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Sydney Morrison in Response to Adain Mitchell's Modern Breaches in User Privacy 

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Sydney Morrison in Response to Adain Mitchell's Modern Breaches in User Privacy 

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The internet has been around since we were born and will continue to be around long after we are gone. I dont think there is any way to actual change the fact that our information is sold. Many of the companies are simply trying to find out what we want and feed us ads that we would be interested in. I understand the risks of some examples of this but I dont think there is anything we could do to change that. To be aware and do your own independent research to find unbiased answers is the only way we as individuals can combate this problem.

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In class we have had discussions about child slavery, and child sex tracking but did not discuss another iteration of that which is child trafficking through illegal adoption. Some countries can be exploited by people who take away children from their families and sell them through adoption to make a profit. People find loopholes in the adoption process and use that to abduct children from their families and give them away to make money. These loopholes can either be from the adoption process itself, example being short to no wait time or no travel required from the adoptive parents. But the loopholes can also be created but having parents who are illiterate to sign the adoption papers thinking they are getting their child sponsored but in fact signing them over to new parents. The hardest part about child adoption trafficking is that it is unknown the the doptive parents that they are ripping a child away from a family instead of give a child a home. Countries are usually aware of this but the little attention it is given in the public eye is something that helps keep this industry in work. With more public awareness and adoption credibility from legal adoption agencies are small steps we can make now to help combat child adoption trafficking.

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Chelte Young responding to Kennedy Lutz 

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Chelte Young responding to Kennedy Lutz 

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I agree with Kennedy that we do have a role to fill and we can make a difference in a world that deals with such extreme cases of poverty. I know I throw away too many things that could still be used, and I forget that there's a world of people that would die to know some of the privileges we know in our country. I think we need to realize how lucky we are to have jobs and good living conditions, and give back in every way we can. A small donation here and participation in a fundraiser there can go a long ways, even if it doesn't seem like much. We need to care more as a society about those who struggle just to survive. The point about children receiving an education is also very important. In most countries that deal with severe poverty, it is so much cheaper to buy basic everyday things. So it would take less than we realize to support the kids and help them to receive an education. I think it is great how much is being done to help with poverty, but I think more can be accomplished.

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A global issue that has and is still affecting our world and still has significance today is racism. It is still in our schools, workplaces, community and country around the world. Though it is not to the severity and depths it once used to be in the past. Society has gotten better at being more welcoming and open to other races like in Canada with the floods of immigrants that come from other countries to escape their war-torn or worse lives. The Canadian government has been open to providing these people with work so they can live a stable and comfortable life. The government has also been taking on apologizing to Aboriginals for residential schools and working to include them although not all times is it effective and they still contradict themselves. I do think that to help solve this issue that more awareness and positivity needs to be spread on this topic.

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Impaired driving has become a very controversial social problem especially after being recognized stronger in the last few years. Everyday lives of loved ones are lost due to this immature stupidity. As of every weekend here in Yorkton I myself witness at least one Dui in the evenings of Saturday to Sunday. How to stop this has become an even harder and more controversial topic. Laws have been stricter against alcohol tolerance which I agree on. The only way I believe to stop this is for other people whom are present during this occurrence to take a stand and stop that person from driving impaired. I also think laws should be stricter being it is a very hard message to get through. The ignorance and state people have are not always positive. Many may see it as something that would not happen to them. So how do we stop this? More commercials on television? No one has yet come up with an answer on this therefore drinking and driving is a strong controversial topic of society with its problems arising today.

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Braydon Folk in response to B30 classmates

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Braydon Folk in response to B30 classmates

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All very good discussion! My question to everyone is, how does one enact a social change, a global change? We often forget about big events as soon as they cross our minds, we are ignorant towards our outside world. Not saying everyone here is ignorant, far from it! However my thoughts are that unless an act, no matter how big or small, can reach the top of our minds, we may be in a perpetual loop of getting nothing done. All of the issues the world faces today can definitely be solved if we all put our minds to it, ACT! People often also forget, all of these issues were the norm of past times, slavery for instance, was not just white and black, poverty is not just in 3rd world countries, mental illness doesn't just affect the mind, etc. I agree with all of your points, and my thought is that we want to ignore it all, we want to live in this perfect little bubble of security and happiness. As for mental illness, as some of you have mentioned, it is as you have all said, more than a state of mind, it affects the body as much as the mind, it can lead others to death for God's sake! My brother, whom some of you may know, has Autism, while not an illness, it still affects his world, stop pretending that "normal" is perfect, we need to be more accepting, we need to care! As a final note, make a change, no matter how big or small, start by making one person's life a little better, one by one we can change the world. Thank you for listening, let's have more discussions like this!

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Dustin Schendel responding to Thomas Djagowez

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Dustin Schendel responding to Thomas Djagowez

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I agree with Thomas and find that many of the points he made, were reasonable and statistical. The fact that such a high number of slaves exist in today's world, is truly shocking and unsettling. When he put it terms of the number of slaves being more than the entire population of Canada, really put things in perspective. To make awful matters worse, the fact that of these 40.3 million slaves, an estimated 10 million are children. Child labour is a global issue in its own right let alone, child slavery. His possible solutions and ideas of helping are the first small baby steps of along road to find solutions and help with these global issues. Awareness, especially through social media is a great way to start as he said. Although action rather through intentions is were we start to be needing to move towards. There are many chariaties and global issue missions around the world dealing with slavery. I feel that as society we need to format be educated and aware of the situation. Then go to our elected officials and people with power and influence, to voice our concern to look for true change.

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Sex slavery is a big issue in our world today. Not many people think about it as much as starvation or modern slavery but it is very common all around the world. Sex slavery victims can be anywhere from 3 years old to 60 years old. When someone is a victim of sex slavery they most likely do not have a choice on anything they do and are there for another’s persons sexual “needs”. These people abuse and rape others and use them as objects. Which is disgusting.

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Everything you said is absolutely true, and quite saddening. There's no reason why everyone in the world should not be able to feed themselves. Anyone who is or has worked in the food industry will know that the amount of food that is thrown out is absolutely staggering. Food that is completely fine. And giving it away is often not even allowed, just because of an irrelevant 'best before' date set by some company's regulation team. Some people do not need the best food, they just need some kind of nourishment. Living where we do though it's hard to fully empathize with those people, as most of us have never had to go more than a day without food. We can't put ourselves in their shoes. And most people living in privileged regions will never even try. It really explains some of the worlds problems and the issues facing the globe. The entire lack of empathy for another human, just because we don't personally know them.

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Logan Danylko responding to Mya Desmarais

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Logan Danylko responding to Mya Desmarais

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I myself witness racism everyday throughout society whether it is taken serious or as a joke. I couldn't agree more with Mya in the sense that spreading awareness may help the social issue but what about those who have strict beliefs in racist aspects? Beliefs are often very hard to influence based on the Humans Society growing up. You can not easily change people's beliefs or opinions especially in today's society when change is often looked down upon. I agree we could spread awareness which may help some but not all racism. No matter how hard you try changing someone's experiences, opinion or beliefs against another culture, most will never change. People don't always tend to look at the big picture of how it is a cruel act and affects others. We as a society today develop a pattern of selfishness which does not consider others thoughts. This selfishness affects anyone trying to influence another's beliefs or opinion especially based upon racism. I therefore believe a stop to Racism is a goal that can never be accomplished amongst society.

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Starvation is one of the biggest global issues in the world. There are people in third world countries that starve everyday and wonder if they are going to get any food that day whereas in places where it isn’t seen as much we take food for granted. We are very picky and try to get the best and freshest food while in countries where they have no food they would be pleased to get any food whether it was bruised a bit or not. I think we are to picky and selfish when it comes to our food and we throw away way to much of it and waste perfectly good food that others would appreciate more. A way we could change this is by trying to limit the amount of perfectly good food we waste and by not always picking the best looking products

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Being owned by someone is a terrible thing but being a slave to them is even worse. It is estimated that there are over 40.3 slaves around the world. This is more than the entire population of Canada. These are people of nearly all ages. 10 million of which are children. These numbers are outrageous. Many people in our society do not know about this social issue and that needs to change. This issue can be influenced by us teenagers and also by others, but it won’t be easy. Social media could be a good factor on spreading the word about the issue, this is due to the fact that there are over 2.4 billion people that use social media. But spreading the word does not necessarily mean that that everyone will do something about it. That is why I find it that doing things personally would work the best because then you know that you are making a change unlike giving donation. Some donations and organization do help the people in need but most of the time we do not truly know where the money goes. This is why I think doing things personally would make a stronger impact. A great example of this is Mrs.Knoll’s friend who personally moved to another country to make a change. She had been doing this for nearly 20 years and now has a school with around 300 students and when she started she had 3. This shows that change is possible.

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Ashley Buenneke responding to Madie Farkas

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Ashley Buenneke responding to Madie Farkas

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I 100% agree with Madie's statement.Mental illness is a huge issue in society as millions of people suffer from mental illnesses are are too ashamed to admit is because others will judge them. Personally speaking I know others who suffer from a mental illness as well as I do, it is nothing to be ashamed about. Lots of people throughout the world have mental illnesses and it should be treated as effectively as any other health issue that occurs so people get the proper treatment they deserve to help them get better. I also agree with educating everyone about mental illnesses, just because one person a may not have a mental illness does not mean those around don't have one. A person in class you may be sitting beside might have a mental illness and you would never know about it. If everyone is educated on mental illness they may be more understanding of others and can certainly try to help of they come across another having an anxiety attack or something to do with metal illness. It should definitely be treated as serious as any other health condition.

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Katya Andersen responding to Madison Farkas

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Katya Andersen responding to Madison Farkas

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I agree that mental illnesses are just as important as physical illnesses, as they can both take similar tolls on the people dealing with them. I can relate to this topic as well because I also suffer from mental illnesses, and from my experience I know that there are many people who are uncomfortable with this discussion. Most likely these people are the ones that have had no experience on the issue. I think that people should end the stigma around mental health, as in recent years the amount of people who have some sort of mental illness has been increasing. It is becoming so common that anybody that you know could be dealing with these problems. The thing is that many people may deny their true feelings or don't talk about them because they want the people around them to be comfortable. One thing that I have noticed is that people tend to use a name of a mental disorder as an adjective as they are talking in a normal conversation. For instance, a person may say something along the lines of: "You scared me, I almost had a panic attack" or "Yesterday I was feeling really depressed". I am not saying that these people are not dealing with their own mental illness problem, it is more the fact that it can suggest that people are not as educated on mental health as much as they could be. I believe that there should be more awareness around our mental health, and as a society we should be more considerate to those who are dealing with mental illnesses.

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Tia Penner responding to Dustin Schendel 

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I agree with Dustin in the way that most people are unaware with the issue of mental illness. Most people do not know how to act around this topic, it always seems to affect everyone at one point in life. If more people are aware about this social issue they can reach for help and get back on their feet if they are struggling. Mental health changes in a person often so it is important to not ignore it, regardless if people are afraid to speak up about it. This is now becoming very known situation that we are trying to overcome.

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Brenden McCubbing Commenting on Bryant Jones’ Slavery Post

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Brenden McCubbing Commenting on Bryant Jones’ Slavery Post

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I 100% agree. Slavery is a problem that third world countries go through in a everyday basis. To expand a little on it, finding a trusted website or organization that has proof of them going to these places and helping the residents with food and shelter is a good alternative to going there for 10 months. Not saying that’s a bad thing because that’s awesome but like a bunch of people say, even a dollar can help. And I like how you added $150 can benefit a family, showing how little of what we have can make a big difference.

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In both "Night" by Elie Weisal, and "From Kaffir Boy" by Mark Mathabane we see how certain world leaders and individuals in government misused their power, resulting in the suffering of millions and millions of innocent human beings. The South African government had a clearly planned system to ensure that white people remained wealthy, while over 75 million black people were overcome with starvation and suffering. Similarly, we see how the concentration camps during World War II influenced Weisal's life as a result of Hitler's plan to eliminate Jews. These events and stories may seem like a thing of the past, and it might be easy to overlook them, but it is important to realize that they can and will happen again if we don't stand up to issues such as leaders misusing their power. Human beings will always struggle with the desire to misuse their power and take advantage of others, especially when self gain is involved. There are endless examples in the world today where leaders and those with authority are misusing their power and taking advantage of the trust that is put in them. They make decisions that cause mass suffering and many other issues. For example, there is no way the people of North Korea appreciate the absolute power that is set over them, and I'm sure they would do anything for freedom, but they are under the rule of a man who is benefiting from their suffering. Misuses in power are strongly connected to certain social causes, such as racism and starvation. Something has to be done to fight against and stop these leaders and powerful figures who are negatively impacting so many lives. The problem is, Hitler was voted in by the German people, and so we realize that we bring some of these problems upon ourselves by not getting involved. It is so important that we do the little we can. For example, we have the opportunity to vote for our leaders, so we need to be taking advantage of that opportunity. There are also many other small but significant things that we can do in our country to stand up for what is right, and not let when happened in Germany during World War II happen again.

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Kennedy Carl in response to Madison Farkas 

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Kennedy Carl in response to Madison Farkas 

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I absolutely agree 100% with all you had to state about mental health. I also agree that it can affect a persons physical and emotional well being when the mental illness is ignored. Whether that be by the person putting themselves down or them being pushed down for speaking about their illness to someone. It is one of the biggest issues we as a generation are trying to face as it was never considered a "real health problem" several years ago. I think your point was very valid and shows awareness of how we should be potentially looking at it.

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Starvation is definitly a huge global issue. There is enough food that the world produces to feed 10 billion people. As of November 2018 there is an estimated 7.7 billion people in the world. These statistics show that there is enough food for everyone in the world, so why are there people society today starving? There are about 9 million people who die of starvation each year and are forced into child labour to earn enough food so they can eat. Starvation Is a huge social issue, fortunate people like us have money to get food we want and we end up wasting half of it. Some food we purchase sits in out freezers or cupboards for a year because we forget about. We end up throwing out because we forgot about it, while there are people in the world starving for the tiniest but of food so they can stay alive. There are so many people in the world who waste food and myself included, we do nothing about it and carry on with our days. Everybody knows there is starvation occurring in the world but so little do anything about it. There are food drives we can donate food to but we are not insured that our food gets to those staving families across the world. I don't think some people will  start acting efficiently until they come across a person in desperate need for food, which is sad to think about. I think individuals should imagine themselves in a starving persons situation and how much they would appreciate others trying to help them out, even the smallest amount of food could help save someones life. There is only so much an individual can do to help but we have to start trying first, and help those around us who are offering in the world.

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Racism is defined as discrimination directed to someone of a different race, believing that ones own race is more dominant. An example of this social issue that we discussed in class was about a man named Nelson Mandela. He believed that equality meant equal, he strived to end the apartheid. Even after being arrested he still tried everything he could to try support the people of colour, he was not done fighting for what he believed in. Even though he did end the apartheid, there is still to this day acts of racism. Most people are completely aware that this kind of discrimination occurs regularly but almost everyone chooses to ignore it. A lot of people explain how negative this issue is but yet there is no movement to change this problem. We are acting as if we are immune to racism, when we see a racial act it does not affect people in a way that it should. This sensitive subject is always pushed to the side because of the fear of offending the wrong person, even though we are constantly offending the people of colour. Even if there was a change i do not think it would last for long.

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Sex slavery is when someone either female or male is forced into having sex against their own will. This could happen to anyone from infants to elderly people. Sex slavery is rape. It could brutally mess up a person’s life. If they have ever been raped it mess up their life and they may not ever look at any man the same way. Sex slavery is disgusting and sad. Statistics say that there are approximately 20-30 million in the world today and 19% involve labour exploitation and approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation. 300,000 Americans under the age of 18 are lured into the sex trade. Some people may go into the sex trade to earn money for themselves but on the other hand there is also children or adults who are forced into the trade and they are unable to get out of it. Sex slavery is a very terrible global issue.

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Kaleb Weinheimer responding to Karalie Betker

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Kaleb Weinheimer responding to Karalie Betker

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I agree to what Karalie stated and I also feel that it is something that we can help change. I think that Donald Trump is the best and easiest example as he also effects us. Power often leads to corruption and people usually become corrupt because they are almost flustered by what they are able to do. It is not hard to find examples throughout history of what corruption has lead to. I completely agree that if there was no corruption then the percentage of people in slavery and other world issues would go down, corrupt leaders are often the start of new problems and also feed old ones. Examples such as Hitler and Stalin both in which killed millions of people are the reason why we as society must almost take charge and try to make sure that people like this don't end up in power. The problem is that people tend to not speak up when they feel something is wrong, it is true that following is much easier than fighting and as long as there is followers there will be corrupt leaders. Like she said to create change we must first overcome the challenges and fears that go along with doing it.

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Karalie Betker responding to Dylan Lepowick

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I do agree that starvation exists around the world and not just in third world countries, but even in Canada. I also agree that social media is one of the easiest ways to spread the word on world hunger because of how easily accessible it is to so many, but the problem with this is the ignorance of those who are not in any position of poverty, or have never felt what it was like to not have enough food to give to their families. Spreading the word is only half the battle because the other half is getting people to react and then act on what they have heard, not just accept the facts fed to them and move on with their lives. Many of us who are privileged in Canada take for granted what we have and do not realize not everyone lives the life we get to have. So how do we help those in need? Its not as simple as 'sending food' to other countries, or trying to reduce how much we waste in food here in Canada. I also believe that travelling to help others and give food may cause conflict by the basic fact of choosing who to give the food to. One person does not have all the food in the world and giving a little does not go a long way. So the question is who do you give the food to? The few times I've traveled to places of poverty, one of the big rules their by the locals is "do not give food to the beggars or the poor". This rule was made because if you cant feed everyone, don't feed anyone due to the unfairness' and fights it would cause. Why should someone give one beggar food, and not another if they don't have food for everyone. Rather than trying to give, I think education should be the first step in helping stop starvation. Educating those so they can get jobs to feed themselves and their family, and education people on how to survive off of food they can collect themselves.

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Karalie Betker on corruption of power around the world

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Karalie Betker on corruption of power around the world

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The more power we give, the more room is allowed for corruption. During WWII one of the most obvious and largest impacted corruptions of power was seen by Adolf Hitler, but corruption of power didn't stop there. In today's society, we give power to those who abuse it and use it to the advantage of others. Take Donald Trump for instance, who continually disrespects people, countries, etc., causes upheaval not just in his own country, but around the world,and belittles anyone who questions his actions and authority. Yes, this is occurring in the United States but the ripple effects of poorly made decisions by corruption of power has also made an impact on Canada. Humans continue to allow leaders to kill, destroy, and wipe out whomever they choose. The fact that racism still exists today feeds this problem because of the circling issue of corrupt people in power committing genocide on certain racial groups. In North Korea as Kim Jong Un leads repressively and allows little say from anyone the disputes and battles continue to grow. I think that spreading awareness and education on this issue will start a wave of people opening their oblivious eyes to who they are letting control their countries and lives. People should not be living in fear of what their leader might do and enlightening humans to see the problem of power is the first step to seizing change.

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Dylan lepowicks reply to Kaleb Weinheimer 

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Yes I agree, when u see and read these things it’s hard. All u can think about is how you can help and if u can even help with your community. But the biggest thing is spreading awareness and getting the word out. The more people that see and know about it, it will be harder for them to go on and let them keep do this without people catching and helping these kids doing this awful work.

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A 10 billion dollar industry and one of the third largest organized crimes that we see globally today is slavery. Being enslaved for work, sexual exploitation or other means are considered a form of human violation and yet it affects hundreds of thousands of women and children or families across the world. The type of people that do this inhuman action do it for the personal gain of themselves by relying on the weak, young, desperate or innocent. Children are sold for adoption, organ trades, or forced labor and the fear is ingrained in Sunitha Krishnans as she speaks passionately in her TedTalk. She was grang raped at fifteen and vividly remembers not the experience but the anger she had and wants to fight against it for others. She rescued over 3,200 children and believes she can make a difference. I believe that any form of slavery is dehumanizing and there should be reconciliation for the victims to seek justice. Everyone deserves to be a kid and grow up feeling safe, not worried about being sold to a man for sex or put to labor at 5 years old. Change is evident and it primarily focuses on not fighting the old but building something new which we are all capable of.

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It is no secret that mental health is treated differently than physical health. One thing I have learned suffering from multiple mental illnesses myself, is that mental health is just as important as physical health. By physical health, I do not mean how physically fit one individual may be. I mean the overall medical condition one’s body is in. The two terms affect each other. If one suffers from poor physical health, it can easily result in depressive feelings towards their quality of life. If one suffers from a mental illness, it can directly affect their physical health by ultimately putting stress on the body. Too often than not, mental illnesses are seen negatively in society. I think if we lived in a society where mental illnesses were effectively treated and taken as seriously as physical illnesses, and one day maybe even prevented, it could have a huge impact on an individual’s emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. The first step to this ultimate goal would be to educate everyone on the effects of these mental illnesses on our own quality of life.

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I agree with you to a certain extent on the subject of modern slavery. Yes, raising money and paying $150 per family to get out of working as slaves for a year would be a huge help! What everyone also needs to take into account is that a number of these slaves are taking this route as a way to provide for their families to not only have the basic essentials but also so that they can afford extra costs such as medicine. It would be ridiculously hard to absolish slavery simply by giving the families money because as soon as they get desperate for money again they will turn to the same practice of work. The need for slaves and cheap workers by these large farms and factories will always be needed because of the disgustingly greedy people that run them. More than that, the willingness and desperation by these below poverty line people will keep slavery thriving. A real way to end slavery and the need for slaves would be to shut down the horrible cooperations that employ these slaves. This also opens up another can of worms because the poor people relying on working at these factories and such will be completely out of work (if they are even getting paid at all). As for the individuals that are being held captive by these slave owners they would be free. It’s a double-edged sword to say the least.

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In the society that we live in it is hard to imagine what it is actually like for these children. The reality is that there are over 150 million children world wide that are engaged in child labour and about 48% of these children all in which are under the age of twelve are working in dirty and dangerous conditions. The sad part about this is the fact that most of these children are being forced into labour because of their families, in fact 2/3 child labourers are working to support their family’s. These children are usually working in fields, factories, and mines all in which have very hazardous conditions. In my opinion no one in their right mind would rob children of their freedom and education. Now when we hear or read about things like this usually your immediate reaction is I should do something, the problem is what can you do. The problem with this is there really isn’t much you can do as one person. The best way to help these kids is to let people know about them you are much more influential and powerful when you have a group of people following. There are many problems that go on in the world but to me taking advantage of a child’s innocence is one of the hardest things to imagine and is not the way a child should grow up.

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Racism or the belief that one race is superior to another has been an issue for as long as there have been people. Even though it can be seen as a thing of the past the truth is that racism is just as relevant today as it was 100 or 200 years ago. When I think of an example of racism today, I think of the occurrence that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia in august of 2017. The majority of these rioters were made up of people who were voicing their personal thoughts, or were part of a larger "hate group" so to speak, like the KKK, neo-nazi's or other white supremacy groups. These people marched around a usually quiet town shouting white supremacist , anti-semitic slogans as well as shouting racial slurs to random people who were walking down the street. This rally is the epitome of modern day racism. It is alarming to visualize how many people today are racist. I think that one of the reasons that racism continues to be an issue is because of all of the advancements in technology. It is easier for a person to express their personal opinion, and maybe influence others. It is important that we can help target racism. Some ways that we can do this is to learn about other cultures. If we did this we could develop a higher understanding about others. As well we can step up to those who are racist. I feel that almost everyone knows a person who are racist, and it is our responsibility to stand up to them. From taking these small steps we can face this global issue and create a better future.

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Madison Farkas in response to Mya Desmarais 

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My perspective on the global issue of modern racism is extremely parallel with Mya’s. As a society we are completely aware that this issue exists but choose to ignore it and continue living as we are. Additionally, I completely agree with the fact that racism is an issue that affects everyone because there are various precedents that prove that cases relating to racism exist. Racism has always been a huge problem in the world and sadly, probably always will be. It is such a big issue that the odds of actually abolishing it are very small. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean we can’t work towards making those odds in our favour. To add onto Mya’s idea of awareness, I think a bold proposal like Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, could potentially be the eye opening our world so desperately needs.

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Lander daniels reply to Nicholas Lachapelle

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Lander daniels reply to Nicholas Lachapelle

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I agree that slavery has been a problem for over generations and that this still exists is extremely horrible. Further, I think that we can see this as an bigger problem than just slavery. I think that we can see slavery and poverty as almost one problem. If we can get the world out of poverty, we can get them out of slavery at the same moment. People come in contact with slavery when they are very poor and have no money for education or food. In the international law against slavery they say that nobody should be in slavery. Like we see these days, this didn’t change a lot about a real world.

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Elizabeth Burns reply to Rebecca Pollock

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Elizabeth Burns reply to Rebecca Pollock

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I agree that sex slavery is inappropriate and should not be continued because many children are killed or have diseases that could lead to death. Eventually every child that is a participant in this act will lose the hope that they will ever escape. No child or adult should go through this because it’s not fair for them to be used like some rag doll for another person’s pleasure. It’s disgusting and horrible how they get diseases and die. In my opinion I want to say to those young kids there is hope and it begins with the child, who chooses to be quiet or use their voice to say “I am a child who is innocent and young, that wants to run around and play childish games, to make my parents proud of me because I’m going to school and getting the education I need so I may have a good paying job to support my family”. Families suffer from this abuse and believe that they won't ever escape it because they believe they will suffer for generation after generation. To achieve this goal and spread awareness to families, friends, jobs, and even the government. I believe that with hard work this can be accomplished.

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Rebecca Pollock in replying to Katya Anderson

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Rebecca Pollock in replying to Katya Anderson

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I agree that contemporary racism is a issue that is still around today. We do not realize that it is still as bad as it was before. Hate crimes are still around. I feel racism is still alive because of social media and how we can say something online and not to someone's face. The 2017 hate crimes were horrid and should not have happened. Too many people are racist, then they talk about how bad it is. We can help beat racism by not participating and stepping up for the people who are effected by this issue. One person can make a change

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Mya Desmarais Responding to Lexi Manahan

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Mya Desmarais Responding to Lexi Manahan

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I think you are on the right track in believing that social acceptance is still an issue today but I feel you underestimate the severity of it. The thought that racism is less existent today comes from the taboo nature of the topic. It used to be socially acceptable to belittle someone based on race whereas now it is not. This change is social acceptability has caused people to move their racism from public actions to private interactions. This means that people are experiencing the same degree -if not more- racism but it is harder for the public eye to recognize. Racism has become so much harder to recognize because it has become normalized to lie about one's worldview rather than face the consequences for how people treat others. An example of this would be the 2016 Oscars where there was no nominations for any actors who weren't white. This display of racism revealed that people still hold an internal value system which places certain races at higher degrees than others. Situations such as these are not often seen in North America but when you look at this topic from the global scale you see mass intolerance. I think it is easy to be fooled by the whitewashed reality of society we are shown but that does not change the fact that racism is just as severe as ever.

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In Response to Mya’s entry on Modern Racism I largely agree that as a society we think that Racism is more prominent in countries other than our own, which could describes with the classic term “Ignorance is bliss”, however I do not agree completely with her complete assessment that our society sees racism as a thing of the past. Do not get me wrong I do agree that more should be done in terms of addressing the issue of racism but as a society we have in recent history taken steps as a society to attempt to amend racist stigma and reciprocate that the government and society see racism as a major problem and will continue addressing and bringing light to not only the racially charged injustices of the past but of the present as well

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Thomas Djagowez reply to Brenden McCubbing

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Thomas Djagowez reply to Brenden McCubbing

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I agree with Brenden McCubbing that people in Canada and the US see things as normal whereas other people in third world countries can only dream of the things we see as normal. There may also be instances where we may throw something away or leave something to go to waste that we don't care about, but there is somebody else in the world that would really need it. I
also agree and believe that when donating money or food to organizations that say that the donations go directly to the people that need it is false. There are organizations that do directly give the donations to the people that in need but there are also many organizations that say that they will directly aid the people but don't and end up doing something else and in the end we don't know what happens with our donations. I also agree that if you do something personally or if you are 100% confident that you know that the donation will go where it is needed, you will be guaranteed in making a change.

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In today's world there is starvation in every country and almost every town and city. Every 1 and 9 people on Earth today don't have enough food or food it self to have a healthy life. The fact we have so much compared to a lot of people around the world is hard to believe. Not just how we live and have freedom of speech. But having food some more than others, but the fact is we have more then we take for granted. In cities around the world and other country's people don't have food and are starving everyday. It's hard for people to get money for food or having food where they live in general. There is a lot of thing people do in today's world to help with that. We have food banks and send food to third world countries. A lot of people pay it forward as well with buying food for homeless and helping them out. Things we can do as high school students is spreading awareness. We can pay if forward buy food for homeless. Give can goods to food banks. Volunteer to help out, The biggest thing is posting on social media you did something. That will motivate someone else to do it as well.

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Rayne Soanes in Response to Dustin Schendel

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Rayne Soanes in Response to Dustin Schendel

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I agree with Dustin's remark on how one's mental health is important and how it can affect one's character. Mental health awareness should be taught globally as it is something that affects everyone and their day to day life. Not just those of a higher or lower class, but rather it is something everyone can experience. With the right teaching, the awareness of mental health can be spread. Preventing the feeling of being alone for those struggling with their mental health.

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I agree that deaths caused by starvation is the worst thing to hear about.  It’s an issue that we are all aware of and I agree that many of us overlook the issue and don’t do anything to help solve it. We have people standing up on the issue and creating awareness, such as Johnathon Swift. However, it’s up to the rest of us to make a difference. Let’s start off by eliminating the food we waste in our own homes and businesses today.

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Contrary to what many may think slavery was not abolished in the 19th century when the United States put laws into motion that would “free” the American slaves, but this did not stop slavery. Slavery exists today all over the world, slavery exists in more than one form. Slavery can appear as the enactment of forced labour, people being forced into sexual exploitation or even something as simple as forced assigned marriage can be viewed as slavery. In the world today there are an estimated forty million people who are enslaved with ten million of those people being children. Modern slavery is less about literally owning people, even though that is still a factor, but more so forced exploitation and complete control by another individual with either no way to leave or no safe way for them to get out of their situation. Slavery is a terrible injustice people are subjected to. Modern society commonly believes that it learns from the past but with the massive amount of slaves still around today, can people truly say that we have learned?

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Adain Mitchell - Modern Breaches in user privacy

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Adain Mitchell - Modern Breaches in user privacy

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In april of 2018 it was revealed that facebook, having over 2 billion user accounts, was revealed to have been giving away personal data to malicious third parties, though this was not the first to happen with facebook, whom is known for giving away user data for free or for a price. However facebook isn't the only one known for its track record of compromising personal data. It also happens with other companies as well, whether they are intentionally spying on you and selling information, or the little data they do collect is compromised by a security breach. And as we are rushing more and more to the internet, how do we know the companies we trust have the best interests in out personal data? Well, given the track record so far, it doesn't look very promising, and this is a major problem.

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Genocide is not only a problem in the history books.The biggest genocide in history we know about is the Holocaust in WWII where over six million Jews got murdered. Although, there are still five big genocides going on today in Myanmar, South Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Central African Republic and Sudan. Of course we don't know about these problems because it is far away. A genocide is an intentional action to wipe out a people totally or in part. The literal meaning of the word ‘genocide’, translated out of Greek ,is killing a race. These problems are almost impossible to solve and make life immoral in these countries. We can have an influence by naming it like Raphael Lemkin did. Bringing up this subject makes people start thinking and that can start a change.

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Nicholas Lachapelle in Response to Jacquelynn Hoffman

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Nicholas Lachapelle in Response to Jacquelynn Hoffman

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In response to Jacquelynn's detailing on Human trafficking, I too, concur on the idea that it is indeed and disheartening that a situation like that could occur. I'm interested in the fact that the women talked about, almost had their identity stolen, which is kind of scary. Granted, I don't think anyone would want to steal my identity, but it'd still be creepy. Human trafficking is unfortunate, and it gets my sympathy, of course, my feelings can't solve the problem.  The best I could do is what I proposed in my statement on sexual slavery. Raise some money over the year by taking like ten dollars from each paycheck. Of course this won't come close to solving the problem, at least it's an effort to improve the horrible situation.

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Jacquelynn Hoffman in Response to Rayne Soanes 

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Jacquelynn Hoffman in Response to Rayne Soanes 

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I agree that women are mistreated around the world, but not all women are submissive. For example around the world women hold marches for women's rights. They're are many of us women trying to fight sexism, it's not that we're being submissive it's about the leaders and older adults not listening to us.

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Jacquelynn Hoffman on Human Trafficking 

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Jacquelynn Hoffman on Human Trafficking 

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Human Trafficking is an issue that people like to avoid. People don't like to believe that it happens, but it does all around. Human trafficking is a global issue that can come in multiple forms, sexual, physical and financial. I watched a video of this girl that worked at Disneyland and she told her story of being human trafficked while at work. To think that even at a family friendly environment she was human trafficked. Her situation is particularly was financial and involved her identity almost being stolen. In my opinion I find human trafficking terrible and that we need to find a way to end it. That girl was just doing her job and didn't even know the situation that she was in until she had to change her number and all her social media accounts. No one should have to deal with that, no one should have to be worried when they go to work, no one should have to worry about being human trafficked their whole lives. I think that we should become more aware of human trafficking so we know how to avoid those situations if we were to come across them.

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Rayne Soanes on Female Rights and Sexism

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Rayne Soanes on Female Rights and Sexism

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More than %68 of the worlds countries have gender equality laws. However only %56 of the %68 have laws that specifically addresses domestic violence – %42 of them include sexual abuse. %46 offer equal pay which is another great factor within gender equality. Other problems include a woman's independence from her husband, driving, voting, abortion and marriage. Throughout the countries Canada happens to be the most equal, as male and female rights are genuinely the same. African and Northern European and Asian countries being the least equal, as here arranged marriages, and husband dominance are highly recommended. There other laws forbid females from driving, getting abortions, and voting. I find this to be  huge problem within the world as %52 of the world's population is female. So for being the majority of the world's population one would think for us to be dominant, but instead we are submissive.

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In today's society I believe social acceptance is still a social issue. Racism and the accepting of others who are different was a problem during the period of the holocaust where several people were mistreated for their race as well as in other past situations such as Africans in the past, illustrated in  " The Kaffir Boy". Although today in society the problem of social acceptance is not at severe. I believe the ability to accept or to tolerate differences and diversity in other people should be thought about more as our world has come so far in social acceptance yet racism and belittling people for their differences is still happening at a lower degree.

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Aly Serray on Starvation Around the World

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Aly Serray on Starvation Around the World

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Hunger is defined as physical discomfort from chronic food shortage, or in some cases, life threatening lack of food. World hunger refers to it globally. There are 11 million people undernourished in developed countries. Children are the most visible victims of undernutrition. It can cause 3.5 million deaths of children a year. In my opinion, the worst thing to happen to anyone, especially children, is dying of starvation. Seeing children and even adults suffer around makes me uncomfortable and I couldn't begin to pretend to know what those people could be going through. It takes real heroes to take on problems such as this one. In my opinion, though it was outrageous, Jonathan Swift's proposal made sense in theory. Realistically, eating humans is wrong on every level, but if that is the only way to get it into people's heads. Starvation is a problem that takes more than one person to make a change. To change or improve starvation around the world takes more than just spreading awareness. Starvation around the world can be fixed, but not in an easy way, which is unfortunate and makes me very sad. There are probably millions of people making millions of dollars and will not give it or donate it to anyone who needs or who is suffering. Overall, spreading awareness is easy, but it takes more than one person to make a change.

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The fact is, people inherently desire riches. Everyone is after a more comfortable life, a little bit of wealth. I can guarantee that everyone in this course would enjoy receiving more money. I can say the same for most of the people in this world. There's nothing wrong with that, but the greed, selfishness and extreme actions taken to achieve it are the problem. 50% of the worlds wealth

($140 trillion USD) is controlled by 1% of the worlds population (75.3 Million). All of this while 70% of the worlds population  represent only 2.7% of the worlds wealth. How can anyone justify, not wanting, but needing more than $10 million. People do the most extreme things for money. Money that they don't really need. If people were not so greedy, not so selfish, would there be people that can not afford food for their children? People willingly going into slavery? Unless humans overcome that strong desire to own everything they can imagine, there will always be an unjust distribution of wealth.

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In response to Kali Pinno's posting on world hunger, I could not agree more with her. I have heard so many times that the Amazon creator has more than enough money to end world hunger and won't do anything to help. It all comes down to the people that there are around the world, there are good hearted people and there are selfish people who maybe only care about the money. If it only takes $4.00 for 7.6 billion people to donate to end world hunger, then how has the idea not been started. On the other hand, some people feel as if it is not their problem because they think it will never happen to them. In reality, no one knows what those poor people are going through unless they have experienced it themselves. Of course, not all 7.6 billion people have $4.00, but I agree that if donating just that much or even just a bit more to help those who could not donate, that would be amazing to be able to end world hunger. Even though there are many other issues going on in the world, ending world hunger would make a huge change and such a big significance on the world we have today.

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Brenden McCubbing on Third World Starvation

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Brenden McCubbing on Third World Starvation

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In today's society, people that live in Canada and the US are very privileged because we get all kinds of foods and benefits. While other third world countries like Africa and Asia are not so lucky. They do not have the luxuries we consider normal. Third world countries are lead by dictators and they do not care about the people they just care about power, making it hard for the residents that live there to get food and prevent starvation. But citizens of Canada and The United States donate money to organizations that provide food to those people in need but you do not always know if your money is actually going there. By doing what Mrs. Knoll's friend is doing (going to foreign countries and helping in person 10 months in a year, year after year) will guarantee you are making difference in their society.

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Slavery has been a problem for generations of people's lives. It's truly horrible that some people in the world lose their right and will to live as they please, and to be forced to do things in harsh conditions. One of the darker sides of slavery is the side of sexual slavery, of which people are used only as sexual objects for others. Based upon the Ted Talk previously watched within this class about Sex slaves, even children are subjected to these dark tasks and are left for dead after use, left behind with physical wounds, mental scars, and many sexual disease. Normal labor slavery, as horrible as it is, at least has a end product that in return is sent into the world, sexual slavery, does not. The slaves of this are used for a good time, and are disposed of. In matters of rescuing these slaves is though too. Even if they are to be rescued, the scars that remain will haunt forever, and that's if they don't die to disease.  Money is a key factor to freeing slaves, but of course, not enough is ever raised to save them all. And even then, finding where slaves, specifically sexual slaves is difficult. Kevin Bales from Ted Talk estimates it'd take 10.8 billion dollars to free all slavery. He estimates at least 150 dollars would free a family in India, of which the stories of the sexual slaves of the other Ted Talk took place. If at least everyone took like, 150 dollars from their paychecks each year and donated to organizations that try to end slavery, the problem would not be solved...but the situation could improve. Progress is better then doing nothing.

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There are more than 200 classified forms of mental illness. They can take many forms and show many different symptoms and signs. Mental illnesses are still feared and misunderstood by many people, creating a social stigma around the term and subject. Education and learning to understand the topic is the foundation to breakinging this stigma. Mental illness and the view or perspective of it has played a role throughout our whole unit as well as in our day to day lives. Historically the stigma has been really evident and even misunderstood. Looking at the play Hamlet and the story of Yoshitiro, the people around them saw their mental and emotional struggles as “madness”. Dealing with traumatic events in our lives or in history can also bring out the issue of mental illness. It plays a role in many of the other global issues we talk about such as slavery, poverty, world hunger, amd many others. Education around the subject and how to properly deal with it in an informed and healthy manner is the first step in a long road to dealing with the issue of mental illness.

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Jensen Gabora on Slavery in Today's Society

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Jensen Gabora on Slavery in Today's Society

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Right now as we speak there are approximately 40.3 million slaves worldwide according to statistics. Although these numbers show an improvement compared to how many slaves there once was- an admirable improvement would be the abolition of slavery in general. Often children are working as slaves before they are the age of three, that means that these children are being accustomed to this lifestyle before they may even be able to speak. In order for these people to survive they must surrender themselves to slave owners. This seems particularly uncanny doesn't it? What if I told you that as an individual you can make a noticable difference. All it takes to make a positive impact on such a huge issue in the world such as slavery is to spread the word. Changing the world in a large way can take generations- but you can make a small change every day by simply spreading awareness.

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I wholeheartedly agree that sexual slavery and trafficking is disgusting, terrible and never should have existed. I would have to disagree that the children enter it, rather they are kidnapped and abused without knowing what was going on. The corruption that the children face on a day to day basis is disgusting, and I agree that we have to help them to the best of our abilities. Physically going to the places where it is happening on a larger scale would be a great way to temporarily make a difference. However in order to impact the problem, on a larger scale, we must first start small and raise global awareness for the issue. How can someone stop a global problem if they don't even know there is a problem? Sex trafficking is terrible and should be stopped as soon as possible it is the way that we go about the issue that will impact it on a global level.

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Sexual slavery is a large problem in the world in my opinion it is disgusting and should not have been thought of. People selling their body or in this case
They have no choice and are forced to let people do anything to them for little to no pay. People are entering this as young as three or even younger than that. I believe that we need to help the people in these situations get out by going to the places where this is happening and start with building shelters for girls and boys who are in this situation, see they are valued in ways other than for their body. I want to show those people that they are valued as a human being not an item to be owned and used.some of these people feel like they deserve the treatment they are getting, which is wrong. We can help these people is these situations by just saying something, not turning a blind eye to this problem. The people who are in controlling of these people in these situations should be arrested for taking away the rights of the people that are being used for the sexual slavery .

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Poverty in our world is so overlooked, that it takes someone like Jonathan Swift to create an outrageous solution to catch people’s attention. Extreme poverty is one of the reasons why the slavery rate is so high in our world. Vulnerable individuals are willingly entering the slave trade without realizing it. As explained in the Ted Talk on modern slavery, many individuals agree to these jobs because they would do anything to earn money to support the people they care about. They know these job opportunities are suspicious but they’re starving and desperate for food. These individuals are willingly taking the work but once they try to escape, they can’t. They’re enslaved. If only these individuals were educated and had access to food, they wouldn’t be enslaved so easily. I believe we need to end poverty before we can solve the rest of the world’s social issues. We need to educate these children in places like Ireland. Providing them with an education is the only hope they have. It will provide them with skills they need to provide for their families. Living in a wealthy place like North America, it’s our job to stop creating more problems such as sending our old, useless junk (clothing, toys) to countries in poverty. It's up to us to stop taking our way of life for granted and start showing empathy and compassion for these families living in horrific living conditions.

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It is commonly believed that world issues are only prominent problems in third world countries. This opinion is misguided as racism is prevalent around the globe. The mistreatment of people based on race occurs everywhere from South Africa -as discussed in "The Kaffir Boy"- to the modern day United States of America. This global issue effects millions of people daily; but, as a society, we choose to turn a blind eye to the problem. People believe that racism is an issue of the past which promotes ignorance towards the topic. The first step in solving this issue is raising awareness which can be done through campaigning on social media. Social media has the power to reach millions of people in seconds and can be used to post/ campaign for the awareness of modern day racism. Exposing people to information on modern day racism while they scroll through their feed plants a seed in their minds and causes them to become more aware of the issue. Once people are aware of the issue at hand they begin recognizing racism when they see it and are more likely to speak out against it.

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World wide hunger is a huge global issue that takes the lives of hundreds and thousands of people each day. It is estimated that 821 million people out of the 7.6billion world population suffer from chronic undernourishment. One out of every nine people go to sleep hungry every night and 36million people die each year from starvation. The estimated cost to end world hunger is $30 billion, and the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a net profit of $112 billion. Jeff has enough money to end world hunger almost four times. I don’t propose the worlds richest people donate all of the money they have earned, but if all 7.6billion people donated $4.00, we would surpass the $30billion goal, we could end world hunger. Of course those who donate more would makeup for those who couldn’t afford $4.00. This global issue claims 36million lives a year, $4.00 or more from each body would allow the world to move past this issue of chronic undernourishment.

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It is believed that in 2019 there is approximately forty six million slaves worldwide. To be able to own a person and use them as a tool is absolutely despicable. I believe that as teenagers we can influence this horrible process by raising awareness and making people less ignorant to the obvious problem. As shown in the Ted Talk on modern day slavery for a measly $150 a person can support a family out of slavery for a year. I believe that we can influence the world by supporting the organizations that we know to be valid and use money directly to the purpose. The best way to address the problem is to actually get your hands dirty and go to a country with a problem and help there directly. The impact is inevitable as shown by Mrs. Knoll's friend who fought against slavery for ten months out of a year. Impacting the world is not an easy job but together, with enough work,
we can change the world.

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From the literary texts and discussions we have had in class to date, post your opinion of a pressing social issue that has a global significance. Once a few students have posted something, respond WITH YOUR NAME to at least one other comment. Be respectful and classroom acceptable. This is for marks!!