The World Is Not Enough

ability to change the world. They reflect the very nature of humans desire to learn more, feel more and discover more. As the world heads further and further away from appreciating the power of words and the beauty that is encapsulated by poetry and novels, books have become forgotten and undervalued. It's important to remember that there is beauty in the words, if we look hard enough for them, and that these words are the very tools that shape our minds and epitomize our world. The importance…

World World Two was the most significant turning point for the prevail of Vietnamese Nationalism, because it allowed nationalists to fight for their independence. The French corrupted the Vietnamese sovereignty by colonizing and dividing the nation. Vietnamese Nationalists fought endlessly to try to catch France’s weaknesses and challenge them with every opportunity they got. They were the…

Killing people around them without thinking, burning villages that people once called home. This is happening all over the world, right now, and is violating a major human rights issue. Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Having their precious lives cut short. Thousands of children get post-traumatic stress disorder. Around the world, people are using innocent children as soldiers. First, child soldiers are being taken away from their homes, family, and…

applicable. For Kaplan, it is not enough to blindly accept the culture in which we live, rather we must question and evolve. To evolve with our values is not to say that the values themselves are changing in their essential meaning. Evolving with our values specifically points to the idea that we must have an eternal concern with relating our understanding of our values with the values of society, and choosing our actions based on this interaction. It is not enough to simply walk around and…

lot of place. There is beautiful place in the world however there are places where people suffer so much. At fourteen years, I was leaving in Togo, a country in West Africa. It is a country where there is poverty and people suffer of hunger. I remember an older guy who came up to me and ask if I could give fifty cent so he could buy food for his children. Every day about 24,000 people die from hunger or hunger related causes according to the World Food Program. Most of these deaths are…

these are the years when the second world war took place, but what do you picture when you hear the words “after world war two” ? I would assume that you would think about the world going back to the way it was and there being a little lull after all that chaos the had just ended. This just isn’t so. What I am here to talk to you about today takes place post - war and up even into the 1970s. And this aforementioned topic is Australian Aboriginals. After world war two the majority of Australians…

There are many things that should be free. If we are talking material and assistance that should be free I think clean drinking water, healthy foods, shelter, medicines, doctor's visits, therapists, etc. A few immaterial things that I think should be free would be knowledge as in maybe schooling and or colleges, love, happiness, trust, freedom, and creativity. If everyone had the right kind of medicines, mental health help, and medical treatment for free then less lives would be lost every…

the government to enact one-child legislation in order to control the population. If the world continues at the present population growth rate, then the resource for the future will be limited to the point of no return. Right now the population is using enough resources for 1.5 earths. By 2025, the estimated population is 8 to 10 billion people. That is 4 earths. Where are we going to find 4 earths? The world can not support the population at this rate of growth.…

Zach, Sean and Ryan, who travel to a rural part of Guatemala, Peña Blanca. The four friends emerge themselves in the Guatemalan lifestyle by living on the average salary of the Guatemalans. Guatemala is known to have one of the worst economics in the world and the people are suffering from this. For two months, the four friends lived on less than one dollar each a day. At the start of the journey, the four men were healthy, and well-nourished. They also were hopeful about the venture. It wasn’t…

Committee on World Food Security Meets on Hunger Challenges states that, in the world today, eight hundred and forty two million people go hungry every day. World hunger is worst in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America (“Know Your World: Facts About World Hunger & Poverty”). In the United States forty to fifty percent of our food gets wasted every year, but we still have forty eight point one million Americans who do not know where there next meal is coming from (“Solving World Hunger…