This week we received the two topics for our final assignment. It did not take me long to choose Giles Slade’s book, Made to Break. Out of the five books I read for this class, I enjoyed Slade’s book the most. That is due to the topic and his way of writing. Also, I feel his topic is quite relevant to our times. There is a large amount of information on going green and planned obsolescence in articles, books and the Internet. I realize this assignment is not about my opinion and it will be difficult to keep it out of this paper, but I will try. Slade does a good job in his argument and due to the cost to go green; I will see where my argument goes. As far as the social aspect of this topic is concerned, Slade feels people like the newest toy more than keeping the Earth healthy, but I plan on finding articles about going green and see what they have to say about new toys that are more environmental friendly. I plan on starting my paper very soon, so that I am not bogged down the night before it is due. I like the idea about blogging during the process. It helps to focus on the topic and the direction the paper will go. This way when I start I can narrow in on the topic at hand. I have already found three articles off the Internet about going green, two that have a positive spin and the third with a negative spin. After a start my paper, I will blog again with my progress. This is all I have for now. I’ll be doing more reading and research and will back with more information later.
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