Genocide in Darfur

The Darfur Genocide has killed more than 400,000 civilians and has left 2.5 million people displaced from their home. The thing I just learned right now is that Darfur is the size of Texas. From what I know about this situation which is not much being in Darfur right now must be really bad. Also that people are still dying and the government is not doing anything to stop it. I feel really bad for what has happened their and what is still going on their right now. Also I learned about an Arab Militia group called the Janjaweed who is doing all the killings for the government. For example going into villages and killing people and destroying their properties. The hard thing to believe is that the government is the one that is sponsoring the group, which is the Rwanda government. Why would you want to kill people in your own country, that’s what is bothering me the most.

I got most of this information from this website:
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/sudan_genocide_genocide_in_sudan.php

Plans For Summer

Summer break is about to start and I can’t wait for it. This has been a hard school year for me because I thought it would be easy like last year but I was wrong and I really struggled in my classes. This year I just got by not trying that hard but next year ill try harder because I really want to go to a good college. Going to watch movies during summer are one of the things me and my friends do for fun. Every time there is a good movie out we usually go watch it, but because of school it gets sort of hard to do so we go watch movies mostly during the end of the school year and during summer and breaks. We started doing that by going to watch X-men Origins Wolverine. It was I think the best X-men movie ever but also the best superhero movie. I have always liked superhero movies but this one was way better I don’t know why but it is. I have always liked X-men movies since the first one and I still do. The reason I liked this movie more is because they added my favorite character from X-men which is gambit. I also liked the acting done by everybody. So overall it is the superhero movie for me previously my favorite superhero movie was Iron Man which is now my second favorite movie. So far I and my friends have already made a decision that we will go watch the new Terminator movie and the new Transformer movie. I will also go watch another movie called Public Enemies for sure, probably not with my friends; it will be with my bro. While we go to the movies we also get a chance to hang out at the mall and have fun. I will also go to other places to hang out with my friends and have a good time. I also hope that me and my family get to spend time and we have a good time. Finally I also hope that we go out of Austin for a while. Now that I have said what I am going to do during summer I hope that nobody stalks me. JK

China one child policy

China’s one child policy is the topic of my blog today. First of all China’s one child policy is that people in china can only have one kid and if they have more than one kid they have to kill it or put the kid up for adoption. It was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. It has also been said that the policy will remain at least until 2010. It is also said that the population has been reduced by 250 million. There are some good things to this policy but some bad things as well in this policy, which is what I will talk about. Sure the one child policy helps slow down the population but at what effect. Some people want to have a big family while some don’t. The people that do want to have a big family cant do anything about it unless they move from china. The people that don’t want to have a big family, this policy helps them because they have a reason for having a big family and if they do have a kid they can just abort it or put the baby up for adoption when it’s born. Last year in my World Geography class I learned that there are also more boys born then girls. I think it has some thing to do with the policy. Parents over their will prefer boys over girls so they can help them in the future instead of getting married and going away. You can have a second child in china but the first child has to be a girl. That was sort of a good thing, now the bad things is that if you do have more kids then two you will have to pay large amount of fines. That’s what I think about the policy.

Some of the information I got comes from this website
:http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm