Saving Trash

I read a story on the Mother Jones website about a Hollywood cameraman, Dave Chameides, who is storing trash in his basement for a year. He started in January and sorts through his trash to see what can be reused, recycled or fed to worms. It's said that the average person disposes of 4.6 pounds of trash a day, but Chamdides thinks one can live happily with only disposing one pound a day. I think he makes a good point. I think we all dispose of so much garbage that we don't realize what it is doing to our planet. I think it would be hard to only dispose one pound of garbage a day, but I think its due able. I think people are just to lazy to try to make the planet better by recycling and reusing items, so they just throw everything away without thinking of its consequences.

How should we honor our fallen soldiers?

This week i read an article from Newsweek Magazine about how we should honor our fallen soldiers when bringing them back to the U.S. We send our soldiers home to a base called Dover, and then the soldiers are carried away in herses with very little recognition by anyone other than close family. Canadians are flown to Trenton air base, and are then driven 107 miles to the mortuary in Toronto. The highway traveled is known as the Highway of Heros and all other traffic is stopped by police, firemen and flashing lights as they wait for the fallen soldiers to pass. I think this is a very honorable thing to do to recognize the fallen soldiers, and I think the U.S. should do something like this to honor our fallen soldiers. I think we honor our soldiers respectively but I think what this author was trying to say was, we only hear about the fallen soldier but we never really honor what they did for us. Driving them on a highway not only shows respect but people actually get to see the fallen soldiers and hopefully realize how much they mean to us, to have died fighting for our country.

A Fighting Chance

I watched a News Video on The New York Times Website about a young Native American girl, Cheryl, who overcame many struggles to follow her dream of boxing. Her community was very poor and her parents were both imprisoned for selling drugs. In 2007 she did time in juvenile detention and alcohol rehab. Before she was sent off she found out she was 2 months pregnant. After she had her kid she decided to turn her life around and box. Cheryl's goal is to become a pro, and her coach, Remus, was glad to help and knew she had what it would take to go pro. Her inspiration to fight comes from her daughter, Brooklyn, and she hopes to continue fighting and train to fight at the pro level.

Phelps Smokes?

I read in Newsweek magazine that Micheal Phelps was caught smoking marijuana by a picture taken at a party. He promises he will never do it again and he knows his responsibilities as a role model but isn't that what he said 4 years ago when he was caught for drunk driving after the Olympics in Athens? I think Phelps is a good person he just made a wrong decision that he will have to live with and hopefully learn from it.