Peace within

It is hard to find peace in this lifetime, there is no knowing exactly when or where to find it. In fact, I think that even if you find Peace in one place, you won't be able to find it there again. In order to find inner peace, of any kind, one must clear their mind from all worries and concerns. This is a main reason why no one can find inner peace, because we are all worried about school, work, family, etc. There is no time to even consider finding peace within oneself. If we were to take into consideration all the time that we have spent for ourselves, we would come to realize that the time we spent was meant for others, either working for them, worryying about their health, etc. We could never really find time for ouselves. If someone thinks mostly of themselves in a selfish act, you come to see that they are not at peace either becasuse they had developed a major concern that people are judging them or they beg from other people. I think that the only time we can find inner peace is 6 feet under, only because that is the time that you take to reflect on your life, and you no longer have to worry about those things that had troubled your mind. The way that this society has grown to be, it had changed many times, and soon enough work and an education became very important in our lives, we become frustrated with that. And if we're too poot to get a job or education, we must worry about our survival or that no athority would take us away. Inner Peace isn't that easy to find, and yet it's closer than we all think. Even a few minutes if reflection, a dream perhaps, if our minds no longer have any concers that trouble us, then it would be easier to find Inner Peace within oneself.

Stand Up!- Don't stand up for homophobic bullying

Homophobic- Intense hatred or fear of homosexuals or homosexuality.

The clip shown was meant to help the homosexuals from overcoming their fear about their preferences. Since the beginning, it was strongly believed that woman was created for the sole purpose of becoming the man's significant other and for intimate desires, that only a man and a woman can marry and be together. This has been thrown into the minds of many generations, so what if they see something different than what is believe should be the 'right thing'? So many come to bully or show a strong dislike to those that are different because of the way the idea was planted in their mind.This video showed a perfect example of a homosexual  being bullied because of something he could not help from feeling. It also comes to show the other defense, you don't have to be homosexual in order to support those who are, one can not judge someone because of "the way they look" or what they prefer. People need to be standing up to what they believe, they must take action and help those who can't stand up for themselve or are to weak or scared and take up the bullying. We don't need to stand for those who hate, there's no need to judge their preferences. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJxqvalFxM

United by Seperation

Sabrina Rede

English 1311

Opinion Piece

Unity by Separation

Death is a known reality in the world that we could never rid ourselves from. We have to learn to accept and adapt to it, even though we see it almost every day, we haven’t learned to let go of those who no longer tie their lives into this world. We try to live our lives, and we are affected by those who live and yet also those who left, inspiring to live on or living by their beliefs.

Osama Bin Laden, captured and killed by the Navy Seals, has been dead for over 2 days now. He was held responsible for 3,000 deaths during the plane crash of 9/11. And despite the fact that we have only been informed at such short time, despite all this celebrating of his death throughout the U.S, is it really crucial to hold on to this much excitement, to be happy? Will all this joyous commotion cause the people in Al Qaeda to be filled with more rage and hatred towards America, and to take action in what Bin Laden believes in, which is to rid of and have a strong dislike towards America? Will we ever see the light of day, the time when all is free and our minds are cleared from the many misunderstandings of our own individuality? We have learned to be our own selves, yet we learned to agree and disagree and like and dislike the many thoughts/ideas of others, we end up contradicting ourselves. The many Americans who are celebrating his death is making a huge mistake, when Al Qaeda is aware of this celebration, they might want to take a step forward and finish off what Bin Laden had planned and they might just take it to the next level.

So what is the number one thing that is preventing Peace? Why is it that we desire it so much and yet we don’t take action to what we really want? War is caused by disagreement; disagreement is caused by different views and selfishness. And yet we ask ourselves why it is that we cannot achieve our goals of World Peace? We were all created differently, we act differently, if our minds were created and formed as one, we would probably be living dull lives, but we would accomplish our goals of having world peace. The one thing that is preventing us from living in Peace is ourselves. We cannot live our lives as such if we keep battling everyday with ourselves, if we want to change others, we should change ourselves first.

Libya, the coultry in peril

Time changes, as well as our minds and the way we analyze how we must live. Such great minds, who we believe will help better our country, turns out to be a selfish dictator. They couldn't predict the future, so how would they know that Qaddafi was going to be a terrible dictator. His mind was soon corrupted and greedy with the mind set that his country should be the best. He was trying to overpower America. After time passed by, there were so many protesters going against Qaddafi, wanting to impeach him, but his power was too strong and he was able to stay in office.This was when the havoc begins, and Qaddafi uses violence against these protesters. He's [Qaddafi] been trying to overpower America, causing us to react in such a manner, such as bombing certain cities in Libya. After he took away jobs from so many citizens in the country, many people became upset by this malicious act and protested against him. So many of the citizens wanted to impeach him, and the majority wanted him vetoed. But once they [the voters] saw that Gaddafi is still in office, that was when they realized thatthe government was corrupt. This was when all the protesting began, so Many created campaign groups against him and so many fled tonsmaller cities in the country to avoid any interaction with the violence. So many citizens have also contemplated suicide missions and tried to rid of Gaddafi in any way they could. As far as we know, the rebels will not be as to succeed because of their lack of organization. The most anyone can hope for is for Gaddafi to step down from his position and hope for the best.

improvement for the better

          This film has impacted me in a way that opened my eyes to what education really is about. I grew up thinking that going to school is a waste of time and pointless and that waking up so early in the morning is not well worth the time.  But if you really think about it, we’ve been thought since the first time we were able to recognize things and see what they really are. I’ve had this mind set that going to school is just to get money out of our pockets and torture us into learning things that won’t apply to us in the real world, but after seeing the lives that Greg Mortenson was able to impact by bringing an education to those who are less fortunate that I had ever ben, to those that are more willing to learn that I am. This film was able to show me, that even though most of my time was spent at the school learning something, it was well worth the time to be able to know things that will eventually help you in the mere future. As my grandfather once said, “you never stop learning until you’re six feet under ground.” School just opens up our mind to greater things that are happening in the world around us. The difference that makes third world countries diverse than America, is that they learned to adapt to different situation their homes put them in, they got use to working their whole lives to make their families live longer and stronger, to keep them out of harms way. While we find ways to make out home, our lives, our wealth, and our looks better than our neighbors. So in certain ways we are the lucky ones, but in others they are luckier than our advantages. Say the world, as we know it, ends today. Our technology is on the fritz, everything battery-operated, motor-powered, electricity dependent possessions become obsolete, how would we be able to cope without our most prized possessions? And yet they were unable to experience any of these objects, they would be able to live on with their lives just the same.

A PEACE of Paper

          It is hard to really understand the meaning of the word Peace. Some people believe that it is a way to live one’s live, a way that explains the meaning of what life really is about and how it should be lived. While other people say that it is just a word created in the sixties, and became the trend at the time. So it really doesn’t have an exact definition, or the same meaning for every person. You are dead; you’re finally at peace, no more worries about life’s troubles. You had a quarrel with a sibling, but you stopped the argument by claiming “peace”. Two countries fought against each other because of their differences, and had put their differences aside and created an agreement such as the “Peace Treaty” or something similar to that, or you had a long stressful day and at the end, you go back to the comfort of your own home and enter into a peace of mind. To me, the closet thing you’d be able to categorize Peace, would be under the words of calm, when you are worried-free, no longer a feud, no longer a stressful mind, you no longer have to worry about many things that troubled your mind or heart earlier. The person that I admire the most, who fully understood the definition behind Peace, would be John Lennon (1940-1980) “Give Peace a Chance,” that song not only was meant for war, but for each individual person. From what I was able to understand, we have to be in peace with each other, but in order to gain that peace, we have to be in peace with ourselves and avoid being our “own worst enemy.” I do agree that it is a very hard task to do because of our lack of faith within our own confidence. How do we expect to better ourselves if we conflict with our own struggles? How are we supposed to refrain from judging on others, if we can’t depict our own faults or accept our weaknesses?  How can we live with one another if we can’t live with ourselves? Therefore Peace does not have a specific definition, but rather an adaption that people took into their lives in order to become a better person.

                “Everybody’s talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism…” when John Lennon sang those words in “Give Peace a Chance,” I was unable to find a meaning behind those words. What is he trying to say? Why would he include different religions and practices in a song about Peace? When I finally made sense of it, he was meaning that everybody is always talking about their differences and comparing who is better, but what John was trying to make people understand is that everyone believes in the same thing but different backgrounds, but all we really need to talk about is Peace, and if we all accepted it in our lives, there would be no need for differences and debates. Throughout the history of time, the government, whether united or separated, had always promised their people peace, but it was believed that in order to gain peace they must call upon themselves a war, causing families to separate and some ended to be father-less or the lack of a peace of mind. So the promise of peace can never result to such greatness because it is so hard to strive for it. Demanding for peace is just like demanding for a Utopian world, it is impossible to reach with the distorted minds of many people trying to tweak the minds of others. So whether the government strives for peace for the great of the country or for the lives of the farmers in the west or the Indians, they wouldn’t succeed in doing so because of the lack of knowledge of the definition of peace and the greedy minds of wanting everything they could lay their hands on. A promise is better kept when you know the consequences of its outcome.