Ideas on practical proposal

[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6677654.html] Is an article that was interesting to me because of the many ways that gas prices always seem to be skyrocketing instead of decreasing. At times in a "recession" we need to be saving money and in order to that, we would have to have reasonable gas prices or we'd be stuck in debt because we would be spending more money on gas than we would be making. [http://www.houstonpress.com/2006-03-30/news/run-over-by-metro/] Is another article that caught my attention because I was not aware of the accidents that are caused by the Metro Buses. It opened my eyes to things that I didn't seem to hear about or have any knowledge about. The last two articles that caught my attention most were [http://www.thedailycougar.com/parking-situation-should-improve-1.1945136, http://www.thedailycougar.com/uh-deals-with-parking-1.1995223] because it has to deal with UH parking which is the most irritable issue that I deal with on a day to day basis.

Out of these stories my favorite is the ones dealing with UH parking because it is something that has been bugging me ever since the first day of school and I think that things need to be changed to make it better. It hasn't just been an issue that is recent, it is a issue that has been around for many years, but no change has ever been made to make parking better. I want to inform the people who are in charge of making decisions with parking and attempt to make a change. My research question would be: how could we improve parking at UH? Some things I could suggest to make parking better at UH is to limit the amount of parking permits that are being sold, make more parking lots or garages, and figuring out a way that students who pay for a parking permit are guaranteed a spot instead of having to camp out in the parking lots waiting like a hawk for someone to leave campus. I could interview students that go to the school that deal with the same parking issues that I deal with. They most definitely can help back me up on why we need to improve the parking at UH. I can look for information on The Daily Cougar, UH's main website and look for parking enforcement (or something along the lines of that). This can give me information that hopefully will help me support my thesis and ideas. Hopefully I can find a policy of some sort to try to understand if there is a reason that UH is limited to their parking or why they do what they do.

The other local issues that I was considering for my paper would be about cellular devices and how they have become addicting. Addicting to the point that we get distracted by them and it causes us to lose focus; whether in school or driving. It is dangerous to be on the cellular device while driving because it takes away attention that is needed for the road; this causes more accidents on the road. Driving is already dangerous without having to add other distractions and the thought of texting while driving is more prone to accidents. Cell phone usage has shot up the rates of accidents on the roads, and possibly a death if we don’t learn to take safety precautions. Also, in school students are distracted by the use of cell phones because they are paying attention more to texting than the actual class lecture that they are required to listen and learn. This is a somewhat big issue because there are so many issues that are dealing with cell phones as time goes by, and we need to learn when the appropriate time to use cell phones.