17. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

The largest running conflict on the contient is an invisible war taking place in Africa. Joseph kony is terrozing three coutnries while building the Lord Resistansce Army in which children abducted are forced to fight.There's a movement called invisible children to protect those most prone to the Lord Resistance Army , rebuild war-torn schools, provide education and jobs, and most importantly rehabilitate former child soldiers. I'm so passionate about this movement because it's hospitaity is so incredibly valuable. I feel that it's our responsibility to help our humanity. We have to realize that the only people who hold the power to help those in need is us. These children being captured and forced to fight desperately need our aid. Joseph Kony and his Lord Resistance Army has provoked a massive genocide, including 970 civilian deaths and 1820 abductions since December 2009. In order to understand the urge of help and the agonizing and dismal emotions citizens in Africa feel, one must need to experience it or imagine a similar experience. Let us be merely children being torn apart from our family and all we know in life, let us be terrified in a disturbing war, or let us be the mother having to bear the loss of your own child and knowing they aren't going to a better place, knowing they're headed towards their death in such a frightful and heart breaking way. But we must not show despondency, we must have hope and do everything in our power to help the urge need for the wars to stop. Personally, I don't understand how such extreme measures can occur within our own world, we're basically killing ourselves. Does our humanity comprehend that these kids invloved in this war are basically losing their oppurtunities for happiness in life as well as their life?