Video Blog Post

Today in computers class, we saw a video which shows the major events and documents the Earth in a short period of time of 24hr; however the video is 2:30 minutes. I liked that several stuff from it. For example, it grab my attention really fast with images that have a meaning, really expressive. Another thing I liked about this video was the music they choose, it's appropriated for the theme of the video. From my dislikes, I will have to say that in some occasions, the image stays in text to long, it looses your attention a bit. Another minimum thing that I din't like, was that some images look taking professionally and other look more amateur, this is just because I am perfectionist. Anyway, the theme of this video for me is to show how our world acts, and all our major events that have occur. Like strikes, war, revolutions and other stuff; however they also show good stuff like love, friendship, relationships and more.

During the videos we can see segments that really get our attention, and transmit us a message. We can call them carried images. Some of the carried images, that really make a sense of remorse on the watcher are, unfortunately the bad ones that describe all the bad things our world has. The images/video clips that show war scenes, hunger, suferment, destruction (both caused by humans and nature), poverty, natural disasters and other things, get your attention much faster than other stuff. Even though, the images that show the goodness of our world, can be taken much better with any factor you want, the carried images will always have more impact.

Fuel Efficiency on Transportation

During the past couple of weeks, I have discover great things that happen every day in my live, with out me realizing. For example, how much gas I spend every day coming to school. Something that really shocked me was to find out that costs more for my family to drive me in the Mini Cooper, rather than in the big Hummer of my father. It was shocking to know that we where actually paying more, and we thought we where saving money. Definitely, having my dream car (Audi R8 Spider) will be very expensive, but they well say, "if you have the money to buy the car, you have the money for the gas..." By the other side, having Fuel Efficient Cars will reduce the expenses of my family every year, however they aren't just neither my families or my taste in cars. Actually doing this project is really going to help me in less than 4 months. In less than 4 months, I will turn 16 and I made a deal with my father that states, if I didn't consume any alcohol or drugs when I have reach the age of 16, he will give me a car. Know we can take an inform decision about which car will help us, by saving money in fuel.

Seeing the BP oil spill really caused a great impact at me. So many marine live was lost due to the contamination, and it will take more than 100 years to clean the Gulf of Mexico. I guess I don't think about this when I get in my car, but I think definitely I should because this is what happens due to our fuel addiction.

Fuel Efficiency

In the last 2 computer class, we have been working on taking out the amount of litters our cars use per day, week, and year. The route is simple, one that we use all week, which is our way to school (commute). I live far away from school, so I use high quantities of fuel each school year. For example, my dad uses his Hummer H3 to drive me to school most of the time. He spends 405.15 litters of gas, also he spends $3646.35 to drive me every school year, only for me to study at ASPV. My dream car is an Audi R8 Spider. If God would help me to buy this car, I would have to use 1001 litters of gas to "fire it up" to school, and I will spend around $9008.00 pesos to drive it to school all the school year. My first Fuel Efficient (FE) car is the Toyota Prius. Having this car, it will use 281.2 Litters of gas to drive me to school per year, this will cost $2530.80. For my second FE vehicle I will choose a Smart. This will use 387 Litters of gas per year, with a cost of $3484.85.

My Car (Hummer H3 2006)	Dream Car (Audi R8 Spyder 2011)
Litters Per Year	Litters Per Year
405.15 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $3646.35 Fuel Efficient Car (Toyota Prius 2010) Litters Per Year 281.2 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $2530.8	1000.85 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $9007.65 Fuel Efficient Car 2 (Smart 2010) Litters Per Year 387.205 Litters/5957 Kilometers Cost Per Year $3484.85