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The genocide in Darfur caused many people to die, and many people to try to escape. The government in Darfur are killing innocent people for no reason. In the past five years 400,000 civilians have died. This is not right, this many people should not be dying for no apparent reason. In Darfur 90% of target villages have been destroyed. This are the places where all of the Darfur people live. How would you feel if people were destroying your neighborhood and where you live? The people in Darfur try to escape. 250,000 people in Darfur have escaped to a place close called Chad. The people who have escaped are now facing violence there. Women are a main target, they are especially a main target for sexual assault. 80% of all people displaced are women. These women and even young girls are constant victims of sexual violence and are abducted into sexual slavery. Too many people are dying in Darfur, these are all true facts.

citing: I don't know where to put it yet...but I can change it later but here they are.

Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins (2006) Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster, Markus Wiener, Princeton N.J.,

Daly, M.W. (2007) Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide, Cambridge University Press,

Blog #15 overcoming odds

Starting treatment with 30% chance of survival.

Now look, beat all the odds and is here today

as healthy as can be.

I read another article about myself. I don't just read these articles because I think what I went through was cool, but I feel people should know about my journey because its a type of journey most people never get to take. I'm not saying this is a good journey, but its a journey I learned to live my life by. I over came all the odds of the doctors. The doctors gave me a 30% chance of survival at diagnosis. Of course about a year later the cancer was totally gone and I was as healthy as most children. The doctors also told me that I would be short for my age, again this is wrong. I have always been one of the tallest in my grade. I overcame these odds with the help of a lot of people. We like to put all of our faith in God, that's the biggest reason I believe I survived. I believe God put me on this earth with this journey to teach others. I hope I can fulfill what I am set out to do in this world. We also have to thank the doctors that helped me beat these odds. Not may people get the chance to overcome odds like this, and some people that do get the chance do not make it. I consider myself one of the most lucky people in the world. I believe we are all lucky, but I consider myself lucky because I get to share my cool journey. When I tell people I had cancer they usually look at me shocked and ask "are you okay?" and they really know I am its just their first reaction. After I tell them about it they will act very interested and say they want to help, when really after 10 minutes they forget about it. No one really has any idea what its like to overcome something like this. That's why I really wish that I can send my story out, and have people realize how lucky they are to have their life. I hope my journey with overcoming odds can touch the world.

Read this story Molly's Story

Blog #14 Love

Love. What is love? Does anyone actually know what love is? I think love is a different feeling for everyone. It is something you can't explain or find until you know you could never care or feel that way about something else. I believe there are different types of love. You can love somoene because you care about them, and want whats best for them. There is also being 'in' love. Being 'in' love is when you are with someone and you become one. You are ment for eachother and are ment to stay together and could never be with another person but them, and you are willing to go through the many struggles that a relationshipe and life brings together. Love is a great and hard thing. These are just my feelings about it, I also read an article on some facts on wikipedia, lets see how my thoughts and theres differ. It says love is any number of emotions related to a strong affection. The article also says love can refer to a variety of feelings, this is something that I agree on. The article also says love is like mammalian drive, its like hunger or thirst. They are saying love is something we need. I agree with this statement a lot. Everyone in life wants to be wanted and needs to be love. I know you want to be independent and take care of ourselves but sometimes we need that one person to lend us a hand, and tell us that we are great and wanted. Love is something that can never really be explained. I am excited to see for myself what my love is and what comes upon it in my life.

Article on Love

Article This is the website I used for my research paper.

I found a very informational website about the genocide in Darfur. This website also shows you how you can help and prevent the genocide in Darfur. The article had many facts about the genocide and how to prevent it. Here are some of the facts.

• 400,000 civilians have died in the past five years.
• 90% of targeted villages have been destroyed in Darfur.
• 250,000 people have Left Darfur to go to Chad, but they are also facing violence there.
• 80% of people displaced are women, these women and young girls are constant victims of sexual violence and are abducted into sexual slavery.

People in Darfur have no where to go. We need to help them because they try to escape but yet where they escape to are also victims of violence. Those are just a couple of facts that I have put in my own words. I think these facts will be very helpful and useful in the research paper because they show the reality of Darfur.

There are also somethings that we can do to help stop this violence. Even our school here at EHS is helping to stop the genocide. We need to help Darfur because the people there have no other place to turn to. How would you feel if you were left in a situation that horrible that you can't get out of it? The biggest thing we can do is join and advocacy group. And in that group we need to contact the president so we knows, and can do something. The more people to contact the president the better, because then he'll know more people car and are thinking about it. Therefor he will most likely do something about it.

Research Paper: Genocide in Darfur

I found a good website about the our topic genocide in Darfur. They website is...http://www.genocideindarfur.net/.....The website showed all different groups about preventing and help stopping the genocide. It's the government in Darfur that are killing all the innocent people there. This is defiantly not fair and we need to do something about it. There are other places that are supported by the rest of the world. Darfur is not supported, we need to help them and stop this genocide. They three types of groups they have listed on website are Genocide Intervention network, Sudan Investment, and STAND. STAND is a group we have at the school that I am actually in. These groups are there to help stop the genocide.

Blog #13 war

I read an article on the Star Tribune website about Iraq. This article doesn't tell much about the war the but more about the side affects from the war. Their were so many killings there and so many people being lost, things started to change. Since so many people were being killed I guess they forgot about the dogs? Iraq has over populated dogs, now they are killing stray dogs. The article says people are hunting them down and killing them, slaughtering some 10,000 in Baghdad since December. They people are shouting "Give us clean water instead of killing dogs!" This makes much sense because later in the article a women says, "The dogs are not harming us, the water is." Most people in Iraq still lack the most basic services such as sewage system and potable water. This issue is a lot more meaningful and bigger then their issue of dogs. I don't understand why they would go around killing dogs if they are doing no harm. I understand that the dogs may not have food and could be hard to take care of and it might just be even a nice way of letting them go. But I think this just shows Iraq's lack of focus. After the war they were very run down, and now they are focusing on killing stray dogs instead of the health of their people? That seems a little off. I know we tried to help Iraq but they didn't really want it. I still think we could give it a try because we have it so much better here then they do. I think Iraq just really needs to focus on what needs to be done for their country instead of worrying about the little things, which thought will come into play sometime. But for now they need to grow strong and healthy.

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http://www.startribune.com/world/41262122.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr

Blog #12 Imperialism

I read an artical about imperialism, or more so what imperialsim is because I didn't really know what it was. This article says imperialism is "the policy and practice of forming and maintaining an empire" they say this mostly refers to the the empires in Europe during the past 500 years. They use they same kind of qualities about Imperialisms and our world today. They use it with economic, technology, colonzing, and many skills we want people today have. Imperialsim started a long time ago but we still use many of the techniques today. Even though it's different we can still see how we got ideas from a long time ago. Imperialism is about growning and creating. Weather it's a building or government or how we do things. I think it's cool how we can take an idea from something so long ago and build it with things today. Imperialism has helped our government today, and the forming of our cities.