A Fundraiser: Not Your Average Cost For A Pearl Necklace

Taylor Holt,

My picture for the Heal the Bay website, is just a display of a pearl necklace that will be fundraised to the city’s governor of Los Angeles and everyone in the city can be invited as well. The pearl necklace is worth $36.3 million and that is how much I am expecting the governors to give. Also, if anyone in Los Angeles wants to help donate, that’ll be pleasing. My purpose for this fundraise is to help stop the waste in the waters for the Los Angeles beaches. For many decades, there has been a high pollution rate in the waters and trash is found many miles outward in the beaches. It’s been affecting the waters, the sea creatures, and our health, which is why I want to become an active citizen of Los Angeles to resolve this problem, properly. Also, I’ve been appalled to know that some of the wealthy and the rich people in Los Angeles will rather spend great sums of money for something to sit on their neck, rather than worry about their own health. They should be willing to help donate those largely written checks to a more effective and positive event. Therefore, I should be lucky getting someone to give up $36.3M for this lovely necklace. The message for this art display is, “Can you afford your health?"

 It’s for persuasion, to show the dirtiness of the L.A.’s beaches. I gave the necklace a display, because I wanted to be like many jewelry stores, who hang their necklaces on certain stands and make it look fancy, since someone will be paying $36.3M. Now, the displayed pieces are burnt wood that I thought was unique, a block of chipped wood, and cigarette butts, which all came from Dockweiler beach. I picked up these pieces when I went to help the Heal the Bay committee to inform everyone in Los Angeles that their personal trash is eroded, or more so, donated to the beach. Also, the pink and white bracelet to the side, is just some beads and a piece of string that I bought from the store, to make my display pretty. Those are my inspiring pieces of materials that can be found on the beaches as well.

I give Heal the Bay my art project to have everyone examine their contribution to the waste in our waters. Leila Monroe wrote in her article, California Communities Spend Nearly $500M Annually in Keeping Trash Out Of Waterways, that the Los Angeles beach yearly [spends] “$36.3 million per year to keep waste out of the water”. This is why I chose the price for my necklace and that amount will make a statement to everyone who looks at the website. Can you afford your health or will you make a difference in your sea?

As I mention earlier, how majority wealthy and the rich people puts their money towards buying million dollar jewelry and/or thousand dollar clothes. But for those who aren’t rich and who have little or none health insurance, should consider their ways on how they affect not only the waters, but the environment in every aspect. Your environment can kill you.

Foreign Contaminant

Maggie Arias

101-06

Professor Garett

12/3/13

       For this art project I decided to make the robot Mo from Wall-E, whose purpose is to clean. Since Wall-E is from earth he is covered in “foreign contaminant” and Mo tries to clean it off, but he can’t. Throughout the whole movie he chases Wall-E and it seems that he will never get all of the “foreign contaminant” off of him. The connection between this and me is that I felt just like Mo did when cleaning up the beach, especially when it came to Styrofoam. At one point when I was cleaning there was a giant pile of it that no matter how hard I tried it seemed like I would never finish and eventually had to give up because it was just too much. This is the reason he is mainly made up of Styrofoam, which to me is the equivalent to his “foreign contaminant” situation. Styrofoam never breaks down, ever. That means it is just continuing to pile up and we are doing nothing about it. This situation needs to be brought to the attention of people because it isn’t going to get solved on its own. 

The Dying Fish

            

            

Erika Martinez

professor: Garret

English 101

12/4/13

            The Dying Fish 

 I learned many things by participating in this beach clean up. One of them being that we were giving such gorgeous places to visit with family and friends and we're destroying these places. Along with destroying our beaches we're damaging the sea animals habitat. We're killing many innocent sea animals because we're too lazy to walk to a trash can and dispose our garbage properly.

            The overall message of my project it too say that due to many people in the world that loiter our poor sea animals ingest all of this garbage that ends up in their home and harms them. So please stop loitering and think of all the beautiful animals that might get harmed due to all of our actions. One thing we could do is to start to recycle. That way bottles and cans don't end up in the ocean. We won't only be making our beaches look cleaner, but also our communities. Many people also eat seafood, so if the sea animals are eating garbage and we are eating them we're pretty much eating that garbage too. Which is not just bad for the animals but also for us. Loitering not only harms the animals but also us.

Let's enjoy the beach with trash?

Lizette Hernandez
English 101
Prof. Laura Garrett
December 4^th, 2013

The purpose of my artwork is to let everyone see a preview of the beaches in California. I ask my audience; “Let’s enjoy the beach with trash?” This question is asked to make people realize how much trash the beaches have. Everyone goes out to the beaches to enjoy time with themselves, family, and friends. Never the less, people don’t take notice of the surroundings.  

My artwork lets everyone know how much trash one part of the beach has. The beaches in California are a thousand times bigger and have more trash than what my replica has. The trash on my project is from one section of Dockweiler State Beach that I collected with Heal the Bay. My art project contains cigarette buds, water bottles, bags of chips, plastic utensils, foam, paper, bottle caps, and everything else you can think of. Imagine, this is just one section of Dockweiler State Beach; how much more does this and other beaches have?

All the trash that is thrown in the streets gets flushed down the sewer and lands by the ocean. The animals get sick or die because they do not realize what they are eating is junk coming from the sewer. These animals do not deserve to live in a place that is filled with pollution. That is why I want to bring awareness and have everyone that visits the beaches take a bag with them and pick up trash before leaving. 

Plastic Poisoning

Bryan Amador

English 101

Professor Garrett

November 26, 2013

The art project I created is a representation of a dead fish in the ocean. I used a plastic bottle I found to create the body of the fish. The trash inside the body represents the fish’s diet. Fish often confuse washed up garbage to be food. The fish eat the trash thinking its food but they cannot digest it. Plastics like the ones used in my picture are small enough to be eaten by fish. However eating plastic is a real problem for fish and often leads to their death. There is too much trash that is finding its way into the habitats of fish. We need to become more aware of what the tiniest piece of trash can cause. A small fragment of plastic may not be able to harm us but it can cause death to smaller creatures like fish. We need influence each other on the idea that trash fragments like plastic need to be properly disposed of. Every time we dispose of trash incorrectly; it could be the cause of death for a fish.

Rest In Peace

Hello world! I constructed my art with the trash I found in Dockweiler Beach. My art portrays a skeleton of a sea turtle inside a prohibition symbol. The skeleton is made out of discarded fireworks about two inches long. The shell is two deflated balloons and candy rappers that can get easily get entangled with the sea turtle causing it to die. The prohibition symbol is made out of dirty rags, a plastic tube and a diagonal red string running from top left to bottom right. The prohibition symbol represents that sea turtles are evicted from their habitats because of coastal development. My sea turtle is buried on top of cement rather than a proper burial ground. Cement is the new urban ground that replace wildlife. Hopefully, the world soon realizes the destruction we cause to the environment daily! Step up and change the world by disposing your trash properly!

Beach Soccer

Jacinto Moreno
English 101

           My artwork that is based on the trash that I collected from the beach clean-up resembles my life. I decided to do my art project based on a soccer ball because soccer is my passion and is something I play on my free time. As I was walking along the water at Dockweiler beach, I noticed that a lot of people come to the beach to smoke and throw the remaining part of a cigarette on the sand. I also notice many burnt cigarettes were coming out from the sea because the remaining of the cigarettes is flushed into the beach by sewers, or drains. The majority of trash in the beach was burnt cigarettes and bottle caps.  I also notice that even though there are many trash cans locate along the sidewalks, many people yet decide to not pick after themselves. They decide that it is better to litter or leave there trash where they were sitting along the sand, that is including the left over cigarettes. There are many smokers’ receptacle, safe disposal of cigarettes butts, located nearly everywhere in the beach, yet I also notice people decide to throw them away along the beach sand.

The message I am trying to put out there for people to understand based on my art project which is do not litter. There are many ways littering can get into our beaches, but if people would take control of where they throw their trash away, we would not have a big issue of our sea animals dying because of human’s mistakes not picking up after themselves. The left over cigarettes left at the beach are a threat to the wildlife.  As I stated, burnt cigarettes are flushed into the beach by sewers, or drains, so many fishes, birds, whales and other sea animals could mistake the cigarettes butts as food and will harm them making them ill or kill them. I think educating people on the choices that they make is one of the most effective ways to change behavior.

Community Engagement and Art Project

Olga Murillo

English 101

Prof. Laura Garrett

December 4^th, 2013 

           My artwork is irony and sarcasm. It’s supposed to mimic a billboard saying, “Aren’t the Beaches Beautiful in California?” and right below this question I have an ocean made of trash.  This is what our oceans will end up looking like if we don’t do something about it now.  All the trash on my art project is from Dockweiler State Beach from Heal the Bay. On the very bottom of all the trash I put the sand and small trash but I wanted to make certain trash stand out so, I put the little girls sandal in the middle and plastics on the corners of the board.

            My billboard is supposed to come off being sarcastic and I want it to bring awareness to the horrible reality of the pollution in our oceans today.  My audience should react when they see my billboard, encouraging them to get up, clean up and stop polluting.  This is just as far as the eye can see; just imagine what is at the bottom of our oceans.  All these innocent animals getting sick and dying from the trash we put in these oceans. Everything we put on the ground outside ends up in a gutter and then ends up in our oceans.  Once everyone starts working together on solving this issue we will begin to see improvement in our oceans.  Everyone who uses these materials on my billboard is my audience.