Are fire drills really helpful?

Every school is trained for an emergency. Each room in a school has a laminated paper hanging on the wall directing the teachers down a certain staircase and across a certain street to make everyone safe. Being that there has been many terrorist attacks who wouldn't think that these drills wouldn't be helpful. Behind close doors many students feel differently. Students have began to feel as though fire drills are a way to get out of class and everyone takes their time down the stairs. How are we suppose to know when it is serious and when we are just practicing?
I believe that schools should start taking a more active role in fire drills. Teens like to take their time get separated from their class and wonder around outside. Drills teach you many things such as a way to keep yourself safe as well as others. They introduce safety and conduct in to the teens life in case of emergencies. Drills are very helpful and should be used with caution.

The Boy in the stripped Pajamas

I recently saw the movie The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and it was by far a movie that all must see. It was about a boy whose father was a Nazi and they moved near a concentration camp. The boy being an explorer that he was decided to search the grounds and soon found the camp. Not knowing what it was he would play with a boy behind the barbed wire and give him food and no one ever found out. They soon became very close and boy ended up digging a hole under the wire. I will not spoil the ending but it is a movie that moved many people. It helps keep the memory alive about what happened those horrific years. Some choose to forget and others just call it the past, what is done is done.
The holocaust is a time in history that needs to be remembered for the mistake that was made, for no one speaking out against it and for the millions that died. People still live with it day by day having first hand experience. History is told to repeat itself. Not keeping the memory alive is as if we are letting it happen again and no one wants that.

Body Image

Being healthy is an important part of a persons life. Different things are expected from different people based on their life styles. Looking through magazines such as Vogue or Seventeen all you see are the "perfect" figured women. How do we determine what is perfect and what is not?
The media corrupts people. It makes you believe that you should look a certain way and weigh a specific weight but the truth is that everyone is different. Men and women have different bodies. Different women have different bodies, no two people are going to be exactly alike in weight and height have the same eating habits and want the same things. Now a days you occasionally see a plus size person in a magazine. What is to say that is not beautiful?
Teenagers are at high risk when it comes to body image. They want to fit in , they want to be like there role model in a television show or magazine. Teenagers will go to all lengths to get to what they believe is "perfect" or what they have been taught is "perfect". Both boys and girls are suffering because they are being diagnosed with different diseases that effect them both physically and mentally. This effects the youth majorly and needs to be stopped. People die from not eating because they think they are to fat. This is a subject that needs to be dealt with so why isn't anything happening?.