Make A Difference

          Take a second and think about a perfectly normal day in Batesville, but then the next day our town was getting bombed. How would we react? A CNN article titled 'Life edges back to normal in Boston-with lives changed' quotes a a citizen from the Boston area that said, "We were just so paranoid." I think everyone in Batesville can agree that we would feel this exact same way. We would all be paranoid and scared. I really don't know what I would do. This article also says, "Others said the experience offered a rare front-row seat to a phenomenon unfamiliar to most American cities, tested their faith or simply reminded them of life's fragility." After a tradegy like this one happens, it does make you think twice about life and the people you love. You wouldn't expect anything like this to happen to your city, but it can happen anywhere.
          How would everyone in our city respond to this type of terror? Some Boston citizens said that, "It makes you wonder how safe we all are" and "There's no real going back to normal after something like this." I think the best thing we could do would be to just look to each other for help and guidence. It would be really hard to make it through a crisis without the help of your fellow citizens and Americans. Going back to normal would seem almost impossible after this type of event, but if you worked through it with everyone, it would be a lot easier. This same article talks about Boston trying to get back to normal and says, "But at Fenway Park, in an attempt to regain a sense of normalcy, more than 35,000 Red Sox fans bellowed out the lyrics to their eighth-inning signature tune, "Sweet Caroline," led personally in a surprise appearance by Neil Diamond." That is awesome that not only are people living around close to Boston are helping, but also people all across America. When a crisis happens in our country, I think it's safe to say that people really put aside their differences and come together to help and make a difference.

Racial Integration Continues

          When you think of racial integration, you don't think of it happening recently do you? Well it just so happens that for the first time at a school in Georgia, "students are organizing an integrated dance" according the CNN in the article, ''New tradition' for Georgia students: Their first racially integrated prom'. We don't think of this being a problem anymore, because it is not a big deal in our school or anywhere around us. Although, some schools in different states, like this one in Georgia, still have some problems with racial discrimination. According to the article, "White students from Wilcox County attend one. Black students, another. They’re private events organized by parents and students, not the school district." So, not only were there two separate proms, but the school did not even organize the black student's prom. The students and their parents organized the whole event, which is really really sad and depressing.
          I cannot imagine our school not including a certain group of people in our prom because of their race. Just like our school, their students, "go to classes together and play sports together and hang out together.." Leaving some of our students and teammates out of going to one of the biggest events of the year would be absolutely horrible. I feel like our entire school is a huge family, and leaving some out because of their color is not right at all. Knowing that, "Wilcox County is not the only place with a racially segregated prom" makes me sick. Teenagers make so many memories when they're in High School, and this probably wouldn't be true without their friends. Your High School Prom is one of the most memorable events you will have in your life, and if you didn't have all of your friends there to experience it with you, it just would not be the same.