The Sex Trade Still Exists

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

Prostitution, sometimes referred to as “the world’s oldest profession” (Henslin, pg. 54), is defined by James M. Henslin as “the renting of one’s body for sexual purposes” (pg. 54). This arrangement, though illegal and socially deviant in most parts of the world, exists universally in many different forms (pg. 54). As a matter of fact, types of prostitutes range greatly in variety from call girls – who are said to be “the elite of prostitutes” (pg. 58), to streetwalkers – “who have the lowest status among prostitutes” (pg. 58), to sugar babies -young, physically attractive women who provide “rich, older men” (Kitchener, par.4) “…with attention (and sex) in exchange for the finer things in life” (par. 4).

Evidently, her life exemplifies the overcoming of poverty and how it really is possible as long as you stick to education and persevere through life.

Imagine having to run away from your hometown with thousands of other boys you don’t know. Then imagine having to walk 16 hours a day to provide dirty water for your family. Well there’s a boy named Salva that had to run away and walk thousands of miles not knowing where he’s going or where is family is. But for a girl named Nya she had to persevere walking through the hot weather stepping on thorns for 16 hours everyday just to provide dirty water for their family. Nya and Salva have a hard and sad life, but they couldn’t have survived through it without unity, love, and perseverance.

What is Lakshmi’s life like in her Nepal mountain home? Discuss the motives behind Lakshmi’s decision to go into the city. Support your response with evidence from the text.

Discrimination based on religion or race has been a worldwide problem throughout history. Through bullying, we readily see discrimination everyday throughout the hallways of Belleville West. Bullying has been a recent problem that many schools are still trying to prevent. The victims are in a tough place, similar to Lakshmi from the book Sold written by Patricia McCormick. Lakshmi bullying was much harder, being forced to work in a whore house, but took the same emotional toll that many victims face. Living life as a sex slave completely changed Lakshmi, and she easily could have given up her will to live; instead she persevered, overcoming her physical and emotional obstacles. With those obstacles, McCormick’s

Life is often hard for most of the people, particularly women in general as they are the ones who are still considered as a “weaker gender.” It is hard for those poor women in developing countries like Afghanistan, who cannot afford basic needs such as clothing, shelter and transportation. Women are titled as care-givers. Although, life consists of many challenges and obstacles that everybody goes through, the way one approaches such challenges and reacts to it varies from person to person. Also, overcoming such hardships of life strengthens one’s soul and it enables them to reveal their inner strength and true character. In Afghanistan, in order for a woman to survive, she must handle adverse situations both physically and emotionally.

Kelley illustrates pitiful images of “tiny children” trapped in the “sweating system” which allows these children to be cruelly abused. The powerful language which describes these children as “little beasts of burden” helps her prove her point child labor is making these children lose their humanity. These images of children as “little beasts of burden” show how child labor strips children of their humanity, forcing her audience to be no longer able to ignore the problem in their society. After wrapping around the audience’s hearts with pity-evoking words, she aggressively attacks them all, claiming that they are all part of the system that is turning innocent children into machine-like “beasts” that have to toil throughout the night to satisfy the needs of the adult consumers. Kelley accuses her audience that “no one in this room tonight can feel free from such participation” in the system because they continue to buy the products produced through child-labor, and choose to not vote against it. After reducing this national system problem into a personal problem in her

Many Children in the world face challenges that most people don’t have to. For example, two of his people face very hard challenges, Abdul, and Kundila. Two people who have it harder in life then us.In these stories, Doris Pilkington, and Katherine Boo amazingly show the challenges these two people face. In Katherine Boo’s story, Abdul has to work for his family to raise money to move to a better neighborhood. In Doris Pilkington’s story, Kundila has to protect his family from the white raiders.

She explains how human trafficking is more than sexual acts. It is also sweatshop work, organ transplants, and agricultural. Most women did not look like they do in the media: beaten, bruised, and with a black eye. She said this trip was a very humbling experience. She had to build trust with the people there, especially because she was different than them. Human trafficking is looked at in many ways; for example, globalization, economics, gender, human rights, and organized crime. On one of her trips in 2011 she collected women’s stories. Many women live in poverty but that does not mean that they were all trafficked. One quote that really stands out from her is “We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process to change the world…” . Sister Angela Reed’s speech reflected Mercy Week’s theme of Make Mercy Real because she talked about how we as students can make a difference, or show mercy to those in need. Although I only went to two events, they all correlate with each other because of the theme, make mercy

Adapting to her situation is how Lakshmi was able to survive when others did not. The ability to adapt is the biggest reason that she was able to make it out of the Happiness House. In the text she says “I will become Monica … I will do whatever it takes to get out of here” (227). This quote shows that Lakshmi has realized that if she

My father pulled heavy carts for pennies. My mother sold jugs of water from the public fountain, charcoal, and grilled peanuts to get us something to eat” (166). Grace’s mother and father work hard to provide for her. Raising Grace is their primary goal, and later in their lives, they take it a step further and move to America to provide better opportunities for Grace. Having a child in Haiti forces Grace’s parents to view Haiti differently than before. Rather than just surviving and making ends meet they also have to address that they are going to raise a child in the poor conditions around them. This motivates her parents to work harder and eventually move to provide better opportunities for their children. “Night Women” is another story that shows how family is an important motivator. The narrator of this story resorts to prostitution to provide for her son.

“Eight days and nights and nothing but rain.” (McCormick 33) “Instead there is a ghostly hush that tells us we have lost everything, not one crop remained.”(McCormick 35) After the families have lost all of their crops they have to make money somehow, Lakshmi’s step father decides to sells her into prostitution but tricks her and tells her that she will be working as a maid in a rich house in the city. “Your stepfather has said you must go to the city and earn you keep as a maid.” (McCormick 58) Lakshmi has always wanted to help work and get money for her family so she agrees. She goes with this woman that will transport her to the brothel many miles away. In the city Lakshmi sees so many houses and people, “What I see first in one hut, then another, and another, until there is nothing but hut after hut after hut after hut.”(McCormick 87) When Lakshmi gets to the brothel she is given to a group of girls that fix her up by giving her a bath and they do her nails and makeup. After she is all fixed up the owner of the brothel talks to Lakshmi and says that she has a 10,000 rupee debt for all of her food and room costs and she will have to pay

from a world of guilt and false livelihood. The story is based on the author’s own account

In terms of sociology, Prostitution is a way for an individual to maximize their monetary intake or in other words “benefits” by selling the thing that they have readily, their bodies. In other words, it is the act or practice of participating in promiscuous sexual activity especially for money. Prostitution has been in existence for ages, going back to the Byzantine, Roman, Greek, and Egyptian Empires. Ironically, the ancient religions of those eras dealt with the needs of the group and consequently developed protocols for dealing with sexual relations that have propagated throughout time to the modern era. As a result, prostitution is not about to disappear anytime soon, despite relatively recent local laws. Also throughout centuries,