Personal Narrative: Can One Person Make A Difference
Can one person make a difference?
I am a firm believer that one person can make a whole difference. All actions have a beginning and an end. The beginning starts with an idea followed by an action which gathers momentum to form a movement. Martin Luther King had a dream and started with actions to realize his dream and people followed him to make the dream come true.
I came to realize that I can make a difference when I helped a student in elementary school. This happened when I was 12 years old and still a student. It was during lunch break, some students were walking, others having their lunch. I was walking to the washroom and saw a group of students in the corridor talking loudly to another student; I was under the impression that they were friends but later understood that he was being bullied. My first reaction was to ignore them and pass by, but I could feel the helplessness of the student being bullied.
Without further hesitation, I asked the one being bullied whether everything is going well, I could see the despair in his eyes and I kept standing by his side silently and I am sure my opponent could figure out that my determination to go forward with any …show more content…
The social network such as YouTube “hosted” the movement that swept the whole world, men, women and children were dumping buckets of ice-cold water on themselves. Not for fun, but to raise money and awareness for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It was all started by one man namely, Pete Frates, together with his baseball teammates. People challenged their peers on social media to either do the challenge or donate to the ALS Association. But later on, people did both the challenge and donated the money. The campaign made unbelievable impact and success both morally and financially but it all started with someone trying to connect and exchange information and the end result is a global
I am a firm believer that one person can make a whole difference. All actions have a beginning and an end. The beginning starts with an idea followed by an action which gathers momentum to form a movement. Martin Luther King had a dream and started with actions to realize his dream and people followed him to make the dream come true.
I came to realize that I can make a difference when I helped a student in elementary school. This happened when I was 12 years old and still a student. It was during lunch break, some students were walking, others having their lunch. I was walking to the washroom and saw a group of students in the corridor talking loudly to another student; I was under the impression that they were friends but later understood that he was being bullied. My first reaction was to ignore them and pass by, but I could feel the helplessness of the student being bullied.
Without further hesitation, I asked the one being bullied whether everything is going well, I could see the despair in his eyes and I kept standing by his side silently and I am sure my opponent could figure out that my determination to go forward with any …show more content…
The social network such as YouTube “hosted” the movement that swept the whole world, men, women and children were dumping buckets of ice-cold water on themselves. Not for fun, but to raise money and awareness for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It was all started by one man namely, Pete Frates, together with his baseball teammates. People challenged their peers on social media to either do the challenge or donate to the ALS Association. But later on, people did both the challenge and donated the money. The campaign made unbelievable impact and success both morally and financially but it all started with someone trying to connect and exchange information and the end result is a global