Street Smart Research Paper

A time during my life when I was “Street Smart: was when I rode the public bus for the first time. My mom had told me I needed to be extra careful because some a lot of people get in and some might give me a hard time. Throughout my whole ride on the bus I kept what my mom had said in mind. After a few stops a guy got in a set next to me and he started talking to me and I was truing to ignore him as much as I could. It came to a moment where he got a little bit out of hand and started saying stuff which I was not comfortable with, so I got out of the bus and got inside a Walgreens and called my dad so he could pick me up. This was moment where I was ‘street smart’ because my mom always told me that if I feel like I’m in some type of danger,
the best thing to do is go in a public place where theirs a lot of people so I can seek for help.

A moment in my life were I was intellectual, was during the time where we had a lot of violence in our country, To be specific it was when a lot of school shootings where going on. I remember one day I was sitting down in my English class and my teacher decided to talk about school shootings and what we could do to stop them. I honestly didn’t even know, I mean it quite felt like we couldn’t really do anything about it, but she made us see that we could. That besides letting teachers carry weapons with them in case of an emergency, us as the citizens could do so much more. We could try to do a petition for congress to hear us and pass laws about weapons so we could lower the rate of people carrying a weapon so easily without knowing if they have any mental problems or anything that can make them dangerous by carrying a gun.