Why am i reading an article from a farmer? he is a farmer not some big wig famous writer or professor but a regular joe schmo farmer. Now that is funny
This shows how everyone is entitled to their opinion and can get their ideas out there no matter of education or profession. He wants to express how we Americans are greedy and wasteful and well the only way i can describe that is by this (what i wrote in the class freewrite).
The article was showing how the United States was greedy and wasteful with all their fossil fuels and energy sources. The only way I can express greed and wastefulness is through the great american classic "the Simpsons". In one of the episodes Mr. Burns blocks out the sun. Now that is greed since he does it for ultimate power. Mr. Burns is a greedy and hordeful old man who wants everything for himself and wants to be all powerful. Since he owns the nuclear powerplant (the only other power source for the town) he blocks the sun out with a giant metal blocker making it completely dark and forcing people to obey his commands and pay to use the energy. From reading the article I felt like he was describing the United States as hordeful and greedy because of how we depleted all of our fossil fuels. Therfore the united states is very much like Mr. Burns in my example. Greed makes people do things that are completely out of context. So to me Greed and waste looks like MR. BURNS from the Simpsons.
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I think the way you approached this blog post was very interesting. While most people went on for paragraphs about waste, greed and the true meaning of them; you summed it up in one funny and TRUE example. For someone who doesnt like to read, like me, I find that many essays bore me and I loose focus. Well, I regained all the focus after reading your blog. It make me connect a recent (more exciting) example to the essay so I found it easier to understand. Thanks Allan!
ReplyDeleteDoes someone being a farmer mean they do not have the right to an opinion? Does it mean they are not smart, just because they have no received recognition for their ideas?
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