Blog 10

In the article “The Children Will Keep Coming” published in Nation Company, author Oscar Martinez explains to us how David De La O was murdered by members of the 18th street gang, because he didn't want to join the gang. David was 11 years-old and went to a school that was controlled by the gang that was close to David's neighborhood. Because this gang is well known in the area, it wasn't a major concern to the county that another boy was murdered by this ruthless gang. The day before David was murdered, two other teens had there throats slit by the gang. To avoid joining the gang or getting killed by the gang, resulted in thousands of teens fled El Salvador. Since 2008, congress has been asked for 3.7 billion to step up the enforcement and employ more judges to speed up removal process, so these teens that flea from El Salvador to the U.S. don't have to be illegals. With the two major gangs the 18th street and Mara Salvatrucha have around 60,000 members. Everyone knows who they are and what they are capable of presenting. Gang activity is a such huge part of these peoples lives, the gangs run these towns. With these gang members committing crimes and the "law" acting on them, most members are claiming self defense and get away with murder. The two gangs were formed in the U.S. in southern, Cali. Then from Cali they formed out of the country into another one.    In the US we offer jobs to lower educate people over 5,000 jobs in the US. This one man whose name is Jose is really good at getting people over the border and is coasting each person to pay $7,500 per person. People will continue to try and get there children to safety, even though it's illegal, they will keep trying. The government needs to figure out better ways to stop these coyotes and protect our border.

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After reading this article, it amazes me how much a gang can control a town, city or even a country. The fact that a gang will kill you because you don't want to join. The gangs will get away with murder and bribe cops to be set free. I agree with the parents how they want to get their children away from the dangerous thugs, but I don't agree with them crossing the border illegally. It does upset me that the gangs were started in the U.S. and our government couldn't put a end to the all killings that were happening. It's sad that they were forcing children to join the gang and totally interrupting there life and forcing them into a life going nowhere. The coyotes are another problem with the government and the borders. The fact that they can bribe officers with money to allow them to cross the border illegally is messed up. I do wish that the law there would actually act like they are the law. Instead it seems like they are just afraid of the gangs just like the children and citizens are.

Blog 9

In his article, “Watching Sony Slide” published from New York Times, author John Divorak tells us how the former CEO of Sony Howard Stringer accomplished very little while he was with Sony, but as new CEO Kazuo Hirai takes his role with Sony her begins to take off in success. Sony is an extremely strange and ordinary company to begin with says the author. A company that literally make's everything from medical supplies to televisions. It's most recent success to my generation is with play station, Sony make's that as well. John Divorak says that it’s so bad that the company “Apple could buy Sony five times over with what it has in the bank.” That's not exactly the best news to hear when the competition is doing awesome work and isn't even worried about what Sony has to offer. The author goes on about how Sony is clueless and it's business and going nowhere. The new CEO has made good progress, but it isn't good enough to beat Apple. Kazuo, the new CEO needs to figure out what exactly is Sony going to be known for? Sony can't invent and start making everything that this corrupt world needs.

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I found this article very interesting! Yes, I know that Sony is a major company in the electronic world, but I didn't know about the medical supplies. I also didn't know that Sony is basically failing as a company. I can see why Sony is struggling though, because look at Japan, China and Russia they make a lot of our American needs and wants. Japan is well known for all their electronic departments and they literally can't make everything. Sony does need to figure out what they are going to specialize in, but they are famous in the electronic industry. When I read that Apple could buy out Sony five times and still be doing just fine, that shocked me. I thought Sony was one of the wealthiest companies out there, but I thought wrong.

Blog 8

In the article “Rebel Brides and Ex-Wives.” Published in Newsweek (pacific Edition) author Jason Overdorf talks about how a nineteen year-old female Sreeja Konidela returned back home in Hyderabad, for a relatives funeral, but she didn't get the welcome back home that she thought she was going to get. Sreeja father is a big time in the Telegu language film industry. Her father friend was cut off for running away and getting married otherwise known as eloping, with Shirish Bhardwaj 23 and the two got married on live television last October.The two were afraid that her father would accuse the "husband" for kidnapping. Sreeja was getting pressure by her parents to end the so-called marriage with Shirish, so she could start a new marriage with someone that her parents would choose. Arranged marriage has been a tradition for decades in India and the people do get offended when my generation of young adults commit eloping and not marrying the person of their parents choice. 

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I don't agree with the article. I think that arranged marriage's are a joke and completely immature. I don't understand why people would marry someone because their parents want them too. I've known plenty of people who get married just so they can make more money. These arranged marriage's should be stopped, the parents need to let their kids experience what it's like to be in love and not forced into love. I think that Sreeja made a good choice by running away and being with the person that she wanted to be with, not the person that her parents wanted her to be with.

Blog 7

In the article “The Issue – Rwandan schools bear the weight of history: news”published in TES Global Limited, author Jackson Twagirayezu describes how being a teacher at a Rwanda  school can extremely difficult and uncontrollable at times, but it is on the path to success. The article starts off with the author explaining imagine what it would be like if your parents, brothers or sisters had committed genocide. Teachers, including the author found it very difficult to teach this subject. The reason the teachers struggled teaching this disturbing subject was because they to overcome their own nightmares and grief from what happened in 1994. Therefore genocide was not taught for a while in Rwanda schools for the reason of personal issues with the teachers that had to go through it. In 2007 a debate took place on the issue of genocide and how it should be handled in schools in Rwanda. They only teach genocide between the ages of 11-14 for certain reasons of maturity. The author tells how teachers had to be careful with the subject and not go into detail about the events that took place. It is important in the culture that the kids do learn and acknowledge genocide, but to an extent.

 


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This article is hard to understand and had to do research on the subject "genocide" before actually typing this blog. I can see where it is a disturbing subject to teach to kid who in my opinion aren't mature enough to fully understand the subject of genocide. Teachers in Rwanda have it a lot harder then other teachers I my eye's. They have to know exactly what they are talking about when it comes to genocide I understand and agree that the kids do need to know about what happened in 1994, just like our kids need to know about 9/11 or the wars that took place in 20th century. I  would personally find it very difficult to be a student and having to learn about genocide.

Blog Post 6

In the article, “TV Star’s Plastic-Surgery Disaster Tests Brazil” published by Time Magazine, the author who is anonymous talks about how a TV star got put into the hospital for the destruction that happened to her after her plastic surgery. Urach was an ugly ducking before she started getting plastic surgery, then she turned into a Brazilian beauty. When she was 27, she was getting a surgery done on her thighs, when all of a sudden she went into septic shock and was placed on life support. After that tragic event took place in her life, she started to wonder about the risk women will take to achieve beauty. A 39 year old women lost her life to injections into her buttocks. Brazilian women are now thinking these surgery's are adrenaline rushes for some women. People are now using untested materials, methods as long with unlicensed practitioners. Going into the facts about Brazil and plastic surgery, Brazil surpassed the U.S. in surgery's with 1.5 million surgery's in 2013. Urach said that with these plastic surgery's happening in our everyday life, that it will more than likely affect the Brazilians go about their lifestyle. 

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I think this article is an eye opener for a lot of people that are receiving plastic surgery. People look at celebrities and think that they got all these operations done to there body, so why can't I. People shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars so they can look beautiful or whatever it is that they are going for. i believe plastic surgery is a joke and should only be used if the person has been injured. I don't know why people care so much about what other people think of them. Brazil in my eye's is the problem when it comes to celebrities and from celebrities down to our youth today. The youth today see's people with big breast or a nose job and think that they will look like that if they have the surgery done to them.

Blog Post 5

In the article “Stop Calling it a Tramp Stamp” published by Cosmopolitan, the author, Sara Stewart talks about how having a "tramp stamp" isn't always about being a slut, whore or have anything to do with sex. Sara explains to us having a lower-back tattoo doesn't make you a "whore." She goes on with how females are degraded because they put this art work on there body, yes it's right above the butt, but it doesn't make you open for sex with anyone. Sara tells us how different countries have different sayings for the American term "tramp stamp." Germany also called the lower-back tattoo "ass-antlers." Sara Stewart also believes that the name "tramp stamp" should be banned, that females with the "ass-antlers" shouldn't be classified as a sex-crazed maniac.

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I strongly disagree with this article. Sara Stewart sure didn't waste any time calling out females for having this so called "tramp stamp" then being classified as a slut. What about the guys out there that have these lower-back tattoos? Like myself, I guess I have "ass-antlers" then. I have a tattoo their simply because it's funny, I got part of it in Australia and the other part of it in Japan. I love snowmobiling and that's what my "tramp stamp" means. It does bother me that she only talked about the girls having these tattoos. Honestly I have never met a person with one of these tattoo's that has been offended by the saying "tramp stamp." One of my friends has "tramp" and it's in the form of a stamp, tattooed on his lower back. I have also never met someone who is a sex-crazed maniac, who has a lower-back tattoo. Poorly explained article, I'm guessing some girl got a lower-back tattoo and got called a slut by another girl and took it personally.

Blog Post 4

    
     In this article,  "This Is Why I Sent You To Carlisile" published by American Indian Quarterly author Cristina Stanciu explains the dangers and the horrific challenges that Indians had to face while attending Carlisile. Yes, school today isn't as bad as it was for them back then, they had an extremely strict schedule. Cristina explained this poem and how it said "When the whistle blows at half past five, Once more I am up and still alive," every morning you wake up is another night you survived. The ways these boarding schools would operate are strict, set schedule, discipline and intense leadership. Every single day they would know exactly what they are doing the next day.



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After reading this article, it made me realize that we have it easy compared to those boarding schools. I think some of the stuff they did to the students was a extreme. Yes, I get that it's there religion and they can express themselves how ever they want. But I don't see how beating your students or punishing them with bread and water only diet, helps them become a better student. I'd say that would be the reasons for more school shootings. Their kids not military, you got to let the kids live a  normal life and not be brought up under strict guidelines. Kids deserve a life of finger painting, kick ball, four square and learning how to multiplication by some annoying catchy song.

Blog 3

In the article “Rule of the Headhunters” published in Newsweek, author Maggie Ford . She goes in depth about the head hunting of immigrants on the island of Madura. The head hunters otherwise known as the Iban tribe. The tribe would be armed with spears and machete's and would not let anything get In there way. As the Indonesian Army would try and stop the brutal head hunter, many people started to blame the former president Suharto for the deadly Iban tribe. The policy that the former president has made up was known as "transmigration" which would allow poor people move to a less crowded island. Because of this policy the head hunters didn't like immigrants moving through there land and that's when the hunting and spearing started taking place.

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I found this article shocking and surprised at the way the Iban tribe would react to immigrant's. I think it was very brave and showed a lot of respect for there homeland. Every one has a right to there own religion and what they do to defend it. I think some of the spearing and machete hunting was a bit extreme. I wonder what happened to the former president? Was he killed by the Iban? How is the Iban tribe reacting today to immigrants? After finishing this article, I searched around and found out he Iban tribe has a long history of tattoo's! which I found very interesting.

Haircuts or Turbans

    
Amelia Gentleman wrote this short story on "Haircuts or Turbans," which was published in The New York Times. Amelia wrote about the religion and the importance of Sikhs in India. She explains the history of young and old Sikhs and how a simple haircut can change history. The drama that took place in this story is whether or not a Turban is fashionable or not? She write about this 14 year old boy his name is Jugraj Singh and he is sick of wearing the turban. He complains how it gets in the way too much and he wants to have normal hair. he didn't like wrapping a 7ft piece of cloth around his head everyday. The mothers of Sihks had to master wrapping the turban for their young children. Singh cut his hair and he said “”I felt smarter without it.”” This is a problem for India because it’s causing the spiritual leaders to feel like they can do nothing about the change in history that is taking place. The old people of the Sihks don't understand why the turban is such a big deal for the newer generation.

 I didn't mind this article, it was short and to the point. I don't understand why people make fashion a major deal in life. Yes I understand it's part of there religion, but it shouldn't matter if they wear it or not. I'm catholic and I don't wear a rosary! No one forces me to wear one either and no one ever looks down on me for not wearing one or for not praying everyday. I think the turban should be a matter of choice. If a Sihks wants to get a haircut then let him get a haircut, he shouldn't be ashamed by his own religion for choosing to do something to his body.

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One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem For China

     In this article "One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem for China," published in Newsweek, the author Susan Scutti explains the negative effects of the One-Child policy in China. In 35 years the government of China strongly demonstrates the importance of having just one healthy child. Late last year the China's National Congress eased the One-Child policy. Although the government didn't admit that it was a mistake! The making of a new law is permeating parents to have two children only if both parents were singletons.China outnumbered the US in 1949 by 149 million.  China was not the only place affected by this controversial situation, thee entire globe was affected by the one-child policy. When parents would have a son, the son in his older days would have to take care of the parents and the parents depended on their son. "Survival depends on sons, and daughters are only a burden." Medical technology had played a major role in making this surplus of boys. In over the next two decades it is expected that China will see steadily worsening sex ratios in the reproductive age group. In research 12-15% of young men will not marry. Countries all over the world have been crying out towards the government of China complaining about his one-child policy, China's more relaxed family planning laws and re-imagined social policy will help. 

Self Introduction

Self Introduction

         Hello, I’m Nicolas Lunde. I’m 22 years old and currently living in Farmington, MN. I was born and raised in Rosemount, MN. I have four people in my family, Father, Mother and Brother. My old man is retired and my Ma is still working as a circulations specialist. My older brother and myself work at Allstate Peterbilt in South St. Paul. I got out the Marines in July of 2014, I did four years in the Marines and two deployments. Some of my hobbies include dirt biking, snowmobiling, fishing and hunting. My goals while at Inver Hills are getting a degree in business management. I would prefer to be graduating with a BA.