Geneva

“Ignoring Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan” The New York Times The Editorial Board September 22, 2015 “Bacha bazi,” or boy play, is the practice of sexual child abuse of children in Afghanistan. It is especially pronounced in the armed forces who control “rural regions and have sway over the population there” (Blow). Often times boys can be heard screaming through the night as they are being attacked by Afghan police officers: usually three or…

Their foreign ministers met in Geneva in July but only two weeks later Saddam Hussein delivered a speech accusing neighboring Kuwait of bringing up unpurified oil from their common border, claiming that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were conspiring to keep oil prices low to satisfy nations…

create movement in dead limbs, but not actual life in a dead being. He now believes, “a new species [will] bless [him] as [their] creator and source; many happy and excellent natures [will] owe their being to [him]” (Shelley 57). Moving away from Geneva, Victor becomes extremely self-centred and begins to develop an ever-growing need to be a well-known and impactful person; he wants everyone to know his name. Victor recklessly chases his dream of reanimation and fails to recognize the possible…

Prisons are places that are meant to confine people who are perceived as threats to other people in the community. Imprisonment is used to punish the law breakers and to deter them from committing further crimes. Prisons are also seen as rehabilitation centers whereby the prisoners are equipped with various work skills which will help them avoid criminal activities. The imprisonment makes them realize that they committed an offense thus they will avoid repeating it upon the release from the…

In todays society the past and the present remain intertwining with each other, above all alcohol has been known as a scars mean of relaxing one’s mind and forgetting about the tenseness you may hold within your body. Alcohol is a way of getting rid of the burdens that don’t regulate with your life style, a way of forgetting your immoral sins. Such a beverage should be only knowing to the gods of this world, such a astonishing moment when you take a taste, however when these sips become more and…

flight. When these trips happen every two years, you learn to appreciate not being constantly prodded at with strangely pointy elbows and having a constant commentary given to you while you're trying to read. The moment we land and enter into the Geneva airport, our attitudes change almost instantaneously. We're both in a somewhat familiar country with our mother and we cannot speak a single phrase of French, but rather, we understand what's being said to us. With the jet-lag taking it's…

his lack of education produced the isolation of himself in college to only focus on his creations by expressing, “It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favorite studies. My father was not scientific, and I was left to…

This week I found both chapter 7 & chapter 8 to hold great ideas and helpful insights into becoming multicultural educators. Specifically, after reading chapter 8 I thought it would be a great benefit to a multicultural educator to be submersed in a foreign country for a short period of time before they start teaching. I think even if a future educator spent a week in a foreign country, ideally where they do not look like or speak the same language as the ethnic majority, it would greatly…

My Learning Resource Project is on Meningitis. In this project, you will learn the types, causes, symptoms, diagnosing, treating and prognosis of Meningitis with a brief history. The first reports of Meningitis originated in Geneva in 1805. By 1887 Scientists identified the cause as Neisseria meningitides. What is Meningitis? Meningitis is the inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. When the meninges, the protective membrane around the brain and spinal cord, become infected is…

Louie Zamperini, a famous USC track star during the midst of World War II, became a B-24 Bombardier who’s plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean and not to be heard from for several years to come. Zamperini was born in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917 then later moved to his new home in Torrance, California. He was born into an Italian-American family as the second oldest child with his brother Pete and his sisters, Virginia and Sylvia. He attended USC where he became a world renowned mile…