Reflection On Blood Diamond

In Chicago, and all over the nation, the effects of gang activity have been displayed, specifically in low income and poverty torn communities. Poverty is measured depending on a family’s annual income and determining if the amount falls below the poverty threshold for the family’s size. If the annual income does fall below the threshold, then the family and every individual in it is considered to be in poverty. Gang activity is more visible in the areas specifically in major cities similar to Chicago where poverty is a commonality in communities. although gangs might add structure in order where the government fails to do so in the projects and and similar low income communities the negative effects such as the distribution of drugs, violence,

In many countries living in extremely poor conditions, not only is basic health an issue but also the lack of education. Although it is a necessity, “more than 72 million children of primary education age are not in school and 759 million adults are illiterate” (Rights to Education 1). The deprivation of education should be taken serious if a change is wanted. People need to become aware of how important education is and the benefit that it has. Douglas and Malala struggled to gain an education in order to resist control by others, which affected their lives in multiple ways; however, they were able to reveal the value of education to all.

Once I was finally back home in Minnesota, I sat and reflected on my trip. Something that came across my mind was the fact that several people here in the United States think that Africa in general is poor and people in Africa love in “huts” and eat “mud cakes” because they don’t have food. They stereotype all these countries just based off of what they hear and see on social media. However what these people fail to understand is that social media doesn’t show you everything. It doesn’t w you all the good stuff the countries have to offer. It doesn’t show you the beautiful mountain scenes, the million dollar mansions people live in, or the beautiful resorts that reside on the lake, or the beaches, the vast university campuses, the many shopping malls and the countless fashion and film industries that are constantly thriving.

Jordan Peele is the director and screenwriter of the horror thriller Get Out. The film was released on February 24, 2017. The movie is about a young successful African American man named Chris, who is dating a wealthy white woman, named Rose. He goes on a weekend trip with his girlfriend to meet her family and it turns out to be a nightmare. The film Get Out reveals the horror of liberal racism in America.

From the beginning of the music video, Africa is seen in striking contrast to Europe. Sierra Leone is demonstrated with scenes of excruciating labor conditions, child labor, slavery, and worker exploitation. It also depicts how Africa is excluded from the “commodity” almost immediately after the good- the ‘Veblen good’- is produced. Sierra Leone is viewed in connection with the illicit diamond trade. Europe- specifically Prague- is juxtaposed culturally, aesthetically, and economically from Africa. Prague is displayed with its beautiful city and its ornate cathedrals. The rationale of the contrast is to unveil the history of Europe reaping the toil of Africa in form of slave labor; European success is built on the African back, per se. The binary opposition between Africa and Europe starts to be deconstructed at (4:21) when the African kids help Kanye West who fell down jumping out of the vehicle, to represent how

Our family can only eat whatever we grow on a small plot of land located a short way from our house. We have no other form of income so if we are unable to pick anything to eat from the land we go without food on that day. This happens a lot and we regularly go several days without any food at all. When we do pick vegetables from the land it’s very rarely enough for the whole family to be fed so my husband and I have to decide who will eat that day. You can see my younger children crying a lot, it’s because they are so hungry.”“The only source of water for our family is a shallow well situated near to our field. The water is very dirty and the children regularly get sick

The association of poverty with Africa goes together like apple pie and America. From the advertisements of malnourished, African children to our education, or rather lack of education, about African countries in the American school system, the concept of Africa as an impoverished continent has been engrained into our minds. This rhetoric of Africa has lasted over decades, with a substantial amount of aid being given to African countries to rectify this problem. And yet, sixteen of the world’s poorest countries were identified as being in sub-Saharan Africa as of 2013. This insinuates that foreign countries and organizations that provide aid, need to reevaluate why aid isn’t making a bigger impact at fixing the problem. Before the international

Cultural capital gives a way for groups to gain a different status or to remain in a dominant group.Cultural capital,conceded cultivation and accomplishment by natural growth are topics that effect our education and society .Some families lack cultural capital which leads to accomplishment of natural growth. Families that have cultural capital leads to conceded cultivation.

Achieving an accurate education system is not an easy function for any nation. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley, is a wonderful book that focusing on the important of the education and how can the changing on the education system and schools reforms change the whole country for the best. This book had a positive impact on me, it gives me hope that each country in the world can create stronger and more creative education system; a system that can achieve students and serves both equity and rigor. Importantly, that can happen if we think first what are our educational problems and how can we resolve them in a smart and wise way that can help us to have magnificent results that benefits everyone, the

The American Dream has the nationality ethos of the United States. It is a collection of goals that everyone born in America has freedom, equal opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility. They can achieve through hard work in a society with few obstacles. However, the fact is cruel. Nowadays, America’s economic inequality is growing. The federal treasury is in danger, and the American political system does not show any commensurate solution to the problems. Some people no longer believe in the America Dream. Now, the American Dream has been an expectation. This essay will prove the American dream is just a dream of three aspects.

‘Blood In The Mobile’ is a documentary filmed my Danish journalist Frank Poulsen regarding the use of conflict minerals in our mobiles by major phone manufacturing companies. Even though he focuses on Nokia in the movie it is an insight into the use of blood minerals from Congo in all phones of other manufacturing companies as well. The film focuses on whether Nokia has known about this use and still continues to do it and to find a solution to this problem in order to end modern day slavery just so that we can stare at a screen throughout the day. In the documentary Poulsen travels to various destinations including one of the mines in Congo to uncover the harsh truth behind one the most revolutionary modern day inventions and whether its consumption is being used to finance a war...

To be bluntly honest, after having gotten to page 8 without having understood a word of the text, I was very frustrated. Not only did Heart of Darkness have an old-fashioned English style of writing but the first few pages were completely filled with references, symbols, metaphors and vivid imagery. I found myself either looking up each metaphor to understand it better or rereading each imagery because of its vividness. Thankfully, as the book progressed and Marlow’s story began, the plot became clearer and the story started to carry on more smoothly.

With no education available, the future is dark for many children. They wouldn’t be able to find a job, they are not exposed to technology, and skills needed for them to have a better city, country and most importantly a better life. This leads to another way of how poverty endangers the future. These children are the people taking care of earth later on in the future. If they are not able to take care of the smaller community around them, how could they lead the world successfully? It might seem okay at first, but soon developments will slow down, stopping. A plan of making a better world backfires and eventually leaves the world crumbling apart slowly. In relation to this is how poverty causes environmental issues. Another huge problem of the world are environment issues like global warming and pollution. There are ways to stop this. But some of the little steps people could do are out of reach for poor people. For instance, the difference of effects an LED light bulb and a regular bulb can do to the environment is huge. LED bulbs save energy and last longer, but has a price too high. Additionally, people in poverty still do actions like burning trash, which emits greenhouse gasses like CO2, making global warming worst where they can instead do the 3Rs (Reuse, reduce and recycle). Actions like which can change the future for the better are sadly not be able to be done by people in the poverty

According to Dr. Jose Rizal “Ang kabataan ang siyang pag-asa ng bayan” that’s why education should be plan wisely. Having a good quality of education is having a powerful community; if people in the community are educated then economy will be better. If we want to have a better economy of coarse we should have knowledge and skillful graduates that industry needs. To meet the goal we must improve our education system and the key to that is to implement and support k-12

The report is on Singapore’s Education System. It aims to find out the development that Singapore’s Education System have made over the years that make it effective today and to see if there are any negative effect on the students and teacher. It is also to make students realise to not take access to education for granted and to appreciate what the government have done for us over the years because education is the one thing that can change your life for the better.