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Just another WordPress.com weblogAssignment # 9; Genders
When your chromosomes don’t match your gender. This is now known as Intersexuality. Intersexuality was a term created in the 20th Century, by Intersex activists who criticized traditional medical approaches to sex assignments. Gender Identity Disorder is a diagnosis psychologist and physicians use to describe people who experience gender dysphoria. Attributes related to Transsexuality, Transgenders, and Transvestism. Some symptoms of GID are depression or anxiety, withdrawn from social interaction, Desire to live as a person of the opposite sex, Dress like the person of the opposite sex. Criteria to have a sex change are; you are expected to live and be accepted as the member of the opposite sex, Transsexual identity has been present for 2 years minimum, Disorder is not a symptom of a Mental disorder or Chromosomal abnormality. Treatment for GID are Individual and or family counseling or couples therapy or surgery and hormonal therapy. The risks involved are depression and anxiety, emotional distress, feeling alone, poor self-concept . Notable Intersex people; Lady Colin Campbell, Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet.
Assignment # 7
Highway 16 is known as the Highway of Tears. The HWY follows the path from northern British Columbia alignment of the Canadian National Railway. Highway 16 is commonly known for the disappearance and murders of 32 women, 31 of them being aboriginal; they have been killed or suspiciously disappeared along the 800-kilometre highway section from Prince George to Prince Rupert. Nicole Hoar is one of women that went missing, she was a 25 year old tree planter who went missing on hwy 16 on June 21st, 2002, her height was 5’ 9”, and her weight was 130 lbs. She has Dark hair in a pony tail, blue eyes and glasses. She was last seen heading west from Prince George hitchhiking to Smithers on June 21, 2002. All we really can do is bring awareness to this problem, there really isn’t much we can do because the R.C.M.P don’t have any links to find many of these missing women, it’s like the blind helping the blind.
Assignment #8
I do believe that now our education system offers equal opportunities for success for all groups. The statistics show that, there is potential for everyone to graduate. It shows us that every person in this province from every culture and background has the same and equal opportunity as another student from the province would. The difference I believe between the aboriginal and French immersion students is that the aboriginal students get a “free slip” to go to university or college, because their aboriginal but with that being said they did have there hardship at times but what racial group hasn’t, there isn’t a need to provide people from a certain group a certain privilege its a matter of taking responsibility and forgetting the past and moving on with the future and letting go of a grudge that they have placed and still carry on within there society. Then the aboriginal people also don’t feel motivated to go to university, because they have a opportunity where the Canadian government pays for there university. There for being lazy and not have a drive to graduate high school.
Abraham Lincoln
http://sc94.ameslab.gov/tour/alincoln.html
Abraham Lincoln has made a big impact on society views of blacks and slavery in the 20th century. Abraham Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth president on November 6, 1860 most of all the southerners who were mostly democrats were afraid that the republicans would take control. Lincoln was in his pro-union policy for four long years of the Civil War. He received many assassination threats from many people who were mostly coming from the southerners who pretty much hated everything that president Lincoln stood for. On January 1, 1863 the Emancipation proclamation came into effect, this was president Lincoln declaration of freedom for all slaves were confederacy was held and were there was no union control.
President Abraham Lincoln worked really hard to keep the country together and ended up ending slavery after the Civil War.
On November 1, 1863 gave a famous Address which then he dedicated the battlefield at Gettysburg to the union soldiers who had died there. In 1864 the south slowly were getting tiered of all things and with doing so Lincoln was reelected.
April 4, 1864, Abraham Lincoln and his family attended a play called”our American cousin” at the ford’s theater. during the performance, in a booth arrived at the theater entered the state box were only special people can sit from the rear, and shot the president in the back of his head. the president was soon carried across the street to the Peterson’s house where he passed away the next day at 7:22am .
President Abraham Lincoln help to win freedom for blacks after winning the south in the civil war. His proclamation helped blacks gain their freedom after the united states of America regained control of confederacy.
Assignment #5
In today’s society you don’t hear very much about how children’s rights should be the same as adult’s rights. The main reason is because people believe that children should not have the same privileges and rights adults have because children are not at a certain maturity level and will not understand certain responsibility that adults have to deal with. There are a lot of organizations out there to help and protect children’s rights; a major one is the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund or (UNICEF). UNICEF aims to make the best possible contribution to children’s rights through a combination of a human rights based approach to our programs of cooperation with national governments and results-based planning and management.
For UNICEF, a human rights based approach to programming means that:
- The ultimate aim of all UNICEF-supported activities is the realization of the rights of children are, as laid down in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
- Human rights and child rights principles guide our work in all sectors – and at each stage of the process. These principles include: universality, non-discrimination, the best interests of the child, the right to survival and development, the indivisibility and interdependence of human rights, accountability and respect for the voice of the child.
UNICEF programs of cooperation support those who have obligations to respect, protect and fulfill rights, by helping them develop their capacities to do so. And UNICEF helps those with rights to develop their capacity to claim their rights protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse is an integral component of protecting their rights to survival, growth and development. UNICEF’s commitment to protecting children is underlined in our Medium Term Strategic Plan and Child Protection Strategy. They draw on a Core Corporate Commitments, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Millennium Declaration, and numerous international human rights agreements as the basis for their response.
UNICEF advocates and supports the creation of a protective environment for children in partnership with governments, national and international partners including the private sector, and civil society. National child protection systems, protective social practices and children’s own empowerment coupled with good oversight and monitoring are among the elements of a protective environment and enable countries, communities and families to prevent and respond to violence, exploitation and abuse.
Assignment #4
According to the Hindu religious belief, “All human beings are not born equal.” This creates caste-based discrimination against Dalits, which is then open to various forms of violence against them, which include public humiliation, torture,rape, beating, and killing, etcetera.
The untouchability is the basis for atrocities and violence, denial of
basic needs, land rights, legal discrimination, infringement of civil liberties, inferior or no people status, de-humanizing living and working conditions, impoverishment, mal-nourishment, bad health conditions, high levels of illiteracy and continuing social ostracism is continue to the reason for human rights violations against dalits.
Even today, in rural India, Dalits are prevented from most common
social activities such as sharing water, food and drinks. They are barred from wearing shoes when meeting high caste Hindus. They are not allowed to cycle through village streets in which higher caste people live. They can be publicly dehumanized by small crimes such as shooing away a chicken, dogs, and other pets that belong to higher caste people. They are discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in the most degrading conditions, and are routinely abused by the hands of the police and higher caste Hindus who enjoy government protection. Most Dalits continue to live in precarious conditions and are not allowed to use the same well, visit the temples, drink from the same cups in tea stalls or even cannot claim the land that legally belongs to them. Most Dalits continue to live in extreme poverty, without land, and they lack opportunities for better employment and education.
According to the National Commission of Human rights of India, more
than 62,000 human rights violations are recorded annually. On average, two Dalits are assaulted every hour, three Dalit women and children are raped, two Dalits are murdered, and at least two Dalits are tortured or burned every day.
Due to space, it is not possible to describe an individual human rights abuse. Following are some of the most inhuman “Human Right Violations” that took place in recent time in India. For instance, recently, five Dalits in the Northern district of India, Haryana, were lynched by a mob of 4,000 Hindus on the allegation that they skinned the cow (according to Hinduism, the cow is considered holy), as these victims denied a bribe to police. In another incident, a four-month pregnant Dalit women from Tamilnadu district (Southern
part of India), was beaten by upper caste Hindus from the same village. She was stripped naked and paraded in front of the village as well as her family members. Later, police beat her in jail, which resulted in her miscarriage.
Less than 3.5% culprits are prosecuted for such crimes, and out of 10
cases of atrocities against Dalits, only one is prosecuted. The problem is not the law; implementation is a total failure because the less than 15% high caste Hindus who control 85% of the wealth, power, justice system, police and 100% of the media. Hence, the culprits go unpunished.
Most importantly, these violations are not only performed against
Dalits, but also on other minority communities in India. For the last few years.Hindu masses have been directly associated with the human rights violations against Muslims, Christians and Sikhs throughout India. For instance, Hindus killed more than 3,000 Muslims in a Mosque demolition in 1992. In 1994, more than 4,000 Sikhs in the Delhi area were killed in Communal riots. In recent years,more than 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat and hundreds of Christians have been killed
Assignment #2
Critical consciousness is defined as the “ability to perceive social, political, and economic oppression and to take action against the oppressive elements of society.”“There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the ‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” It’s extremely important for people in both developed and undeveloped countries to understand and create this critical consciousness within there society to ensure people understand they have the right to there own opinions and they have the right to know what’s happening in there country.
Critical consciousness also includes taking action against the oppressive elements in one’s life that are illuminated by that understanding
Assignment #3
Compassionate law to help the homeless, or a way to sweep Vancouver’s homeless issue away during the Olympics?
There are two views surfaced about a B.C. government proposal to force the homeless into shelters or possible jail time during extreme weather. Critics’ are saying the proposed bill infringes on human rights and would give the B.C. Liberals a way to hide the homeless when tens of thousands of Olympic visitors come to B.C. next February. This could be a tremendous source of conflict, trying to engage with people under these circumstances.” It’s a big issue for us going forward.” Stamatakis, the VPU president, said police can apprehend the mentally ill or jail drunks, but at present, clear-thinking homeless people who choose to live outside can’t be compelled to move into shelter.
We should help these people. We do have the money and the resources. It’s just were not putting our money in the right places were using it for the Olympics even though. I personally believe that when a country hosts the Olympics its putting more money into the games instead of the country or province getting much money back in return and all where really getting are a few stadiums and other venues that only a few of us are ever going to use.
While others would think that “enough already”! We’ve given enough funding to these people and if they decide not to take the resources and opportunity to get the help they need then that’s there fault, that’s there choice. To bad for them they got them selves there no one put them there so too bad for them. But there are other people that feel sorry for the homeless but still agree with the 1st view too bad.
Then there’s the prospective of the oppressed. Some would say that we need to do more to help these people and get them off the streets and help them into shelters and rehab. Then there are the other homeless who would say “Leave us alone” because these people choose to be homeless and they prefer it that way.
But what it really comes down to is….where is the line, if you can force someone or not. At this point that line is very blurry and NEEDS to be DEFINED by our government!!!!
My First Blog
Hi my name is Daljeet, I’m 16 years old, I’m really excited to be blogging about important issues from around the world that make up our society and hear other peoples’ comments and opinions. So hopefully you guys stick around to read my blogs.
