There are many issues that the world struggles with , but just to name a few I will discuss the outlooks of  violence, poverty, and the economy. These three issues are  most relevant and are the biggest problems vital in our every day society. Violence, poverty, and the economy all make a significant connection to one another. The most violent humans have either been hurt before or feels as though everyone owes them something. The feelings those individuals have are lack of inequality which enventually turns into violent behavior. Anyone whose done them wrong, people that they feel threatened by, or even the innocent; they want them to feel some of their pain and suffering.  Think about it, if you look at sexually abusive pedifiles that nickname rapists. No one woke up one morning and decided to start raping or molesting  people. Someone had to have abducted the pedifile and turned them into a victim, and therefore by releasing hurt and frustration lashed out to another maybe just perhaps to make them feel their pain. But, everyones situation might be slightly different.  Crime is one thing in the world that needs to be recognized and solved. Another major problem that the world is facing is poverty. What’s the first thing you think of when someone says or mentions anything about the ghetto, let me guess, does it have anything to do with “black?” The ghetto is ofter reffered to as an area where people fom a specific racial or ethnic live as a group in isolation. When Martin Luther King Jr. was living people referred to living in the ghetto as bad and a disgrace. Back  then many African Americans weren’t living in the ghetto. Now when you talk about the ghetto, people are excited and want to hear more about it. In today’s society people think that living in the ghetto as something amazing. If you think about it, people back in Martin Luther King Jr’s time made less money than the people today make, and still were able to stay out the ghetto. The people in today’s society don’t take the opportunity to move out of the ghetto. The way I think is if you have the opportunity to move out of the ghetto and live a better life, why wouldn’t you take it. If white people were stuck in the ghetto and were given the opportunity to move out of the situation they would take it. There is a major difference in the way white people think in contrast of blacks. It doesn’t matter where you go, no city is different from the other. Every city, town, or country has a ghetto. In sophisticated neighborhoods the mass majority of the population is white, while in the ghetto the majority people living there is black. The ghetto used to be referred as miserable, but the way people talk now, the ghetto sounds like paradise. You would think that all black people know is about the ghetto. In reality, being ghetto refers to poverty, stricken urban areas, filled with crime, drugs, low education, and family disputes. How could someone think of the ghetto as a fairytale, the ideal place to grow up and raise a family? The formation of the ghetto and black underclass will always be one of the most controversial issue, until black people are able to realize and understand that there’s more in life than the ghetto.  The crime rate was sufficently went up since the last twenty years ago. I factor that can contribute to this is the scarity of jobs. Whenever there is a high unemployment rate crime will always rise. The reason for this is because without a steadily paycheck coming in people don’t have the means of paying their bills. Bills have to be paid regardless so people go to other means of getting money rather, selling drugs, robbery, or prostitution. Most people hate to live in a disadvantage situation but has to do whatever means of paying the bills on time. The conomy everywhere is facing a huge crisis, everytime I turn on the news I hear about people losing jobs, jobs closing down, and people losing homes. The Unemployment rate is the only thing in the economy still rises. Middle class people are being pushed into poverty, while others are being pushed into deep poverty. Many of those who lose their jobs lose health care and other benefits that they once possesed. Millions upon millions of families, struggling to make it in todays tough times are deprived of income and material possesions. Many people looking for full-time jobs are forced to settle for part-time jobs, just enough to pay the bills.  Real estate, buisinesses, and retailor stores suffer because people are being more concious the way they spend money. My plan to make a difference in the world is to educate people about the things they wouldn’t hear on the news. As a pharmacist every weekend I would go to low poverty areas to be a role model among the youth and teach them that there is more to life than living in the ghetto. One of my main goals while speaking would be to link up crime, poverty, the economy and how it affects them and puts them in the sistuatiion society view African Americans.There is not a such thing as the “bible” because there are many different versions and interpertations. Some bibles tell more or less than the other and not all stories in the bible are the same.  The “Bible”  has no one form because there are several versions. Taking these theology class and finding out that there is no such thing as a bible leaves me skeptical, wondering if everything I been learning as a child is true. The bible comes from different roots. Due to different translations of the bible it cannot be determined as if there is a specific bible Christains should read. All of these explanations I stated proves that the bible does not exist.

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