Learning HIV Discrimination Topic

In our Humanities class we have been thinking about the human rights and also the human rights that is not happening in Malaysia. By voting we had concluded to study and know more about HIV discrimination. I was shocked after knowing the stereotype forward HIV. Before I go right into HIV, I was already kind of surprised how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights wasn’t law but it was a choice for country to follow. Again back to HIV discrimination, I was having a hard time for finding the solution for this problem. Education was one of the best ways to stop this. I thought it was a good idea to help them realize that it is so dangerous for them to have it.  The disease HIV, will impact everyone. If we don't stop them from spreading, we will all get it some day. Since, people are getting it more and more these days the percentage of getting it the disease ourselves are also increasing. Also by learning this kind of topic is making me think that I am actually lucky to not have it and I want to help them too actually because I think it is a good idea to make more fortunate people more than the unfortunate people. This issue, HIV discrimination one of the global issue, people should now know about it more in order to help others and themselves. 

 

How to Deal With a Dictators

Dictators are taking over the countries nowadays around the world. We should bring them down from the powerful position before they do more harm to the country or the people who lives there. One way to stop the dictator is assassination and I don't think this is a good idea to stop the dictatorship. In the book Julius Caesar written by Shakespeare, it is shown that by killing the dictator might cause a civil war occurring by the people who followed the leader. There is many other ways to get rid of the dictator. For this kind of dictators, it might have been good idea to overthrow him by collecting the group to make it more powerful than the dictator. 

Recently, North Korea had tried their nuclear weapons to scare the countries. North Korea is one of the countries that has a dictator who should be removed. The military force had been terrifying to other countries too. Sometimes, military forces can drive out the dictator  but in North Korea, they are so loyal to their "President" it won't work for North Korea. For many other reasons too, UN had a meeting about the solution to stop them. The way they have thought was boycott. One of the allies North Korea had was China but now, they have seen to disagree with them like any other countries do. To stop the dictator, boy boycott is also a good way. If the dictator was too strong for the people to overthrow him in the country, there is also a way of making the bigger force outside of the country to overthrow the dictator.

Assassination

John F. Kennedy, the president of America was assassinated by a guy called Lee Harvey Oswold. John F. Kennedy was killed November 22, 1963 at Dallas Texas, he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswold. The reason why he was killed isn’t clear, however, there are theories surrounding his murder. Many believes he was murdered because he was a threat to Soviet Union and his murderer, Lee Harvey Oswold, was a Soviet Union sympathiser. Julius Caesar, he was also a threat towards conspirators because they saw him as a tranny leading the country in a bad way. So they disagreed with him, since they had different ideas. Like John F. Kennedy he was assassinated to conspirators.  

Freedom for Afghanistan Girls.

Chaeli Mycroft.

WHAT IS CHAELI MYCROFT IS FIGHTING FOR

As you walk down the street, you see a girl with a handicap. She has limited ability of her arms and legs. She is bound to a wheelchair. You feel sorry for her because she might have hard challenges to do the things you are easily able to do. Chaeli Mycroft is a South African child who is challenged by her Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is disorders that can involve brain and nervous system functions, such as movement, learning, hearing, seeing and thinking. Chaeli refuses to let her condition disable her. She doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her; she wants to be treated as an equal. At the age of nine, Chaeli wanted to be more independent by having a motorized wheelchair that better suits her. After getting her own wheelchair and experiencing more independence, Chaeli felt that she wanted to help other children who were faced with physical challenges. She started her own campaign called the Chaeli Campaign. Her campaign helps over 3000 children with handicaps by providing them with hope for acceptance and supportive products that allow them to become more independent. She is fighting for hope and equality.

Chaeli is hoping children with disabilities are accepted by others and will receive the same opportunities. Her hope didn’t only come out from her, her friends and her sister also gave her hope to believe in herself. Hope that children with challenges aren’t really different from others. “It’s what keeps us striving for the lives we deserve. I have hope for myself, but I also have hope for all other children with disabilities. I hope that my actions as an ability activist will leave the world more accepting and more accommodating for all people and not just people with disabilities, because we are all different and we all have the need to be accepted regardless of having a disability or not.” (From her own speech.)She decided to share this hopes to others. One of her hope is that she will give education. "We run an ECD inclusion programme in disadvantaged communities as well as support children with disabilities in mainstream schools. We have created a supplement to the Life Orientation curriculum that is being introduced into mainstream primary schools that focuses on creating more accepting school environments.(From Chaeli Campaign)" Because, herself noticed that hope is really important, she is giving them education. By giving an education it shows children that somebody believe in them so they can believe in themselves too. Like Chaeli believed in herself.  

She is also fighting for the equality for disable children. She is providing a supportive products to make them as be independent as they could be. "Custom-made assistive devices are provided to improve posture and in support of the great work done by our therapists in making children more comfortable in their own bodies, whilst trying to improve functional use of hands and fingers as well.(Chaeli Campaign)" The most common thing that they are providing is wheelchairs. Chaeli wanted to be more independent by buying a wheelchair that supports her. The wheelchair was designed to help her more than any other ones, and to buy that her sister and her three closest friends started to earn money. Chaeli earned so much freedom from that so she decided to do the same thing for handicapped children. “A professional organization that annually helps more than 3000 children with disabilities in South Africa with equipment, physical therapy and which defends the rights and acceptance of disabled children.( The International Children’s Peace Prize)" By earning some money she gave them a wheelchair, hoping that it will give them as much freedom that she earned.

Chaeli Mycroft deserves the 2011 International Children's Peace Prize. Because Chaeli Mycroft is fighting for hope and equality for children with handicaps. She is trying to change the thoughts for disabled children. When you see a child or even a person, they deserves the same rights and the same needs with us. So rethink when you see a children bound to a wheelchair, even with a handicap they are able person.

sources used

"The Chaeli Campaign | Hope in Motion." 2005. 1 Nov. 2012 <http://chaelicampaign.co.za/>

"2011 Chaeli Mycroft." 2011. 1 Nov. 2012 <http://childrenspeaceprize.org/childrens-peace-price/2011-chaeli-mycroft/>

"Children's Peace Prize winner Chaeli Mycroft in South Africa ..." 2012. 1 Nov. 2012 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24zQ13hQfKI>

List poem:
Wavy hair, not I wanted
puffy - don’t like it
Glasses that is flexible than other glasses.-brown
bottom of my eyes are dark - tired
brown bracelet with two shapes - catholic
white shirt - ISKL with one button locked  
half sleeves
ugly nails survived from my bites
some cuts on my arms and hands.
normal school pants that come to my knees with four pockets.
dark blue pants.
spongebob wallet with 41Rm on one right pocket
earphone and candy on the other pocket.
blue sucks with some unknown characters on it.
FILA shoes - bought it from Korea
ugly ribbons tied on top of my shoes

-Snapshot of me, Justin.


Where I am from:
I am from 1998, November 10, snowy day.
I am from Korea where K-pop is from.
Where four season exists.

I am from little stickers I use to collect when I was young
I am also from Tom and Jerry.
snow, a lot of snow is also where I am from.
I am from Greek myth.

I am from the word ‘Hello’
From the word “LOL” and “ikr”
Also from “OMG”
Internet and phones is where I am from.

I am from the lake from my pa’s hometown.
I am from the crackers from my pa’s brothers.
Form the jam that my grandmother made for me.

My nagging mom, screaming sister, and noisy dog is where I am from.
I am from my ma’s weird food that doesn’t have a name.
Which doesn’t taste bad and doesn’t taste good.
I am from these albums, which it is going to be thicker and thicker.


Question: Why/how is one's individual identity worth fighting for?
When they aren't any personal or individual identity all of us will be the same. We will all think the same, have all the same history. If everyone thinks the same everybody will want to something that you want to do and you won't have any differences with others. People won't have any different color, they all be the same. When this happens life is going to be so boring. This is why personal and individual identity is worth fighting for.

Victory

What I felt sorry for the little girl, seeing her weakened father. Their is a sentence, "There was no fear....... and no hunger," This shows how much she enjoyed dancing with her father, and I think she enjoyed more because she knew that this was the last time and the first time they are going to dance together. It was last time to dance with her father because her father is going to be taken away. This moment was a small victory that she made during she was dancing.