Poem for the Less Fortunate

*For this Action Project in Voices that Work this time I had a Disagreement Project. I had to come up with and or think of something I disagree with in this world. As usual I think highly of the homeless because who else will and also I care for the less fortunate because I know that if hard times hit you also you will feel the pressure of being that "flesh ridden disease" within society as they feel on the daily bases. So what I did on my Disagreement Project was that I made a poem talking about the statistics and and outcome of the homeless people in the streets of Chicago, Illinois. Enjoy

Darrion Sutton
October 18, 2013
VOW

In this nation it's WE and it's THEM. WE as in the Western World, and THEM as third world

treating the homeless as if they were the Fake pearls of a necklace on wealthy women is the same as treating the Real diamonds on the wrist of a homeless man.

20% children, Mother Daughter, and Man and 80% adults homeless until they grow old

Now in the back of my mind I'm held hostage the government has done locked up and blocked up my chakra's so God sent his only begotten son in JOHNathan and what do we do, over look em tell em to go get a doctrine go find a job as a doctor and make it to the top and sin? I believe that your God is within listening to popular politicians in the media contradicting our oppositions upon the homelessness of adults, children and women.

643,067 we help none and we all expect to get into Heaven

Over 5,000 a night 

And we still choose not help our brethren 

And we still choose to buy new shoes the latest tunes and not realizing that the homeless can't even buy their own food

What type of world do we live in, its the type of world where teens get high and call it living

It's the type of world that nobody wants to make change for the person on the street who's asking for change. No need for explanation or for anybody to explain, I disagree with righteousness that nobody wants to shine a light on this the fact that 

Most of Chicagoans is part of the homelessness.

I want to change this...

Sources:

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.thechicagoalliance.org

http://www.chicagohomeless.org

The Resources Project

*In Design and Engineering we came up with ideas on how to save our resources. We did research on how many things we use a day, and how much natural resources we use a day and yearly. The resources people use on the daily bases are from tissue paper, to plastic bags. From Starbucks coffee cups, to take-out tupper ware. My partner and I chose to give a prime example on a resource people use everyday. We chose tissue paper. We chose this specific resource because people use it everyday and needs it for almost everything. Our project is a Tissue Paper Forest. We used just as much tissue paper on this project as somebody would in a months worth (1,440). Enjoy.

 

                                                  DS, (October 2013). Tissue Forest

The purpose of this project was to take an item that is used on an everyday basis, see how much is accumulated in trash, and put that item into a relatable and impacting visual representation to try to show people how much they're really wasting. Our desired outcome will be to influence people into wasting less out of this awareness. 

Within this unit I realized that I produced more trash every day than I'd ever thought. I learned that trash is accumulates and the small details in habit make a big difference in the long run. Seeing the flaws in these number systems allowed me to develop gratitude for our current number system. One of the things I was most proud of was coming up with a project idea with my partner; something that looks good and is presentable. 

Back to the project. The installation itself is made of cardboard tubes from used toilet paper rolls, scattered toilet paper sheets, and an entire roll in the center. We wanted every piece of material to represent something. For example, the cardboard tubes are cut into little trees, representing the forests that suffer from the production of toilet paper. There are 20 sheets of toilet paper under the forest to represent the average use of tissue paper the average person uses in a day, and there's a large roll of toilet paper in the center to represent a month's worth of tissue paper. By doing this, we hoped to show people that they may not realize how much they're using up by just looking at a compact roll of toilet paper (the roll in the center). When as little as a day's worth is all spread out (the sheets underneath the trees), it shows that to be much more paper waste than expected. 

This project took my partner and I at least two days to come up with. Hopefully it will impact the people it reaches to be more mindful of how much paper they really need when using the bathroom. This is important because in one year approximately two billion rolls of tissue paper are used world-wide. In one day, a person uses about 20 sheets of toilet paper , 4 people use 80 sheets, and 16 people use 320 sheets.

         The Wall Street Journal, (January 2010). The Paper Chase

Helping the Homeless

*In Humanities we have been working on Dreams that we have for the world. We worked on how we will change certain problems in the world and present them to everybody. Our dream speeches acquired statistics, opinions, examples, and our action plan to make our Dream come true. My Dream speech was about how I wanted to give the homeless a chance in life. I wanted to basically use some of the costs not used in the war(s) yearly given to homeless shelters and organizations. Even though "every piece of US monies have to be used in the war", I honestly believe that "statement" is false, and here's why. 

[Link Below] 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH48Wf7u9y4&sns=em

DS

October 7, 2013
VOW

            

Helping the Homeless

I Have A Dream

"Not to long ago I spoke with this man on the streets about how hard he has worked for his family and himself, but still somehow ended up homeless. He said he's been working for 14 years and still is to this day. But having to go home to a homeless shelter hurts him deeply because he knows that his house is still standing, but he also knows that forclosure can happen to anybody. I told him a little bit of my knowledge now. I told him that Affording houses affects 72% of cities poverty has an affect of 52% and the government does little to nothing but has sent over $3 Trillion dollars to war costs (Cost of War Blog Post. April 2013). Now that's the problem right there. Why does the US have to spend so much for frivolous wars that didn't even involve us? How many homeless people have you seen on the streets? Have you ever helped them out? Or did you just walk past them as if they were a flesh ridden disease?

  "Too many people nowadays think that bankruptcy, forclosure, or just being broke can't happen to them. According to (The United States Conference of Mayors. June 2008.) the three causes of homelessness is Poverty, Forclosure, and Unemployment. My plan is to create an organization so that the government can pass a bill that states that they have to give the leftover funds that was not used in the war to at least 25-40% of the homeless across the nation. 

Thank you for taking your time out of your day to read/listen to this Dream."

The Iverson Bicycle

-While brainstorming in Design & Engineering Matt, Meshach, and I came up with the idea of making a bicycle innovative for everybody.The purpose of this is to create a bicycle better and nice for everybody. The bicycle we came up with was The Iverson Bicycle. The Bicycle has a low rider motorcycle design/frame to it which gives it a speedy but cruiseable bicycle that gives a nice ride for all people who likes to get where they're going but in a fashionable way. 

-I'm proud that the bike project came out to a success and I like that the design is something nobody else has ever came up with.

-If I had to describe my project it would have to be the most creative and innovative form of a bicycle in this lifetime.

 

-This bike design was made specifically for somebody. Somebody who enjoys to cruise to where she is going and take in the environment. Her name is Christine and she goes to school not very far from her house. She wants a bike that she can ride smoothly to school and in a timely fashion. The design of the bicycle is in the form of a low rider motorcycle, which gives her that speedy "cruise control".

 

 -Now it takes Christine at least 20 minutes to get to school (Google Maps). Her average speed is 3/20 miles per minute (distance/time). Now the wheel diameter is 28 inches (on a average bike), and the circumference is 87.96 (pi x diameter). It will take Christine's bike 2,160.98 rotations per trip (coverted circumference into feet, and solved how many feet are in 3 miles).

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                                         Meshach Maldonado, (October 2013). The Iverson

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Meshach Maldonado, (October 2013). The Iverson