If you have lost all your property in the "disputed (read stolen) area of Ukraine;" if your children have been stolen from their Christian school by Boko Haram; if your family and friends are constantly harassed by white police officers wherever and whenever they gather in Baltimore --- then "exams" mean nothing to you. As I watch my students take my final exam in Speech 1101 I realize that the world has given them so many gifts. They are so lucky; they are so blessed.
They are not harassed; they are not threatened; they are not in danger of being killed. They are in America, which, for all its faults is still the best place to be in the world at this time. They are "free" to get an education, even if it costs them "real" money. They are alive; they have a future. Would that it could be thus for all the troubled people in the world
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