nh115+Improving+Our+World

=Before and After=

====Have you ever felt you needed to do something good? Imagine a place where nobody cared about their surroundings. Gross! Litter everywhere, clogged public toilets, hair in your food. Would you care? I would. Personally, I'm a germaphobe. If I touch stuff at the store, I need to wash my hands ASAP. Anne Frank once said "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." So, what can you do? I believe that people can improve the world around them.====

====One way we stop this from happening is teaching others what you know. Share your knowledge. For example,in //Holes,// at first Stanley has no interest in teaching Zero to read or write. But, Stanley ends up teaching him to read and write. Like my reading language arts teacher says "The best gift you can give someone is knowledge." Mr. Buttondown is right. Without knowledge where would I be? Where would anyone be? So me teaching a kindergartner to tie their shoe or zip their coat could be just a useful to them. Some people may think that teaching one person won't make a difference but, you can teach them and they can teach someone else. It's one of the best chain reactions.====

====What you can also do, if you see a problem, solve it! Even if it isn't yours. I don't mean get into people's personal business, if you see trash pick it up! Taking that five seconds to pick up a wrapper, is one step away from pollution. But be reasonable, pick up a wrapper, not a cigarette. So that one piece of trash you say won't do anything is actually important. If everyone in the world neglects to pick up one piece of trash we can make the world more polluted, gross, and ugly. Don't you want your community to look beautiful? When friends or family or even people from out of town come to visit, you want them to love the community and have them want to move in, not move out.====

====Finally become involved in your community! In the summer, have dinner outside with your neighbors! For example, if you're outside and you see your neighbors playing outside, go invite them to dinner! An antisocial neighbors is no fun to live around. Ask if they need help whether it's mowing their lawn or walking their dog, do the neighborly thing! And you might even get a reward, which makes all your work worth it!====

==== Now take a look around! Our community is spotless! All from those simple things. No more litter, deathly public toilets, or even hair in food. May I say you look ravishing in that hair net. So a quote like "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world" can really change your community so much.So somebody like Anne Frank who was one of the millions of kids hiding in the Holocaust, while her family was turned in by her neighbors who got a reward for turning in some Jews, can be someone who held their head up, and you should too! You helped us make our neighborhood spotless! Now go ride your bike. ====

~All names were changed to protect identity