Social Awareness Project

Problems I see around school, my home, neighborhood, media.

• Peer Pressure
• Bullying
• Cyber Bullying 
• People starving themselves so people can like them and call them "Hot" and "Pretty" 
• Friendships being destroyed
• Stealing boyfriends 
• Teenagers disrespecting the elders
• Families  having money problems
• The Condition of some places
• Racism in neighborhoods
• Pollution of places 

Peer Pressure: 

                                           Peer pressure I see everyday, every where. People trying to fit in some where will always do what  "Those people" tell them to do. You will be forced to do something you have never  done and maybe never have wanted to do. You just do it to please people and because maybe they also do it. For whatever reason your doing  what they tell you to do it, its wrong your creating a fake you. Your not being yourself, your being the person "Their Creating" their perfect image. You being a follower not a leader.

                                     Continuing to fall into peer pressure, will just make you never be who you really are. People will take advantage of you cause they know you wont fight back or say anything. People will lose their respect for you. You wont be known as anyone anymore, just the shadow of someone or someones. What you can do is stand up for yourself. Do what you want to do, not what people tell you to do. Find friends who like you for who you really are. who respect you no matter what.

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Who are you to tell me to die?   

I know I'm not perfect 

I don't have the prettiest smile

Or the perfect body

Sorry I wear sneakers instead of heels

Sorry I wear jeans instead of skirts

Sorry I don't wear what you do

I play soccer instead of cheer-leading

Why you may ask?

Cause that who I am

So please enlighten me,

Who are you to tell me to die?

To disappear from the world

Are you perfect? No you aren't

You and me are the same

You are no better than me.

The Process;

                                                           The process of writing this poem was first thinking about a really big big problem. Then thinking about why people think their not perfect. The reason why sometimes people fall into a depression or into suicide thoughts, and sometimes  even starve themselves( Becoming bulimic, or any other eating disorders). This poem is all about , how we are all equal. No one is perfect, no one is better than anyone else. Also that nobody should ever tell someone they should die. Just because their not like you or "The Popular people" .

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Someone who Changes the World Everyday;

                       I picked Munro Chambers as a person that changes the world

everyday. Munro and the whole cast of Degrassi ( T.V Show, really big in Canada.)

traveled to Ghana to build schools. During the summer of 2012 they traveled to

Ghana to build schools in towns/villages where their aren't any schools for kids, and also town/villages   that cant afford  to build one. In the past years Munro Chambers  has also done a fundraising  video to benefit Haiti. Munro Chambers has also appeared in "We Day" along Co-Star Aislinn Paul.Many of the money were going to "Free the Children" ( 1 million to be exact.)