The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel states that “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion”. Hegel's words remind all humans that if you have a will to achieve, you can and will accomplish all of your goals. Passion is an immense and uncontrollable feeling that one feels towards another person, thing, or virtue. When I was in the seventh grade I had the honour of attending the We Day event in Toronto and it was through listening to these speakers that I realized my deep passion for human equality. As each speaker expressed their story of how they were discriminated against either because of race, gender, age or social status, I became more and more personally invested. For many weeks after the event, I spent long nights thinking about why all …show more content…
I furthered my hopes to raise awareness by presenting a speech pertaining to the development of women equality and made it to the board competitions in the eighth grade. However, my passion for equality specifically sparked last may while in class watching the movie called Mississippi Burning. The idea of murdering groups of people because of their race infuriated me and made me realize that although the circumstances are not as extreme, racism is still going on in the world around us. After doing plenty of research, I thought of a way that I could personally help the world and that was through a missionary trip. Last August I travelled to Haiti through a program called GLA, and helped build schools and wells for children who are less fortunate than we are, in hopes of creating a well rounded, equal world. The most poignant lesson I learned on this trip is that no matter the skin colour, the religion or how much money one has, humans are all the same and therefore should be treated that