Small beneficial Saving!

We are already aware of the fastest ways to conserve energy, so what’s holding us back? It’s as simple as using less energy. With a little effort, and not much money, most of us could reduce our energy diets by 25 percent or more, doing the earth a favor while also helping our bank accounts. If we converted half of all light bulbs to compact fluorescents, we would reduce CO2 from lighting by 42.4 million tons a year, or 36 percent. That’s huge! But with all of this knowledge, what is keeping us from trying to help and save our earth?


Electricity is the biggest source of power for U.S. homes, and for every kilowatt-hour used, 2.2 are “lost” as that energy is generated and sent over transmission lines So, even small changes in our habits can scale up to big reductions in carbon production. There are so many minor things that we can do just in our homes that could make an immense change to our climate. For instance, cars and light trucks consume the lion’s share of petroleum used for transportation in the U.S. Little but decent changes in efficiency and driving habits could add up to significant fuel savings. Cars actually end up wasting up to 85 percent of the energy from the fuel in their tanks. But will the low carbon diet really work? From experiments, it was shown that we could mainly conserve CO2 by wasting less energy at home and on the highway. If every single home did this, I don’t even think we could imagine what a vast change it would make to our climate. What do we have to lose?

In my own opinion, I believe that this is a very serious subject that isn’t broadcasted or publicized enough and so it doesn’t seem like such a bid deal, but it is! Just reading about the massive difference it would make is breath taking. I don’t understand why anyone who learns or reads about the substantial affect it could make, wouldn’t just start trying to save energy right at that very moment. It is a serious thing that we all need to consider. And if just a community started saving, I think it would make somewhat a difference in our climate.

From the article I have learned a lot about how much it can affect our climate and simply our earth. It has been calculated on how the energy loss has increased greatly and the outcome has been far greater than was supposedly expected at this time. This happened on our behalf. If it truly was made clear about how important it is to conserve, I think there would be much more participation. About 40 percent of possible cuts could come from measures that save billions of dollars each year.

In conclusion, the point this article is trying to get made is that carbon dioxide cutting is so very important, and not many people truly realize it. I isn’t made clear to most people about why our climate is crashing and so most don’t really get it and so nothing is done about it. Reducing Carbon is a major key to keeping a healthy planet. Our daily doings do make a difference.

A Tale of Two Cities analysis

A Tale of Two Cities is a story of two cities that are in turmoil with one another. People from each city get involved with each other and trouble and miscommunication happens. But in the end one man resolves it all. Throughout the book I found that family was a very broad theme in the story, and the struggles to make and keep families together throughout the book. Just like normal families in the real world.




Passage: Book Two Chapter 10: Two Promises pages 133-140

‘I give the promise,’ said the Doctor, ‘without any condition. I believe your object to be, purely and truthfully, as you have stated it. I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. If she should ever tell me that you are essential to her perfect happiness, I will give her to you. If there were – Charles Darnay, if there were any fancies, any reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old, against the man she really loved – the direct responsibility thereof not lying on his head- they should all be obliterated for her sake. She is everything to me, more to me than suffering, more to me than wrong, more to me – Well! This is idle talk.’    Page 139



This passage I found very interesting. This is how I thought of the theme of family. You can really tell that Doctor Manette really loves his daughter and cares about her more than anything. This was brought to my attention as Mr. Darnay was asking for Lucie’s father’s approval and he sweetly explained to him how he felt about his daughter and what would happen if Mr. Darnay treated her wrong and what good would eventually come if he continued to treat her as he loved her. And once they get married, the rest of the book seems to fall into place and the story develops other concluding thoughts that have to do with Doctor Manette and Mr. Darnay’s relationship.

I can vividly remember imagining this chapter in my head like I was watching it being performed on a stage. I can visualize Mr. Darnay approaching Dr. Manette and being a nervous wreck in his head, but he portrays he’s very confident. And I can see Dr. Manette’s feelings in his face and what thoughts must be going through his head at this shock. Just as any other father’s feelings would be if someone asked to marry their daughter. And also distinguish what their interactions with each other look like throughout the rest of the book.

As Dr. Manette tells Mr. Darnay of his love for Lucie, it is easy to be able to hear the tone of his voice and the tone of Mr. Darnay’s voice throughout this passage as they exchange answers and discuss Dr. Manette’s daughter. When he speaks to Darnay about this particular subject you can straightforwardly realize that he is as serious as it gets and by the words Mr. Darnay says after, you find that he gets it, and understands because of the tones Dr. Manette uses to expose his feelings towards the subject.

In all, the themes and descriptions and voice of this chapter really helped me better understand this passage. That’s why this whole chapter was the one I chose to write about. On the theme of family, this is supported very well by the examples given from Dr. Manette and his thoughts on his daughter Lucie and her future family. And the ways that he lets the reader know how important she is to him. And also Mr. Darnay’s ways of presenting his beliefs on his future family to come, and how important that is to him. I found that family is very well supported throughout the book. Charles Dickens did an excellent job at giving the book the book a theme of family, along with many others.

Overall, A Tale of Two Cities was a hard book, but very educational. In the end, I found I did enjoy reading it after I realized what fully took place in the book. I loved the way the stories took place and how they came about through the book. It was a very clever idea to write about and I think that Charles Dickens did a profound job at making a great educational and understandable book.

A Lesson Learned!!.. AMEN

• Yesterday I spent most of my day after school with my best friend. We'll call her Lucie. So we walked home right after school ended yesterday. At her house no one is ever home. Ever. So we just sat around and tried to entertain ourselves. We had asked a few other people to hang out with us that night. Earlier in the week I had a friend (we'll call her Loo) come up to me and asked me if she could hang out with me and Lucie last night so I said she could. So she said that she wanted to come home with us so that's what we were planning all day. But as soon as school ended she came up to me and informed me that she didn't want to come home with us because of the people we were going to be with which is a bunch of *&^%!! Me and Lucie both new that she was just finding an excuse to not hang out with us so we just went about our day as normal. But then I got a text from her that said she decided she wanted to hang out with us. And at this time, me and Lucie had a friend coming to pick us up (Brono) to go somewhere. So we had to call Brono and tell him to wait because Loo magically decided that she wanted to hang out with us again. (but we all new her plans she had attempted to make didn't work out) And Brono wasn't very happy with that but he said he'd wait. So we sat around Lucie's house and watched the walls change colors for about an hour waiting for Loo to tell us when she was ready to hang out. After an hour we decided to call her and see what the heck was up. And she told me that she had taken a quick nap. HELLO!! She was wasting our time because she wanted to take a nap... I was very proud of myself for the words I said to her, because I could've it been a lot more mean that I was. So we just told her that we would wait twenty more minutes then Brono was coming to get us whether we liked it or not! And so after that twenty minutes passed we called her and told her we were leaving and she decided she wanted to act like a martyr and she was just like "you guys can do without me. I'll be fine.." And so this time I wasn't as nice when I heard her response. I said something along the lines of "Loo! We have waited for you for an hour and a half and you have wasted me Lucie's and time and Brono's! And you expect us to just say ok to that?!" I wasn't very happy. So I just hung up on her because I couldn't take anymore of her excuses for the day. So we call Brono and tell him that Loo isn't coming because she was being lame, then he informs us that one of his friends, Mastro, was really looking forward to being with Loo so now he wasn't coming. And if Mastro wasn't coming that meant Brono wasn't coming... See where I'm going with this? So our whole night was planned then quickly was ruined because one friend decided to be flaky and selfish! Last night I learned one of the greatest life lessons! Don't be a FLAKE!!

PS MR. T; I FINISHED A TALE OF TWO CITIES!!!