Continue readingThe day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan
Author: Davey Leslie
Refugees & the U.N.
While there are many humanitarian agencies helping refugees around the world, the main organization is the United Nations Refugee Agency. One of the most important jobs has been to try to manage waste and provide clean water in an effort to prevent diseases like cholera (コレラ). Good news on that front:
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Russia? Trump? What?
The government of Russia interfered with the 2016 United States presidential election to harm Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign and help the campaigns of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein.[1][2]
Continue readingRefugees: The Rohingya
We are wandering animals. Our ancestors started walking out of East Africa some 50,000 years ago most likely due to changing climate and a rising population. By about 15,000 years ago, homo sapiens, us, had spread all over the planet all the way down to the tip of what is now South America. Except for Antarctica, human groups have established traditional homelands everywhere.
What happens, however, when large numbers of people are forced from those homelands, for months, years, and even decades? When this happens, we call it a refugee crisis. Right now around the world, there are several major refugee crises. Today we’ll look at one in Asia: The Rohingya people in Myanmar.
Continue readingSnowden, part one: recap
This movie is based on real events. It is not a documentary, but a biographical thriller.
The movie opens in 2013 in Hong Kong. Edward Snowden is meeting a hotel with reporters and a documentary filmmaker. He is giving the reporter a memory chip with lots of secret information from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), America’s top spy department. He wants a newspaper, The Guardian, to publish his story, but he is afraid of the US government.
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Do you know how to use Powerpoint’s spell check?
Continue readingTechnology, Privacy & Security IV: Snowden
Technology, Privacy & Security III
Cause & Effect
A cause and effect essay typically shows either the effect of something (an event, a situation) or explains the cause of something. It explains why and how something happens (the cause) or what the effects of that will be. Your task is explain clearly either the causes or effects of an event, situation, or condition.
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