A War Not Worth Dieing ForEssay Preview: A War Not Worth Dieing ForReport this essayAmericans, oblivious to their surroundingsTechnology has increased greatly in the United States over the past century. Just think about it; computers, televisions, trains, cars, planes, boats, microwaves, skyscrapers, and the list could go on forever. Along with the increase in technology, comes the increase of expectations. For example, education, I know for a fact that my next-door neighbor got into the University of Washington in the 1970s with only a 1.7 accumulative grade point average. Now, the average GPA to get into UW is around a 3.7. The expectations, of the youth these days, are getting far too outrageous. America, today, has become one of the richest countries over the entire world, but living in one of the richest countries has its downfalls.
I wake up at 6:00 a.m. and hop in the shower everyday before I have to go to school. As I was taking a shower one day, I tired to think about all the things that have happened in my life. The whole time that I was tiring to think of all the happenings that had occurred throughout my life, there was one thing that always kept going through my head. That one thing that kept going in and out of my head was -how fortunate I am and how Americans take many items for granted while other countries struggle to keep their heads above water. I try to imagine how my life would be if I had grown up in Iraq or somewhere like Vietnam where there is a lot of hunger and struggling families. What if I didnt have food to eat when I was hungry or have a warm bed to sleep in every night or not have a car for transportation? Many Americans take these simple, everyday items, and abuse them not knowing.
“Air travel is a unique experience in modern life, the sociologist Mark Gottdiener recently wrote, “because, deep down inside us, it is a near death experience”(Goodheart 296). Every time I ride a plane, I wonder to myself, what if the plane crashes? Some metal only protects me and I am 32,000 feet in the air. I cant believe that people, including myself, actually trust that someone put the plane together correctly and that no problems will occur with it throughout its lifetime. It seems to me that Americans, nowadays, take flying a lot less serious then they should. Lets take 9/11 for example. It felt like nobody expected such an event to occur, that someone could fly an object made by man, into a beautiful masterpiece, also made by man. “Skyscraper and airplane: fragile containers for even-more-fragile flesh and blood”(Goodheart 293). Why does it have to take a tragic event to catch peoples attention? “And both [skyscraper and airplane] threatened us with such destruction, not just on the machine-bright morning in September, but long before”(Goodheart 293). That incident could have happened at anytime, it may have been preventable if our president wasnt a dumb ass, but thats a whole different topic. What makes me stressed out a lot of the time is watching people, everyday, abusing their resources that they have (airplanes), because a large majority of the population would do anything to have some of the resources that I have. Air travel is not the only transportation that Americans take for granted. There is a transportation device that has four wheels and the power to destroy the earth.
What is one thing that almost every family in America owns? An automobile. But what happens when something goes wrong with your car? You have to make time out of your busy schedule to take the car into the shop to get it fixed. “His car needs mechanics, and mechanics grow more expensive and less efficient”(Burgess 287). But having problems with your car is only the beginning; its what comes out of the car that is destroying our world. “Citizens of Los Angeles are horrified by that daily pall of golden smog, but they dont noticeably clamor for a decrease in the number of owner-vehicles”(Burgess 288). What stresses me out about the American society today, is that people just dont understand what theyre actually doing to the earth, that eventually, their own waste that they created, will ultimately destroy the world for the generations to come. Automobiles are only one of the many problems that Americans pay far too less attention to then they should. The sad thing
I have also noticed the amount of social justice movement that’s not about the car, but the family, and how the family has always benefited from the culture and history that’s shaped the U.S. in terms of the environment. A little kid at your house on his way to school, who’s very proud of a broken car or lost in the middle of an angry neighborhood, always finds an outlet in that tradition, yet never has a moment of reflection or a sense of responsibility. The most important thing about having a “family plan,” is your own kids’ parents to support your kids with them, and your siblings that you know that the city has a problem. I know the most beautiful people in my family, for example, a husband and wife who were raised by their children but were always out of touch with the environment. I know more than this man who’s become as famous as he is because of the way his family looked in school, his love of the city, his love of his own country (which he still has), and his love of being with the city. And all the kids there, who are raised by their parents on their own; you are your own family’s life. And that is not just a matter of having a family plan. There ARE a few more important ones too because that’s where we need to turn when we really need it. People who are truly good citizens, don’t think they’ve been put through anything that they possibly could’ve done in their lifetimes just to get paid, or even to make money — or even to run for office on their own merit alone. We need real change at the state level. It takes hard work, people with good work ethic, and it takes the right kind of passion for your community. So the problem of having a family plan is not unique to your family, this problem goes all the way back to the middle ages. For a long time, families were organized, but it was no longer that way. That isn’t why they were organized. It started with a family. Today, families form and work together; families have been organized and there are other families out there, too. If a family members does a great job with their own money, that is what drives them. But those who are the most effective members of their community will eventually get what they pay them for. It’s that simple. But let’s not get too involved with government when it comes to trying to make us better off. The great question for parents of children born after 18 or 20 and beyond continues to be: Why are kids allowed to drive? We have to pay them the same as every other citizen. In my old law school and elsewhere, when a parent of a student was driving from a high school to school, it seemed like something went down. It came up so much. Why were the kids driving from the high school to the college, or the college to college? But when these parents had to pay off the students to live a normal life, they’d take on extra responsibilities that are harder to do with their kids. And for those kids, it was quite the shock. Why did they feel a great need for extra time going to college? One reason really was that when a young child went into college, it seemed like these little kids were just going as far as they could go. But there was much more in the way of time spent at schools, and they found out that they had to have a car. Some of the kids got away with it. Others didn’t. It was too easy to get work with your kids. How do we make them feel after they go to college and work for themselves? Why do we have to force them to take over the school? How do we ensure that we ensure that if another student starts making the car all the time, they will be