Introduction

I'm a high school student in a town tht doesn't value education or the trials of the past, such as the fight for equality between white and colored men or the fight for equality the women still face everyday. I was born into a family that values knowledge and intelligence as one of the most important things that a person can have. I play first flute in my high school band, though it is not difficult to do such a thing because most of the music that we play is for football and basketball games. I'm a varsity dance team member on a team that practices at 5:30 in the morning until 7:00 when we have toget ready at school because dance takes no authority over any sport, though we work twice as hard as the majority of the sports that practice. I believe that people should have the ability to choose how they want to live their life, which is why I am pro-choice, support same-sex marriage, and anything that gives people a choice, though I may not agree with everything that people do with their lives. I am a feminist, the definition being that a feminist supports equality between genders. I think that men should be able to cry freely, and women should be able to be as strong as men are viewed. I've gone through many years of keeping my mouth shut against the racist, sexist comments of my peers because I know, based on past experiences, that whatever I say won't change their mind because that was the frame of mind that they were brought up in, though sometimes it is difficult for me to not say anything. I will always fight for what I believe is true and good, such fighting an attempt at censorship. I was brought up in a home where I can choose my views and my beliefs based on what I think is noble and just. I believe that the best way to learn is through experiencing the world and learning at your own rate and way that you learn, which is why I don't enjoy the public school system. I seem to be a natural musician, in that I play two instruments and have a nocturnal sleep schedule when I don't have school the next morning. I mentally fight the oppression and constricting thoughts of the right-wing conservatism that is very much a present idea in town. When the school district and parents tried to take away the novel "The Avsolutley True Diary of a Part-time Indian" by Sherman Alexie that we were reading during my eighth grade year, they talked about how there is a small minority in the people that protested the novel, though I believe that it is untrue. I believe that through that experience, it really opened my eyes and showed me that I am truly alone in the way that I think in this town. I always continue to feel inspired by the people that fight for freedom, such as the Ferguson protestors, or the protestors of Hong Kong that are fighting for the right to be free. Groups like that always give me hope in the rest of the world that there are people who think in the same ways at I do, and that there still are people who realize that freedom shouldn't be a fight, but a right for everybody.