Hope you are doing well! Welcome to our third activity. Please, post your comments before April 24th, 6 p.m.
1. Select a specific topic from the ones proposed in class in relation to the videos about social issues.
2. Write your esssay in paragraphs considering the suggested format. Take into account all the aspects suggested in class. It must have 300 words at least.
3. Tips for writing:
Simple sentence structure considering topics worked until now.
- Include as much details as possible.
- Useful conectors or linking words.
Language use / writing aspects:
Simple sentence structure considering topics worked until now.
- Include as much details as possible.
- Useful vocabulary you need to express your ideas.
- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.
- Coherence and cohesion.- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.
- Useful conectors or linking words.
4. Prepare an oral report to be presented from April 25 to 27 (4 minutes). Be as creative as possible.
All your writings will be welcome as comments... Thanks for participating!
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
ReplyDeleteIf you don´t agree with the homosexuality, I recommend to open your mind and hear this speech with attention, I hope that with this your thouhgt change a Little bit.
People around the Word faced violence and unequality and in some cases torture, because who they love, who they are, and how they look up. Sexual orientation and gender identity are integral aspects of OURSELVES and we should never led to discrimination or abuse.
When I was growing up, the Word “HOMOSEXUALITY” was a synonymous of “Shame, abomination and sin” Later in my life, I get outside of the bubble that I was living, and I found with kind, gentle, and unique people, even most that the people that I met in my entire life, the only thing that they did in my life, was filled it with love, and gratitude.
If you don´t understan what being gay is like… Let me help you:
Let´s say that you born with blue eyes, and of course some people like blue eyes, but imagine this: Most of people decided to hate blue eyes due to they beliefs and they think this is from evil, or this is wrong.
But you can change this? No, you can´t. Maybe you could covered them up with colored contacts but let me ask you: Do you feel comfortable with this? Do you think is okay covered them up just because some people don´t like it? No, you don´t have to. And of course you can lie and tell the hole Word: Heyy my eyes are Brown! And wear these colored contacts. But are your eyes really Brown? No, they are blue.
There are some people that are going to judge you because you have blue eyes, and this could hurt the people, but them opinions aren´t going to change the fact you have blue eyes. And the only thing that cares to you is show your Brown et eyes and hide them from the world. But would you like to now that you are hidindg yourself? Hidibg who you really are? See, some people loved blue eyes, and they think that is okay, and some of them dont pay many attention to this.
This is what happens to gay people. People in this world really don´t seem to understand that they are born in the way they are. Think a Little bit on this, how many people in the world are suffering because thet have to hide the person who they really are.
Is not a disease, is the way they are, and please take awareness of this situation.
I stand up for the rigths, I Stand up for the LBTGI commuity against the discrimitation
The only thing that I know is to I have to stand for I know is true, and that´s equality and justice for all the people
ATROCITIES OF SCIENCE
ReplyDeleteFrom a long time ago, the world has presented a lot of problems like: social cultural and environmental problems. Overtime, these problems have changed. It maybe has been dicreased or increased, and it could even have become a major problem.
It is the case of the scientific experiments with humans. Right now, I am going to tell you about it. In this essay I want to do a deep research about this topic, and I want you to think if this problem existed just when the world wars were present in people’s life, or if those experiments were done just with people who were born with black skin color.
The other idea is to figure out if this problem is carried out in nowadays
Furthermore, I want to tell you about it because there are many people who don´t know about this issue yet.
Without further ado:
The science has provided us with the best things of life, and these things promise us a bright future, but there is nothing that an experiment has not been found out without trying the dark side of life. Unfortunately, the science has been used for evil purposes, and it is worse than weapons creation.
Human experimentation is to test humans being, who are still alive, to those scientific experiments that can be very painful and cruel.
The worst thing about it, it’s that these processes are considerated as medical advances, but we do not know anything about the experiments, because in any historical or scientific book, we can not find evidences about this Scientifics processes.
Nevertheless, the only thing we can notice is the medical advances that they have showed us, and also the cures of deadly diseases that doctors have used in patients.
Many people have passed away in those experiments, and off course they don’t know it. Many of them did not even accept what they are doing to their bodies. Without doubt, those people will never be able to recover their most beautiful ownership.
All these stories must be heard, because the experiments whit humans are still happening in our world. The guinea pigs keep being members of Minority groups: Poor and disadvantaged.
religion today.
ReplyDeleteFor a long time and for a cultural issue religion has been a factor that manages the conservative society and the state itself.
Decisions taken in a democratic state have been influenced by religion, independent of beliefs, beyond whatever religion there is a fundamental problem.
One of the problems is poverty, religion stresses basically that the man must help the neighbor, but in fact it does not happen.
According to studies done by different universities show that the most believing countries are the least developed countries, there is an inversely proportional statistic.
According to the RT page the Vatican has more than 8800 million dollars, in addition to this during a review of their balance found 1200 million euros, where they did not know where they came from, being an independent republic, no governmental entity can enter to investigate Nor can it enforce the law as it does with private or public companies, basically the Vatican is a tax haven.
There is a theory that says that the Vatican has so much money to eradicate poverty more than twice, this information does not reflect at all the words that supposedly said Jesus and are written in the bible; In which he refers to live with what is necessary and doing more for his neighbor.
It is very difficult to see what countries living in Africa live in, with extreme poverty, social, economic, health and educational inequality; Do not count on church support, and private companies do a little more to help these communities that need some food.
The main point of this exhibition is to show that it is very important to make a critique and reflection on the direction of our society, it is a very banal society, that is committed in obtaining money, to hoard resources; While around the corner there is someone with a problem and that the inequity of the state and the church makes this problem bigger and bigger.
We all know how religion is made official in America, that's why I do not think it's important to re-show what history competes for.
Religion today and internationally plays an extremist and very radical role, since in certain parts of the world there are wars in the name of God something that is illogical or of little rational argument, it is impossible to make a war on behalf of someone who supposedly He wants the peace of the world
Finally, it is important to know about our culture and how it is influenced by religion, if we investigate a little there are issues that are not discussed by the influence of God, for example: abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, assisted suicide, political norms; Religious influence is more significant than what we believe.
Adoption of children by LGTBI people
ReplyDeleteTo begin with, it is important to know that family constellations among lesbian- and gay-parented families are largely quite different from the heterosexually-parented nuclear family. Our conventional notion of a parenting family contains many presumptions: that there will be two parents, that they will be one of each gender, that they will be romantic partners of one another, they will live under one roof, that they will both be biologically related to the children they raise, and that they will be recognized legally as a family.
. Each year the number of LGBT families working with Adoptions Together continues to grow.
Adoption of children by LGBT people is an issue of active debate. In the United States, for example, legislation to stop the practice has been introduced in many jurisdictions; such efforts have largely been defeated
Proponents of adoption by gay parents usually cite the following arguments:
• Human rights – child's and parent's right to have a family life
• There are little or no differences between children raised by same-sex or straight couples. For that reason, sexual orientation of the parents has no relevance when it comes to raising a child
• Evidence confirming that despite those opposed to LGBT+ parentingsame-sex couples can provide good conditions to raise a child
• For the children, adoption is a better alternative to orphanage
Opponents of adoption by LGBT people usually cite the following arguments:
• Same-sex couples would make children develop defined unwanted traits.
• Cases of parental abuse.
• Religious reasons.
• Violations of a child's rights-
Although our society has become increasingly accepting of gay and lesbian relationships and parenting there is still a significant amount of resistance to these notions in some places
• Home environments with lesbian and gay parents are as likely to successfully support a child's development as those with heterosexual parents.
• Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation.
• There is no evidence to suggest that the children of lesbian and gay parents are less intelligent, suffer from more problems, are less popular, or have lower self-esteem than children of heterosexual parents.
• The children of lesbian and gay parents grow up as happy, healthy and well-adjusted as the children of heterosexual parents.
Myth: Children raised by gay or lesbian parents are more likely to grow up gay themselves. All of the available evidence demonstrates that the sexual orientation of parents has no impact on the sexual orientation of their children and that children of lesbian and gay parents are no more likely than any other child to grow up to be gay.
Myth: Gays and lesbians don't have stable relationships and don't know how to be good parents. Fact: Like other adults in this country, the majority of lesbians and gay men are in stable committed relationships.Of course some of these relationships have problems, as do some heterosexual relationships.
Societies that embrace diversity are stronger and better off. Children raised by gay couples may have different outlooks – surveys in the US have shown they grow up more tolerant and open-minded. That can only be good. Lifting bans on gay marriage or gay adoption are steps towards more diverse, more tolerant societies, where nobody faces discrimination.
A MACHINE OF THINKING
ReplyDeleteThe religion in the world is a problem that we don’t want to confront; it has always dominated the things that daily happen around the world. We as humans think that we have to praise someone because we need to feel inferior and to be handled by something. It is the biggest and the most powerful business, countries Latin American are very religious; specially, Colombia is so religious, since the educational centers are governed by the religion in this case: the Catholicism. The man needs to believe in something and for that reason the man was whom created the same; it’s an invention of man.
The priest usually says in the mass that we must help poor people, but a priest never helps someone, besides, the alms are just for them. If they are consistent, coherent and honest, there would be no poverty; the religion is the best form to handle the thinking of people. Colombian people has never understood that the religion is a great problem because it controls us, in fact, there are churches than schools, but the education is governed by the religion and freedom of worship doesn’t exist, since our parents instilled in us about this.
The religion does not allow us to see beyond, because if this happen they can lose the control in the society, and it business would go bankruptcy. According historians, the religion had to create some rules because they needed to have more fans.
Finally, I think that the religion is the best form to keep silence to common people. Also, it’s a derivate of other religions, it change our way of seeing things. If it wouldn’t exist we could accept different aspects that are seen as a taboo, but sometimes, we depend on this religion, besides, I do not understand what is the reason which a priest cannot have a family or cannot be a woman.
Orphanhood
ReplyDeleteMany people around the world does not think about this real and quotidien social issue, children without parents ; perhaps it does not affect all population, and that it’s a big reality, nowadays it is incrementing but this is not new, trough history children have been abandoned and considered like nothing by their own parents.
Maybe we should ask ourselves, why does it happens? or what are the causes? probably about reasons we can find things such as social stereotypes , sexual violence, economic problems and innumerable social aspects. Reasons, which lead the parents to skip taking care of the children, because they may think they are unable to maintain those children;but in my opinion it should not be a reason to abandon a child, a child must be educated , and looked after by someone responsible who give him all things necessary to grow in a healthy way. Even if you think that you are not able to provide what is needed for your young child, so he/she can grow by your side, you can always look for another solution.
Also, this social problem could be taking as the origin of other kind of social issues,and yes, a child without parents does not have a global importance or is not a social responsibility like pollution , poverty , or other issues like those but we must take into account that this specific issue also promove and can be considered like a cause of the most biggest social problems for example insecurity, violence because a child without parents could have all kind of problems like affective, emotional, social, economic, mental problems that in the future would generate personal and social conflicts.
In my own perspective the orphanhood have to be considered like something relevant in our society because children are the future and if we as a fathers and mothers do not take care of them why should anyone else do it ?