My three op-ed articles.

http://http//blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/03/column-notsosleepless-in-seattle-or-anywhere-else-.html?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+News-Opinion+%28News+-+Opinion%29

Not-so-sleepless in Seattle-or anything else
This article was quite interesting to read about because the media is saying that a average person gets about six to seven hours of sleep per night, when in reality it comes to around seven to even more than eight hours of sleep per night. However, it does not always matter about the quantity of sleep, what matters is the quality of sleep people get per night. Many factors can contribute to the quality of sleep, but if a specific individual receives enough hours, then they are more likely to function well throughout their day. I would agree on this because I have ranged from only getting six to about nine hours of sleep and everyday is different to me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/23/calorie-count-disclosure_n_509964.html

Calorie Count Disclosure And The Health Care Bill: Will This Lead To A Food Revolution?
Every now and then people crave the salty and delicious taste of fast food, who doesn't? I know I do! A new law that was being put into the health care bill is that restaurant's, with more then twenty locations, must have the nutrition information on the wrapping or the package of the food. This provides for the consumer what exactly their putting into their bodies. Many people believe that this will help people understand what they are eating and hopefully make better choices in the future. I believe this is a good idea because when I get a burger from Wendy's or a taco from Taco Bell, I am always curious into how many calories there are, and also how many grams of fat. I am a curious person, so it will be interesting to see.

http://http//blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/04/look_beyond_the.html

Look beyond the fat
As I was reading this article, I was thinking a lot about myself and the ways I would go to not become overweight. But then again it is not all about the fat! Unfortunately, America is extremely overweight, and it had said that around six million people are about one hundred pounds overweight. These numbers are too high and it is scary to think about what is going to happen in the future, if the numbers do increase! However there are many contributors to the obesity rate. This can include the fast food industries, Internet and how now a days people can do anything from the comfort of their home and computer. Not all Americans are lazy though! There are a lot of emotional, psychological, and genetic factors the contribute to people's obesity. I just know how to make the right decisions for myself and everyone is different from each other.

Reseach Paper Sources

http://www.greenroofs.org/index.php/about-green-roofs/2577-aboutgrnroofs

As I was reading this website, it really did not give me any information on what I needed to know: green roofs. This website was more based on the benefits of green roofing and all the different types someone could consider, if wanting to get a green roof. It did, however, give good detail on how there very beneficial to the environment.

http://igra-world.com/typesofgreenroofs

With this website, all it did was give a brief sentence or two on the different types of green roofs and what they are more suitable for. This website was not useful at all about what exactly green roofing is.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=33132143&site=ehost-live

This article was definitely more useful then other ones I have read. It gives good information on where green roofs have been used, and they re all over the world. Great facts that are useful to writing the personal academic essay.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=25453678&site=ehost-live

With all the other sources I have, this article gives me great information, not only about green roofs, but what major cities have done to help out the environment. It has helped me out with how I am going to write the paper and what I think about green roofs.

http://www.roofgreening.ca/content/Improved-Final.pdf

As I was high lighting this article, it did give me information about green roofs then other ones have, but the language was more technical. It gave me quite a few of graphs that had information I had no idea what they were talking about. Other then that it was okay for the most part.

Research Paper Topic

Sustainability is the general idea for our next writing assignment. Unfortunately I do not have a full understanding of what the word means, but I have a general idea. So for the topic I am going to write about is one of two things. Either green roofs and how they are effective and offer significant long-term economical and environmental advantages. Then I also came across human health and seemed pretty interested in reading about. It talks about the way the economy had developed over the years and how is it effecting human life. Whether it is air pollution to poverty, and also the expanding population. Both ideas seem to be good idea toward sustainability and is also quite interesting to want to write about.