Nicholas Lentz
Mr. Beachey
English 9R
31 March 2017
Don’t Fall Behind
7.125 billion people live in the world and almost half of the people barely live on 1.25$ a day. In our society today, you need to have a good job and have a good amount of money. These people are trying to fit in but they can’t. Although our society values, self expression people often are forced to change themselves to fit in or they could be punished and later on harm other people.
People often change not to stick out in certain crowds. The students in Prom Night in Mississippi have been trying not to stick out at school, but the topic of racism keeps coming up. These people have been racist to blacks during school because of what they have been growing up with and how …show more content…
The people that are being religious during all of this religious intolerance will be punished by the society if they keep it up in certain places. Throughout history, “Christianity and Islam have been intolerant to other religions through violence” (The New York Times Company n.pag.) This is still going on even if it's not particularly violent, but intolerance happens a lot no matter where you are or what religion you are. Comparably Elie Wiesel is a Jew and he was put in a concentration camp because of his religion. The leader of Germany did not like Jews and he wanted to abolish the race. Elie later figured out why they were there and why all the Jewish people were there. During all of this Elie was seeing people die he had turned against his God because he couldn’t find a reason why he should love him (Wiesel n.pag). Even though God said the Jews were his people, he couldn’t understand why this was happening. Meanwhile Hitler killed millions of Jews and others during world war two. Hitler did not agree with the Jews so he made them pay for what they …show more content…
The leader of Germany commanded “Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star” (Wiesel 66). All of the Jews had to be different, so the police knew who was a Jew or not. The Jews in Night were chosen because of their religion and were harmfully punished in concentration camps. Identically in school shootings there are people going on a rampage trying to kill certain people because of certain things. The police decided “It was speculated that Harris and Klebold purposely chose athletes, minorities and Christians as their victims” (Columbine High School Shootings n.pag.). This is because of a person that is religious that got the killers mad, that the whole religion would later on take the punishment for what the kid did. One little thing could turn into a whole religion as a
Mr. Beachey
English 9R
31 March 2017
Don’t Fall Behind
7.125 billion people live in the world and almost half of the people barely live on 1.25$ a day. In our society today, you need to have a good job and have a good amount of money. These people are trying to fit in but they can’t. Although our society values, self expression people often are forced to change themselves to fit in or they could be punished and later on harm other people.
People often change not to stick out in certain crowds. The students in Prom Night in Mississippi have been trying not to stick out at school, but the topic of racism keeps coming up. These people have been racist to blacks during school because of what they have been growing up with and how …show more content…
The people that are being religious during all of this religious intolerance will be punished by the society if they keep it up in certain places. Throughout history, “Christianity and Islam have been intolerant to other religions through violence” (The New York Times Company n.pag.) This is still going on even if it's not particularly violent, but intolerance happens a lot no matter where you are or what religion you are. Comparably Elie Wiesel is a Jew and he was put in a concentration camp because of his religion. The leader of Germany did not like Jews and he wanted to abolish the race. Elie later figured out why they were there and why all the Jewish people were there. During all of this Elie was seeing people die he had turned against his God because he couldn’t find a reason why he should love him (Wiesel n.pag). Even though God said the Jews were his people, he couldn’t understand why this was happening. Meanwhile Hitler killed millions of Jews and others during world war two. Hitler did not agree with the Jews so he made them pay for what they …show more content…
The leader of Germany commanded “Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star” (Wiesel 66). All of the Jews had to be different, so the police knew who was a Jew or not. The Jews in Night were chosen because of their religion and were harmfully punished in concentration camps. Identically in school shootings there are people going on a rampage trying to kill certain people because of certain things. The police decided “It was speculated that Harris and Klebold purposely chose athletes, minorities and Christians as their victims” (Columbine High School Shootings n.pag.). This is because of a person that is religious that got the killers mad, that the whole religion would later on take the punishment for what the kid did. One little thing could turn into a whole religion as a