What Would You Change Scholarship
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Women are taught from the day we are tiny bundles in our mother’s arms that our bodies are nothing but pocket change for man to squander.
“Don’t talk too loudly.
Don’t hunch your shoulders.
I was born in the land of opportunity
My mother's mother was not
My father came here for freedom and unity
Morals and ethics we have since forgot
I bought my first puppy a couple of weeks ago
He's a baby pug with the flattest face
And a body that kind of resembles a potato
So that's what I named him
Potato
Under the sea
Where the fish roam free
Oh, what a beauty it is
When it's not polluted.
How can we stop the pollution when it's coming from our own land?
Let's not make our oceans so bland.
I came today to solely pick up the milk and eggs
But leave feeling queasy in both my head and my legs.
This is such an innoent and frequented place
But all people suffer, unless made of lace
My Perspective Of Life Would Be A Great Way To Change The Attitude I Have Right
The Butterfly Effect.
One act of kindness
From one person a day
Could save a life.
A couple years from now,
Someone may look back
At the act you did for them
and smile.
You ask what I would change about things in my life, today. Why does the world listen to the media and accept what they say? Why doesn’t internal beauty matter to us more than external looks?
An imperfect world
From a distance so pale and beautiful
From up close so deceiving
So corrupt
Sitting with my laptop,
Catching up with the news.
Looking at the headlines,
Feeling the blues.
“Murder”, “Crime”, “Hate Crime”,
Are all I see.
More negative than positive,
The way women feel when walking down a dark alley.
The way a children feel as they are slapped across the face.
The way standardized tests tell students what they are worth.
Bound in shackles of fear that he might find out.
Choking on the poison surrounding her,
She begs for help in escaping her abuser.
He comes home and beats her relentlessly.
No one hears her scream.
Love is
The purer thing turned black and twisted
Snapping her heart in two.
Her face is masked by deceit and self-consciousness
But she only wants to come through.
Their jeers and their laughter,
You:No force can render the Tameless tameyet something feels hindered.What needs to change?
Blue eyes, dark hair, caramel skin
Freckles cover her face
What is she?
She is different
They see her as different
They see her as one or the other
She should not have to choose
She is both
I would change how society views sexual assault victims.
Shhh You Are Worthy
By: Jennifer Cannady
If I could change something, it'd be my generation.
I'd give them some common sense and even more motivation.
I'd bless them with the initiative it to took to build this land
Acceptance
It isn't easily found
Within our minds
Judgment
Constantly riddles our minds
There is no way to escape
Escape the torment of thought
Thoughts that mold society
Look at this world Skewed and shattered Broken and hurt Pierced with pain Stained with sorrow Unfortunate circumstances Hungry for richesChoking with lies Destroying ourselves
Sitting at a table all alone, is a highschool boy I've never known.
People appear to not see him there, I agrily think, nobody cares.
They all walk by without a thought, of the lonely boy who is forgot.
We have all been raised in a society
where resources to achieve the most in life are based on financial standings
Money sets limitations on poeplpe and decides how far they can go
But what if that changed?
No one is
good enough
for anyone
anymore.
"You can't be:
too weak,
too strong,
too skinny,
too fat,
too shy,
too confident,
too pretty,
too ugly,
It’s hard to change,
It’s hard to believe in change,
But it’s not hard to try,
If we could change the world,
What would we want?
If I had power
real power
I'd change the idea
that cruelty
is power.
Unneccessary unkindness
is a concept that I thought
had expired in middle school but
apparently not
We take, we destroy, and we grow.
We grow without regard to the life around us - not even our own.
We poison our lands, our air, our streams, and our bodies.
Yet we build wealth.
If I could change one thing
it would be the way people see themselves.
Short
Fat
Skinny
Tall
That's all anyone ever sees.
But you know what's also there?
How their eyes light up
If I could take your pain away I would.
If I could take your hurt away I would.
If I could take the words away I would.
Boredom is friction.
If I could change anything...
I would change people's motivation.
Boredom cannot magically disappear.
But magic motivation makes boredom melt.
She yells and nags
She gossips and brags
Our relationship went down the drain
Everytime we fight it fries my brain
I love her of course
But from all the yelling my voice is hoarse
The youth have a caring wisdom we discard,
The vast expanse of their world stretched out
So beautiful, young minds yet to be marred
With the reality of ego, money, and clout.
If I could change the world,
I would do it in an instant.
I’d change the time I almost hurled
With smoke in the distance.
Pollution everywhere,
Whether it be cigarettes, cars, or factories
What would the world be
If everyone, including you and me
Did their part
To help start
The world's largest revolution
In education, now that's a solution
You take a child
From the wild
I see people laughing and smiling everyday with so much cheer
So easy for them to continue life without judgement and fear.
I am envious of their emotion they show
for mine remain hidden so much no one will know.
One little thing,
That's all I'd do,
One little thing to change you,
What is this one thing?
I rack my brain,
But you are still blue.
Is all I need to do
Is think of you?
A product of my generation
The product of hate
It's poisoning our water supplies, our children, our lives
Its not a product of man
Its not a product of woman
It's the story of our ancestors
Society whispersAbout who we are required to be.Society tellsUs that we, as human beings,Who try our bestTo be ourselves-Conforming to another lie-
Coming from a girl who observes
Only to see the suffering of our brothers and sisters,
Maybe some day people will understand that
Pointing out our differences only causes pain.
Hello…
Nice to meet you.
This is my friend…
His name is Brian.
Let me tell you a few things about him.
Brian is a habitual liar….
I would change myself
my hair, my face, my life-
Or try to at least
Shoot for perfection
when perfection is warped and pretend.
The clown mirror hangs, glaring at me
Taunting me,
I come inside waiting for the stone.
Wait, wait here it comes.
I see it flyign, and on its way it shone.
He came at me with pain, uttering my name
If only to remind, that our names were the same
I couldn’t look up, towards such disdain
For it was me in that mirror, that I wanted to change
I would change your perception,
My perception,
I would change the perception of the world,
I would throw out all the bad:
The diet pills, the steroids, the magical items that don't work,
Mirror mirror on the wall,
you make these girls feel very small.
Megan Fox and Brittany Snow
the faces we all love and know.
Everyone loves a size two,
how come that isn't you?
