Uganda Tourism Development Portfolio 2

My topic of interest during portfolio two is the economic development and current practices in Africa. More specifically, i’m going to focus on the country of Uganda and the economic arguments regarding tourism. Tourism can be a great economic tool to increase the economic well being of a country, but problems and turmoil arise when tourism is introduced into a society when it has not existed in the past. My questions guiding my research are: What are the problems that tourism will cause in the Uganda natural environment and what are the perspectives of the native people regarding tourism and the government view on the subject? Uganda is located in East Africa and has about 25 million people. An estimated 90% of the population rely on natural resources surrounding them in order to survive. Tourism turns natural lands into conservation projects in order to protect the land from exploitation so it can have long term economic benefits. Problems arise when the native population fights for the land they depend on while the governments incentive is to turn the land into conservation areas to spark tourism and project the valuable resources for future generations.

One source that i found through the Morgan Libraries databases is, “A Comparison of Attitudes Toward State-Led Conservation and Community-Based Conservation in the Village of Bigodi, Uganda”, written by Andrew Lepp and Stephan Holland. The title of the article itself explains why it is relevant to my research, the article explains the native populations attitudes toward government led conservation projects and goes through the pros and cons of tourism development in Uganda. My audience will find this article credible becuase it was published in the Society and Natural Resources scholarly journal. The authors are involved in tourism management and tourism/recreational professions. Andrew Lepp graduated from Kent State University, Ohio and Stephan Holland is a graduate of the University of Florida, Florida.

Cannon Advertisment

The image above was first located in a National Geographic magazine of some sort and the advertisement itself is an over head picture of 2 adult blue whales feeding in the pacific ocean. The new sleek cannon EOS1 image is in the lower right hand corner as the text wraps around it. A list of important facts about a blue whale is located on the far left side of the ad. These facts include: its scientific name, life expectancy, adult weight, length, and a habitat map. A short paragraph located between the multiple images describes the “majestic” and graceful life a Blue Whales. The paragraph explains that blue whales are magnificent mammals and were almost driven to extinction during the whaling era that ended in the 1960’s. The remaining blue whales that survived are scattered throughout our oceans but their population size is still unknown. In order to understand endangered species, we must understand their habitats and protect the species because each species of life has an important role in ecosystems. Photography is not only a tool of scientific research methods and also a great way of spreading communication through images.

The reader of this article would generally be middle to upper class person who reads National Geographic. A person that has some educational backround and has a pretty good disposable income. Lets be honest camera, expecially new ones are very expensive to purchase. But on the other hand a photographer looking throught the magizine to look at other photographers pictures is also another possibility of a reader.

The article is asking the reader if he/she supports the environment and if they are for the promotion of endangered specie protection across the world. If the reader cares for the environment and its protection, then they should buy a Cannon because not only do they donate and help environmental organizations but they are the absolute best in quality. High quality images of nature are taken with Cannon cameras, so you too will get this quality in your everyday images for any task that the reader chooses.

Cannon is playing off of the readers pathos. A lot of people care for our environment so this ad is tugging at the strings of the emotional desire he/she has for nature and to preserve its beauty and unique quality. The image of the blue whales really sells the message of the ad if the reader actually reads the paragraph and understand its intentions. You are given a magnificent picture of 2 blue whales, raw, feeding in nature and the dark vast blue, loaded with color saturation, ocean that they live. Cannon’s goal is to want to associate its brand with with the raw wonderful power and grace of nature.

Toyota’s recall and Gays in the Military

No quick fix
The damage to Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, may be lasting
Feb 4th 2010 | From The Economist print edition

With 19 people dead, an out cry for Toyota’s faulty vehicles has sent a shock wave through out the car industry. Even-though safety recalls are a somewhat common occurrence in business, most companies overcome the recall in the long run. But Toyota’s current recall crisis of more than 7 of their most popular car series may sink them under and out of their 1st place reign as most popular car company in the world. Toyota realized it had produced an average of 2.3 U.S./ 8 million (world wide) vehicles that possibly had a faulty acceleration pedal. The company has stopped production for now, loosing about 250 million a week. GM is secretly smirking and trying to gain back its lost share of the market while Toyota is scrambling to stay afloat. But GM isn’t taking all the slack from Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai’s sales climbed as well as Ford and GM. The outcome isn’t certain for Toyota’s disaster, their public relations are diving as the company re-incriminates itself whether it knew of the cars problems before hand or not. The most devastating problem facing Toyota is its marketing power. The Brand name has been damaged and will take a lot of time to regain its strength. The company could always regain its financial loss, but its credibility could never be regained.

Exogence- Urgent to inform, but not to react to. The column doesn’t have something to change but to mainly think about the possibilities of the companies future.
Ethos- The author doesn’t personally give examples of his credibility but The Economist is a highly credible magazine and source for information so the information is correct.
Pathos/Logos- The author draws our emotions to the deaths and reported instances that happened with the “sticky” acceleration pedal. The author also mentions the public cloud of speculation surrounding the company. Did they know before hand, and did they recall after a couple deaths or what did they know? Companies Credibility?… multiple possibilities of the countries future based on what happens in the next weeks/months.

The long march
The first steps to repeal a controversial discriminatory policy
Feb 4th 2010 | NEW YORK | From The Economist print edition

Barry Goldwater, a Republican politician, once said, “that to serve in the armed forces, you don’t have to be straight. You only have to shoot straight”. Barack Obama agrees. The “Dont ask, don’t tell” law has become a recent controversy in the United States and Obama is trying to end this military law after 17 years of existence. But of course as every debate, their are strong supporters for and against the ban. John McCain, agains the ban said, “that repealing it would undermine military “cohesion” and morale during a time of war”. On the other hand over 13,500 service members have been discharged under the current policy and are outraged. Other first world countries like Britain and Israel allow gays to serve in their militaries, why is it such a big issue to the United States military? The military and government are analyzing what affects the repealing of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” would actually have on military performance even-though the results would be pretty bias. This analysis will take approximately 11 months, putting it far out of reach of what time President Obama had hoped for. This law must be repealed for it forces men and woman to lie about who they are as people. A couple of powerful people in the U.S. government are in support for the repeal which is a good sign for supporters.

Exogence- Urgent, something must be done. This is a huge disappointment to gay community and justice must be done swiftly.
Ethos- The author doesn’t personally give examples of his credibility but The Economist is a highly credible magazine and source for information so the information is correct
Pathos/Logos- The author plays to the readers emotion, by not choosing a side but, by giving the facts and allowing logos to choose a side. He mentions of other nations that allow gays to serve, the ignorance of the law, the immediate discharge of knowing of homosexuality, etc.

Feb. 4th Economist: Space to Thrive

After reading the article, “Space to thrive : A plan to overhaul America’s space agency is long overdue”, in The Economist February magazine i have found specific deliberation and judgment regarding the United States space program. I’ll give a brief summery for those who aren’t familiar with the recent actions of NASA. Over the past two decades, getting humans to Mars has been a number one priority for NASA as well as expanding and doing research on the International Space Station. But getting to Mars is a huge task that will take years to develop a plan and do everything needed to make the trek to our rock neighbor. The International Space Station (ISS), construction starting 1998, has expanded over the past years and vital research has been done on it. NASA as well as other nation’s space programs hope to fully complete the ISS sometime in 2011. This programs success has been the greatest space achievement for man kind ever-since landing on the moon in the 1960’s. But NASA is in a stale mate with the United States government. In 2004, President G.W. Bush proposed a plan for NASA to return to Moon by 2020 to conduct more research of the Moon itself as well set up a base on the Moon that will be used in the future years to help make the journey to Mars. The only problem was, unfortunately, unclear how this “proposal” would be paid for and, as work began and costs spiralled, the plan seemed more fantasy than reality. Recently Nasa proposed a “Back-to-the Moon” program but it has fallen to the sever budget cuts proposed by President Obama and the government. But NASA came up with a alternative program that relies on it’s current budget, private funds, new ways of getting into space, and extending the life and use of the space station. If they can pull this plan off, then the plan for getting to Mars can hopefully begin again.

New ways of getting into space research includes: new orbiting fuel depots, in space docking technologies, systems that recycles resources, as well as better motors to get well beyond the earth. Extending the life of the ISS is also key in NASA’ future. The ISS is planned to be in service anywhere from 2015-2020. Extending the life will allow further development of living in space tech, inflatable “cheaper” extensions of the ISS so it can grow in need of demand, and the longer it is in service to better benefit it serves for space exploration. Funds of private firms is also a huge key to this puzzle. With private firms NASA can do things that it couldn’t be-able to accomplish with its current budget from the US. The last part of the plan is to develop more science. The Earth-observation weather program will receive some $2 billion to improve the forecasting of climate change and monitor the planet’s carbon cycle and its ice sheets.

In such a hard time because of the current world recession, a lot of people are looking in ward and trying to find solutions to solve the global crisis. Yes, money has to be conserved and spent where needed but we can not loose sight of the future and significance of space travel. NASA is the worlds most renown and most successful space program, and we cant let it die a slow and painful death when it once promised great hope for space travel and research. Getting to the Moon is not good enough, nearly 50 years later from landing on the Moon we havn’t even landed on another space body and its unacceptable. Without the “international” help of building the ISS, the US hasn’t really accomplished anything close to what it should have done by now.

Independence day: Rhetorical situation

The president of the United States gave a motivating speech in the movie Independence Day.  He gives his speech upon the brink of elimination of some super advanced, green laser beam, city destroying alien species that is about to take over the earth.  This is the end of humanity as we know it.  The date is July 4th and the president makes his speech right before the united states makes its final stand against its alien foes. The exigence of his speech is some what urgent, but  is relaxed and collected as he tries to fire up the troops. The speech was designed to prepare the troops for battle and is trying to give them a glimpse of hope in such dark times in our history.  The president announces that this is the biggest arial attack in earths history as well as the biggest enemy we have ever faced.  If they succeed then this day, July 4th, will not only be a national holiday but a world “Independence Day”. Even-thoughthe goal seems somewhat unachievable but yet the president still gives a moving speech to destroy and over throw the alien invasion.  

The audience is the U.S. military men and women currently located at area 51.  Even-though the future looks bleak, the audience believes that they can possibly do something to change their current situation. The United States military is the most powerful army in the world, if they cant do it then no one can destroy the aliens and the earth will be doomed.  Context-values of the troops is pride, brotherhood, glory, pursuit of intergalactic freedom, and uniting as one globally for one last battle.  This is a life or death situation and they must succeed or there will no more humans. 

Ethos:  The presidents makes this speech because he is one of the most important leaders of the world. He is very credible to give this speech  because he is the leader a a great nation and used to be a fighter pilot before his service as president. He knows what its like before battle when the odds are greatly not in your favor and how to handle his composer under massive stress.

Pathos:  This speech is packed with tons of appeals to emotion. The speech is designed to play with human emotion, to use emotion to overcome and destroy the aliens.  Without pathos this speech would be almost irrelevant. 

Logos:  Logos is severely lacking in this speech. There really isn’t a logical argument being made. On the doom of the world, only will nations come together as one and forget our differences to take down a much bigger and united foe.  But yet the United States will only unit with the world to obtain all the glory and only “American perseverance ” can destroy the aliens. It quite silly but oh well.  

 

Blitzer Rhetorical situation…

The situation of the fisherman described by Blizter requires limited utterance because it lacks the purpose of discourse.  The fisherman use signs and quick verbal phrases during the hunt for the fish, their form of communication is not formal and lacks conversation.  They must communicate in very fast, short increments in order to react to the position of the fishes movement.  The limited utterances are short because of the situation it self, if hunting wasn’t so intense and didn’t need to be quick and precise, then longer language could occur.  This type of language is primitive and functions along with activity and human behavior, in this case fishing. The situation itself: the paddling of the canoes, throwing of the nets, and the muttered words of the fisherman back and forth are put under constraint by the situation itself.  The observations as well as the physical and verbal actions among the fisherman dictate and control the length of the sound, therefor utterance is restricted by the rhetorical situation of the hunt.  A sentence, paragraph or novel for that matter wouldn’t be necessary to be in the fisherman’s rhetorical situation because the situation experienced by the fisherman is purely situational. The leader of the group would only speak in discourse out of this situation, the hunt, and in another where he might have to speak on behalf of the group or a war ceremony; but this situation there is no need for discourse, therefor restricted utterance occurs because of the situation activities.

 

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