Volume One

daughters. Their boorish acts led to more than 100,000 girls being placed into foster care. Amongst these numbers, the law also prevented over 400 million births. One of the most significant effects of the policy has been on China’s sex ratio. China has a grossly unequal ratio of about 114 males to every 100 females, (Background). The one-child policy was implemented to curb a then surging population and limit the demands for water and other resources, as well as to alleviate social, economic,…

The documentary film We Are Not Beggars depicts the life of several children as street performers in a modern Chinese city, Chengdun in 1995. Nana and her siblings, the oldest is 14 and the youngest is 7 years old, have been wandering the country as street performers for four years to earn money. As Nana’s brother, Sihai said that their family is really poor and their mother is sick. Moreover, Nana’s mother has mentioned that there are seven children in their family despite the Single Child…

benefit the students as a unique learning experience and the Lee High School Band is evolving. Going to State Band Festival serves a unique learning experience for the students participating in band. Going to State is not only about achieving a division one rating, but it is about learning that we can achieve high goals or expectations that we set for ourselves. This is a new challenge that we have to face. If we continue with our routine of going to District Band Festival every year and not…

Human Rights Issue: Infanticide The Right to Life of Children is directly violated in infanticide. Females were and still are the more preferred targets. There have been cases against female infanticide still today. Multiple reasons as to why these kinds of cruelty against children are legal have been given. Evidence for multiple familiar places has been found. "Infanticide is the act of deliberately causing the death of a very hound child (under 1 year old)." This was a worldwide practice…

in many countries. According to the one child policy, some serious problems like a skewed abolishment and gender ratio are still happening in currently China’s society. However, in China there are specific laws to forbid that from happening called one child policy. It only allows each family to have no more than one child. According to my perspective, I strongly believe that the government should abolish the one child policy. First of all, why does the one child policy exist? China’s…

China 's efforts to control population growth has led to many issues. The government 's One Child Policy was the cause of the many issues within the population such as decline in birth rates, unequal sex ratios, gender imbalance, and population growth. In China’s efforts to control population growth, sex selective abortion cases have increased. Consider the 2011 murder of a seven month old baby. In Beijing, a woman was seven months pregnant with her second child when several people entered her…

exposed about China’s one child policy and how offsetting it is to not only the economy but to the culture in China. Due to the one child policy in China, there will soon be an offset of 30 million more men than women. This is due not only to the one child policy but also because of the off balanced want for boys vs. girls in China. So when a family has a girl when they really wanted a boy they sometimes would kill or let the baby die. That fact accompanied with the one child policy is the…

people that the earth itself is overpopulated? Do we start migrating to Mars and other planets or do we start controlling the population in some way? If we reach over population all resources will quickly deplete and we won 't be able to provide for one another, and even ourselves. The ethical issue of population control should justify…

Auvriana Novelllo was setting up the desks in her little one room schoolhouse in the country with a brand new notebook and a newly sharpened pencil it wasn 't often that there were one room schoolhouses anymore, but she just now moved away from her parents and their rules to a rural town in Maine that didn 't have a school. Well at least not until now. She thought about how well she would do without her parents being around her all the time. She was her own person, she was 20 after all. As she…

Air force one documentary First of all, I picked a documentary call “Air force one”. Air force one is named of a planes, and this aircraft is only served one person that is the president of the United States. Other than commercial airline, Air force one have to get ready all the time to take the president anywhere around the world that he wants to go. Sometimes Air force one have to facing many problems, such as bad weather and dangers air space. The main points of the documentary were showed…