ch 21

Chapter 21 was all about the down hills that many countries face throughout history. Such as wars, depression and groups of people wanting to overthrow one culture. However it’s very wild just thinking about how many humans were killed and how some families were destroy during these events.  Reading about the wars that had happened such as World War I and World War II are both breath taken issues. Do to the fact that many of the humans who fought in those wars started at age 14 or even younger. This is a very crazy thought because today most parents would never let their 14 year old child experience such a terrible situation. 14 year old humans are very young they do not even know how to go about some situations just thinking that back in the day they fought at that age is awful. Also it’s very sad how we were all fighting against each other to make a country change its views and what not. I cannot even fathom  how these men could just go and bomb these other countries knowing that they were killing not only thousands of humans but also young children and babies. On the other hand yes we face very sad situations as a country but today most of the world is welling to help each other out, I feel like today we have small wars going on that are similar to the pass wars that the United States has face. We the citizens do not hear or pay much attention to them because we are so cutup with our own lives. When we should be paying very much attention to these issue. They might not affect our live but the lives of the upcoming generations which would be our children.

CH20

Throughout the reading I found myself getting very disappointed with that fact that numerous cultures and home lands of native people were destroy. Many European colonial empires did not only take over the lands throughout the world but they also made humans as in Africans suffer so much pain, Killing raping doing whatever they pleased with these humans. I have always wondered since I was very young why did these humans have to go through this horrible life? Most people believe because things happened for a reason. These humans had to face this awful life for what?, because till this day we still see a lot of racism. We still see groups of colored people living in the bad neighborhood and groups of whit healthy people living in a great nice looking neighborhood.  I bring this up because in the book they mention how they started to separate each other by colored. I guess one can say that maybe we can learn something from this issue which is to be strong and hope for change. At the same time I really believe that if Colonial Empires never happened then we humans would not see each other more superior then other ethnicities.  I strongly agree that the colonial empires are way we think that we might be better than other cultures and ethnicities.  As for example when the men in the book in page 589 says that they did not want to teach the Africans English because of danger.  They did not want them to try and empower them the British men were afraid of them being smart as they were.  

Collapse

Though Collapse was a very long reading assignment it was extremely remarkable. I went in reading the book with a whatever kind of attitude just doing the reading because we have to. Once I was done with the reading I learned numerous issues that are continuously getting worst in our world.  Also the reading got me really questioning about how we go about things such as our life styles, how we think about other humans that are not citizens coming into our homelands for a better living. The main question that I would ask if I was a teacher to a group of students is what have we done to this beautiful world?  The author of Collapse in the reading speaks about like 12 big problems that are happening today on our earth at this moment. The one topic that grabbed my attention was when he spoke about immigration.  The immigration subject has been around for countless years now, we always hear people speaking about how they don’t really belong in the United states. On the other hand we have a group of people saying how they just want to make a better living. As we all know Los Angles is one of the cities in California that has a great number of immigrants.  Also many citizens might think that LA is so impacted do to the fact that there are so many immigrants living there. We citizens don’t really think outside the box at times. We are blaming harmless humans the immigrants for crowding up a city. We are also blaming them for taking over our jobs.  When really the jobs that this humans are doing is not a job that one single citizen would want to do. I personally do not know any citizen that would go out and pick fruits and other types of foods out in the fields for a really low rate of pay.  I really just breaks my heart nowing that their is so many humans that come to our lands for a better living and there are so many citizens that are so rude to them. Making them go back home having to leave their children with other families so that they have a great futher better then their parents. The point is that we should not blame other for crowding up our cities because it’s really us citizens that are crowding up LA. Los Angles is so pack because that is one of the cities in the United States that is known to make some humans dreams come true. Numerous young adults want to  live in La for the reason that of college, fame, night live, and media so if we think about it immigrants might have a little to do with the impact but It’s really not hurting any of us. If we want this world to be a better place and if we want all these issues to go away we the people need to learn how to respect and love each other. Once we all start working together we can start seeing change in the issues that might destroy our world soon. 

Revolution

The Atlantic Revolution and their Echoes the American, French, Haitian, and the South American seems like all the citizens of these countries were all fighting for the same reasons. They fought for polities, slavery, nationalism and taxes was one of their big issues as well.  All of these countries really just wanted to run their governments all in their own way or in other countries the Monarchies really just wanted to rule everyone. For this reason is way they started classes such as low, middle and high class. All of these citizens fought for their freedom, equality, and religious believes. After reading the chapter what really called my attention was the Revolution of Haitian. The White had about 8,000 plantations which is a very hug number.  The white made the Haitian people work very hard making them produce about 40 percent of the sugar and coffee in the world. It’s interesting how they Haitian natives over powered the white fighting for their rights which I thought was really amazing. The white’s got to experience with the Haitians natives’ people experience which was a lot of pain and sadness.  

Sokhon

Even though we did not have to finish the reading for the Somaly book by the end of the week I have been done with it for more than two weeks now. I’m very glad that I get a hold of this book because it did not only teach me about the issues that are going on in Cambodia but it also touched me in many ways. The book has made me make a goal in this life time that I would love to accomplish now but I cannot. I really would love to go to Cambodia and help these young girls. I extremely would love to hear their stories told by them. Even though I would want to go now at this moment I cannot but I can say that I’m doing my best to represent NDNU as volunteer in the workshops/foundations that will be happening in New York this spring break. However many of us students see spring break as a time to get crazy and party with friends. I personally feel like there is always time for that throughout your life time yet there is not always time to help the people in need because you might just be a little to late or you might just not have the time anymore. However the one story that really made me want to offer my time to this foundation was when I read the story of Sokhon it was very depressing just hearing a young innocent girl question god about her experience wanting and answer that no human can every answer. Her question was why would god put such a young girl through so much pain when she has not done bad. Which makes me question god as well, why is god putting these girls in these horrible pathways or is it not god maybe it’s just their destiny who know only god does.   

                  “The Road of Lost Innocence” has been making an impact on my life, it has also made me realized how truly lucky I am to have the life I live. Even though at times I do not agree with the horrible problems I have to face, I always remember how those extremely young girls in the book are facing many worst problems then I am. However though these girls go through so much pain they are very strong humans that I admirer because they do  not give up and having so much hope. Hope is the key to life which is what I have learned from the reading.  The last chapters we had to read for class just really took over me, I tried to picture myself in the shoes of these girls it was extremely hard for me to do. It made me think about what would I do if I was a young girl in Cambodia who experience all of this issues. I strongly believe that I would not make it, if I was in their position I would have given up and I would not have any hope which is what  one really needs to have hope and believe that god will make away to get one out of that situation. The part from the book that really touched my heart was when she tells the story of Tom Dy. When Somaly mention that she passed away I did not want to believe it because she was the only girl who really wanted to strive to help the other girls who were still prostitutes. Tom Dy story was really  painful do to the fact that this young girl was not only a prostitute but she was hurt physical and she had a diseases not are not curable. People say God puts us in situations to learn from them or to teach someone else something but I just do not understand why Tom Dy had to face so many obstacles.  I have learn a lot from that young girl even though it was not the whole story of her life. The book has really been opening my eyes and I wish I could go to Cambodia and help.  

CH 15

I have always found History extremely interesting; I enjoy being taught about our earths pass, as in hearing about who where the first humans to step foot into certain countries.  Furthermore I appear to like hearing about the men that over took these natives human’s lands.  Through the reading one can get the impression that the Europeans took over most of the lands, even though the Europeans were very strong men so were the Russians and England men and they also succeeded with taking over other humans countries.   However at a certain point in the pass the stronger countries wanted to over through the poor countries whom had no weapons or any type of equipment to protect themselves. There was a moment in history where all of these countries help each other out. They would trade their goods and make money off of each other. Some Countries had goods like spices and other countries would sell fur which would be use as clothing. Even though the Natives Americans were the ones who would hunt for the fur the Notre Americans would pay them for it at a low price and they would sell it for more money to other countries. The Serbians would hunt for fur as well for the Russians but they would make no money off of the fur. The Europeans where people who would live to travel the world and fine new things. They did find a culture whom were black skin people. The Europeans were very light skin tall blue or green eyes as they said in the pass they were very much beautiful then the black skin people,  at least that’s what they believed . They decided to take them home with them and have them as their servants.  Out of the whole reading the slavery part graved my attention because I find it very depressing that these innocent people had to go through so much pain. It makes me wonder what had happened if they Europeans had never found the Africa would their still be racism?