Maine may be uneducated and cold but at least it isn't Detroit. In the article "What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones" The author Charlie LeDuff adressess the many problems facing Detroit right now. The police force is brutal, the government is corrupt, and the city is dying. The people of detroit live in fear every day, they can't go outside without fears of being shot. The dropout rates are around 70% for high schools and even then those who made it through didn't have very promising futures, the example the author gave a kid died right before prom and graduation. This reading has reminded me of the conditions found in South Africa in the movie Invictus. The police in both places were overly violent and rash.
The article has convinced me that there are so many people who need help and I am very well off comparatively. I should not complain about living in a place like Maine because there is so much worse. Excessive complaining is a bad way to live life because the negative is always the focus of attention and a person can't really live a happy life. Be happy of where you live and don't get caught up in complaining about problems unless you are willing to get up and solve them.
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