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.