Podcast Script

Module III: Podcast Script
The Ultimate Taco Bell Show
Complete Show Length in minutes: 5 minutes and 5 seconds
Episode 1
Topic: What goes on behind the counter, and outside of Taco Bell?
Intro Music Clip: Title: Why Pay More Theme Song Time: 20 seconds
Intro: About Taco Bell Time: 1 minute
Welcome, my name is Jessica and my podcast is about the commonly known fast food restaurant named Taco Bell. The Mexican restaurant is known for its bold approach to get the customer’s attention and efforts to keep its menu diverse. Open for a little over 45 years, Taco Bell has continued to attract all kinds of customers and keep the environment up to date as far as appearance wise. This vibrant atmosphere host some of the most creative and friendly people behind the counter. The service is always memorable and the food taste fresh. When I tell people that I work a Taco Bell, I get a lot of comments telling me that I have either the best job in the world or the most fun job in the world. I can see where they believe it.

Segment Music Clip: Title: Taco Bell Rap Time: 20 seconds
Segment: The ins and outs of Taco Bell Time: 2 minutes
There are a lot of different perspectives that someone can get by just looking behind the counter of a Taco Bell. The customer can see a happy and friendly environment where everyone gets along and is happy to be at work, or they can see determined professional employees working hard to make each and every customer happy. Either perspective is both accurate and positive in attitude which is what we at Taco Bell try to pursue throughout everyday of work. We try to make every guest’s experience memorable so they can come back.
Outside of the walls of Taco Bell, the company is doing its best to stay in business due to the current economy. Projects such as Scraping and Rebuilding, and Grand Openings for new store have either been postponed or completely dropped due to the recession. Much advancement was in progress to expand the company, but with the high interest rates or loans and the inability to renew land contracts some Taco Bells will be getting closed down. Although Taco Bells around the area trying to help the community by giving coupons to non-profit organizations and hiring adults rather then young adults due to the lay offs.
End Segment Music Clip: Title: Think Outside the Bun Song Time: 20 sec

Ending: Relating all the restaurants Time: 1 minute
Although Taco Bell is getting hit by the recession, the company still tries to keep the employees motivated and happy. Also, other restaurants are going through the same thing as well. Even though fast food restaurants are increasing in sales due to families not being able to afford to go out to eat anymore, they also suffer from budget costs that affect their uniform spending, food orders, and supply orders. Staying positive and thinking outside the bun is what we try to strive for.
End Music Clip: Title: Taco Bell Dong Time: 5 sec

Littering

Persuasive Essay
Walking home from the corner store this past summer, my sister and I were in a deep conversation about our futures, we discussed how we want to move out of Detroit and go somewhere south, where the weather is better. In the middle of describing my fantasy home, I tripped on a 2 litter Faygo pop bottle in front of one of the many foreclosed homes on the block. Picking myself up from the ground, I begun to look around the street, I noticed all the trash along the curb, in the tall grass of lawns that hadn’t been cut for months, the field by the railroad tracks, and along the foreclosed homes on the block. There was furniture in the field, and general pop bottles and chips bags along the curb and abandoned homes. Just then, I realized how dirty the city of Detroit is.
The littering around Detroit is getting worse as months go by. The trash either falls into the storm drains or travels down the street with cars and buses, polluting the water and the rest of the city. Although the city does street sweeps every few months, it seems like the trash is just pushed to one area and never picked up. Making the city look worse then its reputation of crime and violence. The trash is not only a threat to the pollution, but to the safety of pedestrians. I could have fallen and gotten seriously injured if I was not able to catch my balance in time. The trash around Detroit should not threaten the life of pedestrians.
The affect of littering on the environment is critical, but it is just as important to the wildlife of animals and insects. Littering can be traced back to diseases from mosquitoes and the killing of wildlife. From the online encyclopedia Wikipedia “Open containers such as paper cups or beverage cans can hold rainwater, providing breeding locations for mosquitoes which have been known to cause diseases such as West Nile Virus and Malaria”. Also, “cigarette butts and filters, a threat to wildlife, have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds and whales, who have mistaken them for food” says Wikipedia. Littering doesn’t only affect humans, it affects everything around us, from the ground we walk on, the air we breathe, and the animals around us.
There are ways to help prevent or reduce the amount of trash around the neighborhood with the help from the people within it. If neighbors create clean up projects within the neighborhood to pick up the trash in the streets and around foreclosed and abandoned homes once a month, it would help to make the city a better place appearance wise. After a few months of the cleaning project, the results will compliment themselves. The trash will decrease and the amount of trash to be picked up each month may decrease as well because the other neighbors will see that people are trying to keep the city clean. The neighbors might not want to litter anymore or they might even join and pick up some trash themselves every now and then.
The cleaning project will be organized to meet every month. There will be several groups within the neighbors that have volunteered, to split up and go to different areas of the city such as Downtown, Southwest, and Southeast Detroit. The groups will be no more then 10 people, and they will travel through their specific area picking up trash from the curbs, and around homes with picks and garbage bags. For the larger pieces of trash, like furniture and other bulk materials, together the groups can rent a dumpster to throw them in. Detroit as a city needs to be cleaned, and with the help from the citizens within the city and neighbors that want to come together to help the city, Detroit could become a much better place.
Littering is an issue throughout the whole world. It’s something that a community, neighborhood, and the world can not get away from. It is an important matter in our lives and the lives of the animals around us today that needs to be addressed. Littering slowly affects our lives, and drastically affects the lives of animals. The importance of not littering is not stressed enough. With the increase of trash along the roads and around houses the danger of pollution and safety of the community increase as well. The awareness of this issue is necessary and without the issued being solved, not only the city of Detroit, but also the world will have a high pollution rate.

Higher Education for High School Students

Reflection/Essay

When this assignment was brought to my attention, I thought it was going to be easy. Using my imagination and being creative with a project really caught my attention. Although, I did complete the assignment on time, I found that the assignment wasn’t as easy as it seemed. There were many obstacles that I came upon and many decisions that I had a hard time making throughout the project’s completion.

Thinking of a topic to advocate for was one of the toughest decisions I had. I did not have a clue as to what I wanted to advocate for or what I was passionate about so I picked something that was relevant to me and what I convince all my friends to do, get an education. Once I had a topic the professor helped me to determine specifically who I was going to target as my audience, high school juniors and seniors. While typing my introduction in class I started thinking about how hard this topic is going to be to attract high school students because, most of them have either already made their mind as to what they are going to do or just do not want to hear about college.

Making the project interesting to high school students was another challenged I faced. Kids now-a-days seem only to care about fashion, music, and television. I was thinking of doing a comic strip, but I’m not too good at computer graphics. I then thought about a video, but I’m not comfortable in front or cameras or camcorders even if it’s just me taping myself. So I went with the next best thing, a power point presentation consisting of photos off of the internet that related to my topic. It also was a great choice since I spent my whole weekend in the hospital and only had two to three days to complete my project and still work full time as an assistant manager for a fast food restaurant.

Searching the web for suitable images that go well with my topic was harder then expected. Education image searches are filled with a lot of people such as principals, and teachers. Finding meaningful images seemed to take the longest. Most of the images where from educational websites which made me feel better about them. The points or arguments that I made for higher education were strong ones and I hit some of the major reasons why most of my friends did not want to attend college. In a way, my friends not wanting to go to college helped me with this project and made me realize that not a lot of people have the desire to get a higher education.

Struggling to get the project done and turn it in on time with quality effort, I managed to complete the project and feel pretty good about it. Although I do not believe it is my best work, I still feel that I did the best that I could given the conditions and circumstances that came my way. This topic was a hard one to tackle, but I managed to do my best and tried my hardest to get it done. I put in a lot of work over the past couple of days that I have been out of the hospital, and even though I’m not strongly passionate about the topic, I believe I touched on some very valuable points.

Image from http://www.syracuse.com/north/index.ssf/2008/03/30-week/

College

Education higher then a high school diploma is now becoming more important then ever before. In the near future, getting a job will require a degree, if it does not already. Companies are looking for educated people that are reliable and can contribute to the company. Companies are realizing that without a high degree of education, it is hard to trust employees as to what they can do for the company.
Higher education will attract students that are in high school who do not believe they are right for college. Although, they feel as if their grades are too low, they won't have enough money for college or they are not ready to go to college. There are colleges out there that will help you to get in. They will work with you to set up a payment method, or help you to get into organizations that will help you to feel comfortable. The work load of a college student might be heavy, but because the class schedules are not everyday of the week, there will be time to get the work done. College may seem to be scary at times but there are people/ advisers that are around the campuses that are there to help students in all kinds of decision making situations.

Screen Shot

When i saw my screen as a photograph, it took my awhile to view it as more then just a "screen shot" or image from my computer. Until I saw it smaller then my normal computer screen. In a way the image looks 3D, I also realized that my computer screen has a lot going on on a daily basis.
In digital spaces, composition can change the way people look at things. In a way, digital spaces can be both negative and positive. In a positive point of view, it can help to visualize things beyond imaginations. It can help to open eyes and expand minds. Also negatively, digital spaces can close imaginations and change point of views on certain topics. A better way to fully understand digital spaces it to try to understand where the photographer's mind was or what they were thinking of to see what they were trying to capture. Also, taking the time to appreciate the digital space would also help to better understand digital composing processes.