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September 26, 2006

Prompt # 2 - Social Design

We have all heard about New Orleans and other near by states were devastated by Katrina. Floods and the sheer winds destroy whatever standing in their way. Thousand of people loss their home and have no place to sleep. For the recovery effort, FAMA’s trailer house is one option, but it isn’t enough for one to say it is their home. So Architecture for Humanity (AFH) and other local partners lends a hand with a new program called “Biloxi Model Home Program.� This program will help assist families in Biloxi, Mississippi to rebuild their house. The family will be paired with a team of professional designers (architects, engineers and designers) to work one-on-one with the rebuilding of their house. And because it has been a year since Katrina hit and the regions isn’t still properly fix, the program is necessary to bring home and relief to the south.

September 17, 2006

Prompt # 1 - Midtown Market

As we all know energy is everywhere, energy is neither creatable nor destroyable; it is a reaction from one thing to the other. For example, speaking create sound that is also consider as a form of energy because it is just a wave of air moving into your ear and vibrating the eardrum to create what you hear as music or speech. Moving your arm to move something is also energy. But that energy doesn’t just create from nothing, we capture more energy by consuming more energy such as meat and vegetable in order to reuse it or at least manipulate it in our favor. And that energy from the live stocks is mainly from plants, which capture its energy from the sun through photosynthesis. Then what about the sun? The sun pretty much supports all life on earth with its almost infinite thermonuclear fusion in its core. The fusion comes from the reaction of hydrogen and some other elements to make the necessary reaction to create the sun. As for Midtown Market, some might say it’s a different type of energy that are given off in the market, because of all the different things going on in the market, one could say that those energy given off are people excitement gland making people more energetic which is like getting more energy. But then what is energy? We can’t see it, but we can feel it—sometimes at least. The word “energy� itself is just like the words “good� and “bad,� which are just prospective depending on the society makes it, but then what is Energy?