Once Upon A Time Gordimer

Many states view collecting use tax on smaller purchases as burdensome, therefore states have customarily attempted to collect a use tax only on big-ticket items that require licenses—such as cars and boats. Many states over the last several years are increasing enforcement efforts of the use tax laws to get the state population to pay the taxes due in an attempt to combat internet ordering. The realities of limited resources as well as the complexities involved with tracking down minor purchases and demanding that a use tax be paid are limiting the collection efforts.

“I don’t believe you change hearts,” she told them. “I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.”

This event changed many lifes. Like Don Hull, who “has spent 14 years as a hostage negotiator, found himself performing an entirely different task: trying to find life amid the rubble” (McRoberts). This event changed his career life for a short time, but many people suffered emotionally if not as well physically. Many people lost family members, friends, and neighbors. These people have suffered more because of this event than anyone else in the world. Even though this event happened and the people as a whole have suffered, humans still strive and

Can one change the world? It only takes one, who will it be? It's difficult to understand the world and comprehend how many people inhabit it. Possibly changing the world, sounds crazy. Everyone has the ability too, but no one believes in themselves enough. Everyone is guilty of belittling themselves, comparing themselves to others. Which overall lowers one's confidence and creates the perception of a fixed mindset. Although the world isn't the intimating and untouchable place, it's perceived to be. In reality, the universe is a blank canvas filled with unique and mesmerizing people. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell looks at several social epidemics and analyzes the build-up to when everything tips. “Tipping” is the point where an epidemic blooms or grows, to its greatest potential. Gladwell

As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change toward him… We need not to see what others do.” (Mahtma Ghandi) A quote that I found online from the New York Times, which states that it is up to the individual to make a difference in our own world view. So it is up to us to help save what our ancestors and elders have protected since the time of

Though, it may not seem this way, the impact you may have on someone can make a difference. When you make an impact on a person’s life you are taking a step forward, to make a difference. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust and lived to share his story. We should never forget the stories of the lost and the gone. So that we do not repeat their mistakes. All it takes is one person, an Albert Schweitzer, to make a difference. Discrimination is something that everyone, even Elie Wiesel, has to deal with. Evan Ducker and Sarah Cronk both stood up and spoke out against discrimination. Evan Ducker wrote a book to help people. I understand what it feels like to be judged based on looks. Sarah Cronk created a cheerleading squad inviting everyone to join and be united together. There is a campaign created to support and encourage others to pursue their dream job. This campaign supports people in all ages to become their dream job not just children. One person is all it takes to make a difference. The question of if a person can make a difference is silly because it only takes one person. The real question is, how can one person make a difference? So yes, one person can make a

“Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than… these false notions and live in this miserable manner” (“The Allegory of the Cave”, The Republic). This famous quote by Homer proclaims that it is far better to face the truth and harsh reality than to entertain false notions that simply appeal to one’s own desires. In The Republic, by Plato, Socrates stresses the necessity of questioning and thus, pressuring oneself and society as a whole in order to obtain truth wisdom, and success. This method of asking and analyzing questions to discover the objective truth, or the truth that pertains to all people, was created by Socrates and known as the Socratic method. When stationed in Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther

LeAlan, a 12 year old boy, doesn't even feel safe walking home from a friends house, and he knows that he has a possible chance of being shot. This should make the people feel bad about not helping to clean up the streets of Chicago's projects. LeAlan admitted, “I used to be scared walking home from Lloyds house, because the field that I had to walk through is just an open area and you can't get behind anything if they start shooting. A lot of people got shot there” (Jones 26). This means that if a kid doesn't feel safe no way do the adults. The more indepth meaning is by using these words “open area” and “got shot”, show that anything can happen to you there; this connects to the thesis by making

“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can change the world”

The route the children are designated to take, in addition, is specified in the writing to inspire in the audience fear. The segregated school for Black students is located within a mass of railroad tracks, warehouses, and red-light districts, all notably dangerous locations for children to be in. By specifically mentioning that Ellison had “forbidden words” added to his vocabulary, he implies that he had interacted with the many unsavory individuals in the area to the extent of learning immoral materials or skills (Ellison 4433). This emotional appeal enforces the idea that impressionable children are innocent and that their actions were forced upon them by the adults in control. It also appeals to the parental instinct to protect children and preserve their future. By being forced to maintain continuous exposure to dangerous environments and professions of ambiguous morality, the Black children are victims of tarnishing and possible injury by the White authority purposefully segregating the children to hazardous areas. The strategy in specifying the unfortunate circumstances the African American children are facing is for causing the White adults to appear as villains who impose professionals of socially denigrated on innocent children. In contrast, Ellison, despite not doing anything particularly virtuous, is designated the ‘hero’ to be cheered for along with all his associates and peers, who are also victims.

In the story, Jonas is reacting to his father killing the child. He is angry and sad at his father. The book says, “He killed it! My father killed it!”(188). This is important because this shows how the community needs change because they kill innocent children. Jonas reacting showed that emotions help people care about others.

What makes someone want to make a change in the world? For some, it is a deep desire to be a part of something bigger or better than themselves. Yet for others, it is a family connection or interest that sparks their conscience. For example, when people are moved to do things like adopt children, something in their heart tells them that she should be a part of something bigger in the world. That is exactly the case for Ludviga Pukas, a domestic maid from Ukraine. It was her own morals and faithfulness to her employer that left her to be remembered as one of the hundreds of thousands of holocaust rescuers (Women of Valor).

• Someone with the ability to bring true innovation to the world and the ability to make a difference.

I found out that actions have consequences, and not everything is under my control. Until I found out that I couldn't change the world at all, but a seemingly extra-ordinary movie, and a twelve-year-old boy could change the world completely — for the better, and forever—working with nothing but his own altruism, one good idea, and a couple of years, and a big sacrifice.

Whether or not a person admits it, everyone on the planet has the desire to be remembered. They want to leave an impression on the people around them and leave those people with fond memories of who they were and what they did. For me, the idea of making an impact on someone’s life was my ultimate goal. However, it took me a while to discover how exactly that goal would be achieved.