1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.
The Major Power of ¨cold¨ in our world is the Antartic, it has the same function as the sun but completely opposite, and manipulates the weather or climate throughout the world. What thec old water does it that it runs throught the north and fuses with the warm water and it helps cool the top most part of the water and cools down our athmosphere. This is being threatened by our actions.

2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.

There was a time in which crime dominated, the streets. Everyone could have liquor even thought it had been banned because there was always a local liquor store that sold you. We lost our sense for music and changed opera for Jazz. And Jazz artists became idols for the young. The flapper symbolized the Americas throughtout the 1920´s.

3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.

The bicycle is a dangereous artifact. Approximately there are 1000 deaths a year and its main factor are head injuries and the mosyt people killed are the school kids. Using a helmet could prevent a death because it sucks up the fall, you can have an accident but not die.

4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

Matissse is one of the best contemorary artists of the time and if you need the scent of an orange he transmits it throught his paintings. matisse nows how to make things come to life in a portrait and makes you feel as if you were there.

5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.

The sears tower is one of the tallest skyscrapers of all times. man just seems to be going on and now the architect of the sears tower William LeMessurier has confirmed that he wil make a building "half a mile twice" than the sears towers, our technology can produce a 500 stroy building.

Book 4-6 of the Analects

Being good is like the main target of these books. They talk about being good but they are actually saying irrelevant stuff like in 4.2 page 10, of course, if you're a good person you fell well with your actions and you have a nice feeling if youre bad you wont and just be ashamed and anyone can differentiate that.

Book 1-3 of the Analects

The first three books of the analects sort of remind me of of something which I havent figured out yet. What I could identify is that they are very similar to the bibles passages or commandments in many ways. like for example to learn or to have knowledge, it is exactly what it says, it talks about wisdom over all and it says that without wisdom there is nothing. The being a good person appears everywhere in the new testament, in Jesus's teachings in which he tells us to love and respect.The seccond book also is very similar to Jesus even thought he never talks about politics I feel like if it were he talking. It talks about being simple in ritual which is basically like being simple and Jesus says if youre rich give away to the poor dont spend it all, be normal, help. Ritual isvery important in the analetas and that's why they gave it in the first book, unfortunately there was no kind of ritual to follow Jesus or God but his teachings. There is something very true in the third book which says that if you're doing ritual do it well, with feeling, happy if you dont it doesnt count, let the ritual flow and be interested if not it's not valid. It is exactly what happens in life, if you're doing something without effort you might as well stop because you're wasting your time and it will come out wrong just like your feelings.

Job 12:37

Job was a person who suffered to much in his life. He died hungry, sick, and with no kids. God is really evil in the old testament. More than I imagined, we could almost say God was a sinner but he was the almighty rule so no one could criticize him. Satan, first time that he appears in the old testamemt, comes amd actually challenges God and God accepts his challenge. This is very similar in the part of the new testament in which Satan challenges Jesus but he doesnt accept or fall.

God has his downpoints definately, and it makes us ask ourselves if there is really anyone who can really punsh God and make him sin. As a catholic I dont think so, but as a human it makes me wonder. We are treated almost like puppets, just like when God tries to burn innocent people in the Genesis or when he brings about the plagues on the Egyptians in the Exodus. But at that time he is taking those decisions by himself.

Job 1:11

This part of Job is interesting, it has a contradictory part in pg 607 in which it says that Job was perfect but only God is perfect, and for him to be perfect he would have to be a ruler, almighty, and he cant have any physical flaws whatsoever. And satan is first introduced to what we've read so far and he challenges the lord but lord puts challenges on Job that he passes without any difficulties. God wins the battle. Coming back to perfection Job during some part of the passage he scorns God for the damages he gives him and he beleives in a God and scorns, he eats and becomes sick. Definately not perfect