climate change (New York time article)

DESPITE THE RECENT OCCURRENCES OF NATURAL DISASTER, WE STILL KEEP DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE. HOW CAN WE AS CITIZEN OF PLANET EARTH PREVENT FUTURE DAMAGE ( NATURAL DISASTER)?

Natural disasters increase day by day in the world, so many people are affected for climate change. In  the New York Times  article: “ WE DON’T DENY HARVEY, SO WHY DENY CLIMATE CHANGE” written by Nicholas Kristof, he explains the causes and effects of climate change in the world with the mission: sensitize people about the problem of climate change and reduce natural disaster around the world, taking example of hurricane Harvey in Texas.The planet earth is being destroyed in the century XXI, as many natural disaster impact directly planet Earth.

The populations don't think that this problem is the result for bad daily habits, for example contamination is the first problem of climate change. In this century, the climate has been very disorganized because the climate season changes constantly for the big problem called: global warming. Global warming is a temperature increase on the orbit around the sun, affects directly planet Earth, and many natural resources begin to deteriorate for example: sea levels are rising, and snow and ice cover is decreasing, rainfall patterns and growing seasons are changing in the last year. Many countries around the world were affected, but right now we must try to work together and make a plan of natural disaster prevention, but the first step is try to change the mentality of people because the population isn't interested in climate change.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen causing global warming, declining arctic sea ice, this evidence affects directly of population in the world but the big problem is: how can we fix this problem? Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the "greenhouse effect warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space’. The population increases by 7 million people each year. Many organizations try to work together because this affects directly of population world, because climate change causes many disease to people and the quality of life decreases.

According to many reports in the last years, the natural disasters are increasing for different reason around the world, many countries are affected. For example on August 26 2017, Hurricane Harvey affected Texas, many people died in this catastrophe but this is a consequence of  many global destruction of natural resources in the world. This was the biggest hurricane in United States in the last years, but the big question is: how can we reduce the global destruction of natural resources? The people need to eliminate the contamination and think about the future for our sons and what kind of planet do we want for them.

The climate change is a big problem in the last decades, many scientists are very frustrated about many natural results for example: hurricane, global warming and other natural disasters produced by climate change in the world. All people are affected in the world for different catastrophes, a good example is hurricane Harvey in Texas, this Hurricane destroyed many cities in Texas, but the big problem is the consequence of the population, many diseases are expanded day by day.

The principal mission in this cases is: how can we reduce the natural disaster? All people need to work together to change these bad activities, the natural resouces are beautiful but the people are destroying the world. I, along with Nicholas Kristof, believe that by knowing the causes and consequences, we have the mission of reducing the climate change in the world, because the people are destroyed the world after the world destroyed the people, we are in time for change the world but let’s start right now.

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Drug dealers in Lab Coats

        Last summer I had chronic pain in my lower back, I can’t even drive my car, sometimes I talk with myself ‘’how the hell I’m young and I have this pain’’ I was very disappointed and angry. I decided to visit my doctor who reassured me and gave me two medications for pain relief, I took them at the first day, the pain was gone and I felt good. On the second day I did a little research on google, I found one of prescriptions is drug that has addiction risk, I immediately stopped it and my point of view for doctors totally changed since that day.

         All these talks started when Washington Post  did 60 minutes report about Pennsylvania opioid crisis, Drug overdose killed more than 64,000 American last year; that means 175 every day, seven every hour. It’s the worst drug crisis in the US history, it's killed more than the number of Americans who died in the war, in car accidents, gunshots. This tragic issue needs effective action from the federal government, this is what happened last couple weeks when President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency, I hope he’ll do what he said.

          Kristof, in his article, took a deep look to this problem, he’s tried to show us where the problem came from, because most of us think opioid addiction starts on the street corner, Absolutely that’s not true. 75% of American with opioid addiction began with prescriptions painkiller -  that is exactly what was going to happen to me, the issue is those greedy companies who only care to increase their profit with heartless strategy ‘’ get somebody hooked and business will take care of itself’’.

          In the 1960s about 80 percent of Americans were hooked on heroin and now painkiller opioids, and next decades will be new drug absolutely, why? Because pharmaceutical lobbyists are always trying to obstruct drug enforcement administration to sell their dirty products. Opioids addiction is silent killer but what about other harmful effects, people have lost their children because they’re drug addicts and the government has come in and taken all of them, thousands of children will grow up without their parents and then they’ll be drug and alcohol addicts too. This issue has long term consequences and will cost us thousands of lives and orphans every year.

Here the map showing us drug deaths from 1999 to 2014, we’ll see the number increasing year after year.

        Kristof has many purposes, the important one is warning us to use extra caution with medical prescriptions, and other purpose show us the truth of those corrupt people. If your doctor who gave prescriptions for painkiller spent 5 minutes in the internet to see side effects, maybe this 5 minutes can save your life, if you see someone using painkiller relief tell him about this article and the danger of those prescriptions, maybe you or I can save someone life.

The New York Times

Mothers in Prison

Today, young women under 18 years of age often are caught in a jail more than men. This is the message from Nicholas Kristof in his New York Time’s article Mothers in Prison. According to Kristof, in Mothers in Prison, these are young women that are single moms. They want to study to be free  but what is their reason to live in a jail. That is alarming, we as a society can stop or limit the system of injustice.  

The problems of mothers being in prison are that prisons will affect their lives forever. First, most mothers in prison were born in a house that has a drug and alcohol system; this will have a bad effect on them. Drugs have harmful consequences, and you could be addicted. As for drugs, it’s  an important topic to talk about with a medical professional, in case your health and future could be at stake. Second, they were born in a country that has chaos and violence, which will cause the children to live a bad lifestyle. Third, they were born in a house where nobody took care of them. So if the child did something wrong, they would be known as criminals. Fourth, a  family’s financial situation would affect their lives because they have to work to earn money to buy items that they need. The children are too young to do that. “What job will they have?” There is no job for young girls and young boys to work for,  so they will sell the drugs or end up doing something wrong. Last, if these mothers in prison were born in the good family,

they would grow up with a good future.  These are problems that affect children because no one helps them with what they need when they are young.

We as a society could stop things or limit this injustice by making sure we do not make the same mistakes over and over again. I feel as if we should reflect on the things that we did. This would help better us, I feel if we want to improve we need to make sure to do better. We have to prove that we can do the job. If we want to stop things, we have to speak out so our voices could be heard. With mothers in prison, it would affect the children for their mother's wrongdoing. I feel the children should not suffer and that their mothers could make up for their mistakes somehow to prove that they can take care of their children with no trouble.

I agree with Nicholas Kristof about the problems of Mothers in Prison. When they do something wrong, they should be taken to jail to rehabilitate, not just to incarcerate. That’s why they should be able to return to their life. In jail, they study jobs, how to reflect on their lives, and how to be a normal person again. Unfortunately, after Mothers in Prison receive freedom, they are not admitted to society because they have a bad record. They will not have the opportunity to work for a job and they continue to do wrong, therefore the consequences would be a lot higher. So, Nicholas Kristof wrote this article to give people an understanding of the life of the mother in the prison before. He wants a society that gives moms the opportunity to start and they are expecting that good thing will come.

In conclusion, I think Nicholas Kristof is a good person because he wrote and explained the world problem in the  New York Times article. By using a famous newspaper that everyone knows about, he wants everyone to forgive the Mothers in Prison and help make society become a bit more just, therefore more mothers from prison will have  a bit more rights.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/opinion/sunday/mothers-in-prison.html

Drug Dealers in Lab Coats

The most of us think opioid addictions starts in the street corner? do you agree or disagree?

Drug Dealers in Lab Coats

“ In the 1960s, for example, 80 percent of Americans hooked on opioids begin with heroin”. “ Today”, “77 percent of people with opioid addictions began with prescription painkillers. The slide starts  not on a street corner”. This is the thought from Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times article “Drug Dealers in Lab Coats.” Unfortunately most people think opioid addictions starts in the street corner. Drug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in the world, because they are harmful to the user and the people around that user, they lead to crimes, skipping work, skipping school, and they use up society's resources.

In society we face a number of problems. We face many different problems from one thing to another. . But the problems that cause the most problems these days are drugs. The drugs cause bad decision making, committing crime, and gets people very addicted to bad habits. Common bad habits of drug use are: skipping school, skipping work, and not paying bills. First, skipping school will get you nowhere, because when you skip a lot of school you will get kicked out. Because of drugs, drugs make people do bad things. Skipping work is just going to get you fired and that will look bad on your record( If you ever do  get another job).Also then you wouldn't be able to afford rent, insurance, bills, and whatever has to be paid. once that happens you would lose everything.

If you continue your drug use, you would  make bad decisions. In the article, “77 percent of people with opioid addictions began with prescription painkillers. The slide starts  not on a street corner, but in a doctor's office.” They are  not only street, drug are everywhere.  Imagine a world where there are no drugs what so ever. We wouldn’t have to fear as much about crime. No more worrying about what you chose to try because it wouldn’t have drugs in it. No more worries about what kids are doing when parents don’t know where they are. Without drugs, the world would be a better place - less crime, less bad decision making, less addicted people, and less whackos in our society. If our world would be drug free, wouldn't that be great?

‘Since 2000s, more that 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses of prescription opioids”.The consequence of a deliberate strategy to make money by ignoring public welfare”.  The majority of the people using  drug are from everywhere and  most of the people are overdosing  with prescriptions. For example , people who ever get sick they take a medicine like Advil and Tylenol.  People are taking this every  four to six hours later because they feel good when they taking it. But it's these kind of drugs that they won't think that. ‘Latin drug lords and Americans pharma executives lost their humanity when they saw the astounding profits that could be made”. Whoever is selling drugs they don't think about other people. They make lots of money so they don't care about other people.

In conclusion, Drugs in the present day are causing people to make bad choices and bad decisions. Drugs aren’t necessarily making people do things that aren’t right, but make it so that people don’t think straight. When people don’t think straight they tend to make wrong choices. When people make wrong choices it usually puts people around them in danger, which isn’t good to have citizens endanger ever. Also, It is said that the majority of high school students have witnessed illegal drugs being used in their schools, illegal drugs being sold, illegal drugs in the possession of students, students high on drugs and students that are drunk. We have to stop this. I think the parents should feel strongly about drugs in schools that’s why they don’t control their child and, as a result we won’t have drug-free schools. The danger from the drugs is too great to ignore. We must  do something now to save our society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/opinion/opioid-pharmaceutical-addiction-pain.html

Hari-Hara

Hari-Hara.

Asian people have many God to adorate, it’s very typical see this aspect in the population. This picture is of the God Hari-Hara Cambodia, pre-Angkor period early 7th AD sandstone. This sculpture is located in museum of fine art Boston. This sculpture is from south east Asia, specifically of south of India. In Hinduism is a combination is two major gods. But in the context is associated with water because the water is appropriate because the water is fundamental with the plants, almost is associated with the fire is the basic element that causes destruction in the world.

Asian Culture

I am a very favorite of the Chinese cultures, so I chose a sculpture from stone. It had from Northern Wei dynasty second half of the 5th century A.D. That is a sculpture of a Buddha sitting meditating.

In the images of the Buddha meditating, his hands are held together with palms facing up, the right hand slightly rounded resting openly in the palm of the left hand. This open gesture conveys a sense of ease, free from clinging to anything, pushing anything away, or closing up. Perhaps the open hands point to a receptive attitude that can maintain calm and balance in any circumstance.

Attention when you see Buddha sitting meditating, you should not bother them.

A path to dignity

1.problem solution

      Many countries around the world suffer a big problem about human right, this situation increases day by day in the population, many people try to fight about our right but the political system is really strong. This problem affects directly in the developing of the population for different reasons for example: in India the violation  of human right are too much, the big problem is a status class because in this country the poor people don't have access for different rights for example: education, torture,freedom of expression. Since years ago this problem stayed present in the India's population, the problem can be the government because in this day the politicians only think in common benefits and never thinking in the population, so many students are forced to work in a young age and dropout of the school for different reasons. All people want to change this situation but, the beginning  is in the critical thinking of the people, when you want to obtain your dream, you fight for it day by day because you write your own future. Many countries have problems and India isn’t  and exception, many human rights are violated, we need to start to change the world, the first step is to fight for your rights.


2. Human Rights

       I think everybody who lived in India was wronged."Why do I say Indian were wronged?" because I have some reasons to say:
At first time, India's government would not allow any private organizations to get into the school activities because they discriminate within the caste of system. When they get water form the well, they still have to wait for the higher caste to get water before.
Second, Indians were sexually discriminated. Madurai, a girl whom in the video says" When she goes home, she have to do home work and do something, but her's brother does not work because the boy in India have a value and support from their family".
Last, I think Indians did not understand about the benefits of human rights. Almost all of people are listless or do not know about human right. When they have a problem, they always find an organization or law to solve it for them. 



3. why were they victimized/wronged?                                                                                        

Origins of the caste system in India and Nepal are shrouded, but it seems to have originated more than two thousand years ago. Under this system, which is associated with Hinduism, people were categorized by their occupations. Although originally caste depended upon a person's work, it soon became hereditary. Each person was born into a unalterable social status. Because it makes monsters out of ordinary people, all the while assuring them that they are actually better than ordinary, they are special. It consists of transport and communications, energy, finance, housing and insurance, science and technology, health and education. Caste system in India is not a new concept in India, it is coming down the lines from so many generations and its root is deeply situated in the genes of the Indians. This caste system and the discrimination cannot be changed just by giving some intellectual logic or explanation, but has to be worked out on individual level. And this shows how Many crimes against untouchables are recorded and discrimination against them is still going on. Many Dalits were shot dead and the Dalit women are being assaulted. Recently there was a news story where Dalit pregnant women died in government hospital just because she couldn’t pay the hospital bill. This is happening every day because of society. And the modern media tries to hide the world ACCOUNTABILITY in its talk, but what how far it is true. If we talk about this, the common people start thinking how old the thinking we are holding. But there is harsh reality how can we try to do so many patching up. That is why I'm going to show that some bad things are still happening.

•     The Dalits are considered Are considered impure from birth.

•     Untouchables perform jobs that are traditionally considered "unclean" or exceedingly menial, and for very little pay.

•     One million Dalits work as manual scavengers, cleaning latrines and sewers by hand and clearing away dead animals.

•     Millions more are agricultural workers trapped in an inescapable cycle of extreme poverty, illiteracy, and oppression.

In order to stop these caste violence there were so many steps taken by the government.The Indian Constitution has formally abolished castes in 1950.

1. Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth
2. Abolition of untouchability
3. Protection of interests of minorities
4. Promotion of educational and economic interests of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections,

This clearly bans the discriminatory nature of caste forbidding any discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth and provides for proper protection against caste-based discrimination.

           

4.Solution/Results

•  Human rights are rights inherent to all people in the world, regardless of sex, color, religion, place of resident, or other status.
• Education is powerful tool to promote and protect human rights.
• Without education we can't know and understand our human rights.