Activism

I try my best to always help out in the community and participate in activist actions. The most resent thing I have done was sign a petition. I walked in the side doors of the school and outside of the fish bowl there was a table setup for people against animal abuse. This petition was about the abuse of sharks for shark fin soup. This has been a bigger issue lately because this was not the first time I have heard about it. I think it is horrible that they just cut off the shark’s fins and then throw them back into the ocean to let them die slowly. Although there is not much I can do other than signing the petition I still feel that it was not enough. I feel that there is more that I can do to help and I would like to do all I can because animals are a cause that I like to support. I feel the need to help animals because they do not have a voice to speak out and are helpless because they cannot ask for someone’s help. If an animal is tortured it just has to sit there and take it where as a person has the ability to fight back and get help. This is why I think it is important to help animals whenever I can. One of my favourite organizations is WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) and I support them every year. Since I was five I started doing the CN Tower climb for WWF every April and have done it every year since. I feel like that is doing more than signing a piece of paper because I am getting donations and helping animals at the same time. This is why I like doing something instead of sitting there, it gives me a sense of worth and accomplishment. This is one thing that I look forward to doing every year because I like the organization and I love supporting them and what they stand for. Doing activist work such as this makes me feel like I have done more than just signing a petition.

I think it is important to have an organization that you support because it gives back to the world in a way. Not only are you helping people that need help but you are also doing something that has more than a material meaning. We live in such a material world and I find doing something for a cause is important to me because it has a certain meaning to me. I like knowing that I am doing something and being part of something that is bigger than I am. In high school we did a big fundraiser that was a weeklong called Cancer Drive. We all would do activates and raise money for children with cancer so that they could go away to camp and have a chance to have fun while still getting the treatment they need. I think it is important to contain activist work and volunteering into school so students can see how amazing of an opportunity it is. This also gives them a good outlook on life and increases the chance of them doing activist work in the future. I think fundraising and helping out is one of the most important things to do in your life because it gives back to others, showing the helper that there is more in life then just them.

There are many different ways to do activist work and signing a petition is one of the many types. They told me that the petition will be going back to the government so that they ban shark fin soup and the abuse of sharks. Shark fin soup is a delicacy and I think it is horrible. I would never eat something that is said to torture animals. As soon as I heard what KFC does to their animals I stopped eating it and I will never eat it again. There are many ways that I do activist work in my everyday life, like what I choose to eat keeping away from food that is said to harm animals and steer towards more local foods. Therefore, activist work is something that I do every day because it is important to me and will always be important to me. I think it is important that everyone take place in activist work throughout their lives because everyone should believe in something and stand by what they believe. Also doing many little things each day can make a huge difference. The more little things people do the bigger they become as they become part of a daily routine.