Take care of home first by Bob Piesz

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting sick and tired of seeing commercials about all the poor children in third world countries. It’s not because I’m selfish, but for the simple fact that I never see commercials about the poor in our own country. America needs to get its priorities in line. We should take care of our own before we start taking care of others. Our poor, our orphans, and our schools are all neglected yet charities are more concerned about the kids in third world countries. As a citizen of America I do feel bad for these people suffering in other countries, but if I’m paying taxes I want my money to help my own country.How come it’s not a celebrity trend to adopt orphans from America? Orphans in America are just as important as any other child in the world. I do not understand why people go through all the hassle to adopt a child from out of the country when we have thousands of orphans around our own country. It’s as if they are buying a new exotic pet. If you are going to adopt a child why not help a fellow American? An orphan in America needs just as much love as an orphan in Korea.Why is it that we need a giant disaster for people to start donating money? After hurricane Katrina people donated millions of dollars to help the victims, same goes for September 11th. I’m not saying that they didn’t deserve the money in ANY WAY, but what makes them any better than any other person who is homeless or poor? Most of them have struggled for their whole entire life. How come people don’t donate millions and millions to help them? Granted people do donate money to help the poor, but not as much as they would if it was a big tragedy. The poor are easily forgotten and hardly ever covered by the media. I guess Lindsay Lohan getting another DUI is more important than someone having to sell their body just to feed their children.Our schools are becoming overcrowded and poorly run. Not by choice, but because of the lack of money allocated to them. Schools should be a priority in America, but instead we poor all of our money in to a quagmire of a war. The High School I just graduated from was heavily affected by cutbacks. We had every other light off in the hallways, shop classes were cut, teachers were fired, and the end result of all of this was students suffering. How is this possible in such a rich country? When did our education become second to a stupid war? It’s absurd.I want to help the neglected people all around the world, but honestly American citizens come first to me. As an American I want the best for my country and the best for its people. I hate seeing people struggle in their day to day life’s when we are living in one of the richest countries in the world. It’s sickening. America needs to get its act together and start taking care of its own people. Our orphans, schools, and poor are all being neglected and no one seems to be doing anything about it, except talking. Talking can only go so far. I wish I had the power to make drastic changes, but I do not. I can only write this editorial and hope for changes. What needs to be done for politicians to start caring about these things instead of them worrying about what religion they are or wither or not they are for abortion? American’s need to band together and elect someone who can make changes in 2008. If not, thousands of our own citizens will slip further through the cracks.

Sorority Girls

"So last night I so hooked up with this XYZ chick at that date party last night". This how how most conversations starts when a guy is talking about a sorority girl right? Wrong! First the common mistake made buy most is that we are not chicks, girls, or women. We ladies and act and demand such respect.
Many people think ladies that are in a sorority join to hook up with fraternity guys, and party all the time. Well we actually joined for quite the opposite reasons. Some of the ladies that go through recruitment joined to have a sense of family here at school since they are living away from home or they just may not know very many people here at FIU. Some join because they enjoy the many available leadership opportunities through the organization of their choice. While others join to take part in our philanthropic events. And the fact that many may find interesting is that many sorority ladies are most either single or date GDI's. So the next time you see a sorority lady please do try to rethink your views and remember we are ladies who are striving to better ourselves.

It's all about me

I first need to plan what aspect of my life that I would like to write about. I realize that it needs to be a topic that I can clearly remember details of. And that I would feel comfortable enough sharing to the public, yet close enough to me that I will be able to give vivid discription of the event. I decided to write my paper on was 9-11. Since 9-11 personally affected my life and continues to effect every aspect of my everyday life. I choose this because it was an event that all though effected me personally it effected peoples lives all around the world. So everyone will be able to relate to my topic. With this topic I will be able to use the technique of exploding events to make the reader feel as though they are personally experiencing this event. As well as retoric, to guide the reader through my paper. The point that I am going to try to express in my writing is that family can not always be reliable. There will be people to help you out of the hole but it does not have to be your family. The main thing is to relay on yourself.

Who can I trust?

The people that are close to us are always the people that we trust the most. Naturally the people that are the closes to us are our family members. These are the people that know our deepest darkest secrets. We are prone to opening up to our family since we are connected genetically to these people. They are supposed to be our support system. The people that we lean on when times get hard. They are the shoulder to cry on. They will be there for you when no one else is. Does this not sound like the perfect set up? You have this group of people bond to you for life by these microscopic genes. And because of this bond they are supposed to be your unconditional support system. Well I hate to break it to all of you that thought this was the perfect idea but it all does not always work out this well. I no longer trust a person so easily just because they are related to me by blood. The bottom of the line is that people will be people and their and their true personalities will shine through no matter how thick the bonds. Often times those who are closes to you will be the ones that hurt you the most. They have everything to hold against you and to use to their advantage. Because you open up to your family they turn things around all the time. My family is infamous for these types of tricks. Using your weakness against you. If you allow these people to use you sins and or pains against you then you are only allowing them to win the eternal battle you verses the universe.