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- Twenty years old, ambitious, and ready to save this astounding planet. My name is Jonisha M. Tyler and I love my homeland. When I wake every morning I ask myself, "what is most important for today?" I always have a myriad of answers, but the one that hits the hardest is what I can do to make myself and my world better. I care for my planet as well as myself. So what can I do to make myself happy and make Mother Earth look good? I know!!! I should get a Hybrid!! You need money to buy something as amazing as that. Did you know that there is a really good chance that the government will issue tax credits to those who push a Hybrid car around this amazing planet? I think I need to start visiting some dealerships. Look good and save your planet while doing it, that’s what I always say. Going green just got a little bit classier.
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- Decreasing the chance of a Global Crisis by now driving a Hybrid Vehicle
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Neatness in a Hybrid
Once upon a time cleanliness was next to godliness, complete sentences were a virtue, and “please” and “thank you” existed in everyone’s vocabulary. These past few generations have not been lucky enough to inherit these astounding attributes. Nothing beautiful can blossom in a world that tolerates violence and shabbiness but violence and shabbiness. Our society faces a decline of neatness every hour on the hour. Even when Dr. Norman Cousins wrote his infamous article “The Decline of Neatness” nearly twenty years ago these terrible manners were roaming free in America. Everyone, young and old, was suffering from the “sloppiness virus” and spreading it all over the place. This is news to everyone; the virus has reached its peak. (Cousins 78)
Imagine if you were new to the United States. You just became an American citizen but are oblivious to the culture. You decide to make your home in the most powerful city in the world, Washington, D.C. What better place to go? You arrive but you haven’t an idea what to expect. Perhaps men would be in suits and ties and women in dresses and pearls? Everyone is clean, prime, and proper. What a wonderful life that must be? You get there and you notice that D.C. is nothing like the pictures. Of course there are the exceptions but you are baffled by the sight and sounds of saggy dirty jeans, too small t-shirts, obscene language, and tattoos showing in places where the sun shouldn’t be shining. You realize that “disheveled is fashion; neatness is obsolete”. (Cousins 78) Welcome to America!
The disease is everywhere and in everyone. Some just know that there is luxury in hiding it. It has even wriggled itself into children. Metro is a haven for the kids that travel back and forth to school everyday. Just hop on a little after four and be prepared for a disturbing reality check. Most suggest that if your ears are innocent and your mind is pure you should probably stay away. The Red and Green line is full of rambunctious teens and young adults daily that just do not care what they say when they say it. To make it even worse, they scream and yell everything they say. As if looking like you just climbed out of a sewage dump wasn’t bad enough, you decide to curse, scream, and fight in public. What are you thinking? It’s not just young people though. Grown men and women participate in this horrid excuse for behavior. It was once believed that the English language was one of the “greatest sources of wealth in the world.” But it is obvious that “in the midst of accessible riches, we are linguistic paupers.” (Cousins 78) Sadly, that notion has more truth to it now then ever before.
Not only can you see the decline of neatness in people walking up and down the street, it is clearly visible in the way we treat Mother Earth. The neglect and lack of respect for our planet has been splashed all over the media by Chrysler and GM Dealerships. The cars they have built and can’t sell are the same cars that leak sewage into the air we breathe, contributing to our epidemic. Everyone knows that it is important to express your personality in all that you say and do; that includes the type of car that you drive. Do you wish to express your so called individualism by spending an obscene amount of money? You shouldn’t have to, but you do it any way. Hummers and SUV’s are great. Who knew that the bigger the car, the more gas you must pump, and the worse our environment becomes because of it? Oh yes you may impress some materialistic empty-headed valley girl with no clue about absolutely anything and you may even become the envy of all your friends. We all know there is a fall back to this entire situation. Girls and envious friends are not forever, but earth also doesn’t have an exit sign. Which do you value more: your life or a $60,000 pile of metal? You shouldn’t have to think twice. You can have your “chick magnet” but at the same time do your world some good. In the end you may be rewarded for your decision. The government could be giving tax credits to those who help out Mother Earth by not driving “gas guzzlers” and switching to hybrid vehicles. It is necessary to change the way we live if we want to save ourselves from a global crisis. For the sake of our own livelihood, with the economy being in such peril, the owners of hybrid vehicles are not only contributing to the salvation of the planet but are also in line for a possible tax credit from the U.S. government.
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The American public has been given a myriad of ways to help save their environment. All sorts of organizations that cater to helping the world become a better place have handed out information, bought commercial space on television networks, and have even made their way onto the internet sites. It’s a way to commercialize as well as a way to spread the word. The best opportunity given to the United Sates was the invention of the Hybrid Vehicle, a very stylish yet energy efficient vehicle that can help us help ourselves. I have provided fifteen photos that will show you different models and brands of cars that have been created to give each person the type of style that they want to show off while they make a change to save the earth. In addition to the photos of cars there are photos of money and tax signs that provide information on the fact the government will someday provide those that own a hybrid vehicle will receive tax credits. Some of the photos just focus on cars while some focus on money and taxes, but when the photos are combined they provide the viewer with the hope that if they do own a hybrid that the government will pay them back for the effort they have put into helping save their planet.
Get A Hybrid, Help Save the World
In America, a man can be classified as wealthy or poor by his outer appearance. If he is walking down the street a woman can tell whether or not she would consider him as a suitor by the way he is dressed and the kind of car that he drives. Some women idolize men for the materialistic aspect of them and what a man can do for her. Is there a better way for a man to show the world how wealthy he is but by parading around in big expensive cars? Not for the gold diggers and the Fifth Avenue House Moms. The types of men that want the world to know that they have it all by throwing away their money on a car are the type of men that contribute to the destruction of this planet. A huge over priced Escalade is going to do two things for you: move you from one place to the next and pollute and destroy our planet. Why not drive a more energy efficient car? The hybrid cars of today are resourceful and just as beautifully handcrafted as those other gas guzzlers. To make it even better, you may be rewarded by the government with a tax credit just by doing yourself and your world some good.
I have three specific types of videos that focus on the benefits of owning a hybrid vehicle. The cars featured in these videos that would make any women weak at the knees, turn your best friend green with envy, and provide Mother Hope with the hope that we can slow down the rapid rate in which we are headed toward falling prey to a Global Crisis. The first video is a Honda Civic Hybrid Commercial. In 2006b this commercial was introduced. It begins with a person dropping a seed of light into the ground. The seed then grows into a tree and the tree sprouts leaves and then Civic Hybrids. One of the cars falls to the ground and then begins to drive. As it drives around town, the background begins to brighten, showing more colors. The flowers begin to grow, the people driving are happy, and the town is vibrant. What it is basically saying is that if you have a hybrid, the world will be a better place, which can only be considered partially true.
The second video is also a commercial. The GMC Yukon hybrid purchased a space on the Super Bowl 42 Halftime show and gave its audiences a reason to want to go green. When the video begins it shows a man struggling to climb a mountain while trying vigorously trying to push a bolder up the same mountain. A voice in the background asks the questions, “Why push? Why change? Why grow? Why dream?” The voice then says, “Questions you don’t have to ask yourself when you never say it’s good enough.” The man continues to climb. He then reaches the top of the bolder and the voice says, “Never say never.” The video is telling its viewers that the impossible has become a reality. The introduction of a stylish yet energy efficient vehicle is our reality and it will help us save our planet.
The last video is of the new Hybrid Escalade. It really is a beauty. The tutorial takes you in and out of the car, displaying all the neat things about as well as speaking on the efficiency of it. When it talks about the efficiency of the car, a display shows up walking the viewer through what the battery and the skeleton of the car looks like. It also talks about the mileage and the fact that the car is covered by an eight year warranty.
No matter what you do to help your planet, you’re helping your planet. The way you do it is the question. My videos have shown you that you can help your planet and also look extreme stylish in the process. Not only are the cars good for our environment, they don’t put a hurting on your wallet either. All of these videos stress the fact that owning a Hybrid vehicle is a great idea, which it is. Owning one shows the world that you care and that you want to make a difference. You can do no wrong with a Hybrid. Even if you’re only doing it to make yourself look good, in turn you’re doing good for the planet. If you want it because you care, then more power to you, and even more for Mother Earth.