Hannah Rucker

In my High School experience, I’ve learned many skills that aid in my development to prepare me for the real world. I had to write poetry, make my own blog, challenge my logic and problem solving capabilities, produce foreign language movies and even debate ethics and morals. So far I know three experiences in my high school career that I’m positive will help me in the real world. One of these experiences is the Intergraded Project, also known as IP. We have worked on this project since the beginning of the school year. IP requires us to do extensive research on a topic, make a screenplay to answer an essential question, and combine it all together by generating a forty-five minute production. All of the time, energy and hard work I, and my team, have put in this project can not compare to how much work I would put in for a simple graduation project. IP meets the qualifications for a graduation project, and goes beyond. For a standard graduation project you must include research, writing or some other form of demonstrating. For IP we have to make research charts, write a script, and produce a video, a stage production as well as a slide show. It’s silly how PJAS, a project for science students in the high school, can count as a graduation project for so many years, yet IP is banned. A corrupt system can not be tolerated, we need change, and it should start with the acceptance of IP as a form of a graduation project.

You can talk about global warming or about the energy crisis. You can talk about going to war, or talk to your kids about the dangers of smoking, but until you act – talk is cheap. Mother Teresa didn’t limit herself to talking about helping the sick and poor, she opened up shelters and started charities, she acted. Martin Luther not only made famous speeches about equality in America, but helped organizations start up in support of a better way of life. Of course great actions speak to all humankind, because once you act, the people have to face it. It is much harder to ignore a riot than to ignore a pamphlet. That is why great actions speak to all humankind, because whatever those actions are saying, we, the human race, have to face them.

One of America’s biggest issues today is the health issue. We seem to replace fast food and take-out for real meals, when in actuality, they couldn’t be worse for you. That’s why I would like to design the Kitchen Garden. It would grow fruits and vegetables in your kitchen, recreating a garden you may not be able to maintain outside your residency. The Kitchen Garden would be retractable, and able to fit in any housing complex. The Kitchen Garden would be made to support healthy eating habits. I want America to start changing the way they eat. They need to stop being lazy, and start caring about what they’re eating. The Kitchen Garden would supply Americans with nutritional fruits and vegetables they need to maintain healthy eating habits, ultimately giving them a better quality of life.

The kitchen garden would be made to depict the appearance and function that fits your personal style. It would be made out of the highest quality stainless steel, that could be coated with a variety of colors to match your kitchens decor. The Kitchen Garden would be retractable, and be implanted in the ceiling or cabinet space, and could be made to fit into any kind of kitchen. One could order the Kitchen Garden online, and have it delivered and installed free of charge. It would come with a years supply of seeds, and UV lamp, and an easy to set up watering system. The Kitchen Garden would be powered using the newest brand of solar panels. Most solar panels are only 14% efficient, but with new developments in technology, they would come standard with 85% efficiency guaranteed. Even in cloudy cities, with one sunny day it could save up enough energy to maintain plant life for a couple of weeks.

When choosing plant life in the Kitchen Garden you have a variety of options. You can select fruits, vegetables, or a mix of both. With all the options to choose from, you can have plentiful amounts of vegetation in your home during all the seasons. The Kitchen Garden will supply you with fruits and vegetables throughout the year. You just plant whatever seeds you would like, and wait for them to grow and produce fruit. The seeds the Kitchen Garden company would come with would not be altered or mutated to grow faster or to grow to a desirable look. Nothing would be artificial. The light we supply for the garden would mimic the same rays the Sun emits, letting the plants grow as if they were outside.

The Kitchen Garden would help promote healthy eating habits around the country, and hopefully around the world. With my affordable design, an ample amount of home owners will be able to experience, and enjoy, fresh fruits and vegetables inside their own home. I would like the Kitchen Garden to start the green revolution at home. With this new technology, we can truly bring healthy eating habits to a new level. It would help families raise their children with good eating habits, and teach them the importance of a balanced meal. The Kitchen Garden would provide a healthy snack through the seasons, as well as supply a family with basic vitamins and minerals they would need to stay healthy. With the Kitchen Garden being affordable, as well as practical, one can’t go wrong.

If America does not start to adopt new eating habits, the next generation of children are going to suffer. As a country, we need to take steps into not only saving the Earth, but saving ourselves. The Kitchen Garden is a great way to support and maintain healthy eating habits, even in inclement weather, that would otherwise make vegetation impossible. As a key player in the world, America needs to stop pushing McDonald’s and Wendy’s on third world countries, and start focusing more on helping their malnutrition problems. We, as a nation, should start the leap for a greener, healthier world. We need to move away from being gluttons, and start a revolution in the food industry. Otherwise, we’re all headed to low mortality rates and enlarged clothing.

The lawn chair is the best technological invention that benefits society. It perfects the art of leisure. It creates a new generation of relaxing furniture for your favorite sporting event or family gathering. It also creates a portable, comfy way to enjoy all your favorite activities. Whether you’re at a lake house, the beach, or your kids soccer game, you can cheaply enjoy your time spent by bringing your own lawn chair. The lawn chair not only supplies you with a new, portable advancement in leisure, but also a way to enjoy any location you’re presently in. A lawn chair provides society with leisure on the go. Although I can not pin-point a time that these chairs were introduced into our society, they have helped to ease stress and promote socialization in the past 20 years.

Leisure is what you choose to do with your free time. Whether you live close to a beach, lake, or park, you always have an option to spend your leisure time outdoors. Before the invention of a lawn chair people spending their weekends at beaches would have the hassle of sandy towels, shorts and drinks. The invention of the lawn chair promotes relaxation at the beach to it’s fullest. Later in the lawn chair time line there will be less worries about sandy shorts and drinks with the innovation of built-in cup holders. These comforts would imply the enjoyment of nature more than if nature was viewed in uncomfortable terms. In short, the lawn chair provides society with an easy way to enjoy nature without having the evidence stained on their clothing.

When portable lawn chairs first came out, they were designed as cheap lawn furniture for folks that didn’t have much money to spend on more fancy outdoor furnishings. Lawn chairs were later constructed to not just extend furniture into their lawns, but to bring furniture to other events like tailgating parties or enjoying the sunset at the end of a dock. Lawn chairs became completely portable, and easy to maintain as well. The old plastic ones would be known to sore the body, or become to hot under the summer sun. Cloth ones were later created to ease comfort and create a fabric that could be sturdy and easily washed. The portable lawn chair provided nature lovers a whole new prospective on Mother Earth. They could take this comfortable chair with them to any event. It was cheap, portable, and not a hassle to carry around. The invention of the lawn chair stimulated humans to enjoy their roots as natural beings.

They say you’re suppose to have ten minutes of sun everyday and if you’re sitting in your house and notice it’s a beautiful day outside, what would be the best way to enjoy it? Sure you could go for a walk, or a bike ride. But there’s nothing wrong with sitting under a big tree in a park, or your yard, and reading a good book. Even sitting outside listening to some music would be more productive then melting your brain with television. An easy solution to a rough week, could always be sitting in a lawn chair, enjoying your surroundings. It eliminates the excuse to not go out and enjoy the day. With the possession of the lawn chair, society has the opportunity to be enlightened by nature in their own backyard, or where ever their travel takes them.

Without the invention of the lawn chair, I feel humanity would spend less time out side enjoying themselves, and more time indoors, away from the beauty of nature. Lawn chairs make social gatherings at the beach, sports games and picnics more prominent in our culture. Nature wasn’t meant for enjoying uncomfortably. If you just want to get out of the house, enjoy a drink with your buddies at a tailgate, lawn chairs will always be available for you. And whether or not you agree, a lawn chair is also one of the more creative inspirations for flight technologies.