"Imagine having to pick just one of your children to save, while leaving the others to face death" (Kristof 16). The article The End of Extreme Poverty? by Nicholas D. Kristof is about the life threatening decisions people have to make on a daily basis, and how it is being resolved. In Cambodia, there are people that have to make very agonizing decisions everyday because of viruses in their environment. There are a lot of people that are living in poverty that have very little money and education. The author wants me to know that poverty is a huge problem, and it is getting better because of new vaccines and technology. Since 1980, the rate of poverty has reduced from 1 in 2 to 1 in 5. All of this improvement is due to new vaccines, farming techniques, schools, clean water and technology. "The goal is to end extreme poverty by 2030- and we're close" (Kristof 17). According to the article, with all of the new technology poverty will soon end.
Poverty makes me think and feel a huge array of emotions. To me, poverty is something that a lot of people just look over, and don't really see how bad it really is. I think that is something not to take lightly. I don't believe that people are doing enough on a daily basis. They focus on poverty when there is a huge natural disaster, and they realize that people are even worse off then they already were. I think that the author of this article wrote this mainly to say how poverty is improving due to all of the new ways people are doing things. In my opinion, poverty is a very depressing think about. A lot of people are persecuted and or punished for things that they believe. While it is similar to poverty in that people are left on their own, it is very sad and people look for hope all of the time.
I think that the author of this article really cares about poverty because he was so positive about all of the improvements that are being made. The author stated that a man by the name of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft has a foundation that donates vaccines and medicine to save children and adults. I think Kristof added this to show what different organizations are pitching in to help people from dying in poverty. "…in his lifetime the number will drop bellow 1 million (Kristof 17). This shows by Microsofts donations the amount of lives that will be saved in his life will be at or above one million.
In conclusion, poverty is a very serious problem worldwide. While there are many people that are slowly starting to get out of poverty, there are many that are still facing the struggle. I think that it is very good that people are helping out in as many ways as they can, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Critical Thinking Question- REVISED
In a typical day, you don't really think so hard about how fair or unfair this world is. You usually think about what you are going to do the next day, or what you are join to wear. It usually takes a while to discover all of the problems on the inside, when all you see is the good on the outside. The book Lunch-Box Dream, by Tony Abbott deals with justice and racial issues. In this book, the main character Bobby and his brother are betrayed and teased because of their race. These charters' deal with a lot because of the color of their skin. That lead me to think about how it related to justice in our world today. People get treated differently because they "are not like other people."
One way Tony Abbott shows how this book deals with justice in the world is racism. Bobby, and his brother are called names because of their skin color. "They called them chocolate men, Bobby and his brother"(Abbott 7). This shows that people of the opposite race don't want to accept the fact that they are a different color and they are not like them. Another example of racism in this book is when Bobby asked if a black person dug graves for people. "Did chocolate men dig graves?"(Abbott 17). This shows racism in a not so obvious way. Bobby asked this question to see if a white or black man dug his grandfathers grave. He was wondering if a white man would dig a grave for a black man, and the other way around. He wanted to know that a black man would provide a resting place no matter what color they were. A lot of the time, people don't accept people for who they truly are because they are different. In this case, the characters in the book are being judged because the whites and the black are different. People need to think of everyone the same because we are all unique in our own way, but that doesn't make us anymore different than anybody else. These are the reasons that racism in this book makes me think about justice in the world in the present day.
Segregation in this book is another theme that makes me think about justice in the world. "As long as we don't have to take the bus. Chocolate people always sit behind you"(Abbott 24). Bobby and his brother Ricky were talking about how they didn't want to sit on the bus because they don't like that people have to be separated. They were happy when their mother revealed that they were going to take the plane back home. They didn't want to deal with the drama of having to sit in the back of the bus for a long time with a lot of whites in the front. To him it wasn't fair. Another example of segregation is when Louisa is explaining how Jacob and her husband are going to their grandmothers house. "Hershel sat on the inside of him. Then the white passengers got on, then the driver." (Abbott 27) This shows segregation in more ways than one. One way this shows segregation is that the whites didn't want to get on the bus at the same time black people did because they didn't want to mix. Another reason is that during that time period, there was a lot of segregation going on, and there was very minimal mixing of races. To me, this shows that justice in that time period was very little. I think today, we take it for granted that we have come so far. We need to be aware that people are different, but that doesn't mean we are to treat them any differently.
All of the people who acted during the civil rights act were very brave, and did an amazing job of helping our country unite as one. Now, there is a surplus of justice. Segregation was a very difficult and bad time. Now we have so much more and a lot more to be thankful for. During the time when there was a lot of chaos there was also a lot of people doing as much as they could to have change. In the book, there was a very strong racial issue that effected the main character in a lot of different ways. He didn't like it. Just because someone is a different race doesn't mean that they are any less powerful then anybody else. Segregation and racism are problems that people wanted fixed. Although there is some of this left, we are almost to where we want to be. In perfect harmony.
One way Tony Abbott shows how this book deals with justice in the world is racism. Bobby, and his brother are called names because of their skin color. "They called them chocolate men, Bobby and his brother"(Abbott 7). This shows that people of the opposite race don't want to accept the fact that they are a different color and they are not like them. Another example of racism in this book is when Bobby asked if a black person dug graves for people. "Did chocolate men dig graves?"(Abbott 17). This shows racism in a not so obvious way. Bobby asked this question to see if a white or black man dug his grandfathers grave. He was wondering if a white man would dig a grave for a black man, and the other way around. He wanted to know that a black man would provide a resting place no matter what color they were. A lot of the time, people don't accept people for who they truly are because they are different. In this case, the characters in the book are being judged because the whites and the black are different. People need to think of everyone the same because we are all unique in our own way, but that doesn't make us anymore different than anybody else. These are the reasons that racism in this book makes me think about justice in the world in the present day.
Segregation in this book is another theme that makes me think about justice in the world. "As long as we don't have to take the bus. Chocolate people always sit behind you"(Abbott 24). Bobby and his brother Ricky were talking about how they didn't want to sit on the bus because they don't like that people have to be separated. They were happy when their mother revealed that they were going to take the plane back home. They didn't want to deal with the drama of having to sit in the back of the bus for a long time with a lot of whites in the front. To him it wasn't fair. Another example of segregation is when Louisa is explaining how Jacob and her husband are going to their grandmothers house. "Hershel sat on the inside of him. Then the white passengers got on, then the driver." (Abbott 27) This shows segregation in more ways than one. One way this shows segregation is that the whites didn't want to get on the bus at the same time black people did because they didn't want to mix. Another reason is that during that time period, there was a lot of segregation going on, and there was very minimal mixing of races. To me, this shows that justice in that time period was very little. I think today, we take it for granted that we have come so far. We need to be aware that people are different, but that doesn't mean we are to treat them any differently.
All of the people who acted during the civil rights act were very brave, and did an amazing job of helping our country unite as one. Now, there is a surplus of justice. Segregation was a very difficult and bad time. Now we have so much more and a lot more to be thankful for. During the time when there was a lot of chaos there was also a lot of people doing as much as they could to have change. In the book, there was a very strong racial issue that effected the main character in a lot of different ways. He didn't like it. Just because someone is a different race doesn't mean that they are any less powerful then anybody else. Segregation and racism are problems that people wanted fixed. Although there is some of this left, we are almost to where we want to be. In perfect harmony.
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