2 New Plans to Upgrade Smartphones After a Year

Smartphone industries are flourishing as the time processes.  More advanced phones are released and what a single phone can do resembles that of computer’s nowadays. Phone appliers search for ways to provide faster, innovative phone service. Naturally, as people are getting more accustomed to smartphones, people tend to rush and live restless lives.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/technology/personaltech/2-new-plans-to-upgrade-smartphones-after-a-year.html?ref=technology

            People’s restless lifestyle is now affecting policy of phone appliers. Phone applier company AT&T stated that survey result indicated people’s opinion that 2 years of waiting for a new phone is too long. Consequently, phone appliers are reflecting people’s opinion and are shortening the time people have to wait to get a new phone.

            Such change made me wonder if smartphones could be classified as either a “good” or a “bad” change. Emergence of smartphones brought convenience to people and encouraged the online communications among the people. However, smartphones ironically are blockades of people’s communications in real life. Now, people fully engrossed in smartphones can be usually seen in restaurant. Clearly, people now are deprived of conversations and interactions due to the invention of smartphones.

            On a bright side, smartphones provide shortcuts to people in a way of accessing information. Now various app markets suggest abundant ways to acquire needed information. Despite such advantages smartphones brought to human’s lives, disconnections in human’s lives appearing as a major problem in a society makes me doubt if advantages of smartphones are powerful enough to overthrow the disadvantages smartphones have. People should rather spend time on having conversations than occupying themselves in a tiny little smartphone that ceases people from communications.  

Use of coal to generate power rises; greenhouse gas emissions next?

LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-coal-electricity-20130711,0,1786862.story

Pollution is arising as an urgent matter. Currently increased amount of greenhouse gas indicates that global warming issue grew more severe. In fact, Global Warming Potential (GWP) and amount of  greenhouse gas are directly proportional to each other. Coal, which emits greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, unavoidably emerged as a main energy source since natural gas, possibly the most efficient and environmentally friendly energy source, is limited. Such environmental problems concerned me for natural problems directly affect humans.

After reading the article, I posed a question to myself: is it better to spend more money, searching for natural gas that is less harmful to nature or to save up more money by using coal, which is deadly to both human and nature? My answer to the question was to dedicate more money by making earth to a less polluted place to live in. 

Human has been using up the natural resources since a long time ago. Inevitably, natural resources have been drastically decreasing in its amount, for it is limited. Consequently, as the amount decreased, the price charged on the remaining resources naturally began rising. Especially oil, which is essential for cars, prices have been dramatically changing. For example, according to the article, "Coal's share of total domestic power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5%, compared with 35.4% during the same period last year". 

President Obama persisting on a project targeting to decrease amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere gives me hope, for it refers to how government is putting an effort to enhance the situation. However, the plan has not been quite fruitful. Ironically, rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rather increased.Less usage of power plant, a main exit of carbon dioxide, is the main policy that President Obama tends to pursue. 

Attempting to use public transportation instead of your own car, turning lights off that are not in use and such will bring down the needed amount of electricity. As the amount of required electricity decreases, usage of coal will naturally diminish, concluding in less pollution.
 
 

Mississippi Gay Bar Denied License

Huffington post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-dinielli/mississippi-gay-bar-denied-license_b_3562741.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

The article "Mississippi Gay Bar Denied License"demonstrated the incident occurred in Mississippi that displayed the discrimination targeted at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, a.k.a LGBT community. A woman named Pat "PJ" Newton attempted to revive the Gay Bar she operated decades ago. However, Ms. Newton confronted denial in opening the gay bar although Ms. Newton met all the requirements for the operation of business. The residents of Ms. Newton's town placed an obstacle in her way with a reason being her homosexuality.

As California legalized the gay marriages, acceptance of and controversy on homosexuality aroused as one of the most arguable subjects among the people. Denial to Ms. Newton's operation in business with an unfair reason of her sexual identity violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under law. Even though, in modern society, as clearly depicted,  homosexuals are equally protected under the law,  Mississippi incident showed that not everyone agrees with LGBT being classified as "normal". The justification people who signed the petition to prevent from Ms. Newton operating a bar suggested was to prevent their children entering "that kind of" bar. Such statement contains the animosity against homosexuality that is buried deep down in one's heart. 

Whether people consider LGBT as "normal" may depend on one's perspective. Christians perceive homosexual as a sin, for it defeats the reason why God created human. However, in personal opinion, being homosexual should neither be interfered nor be embarrassed by the others. Being homosexual is not a malevolent or harmful action, but just being truthful to oneself. Clearly, Mississippi incident exemplified how people hurt other people's rights. Despite it may not contain any malevolent intention, people insisted to interlope in one's business just because that business was relative to LBGT. Homosexual people should receive equal rights as everyone else.