Ebola Blog

I have learned a lot from the project we have just completed on Ebola.  I have learned the diseases hosts, why it thrives in its current environment, and how it is transmitted. Some of the more shocking things that come to mind is that the Ebola has mutated over three hundred times since it has started infecting regions in Africa this year.  I personally am not going to worry about the virus until it mutates into an airborne virus. Another thing that is disheartening about the current situation is the sheer amount of funding that it would take to make a half decent plan to contain this if it were to become more contagious. Reports in the news claim that countries surrounding the infected regions are free of the virus. I think this is mainly because the transmission is not nearly fast enough to cross borders at a dangerous rate, so they have more time to prepare for the coming virus.

                Disease is yet another topic that can closely relate to globalization. Infectious diseases throughout history have affected people on an international scale and it will continue to do so in the future. Some infectious diseases that have had an international impact are the Spanish flu and aids. I think preventing these diseases and developing these vaccines for these diseases is extremely important. I think its also important for countries to work together to develop a cure. I think it would give our world a sense of unity. These are the kinds of things we need to work together on because it has the potential to affect us all.

1.  It shocks me how much this activity has risen in the past 15 years.
2. It’s hard to imagine that one industry can afford to give all this money.
3. Pharmaceutical companies spent over 120mil on this.
4. Most of the money they give is going to republicans
5. Mitch McConnell a senior republican basically opposes everything Obama does and he receives the most money from healthcare companies to campaign.
6. McConnell’s interests have also dramatically changed since he has become senator.
7.    His is strongly against Obamacare and openly speaks against it.
8. Cooperative of American physicians gives the most money but only spends 1.9% on GOP.
9. Health care companies spend a good chunk of money on democrats, who support the affordable care act and Obama care.
10. Ed Markey is the democrat that receives the most from healthcare companies actually votes in favor of the affordable care act

$icko

                I believe Michael Moore’s documentary sicko really sheds light on the down falls of our current health care and shows the good things about free healthcare, something our media doesn’t tell us very often. I personally have never heard anything positive about free or generalized healthcare before I watched this movie. I got my information from what I heard on the news. I heard people call it the first step to socialism and I believed that for a long time, but now I’m not so sure. I believe we should help our citizens not ignore their needs and wellbeing. This documentary made me angry I’m not going to lie. I was frustrated. I was thinking how we can let these things happen to our own citizens. But then I sat back and thought a second. It’s all about greed. Those insurance and pharmaceutical countries don’t care who they hurt they’re just in it for the money. And if anybody tries to stop there so cleverly devised plan they will just use all the money they saved by killing people instead providing them care and pay off some ridiculously corrupt congressmen to propose some law to make their greed justified.  So yeah it’s a greed thing. I do know that Moore’s documentary is one sided and it was his mission to make me upset about our current healthcare system so I would like to look into this more to establish a more concrete opinion.

Sex trafficking

                In the back alleys of almost every city around the globe you can buy a slave on a middle class salary. It’s just 90$ per slave! Sounds crazy doesn’t it? But you can anywhere across the globe. It’s a sickening business with no remorse for human life or well-being. People, even children are forced to carry out tasks such as hard physical labor and sexual acts for no money at all. Many die without ever tasting freedom again. This happens because if they were released they would rat out their captors. For your everyday serial criminal human trafficking looks very appealing. Unlike most other illegally sold goods, a human slave can be sold over and over again until they are all used up. The profit from this buying and selling is easily in the tens of thousands per trafficked slave. We as human beings should not stand by and let this business rise to the top of the list as most profitable criminal business. It needs to be snuffed out before it grows any larger. We don’t want to look the other way as slavery becomes a part of everyday life.  But we have to come to face that that might already be a reality. Sex trafficking has affected people in your home state, even your home town.  Explicit things like, prostitution, pornography and exotic dancing have all profited from sex trade. We have to be vigilant and stop this inhuman business.

Globalization and women

                Globalization has definitely had a huge impact on the women of today. Just as globalization affects everything good and bad it does the same with women. Lately we have been learning about sex trafficking, so the first thing that comes to mind when I’m asked to compare women to globalization is sex trafficking. Although sex trafficking is the first thing to come to mind globalization also has helped women advance in our society.  Thanks to globalization women’s rights have been spread throughout the globe. Women being view as lesser beings has nearly become a thing of the past, with the exception of some third world and or dominantly Muslim countries. Women now hold higher positions than ever before. Movements for women’s rights can be found all around the globe. Sex trafficking is obviously the down side to globalization. Globalization has made the sex trafficking business explode. You’re a creepy old white guy and you got a thing for young Asian girls, well if you got the cash you can have one whenever you want. And those poor girls have been ripped from their homes and families to work till they die.  It’s a tragedy that globalization has to have this negative effect on women.

                                                                Migration and Globalization

Migration is a big contributing factor in globalization and in the world economy. Every day we see things in the news about refugees fleeing here and illegal border crossings there. Immigrants are what make our country diverse, but what lies ahead for us. In 50 years will English be the dominate language? Will we have the space to house all these people flooding to America to find a better life?  These are all good questions and I plan to look into them deeper.

People of foreign countries choose America for many reasons. Better education, safety, opportunity, the possibility of living the American dream, medical treatment, clean water these are just a few of those reasons. Immigrants literally built this country.  They drove the booming industry of the early to mid-20^th century for their chance at the American dream. They had the determination to be great. Their hard labor for a reasonably cheap price made our economy a super power. They did, and still do, the jobs regular Americans don’t want to. They are the back bone of the American economy.

When people migrate they take their culture with them. I will use America as an example again because of its nickname the melting pot. Our culture has been affected thousands maybe even millions of ways by different cultures. In everyday life we use words from different cultures, we eat food from different cultures and even listen to music inspired by other cultures. The people of America come from many different countries and our diverse cultures still stands strong even though we are all American now.

Migration also has its draw backs. For example dealing with illegal border crossing has become a major problem.  We spend millions of taxpayer’s dollars giving aid to, imprisoning, and deporting refugee’s flooding over our borders from Mexico and other countries. Crime rates have risen. Drug trafficking and human trafficking have increased at least ten fold in the past few years. Our border to the south has caused us our fair share of trouble in the past few years. Another danger is terrorism. With access into America getting easier to obtain over our southern border, terrorists have a free way in. This is a danger to the citizens of our great nation and should not be taken lightly. I personally think border security should be at the top of the list for national defense.

Migration has changed the face of America and other countries and will continue to for a very long time. Hopefully in the future the effects of migration will be positive in years to come. But with the increasing amounts of terror attacks around the world and risk of contagious disease spreading it does not seem likely. Events such as these will not only affect the people inside our borders, but also push people out of the way of danger into new areas. The spread of people is inevitable. It has been since the beginning of time. There will always be people in search of something better.  But is the grass really greener on the other side?

GLOBILIZATION

                Globalization has surely changed the face of our planet and the course of the human race. It has turned countries into super powers and reduced some to nothing. Its effects are evident and they are in your everyday life. In this digital age it’s almost impossible for globalization not to exist. We are far too deep into this connected world,where you can have anything you dream of at the touch of button, to turn back now. Globalization has made luxury common place. I personally do not agree with the idea of a globalized world. It has turned us into a people reliant on technology and greedy for more.

                Globalization has caused its fair share of trouble throughout the world. War is a direct result of globalization. Wars are fought for control of natural resources to gain wealth and power. Our imperialistic ideals have gotten us into quite a bit of trouble in the last hundred years. We intervened in countries where we had no place, creating enemies with every dollar we made.  War is now an outlet of profit for countries who participate. Larger countries go into smaller or less developed countries to stop an “injustice” as a gate way to gain access and control to their goods, such as oil and natural gas.

                Globalization has also created a state of dependence throughout the globe. For example, we rely on china for cheap labor so we can “save” money. But really that’s just money not being put back into our economy. Instead we are in debt to china and our own economy suffers. If we were to keep the jobs here and not rely on other countries, one we’d be in less trouble, and two our people would have more money to spend in our country bettering our economy. As a country I believe we should use what we have first being for going to someone else.

                I know globalization is here to stay but I firmly believe it will have its consequences and there’s not much we can do to stop it.  The only way to get through it is to look at the bright side of globalization and hope our world leaders make good choices to better our world.