Joey Irwin, Age 15
saveferrispunk@hotmail.com
America Online: "SkaBrit"
Vacaville, California, United States
Vacaville High School, Sophomore
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Peace. What is it? Is it something we will one day achieve, or is it something fictitious we all want, but will never obtain? Is it something the human race was meant to live with, or to earn? Nobody knows, but in a human dominated world, so powerful, and so intelligent, you would think we would be able to live this way, but we don’t. Peace requires little effort to establish and is often looked over by the average person. With our individual ignorance and our own set of moral values, we begin to view things, and put aside outside opinions. In understanding each other, we can achieve that one thing in life all of us desire, compassion and acceptance for one another.
In the modern age, mankind has lived through thousands of battles and wars. Wars including religious crusades, civil wars, world wars, revolutionary wars and all the battles in-between. While looking at some of these wars we spend so much time and effort on, we realize that they were primarily fought because of religion, rebellion, and disagreements including politics and land. These three things were fought because of man’s selfishness and what thing's individuals like you and me thought were morally expectable or not. If man’s tolerance toward each other were greater, he would find no anger in another’s way of life. If we were to learn and to teach eachothers culture by communicating and interacting, we would not be surprised of the way other nations behave or the things they believe in. We would know that was their way of doing things and be able to easily tolerate them.
In this day and age, the children of our country have become less aware of reality while living in the electronic age. Children sit for hours in front of the television not processing their mind like they would in a book. In some cases, parents use the television or video games as a “baby-sitter” keeping them busy for hours at a time. In watching and playing with these electronics, children have not produced a sense of what death is. They see hundreds of people get murdered and killed in games and TV shows and think of these deaths as mere fiction. This can do a lot of harm for a child’s idea of how bad it is to murder because they think of it as only a game by making it go away with a press of a button. In life you can’t do that. It’s real. Due to what some people complain to be as economic problems, both parents are needed to work to keep a stable financial income. They are also not home full time to enrich the child’s learning capacity to a wholesome value. Where as, the child turns to the television as a faithful and entertaining companion.
In producing an effective way to ensure world peace, we should teach our children the past, to keep from repeating it in the future. Exposing a child’s mind to the bloody consequences of war can permanently impair the child’s interpretation of its nature and prevent it from happening again. I believe we should educate our generation, on just how bad war is. In doing so, we can produce a stronghold of young adults willing to preserve what little peace we have today to lay a foundation for the future. I believe in
using this foundation, we can prevent the further destruction of war’s vengeance upon mankind, and produce the human kindness we all strain to achieve.
Was dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a good choice by Truman? The Americans at the time thought it was, because it preserved the further loss of American lives and ended the 2nd World War. What they didn’t think about was the cataclysmic chain of events that would be derived from it and the environmental hazards it would cause. The innocent lives it cost, and the worldly damage it produced permanently scared man’s historical past of human warfare and will greatly define the real meaning of man’s bloody nature. If one considers the discovery of atomic power to have been inevitable, one is forced to consider how history might have been changed had not the Unites States been the first to have discovered it.
People should take responsibilities for their own actions and remain disciplined by following the basic principles of being a “Good Samaritan”. Treating others how you would like to be treated is a key step in producing a world of kindness and generosity. Think of all the billion and billions of dollars man spends on military warfare, couldn’t all that money basically end world hunger? Take the Chinese for example, men, woman, and children in the North are taking to cannibalism as a means of food because of such a great demand of money and farmland. If we were to help the Chinese with care packages and end their hunger problems, would they not look at us in a different way? Some say no, but depending on their state of heart, it may be possible if they as well, are willing to build an alliance towards obtaining world peace? As well as joining the worldwide effort to ensure world tranquility, we also have human rights we live by and use. We as Americans have important human rights toward what we think is right and wrong and how we demonstrate something we object. In entering the 21st century we can use these rights to enable us to produce the ability to support and object the governments choices that effect us. Our responsibilities as well, are to preserve our rights and use them when necessary as we make our decisions and choices. We have the responsibilities to act upon and provide our own effort to generate world peace and to protect the danger of our ignorance from ordering our destiny.
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