I think the United States' involvment with the problems in the Middle East is something people will look back on and wish it never happened. Our country is not neccessarily problem free. We should focus on resolving our own issues before getting invovled with other country's issues.
The genocide in Darfur has been going on for five years now and over 450,000 people have died. Moreover, there has not been any U.S. help because of the lack of political support. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), an organization looking to end the genocide, is on the verge of collapsing. It is unbelievable that American troops are over in Iraq and Afghanistan where they are no longer needed, but they are not in Darfur when they clearly need our assistance. There is also a lack of global awareness, and innocent lives are being taken each day because of that. The U.S. government needs to step up and send troops in because we can help and we are needed. We need to campaign for the cause, fight for, and support the country. Standing aside with the knowledge that there has been mass destruction and killing throughout Darfur is wrong. We are a powerful country and there is no reason we should pretend like we do not want to or cannot help. This genocide has gone on too long and years from now people will ask why we did not step in sooner and end this.
Years from now our ancestors will be thinking how could we kill the environment like we are today. Yes we have not totally killed the environment but we have let it get way out of hand in the past 30 years. Also it has been going on for so long and building up but now that it has gotten so bad we have finally decided to try and do something about it. We should have been trying and working to solve this issue for years and should have been able to slow the process of global warming long ago.
think the way we mistreat the enviornment is one thing that people look back on with disgust. At first I was thinking maybe the exploitation of women or our obsession with money, but I feel like those issues will just keep getting worse. However, I feel like enviornmental issues will eventually catch up with us and hit us in the face. We depend way too much on cars and make just about everything from plastic. Nothing is natural any more and it's only a matter of time before we see how it's ruining us.
I think hundreds of years from now, our ancestors will look back on our use of violent murder (especially gun related). Though I believe that advanced civilizations will still continue to wage war, I know they can only wonder about the constant barbarism and cruelty our American society must have undergoen while the Second Amendment was still in place. I think that many many years in the future, inter-societal murder will be a thing of the long-past--and people will find a better way to settle their differences.
In the future, I believe that gay rights will be regarded in the same fashion as slavery is seen today. In today's world, homosexuals are often not permitted to marry, are not afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples, and are subject to numerous hate crimes and discrimination. The lack of gay rights is slightly similar in ways to the rights that those enslaved lack. I believe that the hateful discrimintation of homosexuals will be thought of as a monstrosity in the future.
I think that childhood obesity will become a problem that our future ancestors will look back at and think how could we have let this happen. It is so ridiculous that children nowadays have become so out of shape and unhealthy. This is mostly due to the poor diet of these kids and the lack of exercise. It is embarassing to think that the United States is the most obese country in the world, and this problem will show that in the future.
All over the United States mental health facilities are closing at the same time mental illness in our population is growing. Everyone knows somebody who has a mental illness. Many of our homeless population suffer from a mental illness and we allow them to live on the streets in the freezing winter and sweltering summers with no food and no medicine. I believe that in the future there will be many open facilities for the mentally ill and out future ancestors will say "what were we thinking?"
In the future i believe that our ancestors will look back at and be ashamed by how much we influenced global warming. With our nasty habits and lack of care for our surroundings we have put a dangerous hole into the ozone layer. Global warming will be looked at and our ancestors will say "how could we have allowed this to happen?"
The major issue in the world right now is global warming. Global warming has been escalating during the past years. If we allow for the greenhouse gases to reach its high, the way we live will change dramatically. We will endure more disasters. Besides greenhouse gases we have to worry about our climate changes. If it changes dramatically it will allow diseases to spread more quickly and might even put the world into a drought. In addition to this environmental effects countries will be fighting over scarce resources. To make it even more of a deal we will eventually run out of fossil fuels. If this happens and nothing will be used as its replacement, so if we want to end global warming before are ancestors to undergo this could be catastrophe we have to act now.
I think a present day sin that could be comparable to slavery is one of omission. We allow so many people in the world to be deprived of the basic nescesities of life such as: clean water, food, and shelter. At this day in age you think we could help our fellow man more. We seem to be so self centered. There are organizations, but if everyone worked together we could make the world a better place.
One issue that future generations will look back upon and ask "how could we have allowed this to happen?" is the Rwandan genocide. During the early parts of the genocide people around the world knew that there was violence between the Hutus and Tutsi, but all the UN did was ask for a ceasefire. As violence increased the UN still didn't take any action even though they stationed troops in Rwanda and could see massacres happening.
In the future, the environment will be one of the biggest concerns people will most likely have to deal with. Since restrictions on co2 emissions aren’t as strict in this country, problems will arise. In the future littering, carbon emissions and other pollutants will be looked down on and hopefully eliminated.
I think that 100 years from now people will look back and be in awe at how much we pay professional athletes. They will also be shocked at how underpaid some of the more important jobs like teachers. Our financial priorites are a little outta whack!
I think that the issue of war will be one of those things that people in the future will be like what the hell were they thinking? We as humans will have bigger issues to deal with rather than war in years to come. War has always been present in our lives but in most cases after it is done all there is to see is depression, death and strife.
I think that years from now, the issue of why there has not been a female president will be prominent. Eventually, I'm sure we will have a female president, but why has it not happened already? This surely seems like it would be a popular topic for people to question and say about us, because it's not like a female is abnormal or any more different than a male, so why have we not had one yet?
When I think of something that years from now our ancestors will look at us and say, "how could we have allowed this to happen", I think of something that is entrenched in society (a la slavery) and something that we might overlook today (or see as normal). I think of cancer treatment.
For 2,000 years, doctors used bloodletting to treat sick patients. Today, we look at them and wonder how unbelievably stupid they must have been to actually think that by taking large amounts of blood out the ill person, that they will get better.
Today, many criticize the use of chemotherapy to treat cancer, saying that going through it is more painful (and possibly not effective) than dying of cancer itself. Science is one of my weakest subjects in school, but the parallels to bloodletting seem striking to me. I could see future generations looking back and saying "how could they have thought that killing cells would help treat cancer?"
In the future, I think humans will question our tolerance for the media. Today, we are constantly bombarded with media containing increasingly lewd images and ideas. Today the way we sell we sell a product effectively is by putting a scantily clad woman on it, or in the commercials for the product. This is of course allowed because in America we have the right to freedom of expression, and the government cannot filter our media. The problem is not that the government cannot call to "tame" the media, the problem is that the people in the US don't demand that there is a change. When that image of a half-naked woman shows up on a billboard, it encourages men to view women as expendable objects, a mean, not an end. When a girl see the image, specifically younger girls, she isn't disgusted by the display, she instead becomes disgusted with herself because she don't look like that. I think it is ridiculou that we live in a society where this culture is not only allowed to survive, but it avidly thrives. When we as a society don't reject the current media, we only allow it to grow, and ultimatly become the "norm". In the future, humans will look back on our tolerance for such an abrassive media, and wonder how we allowed it to conintue. Why we allowed the entertainment industry, and advertising agencies to alter and wound our society so much.
I think that one of the issues our ancestors are going to look back on one day is the Global Warming issue. We have let Global warming get so out of control, and yet our government has done little to nothing to help prevent it. For example Bush waited 3 years to sign the Kyoto Treaty even though America is emitting 36% of the worlds carbon emission. Granted global warming couldn’t be presented when we didn’t have the technology to research it, but in 1988 when two scientist presented the idea of global warming and also presented the fact that it is partially due to human involvement, people shunned the idea and it didn’t become a well known problem till 2001. During those 13 years we could have found ways to decrease the amount of carbon emission but instead chose to ignore it.
Ten years from now people are gonna look at the media of today and say "what the heck were they thinking?". Some of the messages that are portrayed to todays generation through the media are both demeaning and deceiving. Both to girls and boys, the media sends messages of ideal perfection in our world today and much of it is corrupt. We present sexuality to young kids who are not ready to understand what is being put in front of them. We feed off of the gossip of the deterioration of a famous movie star, and our attention is suddenly grabbed when an allstar is renamed as a cheater. Many people who are in the spotlight, are often there not because of achievements or successes, but instead because of accidents and mishaps. I hope that ten years from now that we are able to realize that focusing on the destruction of those in the spotlight doesn't have any positive effects on everyone else.
Coincidentally, I just had a conversation with my brother on this topic. We were discussing whether he was a Conservative or a Liberal, and he was torn between the two. One point he had against most Conservatives is that they frown upon gay marriage. I agree with him on the basis that homosexuals are not sinning when they decide to pursue a life with a partner of the same sex. In fact, I would go so far as to say that homosexuals are sinning when they do not spend their lives with their male or female partners. They are living a lie when they try to act like they are not gay. Homosexuals deserve to be married in the church, and should without a doubt be accepted by the church. I feel like I was raised in a somewhat homophobic environment, but as the years have progressed my mother has turned on the issue and does not say that she is against the institution. Progress is already being made around the world. States and Commonwealths are accepting the institution as legal. This is only a start. It may be years, even generations before the church accepts gay marriage, but I am very confident that one day my grandchildren will ask me how anyone was ever so prejudice as to deny people the right to legally be with the one that they love. Another issue that I was talking about with Ms. Farias was the role of women in the church. When my mom was a child, she was prohibited from participating as an “altar girl” and thought nothing of it. Ms. Farias told me that she questions a church that denies her equal rights with men. I understand the tradition aspect of this issue, but I still do not believe that tradition is enough justification to deny equal rights. This issue is very slowly progressing, and I am not sure if any of my descendants will attend a mass that is said by a woman.
Global warming will be the issue our ancestors will look back at us and say, "How could we have allowed this to happen?" We should not be destroying the Earth by burning fossil fuels, cutting down the forests, throwing our trash into the ocean or burying it in the Earth. In the future the people will have to fix a problem created during our lifetime.
It would be hard to match up with past. Slavery was an issue that took many years to get rid of it in the United States. It must have been hard standing up for something that many people will go against you on it. I think it was a issue of, "if everyone is doing it than it is ok," rather than realizing that it is wrong.
Abortion, plain and simple. How can anyone possibly defend muder; especially with the direct malice and forthought of killing innocent lives. As human beings, it is our responsibility to protect the most innocent of human existence. If we disregard this responsibility, or even wrose, specifically choose not to, then we are letting down our society as a whole.
I think people will look back on the overall position we have in the world ranging from our influence on the wars in the Middle East to the economic crisis and even our stand in the environment. Another aspect to comment on is how far behind the rest of the world we are with regard to education. It is nearly impossible to improve the country as a whole unless we improve our education standards and provide necessary preparation to be able to hold our own in the future.
I think that years form now people will be looking back and wondering how we let the war carry on for as long as it did, and asking themselves why we did some of the things we have done. They will just be ashamed of how many innocent people died and for what just more violence nad fi
I think the discrimination of Gay people and gay marriage is one of the issues in today's society that our ancestors would ask how we could let that happen. People today continue to discriminate people just because they are gay. So what? Its nobodys business to call out upon. I just don't understand why people consider it wrong to also have gay marriage. Marriage should be about just loving your partner, not mattering if they are gay or straight. I don't understand how people can tell someone there a "fag",in the future maybe it could even be considered just as bad as using racial slurs. Hopefully in the future this issue could be resolved, and gay marriage could be accepted.
I think that years from now our ancestors will look at the decision that have been currently taken with confusion but also a leser form of comprehension. Certain actions have been taken as a result of many complex situations.There are many instances where individuals or groups take certain actions due to a plausible reaon or influence but on the contrary sometimes poeple do not understand why they take those certain actions either fully knowing the consequences or not, but peole essentailly are willing to accept the reslutant of those actions. As arace if people did not take certain actions then we would not grow from our mistakes and be able to understand the nature of human beings.
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I think the United States' involvment with the problems in the Middle East is something people will look back on and wish it never happened. Our country is not neccessarily problem free. We should focus on resolving our own issues before getting invovled with other country's issues.
The genocide in Darfur has been going on for five years now and over 450,000 people have died. Moreover, there has not been any U.S. help because of the lack of political support. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), an organization looking to end the genocide, is on the verge of collapsing. It is unbelievable that American troops are over in Iraq and Afghanistan where they are no longer needed, but they are not in Darfur when they clearly need our assistance. There is also a lack of global awareness, and innocent lives are being taken each day because of that. The U.S. government needs to step up and send troops in because we can help and we are needed. We need to campaign for the cause, fight for, and support the country. Standing aside with the knowledge that there has been mass destruction and killing throughout Darfur is wrong. We are a powerful country and there is no reason we should pretend like we do not want to or cannot help. This genocide has gone on too long and years from now people will ask why we did not step in sooner and end this.
Years from now our ancestors will be thinking how could we kill the environment like we are today. Yes we have not totally killed the environment but we have let it get way out of hand in the past 30 years. Also it has been going on for so long and building up but now that it has gotten so bad we have finally decided to try and do something about it. We should have been trying and working to solve this issue for years and should have been able to slow the process of global warming long ago.
think the way we mistreat the enviornment is one thing that people look back on with disgust. At first I was thinking maybe the exploitation of women or our obsession with money, but I feel like those issues will just keep getting worse. However, I feel like enviornmental issues will eventually catch up with us and hit us in the face. We depend way too much on cars and make just about everything from plastic. Nothing is natural any more and it's only a matter of time before we see how it's ruining us.
I think hundreds of years from now, our ancestors will look back on our use of violent murder (especially gun related). Though I believe that advanced civilizations will still continue to wage war, I know they can only wonder about the constant barbarism and cruelty our American society must have undergoen while the Second Amendment was still in place. I think that many many years in the future, inter-societal murder will be a thing of the long-past--and people will find a better way to settle their differences.
In the future, I believe that gay rights will be regarded in the same fashion as slavery is seen today. In today's world, homosexuals are often not permitted to marry, are not afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples, and are subject to numerous hate crimes and discrimination. The lack of gay rights is slightly similar in ways to the rights that those enslaved lack. I believe that the hateful discrimintation of homosexuals will be thought of as a monstrosity in the future.
I think that childhood obesity will become a problem that our future ancestors will look back at and think how could we have let this happen. It is so ridiculous that children nowadays have become so out of shape and unhealthy. This is mostly due to the poor diet of these kids and the lack of exercise. It is embarassing to think that the United States is the most obese country in the world, and this problem will show that in the future.
All over the United States mental health facilities are closing at the same time mental illness in our population is growing. Everyone knows somebody who has a mental illness. Many of our homeless population suffer from a mental illness and we allow them to live on the streets in the freezing winter and sweltering summers with no food and no medicine. I believe that in the future there will be many open facilities for the mentally ill and out future ancestors will say "what were we thinking?"
In the future i believe that our ancestors will look back at and be ashamed by how much we influenced global warming. With our nasty habits and lack of care for our surroundings we have put a dangerous hole into the ozone layer. Global warming will be looked at and our ancestors will say "how could we have allowed this to happen?"
The major issue in the world right now is global warming. Global warming has been escalating during the past years. If we allow for the greenhouse gases to reach its high, the way we live will change dramatically. We will endure more disasters. Besides greenhouse gases we have to worry about our climate changes. If it changes dramatically it will allow diseases to spread more quickly and might even put the world into a drought. In addition to this environmental effects countries will be fighting over scarce resources. To make it even more of a deal we will eventually run out of fossil fuels. If this happens and nothing will be used as its replacement, so if we want to end global warming before are ancestors to undergo this could be catastrophe we have to act now.
I think a present day sin that could be comparable to slavery is one of omission. We allow so many people in the world to be deprived of the basic nescesities of life such as: clean water, food, and shelter. At this day in age you think we could help our fellow man more. We seem to be so self centered. There are organizations, but if everyone worked together we could make the world a better place.
One issue that future generations will look back upon and ask "how could we have allowed this to happen?" is the Rwandan genocide. During the early parts of the genocide people around the world knew that there was violence between the Hutus and Tutsi, but all the UN did was ask for a ceasefire. As violence increased the UN still didn't take any action even though they stationed troops in Rwanda and could see massacres happening.
In the future, the environment will be one of the biggest concerns people will most likely have to deal with. Since restrictions on co2 emissions aren’t as strict in this country, problems will arise. In the future littering, carbon emissions and other pollutants will be looked down on and hopefully eliminated.
I think that 100 years from now people will look back and be in awe at how much we pay professional athletes. They will also be shocked at how underpaid some of the more important jobs like teachers. Our financial priorites are a little outta whack!
I think that the issue of war will be one of those things that people in the future will be like what the hell were they thinking? We as humans will have bigger issues to deal with rather than war in years to come. War has always been present in our lives but in most cases after it is done all there is to see is depression, death and strife.
I think that years from now, the issue of why there has not been a female president will be prominent. Eventually, I'm sure we will have a female president, but why has it not happened already? This surely seems like it would be a popular topic for people to question and say about us, because it's not like a female is abnormal or any more different than a male, so why have we not had one yet?
When I think of something that years from now our ancestors will look at us and say, "how could we have allowed this to happen", I think of something that is entrenched in society (a la slavery) and something that we might overlook today (or see as normal). I think of cancer treatment.
For 2,000 years, doctors used bloodletting to treat sick patients. Today, we look at them and wonder how unbelievably stupid they must have been to actually think that by taking large amounts of blood out the ill person, that they will get better.
Today, many criticize the use of chemotherapy to treat cancer, saying that going through it is more painful (and possibly not effective) than dying of cancer itself. Science is one of my weakest subjects in school, but the parallels to bloodletting seem striking to me. I could see future generations looking back and saying "how could they have thought that killing cells would help treat cancer?"
In the future, I think humans will question our tolerance for the media. Today, we are constantly bombarded with media containing increasingly lewd images and ideas. Today the way we sell we sell a product effectively is by putting a scantily clad woman on it, or in the commercials for the product. This is of course allowed because in America we have the right to freedom of expression, and the government cannot filter our media. The problem is not that the government cannot call to "tame" the media, the problem is that the people in the US don't demand that there is a change. When that image of a half-naked woman shows up on a billboard, it encourages men to view women as expendable objects, a mean, not an end. When a girl see the image, specifically younger girls, she isn't disgusted by the display, she instead becomes disgusted with herself because she don't look like that. I think it is ridiculou that we live in a society where this culture is not only allowed to survive, but it avidly thrives. When we as a society don't reject the current media, we only allow it to grow, and ultimatly become the "norm". In the future, humans will look back on our tolerance for such an abrassive media, and wonder how we allowed it to conintue. Why we allowed the entertainment industry, and advertising agencies to alter and wound our society so much.
I think that one of the issues our ancestors are going to look back on one day is the Global Warming issue. We have let Global warming get so out of control, and yet our government has done little to nothing to help prevent it. For example Bush waited 3 years to sign the Kyoto Treaty even though America is emitting 36% of the worlds carbon emission. Granted global warming couldn’t be presented when we didn’t have the technology to research it, but in 1988 when two scientist presented the idea of global warming and also presented the fact that it is partially due to human involvement, people shunned the idea and it didn’t become a well known problem till 2001. During those 13 years we could have found ways to decrease the amount of carbon emission but instead chose to ignore it.
Ten years from now people are gonna look at the media of today and say "what the heck were they thinking?". Some of the messages that are portrayed to todays generation through the media are both demeaning and deceiving. Both to girls and boys, the media sends messages of ideal perfection in our world today and much of it is corrupt. We present sexuality to young kids who are not ready to understand what is being put in front of them. We feed off of the gossip of the deterioration of a famous movie star, and our attention is suddenly grabbed when an allstar is renamed as a cheater. Many people who are in the spotlight, are often there not because of achievements or successes, but instead because of accidents and mishaps. I hope that ten years from now that we are able to realize that focusing on the destruction of those in the spotlight doesn't have any positive effects on everyone else.
Coincidentally, I just had a conversation with my brother on this topic. We were discussing whether he was a Conservative or a Liberal, and he was torn between the two. One point he had against most Conservatives is that they frown upon gay marriage. I agree with him on the basis that homosexuals are not sinning when they decide to pursue a life with a partner of the same sex. In fact, I would go so far as to say that homosexuals are sinning when they do not spend their lives with their male or female partners. They are living a lie when they try to act like they are not gay. Homosexuals deserve to be married in the church, and should without a doubt be accepted by the church. I feel like I was raised in a somewhat homophobic environment, but as the years have progressed my mother has turned on the issue and does not say that she is against the institution. Progress is already being made around the world. States and Commonwealths are accepting the institution as legal. This is only a start. It may be years, even generations before the church accepts gay marriage, but I am very confident that one day my grandchildren will ask me how anyone was ever so prejudice as to deny people the right to legally be with the one that they love.
Another issue that I was talking about with Ms. Farias was the role of women in the church. When my mom was a child, she was prohibited from participating as an “altar girl” and thought nothing of it. Ms. Farias told me that she questions a church that denies her equal rights with men. I understand the tradition aspect of this issue, but I still do not believe that tradition is enough justification to deny equal rights. This issue is very slowly progressing, and I am not sure if any of my descendants will attend a mass that is said by a woman.
Global warming will be the issue our ancestors will look back at us and say, "How could we have allowed this to happen?" We should not be destroying the Earth by burning fossil fuels, cutting down the forests, throwing our trash into the ocean or burying it in the Earth. In the future the people will have to fix a problem created during our lifetime.
It would be hard to match up with past. Slavery was an issue that took many years to get rid of it in the United States. It must have been hard standing up for something that many people will go against you on it. I think it was a issue of, "if everyone is doing it than it is ok," rather than realizing that it is wrong.
Abortion, plain and simple. How can anyone possibly defend muder; especially with the direct malice and forthought of killing innocent lives. As human beings, it is our responsibility to protect the most innocent of human existence. If we disregard this responsibility, or even wrose, specifically choose not to, then we are letting down our society as a whole.
I think people will look back on the overall position we have in the world ranging from our influence on the wars in the Middle East to the economic crisis and even our stand in the environment. Another aspect to comment on is how far behind the rest of the world we are with regard to education. It is nearly impossible to improve the country as a whole unless we improve our education standards and provide necessary preparation to be able to hold our own in the future.
I think that years form now people will be looking back and wondering how we let the war carry on for as long as it did, and asking themselves why we did some of the things we have done. They will just be ashamed of how many innocent people died and for what just more violence nad fi
I think the discrimination of Gay people and gay marriage is one of the issues in today's society that our ancestors would ask how we could let that happen. People today continue to discriminate people just because they are gay. So what? Its nobodys business to call out upon. I just don't understand why people consider it wrong to also have gay marriage. Marriage should be about just loving your partner, not mattering if they are gay or straight. I don't understand how people can tell someone there a "fag",in the future maybe it could even be considered just as bad as using racial slurs. Hopefully in the future this issue could be resolved, and gay marriage could be accepted.
I think that years from now our ancestors will look at the decision that have been currently taken with confusion but also a leser form of comprehension. Certain actions have been taken as a result of many complex situations.There are many instances where individuals or groups take certain actions due to a plausible reaon or influence but on the contrary sometimes poeple do not understand why they take those certain actions either fully knowing the consequences or not, but peole essentailly are willing to accept the reslutant of those actions. As arace if people did not take certain actions then we would not grow from our mistakes and be able to understand the nature of human beings.
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