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.

you have right no matter we you go

Human rights are fundamental in developing your skills, but

the life sometimes is a little confusing because the society think that can put the ruler for everyone and the law is different in and country and other. Since one person born has right, all people are equal in this world, it's not important your religion, economical status, gender,color skin,nationality,language or where you live.All countries have border but this border is only a territorial limited but the right are the same in the world.

For different situations around the world many people are forced to travel outside our country, but in your life you have this right " you have right no matter where you go" this right is individual for everyone. But in this society this right is evidently rated, because many undocumented people suffer difficult situation about there life for example:discrimination and racism are the firsts factor that many people around the world live with this. All people are different and the critical thinking change but the principal problem is information because many people don't know what are your human right? In this situation is important discover your right but the most important is fight day by day for compliance and never give up in the life, when you don't know information about your human rights, asking at any proffesor or looking in the internet and remember all the time:

We have rights and all people are equal in this life it

https://youtu.be/CtvSqakn5QQ

Don't Discriminate

Everyone is living in the world admitted to all the rights and freedoms, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or another opinion. Furthermore, don't discriminate shall be made on the basis of the political, international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent. Although today many countries in the world still discriminate against the interests of others.