Selim

**//"It is possible to live in peace//**."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) More quotes [|here]

**Developing a peace culture at CAC**
Peace is something that is very important to the CAC community and much is done in order to acheive and create a peaceful environment for everyone. Our International relations class has been participating in an activity which takes our community one step closer to peace. We have been visiting the 3rd grade in elementary school to discuss the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. We had been researching about this issue before going to the third grade and then we created presentations for the 3rd graders explaining the rights and wrongs about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The 3rd graders had prepared the story of Sadako for us which was related to the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb. I feel this project was one that truly enhances the peacfull environment that CAC is aiming for. The 3rd grade got to learn about Sadako and the story of the cranes which is something that represents peace all around the world while we got to teach them about the disaster in hiroshima which was related to International relations. This project not only taught the kids about developing peace, it brought us together and created togetherness in our school. ................................. During Peace day the high school in CAC made a huge peace sign on the middle of the field to show our contribution to peace day.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
While we taught the 3rd graders about the Hiroshima bomb they taught us about the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper cranes. This is the story about a girl named Sadako who was affected by the radiation of the bomb and was very ill. She believed that by making 1000 paper cranes she would be healed from her sickness. This story was relevant to the project because it had to do with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and this story is known worldwide and is often referred to when speaking of peace. As a fun activity, we and the 3rd graders worked together to make paper cranes which was something that really contributed to developing that togetherness that is needed for peace in our school. ............................... Statue of Sadako holding a Crane

The Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Our international relations class had prepared presentations about the Hiroshima bomb for the third graders. Each group in the class was assigned a different topic to teach. I learned much about the Dropping of the bomb, why it was done, who decided to do it, when and much more. The most significant thing I learned from studying this topic was that the Bomb was dropped in order to try and prevent a war. Truman, the U.S president decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima for a surrender by the Japanese and to prevent a war which would have caused more casualties. This leads me to developing an idea about resolving conflicts in the world. After learning about this issue I realized that in order to resolve a conflict in the world, there will be some bad outcome. It made me believe that there is no problem in the world that can be solved without leaving countries upset, people angry or feelings hurt. Do you think there is a problem in this world that can be resolved without leaving people disappointed, problems that when resolved everyone is happy?