lived in a town that has had drastic development over the last ten years. I am also drawing upon Robbins, chapter 2 pg.29 and 43, about the death of a way of life and economic development. This is about how development changes ways of life either for good or for worse. A lot depends on where a person comes from in life, this changes how they view progress.
Relation: People think that development is important, especially in the way of building and taming nature. We live in a society in which most of us live in the city everybody living in close quarters. They take out the trees that were once there and that had been in that same place for hundreds of years and build on it, not only that we than plant trees that fit into our way of life. We change the landscape to fit our needs and wants.
Description: I have lived in a place called Lincoln, located in California, my whole life. For almost 15 of these years I lived in the outskirts of Lincoln where the closest person was over a mile away it was heaven. lived amongst the trees, plants, snakes, and other animals and loved it . This is where I learned about nature and why we all must respect it. So I lived here for many years but we then moved to the main city of Lincoln and I must say it was weird. I didn't understand why people would voluntarily pack themselves into such tight places. There's more, this place used to be very small. It was an agricultural town when I was young. I saw it change so fast. People started to sell their land whenever enough money was offered and a way of life soon started to fade, it is now almost completely gone. The people that had once grew rice and raise cows now were willing to sell the land that they had grown up on if money was waved in their face. Now this town where I grew up is no longer a small town where people grow food, its just like all the other cities full of cookie cutter houses and places to go shopping. It truly makes me sad.
Analysis: Development happens. People want economic security so when the chance comes along they will take it. Money is important to people and they think that it offers a way to success. The land that they sold is then turned into houses that all look the same and are placed as close as possible so that the land developers can make as much money as possible. It truly is money that runs our society and most are willing to do whatever they can to obtain it. Money is the backbone of this world and if it were to suddenly disappear many people would not even now how to survive anymore. To many the way to live is to work to earn money, how would they live if they had to find their own food how would they know. Many have never even seen the world outside of the city and I'm am always amazed when people don't know what Poison Oak is. I know that I have had a great opportunity in life to grow up where I did and learn what I did.
Relation: People think that development is important, especially in the way of building and taming nature. We live in a society in which most of us live in the city everybody living in close quarters. They take out the trees that were once there and that had been in that same place for hundreds of years and build on it, not only that we than plant trees that fit into our way of life. We change the landscape to fit our needs and wants.
Description: I have lived in a place called Lincoln, located in California, my whole life. For almost 15 of these years I lived in the outskirts of Lincoln where the closest person was over a mile away it was heaven. lived amongst the trees, plants, snakes, and other animals and loved it . This is where I learned about nature and why we all must respect it. So I lived here for many years but we then moved to the main city of Lincoln and I must say it was weird. I didn't understand why people would voluntarily pack themselves into such tight places. There's more, this place used to be very small. It was an agricultural town when I was young. I saw it change so fast. People started to sell their land whenever enough money was offered and a way of life soon started to fade, it is now almost completely gone. The people that had once grew rice and raise cows now were willing to sell the land that they had grown up on if money was waved in their face. Now this town where I grew up is no longer a small town where people grow food, its just like all the other cities full of cookie cutter houses and places to go shopping. It truly makes me sad.
Analysis: Development happens. People want economic security so when the chance comes along they will take it. Money is important to people and they think that it offers a way to success. The land that they sold is then turned into houses that all look the same and are placed as close as possible so that the land developers can make as much money as possible. It truly is money that runs our society and most are willing to do whatever they can to obtain it. Money is the backbone of this world and if it were to suddenly disappear many people would not even now how to survive anymore. To many the way to live is to work to earn money, how would they live if they had to find their own food how would they know. Many have never even seen the world outside of the city and I'm am always amazed when people don't know what Poison Oak is. I know that I have had a great opportunity in life to grow up where I did and learn what I did.
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