Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Resource Management Project

This project involved looking at an issue and seeing what we could do to help change and or improve the outcome. I looked at the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and what could be done to improve its situation because it was at almost thought to be extinct. But there were signs found and the hunt was restarted. Basically, my solution was trying to get the word out about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and tell people to not destroy its habitat. In the end, I created a PSA, sent a letter to a Governor, wrote an abstract, and wrote a editorial to a newspaper about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.

Letter to the Governor
Abstract
Editorial

Drug's Short Story: Spider Pig

Here is a project that we did for Elika that involved looking at the sociological side of drugs and trying to answer: Why do we do what we do? This project involved researching a drug of our choice and doing an interview with three people. Furthermore, we did a research paper that looked deeper into the drug; mine was Vicodin and just see why people abuse drugs. Then with the interviews and essay research, we created a short story combining all the elements of the project. In doing this project I found out that more teenagers are using pills (7 out of 10 have tried prescription drugs) and that it is actually very cheap to purchase Vicodin and many people easily abuse it because its easily obtainable and cheap. Besides doing a short story, i also wrote a poem from my main characters perspective about whats happening with his life. You can read my short story and poem here:

Short Story About Vicodin
Poem