My Journalism article that no one seemed to like.

Black Death still Lives

Most people believe the plague (nicknamed the "black death") only exsisted in the 1300's to around the 1700's but in fact there are still small outbreaks of it around the wolrd. The most recent mini-outbreak of the Black death was recorded in China. The Pneumonic strand of the Plague spread slightly in Ziketan Qinghai Province, it started with and killed a thirty-two year old herdsman (who's name was not realeased) and spread to eleven members of his family who were said to be in stable condition/hospitalized as of August 3rd '09. The rest of the Ziketan population (all 10,000 of them) have been quarantined. A qualified group of medical experts were sent to the 1,000 sq miles of the town to attempt to prevent any further cases. The police sealed off the entire town and set up check points on every edge of the province. Though the bubonic plague can be treated with anibiotics, this strand of it (pneuomic) is still incredibly deadly and will claim its victim's life within a twenty four hour time period. The very last death reported from the plague was taht of the sixty-four year old Danzhi, in the same town.

I wrote this for journalism, and NO ONE liked it, except my step mom. I'm quite proud of it though.....

I wrote it all myself and didn't paraphrase or copy every word I read on the article. :)

Why live a life?

Who's to say any thing even exsists? Ghosts, God, Zombies, Vampires, an afterlife, any of that shit! Who gets to say that its not real? Why can't we ever know? There are so many questions that we well never get answers to.
Do we ignore things that we don't wish to believe in, or are to scared to believe in? Are we all just numbers? I mean...we all have a social security number, so are we all just numbers? Is there a fucking afterlife? What about ghosts?
So many people have ghost stories and stories about seeing and talking to God, and dying for a little bit and then coming back and some of them are believeable, but I'm still not convinced of any of these things.
Is religion just a grown up fairytale so some of us can sleep at night?
If there is a God why is there suffering? WHY THE FUCK DOES MY BEST FRIEND HAVE A FATAL LUNG DISEASE? Why is there so much bad in the world? I cannot fucking stand it when religious people say bad things happen to people because it was their bad karma, because they deserved it. But when something bad happens to them, its just God testing them.
Are we even here? When you look at a speck of dust, maybe you are looking in on a whole other crazy world full of magic and wonder, or maybe someone is looking in on us. What if this IS the afterlife?
Where does time go?
There are so many people in this world that you mean nothing. If you dissapear only family and friends will be deeply affected. And they are not a big portion of the world. Not too many people fucking care about you. There are so many of us, and people are just run off of their own selfish needs that they don't give a shit about you.
Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are just stories, so why isn't the Bible just a story?