Universal Value Exchange

I was just thinking about English pet peeves.I taught English for awhile so I ran across many, but the biggest one goes back junior high.

My big pet English peeve is cuz. I can understand using it as a replacement for cousin. Hey, cuz, but I hate it when them people use it as a replacement for because.

I’ve felt this way since Grade 7 when I was sitting board in class and this girl was writing up notes. She was spending too much time doing the writing all beautiful but then I noticed that she was using cuz instead of because.

Beautiful writing cheapened by the use of cuz. Why go to all the effort of making something look good when you use cheap, lazy words? She didn’t like it when I told her that she was a cheap girl.

I do independent freelance content writing for internet marketers from time to time. The pay isn’t very good, but I don’t do it for the money as much as for the experience. It’s a great chance to learn more about a lot of different topics. Internet marketers are deeply in touch with the needs and desires of consumers and they know what products are selling.

I get some very interesting orders from time to time. I just completed a content pack of articles about tanning lotions. I never knew that there were so many great tanning lotion products. My latest article order is about decorative wall crosses. Who knows what the next topic will be?

This is a writing that is continued from Mars Literature vs Reality Part I that I wrote up.

This view of Mars is contrasted with what we know of Mars through recent exploration. We know that Mars does have a very hostile climate. We know that the atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide and is not breathable by humans. We have found no evidence of intelligent life on Mars. While we do know that Mars is a desolate planet devoid of life now, but what of Ray Bradbury’s talk of settling Mars?

It very well may be possible. With energy sources to heat up bubbled settlements and greenhouses to both grow food and convert carbon dioxide to oxygen through photosynthesis along with the location of a frozen water source, it might be very easy to establish a permanent colony on Mars.

Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles offered a glimpse into life on Mars as seen through his eyes, only time will tell if any of the view through his eyes is actual reality, but one thing is certain. His book inflamed the curiosity of a generation and led many a scientist to dream about Mars. These dreams about exploring Mars can be seen in our missions to Mars and in the findings of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.

Here is the first part of a paper I wrote comparing the Mars of literatures vs the Mars of reality. The public has long had an interest in the planet called Mars. Books have been written for years about Mars. These books talk about life on Mars, they talk a dying land where people are trying desperately trying to continue their civilization in the battle against the elements, they talk about the Martian people, and they even talk of war against Earth as seen in the HG Wells book, War of the Worlds. For life on Mars, no other book has affected our national conscience quite like the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

Ray Bradbury took a different view of Mars and Martians than had previously been written about. Ray Bradbury’s Martians were an advanced civilization that were on a dying planet. They were human like with telepathic abilities and human emotions. Mars was a desolate planet that was drying and the Martians were unable to develop themselves against the elements.

The Martian Chronicles tell about the Earth explorers and later colonists who moved to Mars and tried to set up a new life in much the same way that the American continent was settled. In the story, Mars had a breathable atmosphere and while dry and desolate, Earth settlers were able to have some success, maybe at the same time to the detriment of the aboriginal Martians.

To be continued

Please sure to read Mars Literature vs Reality Part II.