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Changing America

                Over the years, the world has experienced a lot of change. Change in people, cloths, government, even food. America, for example has accepted new ideas and other cultures into our society. It all started when African Americans and women gained their rights in America. They got treated as equals and gained rights as normal citizens. But why stop there? In 2008 Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, changing this nation as we know it. Not only have we accepted and embraced change, but we, as a nation, have made it happen.

                Change doesn’t just happen overnight. With every huge accomplishment, there has to be an even bigger struggle. In order to get where we are now, we have to think about things like The Civil Rights Movement, The Little Rock Nine, The Women’s Rights Movement, and slavery. All of these things have to do with people fighting for what they believe in and overcoming all of their hardships in order to make change happen. Where would we be without the courage of the people involved with these movements? Because of the brave people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., we are able to live in a country where everyone is treated as equals.

                This article makes me realize how anything can change. One day you’re getting kicked off of a bus, and the next you’re running the United States. In this cartoon, Rosa Parks seems to have an expression of calmness. She’s sitting with her grocery bags, looking out the window of the bus, probably thinking about the unfairness of the world at that time. In the picture next to hers, President Obama is sitting in a car with presidential seals, with a worried look on his face.

                The world has changed and continues to change every day. That’s the beauty of the future. There are no boundaries or limits to what we can accomplish if we fight for what we believe in. I was fortunately born with all the rights I need thanks to all the brave and courage people ahead of my time

 

 

 

(I got this off a cartoon and it wont post)

Safety in Schools

Safety in Schools

On December 14 our nation was hit hard with a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The gunman walked right into the school and shot and killed 20 first grade students and six adults before taking his own life. This will hopefully cause the nation to crack down on the security at all schools, which I believe should have been done a long time ago.

 This terrible event will spark a uprising of security measures that should have been done at schools already. It is as if in our country we have to experience the worst before we prepare for it.For example the school I go to is locking its doors starting now?  “Schools in Newtown are getting brand new security cameras, more than one month after a tragic shooting at the district's Sandy Hook Elementary.” Why now? Why after it has already happened? Since this happening, kids will be afraid to attend school and will not be able to have a normal day without going through security checks because of the one mental guy who decided to shoot up a school.

 Newtown shooting has also caused another huge debate in the US, gun control. People start to point fingers at the NRA or any other handgun association saying that that man should not have had the gun in the first place. In my opinion, the gun did not shoot itself, a human hand had to pull the trigger. The gun did not march up in Sandy Hook Elementary and kill those innocent first graders and staff on its own.

The whole situation angers me because I remember being a first grader and having no care in the world. I never had a thought about guns at all back then. I could not imagine how the families of the victims feel at this time. Mass shootings normally bother me, but this shooting with these kids hit me harder.

I hope that our nation can find a way to stop these things long before they begin to happen. Such as noticing mental people or trying to keep the weapons out of their hands. If not, were liable to have some more devastating shootings.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-timeline/index.html

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/adam-lanza-update-after-sandy-hook-elementary-shooting-newtown-schools-getting-new-security