Burch Fellowship

The Burch Fellowship past winners talked a lot about global issues. Things like service based projects and building up the communities in other countries. These winners didn’t really speak on issues going on in the United States but more on issues that can be fixed or made better in other countries by people in the United States. They talk about poverty and how people are starving and the economics are really bad. The health care is not as updated as ours and they don’t have the medicine and other things we have here in the United States.
With the information I read on the website I thought of many different ideas that I could possibly write about. One thing I thought about writing about is Washington DC in general. But some smaller issues that are happening in Washington DC are issues like HIV and AIDs, Drug use and dealers, Rapes, and Poverty. I was thinking about writing about how these things can be fixed, or how this can be stopped from spreading in this area. One way the dramatic rise in HIV and AIDS rates can be slowed is to get people to be tested. Educate the students starting in the high schools. Motivational speakers would help a lot as well. Drug dealing and use has always been a problem in the Washington Dc area and no one really knows how to stop it but it needs to be stopped. I cant quite pinpoint what could be done but it has to be something.
Another idea I came up with is the crack cocaine law, and how its not fair the amount of time you get for selling crack than you do for cocaine when its all the same drug. This could be stopped by the government giving equal time sentences. Some people who sale crack go to jail longer than some killers. So the sentence needs to be reduced.
The last idea I came up with was Traffic in the city areas like New York, Washington Dc, Chicago, and other major cities. I think if the speed limits were raised there would be less traffic, less accidence, and fewer tickets rewarded for speeding. These are some ideas that came to mind when reading over the Burch Fellowship website.