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shops ran by single mothers of five, six, or even seven kids, barely making enough money to survive. In the summer of 2016 I left the United States as a sheltered teenager, unaware of the struggles and conditions too many families are up against in third world countries. I was fortunate enough to have traveled to Guatemala City, Guatemala with my church's student ministry program on a mission and outreach trip. I returned with my eyes opened to diversity, a realization of my life's calling, and an

with slavery and refugees to reside specifically in underdeveloped, Third World Countries, Nazer’s story displays how ethical problems, such as slavery, reside in global powers as well. Alison Jaggar expresses the necessary elimination of the assumptive societal viewpoint of these problems in her work, “‘Saving Amina’: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue”. Jaggar stresses that it is necessary to realize that Third World poverty, “… cannot be attributed exclusively to the injustice

During the mid-thirteenth century to the fourteenth century, an outbreak of a disease called the Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, occurred. It was a very deadly disease that killed approximately one-third of the population of both Europe and the Middle East based on the Student Guide Sheet. It was spread by black rats to fleas then to humans. The infected fleas from the rats would land on the humans, causing them to get the disease. It was spread across the world from China to Europe based on Document

When your houseboat is invaded by ship rats, it’s fun to refer to the rodents using pirate lingo. Unfortunately, that’s where the fun ends. When ship rats stow away on your boat, they put the safety of everyone on board at risk. Here are three reasons to send those no-good ship rats sailing away today. 1. Ship Rats Give a Whole New Meaning to the Term “Sea Sick” Nausea, dizziness, vomiting — the symptoms of seasickness are dreadful. Floating around on a boat while throwing up is never fun. Fortunately

The way she is treated is shown to be violent and mis-treated, always being abused and not being heard for what she may have to say. “It’s like being in a third-world country, but instead of food or money you are are what is wanted, your company.” (Rankine) By the saying of this, immigrants are seen as targets and are being abused. They are seem as food or money which are two basic needs that every human should

“Privilege.” What really is a privilege? Do you even consider yourself privileged? Well, the word “privilege” means “a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people” and whether or not you consider yourself privileged really depends on how you define the word and whether you take it for granted or not. For those in poverty, the word “privilege” means having access to clean drinking water, having food to eat, being employed, having functional

(1) Shrek, a big green ogre, is the hero in DreamWorks’s Shrek. Living isolated in a swamp far away from others with no family at all, his birth is mysteriously questionable as there is no implication to the whereabouts of his conception or parents; giving the hero a fabulous circumstance. (2) Although he enjoys living in his consistent peacefulness in a swamp, it is suddenly shattered by an influx of annoying fairy tale characters. They were banished from their kingdom, Duloc, by the evil ruler

and the rooster. All four seem very unlikely mates, but good fortune gets them through troubling times. Reading “The Bremen Town Musicians” you are reading about four animals all down on their luck and facing death from owners. The donkey is the first character introduced who embodies ______. Leaving home the donkey decides that he will have a new profession of being a musician in the town of Bremen. Setting off towards his destination of Bremen, he meets a dog who getting too old to hunt and leaves

The plague! When people hear those words the first thing that comes to mind is the bubonic plague, but plague has also been used as a metaphor, sometimes in the comical form, for such things like infestation, desertion, and death. Throughout the years, dating back to ancient times, plague in general has caused millions of deaths (10). Plague has made such a great impact in history, that scholars even believe it was the cause of the collapse of the Roman Empire (2). Scientifically speaking the bacterium

I have learned a lot about transgender from Kate Bornstein’s article. Her article helped me understand what transgender really means. There are some points that I found interesting in her articles, which explains what transgender is. According to Kate Bornstein’s article, she mentioned that people who are in the situation of transgender, they are people who are “incomplete.” In my opinion, I think the word “incomplete” that she used in her article means that people who are transgender they were in