supplimental information

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/22/132082743/if-your-meat-prices-rise-you-can-blame-ethanol

What is the argument of the author?
That food is no longer used for food purposes, its used to power things and for energy usage and fuel.

What is the interest of the author?
How food is being used to power things other than peoples bodies. A third of corn doesnt go to livestock or people, it goes straight to fuel....corn....for fuel....is this really what we are reduced to.


http://www.buyfuelcorn.com/

Whats the arguement of the author?
That corn is "natures perfect fuel" and basically the author is obessing over how perfect it is and can be used for anything.

whats the interest of the author?
uhm.....corn

da seeds

http://www.groworganic.com/n-a-104.html

http://www.groworganic.com/ruby-grape-vine-each.html

http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.aspx?item_no=PS17645

not entirely sure whats supposed to go on this post but theres 3 things that would be pretty dank to grow

Initial Research

Watermelons - I swear if anyone at all laughs at this I’m going to be pissed. But watermelon is one of my favorite fruits and I think it would be something cool to grow, and maybe eat towards the end of the semester.

Grapes - My neighbor is growing grapes and they are really good and they seem to be quite easy to grow.

Sun Flowers - They are tall, beautiful and who doesn’t love sunflowers right?



Watermelon
A. Fruit
B. Summer
C. Takes lots of compost lots of fertilizer 3 to 4 seeds to a hill and the hills 8 feet apart.
D. 80 days
E. Eight feet apart with 3 seeds together
F. It takes a lot of nutrients and I guess you could say a heavy feeder.
G. It needs a ton of water apparently.



According to today’s stereotypes, this is the fruit of my people.



Grapes
A. Fruit
B. Summer
C. Plant grapes from nursery stock or cuttings in a site located in full sun which is mandatory for good fruit production. The developing fruit requires ample heat. Vines planted in partial shade are susceptible to fungus disease.
D. Wow. 2 years. Looks like thats not happening.
E. 8 feet apart in rows 12 feet apart
F. Very packed in soil
G. Not a whole lot of water is needed


There are more than 60 species and 8000 varieties of grapes all over the world. Some common varieties of grapes are blue, black, green, red, golden, blue-black, white and purple.

3 topics

music,

cars,

oil

Friday Day 5

My normal breakdown meets my ears to wake me up this morning. after my normal routine i drive in my moms mercedes to school. my school day is nothing special just normal class normal friends normal everything. after school, back to the mercedes to go home then the drive out to the military base. after a long day i return home to sleep till the morning comes.

mercedes cars come from germany. so they assemble all the parts over there and ship them to the USA but it costs, oil and gas for the ships to bring them here. all the fuel harms the environment by waste that might make its way into the ocean and the pollution from giant boats and factories getting into the air. also it harms the marine life. because fish and whales can get caught on the boat which would kill them. so bottom line. to drive a mercedes, it kills fish

Thursday Day 4

I figured that i might as well cut straight to the chase. Today while i was brutally forced to clean up the engineering lab for 1 measly percent to scrape up a B instead of a C. I couldnt help but think about how the building got there in the first place. what went into building it. the wood, the cement, metal.

the wood was harvested from forests and processed in factories when shipped here and is cut into pieces and fitted to make the building frame. cement was laid down to make the building more sturdy and useable and metal was used to reinforce it to make it stronger. quite a bit goes into simply making a building.

Wednesday Day 3

Waking up to the sound of a dog barking instead of my usual breakdown was unusual. THats normally a sign that a day wont go too well. but thats ok, my morning routine comes again. today on my way to school i stopped at jack in the box and remembered that i didnt bring nasty shoes for the garden. upon arrival to school, the class goes on a ridiculously long walk to the garden. the day continues on normally. when i get home, i proceed to asking my parents to sign my environmental science sylibis. Going back to the origins of my jack in the box breakfast, people have theories that the food is all fake. if it is then a scientist in some distant place put together combinations of different things to make up different parts of the food. but if its real food then the meat came from an animal who was most likely raised in bad conditions and given some kind of drug. then to the slaughterhouse. once the meat is cut up, its probably sent to the lab for processing and addition of different things to preserve it, make it cook faster, and taste better. after which it is sent to the jack in the boxes to be cooked and served. im assuming that the bread is real and that the eggs are just eggs.

Tuesday Day 2

Waking up to anohter one of my favorite breakdowns, lyrics are rather innopropriate but nonetheless a favorite. After early morning cleansing and preperation for the day O set pff fpr ,u 30 minute drive to the learning facility known as HTHMA, my daily routine

lia

lia

margaret

lunch

dave

margaret

xblock

After my brain's capacity for knowledge has been fulfilled i return home. on the first day of classes normally there is very little homework if any at all. on this day there were just sylibi and such things. After which i relax in my room with video games, music, and facebook until later that night when i get on the phone. To get to school every day i take a car. the car is powered by gas which is in the gas station. It comes from the refinery after much processing but even before that it was in the ground waiting to be drilled by the workers. for me, a simple push of a button and pull of a trigger to fill up my car. but a few stages before that, someone has to drill deep underground for this prescious resource.

Monday Day 1

"Theres bloooood eeeiiinnnn daaa wwaahhttuuurrrr" *breakdown* the sound of a breakdown wakes me up. Small blue light on my phone indicating that one of my friends awaits for my reply to their message. Walking downstairs and staring into the fridge to decide what i want to eat.....cereal....breakfast of champions. Cleaning up from my 8 hour hibernation I head for my metal specimen of transport to speed over the lands to eli's house. Artificial men charging the fields of battle controlled by xbox controllers. For hours thats what we do, until i am called upon to return home. Now onto virtual socializing of the endless realms of facebook. Afterwards I communicate with my girlfriend over the phone for the next few hours until i sleep. One step farther is analyzation of something that happened today. To wake up in the morning to the sound of music would be something unheard of a long time ago. Before it was on my computer it was a file on a cd. Before that, just an idea in band practice, before that, just notes on a piece of paper. Even moreso before that, the song itself was just an idea. While it was still an idea, the paper that it was going to be written on was still in the factory being processed. Before that, it was part of a tree in one of the great forests of the world. even still before that, it was a seed in the ground. so in a sense, my music came from a seed in the middle of a forest. It goes back even farther for the computer and instruments used to play the song or record it. but im not going back that far.