Sunday, September 28, 2008

FINAL VISUAL ADVOCACY PROJECT 2 PAGE ESSAY







For this visual advocacy project, I chose to talk about the true Natives of United States of America, which are the American Indians. I composed together a six-slide PowerPoint presentation in which I described how the American Indians are being threatened today because of oil, uranium and other needs of America.
In the PowerPoint I talked about how the Native Americans were the first to occupy the United States of America. It is said that the ancestors of Native Americans came from Siberia over the Bering land bridge to occupy lands over 40 to 50,000 years ago of years ago. Indians are the true first natives of America.
Today the Native Americans are being threatened to be taken away from their lands because of uranium and oil drillings. The ohuka tribes have lived in Alaska for thousands of years and have survived using traditional hunting and harvesting skills. Because George W. Bush has approved off shore drilling the ohukan’s are being threatened for their well being because the drilling will destroy many of the natural resources that the ohukan’s use to survive.
It is because of American Indians that we celebrate certain holidays like Thanksgiving. The food that we eat on this holiday is traditional American Indian food. Indians ate turkeys and made mashed potatoes to celebrate special occasions. 60% of the American diet is Indian food. If we destroy the lands that the Indians currently occupy for oil, we will take away a part of the Indian tradition that has been carried out for hundreds of years. So we need to say no to offshore drilling, because if u look at the long term picture is it worth destroying the natural habitat and killing thousands for animals for just oil. Aren’t there other resources that we can se like electric cars, so we can save the environment and save the Indians and their traditions, so their oncoming generations can see how traditional Indians lived and hunted.
There are many Indian communities that are being threatened, because of not just the American needs for oil, but also the American need for clear white toilet paper. Many manufactures of clear white toilet paper dump thousands of pounds of waste dioxin into the lakes of Indian communities, which they depend on for fish. Dioxin is essentially the dirty water that is left over after making the toilet paper clear white. Once the dioxin is in the water it gets into the fish, which the Indians eat. An excess of dioxin can lead to many diseases and ultimately death. There is a solution to saving these lakes, if we use black or brown toilet paper instead of white, there will be much less dioxin produced and less dioxin equals better health for everyone.
So in conclusion the reason I chose to talk about the Native Americans is that their lively hood is being threatened today for oil, uranium and many other unnecessary American needs. Their environment is being destroyed by putting dioxin into the lakes they fish in and by drilling for oil right beside where they reside today. So if we don’t do anything about this a great group of traditional communities will disappear forever.

For this visual advocacy project, I chose to talk about the true Natives of United States of America, which are the American Indians. I composed together a six-slide PowerPoint presentation in which I described how the American Indians are being threatened today because of oil, uranium and other needs of America.
In the PowerPoint I talked about how the Native Americans were the first to occupy the United States of America. It is said that the ancestors of Native Americans came from Siberia over the Bering land bridge to occupy lands over 40 to 50,000 years ago of years ago. Indians are the true first natives of America.
Today the Native Americans are being threatened to be taken away from their lands because of uranium and oil drillings. The ohuka tribes have lived in Alaska for thousands of years and have survived using traditional hunting and harvesting skills. Because George W. Bush has approved off shore drilling the ohukan’s are being threatened for their well being because the drilling will destroy many of the natural resources that the ohukan’s use to survive.
It is because of American Indians that we celebrate certain holidays like Thanksgiving. The food that we eat on this holiday is traditional American Indian food. Indians ate turkeys and made mashed potatoes to celebrate special occasions. 60% of the American diet is Indian food. If we destroy the lands that the Indians currently occupy for oil, we will take away a part of the Indian tradition that has been carried out for hundreds of years. So we need to say no to offshore drilling, because if u look at the long term picture is it worth destroying the natural habitat and killing thousands for animals for just oil. Aren’t there other resources that we can se like electric cars, so we can save the environment and save the Indians and their traditions, so their oncoming generations can see how traditional Indians lived and hunted.
There are many Indian communities that are being threatened, because of not just the American needs for oil, but also the American need for clear white toilet paper. Many manufactures of clear white toilet paper dump thousands of pounds of waste dioxin into the lakes of Indian communities, which they depend on for fish. Dioxin is essentially the dirty water that is left over after making the toilet paper clear white. Once the dioxin is in the water it gets into the fish, which the Indians eat. An excess of dioxin can lead to many diseases and ultimately death. There is a solution to saving these lakes, if we use black or brown toilet paper instead of white, there will be much less dioxin produced and less dioxin equals better health for everyone.
So in conclusion the reason I chose to talk about the Native Americans is that their lively hood is being threatened today for oil, uranium and many other unnecessary American needs. Their environment is being destroyed by putting dioxin into the lakes they fish in and by drilling for oil right beside where they reside today. So if we don’t do anything about this a great group of traditional communities will disappear forever.




Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Activity 2

I put on for my city, on on for my city (x4) When they see me off in traffic They say "Jeezy on some other stuff" Send them stuff Runnin straight
They say jazzy u a rated r
I come up in the club everybody
back to the dealership hatin
Me I'm in my spaceship, Thats right I work for Nasa This 7H is not a fraud, Call that thing my bodyguard Call that thing your bodyguard? Yeah, thats my bodyguard wear a lot of jewelry Young dont' do security what's whiter than a napkin, Harder than a dinner plate If you want it come and get it You know I stay super straight Ran up in my spots and now I'm workin Out the Super 8 Know you niggas hungry, Come and get a super plate Y'all sing happy birthday, Yeah I got that super cake Hundred karat bracelet, I use it like some super bait [Chorus:Young Jeezy] (x2) I put on for my city, on on for my city I put on for my city, on on for my city Put on (east side) Put
on
(south side) Put on (west side) Put on Half bag, top back, Ain't nothin but a young thug HKs, aK's, i need to join a gun club Big wheels, big straps, You know I like it super sized Passenger's a redbone,
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This is a song written by a very big artist. What I took away from this song is a guy who had been struggling his whole life to make something of himself. He always knew he was special different from everyone else. So he put his life story of coming up in the world into thing song, basically he says that he was brought up in the city lookin up at the buildings and he wondered how it would be like to look down on the world from above knowing that he had made it. So once his sold millions of records, he now looks back at the city he lived in saying “I put on for my city” basically meaning that Im here and I made it and im gonna put on a show that no one will ever forget.
The design that I chose was to basically mix everything up in the song and king of make a little fuzzy and unclear. I put the design referring to the artist life at the beginning the song if simple and easy and in the middle it gets rough and hard to understand and than at the end it becomes clear. This is just like the artist life, when the artist was young his life was simple and clear and as he grew up he started to see how tough and unclear the world is and how sometimes nothing makes sense. The ending of this design basically shows that things are still not easy but there much more clear and understandable at this point of the artist’s life.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Visual Advocacy

The topic that I have chosen to write about in this advocacy project is remembering the traditional customs and religious practices of American Indians. What I will do is put together a slide show with A 6-photo & caption series, 6 – 12 cell comic strip, 30-second Flash animation, 5-page Web site, 6-slide PowerPoint using a variety of different resources that are available. I believe that the customes and rituals of the american indians have been forgotten and need to be reintroduced into our society.
In this project I will display a variey of different customes that the indians had and that they still practice today. I will also show how the indians religious practices are being threatened today by our society. I feel that our society today has lost our touch with the american indians. It is because of the american indians that we celebrate Thanksgiving. It is the indians that introduced eating turkey on thanksgiving and celebrating the holiday. So In conclusion my Visual advocacy project will reintroduce the indian customes and religious practices. There are still many tribes today that are being threatened for their land, whiche they have occupied for hundreds of years. I believe that people need to realize what exactly is occuring on this earth, because of the United States drilling in alaska and searching for uranium and making massive wells to drill for uranium on indian soil that is threating there safety and the safety of the generatins of indians to come.