IHSS Blog 2018-2019

Perjhing Mardani February 28, 2019 A business I would start would be a hoverboard rental service. Although, I would have made this a business in 2016, not now. When I was younger, and hoverboards were a craze, I wanted one eagerly. And before I bought my own, which are very expensive. I was sad that I was not able to ride them like others on social media. My business would be renting out a hoverboard to someone for 25.00 an hour. Which is reasonable, in my opinion. The transaction would be digital so it is easier for the customer, and more efficient. I would require a safety form to be filled out incase of a injury. Also a helmet will be required to be worn by the customer. I think that this would be a fun invention for kids and teens!

Perjhing Mardani February 13, 2019 IHSS Mr. David Roddy Global warming is a very large issue we have in our world. I feel that being aware of our impact on the earth and being educated on global warming is very important. Texas is number 1 in using solar energy, but is number 10 in solar energy production due to a lack of resources. Global warming will soon lead to severe tragedies for Texas. Droughts, heat waves, and floods are a few problems that we are facing due to global warming. Us humans contribute to global warming in several ways. Burning fossil fuels, such as coal and gas to power our cars. Deforestation, humans clear forests to build urban architecture. Plants play an important role in our ecosystem. They absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Farming as well, livestock produces a methane gas which is a greenhouse gas. Methane contributes to global warming. We can prevent global warming from accelerating in many ways. Firstly, we can reduce the amount of coal an...

Schools can show you the fundamentals of a society. The future depends on today’s children and what they are provided with. Schools will build the foundations of their values and experiences especially if it’s the place where they spend most of their childhood. Article Analysis  The rules regulating the school funding system in the U.S. are very ambiguous. The federal laws aren’t very specific about how schools should be paid and if certain methods of attaining that money are illegal or not. So the problem is passed onto the state and continues to stay unresolved. The issue is not that people don't want to make changes. There are clearly many people who don't believe in the current system and they are deeply affected by the outcome, but the government isn't making much of an effort to resolve this national situation. More money is put into other places and funding for schools becomes more limited. When the government chooses not to invest more in public schools, this s...

Charlie McGill Dr. Roddy IHSS 2.1.19 The NBA’s Business Model The article that I read was about the NBA, specifically how the NBA makes money. First, the article talked about something they called BRI, or basketball related income. Basketball related income is any income that falls under the category of basketball: ticket purchases, concessions, TV deals, and merchandising. Not included in BRI is income collected through proceeds for expansion teams, fines collected throughout the season, and revenue sharing between teams. Although TV viewership has steadily declined over the past few years, live sports have generally remained safe, which is causing TV networks to spend huge amounts of money to air NBA games through TV deals. These deals are one of the main ways in which the NBA makes its money. Recently in early 2016, ESPN and Turner Sports signed a 9 year, $24 billion dollar deal. That translates to $2.6 billion dollars annually. Other important ways the NBA makes mone...

Perjhing Mardani IHSS January 28, 2019 Mr. Roddy In 2019 we are faced with many different economic divides making it a very complex day and age that we are all living in. One topic that I see as very important is the United States unemployment rate which is at one of the lowest rates it has been in 49 years. As we see, there has to be something occuring causing this rate to drop. The actual percentage rate of unemployed people since September of 2018 is 3.7 percent. When we look at the changes our economy and the United States has made in the past years we can see how this number came to be. It is never good for a person to have lost their job. This can cause homelessness, debt, and other financial problems for the individual. Most people have children, and not having a job is not an option. Unemployment is not only harmful to the individual but to our country as well. It causes payments from the federal government and state towards unemployment benefits. In February of 2017...

I read a paper talking about how Healthcare is expensive and a possible way to decrease spending. The paper suggested health care providers should increase the availability of their price information to their customers then people can look and choose the cheaper providers. Health care spending makes up 18 percent of the US economy, and keeps growing. One of the things that makes this field so unique is the fact that consumers don’t usually know much about the pricing. If health care providers were to become more transparent with their costs then people would be able to switch to providers who provided cheaper care. This paper discussed the potential ups and downs of providing more open information within this market. This interested me because health care is currently a foreign concept to me, but as I get older, I will need to worry about these things. I think that beginning to gain an understanding of the subject would be a good idea. In this paper the author talks about a potent...

Smog is a huge issue when it comes to human health, dirty air can cause a large varied list of diseases and even death.  The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that air pollution is the cause of over 1.6 million deaths in China alone, and over 7 million worldwide. Those affected usually die of conditions such as stroke, heart disease, heart attacks, or lung diseases. What particularly is in the air? Well due to coal fires and exhausts from cars, the air is polluted with materials such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and soot. With all these materials stagnating in the very same air that is being pumped in and out of our lungs, it makes sense why it would be so toxic. Due to the scale of this issue, China has begun to implement methods to counter air pollution as well as methods to cut down on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Coincidentally, the government is also improving efforts for renewable energy, specifically solar power. This isn't all sunshine and rainbows, in fact,...