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Think about your very first-ever non-fiction book. Perhaps it was in elementary school - an informational book about frogs, probably 10 times more photographs than words. Think about how you may have felt - the awe of looking at something so real, something that felt like it was coming straight off the page. Now imagine that book without the pictures. Just a few words lie sparsely on the page. Not the same impact, right? Think about the first time you had to assemble something - maybe a Lego set or a piece of furniture. Most manuals have a few pictures to help you figure it out. And sometimes, you may have to refer to a YouTube video to figure it out. Would you have been equally as successful without the photos and videos that guided you? Imagine a phone without a camera roll. A TikTok without a feed. A scrapbook without photos.  Photos and videos are parts of our lives in so many ways. Imagining a world without photos seems so dreary and devoid of the vivid memories and emotions t...

Today, environmentally conscious behavior is becoming incorporated into consumerism culture. Everywhere we turn we see "The Best Vegan Diet!" or "Buy This Free Trade, Vegan, Sustainably Sourced, Dye Free Sweater - Only $899!" It has become a trend, a subgroup of "Woke" culture, an attempt to seem "with the times" and relevant.  Corporations have created eco-friendly seeming contributions, but continue to prove time and time again that they do not care about the actual issue of the climate crisis, rather, they are out to seem "good" to consumers. Starbucks released a new strawless lid to reduce its plastic usage, which included more plastic than the old lid and straw combined. This proves that Starbucks was not actually interested in the health and safety of this planet but rather in its skyrocketing sales.  Activism for the conservation movement reached its peak when I was in 7th grade, in 2019. Greta Thunberg and other young, relevant ...

Prompt 7: A Letter From the Future Today CNN announced that the bottom third of Florida has officially gone underwater. I guess I'm not in shock because they've been predicting this for the past few decades due to the rising global temperatures and sea levels. They are predicting that air will be unbreathable in the next 40 years. I suppose I'm more disappointed in the past generations that destroyed our environment past a point of no return, with no care for the generation that actually has to live through this. You burned fossil fuels in almost all of your daily activities leading to the destruction of the natural world. Despite the many warnings you received from experts about the harmful nature of your behaviors, you refused to change them. You continued to eat meat and drink milk despite being aware of its negative impacts on the environment. You simply brushed off these issues, labeling them as “later-issues.” Perhaps it’s because you had no care for those of us that ...