Dreaming

Melissa Prell
Sheila Allard
Written Communications
7-May-10

Dreaming

Dream Machine, you would think it would make your dreams come true. But that is not it; it is making the worlds dream come true, to be cleaner. Pepsi Cola and Kiosk Manufacturing have introduced the Dream Machine, which will help with recycling. The big blue and white machine looks like an ATM and will be placed in supermarkets, public parks, and gas stations. The Dream Machine is not going to just help the earth but also your pockets. Whenever you put something into the drop box you will have to push a few buttons and get a receipt and points will be calculated on the internet. Once you have earned so many points they can then be redeemed for prizes at the host venue or Greeenopolis.com. But it is not only good for you but also others. Pepsi Cola has agreed to donate funds from every bottle to the Entrepreneurship Boot camp for Veterans with Disabilities, a program that offers free training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post 9/11 veterans with disabilities.

According to Givmodo a gadget guide, “Pepsi hopes to increase their bottle return rate from the current 34% to 50% by 2018.” (VanHemert ) But I think it will take effect much faster. As soon as the machine gets out into the area, people are going to want to try it. I sure can’t wait to start using one. It is new, big and blue who wouldn’t want to try it out. With the economy going down and people losing their jobs people want to save money, college students can finally have a place for all the beer cans and get money for it. So I think it is going to start working well. Soon we will keep “millions of tons of plastic that will be kept out of landfills” as stated by Corporate Social Responsibility a green web site. (Rheannon)

According to Jeremy Cage, the chief of marketing is leading the company's Dream Machine initiative. Discussed how the partnership with WMI (Waste Management) will allow them to make a big mark on the nation by putting the kiosks into communities around the world. He also stated that “Sixty percent of households have access to curbside recycling, but only 12% of public spaces have recycling facilities, so when consumers are on the go, they end up tossing the bottles into the trash." (Rheannon) When I was reading this article I was amazed by that percentage. I do not think it takes that long to put something in a bin instead of out the window. When I was a child we always would collect all the cans and take them in for money and that would be our allowance. But I think kids are just getting lazier these days and don’t want to pick up their trash.

All together I think the Dream Machine is going to be a big hit. It is going to help our world and other people. Pepsi Cola has teamed up with “Waste Management, Keep America Beautiful, Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, and American Corporate Partners.” (Facebook) With all these companies working together I think it is going to work out great, new jobs and saving the world how much better can you get.

Go Green

After reading the Energy & Environment article in the New Your Times, I thought, about when I go home on weekends and, I always see trash laying on the side of the road or interstate. And I think to myself is it that hard to throw your garbage away when you get home. Some people say they don’t wasn’t to pay for the trash bags, but there are garbage’s all over. Wal-mart has no got smart and put garbage cans out in the parking lot so you don’t even have to walk that far to throw your McDonalds bag away. To me I think people are just getting lazy.
The article talks about a way to get children involved with going green. F. A. O. Schwarz has created a new toy called Peat the Penguin. The soy fibered plush toy teaches green lesson and “is an ardent supporter of recycling, reusing and reducing waste.” (Kaufman, para 4)

PepsiCo. Is also created the “dream machines” which will recycle kiosks. The machine is to increase the recycling rate of beverage containers by about 36 percent nationwide. According to Pepsi more than 200 billion beverage containers are produced in the United States each year, filled with PepsiCo products like Mountain Dew and Aquafina.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/energy-environment/22earth.html?hp

When I attended the Comedy at the Westerns Lunda Center I was filled with laughter by, Bernie McGrenahan’s. I am a big fan of comedy and was looking toward attending this show. I thought it was cool how he put his program together. Bernie didn’t just jump in and talk about drug abuse. He started out with some jokes. My favorite would have to be the toilet paper one. About how they always have the set covers and when you punch out the middle it rips in half. And when you lay all the little squares of paper down and one falls in they all follow after. In addition the joke about the Amish was good. He was on the Late Night show and talked about how the producer said he could not tell the joke. And Bernie said, “How would the Amish ever know.” It was so funny to me because I live in the area where there are a lot of Amish. After a few more jokes he started talking about how he abused alcohol and drugs. He talked about how he would tell jokes to the officers once they pulled him over. And the why he abused drugs in his life. He had to leave college and retune home to live with his parents and depended on going out and drinking. He lost his baseball scholarship and his future. When he moved home Bernie realized his little brother also had a drinking problem and tried to confront him. When he got sick of fighting with him he went to the bar and his little brother ended up shooting himself in the hart. He left his parents, sister and twin brother with no answers of why he did it. His twin brother has a disorder and Bernie loves taking him out. Every time they go out he always says, “you came you came,” unlike when he was drunk and didn’t care or show up.

Causes Effect

The internet is a global system that connects people to the world around us. The internet has helped and wrecked our lives in many ways.
Effect not spending time with family
Kids spend more time on facebook of myspace. Parents look at email all the time and not watching their parents. People get addicted to the games and gambling on line.
Effect getting information faster
If you are working on a paper or need a phone number you can look it up. There is an easy map access and you can look where you are going live.
Effect getting connected to people
You can stay in touch with family throw email. And find old friends talk to people in a different state or country.
Effect there is a lot of availability for children to get to bad sites
Children that don’t know better can get on and see things they should not. People can hake into your commuter and your child my start talking to them thinking nothing is wrong with it.

What will happen as a result of the internet getting bigger and more available

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/00/000216internet.html
this site talks about the disadvantages of the internet and how it has affected or lives in the world. It talks about how people do live in real life.

http://antipoetic.blogspot.com/2007/01/impact-of-internet-on-our-lives.html
Also this blog talks about the internet and how people in India don't even have it.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VDC-4R172S0-1&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6f3c7e3473fb39689b49dc264c967017
talks about the difference about males and females using the internet and who uses it more.

Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson, a speaker at the Ted conferences shard his outlook on how creativity is used in the school system. Creativity is exploring you mind and showing who you are. We express our creativeness in our life every day by what we were and the way we talk or act. But I think the school system needs to bring more classes into the curriculum dealing with the arts. If schools can put more classes in that deal with being healthy and more gym classes, then why can’t we have classes dealing with the arts? And I’m not just talking about just adding another drawing or music class. Why not add a photography class or drama class that is not just a club. The problem with clubs is time; kids in sports do not have the time to go to classes, practice, and then a club meeting, it is too much stress. But the problem with adding these classes comes with teachers and time in the day. Art classes are not required to graduate so a person who wants to get into a good college is not going to waste time sitting in a class they would like. They are going to try to cram as much knowledge into their brain with good grades to get accepted to a good school. So why don’t schools require at least one year of art classes.

MARCH

Well it is that time again, March. I love March for many reasons; it is my birthday, it gets warm, spring break, and my cousin is getting married. First my birthday, I am turning nineteen on the fourteenth. I don’t know what we are doing yet. I do know that I am going out with some friends to Applebee’s. I have never gone out to eat on my birthday and I’m excited. As for getting together with family that may not happen this year. My oldest brother Charlie lives in Chicago. And with all that is going one with school and getting things around for my cousins wedding it is going to be busy. In addition the bay before my birthday is the Royall youth wrestling meet. I love to go and get together with everyone and talking. As well I have many little cousins and friends with kids that wrestle and it is so much fun watching them. After my birthday is spring break, time to relax. I wish that would happen. We do not know what we are doing for table decorations or in the hall for the wedding. I am starting to freak out. There are so many things I would love to do but it would cost a way too much and we don’t have the time. Other than working on the wedding for spring break I am going to lie down and rest up, because I have been sick almost all semester and can’t get over it. I also don’t want to be sick for the wedding on the twenty-seventh. After spring break it will be back to classes. Once I am back for two weeks it will be wedding time. I am so nerves. We have rehearsal at three and then have to decorate the hall. I hope all goes well because I don’t want to be up all night. Other than my busy life there are twelve other birthdays in my family that are going on and we will be celebrating. So I am sorry if I’m cranky some days but that is how my life is with all this stress right now.

I wish

Three wishes. If I was granted three wishes to make the world better it would be hard to pick which three I would want to use.
My first wish is that all the pens, markers, and canyons that get thrown away at stores because they are missing a color or broke will be donated to the Boy’s and Girls Clubs. I work at the Hamilton Club and it is hard to color when half the markers don’t work because they get used so much, and we can’t afford new ones. Or a cap gets left of the marker; it is hard to make sure all the caps are on because you have to watch all the kids to. To accomplish this wish I would ask all the stores to donate the markers and canyons that they just throw away. I would also ask people to donate their old colors to the clubs. I would make a commercial that could be shown on TV to help prompt and tell the stores what I’m trying to do.
For my second wish I would like all high schools to have new computers that work faster. I attended a small high school with hand me down computers. When we where to go type a paper it would take us up to ten minutes to get on to the computer. I wish that the state will donate all their computers that are a year or two old to the schools. It is hard to work on a slow computer and get things done. And when education is very important I would think we could have faster computers. Children need to learn how to use them because everything is be transferred to computers.
For my last wish I would like to see every child have a coat and gloves to ware. Where I work I see kids without a jacket when it is freezing cold outside. It is too cold for them to be running around. It would help lower the amount of children being sick at schools. I would like the stores to donate the coats they don’t sell. Give yarn to nursing homes so the ladies could make gloves to give the children.