The article "The Bravest Girl in the world" in the upfront magazine is about a young girl who spoke out for girls having the right to go to school and learn. The girl's name was Malala Yousafzai and she was openly speaking about girls in Pakistan gaining the right to go to school. The Taliban did not agree with her views and on her way to school, the Taliban shot her. They shot her because of her gender and her views on the subject. They purposefully discriminated her gender so they could stay superior, showing how people do not care that other types of people are equal to them and that they deserved to be treated equally.

Inequality is a terrible thing that people who are different should not have to suffer through. This story is one of the many that show how unfair it is, and the issues that every type of different or discriminated against person is having around the world. In my life, everyone goes to school, but that is not true about all of the people around the world and it should be like that. This story shows the horror of discrimination through Malala's eyes and from a fair lens of the way the shooting worked. You learn about how unfair things are in Pakistan, and how people are denied some of the most basic rights.

Discrimination starts when a group of people want to feel and be more powerful than a different type of person, and they start to try to achieve that goal. However, the group of people really aren't better than all of the other people who are out there, they are just trying to convince themselves of it. Frances Wright said "Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it." If we claim to give everybody liberty, then we should all be considered equal.

The book Watchmen by Alan Moore is about a group of people who used to be superheroes, and some people are taking out all of their friends and killing them. The main character named Rorschach who is very quiet and able to sneak up on anyone. Somebody is picking off superheroes and very few people are actually taking this seriously. One of the main characters, Dr. Manhattan, is exiled and it shows how people are afraid of difference. The superheroes are disliked because of the fact that the police are having trouble with them.

When people are different, other types of people fear them. All types of discrimination are caused by differences, and this book is no different than all of the other books that deal with racism, religionism, or agism. These people are discriminated by because of all of their powers, when even though they are helpful, people still think that they do things like cause cancer. This book touches base on the origins of all of the types of discrimination when it talks about it.

In a perfect world, people care about each other no matter what their differences are. Mohatma Ghandi said "Be the change you wish to see in the world". This means that if we want people to be more forgiving, we have to do it ourselves. People who complain about other people but are not doing stuff by themselves are being utterly useless, and we cannot make moral changes without doing something by ourselves.

Flight by Sherman Alexie

The book flight by Sherman Alexie is about a young half Native-American orphan named Zits whois forced to fend for his self when his mother dies of breast cancer and his father ran away. He develops hatred for the people who take control over his life and gains a general hatred for everybody else. He does not trust anybody else and acts sinister and angry. He almost commits a mass murder, and is living with the emotional challenges when he is mysteriously sent back in time.

Power is treated as something only rich people get their hands, and is something that is treated as awful and not a thing that was created to help maintain order and peace. The people with power are the police, or anybody with guns who is going to use them When Justice, a caucasian boy who he would generally hate, gave him a gun, he became one of the characters with the most power in the book. Zits started to fell elated and bloated with power

This makes me uneasy, because guns have killed many innocent people who did not deserve to die, but this boy feels that whoever has this gun is the most powerful person. We are trying to limit the amount of deaths, and this boy believes that this deadly instrument is a good thing.

Ziits refused the Paintball gun and chose the gun. Does that mean that we are too squeamish about guns and killing and in a false utopia, or does it mean that he is a person who actually is a murderer. This story suggests that guns are used for power, and that killing is not such a major thing. The question I had constantly when reading this book was why the author used the gun to show status