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To get close you have to get involved. Sometimes you have to look at the details of a problem to figure out the solution. People complain about problems but they never do anything about it. For example during this election a lot of people were complaining about the possible presidential candidates for each party. When voting time came many Americans did not go and vote, since they didn't like the results they complained. If they wanted a different outcome they should have voted. They should have done something about it. It happened again with the presidential election. The only difference is that more people voted. Unfortunately many voters casted their ballots for candidates that were either obvious they weren't going to win, like Harambe and Hennessy, or candidates that had lost the primaries and asked the public not to write them in, like Bernie Sanders. Those same people who didn't take advantage of their vote were later complaining about how outraged they were that president-elect Trump had won. If they truly didn't want Mr. Trump to win they should have taken the vote more seriously. They did not get involved so they couldn't get close.
In the
beginning of October I went to Mississippi Youth Legislature. Each person had
to write a bill. The bill I wrote was called "ASL as a Foreign
Language". The purpose of the bill was to make ASL, or American Sign
Language, a foreign language credit in Mississippi high school. Schools would
be required to count ASL as a foreign language credit but they would not be
required to teach it. ASL is my passion. I wanted to help the deaf community as
much as I could so I started learning ASL with books and apps. The first step
to getting involved is to get informed. When I learned that the deaf community
had little to no representation in the hearing community I was angry. Hispanics
like me are faced discrimination every single day and it is hard dealing with it.
The difference is that if I'm discriminated against I can speak up. Most deaf
people are not able to speak up for themselves because the other person won't
understand them. It must be extremely hard for them to deal with discrimination
if dealing with discrimination against Hispanics is hard. Because of this I
made it my one of my goals to change that, or at least give them a little more
representation. More people knowing ASL means more representation for the deaf
community in the hearing community. For example, on August 4th of this year a
deaf man was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in North
Carolina. The man was trying to communicate to the officer through sign
language, but the officer thought he was making gang signs. The police officer
shot the man the moment he stepped out of the car. This is not the first time
something like this has happened. These accidents could be prevented if more
hearing people were exposed to ASL. Because of all the accidents happening with
deaf people and the police I wrote the bill and presented it. The bill passed.
Because this is such an important issue for me I am revising my bill and
editing it to make it look professional so I can send it to a Mississippi
representative. Sometimes you need to step back and look at the big picture but
if you want to fix a problem you have to get close and you have to get involved.
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College essays...
RastgeleI thought it'd be easier to write the essays on my phone and wattpad is the only app I have that counts the words. After I wrote the first 2 I kind of wanted to post them so here they are! Yes I know there's a lot of mistakes and grammatical errors.
