Hate crimes in America have become a major threat and have even killed people. Since 1991 there have been over 100,000 hate crime incidents reported in the United States. In 2007 alone 7,722 incidents of hate crimes were reported, that’s a 7.8% increase from the year before. Hate crimes are the slandering, bullying, aggression towards, or harassment of a person or persons in which it is based on religion, race, sexual orientation, or their way of life. Anti-Semitism and Racism have not only shaped American but also the world.

Many people can have an intelligence that even they didn’t know about. At literacyworks.org anyone could take a quiz-like assessment to find their own academic strengths. There are many different types of strengths that you could get. Some of them are Spatial, Logic/Math, Nature, and Self, just to name a few. I took this quiz and discovered that I have some strengths that I didn’t know about. My three highest strengths are body movement, social, and musical.