Essay 1 Proposal Final Draft: Killing Alaska

There are many types of pollutants in Fairbanks, Alaska that are effecting the community. However, the burning of proper wood helps to maintain good health and keep our environment safe. Although some may not see the effects of burning wood as a pollutant first hand, the Fairbanks North Star Borough should hold and educational program for the city to see the effects of air pollution because it would educate the community, it would reduce the unhealthy air quality, and it would reduce the risk of health issues.
The educational program will be called Killing Alaska. Killing Alaska’s program will be held once a month in convenience of those who are deciding to become a resident of Alaska because they will be required to attend the program. Killing Alaska will have a maximum of twelve members involved. Each member would either take a part in the play, the comedy part, running slide shows or miming. Donations will also be accepted during and after the program in order to raise enough money to buy proper wood. There will also be a master of ceremony who would start off the educational program. The master of ceremony will bring in each member of the board in sequence to their parts on the program.
First of all, the master of ceremony will begin the Killing Alaska program by mentioning the amount of people whom reside in the Fairbanks community and how people go about their every day lives without thinking about the impact that they have on the community. After mentioning and explaining those two factors, the master of ceremony will then began the entrance of the first member in order to start the first part of the program.
The play will start and it will consist of 3 members from the group North Star Borough. The whole play will be focused on educating the Fairbanks community on wood burning. Each member will have a conversation with one another on how to get prepared for the winter and the importance of keeping warm during the winter time. They will discuss the different types of heat used to heat up their house during the winter. The play will go on to demonstrate each type of house that will heated up by different types of heating devices. Then the members will each watch the news channel that mentions the air quality. After watching the news channel, each member in the play will talk amongst one another to explain how each type of heat they use effects the environment.
When the play is over, the master of ceremony will lead the audience into the next section of the program. This section of the program will be a comedy focused solely on the air quality. The comedian will make jokes about the different woods to burn so that the air quality would not be unhealthy. After joking about the ways to reduce unhealthy air quality, the comedian will inform the audience of the place to buy the wood. He or she will then talk seriously about the danger levels of air quality, but in a joking way to make the audience chuckle. The informative comedy of reducing the unhealthy air quality’s goals will be met.
Next, the master off ceremony will turn things over to the mime and the person scrolling through each slide show. The slide show will display the different health issues throughout the Fairbanks community and how improper wood burning causes them. A few health issues on the slide show would be asthma, emphysema and breathing problems. While the reads the slides the mime will demonstrate very effectively in order to reach the “inner man” in each audience member. People will be very informed and so touched by the improper wood burning that they would definitely make sure they follow certain procedures to reduce the risk of health issues.
The master of ceremony will inform the audience that it takes each one of them to make Fairbanks’ environment much healthier and safer to live in. Not only will other people throughout the community be effected by the improper wood burning, but family members are effected as well.
With all the performance set up by the Killing Alaska program, directed by the North Star Borough, Fairbanks would soon turn around before it is entirely too late. Showing each individual the proper way and exposing the proper wood to burn for healthier air is the key. Watching everyone suffer from unhealthy air quality needs to stop, starting with the Killing Alaska program.

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