Ahana Chandra, 11New York, NY To the Year of 2120 Ahana Chandra, 11 Did you know, there was once a storm, rising by the months? It teared apart the lives of dear ones, traveled across the world, and left many fighting for survival. The warriors who went out into the storm, faced the battering of exhaustion while trying to save the lives. Still, they kept on going, kept on fighting for survival. The many hungry people, lining up for food, jobs lost, on the news. They all were fighting for survival. The signs on the windows, the chalk on the streets, all indicating the blossoming hope to encourage the ones fighting for survival. The whispers of the lost echoing in one’s soul, they were sacrificed to the fighting for survival. The quiet voice of the protector, bearing the weight of protection for the beloved, feeling no one would listen to their efforts fighting for survival. The booming voice of authority, assuring the people everything would turn out alright in the fight for survival. Do you ever wonder how we emerged from the ashes? That, you see, is for the future to tell
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A Child’s View of the Death of George Floyd, by Amara, 9
A Child’s View of the Death of George Floyd Amara DeLong, 9 New Orleans, LA Last year, my four-year-old neighbor dressed up as a police officer for Halloween. He was very proud of his costume! Little did he know what was actually happening in the world. Two days ago, my family and I learned about the death of George Floyd. We watched the video, on CNN, of a police officer putting his knee on the forty-six-year-old man’s neck, even as he pleaded for the officer to get off. At school, we are taught to respect police officers. We are taught that they protect our community. We are also taught that racism ended with the civil rights movement. We learn about Harriet Tubman’s fight against slavery, and Rosa Parks’s and Martin Luther King’s fight against segregation. We learn about Ida B. Wells’s fight against lynching. Yet, we don’t learn about the racism present today. The evils that Ida B. Wells fought against are still happening. George Floyd was lynched, and he was lynched by police officers. These are the people who have a responsibility to protect communities, not destroy them. I want to grow up in a country with a greater sense of justice. I want a country that achieves the goals of our activists and real heroes. I hope that, one day, children in America can wear a police officer costume with actual pride.
Daily Creativity #50: Change a Key Word in Your Story
What if a misplaced letter in a word changes everything? A story about someone who wins a million dollars would be very different if they actually won a million collars; a painting of a world under the sea would look very different to a world inside a pea. Play around with a key word in one of your ideas and see what happens to your story or your artwork!
