Point: A 12 year-year-old girl, named Helaina Hovitz was filled with terror as she witnessed a traumatic event that people across America remember as, 9/11. Evidence: Sirens being to go off on September 11, 2001 as Helaina was in school around 8:46 a.m. Schools start to dismiss classes, and Helaina was trying desperately to get home from school. Her parents couldn’t come and get her so she decided to go with a friend. As Helaina was trying to get home she felt as …show more content…
Evidence: When RJ Khalaf was in highschool he ran for student body president, people said he wouldn’t get elected because who he was, or what he believed in. When he was running for president one of RJ’s fellow classmates publicly shared online a hurtful comment, tweeting “If you vote for RJ, you obviously enjoyed 9/11.” Explain: People all over America were scared of Muslims after 9/11. Which resulted to those people pointing out everyone who looked, seemed, or acted like a Muslim. Rj for instance, knew that the terrorist didn’t share the same beliefs, and were not like him. But he also knew that a lot of people weren’t going to understand that. Link: RJ may have received racist comments, but he achieved his goal and became the first Muslim student body president at his high school. He also created a Muslim student association at his school to cover any hateful categorized things about