Committed to Radiant Peace

Kindergarten through Third Grades

I can help make a more peaceful world by treating people with honor.
If I treat everybody I meet like they are special just the way they are,
then everyone would not be arguing and fighting.

The people who helped after September 11^th had peace in their hearts. I helped by raising money for the poor by selling stickers. I welcomed my new neighbor and my new classmate. I picked up the neighborhood. When I help someone, I hope they will help someone and spread peace.

I help make a more peaceful world by growing a garden. The garden smells good
and makes me feel peaceful. I share my food with my neighbors.

I help make peace by doing what Martin Luther King Jr did. Martin Luther King Jr did what he could to make peace. He taught people to be kind to others, I try to be kind to everyone. If we are all kind to each other it will be a more peaceful world.

Fourth Grade through Eighth Grade

Theme: My contribution to World Peace in 2002

How I will contribute to world peace in 2002 will be sincere, but still important. If you think making world peace is helping the entire world, you’re wrong. Simple tasks like helping a younger sibling or even saying "hello" to someone is peacemaking. When you help a friend or help your mother with groceries, you are being a peacemaker. A smile, a hug, a hello, and a thank you are perfect examples of peacemaking that you see everyday. I will do small tasks like helping a friend or saying thank you to someone who did their best to help me. I will try my hardest to treat everyone like they were part of my family. I believe that we are not separated but that we are united as one race - the human race.

Since the September 11 terrorist attack, the world has needed an extra boost of peace and happiness. So, as an American citizen, I think it is my duty, along with others, to make people happy.

My contribution to world peace in the year 2002 will be to be friendly to other people that I meet. Even if I am the only one to participate in my theory, it will effect many other people.

This is my theory: if one person is kind to one different person every day for a year, that equals 365 people. Over a time span of ten years, that equals 36,500 people! If one million people try this, it will equal 3,650,000,000 people!

To advertise my theory, I will tell my friends about it. Then I will ask them to tell other people. After that, the pattern will simply continue.

With all these people being kind, there might not be any more terrorists. So in conclusion, please try my theory and be kind.

In the year 2002 I will try to make the world a more peaceful place. I can start by adjusting my attitude and remembering to count to ten when something gets me angry, that would make a big difference. I can continue making peace with my family and friends by helping my brother with his problems, and helping my friends with their conflicts. I can comfort my grandmother by just sitting down and talking to her. I can also make peace outside the family by giving a happy smile and maybe just maybe make someone’s day better. I can also give a nice "hello", "please", and "thank you" or a wave to someone and maybe make them feel better. I can do something for one person, and hopefully that person to another and that person to another, and so on maybe the whole world would be peaceful for one moment.

I think peace is a contagious happiness. That all color black and white can come together. When I think of peace I think of a land where tall, short, fat, skinny, white, and black are all working together in a community as a family. I will contribute to peace by working in my two communities. Also, I will help people in need. From small to large contributions, like anything from helping out an old lady get a cart at a grocery store, to helping contribute food through food banks. One thing to remember is the smallest things contributed from you, like a can of soup, can make someone in need really happy.

Peace isn’t helping someone or cleaning up, it is something that comes from the heart. I make peace when I walk away from a fight or help someone who doesn’t really me or like me. I can just imagine if, one person makes peace with another then those two make peace with two more people and on and on it goes till everyone has made peace between each other.

It is very important that we make peace because if we don’t the would will be filled with hate. If we can all accept what color people are and the differences then we can have a good place to live. To make peace with others, you first have to find it in yourself.