PLN 10: Bill & John

First of all, I’m going to start with saying that this video was pretty darn funny. This video features Bill O’Reilley, and John Stewart, and they debated about how Bill kept saying that he was scared about what Obama is going to do, because he doesn’t know what he’s going to do. This matters to me and the world for that matter because, if we are about to elect a new president into office, wouldn’t you want to know what he’s planning on doing? Another issue with Obama was that his statistics changed every single time he discussed over an interview, what his policies were explaining. Bush put this country way down financially, of course because of the war, and oil prices and global warming this stuff all ties into one another. The people were a little confused, and yet a little scared at first like Bill said, that Obama kept manipulating his policies every time he looked into a camera. 

PLN: 9 Obama's Victory Speech

In Barak Obama’s victory speech, the United States being one people mattered most. He talked about how “we are not just red states and blue states… We are the united states of America!” I was one of those people who wanted McCain to win, and after that speech my thoughts about him changed. He also incorporated part of President Lincoln’s speech into his, which again, talked about how we are all one people, and we are going to get through everything that will take place in the next 4 years together. This affects my life, because after hoping that McCain would take the election from Obama, it was a relief to me, and probably other people too, to hear how well he spoke in Chicago that night.

PLN 8: Economic debt

In the video U.S. Economy and Financial System Bankrupt --What's next?, submitted by singletreefilms, it talked about how we are bankrupt, because we spend to much money everyday, and our competing countries are paying their workers 75% to 95% less money for the same work that they do. In simpler terms, that’s called cheap overproduction. To fix this problem, we tried moving some of our biggest money making facilities to different parts of the world. For example, last year we moved a Chrysler dealership to Mexico. Yet the economic results weren’t too high still. So we took the factory apart and moved it to China. We made some money. The point of this is, is that if we started globalizing more businesses; we might start making some money to get rid of our debt. I think that this affects my life because, even know we don’t think about it, but our country is in some serious debt, and when we start voting against raising or lowering taxes, we need to stop to think about what’s best for the country. We didn’t get where we are today because of one person, we got here because we are a nation of people, and we decided what was best for everyone, and not one person/ourselves in particular.

PLN 7: OPEC's Oil Prices

In this video about OPEC’s Oil prices, money matter most to them. In the video, it was saying how OPEC decided to cut 1.8 million barrels of oil that the sell, because there isn’t as high of a demand for oil, and their theory is that it will eventually get more people to buy oil, and then there will be a larger demand for it again, and then they will raise prices again, and end up making the money that they want. This affects my life because, oil prices are going down, and this will save my parents money, and we will be able to do more fun things as a family, because we have saved money. It will also save money for the whole economy, so we might be seeing a more booming economy, because more and more people now have money to spend.

PLN 6: Global Warming

In the video Global Warming 101 from National Geographic, saving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels matters to the earth. This video talked about how global warming has evolved over time, and how/what we can do to slow the processes of the greenhouse effects. Global warming started during the Industrial Revolution, and that was a time of huge industrialization, and lots of CO2 and methane were being produced, which eventually made its way to the atmosphere, and got trapped. This causes heat to be trapped under the atmosphere, and the earth just basically bakes, and examples of that, would be, all of the ice around the world that’s melting, and more droughts in hotter places, like deserts, and Africa. Global warming is a problem that we can do something about. How can you do your part to help our home?

PLN 5: LIVING TOMORROW

In the video Living Tomorrow by FORBES, I think that making things better, and making life easier to live matters to FORBES corporation. This video talked about a new product that you could buy later on, for probably a large amount of money, big and better things do cost money, but basically it was a bathroom mirror. This was no ordinary mirror, you can watch television on it. It even times you while you are brushing your teeth, and when the time is up, it scans your teeth checking if you did a good job, and if you didn’t, it will show you where you need to brush harder to get all of them clean. Technology these days is getting better and better, but in the end its going to cost you more than you could imagine.