My 1 Week of Twitter

Well...my 1st week of twitter has been a new learning experience. When I was first given the assignment I wasn't quite sure what I had gotten myself into. However, I'm really glad that my Corporate P R professor had given us an opportunity to explore this GREAT social network. Twitter has taught me an entire new way to be connected to people. I never thought I'd keep my account until I started to truly utilize the features of Twitter. I enjoy the fact that I'm able to connect to real people and send messages and get feedback from a company's representative and others...and in due time! I also admire the fact that you are in control of who is in a particular network without useless information. I'm able to add those with a particular interest and follow them and collect beneficial information. I'm hoping that my twitter experience will contine to grow and help me to learn something new everday. I'd recommend everyone to start a professional twitter account and to utilze its features!!!

I deserve A Grade of...

I deserve the grade of an A' in my Online Journalism course. I feel that I took an active role in completing my Blogs biweekly and adding links, pictures and videos consistently. I wrote the 3 stories required for the course. However, I had to redo a story, but I feel it made me more responsible for my writings. I knew that I had a weak story so I was happy to redo what I did wrong and make it right. I took this class serious, just as I did my other classes and I believe that says more in itself. I placed an effort and did my best and I feel that's all I can ask of myself...the best.

Cloning

Rights of Indigenous People

The rights of Indigenous people have been an increasing issue over time. There are approximately 370 million indigenous people spanning 70 countries, worldwide. Historically they have often been dispossessed of their lands, or in the center of conflict for access to valuable resources because of where they live, or, in yet other cases, struggling to live the way they would like, according to Anup Shah.
Indigenous people have been the cause of deforestation and the dying of large animals. The conflict comes in where people believe that they are working with nature more than harming it. However, the opposing side has a different view exactly vice versa. Sadly, these traditions are fading due to govenment patents for food and other items. These people have been living this way for centuries and due to government involvement are having to find other resources which is already limited.

Crisis in East Timor

The FACTS:
~August 1999 saw a vote on self determination in East Timor.
~Leading up to this and after the vote where there was an overwhelming majority who voted for independence, Indonesian military-backed militia and paramilitaries went on a terror campaign with slow international reaction.
~Much of East Timor was destroyed and at some points there were estimates from 200,000 to 300,000 refugees created with up to 600,000 people displaced.

Every country has their issues, however who'd thought that the recovery period would be so long though. Well, for these people they were and probably are still subjected to brutality from the Indonesian military which has been know to be somewhat communists. Although we know that "History repeats itself," we as global citizens never seem to "truly" get the tradgedy of our actions.

Arms Control

In the U.S.there are restrictions and laws governing the use and control of fire arms. Unfortunately, other countries don't have a policy. More so, the fact that 6-year-olds and other young children who don't understand the impact or effects of guns are able to buy these items of a black market. The arms trade is a large portion of the causes of human rights abuses. Leaving governments to spend more on military expenditures than on social development, communications infrastructure and health combined.

World Military Spending

With so many problems around the world, a major concern is military spending. There are so much more that the money that is spent on military excursions is immense.The cost of war particularly (Iraq and Afghanistan) is estimated to be about $170 billion for the 2009 spending alone according to Christopher Hellman an expert on military budget analysis.
Christopher Hellman and Travis Sharp(budget expert) also discuss the US fiscal year 2009 Pentagon spending request and note that “Congress has already approved nearly $700 billion in supplemental funding for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and an additional $126 billion in FY'08 war funding is still pending before the House and Senate.

These prices are outrageous. This world has more important issues than war...what about the starving, diesease stricten, and homless. It seems as if instead of caring about humanity and civilization for all, our governments are too concerned with "continuing war efforts". A sad but true realization!