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  The DC Foundation Our mission is to inspire change in people to protect our planet, by focusing on the small things. There are many different ways to help our planet at both the big and the small levels. The big ones are grand and seem very important, such as switching the world's energy supply to non-fossil fuel sources, but we often struggle to find the next step to take to conquer that. The most important ones are the ones that start from the individual. They may not seem like the biggest difference, but as a collective, they can make a huge difference. Examples of these include recycling and composting at home, volunteering for cleanups, conserving water, and driving less. The effect of more and more people taking these small steps will actually return a lot more benefits to our environment. The DC foundation will focus on inspiring people to make these small changes in their lifestyle. As more and more people commit to these changes, the impact it will have on the environmen...

World We Imagine Part 1      After reading the quote from Jacqueline Novogratz, the first part that stood out to me was the last sentence. Specifically the beginning, in which she says, " We have only one world for all of us on earth." That immediately made me think of the problems affecting our planet and environment, so my first step towards making the world a better place would be to first help the planet we live on. There are many different ways to help our planet at both the big and the small levels. The big ones are grand and seem veery important, such as switching the world's energy supply to non-fossil fuel sources, but we often struggle to find the next step to take to conquer that. The most important ones in my opinion, are the ones that start from the individual. They may not seem like the biggest difference, but as a collective, they can make a huge difference. Examples of these include recycling and composting at home, volunteering for cleanups, conserving wa...

  This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff For my second book, I have chosen to read This Boy's Life , by Tobias Wolff. I decided on this book because I watched a little bit of the movie, which came out in 1993 and starred a young Leonardo DiCaprio as the main character Jack, as well as Robert De Niro. I was drawn to it for a few different reasons (the first being that I am a HUGE DiCaprio fan), but also the small parts I had seen from the movie had shown me a story of youthful recklessness in a depressing setting. It is definitely not the most happy story, and had me thoroughly sad at some points. However, there was an overarching theme of no matter how bad the current situation is, there is always hope for the future. Your situation can always turn around as long as you do not give up hope, which I think is a really great message and is inspiring to keep grinding and improving yourself. The journey begins with a 10-year old Jack, originally named Toby but his desire to distance himsel...

 For my last random post and with graduation coming up, I have decided to look back on my college career and the important moments in it, especially at USC. Coming in as a junior transfer from a community college in the Bay Area, I knew I would be coming in with little time to experience everything USC has to offer, while also having to load up on courses almost every semester in order to graduate on time. I also did not know anyone at USC, so I immediately had to branch out when I got here. That, coupled with COVID rocking the world and the gap year I had to take made my experience very interesting. I can briefly touch on my time in community college, but it is not a very memorable time for me and I disliked most aspects of my time there. I used it to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (at least what major I wanted to choose), and stayed mostly with my group of good friends. It was lucky that one of my friends had the same goals as I did which was transfer as soon as poss...