In class we have been talking about Ebola. Ebola is a very contagious disease that is very deadly. There is a 10% of surviving. The Ebola virus has been around for years but this resent strain has been hard to contain and is spreading to other countries including the U.S.

                There are five strains of the virus: Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, and the current strain Zaire ebolavirus. The current one causes: fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, and hemorrhaging. All of these symptoms together can kill. Hemorrhaging is a very dangerous on its own because it causes blood to escape blood vessels and it goes into the surrounding tissues. If hemorrhaging where to happen in the lungs one would choke on their own blood and send them into a state of shock.

                I learned that the main way to fight the disease is to prevent it from spreading. The way to do that is to quarantine everybody with the disease. We are not handling this well because the workers keep getting themselves exposed to the virus. If they keep exposing themselves to the virus and then going on to planes or other public transportation it will become very dangerous.

Info gathered from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/177623/ebolavirus

               

 

                I feel that Ebola will be the Black Death all over again. Many people will die and it will be worldwide. If countries don’t help each other it will be too late and so many people will be dying or already dead. It will eventually die out like the Black Death, but we will go from 7 billion to 700 million. If this happens the world will need to change because many will have died, from doctors, to builders, to shop owners, to world leaders. None will be safe.

                If we come together as a world I believe we can stop this disease. I don’t think we can cure it but stop it. The disease will return in the future like it has before and there will be plenty of strains that come up over the years. It will have a huge impact on the whole world because it will stop travel and cost a lot of money impacting trade and tourism. Trade and tourism have a huge roll with globalization because trade brings in other cultures and sends out some of your own. Tourism allows people to experience the other culture first hand. This disease will have a huge impact on the world because it will affect the world.

1. I found it weird that American Association spent so much money.

2. Why is the Cooperative of American Physicians spending so much on outside spending groups?

3. Nursing Homes spend $44,438,551 on lobbying.

4. Hospitals spend more than HMO’s.

5. 2009 had the highest lobbying totals.

6. 2008 more was spent on Democrats.

7. McConnell, Mitch got the most money.

8. The top five to receive money are Republicans.

9. People spent more in the Senate.

10. Democrats in the Senate  got more money.

                In globalization we watched “Sicko” and it was a good documentary. You can learn a lot from it. I learned that MANY countries have free health care and we are actually one of the few who don’t have it. I don’t think we can get free health care without it going violent for many reasons.

                One of the reasons is politics make too much money from health care providers so they will never change their mind on that issue. Many people have jobs that include selling health care/insurance would be fired, and companies that sell insurance will lose millions. If companies lose million so will many investors and all of the people that where listed will be angry and are not for free health care. Doctors would get paid less and doctors LOVE money and will do anything to make more including turning people away.

                I personally have not had a problem with it though. My family is not super rich or super poor but I still have not had a problem. I have needed surgery, broken my collar bone, and have a sprained LCL. I can’t say any of them have had insurance problems. I feel it was one sided on looking at any of the positives.

 

Sex trafficking has become a major issue not only in the U.S. but throughout the whole world. Many people are sex trafficked every year. Most people who are sex trafficked are kids and a huge majority of the kids are women. Sex trafficking has been a major problem for many years but has only been in the media recently.

                Sex trafficking is in the top three money making crimes behind drugs and firearms. It is so profitable because you can sell a person over and over. With drugs, people keep coming back but you have to keep buying more. With firearms you can charge high but once they have what they want that is it. There is a huge demand for trafficking young girls because you can’t have sex with an under-aged person ANYWHERE. You can buy smaller firearms at a gun store and get over the counter drugs at the pharmacy. The gun store and pharmacy don’t offer the best selection but it is something.

                The reason sex trafficking has not become a big issue over the years is because people keep it so secret. As seen in the movies they can just walk around with the girls sometimes, but you could never walk around with illegal gun/drugs. The secret to crime is to keep crime a secret. Law enforcement of any kind needs to have certain amount evidence on you. They can’t prosecute simply because they think you did it, and if they get enough evidence they can only do so much at court to prove you’re guilty. If you are found guilty you will be out soon due to our low sentences in America. I learned at Boy State vehicular homicide has a max sentence of 15 years and 50,000 dollars in the state of South Dakota, which does not equal a life. Murder is a very serious crime, if that is how they punish you for murder imagine how low a sex trafficking crime the sentence is for.

Sex trafficking has had a global effect because it is so profitable and kept so secret with little the government can do to stop it. If people stopped paying for sex trafficking and we had a better law enforcement, maybe we could stop it. It has to be a global effort due to it being a global problem. If we stop it in America only, it will grow all over in the rest of the world.

 

Globalization has led to many things around the world some good some bad. What has globalization done to help women? Some would say it has led to sex trafficking and other problems. I say it has led to women’s rights and their rise to power.

                In the early 20^th century women fought for the right to vote among other rights and won. It is because of migration that we founded America, and globalization and migration are closely linked as I have explained in earlier blogs; therefore America and globalization are linked and women started getting rights in America. If America was never founded, then women may never have gotten rights.  

                Many women have risen to power and some have equal or more power than men. Twenty women are in the Senate and 79 are in the House. Three women are on the Supreme Court.  As of December 2013 there were 161 million in the US compared to the 156.1 million. The House and Senate are selected by voters. If there are mare women they most likely have more voting power and there are still more men. With that said, women are putting men into power; you can’t say it is a male dominated world because they could out vote men and put as many women into power as they wanted.

                Not everything is good for women; some make less and are more likely to be taken advantage of then men. However I still feel the good outweighs the bad. Some women are in Congress and on top of multimillion dollar companies. Women can have power if they truly want it.

Sources:

 http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Congress-Current.php

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womencensus1.html

 

In class we watched the movie “God grew Tired of Us” and it showed us the conflict in Sudan and how all of these boys got through it. Globalization and migration are connected in that without migration we would not be able to find the rest of the globe because no one would have left so we would not have even found the entire world.

                Migration by dictionary standards is a noun meaning the process or act of migrating, or a migratory movement. The way I describe it is a person or a group of people leaving there place they are currently living to live in a new area by choice or by force.  Throughout history people have migrated all over the earliest evidence of a human migration was 6,500 years ago when modern humans left Africa and went out to colonize the world. Without this most crucial migration we would be sitting in Africa struggling to survive. When we went out we explored and discovered new things and these things where traded and improved among cultures. That is what globalization is about, and it was possible because of migration.

                The factors that cause migration have been categorized into two factors called push and pull. A push factor is a negative factor in the country or area where the person is leaving from. Examples of this may be violence or war, something that makes people want to leave. A pull factor is the opposite it is a positive factor in the country or area that receives the people. Example would be people from Mexico coming to America for work, which is a pull factor.

                Economic effects of migration are like the effects of medication results may vary.  Migration can cause short term ups and downs and long term can also have ups and downs. Short terms side effects for the country or area gaining people may include but are not limited to lower wages, more people on welfare and unskilled workers. Long term effects for the receiving country or area may be but not limited to population rising and people are not excepting the new comers.

                  Economic effects of migration for the country or area that people leave from can have labor shortages and a lack of skilled laborers. The people who have a skill, say brick masonry would be able to find work in the new place they live and would be more excepted because they are doing a good thing and helping the economy and the country develop.

                When a group of immigrants arrives at their new home they must do one of three things. One is to assimilate and join the other culture leaving the old one behind. They can blend their culture with the new one keeping traditions and celebrating new things. The third is they keep their old culture completely and do not change often shunning them from the people who still lived there. The middle one is the best one because it spreads culture speeding up globalization.

                Some people say they can tell what will happen but certain events are still a mystery. But with a fast rising population that keeps rising faster and faster we can be sure that migration will keep happening. Cities will become too crowded and people will need to leave them. Violence, drugs, and sex trafficking might scare people to leave. None of that is for certain but what is, is that migration is here to stay.

Last week we watched two videos and where told to say what we think of globalization, and I think globalization is stupendous because we as a world have come together and solved major problems. If there is an earthquake we all chip in to help that nation, example is that earthquake that hit Haiti a couple years ago how all of the countries got together and helped them. The world came together to help a fallen country.

                To help expand globalization and bring countries closer together through peace we have established the United Nations. It has allowed us as a world to come together and settle our differences by talking about them with words and not military might. Just that organization shows we can set our differences aside and sit down to talk that is a very hard thing to do with all our cultural differences.

                People who do not support globalization will say it is bad for the environment will I say no it can be used to save our environment. Without globalization we could not tell other countries that we need to cut back on pollution and set up some standards. We can say “Hey we should plant some trees and then let the trees grow so they can clean the air”. Without globalization we would not have the peaceful world we have today. Some might say we are a hateful world full of haters and war never stops but without globalization it would be at least one hundred times worse. Example would be countries would fire off nukes at will, rather than talk out there problems.

                In conclusion globalization is very important to the world because we can help each other rather than ignore. We can talk about our problems rather than violence. We can solve the problems we started as world we can solve as a world.