My dream is to one day become a doctor so I can help sick people who have Aids. I also want to become a Karate teacher, so I can help
people stand up for themselves. I would also like to be a Volunteer
Fireman. I have so many dreams.
My dream is to be like Rebecca Lobo. She is my hero. Rebecca played
basketball for UConn. I would like to play just like her. I think she is a good role model for girls. My dream is to practice hard and be on a team like her. My biggest plan for myself is to get a job. I want to work in a restaurant and be a cashier. I want to be independent.
I dream about finding out who my real parents are. Someday I hope to
be reunited with my biological family. Sometimes I wonder what it
would be like if I lived with my real mother and father. I wonder if I have a brother and sister or am I the only one. I wonder if my relatives know that I am alive and doing well. I have a plan. I have contacted someone who can help me get their birth certificates. This is my dream.
My Dream is to stop the violence. I will tell the people to put down their guns and to talk out their problems. They should find a better way to live. As a concened citizen, I feel we can get together and work it out. We will some day live in harmony.
I have a dream that one day there will be no more pollution. The air will be pure and the water clean, the skies filled with birds and the forests lush and thick. The rabbits will hop and the birds fly free, without being shot down by a sportsman. The water will be pure and the fish will be able to swim without being gripped by oil or sewage and suffocated. People will care about trees and not throw paper into a garbage can. Instead they will take the time to put it into a recycling bin. Factories will find a way to replace those toxic fumes with something cleaner. One day I hope this will happen.
I have a dream that everybody would get the same chance at an education. whether they were rich or poor, or lived in certain areas. They would all get the same opportunities to grow up and be a doctor or a lawyer, or even the president.
Everybody would get the same chance at the career of their dreams. An education is priceless and nobody should be excluded from it. The world needs more good schools to learn at. The world also needs students who want to learn, and know that they will have a better future if they do learn.
I have a dream that people will stop and think... stop and think about what we have done to our world and the people in it. We recycle and have stopped slavery and judging people by the color of their skin. But there is still litter and pollution, there is still racism, there is still war and violence, and our world is still far from perfect.
I have a dream that -instead of fighting with one another- we share our knowledge and our hopes and our dreams, and together, as the people of the world, we find peace and happiness.
I have a dream that when kids grow to be men and women they won't have to breathe the smog that we breathe now. I have a dream that there will be no litter on the streets so that kids will not have to stumble over trash. I have a dream that my children won't have to study the endangered list of animals that have been killed by pollution and oil spills at school . I have a dream that my children will be able to swim in any river, lake or ocean they want to without having to worry about water pollution. I have a dream that my children won't have to worry about chemical spills and nuclear reactions.
- David Congdon
These essays are from the students at the Celentano School,
in New Haven, CT