Yi's Voice

Dear city councils, I am a 13-year old boy with special needs. I am writing to let you know how difficult it is for me to go swimming at the riconada community pool. There is no easy way for me to go in with my female caregiver because I am a boy who needs support changing. The gender specific changing rooms make it impossible for people like me who need support. Please build a family changing room so that people like me can enjoy the pool. Yi

I am a great hiker. But I was not able to do that when I was younger. It took years of me working really hard to get there. Sometimes, there were tears and screaming involved. It was hard for me, especially if there were people nearby. They made me nervous. I was able to control my anxiety by looking at my shoes or a tree, around essentially things that help me to ignore other people.  I started to hike when I was six years old in our neighborhood. It was hard since there were people around often. It made me embarrassed because I was not able to walk a block at the age of six. I kept at it because I really wanted to hike with my family. I was determined to hike as much as I could. The process took months and months of daily practice. It took a lot of hard work from me and the people who supported me during the process. But I am so glad that we didn’t give up.  It was really hard but then hard work paid off. I was able to go to many beautiful places, such as Bryce National Park...

Find one news story and one opinion piece on the same topic. What's different about how they're written? The analysis, A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a blow to American Credibility , provides an interesting comparison between the Britain and Suez war and US at the Hormuz strait. It is based on historical references and provides a prediction of what the future might be. The news, 36 Hours of Chaos: The Scramble for a Cease-Fire in Iran , on the other hand, provides an accurate timeline of what happened event by event. They are interesting articles that provide different perspectives about the cease fire event in Iran. The news is based on facts and what’s happening now while the analysis is based on historical references and what might happen in the future.