Examples Of Personal Adversity

“Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and, therefore, a basic human right. Contaminated water jeopardizes both the physical and social health of all people. It is an affront to human dignity.” — Kofi Annan, prior United Nations Secretary-General

Main Point: Third world countries lack accessibility to clean water exposing them to disease and harmful toxins that result in 2.4 million deaths annually (Bartram, 2010).

People in Developing countries drink pond, stream, pond water which could be contaminated by animals and people. In third world countries they’re not really educated so they don’t know that the water they drink is bad for them. Another way they get water is by digging deep holes until they find water, it may be cleaner than the surface water but there would be still be a chance that it could be contaminated, which could end up giving them diseases and even death. 884 million people in the world don’t have water that is safe to drink. Also more 80 percent of sewage in third world countries contaminates their water source. Schools also don’t clean/safe water for kids to drink. In developing countries women and children spend 6 hours every day trying to collecting water and on

It shouldn't be limited to people, just because your government decides to switch your drinking water source. After you run a couple laps around the track, or after you finish a tiring soccer game, you should be open to having a cold, clean glass of water. Not led infested, unappetizing, yellow looking water. The idea that children are suffering makes us sick to to our stomachs. No one deserves to live in conditions where quality water is not available at all times. One thing we can do to make sure horrible things like this don't happen, is to not pollute. One way we can do this is by keeping my environment around me clean, clean up after myself, and to never pollute or litter. Not only will we volunteer, but we will inform lots of other people, so they can help, and create a greater impact. We must not think only about ourselves. It should not be a water wheel, or a trash picking object to clean after ourselves. We people these days do whatever we want, whenever we want, expecting other people to look after us. But now, things need to change, we promise to be part of the solution and not the

One example of adversity that has impacted my life is when my mom was diagnosed with Lupus in 2015. Lupus is an inflammatory disease that is caused when the immune system attacks itself. My mom also has rheumatoid arthritis and chronic migraines. There are a lot of times where she can’t get out of bed because she’s so sick. However, she always makes it to all of my activities. She truly is one of the strongest and most loving people I know.

In more modern times, there was a leader, and his name was Mengistu Haile Mariam. He was the leader of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991. Mengistu gained his power by smothering the previous president Haile Selassie, he still denies this, and says he gained his

Knowing that not everyone in the world has access to clean water is terrifying. While I live in a first world country drinking eight cups of water a day without thinking about it, somewhere else another seventeen year old girl has to worry about getting sick from the water she drinks every day. I cannot just sit around and do nothing when somewhere out there some of God’s children are hurting.

Ethiopia was divided into semi-independent kingdoms. Each kingdom had its own ruler and the head of these separate kingdoms was called the “King of Kings” (Clarke 65). Ethiopia was a uniquely African empire that incorporated much from the outside and yet developed a distinctive culture of its own in the influence of its government and people (Clarke 67). Ethiopia was isolated from the rest of the world for fifteen centuries because the Muslims conquered Egypt and cut off Ethiopia’s access to the Red Sea (Clarke 69). Thus, Ethiopia became a feudal kingdom.

Ethiopia may have been strategically valuable to a European country because it was located next to the Red Sea making it an accessible location for transporting munitions.

The Children’s Bill of Rights is not in place properly for the children of Ethiopia. They have a dirty environment, no right to an education, and terrible living conditions. Human rights themselves are under question in Ethiopia anyway. Innocent protesters or demonstrators are shot and killed by the police force. Needless to say things aren’t very good for the children considering that the government cannot be

If you were a famous athlete dealing with adversity, how would you handle it? Adversity is any obstacle you have in life, it could be a disability, it could be a fear of something, or it could be a lot of different things. Many people around you could have some type of adversity. Both famous athletes and non-famous people can have adversity, but how are they different? How are they similar? Who would it be harder to be? I believe that being a famous athlete with adversity would be harder than being a non-famous person with adversity.

The pollutants affecting water quality is a major issue affecting every community on a global scale. Whether individuals suffer from lack of

I was eight years old when my grandfather first took me to work. He ran his own handyman business. We went to fix a toilet at one of his client’s homes, who was a lawyer that graduated from Harvard Law School. I was amazed at what I was witnessing that day. A person of color being able to own a house, present himself in an exemplary demeanor, and provide for his family. My dream was to become a lawyer after that day.

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) took control in Ethiopia in 1991 after 10 years and an a large portion of outfitted battle that in the long run toppled the military administration of President Mengistu. Around then the EPRDF was a coalition of four ethnically-based safety gatherings, led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). The EPRDF figured out how to manufacture a strong body electorate of backing in the provincial territories of north and focal Ethiopia by reviving behind it wide areas of cultivating groups that were threatened by the onerous arrangements and orderly practices of the military administration. It likewise associated with the neighboring Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), which gave it military and logistical backing in return for a guarantee of Eritrean withdrawal from Ethiopia once Mengistu was toppled. Eritrea did surely withdraw accepted in 1991, and by law after a choice in 1993. This advancement was broadly disliked inside Ethiopia, both for reasons of national pride and in light of the fact that Eritrean autonomy denied Ethiopia of access to ocean ports, i.e. the nation was presently landlocked. In 1998-2000 a clash ejected between the two nations over outskirts and different monetary issues, prompting a persevering break inside both the TPLF and EPRDF

Living here in the United States, the worry of whether our drinking water is clean or safe enough to use has never been a reoccurring thought for the population here. Clean, safe, drinking water, has never been a first world problem. If anything, whenever people get thirsty it is very easy for them to go to their kitchen and fill a cup of water from the faucet. Here in the United States, we are privileged enough with not only clean safe drinking water, but access to it in our very own homes. We don’t need to pull our daughters from school just so we can have water in the household, we do not depend on the women of the household to bring water for the family. Here we’re privileged in ways we don’t ever give a second thought to because we will never understand this struggle. At least, not until the crisis in Flint Michigan. But out there in developing countries, it is a different story. Out in Ethiopia for example, they’re in a water crisis from people getting sick and even dying from unsafe drinking water. “Only about 60% of the people in the world have access to improved sanitation” (Skolnik, 2016). Unfortunately, that percentage is cut in half in Africa.