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  Everyone has a conscience. You may not think you have one, but it’s there. Your conscience helps you make important decisions everyday. It helps you decide whether the decisions you make or made, are right or wrong. Your conscience sometimes even leads to feelings of regret when you do things that you usually wouldn’t do. One bad decision of not following your conscience can lead to consequences.

  When students don’t follow their conscience, I believe it gives them some sort of feeling of freedom. Skipping school for example is something a lot of teenagers in middle school, high school do. It’s as if they want to get away from their problems by causing more. Students don’t ask themselves, “What happens when we get caught” or “What will the consequences be?” Maybe it feels good to be outside of school while it was still taking place. Maybe as soon as the student touches the concrete of “the other side” it makes them feel like they have the world in their hands. Teenagers cheat and steal almost everyday. I think they do it because their tired of following the rules; their tired of having the same routine. They want to feel as if they have done something different instead of always doing what everyone expects them to do.

Even though doing bad things and going against your conscience gives you a feeling of freedom it also is related to loss of freedom. By doing bad things you get in more trouble and aren’t able to have the freedom you used to gain.

  What do you think about when you hear the word freedom? Some may look at freedom as the right to do what you want, say what you want, and be who you want to be. But can too much freedom effect people’s daily lives? Can the choices you make with freedom change the look of society? I believe that prop 8 is negative slash at freedom. Proposition 8 eliminates rights of same sex couples to marry.

  California should guarantee the same freedom and right to everyone. No one should be singled out or be treated differently just because they are different. Like many others, I believe that being gay is not a choice. Why would you choose to have society feel different about you? Regardless of how you feel about this issue we should not eliminate rights for any citizen of California. Prop 8 takes away freedom and is unfair. Freedom gives you the right to decide for yourself without the government. People should be able to marry the ones they love. They should be able to feel like a “married couple”. They should be able to spend the rest of their lives with someone even if society disagrees. Who is society to choose who the gay community loves?

  During the process of Prop 8, there was an article in the newspaper of a first grade teacher taking her class on a field trip to her “domestic partnership”. Many people thought that this was a way to get children into gay marriage and to have gay marriage taught at schools. One thing people may have forgotten is that if a teacher is taking her class on a field trip, the teacher must give out a permission slip. This slip is given to the student’s parents and is either accepted or denied to go to the field trip. Therefore, if the parents didn’t want the students to go to the “domestic partnership” they would denied the permission form.

  After all the voting took place 52.5% of California voted yes on Prop 8. While 47.5% of California voted no. No matter what your views are on gay marriage, whether you believe in what the bible says or not, Prop 8 is unfair. No one should be told if they can get married or not. So the next time you think about freedom, think about how easy society can take it away.

Way back in the past, African Americans weren’t treated as they were today. They didn’t have the same rights as a white male or female. African Americans couldn’t even be in the same room as a white person; but on January 15, 1929 a hero was born. This hero became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and delivered his “I have a dream” speech in 1963. This heroes name is Martin Luther King Jr. Martin changed the world with his inspiring words. He made a speech which implied that everyone was equal. I believe that Martin’s words influenced people to boycott injustice. African Americans wanted the unfairness to stop. Their revolution caused a positive changed and has gotten better over the decades. Things needed to change for the better, before they got worse.

  78% of African Americans think racism is widespread in the U.S. Racism is also to be said a major reason for the higher percentage of blacks in U.S prisons. Racism in the United States is thought as a problem that victimizes African Americans. Racism isn’t a new tragedy in today’s world; it’s been around for hundreds of years between different types of people. Things like this make people want to stand up for their rights. It makes people want to tackle the problem and make the world a better place to live in.

  Would you call boycotting a revolution? I would. The word revolution does have different meanings, but the most common is an “overthrow”. Blacks probably felt ruled just because of the color of their skin. Most blacks today still feel they are out of place because of their color. People like Martin Luther King and everyone else who took place in boycotting against discrimination, created a revolution. A revolution that forever changed the world and gave it a new meaning: everyone is equal.