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        Beautiful silky smooth locks of hair sway in the fall breeze. Those perfectly sculpted curves can make any women jealous with an envious force. She is the reason women work so hard to gain that perfect beach body. The way her worn out baby blue sky metallic clothing hugs her perky breast and toned legs can make most men skip a heartbeat. Her beauty and style influence’s people to become artificial. The way her ocean blue eyes look into your soul may scare you at first, but soon you will see how they can charm you. As I walk pass by her I can smell her brand new car smell that you get when you open something new. That smell that can sneak a little smile on your face and bring back good memories. When she walks all you can hear is giggles and the click clack of her hot pink heals. She has the power to slap a smile on any girls face when they meet her for the first time. However, boys seem to shy away from her and care more about their fancy sports cars. For the perfect women’s destiny is to one day be left alone to rule a landfill and to destroy society and the environment. The queen of plastic beach is here.

Response to Garbology Ch. 6

   In chapter 6 of Garbology Humes goes into more detail on how our use of plastic is truly effecting not only our land but our oceans as well. It's no secret that our oceans are trash free, but did you know how the plastic is harming sea life that we later consume? the question that Humes has us ask our selves in this chapter is if we really know what we are eating when it comes to seafood. What I found interesting was how you can see all the plastic inside a jelly fish's body that consumed tiny pieces of plastic. It made me wonder about the fish that don't have transparent bodies as jelly fish do. "Plastic can take chemicals from the water, but then little fish eat that plastic, and a chain reaction called bio-magnification begins"(132). What also caught my attention was how 100 years ago there was no plastic in our oceans at all. But now it seems we use plastic for everything and we are throwing tons of it away daily so some of that plastic is bound to end up in the ocean. If you think about it plastic isn't very healthy to begin with. Its all made up of chemicals but yet we store our food in it and drink from it. We should really consider switching to glass.

Response to articles about trash in our oceans

After reading an article on Inhabitat.com about the how garbage effects our ocean I felt like never eating fish again. I had no idea that fish eat the plastic that gets thrown into the ocean and that this plastic contain chemicals we later consume after eating the toxic fish. This really got me thinking about why seafood is high in mercury. Because most likely the sea life have mercury inside them is because of the trash they eat. Surely fish do not contain mercury naturally.
However after reading the article about a 19 year old that developed a way to clean-up the oceans I felt a lot better. Its really amazing to see how this 19 year old put his time and hard work in developing a system that pulls plastic out of our oceans. In a way I felt inspired knowing that a 19 year old like me can make a difference in this world. Sure I'm not a genius that can develop ways to clean the oceans, but I can use my passion for acting and film to spread awareness about what plastic particles are doing to our fish and how it puts our health at risk.

Garbology by Edward Humes Ch.5 review

Do any of you own an acne wash or cleanser with those tiny colorful beads inside? Because I do, and I was never really sure what they were. I knew what they did to my face, but I did not know what it does to our earth. Humes branches out to the issue of how garbage is affecting our ocean in this chapter. The ocean is in a way a lot like our trash cans. Once trash goes inside them, the trash seems to "magically" disappear (as we like to say in class). But the reality is that it doesn't disappear; in fact it will reappear somewhere else. Like in the shores of our beaches. Have you been to Santa Monica beach lately? There's trash all over the shore there. From chip bags to baby dippers, I have seen it all in Santa Monica beach.
 Humes discussed how plastic is one of the main objects that pollute our oceans. like the little tiny beads in our face wash. I was unaware that what I scrub my face with was indeed plastic beads. I always thought that those beads were made of an acne medicine or something, and that they would eventually dissolve. But in fact, these tiny beads are what pollute or oceans the most. You see we use these beads to melt them down into new plastic products like toothbrushes or Barbie dolls. And we have these beads shipped all over the place to make our products, so of course millions of those beads are surly to fall into our oceans for marine life to consume by mistake.
What shocked me the most was how those plastic beads contain plastic particles that can be toxic. So when fish eat these particles, we eat the fish, then we contain the plastic particles. This reminds me of Justine Parkin's video about garbage and how women's breast milk contains the most toxins. And after reading this chapter, it's no wonder why. we have to reduce our use of plastic, it's a must. We can come up with better ways to make our products.

Responce to Garbage video and article

 So maybe we really need to stop shopping so much. I was so focused on the garbage overflow situation that I completely forgot about issues that are caused by creating the things we buy that later contributes to garbage. What I related to a lot in the Video, is how factors make things to last for a little while. I have gone threw so many IPods and cells phones because they just stopped working and didn't last so I would go buy a new one. Society needs to step up and do something about all the damage we are doing to our world. We need to stop listening to "the Golden arrow" we follow so much. the arrow that brain washes us to spend on things we don't need to simply fit in. Because the reality is that if we stop spending so much, we can stop destroying our forest and oceans. In order to create all our goods we have to destroy our land to make it. And we only have one world, we cant afford to kill it. We have to work together to put an end to our world wide epidemics.

Garbology by Edward Humes ch. 4 review

 Finally after reading chapter 4 of Garbology, Humes discuses at least one solution for the garbage crisis. He begins by bringing up David Steiner "CEO of the world's largest trash company"(83). And this man is all about the money, but what was interesting to me is how he said that land fills are the solution. Then I thought "how can they be the solution? don't we want to put an end to them?" however Humes mentioned how long ago in the 70's they wanted to solve the crisis using landfills as well. By using the trash from the landfills to make new materials thus making money as well. But they didn't end up going threw with the idea because they didn't know how it would play out. "landfilling was comparatively cheap and easy, while switching to the close-the-loop system the EPA recommended so long ago would be risky and difficult, and involve unkown conversion costs"(86). Of course we would use the easy way than make a difference. Now this whole idea really got me thinking how its not to late for our world, because in reality not many of us can agree that a solution would be to buy less. America is addicted to shopping. So the next solution can be (as Humes mentions) To use the trash as fuel for cars, or energy to power cities, and yes even renewing old materials. We have the technology and scientist today to figure this out.

University crisis

The third week of a new school is finally over. And I still find myself adjusting to the University. It's been a little tough, but I have already made up my mind that I will be a Cal State University Northridge graduate. I declare my commitment to the work assigned to be, and I declare to face whatever obsticals come my way that keep me from crossing that stage. Even that math 93 test that I scored a 7% out of 100%. I will not ignore my struggles, I will face them before they shatter my goal of majoring in film. The very thought of letting my disadvantages getting the best of not only me, but my life, sickens me. I know I often tell my self "why am I taking math? I want to be an actor" or "this class is a waste of my time, I thought college was about studying what I want a career in"? But now I know that in order to get to that point, I must pass all the general education classes. Its not going to be easy, but I paying for this education and I'm going to make the best of it. I control my future; Besides, pain is only temporary.