Third grade

Success- the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. What a funny word to describe America. Sure every country has its ups and downs but look at America lately. Sure we are successful at helping other countries and providing aid to those third world countries but look at what is happening in America, drugs have plagued this nation, poverty has flooded the streets, and unemployment is destroying families. But no need to worry, we can go get welfare and have the government pay for our drugs, alcohol,…

All across the globe, the problem of human trafficking is being noticed. Human trafficking is a wide spread problem that can include anything from sex trafficking, to labor trafficking, even the trafficking of organs. Each country is graded and assessed for funding and placed into a tier system. The countries can be placed in tier 1 (receives maximum funding), tier 2, tier 2 watch list, or tier 3 (receives the least funding) which tells how well those countries are protecting, preventing, and…

When one was about three years into high school, a thought lingered around; who am I? It started when Rebecca (Randy) came into one’s life. They were born biologically a female yet identifies as gender fluid, thus having two names and having to use gender-neutral pronouns (they/them). Gender fluid is “referring to a gender identity that changes with time and/or situation as opposed to a fixed sex-role or gender queer expression.” (Winter, Claire R. 2010) In other words, being a gender fluid…

Sonder Sonder (n) - the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Human beings are all inherently selfish. As human beings we spend so much time caught up in our own heads, we forget the fact that we are not the only ones whom the stage is set for. We forget that there are more than seven billion other individuals on this planet. Seven billion other individuals, who are just as careless, foolish, bitter, animated as we, ourselves can be. Above…

Millions of people from the third world countries are moving around the world to seek job opportunities in order to survive or to take care their families. Globalization has radically make changes to the scale of migration, people are now more aware of opportunities elsewhere and it has become easier for them to travel. Mostly migrations happening from the third world countries, since the economy is not good enough to survive. More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in the…

The Time I Got Stitches The worst thing that’s happened to me in my life was the time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the…

Although many of my peers would disagree, I think the transgender/sexual should have the right to use the restroom of the gender they identify with or have an alternate choice. Many could argue that it’s risky and dangerous, but imagine you were in the same position as a trans person. Some people may even agree with introducing unisex/neutral facilities. The dangers of a person of the opposite sex using the restroom they choose are very obvious, but is every person out to harm others in the…

The Black Plague is known to be one of the most significant diseases. It took place during the 14th century causing many deadly scenes, with an estimate of 75 to 200 million deaths and had a major impact on England’s social structure. Daniel Defoe the author of the “Journal of the Plague” was able to experience this tragic era of the plague and later wrote about the tragic moments he witnessed. Through the use of anecdotes he creates graphic images which describe the horror and gruesome scenes…

When reading “The American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World” by David E. Stannard I was horrified at the living conditions of Europe in the fifteenth through seventeenth century. Epidemic outbreaks of plague and smallpox frequently comb the area. Every twenty-five to thirty years the Europe was engulfed in great epidemics. In a span of several months, more than 80,000 Londoners had died from plague. As time went by the plague had materialize again and again, the Black Death…

dream of a young girl, to become a nurse, never came to fruition, her struggles and sacrifices enabled her to move out of a Third World country. Even if in the end the final dream is not wholly fulfilled, with strength, determination, and sacrifice, making a better life for oneself is achievable. In The Dreamer, Diaz writes about his mother’s rough childhood in a poor Third World country, before moving to the United States. “See her in New Jersey, in the house with the squirrels in the…