Resources for paper

General information about Penn State recycling:
http://www.opp.psu.edu/about-opp/recycling

Ive also found a number to contact for a personal interview about the recycling:
(814) 863-2340

Here are other miscellaneous sources:
http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/rogo/documents/beaver.pdf

http://live.psu.edu/story/26336

Bonding over a Mascot

I think that the potential research question that the author started with before his research is if using tribe names or figures as mascots is ok or is somewhat taken as a mockery. This is a great research question because I know there has been a lot of debate over this subject with various sports teams including some NFL teams. I feel that the purpose of this article is to inform people on the topic as well as to show them the facts saying that some Tribes, such as the Seminoles, don’t mind this, they are in a way honored to have teams named after them. The author does a great job with the research here supporting his proposed question. He uses different interviews and quotes from people from tribes to show the people reading this and concerned with mascots that this was approved by the tribes and not used as a joke. One particular quote that I feel wraps up the argument very well is in the last line; “People who were genuinely concerned with the circumstances of Indians should concentrate less on sports iconography and more on alcoholism, suicide, teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.” There are bigger things to worry about and naming a school or sports team after a tribe out of respect and honor is not one of them.

Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?

Nicholas Carr makes some very interesting arguments here that have me pulling in two directions. In a way I feel that this internet is making us more uneducated and in another way I feel that the internet is opening our minds to whole new dimensions that we would have never thought to look at before. In my first thought I feel that the internet is giving us a way to obtain information without much effort and no need to read through chapters and chapters of a chemistry or biology book to obtain the answers we need. Like Carr says “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” I completely agree with this statement that he makes. I don’t know how many times I have just browsed through an internet page not understand words or sentences and just looking for that key word or answer at the end of the article. On my second thought I feel that the internet can make us way more brilliant than ever before if we use it the right way. The vast amounts of material and data that can be found on the internet always leaves me curious and wanting to read more. I have found myself numerous times 15 or 20 minutes into reading an article that has nothing to do with what I was looking for in the first. I simply read the article because it fascinated and left me wanting more and more information about the topic. I believe that the internet can be a brilliant or disastrous tool, it just depends on the way you use it.