There are roughly seven billion individuals in the world on one small planet damaged and polluted by not only environmental but social, political, and moral damages. Millions are starving and homeless, individuals are becoming victims of hate crimes because of their race or sexual orientation, attacks of terrorism are being carried out on innocent lives, and the earth that was once viewed as sacred has become a place to carelessly toss our waste onto. Through all this chaos and destruction that appears to worsen as time passes it may seem useless to even attempt to make a change. There are millions on the planet, so how could one simple individual possibly make a significant difference? Although a single individual may seem irrelevant with a voice that will never be heard, every human being on the planet is capable of making a relevant change whether it be a positive or negative one. Anyone is capable make a change …show more content…
The unsettling idea that one single person could do so much damage to this huge planet startled me. Prior I did not think too deeply into that concept but throughout this year I've began to consider it more. I can recall in my readings of Night by Elie Wiesel all of the pain and separation that had been caused by the concentration camps that Hitler had imposed. Millions of individuals were impacted by the acts of the Holocaust and through that horrific event the whole history of the world had changed. Too much power corrupted the minds of a few and in result ruined the lives of multitudes. In addition, I have learned from the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell similar concepts. When the pigs take control of the farm in the novel, corruption and damage immediately appear. This can happen in the real world too as individuals with too much power can become capable of using that power to make decisions that negatively impact the