Saturday, December 19, 2009

Is christmas sustainable? How would it all work in a change world?



Christmas is the time when Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus. Christmas is a time to bring families and friends together to share loved. It has being a customs and tradition for decays. On Christmas day most people stay at home with their family and friends to celebrate. Each family have their own traditions of celebrating Christmas. There are traditions in each family that hold special memories and help make Christmas more wonderful. Tradition like baking a special recipe of cookies and preparing special dishes each year. If only people were not wasteful during this period, it is nice, but in another way when you look at how other people are wasting food on that particular day, than you will ask yourself if people really think about sustainble life-style.

Another way during this period that people are not being environmental friendly is by cutting down of christmas trees. They are only grown with only one mission of being cut down when christmas comes. Christmas trees are used for few days, over the holiday season they are put out on the for garbage pickup to collect them once the new year day is over. There should be another way to stop cutting down christmas trees to use. People should try and get artificial trees that can last for a lifetime. Others, who like having the real thing should try to reduce waste by finding a company that deals with living christmas trees. The company delivers the tree, provides care instructions and once the holidays are over reture them to the forest where they can replanted.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

To what extend do the best selling UK newspapers cover stories related to serious issues?

I think that national newspapers in the uk were traditionally divided by format, between the relatively respectable and intelligent broadsheets, gossip and crime-obsessed tabloids.

The newspapers keep the people informed about the political activities of the government, i.e they give detail like the statements of speech made by political leaders at public meetings. Newspapers describe the economic policies of the government as well. it's include plans for future economic development, prices of different things fixed and also report economic policies of our different in the field of agriculture. they also described the problems of labors, famers and other working people and suggested their solutions. they also give the true pictures of society.

The tabloid media and low budget entertainment have a great influence in the country. If we take for e.g soap like eastenders there are 30.15 million people watching it in one unique occassion and in a good week is watched by 16 million people. (http://www.bbc.co.uk). People create time to watch reality shows and soaps. some people will even go to the extend by recording it or even program it on for automatic recording, so that they will have time to watch it if they have missed it. I do believe that reality shows and soaps have a great influence in peoples lives here in UK.