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10 Countries With The Most Slaves

By:  Alexander E.M. Hess & Thomas C. Frohlich

Source: The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/22/most-modern-slaves_n_6204994.html?ir=Business

India, china, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand. One might wonder why these counties are listed above, no it is not to express the countries with the highest population rates, it is to show the counties who still have slaves working on their lands.

            Slavery supposedly came to an end many years ago, however all of these counties listed above populate their land with enslaved people. It was clear that many people have to work in poor conditions but it is now obvious that millions are being forced into slavery. According to statistics counties with an instable or corrupt government are vulnerable to becoming a home to slaves. Population is also a very large factor i8n which countries will become slave keeping countries, however the United States is the third most populated country in the world and it is has incredibly low rates of slavery. As mentioned above the stability and validity of a country is a defining factor in whether a country will become a country vulnerable to enslaving people.  

            It is unbelievably important for people to read articles like the one above, because the world must be aware of the inhumanities that still take place around the world. Slavery is not a resolved issue it is taking over lives of innocent people. It is the world’s people’s job to rid the world of this ghastly matter. Writing about issues like this are not enough something must be done to end slavery for good.

One Dead the Other a Wasted Soul

Deputy Who Killed 19-Year-Old Samantha Ramsey Won't Be Indicted

Source: The Huffington Post

By: Simon McCormack

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/09/samantha-ramsey_n_6123820.html

          Remember how the deputies and the cops in the towns used to be praised and put on the highest pedestals for protecting the townspeople and risking their lives? Now those same deputies are taking lives. In Kentucky in the small area of Boone County a deputy named Tyler Brockman jumped onto top of nineteen year old Samantha Ramsey’s car roof and fired four shots killing her. Deputy Brockman said that he fired because he needed to defend himself after the nineteen year old tired to run him over after he wanted to pull her over for an alcohol level test. Samantha was leaving a party when the deputy tried pulling her over, but she refused and continued to drive. Samantha was also at fault for trying to drive away and after the autopsy was done it was clear that she had an alcohol level of 0.12 which is illegal for anyone under the age of twenty-one. Later it was proven that she had tried to run over the deputy because there were tire marks on deputy Brockman’s shoes. Even though Brockman was only protecting himself he was faced with any charges for killing Samantha, his case was investigated by his own department, which clearly means there must have been some bias towards Brockman. Samantha’s mother, family, and friends are infuriated by the fact that he was not charged with any jail time and that his own department carried out the investigation.

          Regardless of the outcome, there is a nineteen year old lying six feet under, and a man of the law lying in bed living his whole life knowing he put her there. No matter whose side one finds themselves, neither of them have won, one is dead and the other walks around wishing to be dead. It is important for the youth especially to read this article because if Samantha had not drank that night deputy Brockman would not have suspected her and she would not have tried to flee the scene and he would not have shot and killed her. Obviously this single article will not stop teens from drinking, but it will make many young people think of what can happen and of the consequences.

perfection

Thirty minutes. No music, no phone, no computer, no sound, no chaos, just me. Thirty minutes and I saw a whole world; I actually paid attention the birds and the water in the pool and the stillness of the mountains. All I kept repeating in my head was, everything is perfect, and everything looks like a perfectly drawn picture. All the details were right there in front of me, every line was perfect and drawn to the edge. The colors were blended flawlessly the sky faded from a light orange to a pink to an everlasting baby blue. The birds were in peace, they jumped from one tree to another and landed gently on the grass picking whatever they thought would satisfy their hunger. The wind blew into my face making my nose feel like it was touched by a cold and yet gentle hand, everything was at peace with one another. There was no noise, no alarming sound or exasperating demands. Suddenly I was calm and I felt careless. However I was not careless in the sense that I am every day, saying I care about nothing, I was careless in the sense that for those thirty minutes I did not have a care in the world for those thirty short minutes I was free.

          Yes, I saw and I wondered and I let go but I have always known there is a different sort of calm that takes over when you are alone outside. When all the technology is taken away and the demands are lost echoes everything is better, all things are prettier and colors become vibrant. I would love to be someone who would devote and hour each day to rest and sit alone in the outdoors but I can never become one who is like that. Nature works in unison and that is why we keep hearing the phrase let nature take its course, because if we were to let go everything would be perfect just like the simple outdoors.   

DON'T BELIEVE THE VICTIM. BELIEVE THE HUMAN.

#BeenRapedNeverReported Trending On Twitter As Women Share Stories Of Sexual Violence

By: Ed Mazza
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/beenrapedneverreported_n_6080054.html?ir=Women

Rape is a word that has so much power, strength and weakness behind it. It is hard to believe that people can be inhumane to the point where they allow them selves to overpower, violate, hurt, abuse and RAPE. It is even harder to believe that the women who have been raped can convince themselves that it was their fault and they are to blame for the rapest’s savage behavior and actions. 
On Thursday night a new hashtag began to trend on Twitter,                         #Been RapedNeverReported, this hashtag began from the tweets sent out by a writer named Antonia Zerbisias. This tweet was originally sent out to support actress Lucy DeCourtere, however it was a tweet dedicated to all rape victims who have found themselves in the traitorous silence. Others joined the tweezing frenzy by tweeting about their experiences, “I had already lost my childhood, my virginity and my self worth I was afraid, and I didn't want to lose any more. #BeenRapedNeverReported”(1)” Others including well known authors also tweeted to support the woman who have been victimized. “Reading the #BeenRapedNeverReported hashtag. It's hard reading. Makes me slightly ashamed to be human & much more ashamed to be male.”(1) Men also participated in making this hashtag trend by tweeting and expressing their feelings towards this terrible act against penalized women with just a few words of kindness and support. “I believe you. It's not your fault. You have options. I'm here for you. I stand with you. #BeenRapedNeverReported”(1) 

It is not only important but it is ones duty to read and understand what terrible, tragic things are taking place in society. By educating and exposing oneself  to information like this one can learn the ways to stop other women from being victimized, penalized, abused, violated, dehumanized. RAPED.

Schools of Today, Dictate Schools of Tomorrow

                    To be honest it would be nice to think that schools would no longer exist in 2035. However, one must admit that the world would no longer be able to function without having an educated people living on it. Seeing that schools have, for the most part, stuck to their traditional ways and have kept the tradition of conducting classes in a class room environment with a teacher and surrounded by fellow classmates this will not change even in 2035.
      In the future I would think schools would continue to progress as they do today, the only differences would be that books would no longer be necessary and paper and pencil will not even be mentioned in a class room nor any where. In my opinion desks and chairs will begin to levitate off the floors of classrooms before classrooms cease to exist. Some skills must be taught to children and one of those skills would be people skills and there is no better way for a child to grasp the idea of working with others properly then inside of a classroom. Children must have the luxury of being taught by a teacher who stands in front of the class and not inside of a computer. If our future depends on robots humans will slowly evolve into working, speaking, and communicating like robots, therefore the youth must not be effected and exposed to such degrees of technology at such a young age. As hard as it may be for one to believe or understand what I am expressing, I have to trust my ins-tics and say not much will change. Schools will still exist and classrooms full of teachers and students will still be part of the norm. It is more then obvious that books, paper, and pencil will no longer be needed in the near future however human interaction will always remain a necessity. 
               Becoming a teacher has always been something that I have taken an interest in, however I find myself arguing with my computer or anything technologically advanced. If schools in the future were to solely rely on computers, robots, and other technological equipment I doubt I would be able to teach in a situation like that. However, I do believe that I would become a teacher if the circumstances were to remain the same, I know that I would love to become a teacher. It all boils down to how well schools function today and how well schools will be required to function ‘tomorrow’.