Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Lybia and Gadhafi


Libya is one of the Middle East countries where a revolution is taking place. Gadhafi, the current leader of the country, is a militarist, meaning that the way he governs is by the use of the military unlike the rest of the countries that are interdependent with it. These countries which have relationship with him include the US and lots of European nations; Libya’s main resource for trading is oil which makes any intervention into it a very uncomfortable relation which is the main problem right now.
When the habitants of Libya became angry of the oligarchy Colonel Gadhafi had created the internal revolution started and at the beginning it was peaceful like Egypt’s and other countries, but Gadhafi being a militarist and knowing no other way to solve problems involved the military and we all know how military and habitants do when they are in opposite sides.
I want to think that somehow all the strong nations that are affected by this situation will do something to stop this revolution and bring everything back to normal in order to let people live in peace, but I also understand that the first country to act will take the most damage, so that is why all the countries are only defending form Gadhafi’s threats and only answering to any actions the Gadhafi does.
Recently one direct attack was taken by the Gadhafi army and it weakened it almost to the point where I can foresee that they won’t last long and at last they will surrender.
Gadhafi is a particularly a bad and egocentric megalomaniac whose ambitions cannot let him see beyond his nose and realize how he is damaging the people 40 years ago he wanted to defend and protect.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

memo


Date: Feb. 14 2011
To: 1311 English Class
From: Carlos Jauregui
RE: The Coalition for Adolescent Girls

The UN being an international organization with worldwide reach is concerned with peace.  Peace is influenced by several things, but one of the most important ones are education and poverty. Both are related, when there is poverty there usually is not enough education for the population meaning that they don’t have enough skills to grow and develop which leads to no wealth grow. The Coalition for Adolescent Girls, an international organization of the UN, has as its main goal to educate young women around the world to be educated enough to be independent and be able to make correct decisions.
The Coalition works by going into the places where these problems occur and builds schools for the young. They try to teach everyone at least to high school, but when girls are old enough to start having babies they are focused on. They are taught independence, how to work, how to say no to men, and other things that will help the girls how to manage a healthy family that will be sustainable.
This organization takes into account how this same problem affects several cultures and tries to teach them in a way that is appropriate for them. In some affiliated countries to this organization the way taught to women is very different to others. For example, let’s say there is a country affiliated to the organization with a religion similar to that of the Middle East, where women don’t have the same rights, labors and obligations as women from a country like US or places near Russia.
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls main goal is to reduce poverty by education. Women are the main piece of society and economy, and as important as they are in lots of places they are not taught correctly how to make decisions, this organization reminds us that women are really important.