Succumbing to hatred will only result in failure. Maya Angelou once said, “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems, but has not solved one yet.” Hate has become a term used lightly. Teenage girls are known for their common phrases on hatred: I hate my hair, I hate my clothes, I hate my body. It is a part of our daily routine that needs to be removed. Hatred is a thick black fog encompassing society.
Tears, jaws, and hearts drop as bystanders and civilians with their eyes glued to the television watch the first tower come crashing to the ground. 9/11 is known as one of the United States’ greatest infamies. It was a tragic day fueled by hatred. It began when American troops moved into Iraq and Afghanistan. This enraged members of Al-Qaeda …show more content…
Ears began to ring as soldiers watch the ships that they called home go up in smoke and sink to the bottom of the harbor. For a split second everything was silent. No one was moving. Everyone stood in shock trying to comprehend what had just taken place. Once the moment passed panic set in. The fog, almost immediately, encroached into the hearts of the soldiers and the leaders of our country. As word of the attack on Pearl Harbor spread, so did the fog. America was suddenly covered in a dark, dense cloud. The fog changed our focus from ending the Great Depression to getting revenge. In their minds, we could not let Japan get away with the bombing; we must get revenge. Families were willing to risk losing fathers, sons, and brothers just to destroy our enemy. Women were forced to take on rolls because all the men went to war. They joined the workforce, volunteered as nurses, and grew victory gardens because the food was going to the soldiers. Finally, the war ended, the soldiers came home, and the fog was lifted. Sadly, it was not lifted for long, but when the fog returned it hit even worse than before. In the past our country had a relatively positive opinion on war until american troops invaded Vietnam. The fog twisted around; now we no longer hated our enemy, but our peers instead. Citizen’s trust in the government drastically plummeted and thus began the generation of …show more content…
Watch a high school based movie and find out why. There is a dark cloud of mean girls that are filled with so much hatred that they must project their excess hate on the vulnerable classmate that just wants to be invisible. Bullying is never acceptable, but some reasons that people bully is to get attention, they have learned it from their parents, or they are a victim of bullying. Bullying leads to the destruction of others. Self hatred is a fog filled with years of verbal abuse, emotional trauma, and abandonment issues. It is not always developed from peers; self hatred can begin in the home. Growing up around hatred can cause someone to become a distributor of hatred. Hatred is hitting a child. Hatred is degrading someone to make one’s self feel better. Hatred is finding joy in other people’s sorrows. We have a tendency to not consider how our words will effect others. We do not want to intentionally or unintentionally make the fog darker and more unbearable. After enduring years of self hated one can feel that the fog is growing too strong. It takes away one’s energy to keep going until there is no energy left, therefore, resulting in a
Tears, jaws, and hearts drop as bystanders and civilians with their eyes glued to the television watch the first tower come crashing to the ground. 9/11 is known as one of the United States’ greatest infamies. It was a tragic day fueled by hatred. It began when American troops moved into Iraq and Afghanistan. This enraged members of Al-Qaeda …show more content…
Ears began to ring as soldiers watch the ships that they called home go up in smoke and sink to the bottom of the harbor. For a split second everything was silent. No one was moving. Everyone stood in shock trying to comprehend what had just taken place. Once the moment passed panic set in. The fog, almost immediately, encroached into the hearts of the soldiers and the leaders of our country. As word of the attack on Pearl Harbor spread, so did the fog. America was suddenly covered in a dark, dense cloud. The fog changed our focus from ending the Great Depression to getting revenge. In their minds, we could not let Japan get away with the bombing; we must get revenge. Families were willing to risk losing fathers, sons, and brothers just to destroy our enemy. Women were forced to take on rolls because all the men went to war. They joined the workforce, volunteered as nurses, and grew victory gardens because the food was going to the soldiers. Finally, the war ended, the soldiers came home, and the fog was lifted. Sadly, it was not lifted for long, but when the fog returned it hit even worse than before. In the past our country had a relatively positive opinion on war until american troops invaded Vietnam. The fog twisted around; now we no longer hated our enemy, but our peers instead. Citizen’s trust in the government drastically plummeted and thus began the generation of …show more content…
Watch a high school based movie and find out why. There is a dark cloud of mean girls that are filled with so much hatred that they must project their excess hate on the vulnerable classmate that just wants to be invisible. Bullying is never acceptable, but some reasons that people bully is to get attention, they have learned it from their parents, or they are a victim of bullying. Bullying leads to the destruction of others. Self hatred is a fog filled with years of verbal abuse, emotional trauma, and abandonment issues. It is not always developed from peers; self hatred can begin in the home. Growing up around hatred can cause someone to become a distributor of hatred. Hatred is hitting a child. Hatred is degrading someone to make one’s self feel better. Hatred is finding joy in other people’s sorrows. We have a tendency to not consider how our words will effect others. We do not want to intentionally or unintentionally make the fog darker and more unbearable. After enduring years of self hated one can feel that the fog is growing too strong. It takes away one’s energy to keep going until there is no energy left, therefore, resulting in a