Global Warming

       “What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know it's what we know for sure that just ain't so” a logical statement said by Mark Twain. As a matter of fact, this quote had exact portrayed my awareness towards the affects that Global Warming is affecting on our mother earth.

       According to the definition of Global Warming itself, we usually state it as an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. Nevertheless, it’s the phenomenon that we can feel and probably visible to us. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, this mountain was actually covered by full of snows and ices. However, in recent years, the snows and ices were rapidly melted and only left with one last sliver from the larger glacier. According to what former vice president, Al Gore has presented on both temperature and Carbon Dioxide concentrations, the truth is that the temperature and CO₂ are pretty stable before the year of 1990 but both of them increase rapidly started from the year of 1990. In fact, the scientists have also discovered a polar bear dead in the Arctic Pole due to the tiredness of swimming for a long period of time and couldn’t find an ice cube to relax on. Besides those deep concepts, we can actually feel that the increasing of the earth temperatures in each year. People are starting to notice that the summers are getting hotter and hotter and it’s the foretaste of Global Warming.

       “Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical, and industrial know-how to solve the carbon and climate problems...” this is the excerpt from Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow. However, as an individual and especially a student, I will make cautions on when each time I will use the paper, we have to save papers and need to recycle them for reproduce. Decrease the amount of times on driving cars and prefer to take the buses and this will save gasoline and help the community to make less amount of CO₂. Nowadays, people would like to use disposable stuffs but I don’t prefer it. In fact, they are not realizing that environmental contamination is also considered as one of the causes to the Global Warming.

The rise of temperatures on the earth is witnessing by both of natures and human beings. Global warming has become a well-known topic but most people are too busy with their daily basic and chose to ignore the nature damages which are happened every day and everywhere in their life. We need go into action and try as hard as we can to prevent the global warming.

Music

Quote: “Hughes said that jazz and blues expressed the wide range of black America’s experience, from grief and sadness to hope and determination.”

       Langston Hughes was one of the many famous poets during the 1920s. Hughes once said “jazz and blues expressed the wide range of black America’s experience, from grief and sadness to hope and determination.” From my understanding the history I agree with what Hughes said. The quote Hughes’ point of view that in the 1920s jazz and blues really played an important role in black Americans’ lives, since they related to African Americans’ grief or sadness and sometimes there was some hope and determination too. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes and Laundry Worker’s Choir by Vivian Morris, are both works of literature that support this idea of jazz and blues.

       According to Hughes’ voice, the poem The Weary Blues depicted the circumstance by using the mournful words and tones in terms of grief and sadness. Within the poem,the conflict between man and the society was shown. It’s really hard for African Americans to be "real" Americans in the America back that point in time. Black Americans were discriminated against by all the whites in the society. Furthermore, in this poem, the author depicted a musician who played his blues with all his heart and slowly changed his mood and became to sad.

       In another work of literature named Laundry Worker’s Choir, Vivian Morris showed the effects on how does the music played an important role in people’s lives during the 1920s. In the story of Laundry Worker’s Choir, it was told by the first person point of view throughout the entire story. The story teller had seem ladies working in the clothes factory, and these ladies were really tired, but they never tried to slack off at any point in time. Once he saw the music played an important role in their lives when they sang their hymn together. Although some people didn’t sing aloud, they were still humming together with the rhythm. The workers used music to kill time, so they could as if feel the time moving faster to get off the duty earlier.

      In terms of music, most of the people had fallen in love with jazz and blues during the 1920s. At that point in time, most of the people seem to be addicted to the jazz and blues, people at that point in time thought that the music were every single thing in their lives. From grief and sadness to hope and determination because they felt the power of music.