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unfairness of wealth distribution, this is my topic for a social position paper ( please comment on essay)?

“Life is unfair” this is phrased so many times within our life time, but the people who presents this idea to us; do they know what unfair really is? Have they overcome unfairness and the disturbing reality that follows it? It’s within honesty to suggest that life is only unfair to people who don’t realize unfairness is occurring within their environment. wealth distribution is said to be a case within the “unfair” trail. I believe the unfairness of wealth distribution that is occurring around the world is occurring for many different reasons, one of the reason being where the continent or country or even city lays at in the grid of power,development and historically

Unfairness is almost indescribable. It could be represented in many different statements or ideas and can be looked at from many different points of views and perspectives. An example of this is a kid who doesn’t receive his evening treat; is that really unfair?-it might be for the kid; since he sees the treat as a requirement-Or should we look at unfairness as those kids in Africa who don’t receive a single bite to fight off their hunger?-this wouldn’t be unfair to those kids because they are used to the struggle of finding their own needs” No one really knows what to think of unfairness as. I as an intelligent being; I survey a wide assortment of ideas and perspectives; an example would be looking at unfairness form a childish view or a little more mature view of a teenager and still gather the same thought-this said; the child and teenager would be rather wealthy- I would attack unfairness as not receiving what I “want”- which in a collective view is ironic since it’s “UNFAIR” to think of unfairness in such a way.
That is NOT unfairness-it might be for those two age groups who are wealthy enough to view it at such circumstances-; unfairness is what’s occurring around the world this very moment, the starvation of children in Africa or Asia or in countries and places that are thought of in a more wealthy view such as the U.S.A; yet it doesn’t occur to too many beings that this is one of the true meaning of unfairness-starvation. At this very moment its 2008 October the 23th 7: 35 P.M and there are 6,701,887,230 people on this earth, some struggling for food and drinkable water, some are dealing with family issues and some are having the time of their lives; this has been the case of people for millions of years; time hasn’t come to a point where it interferes with those people and what they are doing at this very moment; yet it’s fair to say that time can eventually come to a point where it may erases the struggle of finding food and clean water; but it’s also fair to say that time can also come to a point where it can erase everything: such as happiness . Wealth distribution is a big ball player in the game of “unfairness”.
Unfairness and wealth distribution go hand in hand. For example, look at the difference of overall wealth of a continent such as Africa and a continent such as North America or Europe! We see an enormous change of lifestyle and environmental factors; the fact of why this enormous change occurs within these two rather large continents is unknown; unknown, but it’s not wrong to say that one factor that could have played an important role in determining wealth distribution may be the history of the continent or country. If you look at histories of any state and the history of many African countries you will surely find an outstanding difference. Proof of this is where the country or continent sit at right now-status wise. The history of Africa and North America has extreme differences; Africa was ruled by other colonizing European countries for quite a while, which brought down its status. But when we look at America, it was never ruled by any other opposing countries. America is said to be self powered. Looking more closely at wealth distribution and fairness of the distribution we can look at a student attending an American school and an African student attending an African school (most of the time children in Africa don’t even receive the privilege of attending school)- another unfortunate fact of wealth distribution- the American student would receive quiet the education and an opportunity to successfully get places; the African child on the other hand struggles to find a pencil and a paper to write down the rather miserable education provided to become something in the near future. Opportunities are provided in the bigger “historical player” (North America), but Africa receives nothing except starvation, misery and at some points death of its young.
even though history is a big part of wealth distribution the leading government of the country is also important since it usually decides how wealth is to be spread within the country, a bad ruling government will mean power distribution and sometimes even theft of a country’s wealth, an example of this bad leadership is Saddam Hussein, previous president of iraq

Why do Republicans lie about Senator Obama’s foreign policy experience?

Obama’s service on the Foreign Relations committee has placed him in an unique position in that he is the Chair of the Subcommittee on European Relations and serves on the Subcommittees on African Affairs; East Asia and Pacific Affairs; and International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection. This cross-section of subcommittees places Obama in a unique position of having knowledge about Asian, African and European issues. The only other member of the Foreign Relations committee who is running for President is Democrat Joseph Biden who is Chairman of the full Foreign Relations Committee yet unlike Obama he does not serve on any of the other foreign policy committees and his experience is limited to foreign policy issues covered by the Foreign Relations Committee.

Obama has also traveled extensively in his capacity as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and has visited Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan in Asia; Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, and the Palestinian Territories in the Middle East; and Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa in Africa. Obama has also co-sponsored the “Lugar-Obama Act” with Republican Senator Richard Lugar who was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations at the time. This act was a bi-partisan effort to increase U.S. security in terms of the elimination of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. This legislation came out of Obama’s trip with Senator Richard Lugar to Russia, the Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

Obama has also sponsored legislation such as the “Democratic Republic of Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act” which was signed into law by President Bush on December 22, 2006. Obama has co-sponsored immigration related bills related to his service on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee including the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. His extensive foreign policy experience exceeds that of every other Presidential candidate including his trips abroad in the performance of his official duties as a member of committees dealing with foreign relation issues.

While some have criticized Obama’s foreign travel claiming that he is the most traveled freshman Senator in doing so they often fail to mention that as a result of his extensive trips abroad is legislation such as the Lugar-Obama Act instead preferring to make the political connection between his travels abroad to his run for President yet others will recognize the experience he has gained as a result of his foreign trips and recognize that as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he is expected to travel extensively and that his travels often were with the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

On the Republican side, you have McCain who doesn’t know the difference between Shi’ite and Sunni or that certain foreign borders aren’t where he says they are and you have his running mate, a neophyte with zero foreign relations experience and zero knowledge of the subject.

It really is straight out of the Rove playbook, isn’t it, to lie about your opponent’s strengths when you sorely lack in that very department?

Which class should I take for college in integrative science?

AA S 575 Asian American Community Health Issues
AFRS 201 Kemet, Afro-centricity, and the Dawn of Science [LLD, AERM]
AFRS 213 Science and Spirituality in Ancient Africa II [LLD, AERM]
AIS 450 American Indian Science
ASTR 405 Astrobiology
BIOL 160 Marine Biology
BIOL 310 Biology for Today’s World
BIOL 313 Principles of Ecology [L/F]
BIOL 317 Ecology of California
BIOL 318 Our Endangered Planet
BIOL 322 Human Sexuality–Integrative Science [LLD]
BIOL 326 Disease!
BIOL 333 The Genetic Revolution
BIOL 349 Bioethics [LLD]
CHEM 107 Exploration of The Chemistry of Plants
CHEM 108 Exploration of The Chemistry of Plants Laboratory (1) [L/F]
CHEM 121 Chemistry in the Causes and Prevention of Cancer [LLD]
CHEM/ENVS 380 Chemistry Behind Environmental Pollution
ENGR 210 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
ENGR 220 Energy: Resources, Alternatives, and Conservation
ENVS 392 Nature, Culture and Technology
ENVS/GEOG 600 Environmental P

Why do people not question, and just believe everything that james watson states about race an intelligence?

I’ve seen this on television programs and I’ve read the articles.
I strongly disagree that race has anything at all to do with intelligence. It seems that societies these days are full of very passive people, who just believe what they are told in the media.
Just because a scientist has said that race and intelligence have a relationship, does not and i mean NOT mean that this is totally true.
I think it is actually very unintelligent to suggest that the lighter your skin colour is, the more intelligent you will be.
I have read so many of the studies done, to prove that some races are superior to others in academics. James Watson says that its genetic that some races are more intelligent than others, but its not genetic at all, this difference in intelligence is due to culture and environmental factors, and this is what most studies actually prove.

It is stated that blacks are the least intelligent race, however
many blacks live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, where there are families of low income, lone parents, and violence, which is not the ideal environment to produce highly academic thinkers.
It is also not the blacks fault that they live in the ‘ghetto’ areas, because this happened when slavery was abolished, blacks could not get jobs because of racial discrimination and some where left homeless, this left a massive scar on the people of colour.

My closest aunt has got a PhD in social sciences, and she travelled a lot, and has done studies of her own, in schools all around the world, and found that there were no major differences in intelligence in private schools, but there were major differences in intelligence in public schools, and it had nothing to do with race but really their environment.
I also disagree with the race intelligence theory, because i once lived in an inner city area in London, and a lot of the students that attended my school, were working class white students, after high school many of them did not make it to college, a lot of them did not have any care for education, all they wanted to do was, work manual jobs or go on to receive benefits. The few people in my school from countries like South Africa, India and China tended to be the ones who did well all the time, so how can whites be genetically smart.
When people ask questions like, but why is it that Africa is poor ,if Africans are so smart ?,
Well most Indians are very smart but why doesn’t anyone ask the same question, why is India so poor.

Are people so blind to see that this is just another way to simply say that blacks are inferior.
Look at president Obama, i mean for god’s sake, his the president of the USA, which is the richest first world country. He is clearly a lot smarter than president Bush.
This whole thing about ‘no whites are better’, ‘no Asians are better’, ‘no blacks are better’ sounds very childish to me, and it really needs to stop, but of course there will always be racists out there like James Watson to make people feel inferior because of the colour of their skin.

All i want to know is why do people not challenge these issues or debate these topics intelligently, why do people not research, people just seem to only rely on the media and hearsay.
People shouldn’t be so ignorant, people should educate themselves about these issues not wait for someone else to this.
Mr Watson’s research has many faults.
I think he is just another attention seeker and it is dangerous that people actually believe all that Mr Watson states about race and intelligence without questioning minds.i personally think Mr Watson’s theory is a whole lot of nonesense.

p.s. I’m white, black and asian, so i am not biased in my argument, I am basing it on FACT.

LADIES: Would you allow your hubby to take your toddler out of the country for vacation….WITHOUT you…?

(I’ve already asked this question on another board, but just curious what responses I’ll get here in the Parenting section):

I’ve been married for 4 years, but together with hubby for 14 years. Our son will be 3 years old next month…………and my husband (who’s African) wants to take our son to his country for 2 weeks, to see other family members who are there.

Ladies…..if you were married to a man from another country (3rd world country, that is) would you allow him to take your young child?

At first, I had agreed……..but later after thinking about it some time, decided I didn’t want him to, for the following reasons:

1. Traveling to a 3rd world country, where sanitation isn’t like the U.S., I’m afraid my son will get sick from diarrhea or malaria. I feel he’s too young to understand he can’t put his hands in his mouth, he can’t drink the water, etc.

2. Even though my hubby is a good dad, I just don’t know if DADS are as watchful and neurotic as MOMS are (sorry, Dads, but I just don’t think you are). Hubby says I am too protective. My concern is that hubby will not seriously take to heart any health concerns that may crop up while they are there. Diarrhea for a toddler is NOT the same as diarrhea for an adult.

3. Our son is too young to remember the experience. Why not wait until he’s 5, maybe, when he might be able to appreciate the experience more?

4. I think a trip of this sort really requires 2 parents. I can’t go along because I am 12 weeks pregnant with baby #2.

My suggestion has been to wait a couple years so that our son is older…..and more able to handle the environmental differences.

PLEASE NOTE: I am not at all concerned about hubby taking our son and kidnapping him to Africa. That’s not even what this is about. It’s more about do you trust that your husband has what it takes to provide the same level of CARE that you would provide? Hubby and I have disagreed a lot about him thinking I am too PROTECTIVE and me thinking he’s too LAID BACK. For example, I am a stickler for making sure the car seat straps are not twisted, that the seat is tightly in place. Hubby complains that “the seat is fine” and he just doesn’t take to heart issues that could be a SAFETY HAZARD. I also worry that if our son were to get sick, he would wave it off like other illnesses/colds/etc. that our son has had and not be as concerned to get him treated by a dr.

Hubby makes comments that our son is “tough” and “is a man” and that I always “baby” our son. I’m sorry, but a 3 year old isn’t a man; he’s a toddler. And I just worry that being in a different country, he won’t shield him as protectively as I would. I’m afraid he will trivialize real threats (similar to the car seat example).

THOUGHTS?
EDITED TO ADD:

Well, by the time he is thinking of going (Sept 2009), I will be further along in pregnancy, and I’m also concerned about health risks, vaccinations, etc. But, I also do not have the vacation time to take off for 2 weeks (it would affect the amount of maternity leave I would have).
EDITED TO ADD:
It’s been about a month or so since hubby mentioned wanting to take our son. He hasn’t purchased plane tickets yet. His brother lives there, as well as his great-uncle, who he wants our son to meet.
EDITED TO ADD:
I forgot to mention that I asked my mother-in-law (who now lives here in the U.S., but goes back every couple years), and even SHE agrees that we should wait until our son is older!!!! That’s an important point I forgot to include! 🙂 I trust her opinion, too.