Offshore Wind Power

Early this month the Deepwater Wind project was fully permitted. The Deepwater Wind project will be the United States first offshore wind farm, and construction is planned to begin in this upcoming summer in 2015. There are only twenty-five in existence to-date, twenty-two of which are in Europe. The three non-European farms are located in Chinese waters. Denmark's Vindeby, was the first offshore windfarm, built in 1991. The United Kingdom leads the world in offshore wind power in the most power generated (38.4 million MW), number of turbines (just under 2,000),and number of farms (19). The US's leading energy consumer Texas, consumes about 3.6 Billion MW annually and New York consumes about 1 Billion MW annually. One year of energy generated by the UK's offshore wind farms alone could power New York City for approximately 8 months of the year.

Carrie Week

This week in class we watched the 1976 film Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma. It was a classic horror film depicting common ideas that correlate with the the decade. I feel it was kind of bad movie. It was pieced together well and all of that jazz but it just failed capture my attention. Throughout Wednesday, we analyzed specific aspects and themes of the film, sex in particular. Another evident theme displayed in the movie the perceptions others have of us affects our choices. For instance, Carrie's continuous harassment leaves her in a recluse type of personality among  her peers.

Leo and The UN Climate Summit

Just this morning the UN held a summit on the rising issue of our climate, specifically global warming. During the summit a beloved actor, at least to the American public, Leonardo DiCaprio, gave a short yet powerful and meaningful speech. Leo was honored with the title of UN Messenger of Peace by UN Secretary-General Ban this last week and marched together in New York on Sunday.  Leo has lead the way for environmental action in recent years, launching his foundation addressing environmental and humanitarian issues, donating millions of dollars to research and organizations along-with living rather 'green'. Leo delivered this warning to the assembly "You can make history...or be vilified by it." If that fails to hit something in you, there is something wrong with you.Leo's speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyLSr_VCcg

ENG 1050: Week 3

Howdy partners,
Yet another hello from Derek, welcoming the close of the third week of the fall semester. During this week's class we only met yesterday, Wednesday, due to unforeseen events seeing to the cancellation of Monday's class. So, on that one day we managed to cover a number of stories, including an essay from one Helene Woyczesczyk (Voy-ch-zess-shyk) about how we should all write letters instead of text and etc... She was rather emotional and adamant in her persuasive storytelling, advocating letter writing. It wasn't a bad read, especially for an 8th grader, so she gets kudos for that in consideration but it was a bit too one-sided and just simply could have been better. My advice for my own improvement is that I should probably change up this blog for next week both cosmetically and my topics.
C-Yall!!!

The November Man

This week's movie critique will be on "The November Man." Former 007, Pierce Brosnan, take on yet another role as an operative for an intelligence agency. However, this time it was for good old Uncle Sam not for her majesty. Anyway, Brosnan does fairly well in this film, but then again it is the only role for which he is suited so its no surprise. The screenplay done by Michael Finch was impressive by my standards and then the story line was not too shabby. So overall this was a good film and earns my recommendation for any movie goer looking for a decent action-packed score.

quick link to the Trailer:
http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/thenovemberman-trailer/174358

ENG 1050: Week 2

Wassup y'all,
 This here second week of class was interesting, the identifying characteristics of the narrator or speaker or what-have-you in particular. For instance, I found the investigation into what an author says in the writing and how he/she does it gives a certain hint of fun. Then if you withhold information from your writing you are in fact leaving yourself out of the literature. I don't know why, but it seems fun at least for the moment. Then in our Monday class, we discussed "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and i actually enjoyed the reading, as for it was filled with humor to allow the entire story to flow with a sense of joy even though the root of the story is primarily on a rough teacher and the students struggle to succeed in the class. Then the video with David Sedaris, that was just comical genius in my opinion. My questions are over the characteristics that can be determined in writing; how can religion or one's hometown amongst other characteristics be discovered simply through analyzing whomever's writing without the explicitly saying so in said writing?

Howdy,

My name is Derek, and I'm a sophomore here at Western Michigan University. I am a nursing major here at Western. I hail from a northwest suburb of Flint called Flushing. I work as a sales associate for various companies, including Cedar Point. This blog is going to be primarily on movies or scientific/technical advances worldwide.