Recently published in the magazine Upfront the article Smoke signals talk about E-Cigs. E-Cigs are mechanical cigarettes which contain little to no tobacco. They claim that they only use liquid nicotine and a heater to warm up that nicotine to make vapor. Unfortunately this is not the only thing that is in Cigarettes.
E-Cigs are unregulated by the tobacco law as they have no tobacco. Which means that it is legal for any child to walk into the local Deli and buy one. E-cig companies can also show ads on television something which normal cigarette companies can't do by law. So they're unregulated, advertised, and... expensive, a pack of cigarettes costs about $9, E-cigs cost $50-$100. Also E-cigs have a very interesting ingredient. To keep the E-cig's liquid nicotine from freezing in the winter or in cold weather, companies use anti-freeze to keep the nicotine you smoke liquid.
So why do companies make E-cigs, which are just regular cigarettes with added anti-freeze? Because they want to make allot of money. But the type of money they want to make is worst type of money. Recently E-cigs have been releasing flavored cartridges to attract a younger audience. So that they can make money off of them for the rest of their lives.
This is happening right now in the U.S.A. So are we really the greatest Democracy on Earth or are we the greatest capitalists on the planet? Are we just here to make money? Or are we just here to engulf the planet and spew it out as an onslaught of plastic and things harmful for us. So are we capitalists or are we a Democracy?
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Money in Dodger 2 A.Arbona
Money influence on the people in Dodger by Terry Pratchett, In the events occuring in Dodger their are many homeless poor starving people. So money has a large influence on the people as there situation is bleak to say the least. In fact it's not only effecting the people in England at this time, the lack of money for large quantities of people are driving them to England thinking that it's better there.
In Dodger the Rich get what they want. That's that, in the beginning of the story Charles Dickens gets Dodger talking about himself for a half crown which at that time was a large quantity of money. Also later on the villain uses gold to get a character selling out his friends and neighbors. This demonstrates just how deep the corruption of money has spread through the mind of the poor in this book. If they are willing to say their personal preferences and knowledge to presumably dangerous people for little to nothing or just enough to get them shelter.
Money even drives people from places like India to England thinking that it's better there. Only to through themselves off of a bridge. As they realize that they probably wouldn't be able to survive there anyway. This demonstrates how far people back then would go just to make a dollar.
In conclusion yes money does have an important role in Dodger and in fact thinking more clearly now the whole book is about Dodger helping solve the issues that rich people have solved. So are there more books like this out in the world definitely, because money both using it for the wrong reasons or having none at all are real problems that go on every day.
In Dodger the Rich get what they want. That's that, in the beginning of the story Charles Dickens gets Dodger talking about himself for a half crown which at that time was a large quantity of money. Also later on the villain uses gold to get a character selling out his friends and neighbors. This demonstrates just how deep the corruption of money has spread through the mind of the poor in this book. If they are willing to say their personal preferences and knowledge to presumably dangerous people for little to nothing or just enough to get them shelter.
Money even drives people from places like India to England thinking that it's better there. Only to through themselves off of a bridge. As they realize that they probably wouldn't be able to survive there anyway. This demonstrates how far people back then would go just to make a dollar.
In conclusion yes money does have an important role in Dodger and in fact thinking more clearly now the whole book is about Dodger helping solve the issues that rich people have solved. So are there more books like this out in the world definitely, because money both using it for the wrong reasons or having none at all are real problems that go on every day.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Freedom Summer Aidan Arbona
Recently I had read the children's picture book Freedom Summer, by Deorah Wiles. I have been reading these types of children's books as I have been starting to notice that they in fact go into some very mature themes. In this story the author talks about a friendship between a White boy and and a African-american boy. This was dangerous because at that time in the south slavery was still legal.
This story in a way isn't fair as it does not show every ones point of view point. All though it shows the political correct and my personal viewpoint that everyone should be able to do whatever he/she wants to do. No matter what race or gender you are. Although no one fro the opposing side has their viewpoint shown.
Throughout the story the author doesn't include many racist characters to contrast with the anti-racist characters. Their viewpoint is not shown in any major way other than the fact that they seal up a pool that the protagonists wanted to swim in together as a sign of unity.
This story in a way isn't fair as it does not show every ones point of view point. All though it shows the political correct and my personal viewpoint that everyone should be able to do whatever he/she wants to do. No matter what race or gender you are. Although no one fro the opposing side has their viewpoint shown.
Throughout the story the author doesn't include many racist characters to contrast with the anti-racist characters. Their viewpoint is not shown in any major way other than the fact that they seal up a pool that the protagonists wanted to swim in together as a sign of unity.
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