After watching the video, “Trouble
the Water,” in class last week, my heart hurt for the people that have gone
through such horrible natural disasters.
Yet what saddens me even more is how the government can fail to act out
right away and yet, average ordinary people from across the US are more than
willing to step up, hold fundraisers, raise money and try to do what they can
in order to help others.
That’s what takes place in this
video. A group of teenagers from Valor
Christian School in Denver, Colorado, ditched their high school football
playoff game to go to East Coast in order to help victims of hurricane
Sandy.
This to me can relate to the
American Dream and how an ideal united citizenship could look. The typical American Dream is that people
work hard for their money, have a family, support their family, and live in a
nice house. Yet for the people in these
natural disasters, this becomes impossible.
They lose their homes and trying to renovate after such an event, can
cost a lot of money that most families don’t have. This can cause great stress to the family and
the economy because people are lacking a place to live and for those government
agencies that help, it may raise the country’s tax dollars.
Yet, when you see people who are
willing to give up their time, their extracurricular activities and their
hard-earned money to travel across the country, it really shows that there are
citizens in this country that care for other citizens and want to sacrifice a
little of their own in order that someone may gain a little.
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