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Analyzing Reality

 

What thrives me to be better is the idea of knowing there are existing issues that yet need to be solved. Issues that affect our lives in the greatest manner that in fact can be changed for the better as long as the whole world is on the same page. Refugees in Syria and neighboring countries such as Afghanistan are escaping and are experiencing a fall of current rule. Citizens are being forced to flee from the violence from a place they once called home. Their culture is being taken away from them similar to how mine is taken away from my family. Mexico has been the source of narcotics in recent decades for both their home land and neighbors, us. Social issues root down to the war on drugs and tie in to keeping our economy down and class status stagnant. Last but not least, racism is not a poison that can’t be ignored. It lives and presents itself in the minds of millions still today and continually acts out in form of rage and injustice.

Germany and the seemingly inclined Turkey are receiving thousands of refugees each day. The scarcity of good care in the camps they are centralized in is crying for extended resources. They never would have imagined this amount of immigrants seeking asylum in their countries. Nonetheless, the world is crying for our help more and more each day. If we choose to ignore the climate in our reality, we might not see the storm coming. It is our job as students of the collegiate world as well as of life to be conscious of humanities struggles and act in a helping manner. This statement is to bring life to this situation happening around the world from us. No matter the distance, time is not in our favor thus we need to act now.

Narcotics are deadly. Narcotics help you they say. Narcotics are in the lives of all ages now a days. However, I never would have thought narcotics would reach a level where it would take a piece of me. Culture is subjective and unique to each and every perspective. Mexico has been terrorized by Government corruption as they continue to turn their heads purposefully towards groups of terrorists for the sole purpose of profit. I shouldn’t be scared to visit my family because of something so harmful to society. Drugs in America have been an extremely important issue as of recent years since we continue to see the damage they create. Both individually and in the masses. Yet another issue that deserves attention along with a solution.

We use equality as a face of our country and remain ignoring it in our everyday lives. We shouldn’t get used to or feel comfortable with the idea that at any time a traffic stop can turn into a shooting as was the case of police officer Michael Slager in South Carolina. As a person considered to be a minority, these issues are ones of great importance. Life is too short to accept these atrocities and we need to act now by using our freedom of speech to state the importance of such events that quite frankly need to be attacked and ended.

Social Issues

Many things in the world seem to go overlooked due to the population blindly going about their “busy” lives. The glorification of being too busy needs to stop so we can thoroughly analyze what we are promoting for the value of human life. I will be covering three important issues today that I believe have been placed on the back burner. Teen pregnancy, sex trafficking and police brutality are some issues that this world has seemed to brush off up until something bad happens.

It has become so normal in the world for teens to be pregnant and mothering children as young as 15 years old. Looking into this made me very disturbed and on edge. How does a child take care of a child? In this day and age, there are television shows, which have had both negative and positive affects on this subject. The show ’16 & Pregnant’ does indeed show many of the struggles, but I have overheard many young people say, “Maybe if I get pregnant I will be on TV.” So one can see the pros and cons to this television show. I believe we should be educating our children and younger generations on how to protect themselves and give real life examples of financial situations, health situations, and overall life situations that will help them to realize that parenting is not something they want to do at such a young age.

Now, sex trafficking is happening too much around us and we are so oblivious to it. I have read many articles and heard many personal stories about people who were stuck in that “business.” This is not a future that anyone would look forward to. Some people feel like they have no other option than to do this and become stuck in a life that could hardly be called a life at all.   Other people are forced into this world and just don’t know how to get out or feel helpless. According to Polaris Project (http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/sex-trafficking-in-the-us ) in the year 2014 there were 3,598 sex trafficking cases in the United States alone, and those were only the cases that we found. Worldwide, there were 4.5 million people trapped in sex trafficking. It’s a shame that this is happening at all, to anyone. People who have a voice, or who are striving to make a difference should be helping those who feel that they have no other choice.

Bruises, beatings, fatal “accidents” happen all the time, but when those who are supposed to be there to protect us commit them, it just makes it that much worse. Police brutality has been an uprising issue in the United States. For example, a very recent case is South Carolina an officer shot a man in the back as he was running away from the officer. The officer claimed to be scared for his life. How are you scared for your life when a person is running away from you? Doesn’t make any sense, does it? I feel like becoming a police officer is a privilege. People should go through many exams; physically, mentally, and emotionally to make sure they qualify to make conscious and moral decisions. If a police officer has gone through a tragedy, just like any other person a counseling session would be recommended to help them through the tough times. We should be educating ourselves about these things so we can make the difference if we are ever put on a trial for a case like this, or even if we witness it we can make the difference in the outcome.

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