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Shaiann Daniels

2012; true or false?

The prophecies regarding 2012 are devastating everyone juvenile enough to believe them. But scientists are trying to scare even the brightest of people, somewhat forcing them to believe these ancient predictions.
Sure, this could be believable if you didn’t think things through. It sounds plausible enough right? Well, just because it’s becoming known throughout the whole world doesn’t make it true.
Nothing regarding 2012 is proven, which should ease ones mind as a fact itself. To make a movie up to 2012 standards takes approximately three or more years. If you think back to when you started hearing everything about December 21st, 2012… you would probably say around three, or fewer, years ago.
Now, when you put that all together, don’t you begin to realize something? It’s possible that the specific date could be the end of days, but nobody can ever prove that…not in this time period. So it’s possible also that the money-driven people began the hoax. Manipulating the Mayan calendar by saying just because it ends on that specific date, they predicted it’s the end of the world. Claiming we should fear the year 2012 when it’s feasible that they made the movie when the world started hearing about this. So the movie could make billions of dollars.
It makes sense, considering a lot of people want to know their “fate” when the year finally arrives. Doesn’t everyone want to know how they can save themselves?
Shaiann Daniels

The Never-Ending Walk

One must ask their self; is our nation truly on the pathway to total equality? We all know the statement “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when” but it seems to be the total opposite in this aspect considering we’re not sure if we will ever be fully equal.
Sure, we have a black president but does that really mean there are not racist Americans out there? Most John McCain supporters were accused of racism, which isn’t necessarily true considering all Americans aren’t democratic but it’s easy to see that some were not falsely accused. When president Obama became the first black democratic nominee, threatening comments inundated the internet. A white supremacist known only as “Rodney” blogged on February 15th posting a foul remark, “OBAMA WILL DIE. KKK FOREVER…The KKK or someone will ASSASINATE Obama.” A second posting from a screen name “amerikkkan” says “The deep south is making plans.”After Mr. Obama was elected president, there were fliers handed out in a neighborhood in Bedford that promotes joining the KKK. In the same neighborhood, a black minister arrived at church to find his church bus covered with racial graffiti. He believes the sudden racism acts sprouted from the inaugural of President Obama.
I’m sure everyone who pays attention to the latest news has heard about the Kanye and Taylor incident. It’s clear that what he did was morally wrong, unethical, and rude but some people took it way too far. Many people twittered, around 300,000, about the occurrence and most of them had some very vulgar notes regarding Kanye. “I really hope I don’t have any black followers and if I do just stop following me. Kanye West is stupid and now I’m racist.” We can understand tweets that say how discourteous Kanye was being when he pulled his little popularity stunt. But to throw around the racist word, like some people were doing, is entirely corrupt. It’s putting them at and below his level.
As we continue our walk to reach equality, those of us who see everyone in the same way must try harder to make up for those of which who carry the racism disease.
Shaiann Daniels

The Invisible Children

They have to live in “the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today”. These invisible children have been overlooked for the past 23 years.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) have been fighting a war that has left millions of people homeless and some dead. Several Ugandan children are being forced to become child soldiers even when they’re still very young. Some even watch their parents die before their eyes and they have to live with that agony everyday.
It is estimated by the FIC that during the war, between 60,000 and 85,000 Ugandan children were seized and held as child soldiers. They then use them for more than just fighting, including murder, rape, and cannibalism.
However some people do care about these children and they take the time to think about how the war is affecting them.
Andrew Briggs, a former schoolteacher, became a promoter for the tormented children of Uganda. He established an organization called “Freedom in Creation” which helps the children cope with the violence in their everyday lives.
About 65 Ugandan children are a part of this foundation. Therapy is a challenge for these small children of Uganda. It’s harder to get a response out of them so Briggs uses art and music as their means of therapy and healing. Some of these children are very receptive when performing the different things.
Briggs does more than just present the former child soldiers with counseling. He tries to bring safe drinking water to the refugee camps.
Briggs and his accomplice Alex Mejias have an exhibit called “The Story of Freedom” which is what they use to raise awareness and funds in the USA. It is a video which includes some of the actual artwork of the Ugandan children.
As of now, the war is still enduring but this program keeps these young children driving on even after everything they underwent in the recent past.

Shaiann Daniels