Hope

Kristof, D. Nicholas. "Earthquake and Hope". May 22, 2008. February 18, 2009..

This is a article on how when their was an earthquake in china and the chinese always rush to where the earthquake is to help clear away ruble and donate to the victims and also help them. The chinese citizens are very hopeful and they always help as much as they can. Private chines donations were made and have raised over 500 million dollars to help the victims of the earthquake and to help fix what was damaged. Many citizens did many things to help especially in the media. Mr. Wen is a very big public speaker and he has gone to china many times to speak about earthquakes and offer hope for the people that have none. Speaking on these issues, blogging, and propaganda is illegal and has been banned by the police in china so what Mr. Wen does is illegal but he still does it so he can spread his hopefulness to the citizens of china  even though he is technically not supposed to. Spreading hope to the citizens of china about the earthquake is very honorable and kind of Mr. Wen

Gender Roles

Frosch, Dan. "Report Faults Treatment of Women Held at Immigration Centers". January 20, 2009. February 16, 2009.

There was a study done by the University of Arizona to tell us about the 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona, and the problems they face such as the bad health care, and abusive mistreatment. This study was conducted from August 2007 to August 2008 by the Southwest Institute of Research on Women and the James E. Rogers College of law, which are both at the University of Arizona. The study was released on january 13th. Researchers in this study examined the conditions women went through in these detention centers. They are being held in these centers because they are in the process of deportation proceedings. There is estimated to be about 3,000 women being held in these centers nationwide. The study concluded that the people watching these women or the authorities were very aggressive towards the women when keeping them detained even though they rarely were at flight risk. The women experienced very bad hardships such as no care for them if they were pregnant, no treatment for cancer, or any other serious medical conditions. Also in some cases these women were put in jail with federal prisoners even though they do not belong there with criminals. Women are treated very badly in these centers and they are too weak to defend themselves most likely. Its horrible that they don't even get medical care. Even though they are technically not citizens they still shouldn't suffer because of us its cruel. 

Beliefs, values

Mishra, Pankaj. "How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech".August 21, 2005.Feburary 15, 2009.<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/21mishra.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2>

American scientists and businessmen are jealous that religious and moral considerations do not seem to prevent Indian biotechnologists from doing certain types of reaserch. But the difference of ethical issues would have certainly appalled Gandhi, who is father of the Indian nation's ethics and values. Gandhi has accused modern medicine, along with much of modern sciences and technology, of being to violent and not good. He is a vegetarian and he believes in no violence no matter what. His beliefs are from traditional Indian beliefs, mainly Hinduism, which is also the faith of most indians including the scientists and buisnessmen. so they are technicly going against their faith when doing the experiments and reaserch they do today. Apparently most Christians, who believe that a embryo is a person, will probably find more support for their beliefs in Hindu texts than in the Bible. since many Hindus see the soul the true Self which they call atman as the spiritual part of peoples personalitys. After death , the soul soon finds a new temporary place to stay . So, for Hindus as much as for Catholics, life begins at conception. Old fashioned Indian medicine known as Ayurveda saysthat fetuses are alive when it is growing inside a pregnant women. This assumption is shown in "The Mahabharata," the Hindu epic about a war. But the religions and traditions we know as Hinduism are more diverse than Islam and Christianity. they have arguments that contradict eachother though. Indian thoughts of stem-cell research often offer this story as an early instance of human cloning through stem cells taken from human embryos. Other Asian scientists have also pressed myth and tradition into the service of modern science and beliefs.

Culture

In my APWH textbook i read about the Aztecs which were a naive american group of indigenous people located in mexico. Their culture is very different then mine considering their's had human sacrifice in it. The Aztec priests would cut open a live human and eat the heart. This was a common practice used at that time. Even though the priest ate the heart it was still considered a sacrifice towards a god. Also the Aztecs worshiped many different gods not just one. They sacrificed a lot to their gods including humans. 

Facing Difficulties

This article is about how justice Ruth Ginsburg had to get surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today for what was apparently and early stage of pancreatic cancer. Apparently during an annual check-up in late january where she had an CAT scan doctors discovered a approximately 1 centimeter tumor in the center of her pancreas. She will remain in the hospital for seven to ten days.  Ruth is facing many difficulties considering she has cancer but she is also overcoming her struggle considering she probably had surgery to remove the tumor and is now recovering from that surgery.
Liptak, Adam. "Ginsburg Has Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer." New York Times February 5 2009 5 Feb 2009 .

in the article superstitions about quake meet the web, irritating the Chinese authorities i read about how many people believe earthquakes can be predicted in china. They say that blogger write about how the most recent earthquake they experienced in china could of been prevented because there were many warning signs. These apparent warning signs were considered by many to be the ponds draining out of no where, the cows hiding against their enclosures, and the large amount of toads that showed up in the town the earthquake most affected. These blogger use their superstitions to determine when there will be an earthquake, even though scientists cant even predict an earthquake because there is no way to. Many of these blogger were even arrested for releasing false information about determining earthquakes. I think that people should rely on science and facts to predict natural disasters even though its not accurate rather then peoples own superstitions on the warning signs of natural disasters. Its really weird that people get arrested in china just for expressing their views on the warning signs.