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Unfortunately, the resolution to do better in school did not go well today. I fell asleep in every class, except for fourth and sixth hours. I would blame the medication, but I don't know as that's really the cause. I am getting too little sleep. My goal is to go to bed a half hour earlier every night. Tonight's lights out time is 11:30. Eir will be helping me to study French later on, after she's completed what she needs to do.
I got a perfect score on my Example Essay for Composition. It was a very good essay, and the 100% score really brightened my day. I think I'll copy and paste the essay here. It's adapted from my "Something to Believe In" Oral Interpretation piece for NFL.
Something To Believe In
Anne Frank was truly exceptional. She suffered more than most girls my age. She was in hiding from the Nazis, and then when they found her, she went to a concentration camp. She went through all of those horrible things-- and still had to go through normal teenage issues. However, I think that what makes her truly exceptional is that at the end of it all, she still believed that people were good.
I have trouble believing that. Every time I pick up a newspaper, turn on a TV or computer, or listen to the radio, I hear about some sort of horrific incident: a homicide, a genocide, a war, a slump in the economy, a kidnapping, a conspiracy, the list goes on and on. I go to the CNN website and the first thing I read about is how South Korea wants to attack North Korea. On the news, I hear people discussing whether or not we’re on the brink of World War III. I ask myself why we’re all fighting each other; and then I read an article about gold and oil profits, the economy, the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
It’s not just on a global scale. People have stopped forming opinions. Apathy seems to become more popular day by day. If I ask most kids my age what they think about all of the genocides that have gone on in the last century (ones that the United States hasn’t recognized), they give me a blank stare and ask what “genocide” means; however, if I ask them what their opinion was of last night’s episode of American Idol or Lady Gaga’s new album, they can give me a detailed analysis of it. I wonder if they really are so unaware of the other seven billion people on this planet.
What shocks me the most about this all is that it seems like no one is really doing anything about it. How many countries claim the arctic, and how many are doing anything about the polar bears drowning? In 1994, when over 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda, what did the UN do? They left the country. Somewhere along the line, the value of a human life has become less than that of even a small amount of money. It’s almost as if people have just stopped caring about each other.
How could Anne Frank honestly believe, after everything she went through, everything her family went through, that everyone has good in them?
But I guess we have to believe it. Somewhere, deep inside, we all have to have something in us that knows right and wrong, and we all have to have a part of us wanting to choose what’s right. If we don’t, there’s really nothing to live for; if we don’t, there is no real hope for humanity. I guess Anne Frank really knew what she was talking about. “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
It has a certain ring to it that reminds me of Athena Black, especially the last paragraph. However, the main body of it consists of my thoughts, along with Summer's. We share a view on the stupidity of the world. I consider it a triumph because it does represent the conflict within one person who struggle to find the meaning in this life. Apparently my Composition teacher admired it as well.
All in all, it wasn't a productive day, but an oddly rewarding one nonetheless.
 Luna M Croire · Wed Jan 05, 2011 @ 03:35am · 0 Comments |
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