Human Rights

The idea of human rights, is basically, to give  every human natural born rights. but we shouldn't have to have a declaration telling us or allowing us to live our lives they way we want.

      Things, such as freedom of speech,or the freedom of thought or conscience  those shouldn't even have to be put into a declaration, we should already be allowed those things without doubt. 

After reading the declaration of human rights, i realize that the declaration is hardly followed,and every action has a consequence. what is the point of  making a declaration when it means nothing? article 16 states that men and women of full age have the right to marry,not limited to race, nationality, or religion, but why is it in certain states, couples who are gay,can not get married?

    Things that are written down are meant to help protect every individual, but  half the things on the declaration we cannot do, not allowed to do , or if we dare do them there is a punishment behind it.  We say we have freedom of speech but, Journalist, protesters etc, are getting killed for saying what they want, normal residents get jail time or beaten by cops for speaking whats on their mind. 

I think its cool that we have a declaration of human rights, but to me its worthless when none of the articles are being respected. 

chapter 24

i always wonder why none of the products i buy in the stores say made in america. majority of the time it would say made in china or indonesia. chapter twentyfour explained just why there are hardly any products made in north america. after world war two countries started to expierence what is considerd globaliztion. globalization is seperated into four major process; global interaction and transformation, liberation, global feminism, conforntation of world religions and growing awareness of humankinds enourmous impact on the environment.

the first process, englightens on the reason why americans dont have native made products ,and why alot of countrys shows influences of other cultures with in their own. through this first process, tecnology flourshied, economies boomed and goods were spreaded throught out the world. one down fall to this process is that it created a large gap between the rich and the poor in a lot of countries

the second and third process sorta goes hand and hand. the idea of global liberation is how many ethnic groups, and the female gender felt they deserved more, better opprunties ,more rights, and aknowledgement. world realgion also was effected by globalization , a lot of different relgions just wanted to pratice there faith while being given support and respect.

thelast process has to deal with the envrionment and how humans just take and take and are loving the idea of globalization but are not respected the earth. outta disregard to natural resources and their surroundings, the world is starting to experience global warning, amongst other things.
when the chapter first started, a muslim worker was complaing about the idea of the barbie doll, in my opnion i believe that when products are made which are outta the cultural aspect of a country its the parents and goverments job to have another product that could basically be a left hand to the product at question. globalization does bring about alot of cultural influences through out each country but its only deemed negative when a country does nothing about it. the barbie doll is an american model doll, which is sold through out the world, if a country thinks that the model is just to much for their country, all the have to do is make another doll to fit their society, that way children would not only favor or dislike the american barbie, but they will understand the difference in each cultural and see that the life the barbie portrays, may not be the right idea for their world.

chapter 23

 Durning the 19th and 20th century, Africa, and Asia began a decolonization period, which promised national freedom, personal dignity, abundance and opportunity. Countries that were once labeled as 3rd world countries were now referred to as developing countries or the global south.
  In the 1900s European colonial empires were not permanent settlers , but they were a permanent influencesin the lives of the africans , asians and middle east. In 1940, India Pakistan, Buma, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel grained independence, following after between the 1950s and 1970s more than 50 african colonies achieved their independence.  As the century ended, European colonial rule lost political creditability and order. Which meant that the natives could rule themselves " self govern". In Africa, and the Asian peninsula  a 3rd generation arouse called the elites, which were mainly males. Generally, lawyers journalist, teachers and business men.
 In India, Elites were apart of a group called the Indian National Congress ( INC), they were not determined to over throw the British rule, instead they wanted greater inclusion within the political, military, and business life of British India. After the war, India did become a violent rebellious country. Which caught the attention of Mohandas Ghandi, who helped transformed Indians politics. He came with the Philosophy satyagraha " truth force," this was his non-violent approach to political action.
 South Africa also gained an influential political leader, Nelson Mandela. He became the countries first black African  president and help linked south Africa with other countries throughout out other parts of Africa and Asia that have overthrown European rule.

Chapter 21

This chapter was about, World WarI, the civil war, the great depression, and the rise of nazi germany and the holocust.
world war l  was considerd the great war. it lasted more than four years and was defeated by the german. during this war alot of lives were scarficed. and the russian,german  and austrian empires collapsed but poland, czechoslovakia and yugolavia became independent. when soilders came home from the war they were to go back to their  normal lifes but for many that wasnt an easy thing to do. world war l cause a temporary resting period for the women suffrage but women got the opprotunity to go to work in the factories and they slowy gainedd voting rights .after the great war , germany and the united states expierenced  a period of economic downfail which was the great depression. at this time alot of people lost their jobs and life savings. banks closed down , the stock market crashed and people were committing suicde.  alot was done to fix the goverment during the great depression such as roosevelts new deal, but  that did not help the united states much.

colonial encounters

Chapter 20 is about how Europe took over control of Asia and Africa.  but also they were also in India and Indonesia.

I feel like Europe during the 20th century and past centuries has been taking over countries and civilizations back to back. and i still just don't understand why. like if they were such a power country like they said they were then why r they invading other countries. when Europe entered Africa and Asia they weren't primarily aggressive but if they needed to be , they would have been. it was like Asians and Africans became slaves in their own home. kinda like if a stranger just came into our house and try to run  the house hold. Africans generally didn't try to resist  the European rules, because sometimes the rules benefited them. Europeans felt that by speaking the native language vs speaking English would limit the natives from rebellion but there were always a group of people who just didn't like the Europeans in their country. racism grew  within the country and many of the natives could not hold positions in jobs.they were basically "nothing " in there own country, and it was hard to better themselves. women did a lot during this time they had to split their time between working on the farm and their families. but even though they did alot , the men were still in charge. Europeans entering Africa, had its positive points, but when they left, it left the country in confusion. I believe that even today, the problems in Africa such as the tribal wars between  the Hutus and Tusis are because of the changes the Europeans brought into Africa.  we learn from everything we experience, but i think the Europeans could have  went about things differently.

Chapter 19 - External Challenge

In Europe : .. there was a higher demand for raw materials... which meant international trading ..but the main problem was that Europe was producing more goods than its people could buy, Which lead to Europe looking towards Asia because its high population. Unfortunately  having foreign relations ( Markets) mostly only benefited the wealthy , and they became known as imperialist.
     At first Europeans during the 18th century, took likeness to the Chinese and the African culture but when  the 19th century came along, it was like their love for the two cultures died.  The change, meant the uprising of " Racism". Europeans even used scientist to justify the indifference amongst the cultures. Race became everything, it determined intelligence and moral development. Of course the Europeans had to stay superior and above the rest so when the races were ranked, the " Whites" came before others The views of the Europeans  resulted in a lifetime of discrimination and mistreatment. The Europeans applied the theory of survival of the fittest to everyone, so this basically meant every race, is for themselves and we as people must fight amongst each other just because we come from different cultures...
 bad enough.... Asia  ( china ) was already having problems within their country which lead to a peasant rebellion , but to many Europeans that did matter, they still continued to be bullies, in china the British started an opium war, to teach the Chinese a lesson,  the war was as  if the Chinese were being punished for trying to protect their country.  thanks to the opium war tho, the Chinese trading was open to many other countries who abused their privileges.
     The Chinese weren't the only ones who's government was ruled and dependant on the Europeans, The Ottoman Empire, was faced with dealing with the Europeans along side the Chinese. but one country  who arose above the Europeans was Japan. to the Europeans Japan modernization made them " an economic, political and military competitor"

chaps 6-10

Somaly was being watched over by a friend name pierre , she was basically brought out of the brothels and she no longer had to go back there. Life was really looking up for her. when she did recieve money from her friend she would send it her family. One time, she took the money and decided to buy school supplies for her father and mother which would help them out alot, but when she went to go visit instead of being overwhlemed with joy she was stricken by sadness on how her family turned out, but she was always there to help her family and did what she could do for them, even brought food for them. Somaly didnt have lover for her friend Pierre but he loved her alot, so she decided to move in with him. They started to run outta money so the opened up a resturant that was mostly directed to rich people. Somaly served as a waitress, that way she learned more french. Due to political problems going on in cambodia, they felt it was best to shut down the resturant and move to france and Pierre wanted somaly to come with him which meant they had to get married in order for somaly to get a visa. Somaly didn't want to go to france and she didnt want to get married, to her it was a way for men to own a women, she looked at it like prision. Eventually, she decided to go and to marry pierre. They had to live with pierre's mom until they had enough money to get their own place, Somaly ended up getting a job working at a hotel as a cleaning women, and she also worked at a Chinese place. she didnt have to work but she did it cause she believes shes not good at doing nothing. Pierre wanted to go back to Cambodia to work with doctors with out borders so they left to go back to Cambodia and Somaly ended up working with doctors with out borders as well which resulted in her helping local girls in brothels. She helped give them medical treatment, passed out condoms and soap at the brothels and she even paid for some girls to go and learn how to be seamstress, but this didn't mean they were paid outta the brothels, this only gave them a back up plan if the girls did decide to escape. Everything was going well for somaly, she became known as Khmers De France, which got her more respect from locals, and people in her old village. Somaly really loved what she was doing for the girls, that she decided to make an organization that focused on helping them. With the help from her husband and his friends, she figured it will be possible. Somaly also became pregnant, but she wasn't happy about the idea of having a baby. She knew nothing about being a mother and she felt it was a bad idea, but pierre thought other wise, they ended up moving to another town. oddly, there house ended up being next to a brothel, in away kind of a good thing for somaly. Somaly was finally happy, and for all the years she spent with pierre ,he only hit her once. She really felt she was starting a new life.

Chapters 3-6

Somaly goes to visit her grandmother ( the mother of her mother),When she is there she learns about the brother which in a way is the sex trade except it is where they keep the girls, provides a place for the action to take place. The girls are usally paid between 5o to 100 dollers sometimes less. at the time somaly was about 14 or 15 and her grandfather gave her to a solider name than, but she called him pou which meant uncle. Like before, her grandfather owed the man money so in exchange , she was to marry him to make up for his debt. its sad that her wedding wasnt of her dreams or even a true wedding at all. it was just a preist saying they are married. During this time, somaly got her first job, as a nurse. she helped clean up dead bodies that have been blown up by land mines. she recieved her first period, and she believed leeches was the causes of it, now that she recieved her period that means when getting raped she risked the chances of getting pregnant. at her age kids believed just by holding a guys hand would result in getting pregnant. despite all the bad, somalys sister was getting married, and she picked somaly to be a brides maid and for the first tiime she really felt her sister loved her and accepted her into the family. Unfortunatyly, somalys grandfather shows up and basically puts her into the brothel her aunts owned. first few months were horrible for her because she didnt want to listen or follow the rules, so the mean would seriously beat her. somaly falls for a guy, but her judgment was wrong once again, instead of him loving her, he sells her and that expiernce made her realize that she is better off in the brothel. She evetually gained ther aunts trust, and she started helping the other girls in the brothel. She started seeing that girls were being killed by the clients even one of her friend, died by being shot. and all the people did was dump there dead bodys in a rice stack. Her grandfather died during this year, but it didnt changed how much she hated him. SOmaly promised her self that from now on she will find her self a rich man .And surly  her wish of meeting a rich man came true.

human traff. reading article

Its understandable and common that the children of a household wants to be able to take part in helping their family, but its unfair and cruel that people ( men) in south east asia use that against families. it was sad to read the article because i know that if i was in the position i would have done what ever i could to do , in order to help my parents. The people who take part in human trafficing promise a large amount to the families, but who is to say they will actually recieve the money. Cambodia is a ocuntry known for human traficing yet the sex trade is only getting bigger. It is disgusting that the men are so stupid to think that having adis and then having sex with a virgin will cure them, if only they actually stop thinking with their penis they would realize they are only spreading the diease. these men are by far the nastiest of them all and to be able to be ok with what they are doing serves them right when karma comes around and give them aids or is killed by one of the girls.
The united states likes to interfer with other forgein affairs and go to war over bullshit we have little to no concern for bur the things such as human trafficing , the U.S hardly lends a helping hand. Instead the goverment is leaving it to small orginizations to help with this problem. Once human trafficiing becomes apart of the U.S society , only then will people truly begin to panic and take action. but by then it will be to late.

The road of Lost innocence - Somaly mam

Introduction : In the introduction the writer, Ayaan hirsi Ali is giving a broad insight into what human trafficing is . She expresses her feelings towards the cruelty that that the children have to encounter everyday. Sex slavery is not just going on in 3rd world countries such as Cambodia but it is also happening here in the united states. We all need to open our eyes to whats going on around us and try to help those who are trying to fight against inexcusable crimes. Ayann hirsi ali , believes that Somaly is great candidate for the noble peace prize because she is a women of change, and she is a good example of what we call can do and be.


Chapter 1: The Forest: - This chapter is based on Samalys childhood before she was sent into sex slavery. As a child, Samaly wasnt raised with a typical family instead she was raised with her grandmother but , her grandmother randomly left her with out an explanition. Samaly family was from a tribe call the khmer but she was raised with the Phong tirbe which she fits more in with because of her dark skin. Somaly had a family who watched over her, but once day the man of the house old gave her away to a man . at first she believed it was for the best, that by going with the man her life will become better, so told her self that the man was her grandfather and he was going to lover her. That all changed once she saw his anger, which resulted in him slapping her in the face, by then she knew that going with this man was by far a good thing, but it was to late to turn back.

Chapter 2:- she arrives in a village where she will stay with her granfather. Many of times he would beat her, especially when he was drunk and angry. he blamed her for his misfortune,so she had to work for the alot of the villagers in order to make money for him. She then meets a school teacher, that becomes like a father to her, he clamied that he was her biological unles. She even started started attending school and ranked second in her class. At first the classmates hated her but once she was picked for a dance, her classmates begin to like her. Her uncles family became like a true family to her and this is where she got the name Somaly mom. Eventhough she spent most of her time at her uncles, or at school she still had to make time to make money for her grandfather. he had so many debts with people, that once debt he payed off by having her raped by a local merchant,even after that inncident he was still a jerk to her. Men belived that having sex with a virgin will keep you strong, Living with her grandfather bestowed strength and fear, she learned how to neutrilize her emotions no matter what.