War

I think that war is a very interesting topic because there are all different types of war whether big or small. When people first hear "war" they think of soldiers fighting and killing people to stand up for our country, but their are more types in life other than being a soldier over seas. We all have wars in our life whether their with family, friends, ourselves, life, and even bugs taking over. I'm sure we have all had war with our parents because we wanted to hang out with our friends, not do our homework, not do chores, or we wanted to stay out longer. Those are some of the things we go to war with everyday and yet there not what you would think of when you hear of somebody going to war. Also, we have all fought with our friends at one time or another and it is like going to war because where trying to win a fight that we believe is important. Another example of going to war is Mr. Kunkle's story of having to fight off all the wasp in his house or when you play a sport and your trying to crush the other team. Obviously when most people think of war they don't think of all the small battles we have to fight in our everyday lives, they only think of soldiers fighting and killing people. However reality is that we all have obstacles, fights, battles, and wars throughout our everyday lives that hopefully make us stronger and help us become the people who we are today.

This I Believe...

I believe that everybody in this world should be treated equal. No matter your skin color, hair color, sex, etc. everybody is a humanbeing and should be treated as so. Everyone wears clothes, eats food, has family and friends, and do all the same things, but maybe they have a different culture, traditions and look different from you, but that shouldn't matter. Also, people shouldn't care about what people wear or who they hang out with because you only live once, so everyone should just do what makes them happy. If you worry too much about what other people are doing and who they are, how could you ever be happy? Overall I believe you should do things that make you happy and don't bring other people down if there not like you.

P.O.D. Election Day

The P.O.D. that Mr. Kunkle shared with us was called Election Day and I thought it was really inspiring. I thought it was really powerful because it talked about change and how we can better our country on this new day with a new president. I believe Barack Obama can really make a change and a difference in our society if we stand by him and help him clean up the mess that George Bush has created. It's a new day and a new start, which our country could really use right about now.

As a new voter it was really cool to be apart of such a historical and important election. I think it was time to get a new president that wasn't white and a man, it's the 20 first century and it's time to get out of the past and change it up. I think having a black man president is an awesome first step for our country and hopefully it will be a great new outlook on what our country can become. Now that we have a different persons point of view other then the white man, maybe that will be good and he can make changes that they never saw or cared about.

Another thing I think we really needed was a democratic in office because look what Bush did while he was in office. Bill Clinton had just finished his eight years in office and while he was in there he really made changes, cleaned up our coutnry, and got us some what out of debt. But then Bush put us right back in to a HUGE amount of debt. Hopefully having another democratic president in office, he will be able to do the same thing because there the only ones that seem to be able to do anything.

YES WE CAN!
-Barack Obama