Monday

The movie was very interesting. You can really see the amount of resources that are being wasted. In showing the resources being wasted they also had other ways to of making the same items the resources did but weren't using the natural resources. Some examples is using hemp to make paper instead of trees. Hemp was something they used a lot of; with paper, clothes, and even the gas in the van. It was amazing that they biked the whole way and talked to schools to inform them about what they were seeing and what it is doing to the Earth. The way that they filmed the movie made it more interesting, because there was information but also funny stuff too. When they were being funny they were making it not like a documentary with just talking, instead you could see them throughout the whole journey and that it was real people and that they were making a difference in the world and trying to get others too. I would have liked to try something like this, but I don't have the time or money to. It would be interesting to think of what my friends and I would be doing if we were in a van like that. And the more people to do this the more information would be out and others would actually do something different and we would be able to help the Earth.

Name

Melanie is from the greek origin meaning black or dark.

My mom said she asked my dad what to name me between Melanie and some other name and he chose my name, because he didn't hear the other name that my mom had said. My dad says he heard both names and just picked one, so I'm not to sure. I think my mom pick Melanie for one of the choices to be named after my grandpa Melvin. She hasn't really told me if that was why it was in the choices.

I have many nicknames and some are far from my name. Most people call my Mel for short, but my sister calls me Malrie because she was had a few to drink and we were playing cards and she wrote my name wrong. My brother and friends called me Stella for a while, because we were watching "Deroit Rock City" and Stella means disco chick on that movie (even though I don't like most disco songs). A lot of people call me many different names when they first meet me, because they don't remember it; at work it took one of my managers two months to get my name right.

Resreaching & Paper

Resreaching

Resreaching for the paper can be done in different ways. At home I will be able to look up some articles and book codes, so once I get to there I can find them right away. Most of it was used on the computers which some of the looking up sreaches are confussing. It was hard to find the right information that I was looking for and I had to be careful that it wasn't just some other books that wasn't for resreaching. It would have been most likely easier if I already had exactly what my topic was going to be on; instead of just an idea. With my idea it made it difficult to find the right types of books. When I looked up art there was many books, but a lot weren't useful and it was hard to find the ones that fitted in with my topic ideas. But when I tried looking up a certain artist I was thinking about it wasn't useful, because there was only a couple a books and in the art look up there were some that would have worked to for the artist look up too, but wasn't on that list.

Paper

The paper should go fine. I don't have a complete topic yet, but I have only a couple ideas left and I'm going to chose the one that I can find more information on. With the draft due next week I'm not worried, because I'm going to work on the paper over the weekend and should finish my draft on Monday I would think. It shouldn't be that hard to do, most of it is siting and then I will just have to remember to document it correctly. Between my last choices of the topic it would be simular whatever one I choose. They deal with an art piece, a couple to chose from still, but it shouldn't be that hard to find information on them and I have my art history book to use too and they are in that book.