When I was a child, my parents gave me a lot: the happiness, the freedom, the nice food, and the best education. When I became a father, I tried to give my child as much as I can. What about you? You may treat your children the same way I did. But, can you believe that million of children even have no food to eat and no place to live? Can you believe that million of children under 14 work as full time labor while million of others were killed by conflict and disease? I can not believe it, but it is the fact. Armed children, disabled children, refugee children as many as million of million.
Report from Child Rights Information Network: about 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 work. Of these, 120 million work full time and some 50-60 million work in hazardous circumstances. In India, at least 18 million children live or work on the streets, laboring as porters in railway stations or bus terminals, as ragpickers, and as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles. These street children routinely subjected to arbitrary and illegal detention, torture, and extortion, and on occasion, murder at the hands of police.
In Manila, 13- and 14-year-old girls work 17-hour days at their sewing machines in sweatshops. The pay: 13 cents an hour. That's better than the one cent a day earned by 5-year-olds who weed the tea plantations in Sri Lanka (Michele Landsberg).
In the Ashanti Goldfields (jointly owned by the Government of Ghana and a company called Lonrho International), 11-year-old boys labor naked in pools of cyanide to extract gold from rock (Michele Landsberg).
Report from Human Rights Watch: two million children were killed in the last decade in armed conflict. Three times as many have been serious injured or permanently disabled while million of others have become refugees. Child soldiers were used in more than thirty countries around the world. Angola, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Uganda.
Why marry when currently the options available to couples are more than they were in the past? The piece of paper and steel around the third finger of the left hand are merely outward societal symbols of what a couple feels. Two people can have all the attributes of the institution of marriage wit...
Blood in veins is deoxygenated and has higher levels of CO2 Veins carry DeO2 blood because they are dropping off O2 to tissues then go back to heart/lungs where we exhale CO2 Base of heart proximal to head Apex of heart is distal Right side of heart collecting blood from body and sending it to lungs to pick up O2 and get rid of CO2 Left side of heart collect blood from lungs and pumps it through body Heart has four chambers Two small upper chambers called atria Two larger lower chambers called ventricles Interatrial septum is wall that separates two atria Interventricular septum is the wall ...
If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn him the other also." ... If we believe that killing is wrong, then is cold-blooded execution the right punishment for murder. ... But just because the majority of the population of Australia thinks capital punishment is right doesn't make it necessarily right. The things that are right and wrong come from God such as described in the Ten Commandments : "You shall not murder. ... We have to make up our minds if capital punishment will be right for Australia, or will it be used wrongly. ...
Is it all right? ... Americans have the right to freedom of speech under the first amendment. ... It is you right to keep these types of people away from children because pornography is not all right. ...
The film I chose to review was Mr. Jones. This is a 1993 movie starring Richard Gere and Lena Olin. The supporting cast of Delroy Lindo, Tom Irwin, Anne Bancroft, and Lauren Tom. The director was Mike Figgis and Alan Griesman and Debra Greenfield were the producers. The first time I viewed this...
Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948 to Albert Gore Senior and Pauline LaFon Gore. Albert Gore Sr. was serving in the US Senate at this time. Al was raised in Carthage, Tennessee in the Baptist tradition. After living in Tennessee, the Gore family moved to Washington D.C. Gore excelled in school a...
While I believe countries, specifically the United States, have a right to decide who enters the country or becomes a citizen, I don't believe selling citizenship is a feasible plan. ... In this scenario you are buying citizenship, citizens have the right to vote, so at the most basic level you are buying the right to vote. ... The real issue is whether or not it is ˜morally right' to accept or deny people. Citizenship encompasses more than the ability to live within the boarders of a country; it's the right to have a say in how things are done (assuming the country is...
He told the crowd to use their reasoning power and wisdom to judge him and this was attractive to them because he was saying that they were smart enough to discern what was right. ... In addition, Brutus appealed to the peoples" patriotism even more by saying that killing Caesar was the right thing to do if you"re a real Roman citizen who loves his country. ...
He told the crowd to use their reasoning power and wisdom to judge him and this was attractive to them because he was saying that they were smart enough to discern what was right. ... In addition, Brutus appealed to the peoples" patriotism even more by saying that killing Caesar was the right thing to do if you"re a real Roman citizen who loves his country. ...