Sketch Week 9, #1

Music plays as I sit on the couch in the TV loft. It is still light outside. I realize the seat on the stationary bike was lowered all the way. I wonder why. The couch has dents in it from people sitting on it. Outside it is definitely getting darker. There are many clouds for a night with good weather. I wonder what homework I have after this. Just a short reading. On Tuesdays I do not have world history so I don’t have much homework. I raise the seat on the stationery bike. The house next store is half red half white because it is half painted. It looks out of place. The couch is a darker color as the daylight dims. The song switches to can’t stop. Ok song.

Week 8, #1

I finish my e-mails and move onto my sketch at 7:46. I e-mailed a friend, Ben who is coming here next year. I take another bite of ice cream. A new flavor called s’mores by Ben and Jeri’s. It doesn’t test that bad. we were out of my usual flavors. I look at my widget on my dashboard. It shows rain coming. Not good for the race tomorrow. I hope we make a strategy before the race. Its been raining off and on today all day. I have a fan in my widow its so hot out; 72 degrees. Two people on sector nines soot by talking. I go to rinse my ice cream dish. My friend Ben calls to talk about the e-mail. We chat for a while about downhill bikes and linkages. It is now 8:30 on the dot and I start working on my paper.

Week 8, #2

My dad sits at his desk in his green computer chair. I am sitting in the comfy brown chair in the corner with my feet on the stool. The sound of my dad typing is louder than mine. He has a regular keyboard not a laptop one. Laptops seem to be quieter. The room it lit oddly. This room is the only room I dislike the lighting. Three desk lamps light up the room from two sides. I think it needs something else to balance it. I look into the dark piano room, then outside. Just barley I can see someone next door eating dinner, I think. Or maybe just sitting at a table. I can hear my more walk threw the house. I adjust my flip-flop sandal and IM Tom. He seemed frustrated.

Rough draft

It is important for students to have a computer as a tool to use during classes and for homework. Next year the faculty might ban computers from classes. This makes it harder for students to take notes, write papers, and conduct research. Students that do not use the computer as a tool are missing an opportunity in their education. The potential consequences for misuse or not using the computer are a drop in grades and more time required to complete assignments.

Computers act as an excellent tool for research. They allow you to browse the Internet looking for information that can be used for papers, discussions, homework and many other purposes. Taking computers away in class would eliminate the ability to conduct research during class. For example, in World History, during discussions, students can look up topics on Google for backup or find more information to add to a discussion. Some activities that take place during class would be constrained without the use of the computer as a research tool.

Students can access a whole new world when it comes to presenting their work. Computers offer programs, like Power Point, that allow students to present their work or research on a projector or on their computer screen. This is an excellent tool to have throughout your life as it provides an outstanding visual aid covering any possible topic. For example, I have made three different presentations using Power Point to my science class this year instead of reading a paper or giving a speech. All of these presentations have been well received by the class and the feedback reflected how much the visual aid was appreciated.

Using a computer make tasks, like taking notes, extremely fast because it is easier to type than to write. It is more efficient in class to take notes on a computer rather than a notebook as most classes move at a fast pace and students need to retain as much information as possible. After students are done it is extremely easy to save and organize their work into neat files. It is easier to carry an organized computer than it is to carry a separate notebook for each class.

Computers are an important part of learning, and an important tool for all students at Proctor Academy. Next year students should still be able to use their computers during class. Students need to realize that the use of a computer during class is a privilege and not a right. As with any privilege it is the individual’s responsibility not to abuse it. It is the student’s responsibility to utilize the computer as an educational tool during class rather than use the computer for activities such as surfing the web or instant messaging. If a student makes the wrong decision regarding computer use, their grades will suffer. It is the student’s fault if he or she is not working productively with a computer and not the fault of the teachers.

Very rough draft

It is important for students to have a computer as a tool to use during classes and for homework. Next year the faculty might ban computer from class. This makes it harder for students to take notes, write papers, and research subjects. If students are not using the computer as a tool it is there fault. They are the owns who will get punished in the end as their grades drop because they were instant messaging during class.

First, computers act as a tool for research. They allow you to brows the Internet looking for good information that can be used on papers, discussions, homework and many other purposes. Taking computers away in class would hinder these different subjects. For example, in Lynne’s class during discussions students will look up topics on goggle for backup or to find more information to add to the topic. Different activities in class would be held back without the use of the computer as a research tool.

Secondly, computers open up a whole new world when it comes to presenting. Computers offer programs like power point that allow students to present their work or research on a projector or just on their own computer screen. This is an exhalent tool to have throughout your life giving you an outstanding visual aid covering any possible topic. For example, I have presented 3 different slide shows using power point to my science class this year instead of reading a paper or giving a speech.

Thirdly, computers are extremely fast to type on and very easy to organize lots of work. It is a lot easier in class to be able to type notes out fast instead of having to write all the words out. Then when you are done with your work it is easy to organize it into files for every class instead of having to carry around a notebook for every class.

Computers are an important part of learning, and important tool for all students at Proctor Academy. Next year students still should be able to use their computers as a privilege like they do now. It is there job to be the ones to differentiate between working diligently in class on their computer and searching the web or instant messaging. If they make the wrong desertions there grades will suffer. It is the student own fault if he or she is not working productively, not the teachers.



Dont wory Tom this is just the rough draft.
It is pritty bad but good ideas.

Week 7, # 2

The new fan can be heard in my room as well as cars going by and my typing. The new fan is white and saws Lasko on the middle. Outside I see flashing lights so I check it out. Some farley new police car had its lights flashing behind a car. The lights art the old strobe lights but the new smaller lights. The police officer remained in car probably running the plates. The fan drowns out the car sounds and long boards sounds to whispers. My room is pretty messy. Some vitamin waters sit on my desk. And a pile of close that is clean. I have not put that away yet. A mug and a few peppers sit on my desk as well as a new oscillating fan I have yet to open. A speck of dust blown from the window flies along until it hits my screen. Another does the same thing. Weird. I tock the specks and they fly off to land on some other unique place fueled by an odd wind pattern blown from the white fan.

list of Tom

Tom teaches English
Tom likes Sketches
Tom teaches the class I am in
Tom hates the blog but
Tom loves the blog
Tom is Tom
Tom is like a book
Tom gives tests
Tom likes book
Books remind me of Tom
Tom likes his projector
His projector is huge
His projector is small
Depends on the size of the wall
Tom hats cell phones in class
Tom likes out doors
Tom likes huts in the woods

Autobioraphy

Tuckerman likes to bike
Tuckerman has homework
Tuckerman has 6 classes
Tuckerman has a race tomorrow
Tuckerman has nine letters in his name
Tuckerman likes to ski
Tuckerman uses a laptop for homework
Tuckerman had advisory today
Tuckerman goes to Proctor Academy
Tuckerman is Tuckerman

really long sketch

White lightly faded scratched walls
Posters of tropical places
An older black board with a 3D shape on it

The desk
Whole punch
Tape dispenser
A sharpie
Pencils
An Internet cable
1 computer
1 planer
1 binder

Tack holes and tape ripped of walls make a weathered look
A loud clock
Plugs with stainless steal plates for a modern look
Double or triple layered weatherproof widows revel the outside
Eco dorm can be seen
The printer can be hired

Kyle’s desk
A gamble of stuff
Phone
Papers
Magazine
A glass
Hand cream
Different kids of stickiest
A desk size calendar that here computer sits on
Stapler
Tape
A basket with candy in it
Calculator
Keys

A globe in the corner
A table in the other
A desk in another
A door in the only other
Tabards hang
Motley brown
A map hangs which is thee biggest poster of them all
The whole world is seed

The door to the room
Almost too thick
Or big
Out or pupation
Too tall for its wide
It fits the high sealing
A drop sealing
White lights through mirrored slots
Pencil shavings
A dog barks
Three times
Not super loud
But heard
Bike
Is ridden by
Fast
Late to class
Easy transportation
Like long boards
The tape is refilled
A full role

1st Parigraph

I think the drug policy at Proctor Academy could be changed to help the drug percentage drop and help the students make better decision. I didn’t think this was possible until I saw it happen at my last school. I also found that the students liked the policy, which surprised me even more. In most schools the student hate the policy and hate the rules regarding drugs. At my last school the average of 7-10 students would be sent home each year for drugs until the new policy was started. Now the present average there is less than one student a year.

Quote Responce may 3

“I have pointed out again and again that the religion, law, science, politics, and morals are becoming more and more theatrical, the theatre itself remains imperious to common science, religion, science, politics, and morals.” (page 5, line 28) I liked this quote because it is one of his quotes that are too the point and don’t beet around the bush. Lots of his other writing is very vague, and never really comes out and says the main idea.

Week 6, # 1

The sound of running water comes from the bathroom as someone takes a shower. Normal for this time of night; 10:07pm. My dog walks down the hall, and I feel bad for him. He had an unforgettable experience with a porcupine 3 days ago and had to have surgery to get the quills out of his muscle tissue. Now he is just hanging out half asleep on medication. My dad is in the end room watching TV and reading. My aunt from England who I don’t really think is my aunt is in the guest room. Everything is normal. Nothing different than usual. I realize all the main buildings of proctor have lights on the doors. Maxwell, Admissions, Shirley, and a few dorms I can see. Nobody can be seen on campus for the last five minutes making the campus seem deserted. All the kids should be out of study hall now. I bet a huge system link X-Box game is on just like every other night. The shower turns off and my mom walks out just as my I-Pod changes songs. 189 words. Ooo. The second floor of Maxwell just lit up without any other lights in the downstairs. Someone walks around and then all the lights go out. Everything is pitch black and nobody walks out the front or side door. Weird. Someone walks briskly out of the side door 2 minutes later. Right after that I shut the blind. A car stops by the pond by another cars taillights for 30 seconds and then drives away. It is a Volvo with a desert sand mica color and a touch of silver. The song on my I-Pod changes yet again to Can’t Stop. 292 words and it is 10:30. I am usually in bed by now giving me 8.5 hours of sleep. Just over 300 words.

Sketch Week 5, # 2

I’m in the kitchen. The sound of laundry turning over in the drier can be heard throughout the kitchen. Every few seconds a button hits and makes a ding. All the lights reflect off the granite. A blueberry pie sits on the table next to me and in front off it a bag of soft cookies with a clothespin keeping them sealed. An OXO napkin holder is on the table too. A big pot lid sits in the drying rack reflecting every thing up side down. For some reason I can’t see where I am though. Weird. All the appliances are off except the Keurig coffee maker. I use it to make chai tea every morning. For some reason we have two phones in the kitchen. Ones wired so maybe it’s there in case we loose electricity. The trashcan sits behind me reflecting a strange light onto the food closet. I zoom in on my computer and type so I can only see the writing and nothing else. It’s pretty big and blurry. Bigger than the regular dots. When I zoom out it makes everything look so small and not regular. My dad walks up stairs looking for me but he doesn’t realize I am right here. I grab some TLC crackers that my Mom just bought at the store in New London. They are crunchy but not super crunchy. Overall they taste pretty good. I put the crackers back and try some of the candy my mom made today. Its great like usual. It taste kind of salty. The candy is usually gone within the next three days. I bang my computer on the table slightly and the CD drive makes an eject sound. I look at the time, 9:02 and stop because I have tones of other home work.

The wise list sketch

Green proctor sine
Blue couch
Green chares
White tables
Carpet around the would floor
Black and white pictures around the room
Big windows
Puple gray venting on the sealing
White washed out walls
Green exit singes
Wig Eain speakers
Sound deadening wall made out of coconut shelves

In class freewrite

I sit down on worm gravely gray garnet. Just high enough to hop up on with a bike. I am looking at the Intense Socom for a new downhill bike because it is efficient with the VPP linkage system, while still having 8 inches of travel. I think to cycling today. I don’t really want to go because I was sick last night with a fever and don’t feel that rested. I need to get my mountain bike fixed so I can ride again. Booby just left and I am and I don’t think Tom will think I am working diligently because I don’t have allot of writing but I need to get to sports.

freewrite

The fan in my window blows a chilling breeze that cools my room. I didn’t sleep well last nigh because it was too worm. My thermostat says 70 but I think it is cooler. I take another sip of vitamin water. I look on my wall to the drawing that I drew to scale of a full suspension bike that reduces stand over height while maintaining maxim travel. I wonder what it would look like built up. Now it is 9:46. My parents like me in bed around 10:10pm. I was invited to play a system link E-Box game at ten agents Looy and Bertrand and a few other campus people but my parents probably wont let me. I still am not close to a page. I take the last sip of vitamin water and look at my fan that is still chilling by room. I wonder how cold it is. My computer says it is 52 degrees in Andover right now. I feel stupid I spelled now wrong 6 times. I fiddle with my cycling glasses and think about dounhilling at Attitash last year. This year I hope to be on a different bike; the one I am thinking almost definitely about buying. It is the most expensive thing I have ever bought so I am making sore I don’t waist my money. I have been talking to bike shops and friends about the right frame and or bike. I think I am going to get the Intense Socom. That’s wearied by computer cant spell Socom. I look back a my glasses and then at the fan. My cat approaches the window and then retreats, probably because he can’t get in it with the fan. 10:03 Tom said a hale page. I check the syllabus to make extra sore. O no a quote response too. That’s a drag.

Quote Responce 4/24/07

“The machines are going to bury all those burrows, and everything inside.” When Roy said this to the class I thought it was a smart move because bad news spreads like a brush fire in schools. Then the community could find out threw the kids and help the cause. Now Roy is going to try legal ways to stop the pancake house while Mullet Finger fights with vandalism. Now they have a better chance because they are fighting in many ways to stop the pancake house.

Sketch Week 5, # 1

I walk up stairs to do my reading homework for elements as the landscapers start to redo our walk in front of the steps. They start with shovels and pickaxes, which seems normal. After about a half hour of reading, I come down stairs because the house is vibrating, to find in shock, a mini backhoe on our front lawn and no fence. My mom said, “ The walk was thicker than they thought.” That’s an understatement. After about an hour of trying and failing the mini backhoe reaches over the walkway and pries up the cut out sections of the walk and flips them over onto the dirt, which used to be grass, as of yesterday. The walk was about, a foot thick, maybe a little more. Whoever made it had put a layer of rock down and poured way too much cement over it making a walk that would survive an earthquake off the Richter scale. Great, now we gave admissions another thing to watch and ask us about. The landscapers now start using their destructive pavement cutter, with looks kind of like a chain saw, except with a circular blade to tear up our driveway between the garage and the house. I can’t wait to see what their going to tear up next, after their lunch brake. Not.

Final Final Draft

The issue regarding the justification of vandalism for an individual or environmental organization really becomes a question of whether or not the end justifies the means. At the end of the day, can any of us look ourselves in the mirror and, without hesitation, feel that our actions were justified and in line with our values. If the vandalism evolved to the level of bombings, the loss of life or extensive property damage can we still look ourselves in the eye and feel comfortable with our actions. Real character and integrity is not what we appear to be to the outside world; integrity is the way that we act when no one is watching.
Vandalism can justified to protest issues hurting the environment only when we do not cross the internal line that defines who we are and how we want to interact with people and the world as a whole. Before using vandalism I think that protesters should approach the issue legally and economically and try to find unique solutions that do not involve vandalism. All other options should be tried before resorting to vandalism. If all else fails a certain amount of vandalism is justified to make a statement. The line is crossed however when someone gets hurt or more harm is done to the environment than caused by the issue being protested. The use of vandalism must not cross the line into eco-terrorism which “The FBI defines as the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, sub-national group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature." (James F. Jarboe, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, FBI; Feb. 12, 2002. http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm on April 19, 2007)
First, the protesters need to attempt to solve the environmental issue through the legal system. By using the judicial system protesters can clearly communicate their objections without the risk of getting in trouble for vandalism. If the protesters can get their point proven in court, they have an almost guaranteed win. For example, if protesters collected water samples around a company that they thought was contaminating the environment, and sent the samples to a lab, the lab could then write a legal report documenting the pollution. The protesters could bring the evidence to court and ask for a temporary halt on the company’s operations (a cease and desist order), until the contamination problem is removed. A recent example of the use of the legal system that gained international acceptance and approval is the Kyoto Protocol. “On the Kyoto Protocol, I think Russia's ratification means and the agreement's entry into force mean that the regime is more likely to gain strength. I believe that there is much good that may come from the Russian ratification. It will put allow many countries to make changes that they might have been "scared" to make otherwise. Also, I think it will create normative pressure (that is, "moral" or social pressure) on countries like the USA that do not ratify” (Chat Session with Prof. Ron Mitchell, March 16, 2005. http://idl.stanford.edu/news/chatMitchell-March16.html April 19, 2007) The Kyoto Protocol demonstrates how the legal system can be used to the advantage of the environmental movement.
Secondly protestors can look to economic strategies to damage a company or individuals that they believe are damaging the environment. Economic sanctions can have an immediate detrimental effect on an entity. For example, a boycott of a company’s products until they responded in a way that was satisfactory to the protestors, is a way to effect change without using vandalism. Boycotting an oil company that refuses to clean up an oil spill is an example of an action that should cause the desired reaction. "Most people think that you've got to reduce sales a lot, but if you reduce any company's sales from between two to five per cent you've won. Having said that, it is very hard to reduce a company's sales by five per cent because it takes a massive degree of organization.” (Ralph Nader, Co-op America, 1989, http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/successfulboycotts.htm April 19, 2007).

Threatening legal action through the media can also be another economic strategy. If the entity that is damaging the environment is a public company (its stock is bought and sold publicly), then any negative press can affect the price of their stock. Simply threatening a major legal action could cause investors and stockholders to fear the cost of a lawsuit. As a result, stockholders may try to sell the company’s stock and drive the stock price down. Typically, corporate executives are compensated with stock and/or stock options and they have an interest in keeping the stock price high. The company may stop the action that is compromising the environment in order to maintain an image that will help ensure the value of their stock. “The World Resources Institute warned that future actions to curb global warming and limit drilling for oil and gas in environmentally sensitive areas could cause investments in energy companies to drop. "Investors ignore environmental issues at their own peril," said Duncan Austin, WRI economist and co-author of the report. "Environmental issues can have a significant impact on a company's bottom line and stock price." (Green Issues could Hurt energy Stocks, Reuters, July 25, 2005, Tom Doggett, http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17005/story.htm April 19, 2007). Clearly investors are sensitive to the financial impact that environmental issues can have to a company’s value.
A third option would be to come up with an agreement whereby the environmental issue is resolved and the company benefits as well. Recent examples of a mutually beneficial solution would include large storage dumps of used tires. “Waste tires have been a major management and disposal problem for decades. Recapping of passenger vehicle tires, once a viable business utilizing millions of tires, has all but ceased. In the past some property owners have dumped, or have allowed others to dump, tires on their property, awaiting the day when tires would be valuable for their petroleum content.” (Waste Tire Management, Alan Lassister, Virginia Department of Environment Quality, http://www.deq.state.va.us/wastetires/ April 19, 2007). Some of these storage dumps have begun to burn and others leach toxic chemicals into the soil. The used tires can be purchased and hauled away by other firms that can recycle the rubber into other products (such as running track surfaces). The company that owns the dump is relieved of the problem of storing the tires and is paid by the removal company. The removal company only does this if they have a use for the tires that is economically viable for them. Solutions whereby everyone benefits and the environmental issue is resolved are great for all parties. Sometimes it requires a great deal of thought to find these “win/win” solutions but it is worth the effort.
Over the course of history, significant change has sometimes required revolution or revolt. Vandalism can be viewed as a type of revolt against a force that will not otherwise change. The only type of vandalism that I feel is acceptable is vandalism that does not involve violence or bring physical harm to any individual. The type of vandalism that I am referring to is a type which usually results in a negative financial impact to the company or entity. Vandalism that involves bombings, fires, or other forms of destruction are not acceptable, as the risk to human life is too great and it crosses the ethical and moral line for me. The example of vandalism in the book “Hoot” whereby the “Running Boy” removes stakes from a construction site to slow down development, is the type of vandalism that I find acceptable. The vandalism is not exactly passive in that some action is taken but the action is not violent and does not physically harm anyone. “Thus the acts of Earth Liberation Front (ELF), Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and other extremist nature-saving networks, are clearly terrorism and eco-terrorism under the law. Contrary to claims of their partisans that they are not terrorists because they have not killed or injured any living being (and thus their acts are mere vandalism and not terrorism), the murder of Dutch politician Pym Fortuyn by an animal rights extremist, and their use of arson and pipe bombs, contradicts claims of innocence, and their intent is to influence policy by intimidation and coercion.” (http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm on April 19, 2007). Actions such as murder and bombings go beyond vandalism and are not acceptable solutions.
If the threat to the environment is great enough and all legal, financial and mutually beneficial solutions have been exhausted, then vandalism can be justified. Any action taken to affect change must fit with a person’s sense of values and integrity. Employing vandalism as a solution to an environmental issue is a gray area, as you are no longer guided by laws or the legal system. By resorting to vandalism you have gone outside of what is legally correct and you are relying on your own sense of justice and ethics to guide your actions. “Environmentalists have protested by acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins and chaining themselves to trees; others have upped the ante by using violence and massive destruction to convey their messages and beliefs.” (Eco-terrorism, A New Kind of Sabotage by Cheryl Runyon, http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/freedom/ecoterrorism.htm April 19, 2007) Protestors must be careful not to cross the line from vandalism to eco-terrorism even in the most egregious situations as they jeopardize their sense of values in the name of a cause.

Final Draft

I think that the vandalism is justified to a certain point as a way to protest issues hurting the environment. Before using vandalism I think that protesters should approach the issue legally and economically and try to find unique solutions that do not involve vandalism. All other options should be tried before resorting to vandalism. If all else fails a certain amount of vandalism is justified to make a statement. The line is crossed however when someone gets hurt or more harm is done to the environment than caused by the issue being protested. The use of vandalism must not cross the line into eco-terrorism which “The FBI defines as the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, sub-national group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature." (James F. Jarboe, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, FBI; Feb. 12, 2002. http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm on April 19, 2007)
First, the protesters need to attempt to solve the environmental issue through the legal system. By using the judicial system protesters can clearly communicate their objections without the risk of getting in trouble for vandalism. If the protesters can get their point proven in court, they have an almost guaranteed win. For example, if protesters collected water samples around a company that they thought was contaminating the environment, and sent the samples to a lab, the lab could then write a legal report documenting the pollution. The protesters could bring the evidence to court and ask for a temporary halt on the company’s operations (a cease and desist order), until the contamination problem is removed. A recent example of the use of the legal system that gained international acceptance and approval is the Kyoto Protocol. “On the Kyoto Protocol, I think Russia's ratification means and the agreement's entry into force mean that the regime is more likely to gain strength. I believe that there is much good that may come from the Russian ratification. It will put allow many countries to make changes that they might have been "scared" to make otherwise. Also, I think it will create normative pressure (that is, "moral" or social pressure) on countries like the USA that do not ratify” (Chat Session with Prof. Ron Mitchell, March 16, 2005. http://idl.stanford.edu/news/chatMitchell-March16.html April 19, 2007) The Kyoto Protocol demonstrates how the legal system can be used to the advantage of the environmental movement.
Secondly protestors can look to economic strategies to damage a company or individuals that they believe are damaging the environment. Economic sanctions can have an immediate detrimental effect on an entity. For example, a boycott of a company’s products until they responded in a way that was satisfactory to the protestors, is a way to effect change without using vandalism. Boycotting an oil company that refuses to clean up an oil spill is an example of an action that should cause the desired reaction. "Most people think that you've got to reduce sales a lot, but if you reduce any company's sales from between two to five per cent you've won. Having said that, it is very hard to reduce a company's sales by five per cent because it takes a massive degree of organization.” (Ralph Nader, Co-op America, 1989, http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/successfulboycotts.htm April 19, 2007).

Threatening legal action through the media can also be another economic strategy. If the entity that is damaging the environment is a public company (its stock is bought and sold publicly), then any negative press can affect the price of their stock. Simply threatening a major legal action could cause investors and stockholders to fear the cost of a lawsuit. As a result, stockholders may try to sell the company’s stock and drive the stock price down. Typically, corporate executives are compensated with stock and/or stock options and they have an interest in keeping the stock price high. The company may stop the action that is compromising the environment in order to maintain an image that will help ensure the value of their stock. “The World Resources Institute warned that future actions to curb global warming and limit drilling for oil and gas in environmentally sensitive areas could cause investments in energy companies to drop. "Investors ignore environmental issues at their own peril," said Duncan Austin, WRI economist and co-author of the report. "Environmental issues can have a significant impact on a company's bottom line and stock price." (Green Issues could Hurt energy Stocks, Reuters, July 25, 2005, Tom Doggett, http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17005/story.htm April 19, 2007). Clearly investors are sensitive to the financial impact that environmental issues can have to a company’s value.
A third option would be to come up with an agreement whereby the environmental issue is resolved and the company benefits as well. Recent examples of a mutually beneficial solution would include large storage dumps of used tires. “Waste tires have been a major management and disposal problem for decades. Recapping of passenger vehicle tires, once a viable business utilizing millions of tires, has all but ceased. In the past some property owners have dumped, or have allowed others to dump, tires on their property, awaiting the day when tires would be valuable for their petroleum content.” (Waste Tire Management, Alan Lassister, Virginia Department of Environment Quality, http://www.deq.state.va.us/wastetires/ April 19, 2007). Some of these storage dumps have begun to burn and others leach toxic chemicals into the soil. The used tires can be purchased and hauled away by other firms that can recycle the rubber into other products (such as running track surfaces). The company that owns the dump is relieved of the problem of storing the tires and is paid by the removal company. The removal company only does this if they have a use for the tires that is economically viable for them. Solutions whereby everyone benefits and the environmental issue is resolved are great for all parties. Sometimes it requires a great deal of thought to find these “win/win” solutions but it is worth the effort.
Over the course of history, significant change has sometimes required revolution or revolt. Vandalism can be viewed as a type of revolt against a force that will not otherwise change. The only type of vandalism that I feel is acceptable is vandalism that does not involve violence or bring physical harm to any individual. The type of vandalism that I am referring to is a type which usually results in a negative financial impact to the company or entity. Vandalism that involves bombings, fires, or other forms of destruction are not acceptable, as the risk to human life is too great and it crosses the ethical and moral line for me. The example of vandalism in the book “Hoot” whereby the “Running Boy” removes stakes from a construction site to slow down development, is the type of vandalism that I find acceptable. The vandalism is not exactly passive in that some action is taken but the action is not violent and does not physically harm anyone. “Thus the acts of Earth Liberation Front (ELF), Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and other extremist nature-saving networks, are clearly terrorism and eco-terrorism under the law. Contrary to claims of their partisans that they are not terrorists because they have not killed or injured any living being (and thus their acts are mere vandalism and not terrorism), the murder of Dutch politician Pym Fortuyn by an animal rights extremist, and their use of arson and pipe bombs, contradicts claims of innocence, and their intent is to influence policy by intimidation and coercion.” (http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm on April 19, 2007). Actions such as murder and bombings go beyond vandalism and are not acceptable solutions.
If the threat to the environment is great enough and all legal, financial and mutually beneficial solutions have been exhausted, then vandalism can be justified. Any action taken to affect change must fit with a person’s sense of values and integrity. Employing vandalism as a solution to an environmental issue is a gray area, as you are no longer guided by laws or the legal system. By resorting to vandalism you have gone outside of what is legally correct and you are relying on your own sense of justice and ethics to guide your actions. “Environmentalists have protested by acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins and chaining themselves to trees; others have upped the ante by using violence and massive destruction to convey their messages and beliefs.” (Eco-terrorism, A New Kind of Sabotage by Cheryl Runyon, http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/freedom/ecoterrorism.htm April 19, 2007) Protestors must be careful not to cross the line from vandalism to eco-terrorism even in the most egregious situations as they jeopardize their sense of values in the name of a cause.

Second Draft

I think that the vandalism is justified to a certain point as a way to protest issues hurting the environment. Before using vandalism I think that protesters should approach the issue both legally and economically and first try to find unique solutions that do not involve vandalism. All other options should be existed before resorting to vandalism. If all else fails a certain amount of vandalism is justified to make a statement. The line is crossed however when someone gets hurt or more harm is done to the environment than caused by the issue being protested.
First, the protester needs to go at the issue legally. By using the judicial system protesters can get the message sent clearly and strictly without the risk of getting in trouble for vandalism. If the protesters can get their point proven in court, they have an almost guaranteed win. For example, if protesters collected water samples around a company that they thought was contaminating the environment, and sent the samples to a lab, the lab could then write a legal report documenting the pollution. The protesters could bring the evidence to court and ask for a temporary halt on the company’s operations (cease and desist), until they fixed the pollution problem.
Secondly protestors can look to economic strategies to damage a company or individuals that they believe are damaging the environment. Economic sanctions can have an immediate detrimental effect on an entity. For example, a boycott of a company’s products until they responded in a way that was satisfactory to the protestors, is a way to effect change without using vandalism. Boycotting an oil company that refuses to clean up an oil spill is an example of an action that should cause the desired reaction.
Threatening legal action through the media can also be another economic strategy. If the entity that is damaging the environment is a public company (its stock is bought and sold publicly), then any negative press can affect the price of their stock. Simply threatening a major legal action could cause investors and stockholders to fear the cost of a lawsuit. As a result, stockholders may try to sell the company’s stock and drive the stock price down. Typically, corporate executives are compensated with stock and/or stock options and they have an interest in keeping the stock price high. The company may stop the action that is compromising the environment in order to maintain an image that will help ensure the value of their stock.
A third option would be to come up with an agreement whereby the environmental issue is resolved and the company benefits as well. Recent examples of a mutually beneficial solution would include large storage dumps of used tires. Some of these storage dumps have begun to burn and others leach toxic chemicals into the soil. The used tires can be purchased and hauled away by other firms that can recycle the rubber into other products (such as running track surfaces). The company that owns the dump is relieved of the problem of storing the tires and is paid by the removal company. The removal company only does this if they have a use for the tires that is economically viable for them. Solutions whereby everyone benefits and the environmental issue is resolved are great for all parties. Sometimes it requires a great deal of thought to find these “win/win” solutions but it is worth the effort.
Over the course of history, significant change has sometimes required revolution or revolt. Vandalism can be viewed as a type of revolt against a force that will not otherwise change. The only type of vandalism that I feel is acceptable is vandalism that does not involve violence or bring physical harm to any individual. The type of vandalism that I am referring to is a type which usually results in a negative financial impact to the company or entity. Vandalism that involves bombings, fires, or other forms of destruction are not acceptable, as the risk to human life is too great and it crosses the ethical and moral line for me. The example of vandalism in the book “Hoot” whereby the “Running Boy” removes stakes from a construction site to slow down development, is the type of vandalism that I find acceptable. The vandalism is not exactly passive in that some action is taken but the action is not violent and does not physically harm anyone.
If the threat to the environment is great enough and all legal, financial and mutually beneficial solutions have been exhausted, then vandalism or eco-terrorism can be justified. Any action taken to affect change must fit with a person’s sense of values and integrity. Employing vandalism or eco-terrorism is a gray area, as you are no longer guided by laws or the legal system. By resorting to vandalism you have gone outside of what is legally correct and you are relying on your own sense of justice and ethics to guide your actions.

Sketch week 4, #2

The hum of the TV although it is turned off can be heard throughout the room. Next door the TV can be seen through the window. Noche our cat sits in his basket. A light aluminates the street from the neighbors garage. A click occurs from the TV as my dad turns it on a 9:09pm. Before I move to the other room Lost turns on and a baby starts crying as a group thwacks threw the jungle. Then it switches to CSI Miami where two guys fight to the death in an act for a movie. Noche roles over onto his back and falls back to sleep. The TV is turned off. My Dad turns back to his book. He finds his place and settles in to read. Looking out the window I notice that the neighbor’s TV still flickers. I wonder what must be captivating them.

Sketch Week 4, #1

Raindrops fall onto the street. Into the puddles and cracks in the rode. Pitter-patters of impact. The rivers must be roaring with rain and snow melt off. I think to my science homework and then back to my Sketch. I eat another skittle. I switch the song on my I-tower to the next. The little streams of water wash down the rode in strange paths. I look at a new sticky. I have a number from where I am going to order a new bike sometime in the next few weeks. Hopefully an Intense Socom Pro. I also have marches schedule marked off. Yes half day on Friday. Another bike shop should have my other bike done. They were changing shock oil on my Fox 32.

First draft

I think that the vandalism is justified to a certain point as a way to protest issues hurting the environment. Before using vandalism I think that protesters should approach the issue legally, economically and try to find unique solutions that do not involve vandalism. They need to exhaust all other options before resorting to vandalism. If all else fails vandalism is justified up to a point. This point is crossed when someone gets hurt or more harm is done to the environment than caused by the issue being protested.

First, the protester needs to go at the issue legally. Using the Judicial system protesters can get the message sent clearly and strictly without the risk of getting in trouble for vandalism. If the protesters can get their point proven in court they have an almost guaranteed win. For example, it protesters collected water samples around a company that they thought was contaminating the environment and sent the samples to a lab; the lab could write a legal report documenting the pollution. The protesters could bring the evidence to court and ask for a temporary halt on the company’s operations (cease and desist), until they fixed the pollution problem.

Secondly protestors can look to economic strategies to damage a company or individuals that they believe are damaging the environment. Economic sanctions can have an immediate detrimental effect on an entity. For example a boycott of a companies products until they responded in a way that was satisfactory to the protestors is a way to effect change without using vandalism. Boycotting an oil company’s products that refuses to clean up an oil spill is an example of an action that should cause the desired reaction.

Threatening legal action through the media can also be another economic strategy. If the entity that is damaging the environment is a public company (its stock is bought and sold publicly) then any negative press can affect the price of their stock. Threatening a major legal action could cause investors and stockholders to fear the cost of a lawsuit. As a result stockholders may try to sell the company’s stock and drive the stock price down. Typically corporate executives are compensated with stock and/or stock options and they have an interest in keeping the stock price high. The company may stop the action that is compromising the environment in order to maintain an image that will help ensure the value of their stock.

A third option would be to come up with an option for the company or individuals whereby the environmental issue is resolved and the company benefits as well. Recent examples of a mutually beneficial solution would include large storage dumps of used tires. Some of these storage dumps have begun to burn and others leach toxic chemicals into the soils. The used tires can be purchased and hauled away by other firms that can recycle the rubber into other products (such as running track surfaces). The company that owns the dump is relieved of the problem of storing the tires and is paid by the removal company. The removal company only does this if they have a use for the tires that is economically viable for them. Solutions whereby everyone benefits and the environmental issue is resolved are great for all parties. Sometimes it requires a great deal of thought to find these “win/win” solutions but it is worth the effort.

Over the course of history significant change has sometimes required revolution or revolt. Vandalism can be viewed as a type of revolt against a force that will not otherwise change. The only type of vandalism that I feel is acceptable is vandalism that does not involve violence or bring physical harm to any individual. The type of vandalism that I am referring to usually results in a negative financial impact to the company or entity. Vandalism that involves bombings, fires or other forms of destruction are not acceptable as the risk to human life is too great and it crosses the ethical and moral line for me. The example of vandalism in the book “Hoot” whereby the “Running Boy” removes stakes from a construction site to slow down development, is the type of vandalism that I find acceptable. The vandalism is not exactly passive in that some action is taken but the action is not violent and does not physically harm anyone.

If the threat to the environment is great enough and all legal, financial and mutually beneficial solutions have been exhausted then vandalism or eco-terrorism can be justified. Any action taken to affect change must fit with a person’s sense of values and integrity. Employing vandalism or eco-terrorism is a gray area as you are no longer guided by laws or the legal system. By resorting to vandalism you have gone outside of what is legally correct and you are relying on your own sense of justice and ethics to guide your actions.

Sketch Week 3, #2

Just after playing an intense game Halo. Bertrand, Looy, Macy and Osarczuk were over. Much yelling and screaming were going on as my mom tried to pay bills in the next room. All of a sudden someone checked the time. 7:30 something. They flew out one late for a test, one late for study hall and two on time. I now write sitting in my old spiny gray desk chare. Two days earlier it stopped being able to go up and down. I put some chain loob on it. Now it is so smooth. My friend calls jugging by the caller ID, but it is his mother. O well. She of coerce asks to talk to my mom. Now I can here them talking about moving companies. My black razor sits on my desk on without any mist calls or messages. Weird. I always have messages. My mom walks by saying, “is there any certain time you have to move” into my silver desk phone. We have that system where you bye one antenna and all the phones go to that one. My dad has been silent for about an hour typing quietly. Some snickerdootles lay on my desk. My ant made them. There wicked good. Not exactly healthy, but good. I go down to get a snack in the kitchen, but first I save.

Quote Responce

“When the emergency room clerk asked Beatrice for here stepbrother’s name, address, and phone number, Roy impulsively had stepped forward and blurted his own.” (page140) This was a quote that seemed stupid. I new that Roy was going to get in trouble with his parents just after he said it. It temporarily worked but was going to tern bad in the long run. Roy should have had a plan going into the emergency room on what to say.

Sketch Week 3, # 1

Out of no where Andrew says szszszszszszszszsooooooooooooooooosssssssss. Cars go by with rumbling engines making the ground shutter. The stall and then a vroom of a car changing gears. Someone yells Johnny as mutable birds chip in the same tone. Someone walks by and says haahaa directed at Andrew. A chunk of show makes a chuhaaa sound as it hits the ground. Chuck drops the a clipboard making a sharp fast closh. Andrew tryes to make good noises by clapping on the bench. An tennis ball makes a sound as it hits that pavement with a short thwap. A sound of penies make a chiny chiny chiny as someone shakes them.

1st Parigraph

I think that the destruction or vandalism is justified to a curtain point as a way to protest issues hurting the environment. The protests should not give off more pollutants than the issue that is being protested. If this happened protesters would be defeating the purpose. Instead they should do little things that have a big meaning. For example, if the protester wrote letters and did some small vandalism to show there devoting to the environment and to show their feeling about the issue, that would be ok.

free write

So far, I am 50 pages into Hoot, and I like the book. It has been a set up so far and has not told anything about the running boy or anything about whom the construction site was vandalized by. I like this because I can make my own prediction on how the book ends up. So far I think the running boy and the construction site are linked in some way. I think the running boy might be the one who is pulling the stakes out and filling the holes but I am not sure how he managed all the alligators. I also predict that the policeman will solve the case of the construction site, when know one else could. This would probably promote him one step closer to detective (his dream).

I think the motive for the vandalism on the construction site is to save the owls. If the construction site was built the owls would definitely die or be fewer in number. The running boy probably has a tie with the conservation committee or has a love for nature because I assume he is vandalizing the land. He is also the perfect person because he can escape fast by running and no one can catch him because he cuts through private property where cars cannot go.

I do not think the bully on the bus has anything to do with the construction site but he might know about the running boy. I think he is a bully because he seems to have an insecure family. As he was wrestling his mom, I started to think about how weired his childhood must have been.

The girl in the cafeteria is kind of a bully but not. She seems to only bully somebody if they do anything to her. I think she knows the running boy and maybe about what he is doing because she was really defensive after she thought someone might find out about him.

I also think if the mother finds out that her son has been sneaking out to find the running boy she will be furious. Most parents don't want their son or daughter to sneak off. Considering he is sneaking off right before dark, into thick woods, where know one knows where he is, could be dangerous. I think he is in for a rude awakening. AKA majorly grounded.

Reading Responce

My favorite quote was, “The policeman nodded grimly. ‘Alligators,’ He declared.” This quote caught me totally by surprise probably because I don’t live in Florida. I was expecting something like they spray painted the walls inside or a died animal was rotting in one but not alligators.

Sketch Week 2, # 1

Birds cover the brownish yellow grass chirping and squawking loudly. All of a sudden as I look at my computer as a noise erupts and as all the birds fly away at once. All black, all silent except for the sound of they’re wings. I can see bobby sitting on a rock and curtain walking up the street in an almost neon orange coat. A man walks up the street and then does a wacky limp run thing. Bobby doesn’t know but he is being approached, by a slow waking bird, that is mostly brown with a few white feathers. It was the size of a pair and nibbling at some leftover crumbs on the grass. The flow of cars has not changed. They are still coming at the same rate. Now my fingers are so cold I can barley type. I look over out of the pagoda and realize I am in the center of town. I can see 12 businesses across the street on my left and nine houses on my right. The town hall is behind me and a wired churchlike building is on in front of me. I walk over and sit6 on a bench with an air soft BB under it. I look into the college café and see ant blue tables and chares. It is 2:21 so I still have nine minutes. I look back to the pagoda and the birds are back. My hands are so cold I can barley type so I start to head back.

Sketch 3

Up in learning skills above the library. Posters hang all around the room. Most are exotic travel spots like desserts and pyramids. A drop selling is instilled. I wonder how tall the sealing would be without it. A loud tick comes from a staples white clock reading 8:46am. Crayola crayons, a hole punch, two stapler and a internet cord lay on the desk. Five stickiest hang on the wall. They make a short timeline that hairs and I made. Each has a wacky picture and a little not in a bubble about a certain time of the year. All the outlets are have mettle plates. One has my computer charger in it. My dock is filled with icons, 26 in all. Last night my dock disappeared for an hour or so and I had to use finder. Two learning skill mottos hang on the wall from another teacher. “Lack of planning on your part will not become my emergency” and “Good planning requires: thinking, witting/speaking, acting (in that order!) I don’t really like the second one. There is also a list of 18 “little Golden Rules” that I am not going to right. I then start to pack up because learning skills is almost over.

Sketch 2

Birds chirp in every direction. A hum of a small engine comes from maintenance down the hill. I can hear the snow cracking and popping like the curial rice crispiest. Some students come out of the art building with pack packs fully loaded. A white bike can be seed at the wise center door. Tom comes over making shore I am productively doing my work. A small orange truck drives by the pond going up to the dorms and then takes a right by the health center driving by the meetinghouse. As I look at the glass doors and windows I can see threw the building. My mom is walking on the other side with are dog Makana. He runs up to see me all muddy. I pat his head and then my mom walks by saying hi. Many people are walking around after class. I wonder if I hot the times wrong. Was I supposed to be back by now? Then I think know because bobby is sitting on the wise center steps looking at me. I save. Then I can smell a smell that reminds me of the beach. Someone I have never seen walks by and says, are you doing cycling today.”

Sketch 1

My silver phone blinks red letting me know there is a message. My ipod switches to the next song. My clock reads 5:55. All the same numbers. I think that only happens 6 times during the day. A long loaded truck turns onto the main messy rode. I grab another chocolate chip. Thinking back to when a big bird almost hit me today. I pause thinking what to write fiddling with a CO2 cartridge. I eat another rich chocolate chip as a group of probably 15 people walk by, none of which I know. My second cell phone battery blinks charged. So far I have finished my math homework and most of my elements of literature. The wind is picking up outside making my old window rattle. Sand and dirt swirl down the street. My dog roles over on my bed and sneezes. My mom calls it a puppysneeze and says it rely fast almost like one word. I know another e-mail came by the beep of my computer. My computer randomly switches from right to left speakers when I change the volume. I read my sketch over and fix a couple words. I eat another chocolate chip and stop writing.

Reading Responce

I picked a quote at the end, “Why is it cause, Daddy, why is it cause?” I chose this because it is an indecisive ending leaving the reader to make his one thought. The reader doesn’t know if he is talking about the lightning or the baby dyeing or life in general. It doesn’t tell or give away anything to the reader.