Dual Digital Divide

The dual digital divide is going to create many problems for some people in the future. The divide is between users and non-users of the internet. There is a further divide called the "dual" divide, which is a divide of the non-users. This divide is the non-users that don't have the money for the internet, and the people who have no interest in the internet. The access people have to the internet isn't fair because the people who are better off are going to be more able to get the internet because they can afford it and poorer people don't have the money to get the internet. with the increase in the use of technology more people are going to need to use such things as the internet, and we need to find a way that people aren't going to be left behind in the world because they don't have the internet. I think somebody like the government should be giving people more access to such things. Maybe more access to libraries with free internet connection, or even free internet connection in your own home. This would really get rid of the divide because everybody would be able to have the internet and not worry about money. The major thing that is separating people is money, even in such small things as the internet. We need to do something before there are too many people left behind nit having or really knowing about the internet.

Reddick, Andrew (2000/12/04). The Dual Digital Divide: The Information Highway in Canada. Retrieved May 12, 2008, from DDn Articles Web site: http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=328.

Jamie Gundry

Diversity

I think that we can live in a diverse country. Here in Canada we do live in a pretty diverse place. We do practice diversity but it is also a theory t o some people. There are some people who are racists, but there are also the people who aren't. We have many different people living here in Canada and we are diverse but not everybody wants to be diverse. There are those people that just want to live with others like themselves but I don't think a country could not survive without the diversity. We wouldn't have all the different jobs and different religions or anything like that. If we didn't have a diverse country there might be more fighting with other countries because we wouldn't know much about them.

Jamie Gundry

Gas Prices.

The gas prices are something that is all over the news. Gas and food prices are really going up all over the world. In the first article I read about how the prices are going up and more people are shopping and spending more money. They talked a lot about the economy as a whole. The second article was better it talked about the actual prices of gas. The average cost of gas right now is above $1.20. The lowest is around $1.14. We are not only having problems in Canada but in the U.S. also. They find themselves at an all time high also. The prices for things are going up all around the world. The food prices in Africa are getting so high that they are afraid of a food shortage because nobody will be able afford the food. They need to lower these prices or we won't be able to go on. They are predicting the prices of gas to go up to more than $1.30 before the summer, I actually heard one day $1.50. If prices keep going up like this we wont be able to buy the gas anymore and where I live there is no other way to get places, but in the city everybody is going to have to take public transportation, or walk. They are going to have to lower the prices or I see things going down hill for all.

Overall the two articles really had the same message but not really the same information. The article from the world paper was more interested in the economy as a whole and what everything looked like. The article from CBC was really focused on the gas prices right now here in Canada and in the States. They only looked at the direct prices and nothing else. I would say the articles are very different in the way they wrote about the same topic of gas prices.
I got my information from CBC news http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/04/22/gasprices.html

and the World News http://article.wn.com/view/2008/05/01/Soaring_prices_for_food_gas_push_consumer_spending_higher_6/?section=RegionNAmerica&template=worldnews%2Findex.txt

Jamie gundry