Child Soldiers Summary and Reflection

That article in the New York Times Tells that former children soldiers are now being used to hunt down their former leader, Joseph Kony, in the heart of Africa. I would agree with this stand of using former kid soldiers to hunt their leader because who knows their leader most but those closest to him. I think why most of these former rebel recruits stayed in the army because they want Kony to be stopped once and for all. I agree with the article that these people know one thing to do is warfare. It is sad to see children wiped of their innocence and used as soldiers and still being used as soldiers when they are adults. It is also sickening that the American people didn't help with this conflict earlier but i do think why the U.S.A. didn't want to get invovled with armed intervention. One reason is that the countries of Uganda and Sudan are sovereign nations and can handle things on their own. Also Their was no political gain if the U.S.A. went to help out the government there to quell the rebellion. Another reason may be because of the Black Hawk down incident and the U.S.A. didn't want to start a war in Africa.

The Problems of Russia

Even though Russia has a lot of political power and supremacy, the nation is facing deep troubles. Trafficking of persons is one issue in Russia. Many beautiful girls get kidnapped and get sold for sex. They are also old as amil in brides to whoever wants them. These women are treated with no respect to their human dignity. Also there is a lot of drug dealing in Russia with cocaine and heroine. The cause of this is the russian mafia. The biggest problem economically is that there is widespread inflation of the Ruble cuased by th economic crisis.

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My Audience is Choosen

I choose mythology as my research topic. For the project I am choosing to talk to game developers concerning developing a new game about Japanese myths. (Thanks Mrs. Lawson!)

History of the Modern Olympics

The first Olympics were held in Greece for the appeasement of their gods. The Olympics did not happen again since ancient time until the late 1800's. A man named Pierre de Coubertin started the revival of the Olympic Games. He believed that exercise made a person well rounded. His first attempts were unsuccessful but finally he gathtered elegates from other countries and Pierre convinced thema bout hte olympics and the delagates voted to start the Olympic Games. The first games would be held in Athens Greece. The Olympics began there why not start where we left off?

Reflection on the Movie

The Everest movie was interesting; I liked it. There were many different reasons why people climb up the mountain. The Spanish lady's reason was bluntly nationalistic. She wanted to be the first Spanish woman to summit Everest. The guy with out the face mask, Ed I think?, did the summit for a personal challenge. These two reasons are completely different from the reasons of Norgay the Shirpa guide. He did it for mostly a religious purpose. For him, to summit Everest is like us going to the Holy Land. There he places the colorful flags so that everyone in the whole world can be blessed. But, Norgay does retain a personal self-righteous reason. Norgay wanted to show his father that he can do summit the mountain and make him proud

Exploring Extremes

Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the south pole in 1911. Robert Peary was the first man to reach the north pole in 1909, although we all know it was Santa! George Mallory and Andrew Irvine went to the summit of Mt. Everest. George Mallory documented the trip his second time going up Mt. Everest. People would want to have their name remembered so they do extraordinary things. Some went to the highest points on earth, some went to the most northern or most southern parts of the world. As for me, I would stay back home live a peaceful life and not take any big risks unlike these adventurers that risk their lives when off exploring. If the explorer survives the life and death ordeal then the adventure was worth it.

More Than 100 Years Later, the World I Live In Still Displays the Impact of the New Imperialism

We are in living in the ripples of the New Imperialism. There is just so much to talk about. Wahhabi's, India's separation by religion, and much more. The area of china is afflicted. The place was once an empire with an emperor but because of imperialism the emperor was overthrown. Civil war and political turmoil occurred until the communist party with Mao Zedong created a somewhat political peace making China Communist Republic. Another area of great interest is the Islamic world. The Muslim Empires dominated most of the world until the siege of Vienna in 1683 September 11th. Then the Islamic world began to decline and the Europeans took nibbles at the Ottoman empire and swallowing whole the Mughal and Safavid Empire. Now the Muslims angry at the decline of Islam are trying to gain back their former prestige and do so by terrorism. That is one reason why they hate us and want to kill us including that it is in their mandate in the Koran to control the world with Islam. Isn;t that a smack to the face. Alrighty now with the topic of Africa. Africa contains one of the most poorest nations in the world. There were once great empires of Egypt and Timbuktu but they are lost to history. Until the 1950's Africa was stripped of it's colonial rulers. The new countries also had racial problems like Apartheid in south africa that wan't gone until 1993! In India there is still somewhat a chaste system in effect. India was much larger in land than now. This happened because the land of India is separated by religions of Hindu and Islam. Britain had to partition the land correctly so that the major Muslim communities and Hindu communities were ruled by their own leaders respectively.