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Letter to Obama about Global Warming

May 6, 2013

President Barack Obama

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama

My name is Sophia Abi-Saad and I am currently a student at Scituate High School in Scituate, Massachusetts. The purpose of this letter is to bring to your attention that without prevention, global warming will obliterate many species of animals and will affect the quality of life for future Americans. I encourage you as the President to act now, and to prevent a catastrophe to our environment.

 

In total, the U.S. emits approximately 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year, and every single day, the world emits 70 million tons. Also, in the last century the sea levels rose 7 inches, after not having changed in the previous 2,000 years. Although these facts have been released to the public, there still has not been any notable change in the way we live our daily live. 

 Awareness is not the issue; it is the lack of action. As the President, it is your duty to increase the quality of life for all. With the power you have as President you can influence American’s, by enforcing better means of production and crediting those who have stepped up to make a change. I have faith that you will not ignore this issue, unlike many other Americans. I brought this to your attention because I know with your devotion to humanity that things would get done, and you will make the world a better place.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Sophia Abi-Saad

Danger of Death

We were all condemned to the same fate

A “Die today or die tomorrow?” mind-set

Infants were tossed in the air and used for target practice

The world would never tolerate such crimes

But what can we expect its war

But to forget the dead would be akin to killing them in a second

One more reason to hate, one less reason to live

I was nothing but ashes now

I tried to rid myself of my invisible assassin

The idea of dying began to fascinate me

I was a body, or even less: a starved stomach

Our lives no longer belonged to us

I was the accuser and God was the accused

Death was settling in around me silently and gently

Man is stronger and greater than God

Chapters 7+8 of night

Prompt 3.

What happens to the world when we all lose compassion for our fellow man?

When people start to lose compassion for the ones they love, life becomes a free for all, and a survival of the fittest. When people start to only consider the best for themselves. An example of Eliezer losing compassion was when Blockalteste told Eliezer that “you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you can not think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as a father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore” (110). This shows how even how much he loves his father he has become a burden and he believes that if he didn’t have to deal with this burden surviving the holocaust would be near impossible. And when a human starts to believe this it can lead to a loss of your loved ones, and give a person no purpose in life. Although life had very hard, they were near the end of all this madness, and if he could keep compassion in mind it would have gave him more hope, and could have done much as kept his beloved father alive.

Another example of when Eliezer began to lose compassion was when he was searching for his father and he thought, “ If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself” (106). This shows that he was hoping to not find his father to not find the person that had kept him alive thorough these struggles. If he had not found his father we would have been relieved for he wouldn’t have to deal with his burden and wouldn’t have to give up his source of survival to someone else. This proves that once you lose compassion that it will diminish the chances of overcoming other challenges that one may face.