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America, what have you done? on 11/25/2016 5:17:50 PMOkay. That makes sense.
America, what have you done? on 11/25/2016 5:08:26 PM
I'm not worried about what Trump will do directly. I doubt he realizes how much money any of the things he is proposing will cost. He's gone into bankruptcy four times, I believe, and that worries me, what with our already deep debt. Some of the things he says, like taking away women's right to vote, could only happen if all male politicians are sexist pigs, because they would need to pass it. They are not, hopefully. Deporting 11 million people isn't exactly an easy task either.
I'm, a little selfishly, worried about myself. I am Hispanic, and I go to a school that is full of different races. However, I'm in all gifted classes, and the only other non-white person in any of my classes is one black person in my history class. Needless to say, I get a lot of things like "Go back to Mexico" or "No, but where are you really from" or "Can we get your perspective on this, since this hits a little closer to home with you rather than us?". I'm from Canada. Canada.
So, with Trump's election, I got a lot of racist comments, particularly from these three short boys who were super pale. They look like little goblins. Anyways, I've begun to get worried because today, one of them heard me murmuring in Spanish, because I am fluent in both Spanish and English. He started mocking me, and the other two joined in. The entire class was laughing, and the teacher? He's lazy and did nothing about it. In that moment, I felt so small, and I said to them, "I know it's hard, but can you shut up for once?" They started laughing and told me that Trump was going to deport me. I'm legal, even if I am an immigrant from Canada. I'm extremely legal.
Call me selfish, but I'm terrified. The president is a role model for what we can and cannot do for some people. To see Trump go up to that podium and openly say so many hateful things not just about Mexicans, but about all people of the Hispanic race, which he somehow thinks are all from Mexico? I don't really understand what he thinks. My point is, if he does that for all four years, that tells everyone else that it's okay to do it. And I'm terrified for what that will mean for me.
Category help, please? on 5/10/2016 9:27:12 AM
It really depends on what feature you focus most on. If you spend lots of time talking about the zombies, go with horror. If you want to focus on the fact that it's at a school and not in a graveyard, go with modern adventure. I think that the only way it could be school is if you spent a lot of the storygame talking about the classes and such.
EDIT: I now see that I just basically copied a previous response. Whoops.