Monday, March 31, 2008

General Motors Moves to Green

In Bryan Walsh’s (2007) article, “Green Motors,” he discusses a GM’s green car. Before, they thought green car was not necessary, but it is. Toyota, a Japanese car company, made cars with hybrid engines, and it’s become popular, because people want environmentalism. GM also has high technology to make a green car, and they started to make a green car. They will release four for a new hybrid model in every year until 2009.

However, I don’t think GM is Green Motors.

First of all, they already have the technology, but they didn’t try to make larger. They already made electronic cars in the early 1990’s, and they didn’t get a bad reaction from people. However, they discontinued electronic cars, because they had a relationship with gasoline companies. It was their business, and it could take profit to them. They didn’t think about the environment.

Secondly, green cars are people’s needs, it’s not GM’s wish. Nowadays, people think much of environment, and they care about it in all their lives. It can be applied to buying a car. People want to buy green cars, more effective and economic. However, they ignored the fact that people want green cars, and now, they are about to hear people’s needs, because they need customers.

Thirdly, they are just business companies, not an environment organization. The earth is sick because of many problems. One of them is car pollution; it’s a big problem. There are some rules about making cars for environment, and it requires some high technologies. It is difficult for many other companies to make cars with these rules. If GM really cared about the environment, they should share technology with others. But they don’t, because they are not an environment organization, they are just a business company.

In conclusion, they are not green motors even though they are inventing in some green cars. They just follow their profit. We should not expect them to do something green. We can get the better if we think much of green from ourselves. They will follow us.


Walsh, B. (2007, Oct. 11). Green Motors. Time. Retrieved March 24, 2008, from http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1669723_1669725_1670578,00.html

Monday, March 24, 2008

Restrictions of Information Society

In Jo Twist’s (2005) article, “Controversy blights UN net summit,” she discusses what happened in a UN net summit. There was an assembly for a solution about information society in Tunisia, because poor countries do not have enough funding. The UN net summit announced a “Tunis Commitment” and “Tunis Agenda for the Information Society”. However, there are different opinions about freedom in cyberspace. The Chinese vice premier said some control was necessary, but the secretary general of International Telecommunication Union expressed the opposite point of view.

I think online restrictions are important for an information society, because it may be abused.

First of all, restrictions could be used to control online crime, which is increasing. There are many kinds of crime online. It is increasing more and more because we can contact with much information easily. We already have some serious problems, for example, many kinds of fraud, an infringement of copyright and sexual crime. We have to make a limit to control criminal act.

Secondly, restrictions can protect us from a large amount of fake information. People can make some fake information because it’s easy to make information online. Actually, there are many fake pictures, made with computers, and rumors. Some people make information to publish their thinking even though it’s not true. They think that people don’t know who made this information.

Thirdly, restrictions will help us control hacking. Internet hacking really can make big problems. Sometimes, companies do hacking for themselves, and some people do that for money or pride. Anyway, it’s very dangerous and serious. We should protect ourselves from hacking.

In conclusion, we need some online restrictions. Sometimes, bold acts can create development, but freedom always goes with responsibility and control. If we want freedom in cyberspace, we should make something to control ourselves. Ironically, it will protect our freedom.


Twist, J. (2005, November 18). Controversy blights UN net summit. BBC News. Retrieved March 19, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4450474.stm

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

PREMARITAL SEX

1. Introduction

Have you ever had sex? Did you get married? Do you think premarital sex is immoral? What do you think about that? Nowadays, we are exposed to many sexual things, and many people have sex before marriage. In “Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954-2003” the author says “Data from the 2002 survey indicate that by age 20, 77% of respondents had had sex, 75% had had premarital sex, and 12% had married” (Finer, n.d, p.1). There are many problems physically and emotionally. It causes many kinds of disease, and it can be considered immoral behavior with religions.


2. Purpose

Our group, Erika, Jinshu, Mamdouh and I, decided to find out how American feel about premarital sex in Carbondale. I wanted to know the relationship between gender and what people think about premarital sex. Moreover, I wanted to know how many people already had sex, and who influenced them.


3. Hypotheses

I had some hypotheses about having premarital sex in US. Usually, when we think about Americans, we think they are cool, and have an open mind because of the media. Therefore, we thought most American don’t care about premarital sex; they have free thinking about sex. And on average, we thought they have sex relatively early. Moreover, we thought there is no difference between men and women.


4. Methods and Procedures

Our group was supposed to ask twenty males and twenty females in Carbondale. And we didn’t care about that respondents are students or not. However, we only asked nineteen males and twenty females because we missed one paper. Almost all were students, probably, even though it’s not our intention. We prepared a survey that had ten questions, and it only included choice questions.


5. Data + Chart

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/03/practice-survey-results.html


6. Results

As a result, fifteen out of nineteen males, 76%, had sex, and twelve out of twenty females, 60%, had sex. Only six out of nineteen males, 31%, said that premarital sex is immoral. 36% of males and 40% of females said they were influenced by their friends. Ten out of nineteen males, 52%, disagree with religions that ban sex before marriage, but twelve out of twenty females, 60%, agree with them.


7. Conclusion and Discussion

I believed that people thought premarital sex didn’t matter, and it’s true. Most Americans had sex before marriage. I was surprised that females had sex earlier than males. However, females more concern about premarital sex than males even though they had sex earlier than males. I believed that there is no difference between males and females. In some part, it’s true, and in another part, it’s not true. They already have had sex before, they don’t think that it’s immoral and a number of them were influenced by their friends. There is no difference. However, males don’t care about chastity, but females do. It’s a difference.
If I can do this survey another time, I would like to ask another question about disease, because it is also important and is a problem. I think females worry more about that than males.


8. Reference

Finer, L.B. (n.d.). Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954-2003. Public Health Reports. Retrieved February 28, 2008, from http://www.publichealthreports.org/userfiles/122_1/12_PHR122-1_73-78.pdf


9. Appendix

Copy of Survey

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/03/having-premarital-sex_03.html