Teaching the generation

                                        
                                                  Teaching the generation

         The 1960's were a decade of violence and confusion. Many leader and citizens of the United States have made mistakes that we should all learn from. We should look toward the past to perfect and gain insight into our 

 future. There were a lot of bad events that has happened, THe Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War and the environmental issues.

          Civil Rights movement for African Americans. They struggled a lot and had a lot of problems, but fought until the last to gain rights of themselves. They wanted to be same as any other person in America or equal. Future generation (this is us) can learn that all men and women should have same rights, so your ethnicity doesn't have to be the problem. Women had to  to become more independent. Women needed  to take their place in the country for the entire nation to move forward and away from conflict. They did so by standing up and expressing their passions for equality no matter the gender. Like Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther, and Malcolm X were like a back for their communities. Every person needs to understand that a person is not judged by color but by their personality, which people didn't know at that time. So this needed to take place or otherwise there could of been a lot of problems in the future. Equal rights should be universal across all fronts, whether it is different races, genders, or even sexuality as is the conflict today.

           The Vietnam War Conflict upset the public in many ways. It caused many distractions and losses. Many people had lost their loved ones, homes, money and jobs. Nobody understand that the war isn't to solve the problems. By having a good leader it can lead to great success.This war cost the country a lot of money and too man lives that could have been saved. The government made a rash decision appointing themselves as police to the rest of the world in order to contain communism. Our government must gain our trust and maintain it so they have the country’s support and their reasons are not questioned. The Vietnam War taught a valuable lesson to the government: do not try and get involved in an easy war just for the sake of looking more powerful. They cannot risk they lives of people so carelessly.

         The environment in 1960's were stemmed that helped us to get a good not perfect environment for today. The Environmental protection agency was set up to protect citizens from incidents like Three Mile Island and Love Canal. To prevent other incidents from occurring, the government instilled the Clean Water and Clean Air Act. This has helped a lot to improve the life right now the clean water which by knowing people can not survive without water, by making it cleaner it increased the lifespan of people by 10 years in the last 40 years. Same applies to clean air, it also helped the United States with better and fresher air that helped for air pollution to decrease, which also helps with more healthier and better life. We are still are paying for the past and present destruction of the environment through events such as polar icecaps melting and extremely rapid climate change. We could loose many animals throughout the words and we should instill the legislation were applied in the 1960s to situations today. We need to learn from environmental issues of the past and protect the environment for the future to come. But again it all depending on us.

       The present and the future can be changed for the better if we learn from the past and do no make their mistakes. For example: the homosexuals are oppressed and they eventually one day, will get the equal right that they deserve. The environment will become better if we apply laws to protect it. We will hopefully learn from the Vietnam War and learn to not make rash decisions regarding involving ourselves in wars for no reason. All of these things will happen; it is just a matter of time before we learn from our past.