Personal Narrative: The Three Modern Reforms Of America

One million dollars, that is such a large sum of money. However I wish I would have obtained this money some other way, the money coming into my hands only means that your health is becoming more poor and I shall pray for you. As for the money, I will diligently delegate portions of it to three modern reforms that I feel are in need of it. The time that we’re living in is a great one, I’ve recently heard people calling it a progressive era, and that is a very fitting name. There are many people, muckrakers, politicians, activists who seek to better different aspects of our society. Perhaps this age may not last for very long, but I hope it does make a noticeable impact in the living situations of Americans. The reforms I am choosing from are forest preservation efforts, food regulation and safety, women’s suffrage, and the end …show more content…
I admit, at first glance trees seem to be less important than the lives of our children, yet these living things could have more history than a child could ever see to live. They are not less important than humans on the grandest scale of things, after all we did not evolve better than everythings else, only differently. Like John Muir said Atlantic Monthly, they have survived through disease, avalanches, droughts, strainings, and floods. This is evidence that they are very capable of survival, but when greedy humans seek to make a dollar they do not consider any of this, as long as they earn profit, the trees are inescapable prey. America is built on opportunity, and some of this comes from the abundance of resources we have here in North America, so if we want to make sure that our descendants have the same opportunities we must preserve the land. All of this without mentioning that by supporting women’s suffrage we could also be helping out the child labor cause; as women gain more power they will seek to help their children, inevitable leading to child labor