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Persuasive Essay NJ ASK Prep prompt: Should people who have more have the responsibility to help people who have less? Putting the world under a microscope allows our views to direct into certain societies, where people are sleeping in castles and people and sleeping in alleyways. Money, food, clothes, countless things are spitting out of their mouths; savaging around the alley looking for those things the others are spitting out. Even though you do not have to, if you have a plentiful amount of something you don’t need to be greedy, as well as it should feel to be a moral obligation to support those who have less and make it an improved place to live in. We turn the dial towards us to zoom out, and look at the world as a whole, so much to see, so many people wondering. Once we turn the dial away, bringing our eye closer to the riches and pain we understand the opposites of black and white of the world but not why the black doesn’t help the white.
Bank accounts don’t need to be sky rocketing high in order for someone to have a higher amount and help others in need. After a big family dinner and many leftovers, why do people automatically put them in the trash? By taking the ten minute drive to a near shelter and dropping off the surplus dinner food, you could have just fed a family in need instead of throwing your money away. You may in fact have a lot of money, by donating to charities you are doing just as good as bringing a meal to a shelter. Every season many kids do “spring cleaning” and clean out their closets. Many families chose to donate it to bins and homes as well. We all carry the responsibility of doing something to bring a smile to someone in needs day or take a little weight off of their shoulders.

We are taught lessons everyday that we say we’ll “carry throughout our lives forever” and pass down to those after us as well as the ones still with us. Everyone strives to be the best that they can

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