I Am Native Of North America Essay

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The past is the past for a reason. Most of the past hasn’t been and shouldn’t be repeated. When I think of the past, I think of segregation, the Holocaust, slavery, etc. Not good things. But we have forgotten the past and in a way, we have ignored it. What would happen if we ignored the past completely?
In the story “I am a Native of North America”, the narrator talks about how people have forgotten the past and how we are not listening to the past. The man also stated that the environment was once clean, but is being destroyed. One reason why we shouldn’t ignore how they once treated the environment is because he had talked about how we are poisoning the Earth with pollution. If we were to ignore this, the world could die if we continue to pollute the air with toxic chemicals. Secondly, the author started talking about how we …show more content…

In “I Am Native of North America”, I agree with a lot of things the narrator had said. I feel we are destroying all we really have. We live on this Earth, we use much of the Earth, the Earth has our airs we breath, but all of that will be gone. We pollute the air we breath, poison the water we drink with chemicals, poison our food with chemicals, etc. We need to respect our planet because we have nowhere else to go. This is all we have, and we can’t just let that go. We need to work together to take care of the Earth, but no one wants to put forth the effort. In the stories “The Montgomery Bus Boycott” and “Jo An Robinson” people treated others differently because of their skin color, which I think is absolutely unacceptable. We treated people who were the same as us with the same feelings differently because of the way that they looked. “Never judge a book by its cover.” I believe this saying because you don't want to just look at something, and think “it’s not a pretty color” or “it’s ugly”, especially when it could be absolutely amazing on the

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