Poverty

Poverty
Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape. So poverty is a call to action.

Everyone knows that poverty exists in the entire world, no matter the country. Sometimes it is produced because people don't have a job, for overpopulation in the family, lack of resources and others. But sometimes, this occurs because people forget to keep trying. They just feel sorry for themselves and want help from others.

However, there are people who had overcome poverty as my family did. When my mom was a child, they were really poor but she worked to get success in her life.
One story is that Mary is a successful farmer with a business of “baby or mini vegetables” in Pacayas, Cartago. She was born in a small town within a very poor family where she had to work with her brothers from the age of 7 years old. Every day, she had to get up at 4 am in the morning and immediately take the field with the other brothers and her father to milk the cows and grow tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage, potato and carrots. And at noon they were back at home so Mary had to clean the dirt floor, clean the bathroom of "hole", hand washing and helping her mother to prepare the coffee of the 2:30 pm and the dinner for 5:30 pm. Mary and her brothers went to bed at 6:30 pm and the next day should have the same routine. She and her siblings did not study at school. It was not until Maria was 15 years old when she could learn to read, write. At 20 she made her way to school and when she was 26 years old completed the fifth year of college. Mary wanted to grow so she sought help from a women's association which started with micro-project promoted by the government. Gradually came into the business of “baby or mini vegetables” and today sells her products in major supermarkets in Costa Rica and exports along with other farmers (Export Cooperative) to Mexico and the United States. In an interview she said that those born poor are able to thrive if they want and that poverty is in the mind! What wisdom has the words of Mary!
Actually poverty is a situation that lives a lot of people, not only Costa Rican people; around the world poverty is a big threat. I met a woman who had only two children; she worked in a restaurant, she was very nice, she lives well. But one day she was in a traffic accident. From that day her life experienced a big change, she didn’t have support, and she was alone and with two little children. She had a mutilation of her leg. She hadn’t anything, nothing of money, nothing for eat. She needed to change her home; she went to my neighborhood and decided to start a new life. She talked with all people that live in my quarter and everybody choose to help that woman. She began cooking hamburgers, pizza, tacos, patty and many funk food. She went house by house selling meals. After several months she was able to get success like rent a better house. And now, she has a soda call "La esperanza". So this is a story of life, an example of effort and love. I know nowadays opportunities are scarce but the simple fact of wanting to live and overcome is the inspiration to overcome poverty.

Feedback letter

Feedback Letter


Globalization Week Organizer,






September 29th, 2010






I would like to say thanks to you for the organization of the Globalization Week. With the activity the students experienced the opportunity to learn more about the challenges of globalization in different ways, for instance: laws, psychology, sociology, dentistry and business and some others. The activities made people to get an entertainment time.


Also people got the knowledge and learning about different topics talking about system engineering and how to use software’s that might be useful in the future, I am studying business administration and I believed that it was an important information provided for me, if for example I expect to create my own company, now I know what programs to use as a web site.


As an advice for the coordinator I will say that the presentation was good, however the sound of his voice was too low, for that reason the audience wasn’t concentrated on the speech.


To summarize this I will mention that the globalization week was something that should be implemented in our life or jobs due to every day there is a development in technology which is use in the companies.






Best regards,

Measures taken against global warming by countries around the world

Measures taken against global warming by countries around the world

Nowadays we can notice that the countries are not fighting to avoid the global warming around the world, besides that the climate warming over the last three decades has likely already had a discernible influence on many physical and biological systems which is causing a lot of danger in the humanity.
Evidence for warming of the climate system includes observed increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level, all of those things might affect the life of people, that is the reason why we should start looking for a solution.
Some of the effects of global warming I can mention here are for instance:
Ice is melting worldwide, especially at the Earth’s poles, Sea level rise became faster over the last century, Some butterflies, foxes, and alpine plants have moved farther north or to higher, cooler areas. Hurricanes and other storms are likely to become stronger and some diseases will spread such as malaria carried by mosquitoes.
The preferred solution seems to be to force our global communities to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and conserve and to develop cleaner renewable energy sources such as solar power and wind power to eliminate this global warming happening in all over.
To summarized I believe that parents or adults should create a concern on the little kids due to they will be the people who will handle the future, about the use of the resources for example invest in green jobs and clean energy, set limits on global warming pollution.

Keylin.

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Why is domestic violence a human rights concern?


Nowadays the development of human rights has been expressed in terms of generations: The civil and political rights, as the first generation rights; economic, social and cultural rights as the second generation rights; and the group or people's rights, which are recently defined as the third generation rights.
Further, as this development expresses a chronology of rights, it is also held, of course controversially, as implying a hierarchy of rights. From women's perspective, however, this development exhibits a commonality that in its current form, the rights movement is based on male experiences.
Indeed the development of human rights movement, right from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the three generations of rights shows that rights are defined as belonging to all human beings irrespective of gender. However, though international law is gender neutral in theory, in practice it constituted men and women into separate spheres of existence--public and private, respectively. Thus men exist as public, legal entities that enjoy civil and political rights and in a way define the nature of rights discourse. Women's existence, on the other hand, is privatized. Often women's exclusion from the human rights practice and discourse, their relegation to the private, has been justified on grounds of social and cultural specificity of region or a group.
Moreover, in addition to holding states responsible for taking action against the human rights abuses occurring in the private sphere, feminist human rights thinkers argued that domestic violence should be conceived as a form of torture. Catherine MacKinnon 1990, a feminist human rights thinker, asks that though torture with cases of disappearance and murder, is widely recognized as a core violation of human rights, that inequality on the basis of sex is widely condemned, why torture on basis of sex in the form of rape is.
To summarize the people in this country and all others should fight for the equality of rights to avoid violence in the families and also the difference in what respects to woman and a man, it doesn’t matter what your sex is, but we all are humans looking for a better quality of life.


Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights