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.