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disa�led to reeeive praper medical care. Today Emmy is stiil aiive and experiencing life ta her fullest. As a matter a� fact, Ernmy's life actuall}� he�ped create the �ncitivation for my grandmother io pursue special funding that enabled a day pragram to star� that heIps to educate many disabled st3.zdents like her. My �randparents have loved Emmy not because what she can do, but because she is a human being. They have showr� with their actions t�at Emmy� does not have to earn or do anyEhir�6 to deserve human rights. E�my is not considered less of a hu�nan bein; because of her disabil�ties. She is not undeserving of h��man rights and has huma�i rights just as you and I have thern. E��my has influenced my life beeause I}�ave had experience with disabled children. � feel confident in approaching and interacting with children who are li3ce Emrr�y at3d dc� not view them as being less important than me. I arn thinking abnut t�ecomir�g a nt��se or teacher someday and Emmy's story has taught me that everyone's value is e��t1a1 and it does ��ot mean that yo� ar•e less important if �fou ]c�ok diffet�enT or have rnenta] aa� �h51sical handicaps. The 5econd ti�vay I have bee�� influenced by huma�� rights �s by watching my aunt and uncle becc�r��e parents. M}� Ca�casiar� aunt a�t! uncle have adop�ed two chiEdren who are A#�ican-,�merican. My cousins Nina and Bob now have Caucasian parents, gra�dparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, A�-ticle Two says you have the freedom from discrin�ination. M�� aunt a��d uncle did not reject Nina and Bot�'s because of t�eir skin cc�lar. My aunt and ur�cie �ove the�n just because of who they are as hurr�an �eings. Tt wasn't very long aga when black people expe��ie��ced se�re�ation and slavery: Fifty years aaa r�ost people would not have accepted havin� dit�er�e��t races in the sarne fa�nily. Uver the years many peopie's view has changed on thfs issue, but I still have witnessed first hand how they as a family are sometimes treated differentl�� than my �amii}•. VValking t��rc�ugh Rosedale Mal] with them is a very- eye openin�; experience. Some people's reactions to their fa�n�ly clearly de�nonstrates that discrimination is stiii happening right here i�� Roseville.