Going Green

Dustin Bowers

Now I will tell you about yelling at litterers. Well, I don't mean to yell at people who litter. I mean if you see someone who litters you have to say something to them but in polite way, you know. People who litter outside on Earth can really ruin the global environment. I really hate to see world filled with a papers and many other stuffs that people litter. I really want Earth to be pure and clean, and I want to stop the litterers. Now I will tell you my three reasons why.

Why should I yell at litterers because I think it is right to yell at litterers? I really don't mean to yell at people who litter, I mean yell at them in a polite way. For example, if you see a man throwing a paper on grass, you can walk up to that man and tell him to pick that paper up and throw it in the real trash not grass. It is better than yelling. Then you and the man get mad together instead. Same with you will not like seeing Earth with a dump thing on land. Now in the world more people do litter. I know that must stop right now or things on Earth will get worse if people continue littering. Victorian councils paid over $50 million for to sweeping on the streets, taxes go a little up because part of paying to cleaning on the street. It is lot of money cleaning the litter on ground. It will be sad if people continue littering.

How to stop people from littering? I want people to recycle more instead of throwing outside and being lazy. Recycling is an easy way to save the planet. You can just get like 3 big enough boxes; you can label the boxes paper, glass, aluminum and can have more to recycle. How to let people know to recycle? You can advertise about stopping littering and changing to recycling. You can speak for your rights to have no littering. One good thing about the law that was just created: if cops see you litter then they can fine you like $300. Some people did interview with some people who litter all the time. They said they don't care because they are just too lazy to recycle. Recycling isn't hard because you can just save papers, metal, glass, or aluminum then you just drive to a recycle place and put it away. Many people who care about recycling want litterers to stop being lazy to recycle, but people can't force people who are lazy to recycle.

Litterers really need to stop. I wish litter would never exist. People who care about recycling need to make a strong effort to make people stop littering and start working more on recycling things. I don't understand why people don't care about the world looking ugly with litter. I really don't want Earth to look so ugly in the future so people should stop littering right now. You people, please stop littering because it can really ruin the planet's global environment.

Hyronomous A. Frog

Hyronomous is bored and unhappy as a frog. He's larger than the other frogs and hates the taste of flies. One day, the good witch Gloria appears to tell him he was once a human prince and it was a spell that turned him into an amphibian. To break this croak-filled wizardry, Hyronomous must be kissed by a maiden. In a hysterical scene, he learns how to walk like a human and sets off for the castle of Spamelot. He sets his sights on the spoiled and petulant Princess Gladiola. Gladiola is engaged to the painfully pompous Sir Lancelot Pancelot and he, of course, despises the frog at first sight. As Gladiola and Lancelot plot ways to get rid of Hyronomous, our green hero tries desperately to act like a human being. His attempt to act like a person at the dinner table turns into a hilarious scene... infuriating the princess. Luckily, he finds a friend in Delphinium, the handmaiden, and Aunt Queen Bea, who try to save him from the slings and arrows of the outrageous Gladiola. Our beloved frog finally gets his kiss from the handmaiden Delphinium, bringing about an ending full of wit and charm.

MegaDEAF Conference

Deaf Schools Unite - Kentucky School for the Deaf hosted the first MegaDEAFConference Jr. on March 25, 2009. This was a project designed to give DEAF students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate, and contribute (in ASL) to each other's learning in real time, using videoconferencing technology.

Kylei's Synopsis of the day's event and her reflection on the day:

Mega Video Deaf Conference

By: Kylei Brooks

May 1, 2009

My speaker partners (Maribel Mata and Aaron Gillespie) and I went into the Allstate Conference Room with the video screen in front of us. We sat down and waited for the video conference to begin. At the same time my heart began to thump from slow to fast. Our school students and teachers came to watch too. We three looked at each other then back to the video screen. I was so nervous to speak, because I knew that the Kentucky School for the Deaf committee students and around 2,000 people, including deaf, hard of hearing, hearing, college students, Gallaudet students and deaf school students were sitting and watching in front of us. However, they enjoyed listening to our stories about the Kansas Sate School for the Deaf's background, history, culture and other stuff. We were not the only ones who talked about it, as we saw six other schools' comments about their school events and histories. I was thrilled to see some people that I know on the video. I watched them speak and knew they watched mine too. It was fun and we stayed there for a pretty long time from 11:30 to 2:30 in the afternoon. I would really like to host this event sometime, but we will have to prepare the technical equipment before doing this. Honestly, overall for me it was an excellent experience to be involved with this and made me more motivated to know more about people.