rt115+Improving+Our+World

=**People Improving the World? What!?**=

==**Anne Frank once said this: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." I think this means, that there are many ways that people could improve things around them and can start to improving the world  right away just by looking around them. Imagine a place where nobody did that. Broken windows. Bullies everywhere. Pollution in the air. Would you want that to happen? I hope not. I believe that people have the ability to improve the world around them.**==

==**One method to improve the world is by teaching, which has always improved everything. If we don't teach each other things, we would all not be able to solve everyday problems. So, to make a better immediate world, you should teach others what __you__ know. The main character in //Holes//, Stanley, did this, and a teacher, Kate Barlow, also did this. Stanley realizes that a boy named Zero does not know how to read, but is reluctant to teach him. In the end though, he taught him how to read and write, and was very successful in it. Kate Barlow taught kids and adults how to read. Back then, in Kate Barlow's time in the early 1900's, most people were farmers, so they didn't have time to learn. So, she taught kids in the day, and adults in the night. Now, what can we do? We can volunteer at camps, or tutor kids who need help. There are so many things you could teach others. So get out there, and teach others what you know to help them.**==

==**Taking responsibility is another way how we could promote the world. It's so much work, but in the end, great things come out of it. You should take responsibility to solve problems in life. Have you ever heard of //The Blind Side//? It talks about how a family adopted a kid off the street, and that kids turns out to be one of the greatest football players ever! If the parents of the family never took him in, and never had the __responsibility__ to do it, he might have never became a professional football player! How can you take responsibility? Let's say you see a lot of trash near a beautiful river. You don't want the river to be polluted, but you think that it would be too much work. What should you do? A, "forget about it and pretend you never saw it," or b, "get some friends and some garbage bags to clean up the river banks?" If you didn't choose "b," then think about a world without anyone improving it. It now has a better chance of happening. Responsibility will help solve the world's problem, as long as we act on it.**==

==**A third way we can improve this world is to become involved in the community. If we only cared about ourselves, we would all be sad and angry. This will help people that don't have what you have experience it, and will be grateful to __you.__ I am a black belt in Taekwondo. I know many things about Taekwondo, more than the white belts. So instead of keeping all of this knowledge in my head, I let it out and shared it with my community. How, you say? Instead of going for my regular 45 minute black belt class, I went to the white belt class, and helped my instructor teach them. I had so much fun, and was so happy because I helped many kids get better in Taekwondo. Being a teacher is actually very enjoyable! Also, a girl in my grade named Emma shaved and donated her hair for cancer. Now, you don't always have to do things like that for the community, but there are other things that you can do. Donate clothes. Donate money. Maybe help out in the animal shelter. By being involved with the community, you can make the world around you a better place.**==

==**If we do all this, and more, think about what will happen. Fresh sky. People helping each other everywhere. Unbroken windows. Live trees and flowers. How wonderful! The next time you see something bad, don't just ignore it or be a bystander. Dive into it. If everyone in the world did that, we probably wouldn't have a lot of problems we have today, like global warming or obesity. People can really improve the world around them as long as they try.**==