Thursday, December 11, 2014

My issue

My issue: I would love for everything to be my issue, but after thinking about it a lot, my issue NOW is the environment and possibly helping girls around the world to the right of education, to the freedom of getting married when they want to and if they want, to help girls become a power. I want to preserve the environment I don't want it to get worse for the sake of my children's children. This is my issue now. 

Inspiring videos

Yesterday we watched three presentation which were very very inspiring. The first predation was of david Suzuki's daughter giving a speech about our generations future and the future of the invironment. This speech was very eye-opening, after watching that speech I really wanted to do something, get involved, with saving the future of earth as well as bringing environmental awareness. The second video was a poem in which at first was very negative to my generation and was explaining how my generation would ruin the earth, but then the poem reversed and began to explain how my generation could save this planet and how we could bring change. The third video was a Ted talk video about how there are no superheroes but instead there is us. This presentation made me realize that I can do something, that I could bring change or affect someone or something from just where I am and I don't have to have a lot of money and that all I need is a motive or desire to keep going and to fight for a cause I believe in. We also watched a speech from Malala. Malala's speech was...inspiring, a lot of thoughts went through my head including a few of these, "why is it that this one girl passionately was education for girls and children yet I who lives in a first world country prays for day when there's no school?" Or " why is it that here girls and other students will skip school or spend class texting on their phones and have no interest in learning and yet where Malala lived girls would do anything to go to school, and if they did they would be threatened that if they go to school they would die?" I realized that I should be grateful that I am able to learn, that I am able to go to school for free, without having to worry that my school would get blown up or that terrorists would attack my school bus and shoot me for going to school. I realized that education is a gift that should be respected, not taken advantage of. I really truly want to help girls and children who don't have the luxury to learn or go to school. I want to make education a universal priority. The last video was a video how one person started dancing and created a movement, after this video I became inspired to be a lone nut or a first follower.