I believe that words have both created my once thriving nation and caused my nation to go down in a downward spiral. Words. Words destroy, replace, create, and cause hate. I firmly believe that words are a person's gateway to changing the world. Look at Adolf Hitler, he did not tell a nation he was some all powerful man, who struck fear into a country with a quick glance. Hitler changed the world as it was right then and there with a couple words. He became chancellor of Germany by essentially talking his way into it. Words have shaped the world as I know it, what would the world be like without words?
When, yes one picture can show 1,000 words, one word can make history, shape it, and show everything mankind represents.Words have shaped who I am they are everywhere in books, schools, bathrooms, homes, social media, there’re almost everywhere, words set rules like a setting sets a mood to a story, words make me sound smarter once I know the meaning.
 Around the time of the presidential election there was a hefty amount of hate flying around, I personally did not care all too much, it’s not in my place to challenge someone’s opinion when I make literally no difference in the situation, unless the opposer starts the conversation, and I especially hold true to this once social media is in the conversation . Words are misused, not only was every news station bashing either, at the time candidate, but it got as  brutal as a bloody war. 
In San Diego, when I went last November,I could not believe my eyes, people with white signs stained with assorted colored words were waving the signs around the street, and busses filled with people were inches away from shoving ‘em across the lot, inside San Diego airport a  ghost town was before my eyes, but do to the protests the shuttle bus was almost late and I nearly missed my flight. I think that the behavior exhibited in San Diego, is the misuse of words fueled by social media which had a stupendous role in their actions against President Trump. The event directly affected me, and it is in no one’s place to use words as the words were used, words of hate, true despise for that one human being, they look like fools, their words were negative and those words nearly made me feel the fire in their breath.
I think back to MLK Jr., his words inspire me to do my best, do the right thing, and above all else the importance words can have. MLK started a revolution made from a foundation of words, that no one man should be treated differently, if he had not done anything wrong. He showed me segregation is wrong, and it was MLK Jr. that made me understand the golden rule of treat others the way I want to be treated. I’m sure he would be very disappointed with not just black people being racist, but that people use him as a crutch, and not as an example, and take nothing from him.
Words are the foundation of the world whether that foundation is rotten to the core, and filled with hate, or it’s a blossomed garden filled with roses, words shape my world, create my world, and they created the world I want to live in, I believe words are the key to a gateway I have not discovered yet, and one I have not found the key for.


Xavier Gomez - Student