#BringBackOurGirls

5/7/2014

#Bring Back Our Girls

Click on the link above and read the article. Think carefully about what it means. Then, in 160 words or less, answer the following question: If you could make a 30-second speech in support of returning these girls, what would you say?

CAUTION!! Do NOT embarrass me, yourself, your class, the English department, the school, your parents AND ESPECIALLY THIS COUNTRY with tasteless, meaningless comments. This is for a grade.

Deadline: May 9, 2014 11:59 p.m. CST

Lauren Gillian

5/8/2014 04:30:39 am

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS These girls have been kidnapped and possibly be sold to whoever. These girls haven't did anything to anyone and they do not deserve this cruelty. The government in Nigeria haven't did anything to get these 400 girls back at all and now that others have started to protest they want to get involved. No, don't get involve now you needed to be trying to get these girls a long time ago. These girls are suppose to be home in schools and with their families but instead these girls are being torture by a man that thinks Ali told him to do this. These girls have been taken and they need to be returned. Women are more then her legs and thighs and caring for babies. These girls should be home getting an education. Now can our girls come back home. #BringOurGirlsBack

NaShonte Lewis

5/8/2014 04:45:38 am

No child should worry about being abducted from school. School is supposed to be a place where kids should feel safe. It is unfortunate that people will take such drastic measures because of a belief that is morally wrong. These girls deserve to be home and safe. #BringBackOurGirls

James Roberson

5/9/2014 01:17:35 am

Exactly! No child, especially young females, should have to endure such catastrophe while attending school.

Kiarra Rollins

5/8/2014 05:38:56 am

Students come to school to get away from all the home problems and stress. These girls have a mother just like the guys kidnapping them do too. There worried about taking innocent little girls and there are guilty criminals out here killing people. What action is our president of United States taking? Will it even help or make it worst? Only a true mother would understand and try to help as much as possible. I don't get how they loaded 200 girls on trucks and drove all the way to the Forrest without immediate help. This shows the government isn't worth a thing and they aren't even doing there job right. We need o save these girls.

jessica thompson

5/8/2014 09:40:38 am

i agree with Kiarra simply because only a mother or parent would understand this feeling completely and feel so strong about it.The government isn't doing something right if hundreds of young females can be taken so easily but so extremely hard to find.

Shermaria

5/8/2014 06:40:59 am

No one has the right to stop something just because they believe it is wrong. And they most definitely should not be able to get away with something so cruel as kidnapping hundreds of little girls. Parents should at least feel safe being that there children are at school. Let's do whatever we need in order to get the girls back where they belong. We won't stop until our daughter, nieces, sisters, and cousins are back in our arms.

jessica thompson

5/8/2014 09:35:58 am

There are many of crimes committed dealing with kidnapping but this crime brings more light to the public simply because there is a number of 400 young girls that are involved. With these innocent young females being taken it took people all over to make nose for it to actually become important enough to be taken serious.The government in Nigeria did absolutely nothing until the light was on him. These girls deserve to be free without the thought of being a sex salve or worst. #BringBackOurGIRLS

Tia Lay

5/9/2014 04:36:55 pm

This is so true. No girl should be made to do anything unless she just want to. The fact action is being taken after they have been pressure. When in reality action should've been taken way before now!!!!

Marq'll Daniels

5/9/2014 12:41:12 am

These girls haven't did anything to anyone and they do not deserve this cruelty. The government in Nigeria haven't did anything to get these 400 girls back at all and now that others have started to protest they want to get involved. Only a true mother would understand and try to help as much as possible. I don't get how they loaded 200 girls on trucks and drove all the way to the Forrest without immediate help.

James Roberson

5/9/2014 01:12:39 am

I know it would seem right to talk down on our adversaries as if we were at a black panther meeting, but it would do no justice. Right now, we need to focus on #BRINGINGOURGIRLSBACK. This act of cruelty was thoughtless and the motive was ignorant. The Nigerian government had procrastinated too long. Had they not done this the girls would have been at home - safe, and sound. My condolences goes out to each and every mother and father in the midst of this tragic storm. I know there are many people who do not believe in hope, but right now the only thing we can do is hope and pray.

Sylvia Richardson

5/9/2014 02:51:55 am

Its horrible that the government haven't done nothing about it. I also send my sympathy to the parents of these girls. I pray that your girls will return in peace and not harmed. #BRINGOURGIRLSBACK

MyKayla Clark

5/9/2014 01:39:10 am

My heart goes out to the 200 young girls and their families. It is impossible to imagine what the are going through. We, as a people, should raise awareness about things like this that happen in Africa. No one should have to worry about their children's safety at school. We need to do all that we can to raise awareness so that the Nigerian government can realize that everyone knows what happened.

Jamaro Blue

5/9/2014 05:37:22 am

I agree with you Mykayla , this a catastrophe and their parents and family must be torn and heart broken to go through an experience like this.

Sylvia Richardson

5/9/2014 02:48:05 am

Think about how your mother would feel if one day you came up missing? How would you feel if your child did not return home after school? Put yourself in the place of these parents and bring back their daughters. It is unfair to take them away from their comfort zone and put them in harm’s way. Please show some sign that these girls are alive and their location. These young ladies have done nothing to deserve to be kidnapped. No child, male or female, or adult for that matter should have to be scared to leave their house to attend school or work. These girls were taking away and being held against their will. Kidnapping is against the law, return these girls before the consequences that you will have to face are worse. I challenge the authorities of the country to step up and put forth more effort in this crime that has been committed. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

Jamaro Blue

5/9/2014 04:48:15 am

These girls obviously didn't do anything wrong let them go. They are children they deserve a chance to experience freedom and happiness. Kidnapping children is the real sin education is a blessing. No human being should have their rights taken away from them. Imagine what those girls could have or would of been of grown up to be, doctors, dentists, lawyers or business women. Hopefully the United Nations decides to intervene and bring the girls home.

Monserrat Aguilera

5/9/2014 11:27:00 am

The abduction of those girls is bound to put fear in parents who will stop sending their girls to school out of that fear. It's 2014 and it's outrageous and diabolical that a group of people can just take away 200 girls and get away with it. The trauma will live with them even if they are returned and that is not right. This incident will encourage other militant groups to do the same and keep girls away from an education. The Nigerian government has to do something about this and bring those girls back as a sign of protest and as a message to anyone who would attempt anything this inhuman in the future.

Alexandra Guevara

5/9/2014 03:22:51 pm

Almost a month since these innocent girls had been kidnapped. This so crucial.How? Why? It is so unfair that this person wants to do what ever he wants with these girls, he has no rights to do this, and whats even wrost is that the goverment was doing NOTHING to help this poor girls and worried parents. It makes me so angry that person is wants to use this innocent girls. He is discusting and sick mind. He and the people who is helping hi, need to understand that those girls could bee their daughters, he wouldn't like to be in the position of the girls nor the parents.The goverment needs to hurry up and act ! Also understand that nomatter what happens you will pay with pain for your mistakes. #BringBackOurGirls!!!

angel baskin

5/9/2014 03:56:06 pm

When the parents let those young girls go to school to get a education they never expected this to happen . I mean no one would've expected this to happen, but it did. We don't know why they took the girls and we don't know the objevtive of them taking 200 young girls, but ww do know that it is catching the attetion of millions. Now if those girls are returned the world will still be silent but just happy to see them safe. They will won't to know more and we need to know more to learn from our mistakes and preventing this from happening ever again.

michael davis-gay

5/9/2014 04:28:05 pm

I man goes in a school and takes a large amount of girl without notice.this shows that pepole are not as safe as others clam to be.this men is selling and killing these girl as if they are property and not human beings.They say the U.S is the most powerful nation but what is this nation doing?We have jumped to help so.many that wasn't involved with.us. So we as a nation need to step up and #BringBackOurGirls

Tia Lay

5/9/2014 04:32:31 pm

As a young person myself I feel that this issue is sad and something should be done. The parents of these young ladies are probably torn down inside. You have to take them out of the equation and put you in, your parents would probably kill to get you back. For all this to happen while trying to get an education that's worse and unexpected. School suppose to be one of the safest places, but it does not seem that way now. I hope that these girls will be found and no harm has been done.

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