Lately I haven't really had time to write. Well, I have, but I haven't had time that I wanted to use by writing. Nothing much going on right now that I really need to write about. I am learning a lot about prayer and how important it is. Yeah, of course I already knew it was important, but it seems like something different is going on. Not sure what it is but I know I'm liking it. It's just, you know when you pray about stuff and it seems like you're talking to the clouds? My prayer life has been nothing like that lately. My prayers are getting answered quickly and with answers that leave no doubt in my mind that God had everything to do with my prayers being answered. I hope that encourages you because it definitely encouraged and encourages me! God is good, and I want to hold on to that through the good times and the bad! As they always remind us on KLOVE, "You always hear people say if God would just do this or give me this or let this happen in my life it would show that he loves us, but he doesn't need to because he died for us and that is more than enough." Or something like that. I'm not really sure how they exactly say it but I love hearing them say that because it is so true and I hate how much everyone, (especially me) take things for granted!
I'm all for counting my blessings and I would really proceed to list them if not for the fact that it would take a really long time and I'm kinda tired right now! But anyways, maybe that will be another post :)
School went very well, thanks to God because my successes are his and not mine. This summer I'm taking seven hours and then this fall I am only taking thirteen. All I need is eleven but I'm taking an extra two hours so I'll have the required 12 hours for TOPS. The extra class I'm taking is called like personal health or something weird like that, but I'm taking it because all the other classes I wanted to take were at inconvenient times and I can't change my current schedule because I have good teachers and it is hard to find a schedule that works together with all good teachers. My first choice would have been some type of kinesiology lab (those labs are like running, jogging, pilates, tennis, swimming, etc). My second choice was for me to take a piano class or an emergency health care class. I would have been really happy to have any of those classes. But, I have to take a weird random class. Oh well, maybe there will be something important I'll learn or someone important I'll meet, or who knows? Well, I'm getting even more tired and my battery on my computer is running quite low so I think I'm going to cut this short and go to sleep!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
The Argument for Nuclear Power
It is a bit concise because this is a speech I spoke in my communications class. This is not the exact speech because I improvised off of an outline that I had made. What I have written is based off of the outline, however:
It is well known that oil is not a reliable energy source. We are using it at an ever increasing rate, and it is costing us more as demand goes up and oil companies manipulate the economy. It is unclean, causing concerns for environmentalists, and costing us money to fix our environment. What if I told you that there is an energy source that is cheap, clean, reliable, and well researched? This energy source is nuclear power. Nuclear power plants are an energy source that is overlooked as a solution to our oil energy crisis. Nuclear power should be used as a major energy source instead of oil. It's cleaner, cheaper, and more efficient, so let me explain to you why nuclear energy is a great energy source to hold us over until we have the perfect energy source.
There's opposition to nuclear energy because people automatically think of the absolute worst that could happen, which of course is a nuclear meltdown. I would agree that of course a meltdown would be horrible. But, people forget that we have hundreds of nuclear power plants today, but no meltdowns. Why haven't you heard of any meltdowns recently? Well, probably because there has not been an accident in the US in over fifty years now. In fact, the only accident that occurred in the US was not catastrophic, due to the containment building built around the reactor. Nobody in the public was put in danger because of this. And, the reason why these things happened was mostly because of our limited understanding of nuclear energy and radioactivity. Other energy sources have caused more deaths than nuclear plants, for example, an estimated 15,000 Americans die prematurely each year from coal-fired power plant emissions. Of course nuclear energy is by no means a permanent energy fix. There is waste from it, but it is minimal and has no effects on the air quality, making it highly preferable to oil and coal in terms of 'green' standards.
This brings me to my next point. Nuclear power is green! Excepting natural power sources like hydroelectricity, solar power, and wind power, nuclear power causes absolutely no pollution except for the radioactive waste that is given off. It doesn't contribute to the scary greenhouse gases Al Gore fanatically preaches about. The U.S. Department of Energy and Energy Information Administration reports a direct correlation between the increase of dependence on nuclear power and a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions.
The objection to clean energy sources is usually the cost. However, nuclear power is also efficient, using little uranium to produce a lot of energy, which makes it cheaper than other energy sources. According to The Eagle Tribune Online, " The cost of producing nuclear-generated electricity is 25 percent cheaper than coal and less than one-quarter of natural gas!
One major political reason we need to abandon oil and adopt nuclear energy is our dependency on foreign countries. We buy most of our oil from middle eastern countries that support political factions based on radical Islams who are not only anti American, but these factions support and give money to terrorist groups. In a way, we are funding the terrorists. That's a major selling point on nuclear energy to any person interested in our power, wealth, and security as a nation.
It is practical to consider nuclear energy as an acceptable alternative energy source. It is relatively clean, it will release us from relying on other countries for energy, and it is cheap. Fears of a meltdown are unfounded, considering no accident has happened in the past 50 years due to careful monitoring and safety precautions. I encourage you to support nuclear energy and become aware that we are in need of a change in our energy usage.
It is well known that oil is not a reliable energy source. We are using it at an ever increasing rate, and it is costing us more as demand goes up and oil companies manipulate the economy. It is unclean, causing concerns for environmentalists, and costing us money to fix our environment. What if I told you that there is an energy source that is cheap, clean, reliable, and well researched? This energy source is nuclear power. Nuclear power plants are an energy source that is overlooked as a solution to our oil energy crisis. Nuclear power should be used as a major energy source instead of oil. It's cleaner, cheaper, and more efficient, so let me explain to you why nuclear energy is a great energy source to hold us over until we have the perfect energy source.
There's opposition to nuclear energy because people automatically think of the absolute worst that could happen, which of course is a nuclear meltdown. I would agree that of course a meltdown would be horrible. But, people forget that we have hundreds of nuclear power plants today, but no meltdowns. Why haven't you heard of any meltdowns recently? Well, probably because there has not been an accident in the US in over fifty years now. In fact, the only accident that occurred in the US was not catastrophic, due to the containment building built around the reactor. Nobody in the public was put in danger because of this. And, the reason why these things happened was mostly because of our limited understanding of nuclear energy and radioactivity. Other energy sources have caused more deaths than nuclear plants, for example, an estimated 15,000 Americans die prematurely each year from coal-fired power plant emissions. Of course nuclear energy is by no means a permanent energy fix. There is waste from it, but it is minimal and has no effects on the air quality, making it highly preferable to oil and coal in terms of 'green' standards.
This brings me to my next point. Nuclear power is green! Excepting natural power sources like hydroelectricity, solar power, and wind power, nuclear power causes absolutely no pollution except for the radioactive waste that is given off. It doesn't contribute to the scary greenhouse gases Al Gore fanatically preaches about. The U.S. Department of Energy and Energy Information Administration reports a direct correlation between the increase of dependence on nuclear power and a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions.
The objection to clean energy sources is usually the cost. However, nuclear power is also efficient, using little uranium to produce a lot of energy, which makes it cheaper than other energy sources. According to The Eagle Tribune Online, " The cost of producing nuclear-generated electricity is 25 percent cheaper than coal and less than one-quarter of natural gas!
One major political reason we need to abandon oil and adopt nuclear energy is our dependency on foreign countries. We buy most of our oil from middle eastern countries that support political factions based on radical Islams who are not only anti American, but these factions support and give money to terrorist groups. In a way, we are funding the terrorists. That's a major selling point on nuclear energy to any person interested in our power, wealth, and security as a nation.
It is practical to consider nuclear energy as an acceptable alternative energy source. It is relatively clean, it will release us from relying on other countries for energy, and it is cheap. Fears of a meltdown are unfounded, considering no accident has happened in the past 50 years due to careful monitoring and safety precautions. I encourage you to support nuclear energy and become aware that we are in need of a change in our energy usage.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
It's not me, it's Him
It's hard for me to come up with titles. Usually I wait until the end of whatever I am making or writing, then it is easier for me. I hated in English when we would be given topics to write about. It was just too limiting.
I'm writing a book right now and it's untitled. In fact, I won't even tell anyone what it's about! I really don't even like to say that I am, but I like thinking about it and this blog holds my thoughts. I won't say what it's about though because I am free to make radical plot changes and stuff. It will be a long time before I'm done though, because I write in it only every so often, when I need a diversion.
Today I finished my nutrition class and my chem lab. That means all I have left are my chem final and my comm final. Yippee! And I need to remember to check out of my dorm and get a NURSING SCHOOL APPLICATION!
I am extremely tired right now, but relaxed because I know that I don't have another test until Monday night. My mom got another goat and it is so annoying.
Riding back and forth from Hammond really gives me a lot of time to think about stuff. It is kind of changing who I am in a weird sort of way. A negative thing is that it is making me more paranoid about what people think about me, which is aggravating because that was something I kind of got over and now I have this stupid problem again. I over analyze everything about how people react to me, (and I know I do some weird stuff), and it's turning me into a really nervous person. It's really aggravating. So now I have no social skills.
But something a little more important than my lack of social skills and good personality has been coming up in my mind lately. A lot of people who aren't Christians and have completely different lifestyles, (for example: gay people or unmarried couples living together, like Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie) , always say , "Well, just because I don't share your beliefs doesn't make me a bad person."
So how can you argue with that. Sure, they may do good stuff like adopting orphans or whatever, but what is a good person?
uhmm.
Good people don't exist.
We have all sinned and fall short of perfection!
If you're not perfect, then you aren't good and if you aren't good, then that must mean you're bad. We're all bad people. That's what God's sacrifice was for.
God is good. Jesus was the only good person. That's what makes Christians good. It is God that makes us good, and only through him can we live our lives to glorify God.
It's a simple, fundamental concept of course, but I feel like we're losing it. People want to make Christians look like the good guys to the world, if you know what I mean. You can't tell people they are good when they reject God. It's just wrong.
Now, I do not think we should go around being jerks to everyone. I'm just saying that you should never budge on what the bible says. If the bible says homosexuality is wrong, then it is wrong. It says adultery is wrong, so it is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating and gossiping are, too. Murder is too. Softening the teachings of the bible helps nobody. In fact, it hurts our cause.
It is almost like legalizing marijuana. Just because a lot of people smoke pot doesn't mean it's not against the law, and legalizing it would be giving up the battle for good.
Okay I'm tired.
I'm writing a book right now and it's untitled. In fact, I won't even tell anyone what it's about! I really don't even like to say that I am, but I like thinking about it and this blog holds my thoughts. I won't say what it's about though because I am free to make radical plot changes and stuff. It will be a long time before I'm done though, because I write in it only every so often, when I need a diversion.
Today I finished my nutrition class and my chem lab. That means all I have left are my chem final and my comm final. Yippee! And I need to remember to check out of my dorm and get a NURSING SCHOOL APPLICATION!
I am extremely tired right now, but relaxed because I know that I don't have another test until Monday night. My mom got another goat and it is so annoying.
Riding back and forth from Hammond really gives me a lot of time to think about stuff. It is kind of changing who I am in a weird sort of way. A negative thing is that it is making me more paranoid about what people think about me, which is aggravating because that was something I kind of got over and now I have this stupid problem again. I over analyze everything about how people react to me, (and I know I do some weird stuff), and it's turning me into a really nervous person. It's really aggravating. So now I have no social skills.
But something a little more important than my lack of social skills and good personality has been coming up in my mind lately. A lot of people who aren't Christians and have completely different lifestyles, (for example: gay people or unmarried couples living together, like Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie) , always say , "Well, just because I don't share your beliefs doesn't make me a bad person."
So how can you argue with that. Sure, they may do good stuff like adopting orphans or whatever, but what is a good person?
uhmm.
Good people don't exist.
We have all sinned and fall short of perfection!
If you're not perfect, then you aren't good and if you aren't good, then that must mean you're bad. We're all bad people. That's what God's sacrifice was for.
God is good. Jesus was the only good person. That's what makes Christians good. It is God that makes us good, and only through him can we live our lives to glorify God.
It's a simple, fundamental concept of course, but I feel like we're losing it. People want to make Christians look like the good guys to the world, if you know what I mean. You can't tell people they are good when they reject God. It's just wrong.
Now, I do not think we should go around being jerks to everyone. I'm just saying that you should never budge on what the bible says. If the bible says homosexuality is wrong, then it is wrong. It says adultery is wrong, so it is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating and gossiping are, too. Murder is too. Softening the teachings of the bible helps nobody. In fact, it hurts our cause.
It is almost like legalizing marijuana. Just because a lot of people smoke pot doesn't mean it's not against the law, and legalizing it would be giving up the battle for good.
Okay I'm tired.
Monday, May 4, 2009
A Little Motivation
I will post the blogs previewed in my last writing. I currently have one and half finished, but I am waiting to post them since I haven't had time and right now I am at school and they are saved to my laptop (which I left at home due to some annoying extenuating circumstances)
Right now I'm in the computer lab at school and it really feels weird writing because I'm always nervous that people are looking at my screen and stuff. I don't know why, it just makes me nervous.
I just got done with my bio lab exam and I was the first person to finish and it was really super easy (and I only studied about 30 minutes!). God really gave me a light load. I would have said that I got lucky, but I shy away from the word 'lucky' now because it just doesn't seem like the right word for anything anymore.
But anyways. I'm like mini-freaking-out right now because I'm so torn over whether to even study for my chem test tonight (don't flip out, I get a dropped grade in that class and all my other grades were good). I need to study for my nutrition exam which is Wednesday. I don't have a super high A in that class and she didn't give us a study guide so I need to study really really good. But, that very same day, I have a chem lab exam which is scary because I have no idea what is going to be on that test because the teacher's on acid or something. (Not really, but he is quite a character).
Regardless, all of this typing is actually getting me somewhere. Once I get things I have to do on paper they seem way less scary. Call me weird, but academic 'to do' lists are a great motivator for me. I'll write soon, later.
And I am aware of 'steak' in my last post.
Right now I'm in the computer lab at school and it really feels weird writing because I'm always nervous that people are looking at my screen and stuff. I don't know why, it just makes me nervous.
I just got done with my bio lab exam and I was the first person to finish and it was really super easy (and I only studied about 30 minutes!). God really gave me a light load. I would have said that I got lucky, but I shy away from the word 'lucky' now because it just doesn't seem like the right word for anything anymore.
But anyways. I'm like mini-freaking-out right now because I'm so torn over whether to even study for my chem test tonight (don't flip out, I get a dropped grade in that class and all my other grades were good). I need to study for my nutrition exam which is Wednesday. I don't have a super high A in that class and she didn't give us a study guide so I need to study really really good. But, that very same day, I have a chem lab exam which is scary because I have no idea what is going to be on that test because the teacher's on acid or something. (Not really, but he is quite a character).
Regardless, all of this typing is actually getting me somewhere. Once I get things I have to do on paper they seem way less scary. Call me weird, but academic 'to do' lists are a great motivator for me. I'll write soon, later.
And I am aware of 'steak' in my last post.
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