Sipping on death...

 Have you ever taken the time to pay attention to the taste, smell, and the look of the water that is coming out of you faucets in your house?? Ever noticed little white particles floating around in it? In some places the water even smell like flatulence.  Ever wondered where that come from? If so take a look at the left and below. That is the cause of most of the water being everything but drinkable. What you see in the pictures isn't the only source of contamination. Contamination comes from using to much fertilizer, pesticides, land fills chemicals seeping through the ground into our aquifers which supply our homes with drinking water and something called "first flush." First flush is the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm. During this phase, water pollution entering storm drains in areas with high proportions of impervious surfaces is typically more concentrated compared to the remainder of the storm. Consequently these high concentrations of urban runoff result in high levels of pollutants discharged from storm sewers to surface waters. Other methods of contamination comes from cracked underground storage containers such as gas tanks and septic tanks. So what can we do to avoid water pollution? What are some of the methods  of preventing water contamination?
Those are some simple question but yet it is so difficult to follow the solutions to water pollution. One way of preventing water pollution is for people to stop dropping their trash wherever they are for example, the places where you see the most trash is in grocery store parking lots, tailgating parking lots, etc... If this stuff isn't picked right after the next place it goes is into the storm water draining systems and this could be some reusable water if it weren't for the trash from these places.  Then we have to take a look at the lakes and water supply systems that this contaminated water is being dumped and whether we have potential food in these systems. How would you feel about sitting down to eat some fish that smells like feces? I'm everybody wouldn't really appreciate that! Or how would you feel about going swimming in a local lake, pond, river and just as you are about to take a dive you see your trash from yesterday floating atop the water? Not very good, right?

 I was watching "The Simpson Movie" and the part that stuck out to me was when Homer dumped the silo filled with "Spider Pigs" feces in the lake and it turned the whole into a toxic waste area. Yeah its funny but how much truth is in it? To me there is a lot of truth because instead of "pig crap" we are dumping human crap in our water systems. So again I ask, what must we do to prevent any further contamination of our water and clean it up?

These are my thoughts, my concerns, my life....

Troy Davis

48 years ago a man by the name of Martin Luther King gave a speech in front of Lincoln Memorial before a quarter million people. This speech was entitled "I Have A Dream..." When King spoke, he effectively defined the Civil Rights movement and the struggle for justice with these famous lines: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal'." The Civil Rights act was passed in 1964. Fast forward to 1989 when a man by the name of Troy Davis was arrested for killing a police officer in Savannah, GA in which witnesses testified that they saw Davis shoot the officer. Davis was sentenced to death in 1991. After 20 years of sitting in prison anticipating the day for his execution to come, another big murder case arose in 2008 where a mother killed her daughter. After 3 years of trial she was found not guilty and was charged with a misdemeanor for lying to a Law Enforcement agents. Is this a matter of racial injustice? Or is it just a matter of just being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Me...I feel like this is a matter of racial injustice! The fact that our justice system is willing to MURDER an innocent, well a man who wasn't proven guilty for a crime. In Georgia 22% of black people who murders a white person is sentenced to death but only 3% of whites who has killed a black person is sentenced to death, if this ain't inequality, injustice and straight up racism, somebody please tell me what racism, inequality, and injustice is! It is so irritating to hear people say that racism is dead and that we are all on an equal "playing field" because that is the farthest thing from the truth! These are my thoughts, my concerns, my life.

Education

So I am sitting here in class and it never cease to amaze me whenever I hear why some people are in college? I have heard some people say "I don't know why I am in college," I have also heard the famous "my parents made me come," I have heard "I heard the parties a great," and I just heard for the first time "I came for the financial aid!" What???? Is this what my taxes are going towards? What happened to the goal oriented students who know what they want out of life and knows what they want out of college? I have been in school for a while, but at least I can say why I am in college! I wonder if parents of these students came on a surprise visit would the find their child studying or partying? Would you (the reader)be proud to know that you are paying for your child to party? I work for a photography company and came across this one student who "graduated" from a prestigious medical school, but I dug a little deeper and found out that this young lady never attended a day of medical school. She took out loans and financial aid to only party and do whatever she wanted to do. Essentially she took money from some other person who desired to be in medical school and could have been in medical school if it wasn't for finances. I think there should be an interviewing process before a student receives financial aid just so that administrators will know where these students are before making thousands of dollars available to them to squander.