A View of Life in School

School is sometimes cool but sometimes not

Taking acid tests and stuff

But finding friends is still a joy

For me and you in school

School is not always good

Bullies and cliques and such

But if you're in need, a teacher will heed

And help you all the time

You deliver all your goods

And raring to the result

You're blood, sweat and tears

Will surely let you hope

School is not a sail through something

You sometimes sink or swim

But you learn to see things in different perspective

And understand the ways of life

You learn to never fear in the dark times

And have your heart in place

To try and explore all avenues

In succeeding in your life

You view your life in school

As a wonderful thing that happened

It may not be so perfect

But it helped me in all the ways

Ecology Song; Change

CHANGE

Ecology Song by Stills Stephens

Fortunes of time making up a rhyme
How do we save tomorrow
Given a voice can you make a choice
Is it black, is it grey, is it yellow

Mother Nature made it green
prettiest place you've ever seen
People don't know what they need

Open your window
what do you see
Do you remember
How it used to be

All of this crying, while the earth is dying
It's a shock they won't stop because of the money
America is lost, figurin' the cost
you can hang your head in shame
It's disgusting

Mother nature made it green
Prettiest place you've seen
People don't know what they need
Open your window
What do you see
Do you remember how it used to be

            The world, as we know it, is place where a lot of living things but it is mostly known as the habitat of humans. Moreover, it is where living things survive, reproduce and seek shelter or protection. The world was born billions of years ago. It was where the world was still full of beautiful and amazing things that now in the present are already gone, endangered or polluted. The world was once a place that now we could only imagine. The human civilization is too much for the world to carry.

            The song “Ecology Song” by Stills Stephens is a song about how the environment has changed for the bad. The line “How do we save tomorrow
, given a voice can you make a choice” is a line that truly shakes you up. It’s giving you a knock on your head to let you realize ‘Tomorrow’. It actually is a very good song that lets everyone open up their eyes and make the right choice. We choose the path of our lives based on how we could care for the Earth.

            The ‘change’ that happened to us was the time we started to abuse the abundance of natural things that were gifted to us. The line “Mother Nature made it green, Prettiest place you've seen, People don't know what they need, Open your window, What do you see, Do you remember how it used to be” lets us scan our surrounding; letting us realize and ask these questions ‘What would this place be if there weren’t buildings or malls or stores? What would it be like to feel the cold breeze against your face, or the kind sky that seems to brighten everyone’s day?’

            In conclusion, the song by Still Stephens is a song that really expresses the (what might be) feelings of the Earth towards the control and abuse of humans to the Earth. What I could say is that the world is our home so let us all try to protect, care, and conserve our home, Earth.

Pollution: Earth

        I really think this picture speaks a lot to me and to a lot of people. This is an example of how super-poor families would do if everybody would just throw garbage not just in bodies of water but also in other places. Everybody thinks that a piece of candy wrapper is a very small thing compared to whats in the picture, but if everybody in the world would each throw a piece of candy, how many would that be? A million? Billion? What if we all throw a plastic bag full of candy, each of us. That's just too much. Does the people even think about these families, the ones who can't buy a single thing, they just swim in the water to find some recyclable things that can be sell for food. I know everybody knows that, we just don't care because all we care about is ourselves.

Child in Polluted Water
Is that what you want?

             I really pity the child in this picture, seeing as he has half of his face submerged in the dirty, polluted water. I don't want to ever be in his position and I know that even you don't want to be in his position too. So, for the sake of everyone and of the Earth, we really should practice recycling and throwing garbage's properly. I know that all of you are so bored to hear that statement again and again and again, but is there any improvement? Go ask yourself that. Did I improve my cleanliness habit after hearing the words recycle and throw your garbage's properly?

           "Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans" by Evo Morales. This saying really lets you think about what the planet would be without us humans, it makes me covered in fear. In my imagination, the Earth would full of peace. A good thing or a bad thing?

        “One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.” by Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls. This saying is also a hit on the gut. Truthfully, I am also not a lets say "earth lover" but not a hater.

           Even though, the picture really just makes me want to change all the times I threw my garbage's improperly. I just wanna say that please be disciplined enough to understand the environment.