Another gathering was held to discuss and elect one great patriotism theme among the group members. I found two that caught my eye and showed to the group , one is about Unity that was speech by a young boy

 "Unity"

According to the Webster’s dictionary unity means to combine as one, consolidated. To me unity means to be together and work as one. Unity is a very important part in the world today because without unity everyone would be mad and aggravated with each other. Unity is so important that there were songs written about it, such as We Are One, by Dan Seals. The song is mostly about kids in different countries that are having a hard time with prejudice and segregation. Most of you must of heard the saying “united we stand, divided we fall.” That means when we are together we will stand firm and when we are divided we will fail and collapse. An example of why disunity is bad is if you are on a sports team and the  team is not working together and not passing the ball your team will lose because one person will try to score without passing and then many opposing players will gang up on that person and steal the ball from him or her. Sadly today, there is not a lot of unity in the world, nations are at war. Some nations are fighting their own citizens and many people are dying. The world is not making much progress. Now I am going to quote a famous Prophet who said “We are the leaves of one tree and the fruits of one branch.” That means we as human beings should work together and not fight. We should be as united as the fingers of one hand. Another advantage of unity is that it makes for happy people. When children are taught about unity when they are young they will become kind and fair adults. All together unity is oneness, wholeness, and togetherness. Also without unity we will never achieve world peace. Before I end my speech I would like to leave you with these words and I quote “so powerful is the light of unity that it can illumine the whole earth.” Please think about these words and try to promote peace.

Nabil Motlagh

June 2005

and another one is about a metaphor about racism 

Metaphor of Racism

by Brenda

"Racism is, bricks put together creating a wall of hate, we may never be able to bring it down."  

Throughout my years as a student I have learned much about Racism and how good we have it now. If this is what we call Racism in its "good times" then I would not like to live during the "hard times". You can never really tell who is racist and who is not or if we've become more of a racist country or less? We can never really find the exact answers to these questions. All I can say is  "Racism is, bricks put together creating a wall of hate, we may never be able to bring it down."     

    

    Why, "bricks"? When I think of a brick I think of a strong object, in this case I am referring a brick to a person. These "bricks" or people are racists. The more "bricks" the stronger and bigger the wall gets. These "bricks" duplicate by the second. When two racist decide to have a baby, chances are that their baby too, will be a racist. It's as easy like that, a new "brick" has been added to the wall. If we don't do something about this quick the wall may take over.

   

    Why, "wall of hate"? I see it as a wall of hate because, the "bricks" are racist that are hate on people. They always manage to find a wrong thing with someone weather its their culture, color, language, accent, looks and so on. They want to believe that everyone has to be the same. So if women are suppose to have long blonde hair, they would look a short, brunette haired women, and assume she is different just from her hair. By piling all of these people or "bricks" together you create a wall, and in this case the wall is full of hate. Which becomes a wall of hate.

    Why may we never be able to bring it down? I say this so that whoever reads this can prove me wrong. So that you will go out and look around your neighborhood and write about what you see and how it relates to racism. If we let the "wall" get any bigger or stronger our only choose may be to join the wall. 

    If you don't like the idea of becoming " a brick in the wall of hate" then start helping our country become less racist. Have you ever judged someone before knowing the person? Have you ever felt a little racist? Have you ever felt that someone you loved was a racist? If you really want to help out, You should start with yourself, give everyone and everything a chance before you judge them. If you have a friend that may seem weird, get to know them, get to know their culture. You never know you may have a lot of fun. After your done helping yourself, help others make sure that they never become a "brick in the wall of hate". By eliminating every "brick" we can make the wall disappear and never come back. "Racism is, bricks put together creating a wall of hate, we may never be able to bring it down."

Prove me wrong.

In the end we took Martin Luther as his speech has music and passion about it :)