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MSB people, groups, & orgs!

http://www.sdbaykeeper.org/

I would like to interview the Executive Director and/or the Outreach Director. I would like to interview them because I want to know how well the projects and events they have are effecting our beaches in a positive way. Also, find out how they monitor water levels and if they do anything different than how we did the water monitoring in our biology class.

MSB comments, ideas, plans, critiques, and more!

From Marcus' MSB Questions and Resources, I realized that he is already wanting to do the picture part because of less chances for errors. I learned that his questions are almost going to answer each other in a row because his first question is about littering affecting humans. next one is about the quality of the beach is affected by runoffs. And what can we do to help and its like he has to problems that could possibly have the same solution. I thought about doing pictures and the little captions on the side but i feel that it wouldn't be my biggest strength for this project. I want to do a documentary where you get out and get it basicly straight from the source almost and get peoples opinions and experts thought on these conditions we are in. I might change my mind and do the pictures because I know how to take quality looking photos and so there might that option.

http://maalexander.blogspot.com/


Hallie's questions are very interesting because not only is she expanding on her different things to do for her project but she varies it by like animals to gires to housing. She pretty much seems like she knows what she is going to do for her video and so i think I can Get some ideas from her during the project also.

http://halliechavis.blogspot.com/

From Daniel Mahmud's

Possible MSB Products

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I could do a website about the sewage spill. I could also interview people and have some quotes from them that are vital to the website. Talk about the ups and downs on the spill, too.

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http://www.surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/sf-oil-spill/

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I learned that you can show people with more than just writing and words, you can also use pictures and other things that add more emotion sort of to my website.


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I possibly could do a documentary on the sewage spill effects and what effects it has on the community and environment both good and bad.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdkgZlEBQI

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Show examples of what people in and out of the community are doing to help. Get opinions or general thoughts of the public who visit that certain place or who are employed there. Elaborate or talk more about what should happen or what we should do to make sure this never becomes an issue again.

MSB Questions & Resources

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What things are being done with this pollution problem at the bay?

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How are people contributing to this?
What solutions are people using to slow the flow of pollution?
Why is it that they have a huge sewage pipe that leads right by where people and animals swim at?

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http://obrag.org/?p=9459
http://obrag.org/?p=9397
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-06-29/news/local-county-news/san-diego-coastal/ocean-beach-sewage-spill-prompts-pollution-alert

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I can use this info to talk about what people did as soon as they saw the sewage spill. I can also talk about how it affected the people and community when they set up they sign saying that the water was contaminated.

Industrializations and Coastal Environments

Industrializations and Coastal Environments

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is issuing a final rule to ensure that safe and reliable drinking water is provided to aircraft passengers and crew......

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the EPA is issuing that the drinkable water for passengers on the aircraft would be supplied with safe, and reliable water to consume. It provides protection through coliform sampling, public notifications, and monitoring and operative training.

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The information that is missed in the story is the reason why they want to make this movement to make the drinking water for aircraft passengers reliable and safe. Everybody wants clean drinkable water but whats the real reason why they chose to do this?

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I would make an effort to try and look at their website and any other source on this topic to figure out the reason why they chose to make a huge jump to do this.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/41c2dde98f8ae1ee85257647004c601d!OpenDocument

Media Saves the Beach Questions

1. How come our water is very polluted, but other countries around the world have cleaner oceans?
- what made me think of this is how in class we were talking about how dirty beaches are in San Diego, so i thought about the beaches around the country. Then i thought about how when you see, here, or read about other countries, mostly its about there like beaches and resorts and stuff.

2. Is there more than one Gire?
- i came up with this question by just simply thinking of the different bodies of oceans, and i thought well if the Pacific Ocean has one, does that mean that the other bodies of oceans do?

3. How did they know how big it was?
- since they said that at one point the gire was to be the size of Texas, years later it was to be the size of the United States. but I still dont see how they knew that. Did they like see trash the surface of the water and went from there and found that there were microscopic particles underneath it? Did they get some samples of the sand from and find it then they started make an estimate of how big it was?

Confederates in the Attic Essay

Confederates in the Attic

           

In the excerpt “Dying for Dixie” author Tony Horwitz quotes David Westerman, father of murder victim Michael Westerman, who says “They say that war ended a long time ago. But around here it’s like it’s still going on.”  War is still going on in the south, because of your job, where you work at, or who you work for.  Also, because of your ethnic group or ethnicity.  But mostly, how your ancestors were treated or how their views and ideas were passed onto you.  Therefore, that quote by David Westerman about war is still going on in the south is still very true.

           

In the south, there was a large amount of animosity when our parents and their parents grew up.  For example, in “Dying for Dixie”, Tony Horwitz, went into a town called Guthrie.  While he stayed there, he went to a hotel and the manager there told him about the time when a group of young African American boys paid money to go in the pool.  “It was like we sent an electrical charge through the water.” “As soon as the blacks got in, all the whites got out.”  The whites demanded that Eskridge tell the blacks to leave.  Her response was “kiss my grits”.  She was standing up because she didn’t want to discriminate against those young men but the whites didn’t like the way she ran the pool, so in result she ends up filling the pool full of dirt.  She did not want it become a scene of racial strife (conflict).

           

If you worked at a Christian church back then, and you were white, then you were assumed to be a white supremacist, being in the KKK.  Like in the excerpt, Tony Horwitz, the author, saw a man and a woman passing out propaganda, and the propaganda said “The only Reason You are White! Today is Because Your Ancestors Practiced & Believed in Segregation YESTERDAY!” then the second one said “I WANT YOU FOR THE ALMIGHTY KU KLUX KLAN!” Clearly this shows how back then when their ancestors were slave owners or white supremacists they past it on down to their children and so on.  Even looking at that headline proves that this statement is true that being a certain ethnicity/religion and where you work prove that you are apart of some cult or some gang or group of people.

 

When you are just a child and you hear your parents say something, which catches your attention, you start to say it.  Even though you don’t have a clue about what it means, if it’s a good thing to say or if it’s offensive you say it.  Just like when you see your parents doing something.  Like when in the story, Hannah Westerman, the murder victim, went home after court and went to watch the Oprah show. Her twins came in and one of them wore a rebel-flag shirt saying: ‘American by Birth, Rebel by the Grace of God.’  It seems like she is sending her children the wrong message.  Her child wore a rebel-flag shirt but sat there and watched the Oprah show.  See those are the types of things that get carried down through generations, but every generation loses a piece to the puzzle.  Believing in a certain thing or fighting for something that they don’t even know the whole entire truth about it.  Which causing more unanswered questions which results in more chaos.  This is exactly why there is still a lot of controversy and animosity in the south.

 

So as you can see in the excerpt “Dying for Dixie” author Tony Horwitz quotes David Westerman, father of murder victim Michael Westerman, who says “They say that war ended a long time ago. But around here it’s like it’s still going on.”  That statement is very true because of your job title, where you work at, or who you work for. Also, your ethnic group or ethnicity, even though you should be able to be judged by your character, not by the contents of your outer appearance.  Also, the main point is that, how your were treated or how their views and ideas were passed onto you.  It’s a hard burden for others who are affected by this on-going war because they don’t get to see what really is going on.  They just know what their parents tell them.  Nobody knows the real truth, unless you were there when it started and you have experienced it, because there will always be some sort of vital key information that wasn’t what they wanted to say so they left it out.  Therefore, the war is still going on in the south.