Week 2: Big Problems
1043 words by jbrown11
In my opinion , the three problems that are most challenging in our society is poverty, lack of education, and healthcare. Out of the three I would say that the lack of education take the cake. In the minority population, it is hard for students to focus and really want to wake up those early mornings to go to school. I just dont blame the children, I blame the parents. Parents are supposed to be the perseerverance and the support system for our children to not only graduate from high school but from college. Did you know that by the time our generation are in the workforce that you will most likely need to obtain a degree in order to make the salary that we strive for. Everyone wants to live the good life, including myself, and I need to work as hard as possible mentally as well as educationally to be well established within society. Yes, all parents are not good, and all parents probably do not wish to support there children educationally. We have to realize that our generation and the next one to come will be running this countryand taking care of the citizens of the United States. Therefore, strive for excellence and go to school everyday, no matter if you are up before the sun. The second problem I want to hit on is the poverty level, which increases every year. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov6.xls My only suggestion for the poverty level increasing is the lack of jobs, education, and the loss of money. Undersating that the economy is going through a recession and company’s are not hiring because of teh salary, ther is no reson people should become part of the statistic. There are too many resources in the country for the poverrty rate to be so high. We have to questions our government, what are we doing wrong that the poverty increases. This is not to throw anyone who is in the poverty percentil under the bus, but the there has to be a way to help the poverty rate in the country. Lastly, there is the haelthcare issue in which most of my classmates would agree on. Millions of Americans have no health insurance and others that do have it can not afford to pay the co-payments from the insurance companies. The cost of a doctor’s visit has increased and medical prescriptions are becoming costly.There are more medical complications with the younger generations such as diabetes, cancer, etc., so the doctors are substituting newer, more expensive medications. There is Medicare, which is mostly dependent by people that are the age 65 and older. Instead of building it up and making it easier so the medicine is affordable, the country has made the eldery pay more for their medicine, in which they do NEED far more than some adults. We need to improve our system, and the way we can do that is to provide insurance for all children and the elderly and decrease the premium costs for some of these “newer” medications. Out of all three of these problems, there isnt one thing I wouldn’t like to do. Unfortunately, none of the three have nothing to do with my job directly, but I always planned to have a foundation to help out the country in some way possible. The issue that I would like to base my foundation on is the lack of eduation in the country. On to the next subject, I am fully aware of Xavier University’s plagirism policy. I understand that if the teacher suspects that your writing is of another person’s handiwork, then you are liable enough to be expelled from the school. Plagirism is not only copying and pasting someone’s work from a source and making it into your own, it is take someone’s text and adding a few of your own words to make it sound like your own. The reason that there is no such thing as the “Bible” because there isn’t any true evidence that prophets wrote the bible text. Also, it was originally written in Hebrew and later translated into English. How do we know that when it was time to translate the text, that they didn’t properly write it in the correct form. When the class was watching the movie, they said that in certain books the text was scrambled and wrote in the wrong place. For example, the story of Moses and the leading the people of Israel from the Pharaoh. As archeaologist were searching for evidence, there was none found in order to say that a group of people migrated and traveled the desert for forty years. We question, how could God tell Moses to write up until his death? Personally, I believe in the Bible because a lot of the books in the Bible are written not only for storytelling purposes but as analogies to help us get through our everyday lives. In this day, people can qoute passages in the Bible that is metaphorically helping us get through a situation. No matter how many times people may translate the Bible or find artifacts to prove if it was written from God himself, it is powerful enough to deliver the same message in the past as well as the future. The people that wrote the Bible couldn’t have predicted the struggles that we would be facing in the future. Therfore, there had to be someone to tell them and there is only one person that knows everyone’s future, and that is God. This is not to throw slander at anyone who doesnt believe that there is not a Bible, I am just saying that we need to wonder if any human can predict events such as: poverty, healthcare, and lack of education. How could someone who doesnt know our problem, give us the solution to our problem in this book translated over time. This is somethng that many ponder about, even myself. I can answer this question though, is the Bible fully true, no, iis the Bible just like the original, no, but is this a book to help us through our trials and tribulations, yes. That is what I believe in.