Respect to each individuals!

 In the 21^st century racial discrimination, a serious social problem still exists in America and all around the World. It occurs when a person is treated unfairly because of race, color, and nationality, ethnic or national origin. It is a deep social problem in US because there is a lot of minor ethnic groups are living in the American society.

Race discrimination covers four areas:

l   Direct discrimination: treating someone less favorably because of their actual or perceived race, or because of the race of someone with whom they associate

l   Indirect discrimination: can occur where there is a policy, practice or procedure, which applies to all workers, but particularly, disadvantages people of a particular race.

l   Harassment: when unwanted conduct related to race has the purpose or effect of violating an individual's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for that individual

l   Victimization: unfair treatment of a worker who has made or supported a complaint about racial discrimination.[1]

 

            In Martin Luther King’s well know speech:” "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal’ … I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." [2]

This anti-discrimination campaign is not only the business of black people in America, but becomes the all world’s sounds of heart and was heard by throughout the world.

            Without him, everything cannot be changed.

            The key to fight with this problem is education. Even though it will take a long time but gradually racism will disappear.

           In my opinion, the key word is to respect! Respect people also their background and be proud that you are not racist.

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[1] "Acas - Race discrimination." Acas - Home. http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1849 (accessed February 11, 2013).

[2] Jr.&, the time of Martin Luther King. "Martin Luther King Jr. | Facts Summary Information." History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online. http://www.historynet.com/martin-luther-king-jr (accessed February 11, 2013).

Animals in danger of extinction

Do you like animals? Well, in the case your response is a "yes", you should be worried of seeing some animals only in photo in the future. 

There are many reason for which animals species are in danger. Some of the main ones are the habitat and the hunting problem. 

Pollution together with destruction literally kill both habitats and animals. As a matter of fact, a minimum of 50 animals are killed throughout 1 deforestation. In addition to this, 50% of wood, 50% of marshes and 95% of meadows have disappeared.

After the habitat, hunting has a great negative influence over animals. Man has always hunted, but at the beginning of human species, hunting was not perceived as a game but a way to survive. Unfortunately, the last few generations have fun by killing animals. 

Many possible things or preventions could be taken to help animals in danger. Some examples are: stop animal fur trading, opening more national parks, stop hunting over animals in extinction, stop pollution and plant new forests.

There are at least 56 animal species in danger today that really risk to disappear or to be seen just in the zoo. 

Sources:

http://www.animalport.com/Animals-In-Danger.html

POLITIC ELECTIONS IN ITALY 2013

Elections for deciding the prime minister of a county is the most fundamental political event of all. For example, in Italy, people take elections very seriously. As s a matter of fact, the 24^th and 25^th of February, the Italians will have to vote for a new prime minister, even because of Mario Montis’s failure. In addition, Monti’s government was established 14 months ago because Berlusconi was unfortunately too criticized by people in order to continue his job as Italy’s prime minister. As a consequence, the  five main candidates for the presidency  are: Silvio Berlusconi, Pierluigi Bersani, Beppe Grillo, Antonio Ingroia and Mario Monti. Under these circumstances, the thing that accomunates all of the five politicians, is that they are promising almost “impossible”  bonus money or reduction of taxes to the Italian population, that they will not actually be able to concede to Italians because the statistics say no one of the five will be elected with a a great majority that allows the prime  minister to have almost absolute powers. Therefore, in order to be voted, these politicians have had to  find the best  strategies,  but this is not an easy job. As an example, a genial politic strategy to gain a few points in the elections is to make happy a few thousand of people. In other words, if you have the opportunity to own a soccer team, like Silvio Berlusconi, buying one of the best soccer players in the world is a good starting point in gaining votes. Bringing the forward Mario Balotelli to AC MIlan, gave the opportunity to Berlusconi to be voted from more than 400,000 Italians. In the final analysis, whoever will be elected prime minister, will have the honor and responsibility to lead a county like Italy out from the economic crisis and will need to try his best to help our country to be respected  more around the world.

1) "IL MESSAGGERO". Italian newspaper. http://www.ilmessaggero.it

2) "IL GIORNALE". Italian newspaper. http://www.ilgiornale.it

Marijuana. Should it be Legal?

Marijuana. Should it be Legal?

 

First of all, what is drug? A drug is a chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that effects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often forming addiction.

 

Marijuana, is one of the lightest and most natural drug that is produced world wide.

It is not a chemical substance, it is a naturally grown plant, just like a rose or any other flower.

The commonly known marijuana that is smoked is made up of the buds, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant, cannabis sativa.

The component of Marijuana that gives you the “high” effect is called THC.

Marijuana is legal in quite a few states, for example Amsterdam and France. This drug has become legal because of different reasons, it can cure some glaucoma symptoms. It is an inelastic product and thus can be sold at any price and will flourish the economy.

Although is it right to make it a legal product? Besides these last two positive facts. Marijuana has causes:

·         Rapid heart rate

·         Increased blood pressure

·         Increased rate of breathing

·         Red eyes

·         Dry mouth

·         Increased appetite, or "the munchies"

·         Slowed reaction time

·         Distorted sense of time

Other short term symptoms:

• Paranoia
• Magical or "random" thinking
• Short-term memory loss
• Anxiety and depression

Under these effects people are very vulnerable. They risk any kind of death, also the least expected like being run over by a car. Falling in to the water and drowning. It also as long term effect on the brain functions.

In my opinion Marijuana has too many negative effect in contrast with its positive. Therefore it should not be legalized and people should not buy it. Fortunately it is illegal in many of the states, but the selling of the plants seeds is legal. Laws should be made also to prohibit the selling of the seeds. Jeff t.W

Source: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/marijuana-use-and-its-effects

Illegal Weapon Trade

One of the bigger and most devastating illegal trades are the buying and selling of weapons, a big market that is worth billions of dollars each year.

There are huge operations involving planes and ships that are carrying thousands of weapons from Belgium, Ukraine, Russia and South Africa mainly to Nations from Africa to Afghanistan. These operations are created by this “gun runners” or “war lords”.

The weapons transported by the “war lords” are mainly small weapons such as: assault rifles, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades, and ammunitions.

This illegal war trading is the cause of more than 500,000 deaths and millions of injuries every year.

Smaller weapons are the “gun runners” dream, because they are easily transportable and occupy less space than bigger weapons. They can be dropped from planes into waterproof sacks and attached into the bottom of boats or easily brought by foot and trucks.

They are even preferred by Armies, rebel forces and terrorists because they are cheaper, easy to use and light weighted.

Unlike the drugs, that are strictly illegal in almost every country, the arms aren’t illegal. But is the act of selling them to banned buyers that is illegal.

The illegal selling of weapons has an atrocious consequence besides all the deaths. It has the capacity to ruin economies and separate families and communities.

The UN’s 2005 Human developing report, explains that arms conflicts remains “one of the greatest obstacles to human development, and is both a cause and consequence to mass poverty.”

Sources:   

http://www.fas.org/asmp/campaigns/smallarms/IssueBrief3ArmsTrafficking.h...

http://www.fas.org/asmp/library/articles/SchroederLamb.pdf

http://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/conflict-and-natural-disasters/control-a...

Gay Marriage

In the past few years, a new issue has been considered: gay marriage!
Just as heterosexuals can, homosexuals would like to marry. It is now more or less 5 years that "gay" people have been revolting against the state to achieve their goal. Unfortunately, December the 7th of 2013, these revolts turned into a complete disaster as the United States Court entered the national debate on same-sex marriage and denied the possibility of unifying between two people of equal sex.
In an open-minded society, nothing similar should be denied. The decisions taken from a gay couple (man with man or woman with woman), just as in a "normal" couple, which in 2013 are free, as humans, to do anything they'd like to, are strictly personal. This means that if their desire is to join in one family, they may not be hampered.
Even though the denial of the past year, with the help of important networks and societies as Google, Groupon, Morningstar, Navistar International and Excelon, who signed a public letter against the Illinois government, debating versus gay marriage, which stated: "to be competitive, a state must create an equitable, fair and respectful environment for all of its citizens. For this reason it is vitally important that Illinois lawmakers enact marriage equality soon."
Everyday, more and more humans come up to be homosexual, for this reason we must accept everyone as we all are the same.



http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/01/28/gay-marriage-good-business-LGBT-equality/

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/same_sex_marriage/index.html

Global Crisis

 

A crisis is any event that is, or expected to lead to, an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community or whole society. Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security, economic, political, societal or environmental affairs, especially when they occur, with little or no warning.

The crisis in subprime and a financial crisis which broke out at the end of 2006 in the United States and that had serious consequences, still evolving, on the economic world, especially in developed countries, and for this reason it is considered by many to be the worst economic crisis since the time of the great depression in 1929.

The subprime crisis started when the mortgage bubble; a run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation and the belief that recent history is an infallible forecast of the future. Housing bubbles usually start with an increase in demand, in the face of limited supply which takes a relatively long period of time to replenish and increase. Speculators enter the market, believing that profits can be made through short term buying and selling. This further drives demand. At some point, demand decreases, at the same time supply increases, resulting in a sharp drop in prices this caused the bubble to burst.

 

After the mortgage bubble problem in the 14^th of September 2008 one of the world’s most powerful banks closed because involved in this mortgage scandal the “Lehman Brothers”; after being turned down by any support from the US state. This bankrupt caused a dominoes effect causing many banks after “Lehman Brothers” to fail.

 

The recession hit hard nearly all the stock markets all over the world collapsed and stocks became devalued. The world has been mired in a recession ever since. Foreclosures have gone through the roof, and the resulting unemployment and inflation have hit the lower and middle class people the hardest.

 

The Global crisis enriched many multinationals like McDonalds because the demand for fast food was higher because of the less money, jobs and opportunities.

 

Governments have to make plans to end this crisis that is getting worst and worst and that is affecting people the entire world.

 

 

Violent or Not?

   Nowadays, we are surrounded by fast food such as Mc Donald, Burger King and KFC.  It is very fast and convenient that people can get it within several minutes.  However, have you ever think about how did they treat the Chicken and the cruelty behind it?People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)[1] is an American organization in Norfolk, Virginia founded in 1880. They have created a campaign called “McCruelty”.
  In one of their website they contended the brutal slaughter: In the slaughterhouses of McDonald's U.S. chicken suppliers, birds are dumped out of their transport crates and hung upside-down in metal shackles, which can result in broken bones, extreme bruising, and hemorrhaging. Workers have the opportunity to abuse live birds, and birds have their throats cut while they are still conscious. Many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.           
  Each year there are over millions of chicken are being slaughtered cruelly by this method. However there are less cruel methods of slaughter such as Controlled Atmosphere Killing(CAK). [2] 
            With this method, oxygen is removed from the birds’ atmosphere which means they die from lack of oxygen and during this process no violence is involved.         
    There are still people think no matter what method they use it is still inhumane. I cannot disagree their point view; death is death, but a violent virus a less violent method I rather choose a less violent method. We are not lion or other animal. We are human and just because you feel superior do not mean you have to be cruel. What make us human are intelligence, and the capability to love and to be kind. It is up to us to stand up and make the right choice.          
     What’s your choice? What will you do?

[1] "PETA Takes On McDonald's | McCruelty.com." PETA Takes On McDonald's | McCruelty.com. http://www.mccruelty.com/ (accessed January 28, 2013).
[2] Gwynn, Michele. "The pros and cons of Controlled Atmosphere Killing in the poultry industry - National animal rights | Examiner.com." Welcome to Examiner.com | Examiner.com. http://www.examiner.com/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-controlled-atmosphere-killing-the-poultry-industry (accessed January 28, 2013).