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To view my powerpoint on the war in Gaza, go to the discussion board on ctools. Click on War in Gaza.

Imagine watching your entire family die in front of your eyes. On top of this crisis, half the world is blaming you for your family’s death. You and your entire family are labeled terrorist, and others believe that you should have died with your family. The above scenario is what many Palestinians are dealing with in Gaza. Is being born on a land that is not believed to be yours a crime? Is it possible for 100 percent of a population to be terrorists? Many people tend to answer questions about the war in Gaza as if the situation is a game.
How is it that so many people decided whether or not the people in Gaza should live in less than a day? Many Americans decided to donate money toward the war within the same day that the war in Gaza began. People should have researched the topic before taking any action.
Yes. Many centuries ago, Palestine may have belonged to Israel. The fact that Palestine may have belonged to Israel does not give Israel the right to control the lives of the Gaza community many centuries later. Imagine Native Americans fighting Americans for their land. Would we not fight back? It may be that the country may have originally been theirs, but we live here now. Giving our land up would mean giving up our government, our freedom, and certain rules and regulations.
People have lived long enough to reflect current problems with ones in the past. The way that people were once convinced that African Americans are not human is the same way that people are convinced that the communities of Gaza are terrorists. The people of Gaza should not have to wait as long as African Americans had to wait to gain their freedom.
So, “what lead to the hundreds of deaths in Gaza?” Egypt created a cease fire agreement between Israel and Hamas (a group of Palestinians who claim to be fighting for Palestinians through faith). Both the Israelis and the Palestinians broke the agreement every once in a while (Taylor 1). The Israelis felt that it was necessary to protect the people living around the bordering strips of Israel (Butler 1). Israelis claim that for this reason, they began the economic blockade. The blockade denied the Gaza community from strip fuel, building materials, cash, agricultural imports, medical supplies, or equipment. During the year long blockade, a group of Hamas people shot rockets at Israelis for one week, killing 30 civilians (Rothberg 1). Israelis then decided to bomb Palestinians for three weeks non-stop, until the cease fire was replaced. At the end of the war, 1,300 Palestinians were killed.
Every life is precious. Innocent Israelis and Palestinians were murdered during the war on Gaza. Not one of the innocent civilians deserved to die. If it were not for the ignorance and closed-minded people in those countries, the war would not have existed. Though we cannot change the past, we can change the future. For this reason, every individual should support president Obama when he attempts to end the war in Gaza, and creating peace.




Work Cited
Rothberg, Peter. War in Gaza.29 Dec. 2009. 19 Jan. 2009.


Taylor, Alan. Israel and Gaza. 31 Dec.2009. 19 Jan. 2009.
<http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/israel_and_gaza.html>

Butler, Katherine. Why Did Israel Attack Gaza? 29 Dec 2009. 19 Jan. 2009
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The Internet has become a part of my daily life. All my professors require their students to have a website to turn in their work. Reading assignments, watching videos, and doing homework are some ways in which our websites are used. The majority of my courses require one, or two different websites. My comp 106 course requires a blog website, and a ctools website, EDT 210 requires a VLT website, NACI 231 requires a Pet, and Sep website. Let me tell you what a hassle it is to remember all my emails and passwords.

Before I took my screen shot, I was customizing my blog, and creating a new post. My VLT website was also open to read my assignments. The diagram picture is an example assignment of a required assignment for my EDT 210 course.

The computer itself has also played a large role in my life. A way to save documents that can be saved all around the world has been created through the Secure Shell process. So why is this important? People no longer have to worry about installing a USB! All you have to do is drag the file into your home drive. I was opening a composition file through this process on my computer before I did my screen shot. The two files that appear at the upper left are the files in my home drive.

An Advocate for Peace

Though people have at least one topic that they feel strongly about, not many decide to advocate about that topic. A topic that I feel strongly influenced by is peace. For this reason, I would like to advocate for peace in Gaza. Hundreds of innocent people are dying each day, and only a few are attempting to stop the war.

The audience that I will speak to are those who willingly pay for the war, for those who do not know about the war, and for those who know about the war, and take no action toward stopping the war. Today people tend to take sides about an issue that they know little about. War is not a game. Whether or not the people in Gaza deserve to die is not an issue to be decided in a day. Donating money toward killing hundreds of people is also not a decision that should be made in one day.

In order to advocate for peace in Gaza, I will present the facts through research. Visuals will be shown through a power point to convince others that peace is the answer. After I present the information about the war in Gaza, the decision to take some action toward stopping the war will depend on the decisions of the audience.