Terrorism

Terrorism

A definition for terrorism could be the attack of a country or an organization, to another, using terror to promote its policy and/or to obtain what they want. There are different types of terrorism, for example domestic terrorism and international terrorism.

Domestic terrorism in when civilians do an act of terror against their own country, a very clear example was the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, which was that two senior students went to the school and star shooting other classmates and teachers. At the end there were 12 killed people and 21 injured ones. Both committed suicide after police caught them. This could be considered as domestic terrorism, because both did it for a specific reason, and it was against their own country.

In the other hand, international terrorism is the most common one, for example the 9/11 issue with the World Trade Canter, and other one could be the Nuclear Bomb during World War II in Hiroshima. This kind of terrorism it’s commonly that ends up with a lot of human beings died. The majority innocents and this it is done because some differences between different countries.

Therefore, I really think we have to be proud and exited of leaving in a country in which it doesn’t have a military force, and have had never experienced anything about this topics.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism#Types_of_terrorism

Ethnic Conflicts

Ethnic Conflicts

A huge concern that occurs, and it seems that always will be there is ethnic conflicts. How discrimination, religion and territorial issues creates this issues.

Territorial conflicts had always been an important concern. Conflicts like “Intifada” between -Palestine and Israelis- in the Middle East because of ethnic and religious conflicts. In which had caused thousands of deaths. Moving on, on the East side of Europe, countries like Russia, Antique Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, in which all of these countries had been marked as conflictive ones and also dangerous. Some even don’t have signs in other languages; this is because they don’t even care about tourism. And recently, there was a conflict between Mexicans and Americans, the US want to build a wall so Mexican’s won’t be able to pass through it and to control immigration.

The huge conflict that has occurred about racism would definitely be World War I and World War II with the Nazis because what Hitler wanted to do was to create a pure race that would have to be Germans, and what he wanted to do was to eliminate Jews. This discrimination happens also with black people; in countries like the US you can see the huge difference between these two ethnic groups. This discrimination it’s so notorious that even police it’s involved in this, as for example the conflict named as Brutal Police, this is when police abuses of its authority, and starts beating and punching the victims only because of their color of skin.

Last but not least, Religion. We all can see how this institution had a lot of power and money, and all of their churches had been built by the lower class, in a way that they were exploited and some even die in this process. Also, with all of the money that the church has, they could save millions of lives around the world.

As a conclusion, I really think it’s absurd that in these days we have problems about ethnic issues, now days we live in an open minded society in which it doesn’t matter if he or she is white or black, thin or overweight, short or tall, we are all human beings, and we are all the same, it doesn’t matter the looks that we have we have to live in peace with each others.

Criminal Punishment

Criminal Punishment

A criminal act is when someone is called an alleged criminal, commits an action. This specific crime should have a tipicity, which is an act that it’s sanctioned in a Criminal Code; antijuricity, which is against the code; and guilty, which is that the suspect should know that what he or she did it’s a crime. This essay will refer about what I think about death penalty, it’s a methods and it consequences.

Capital punishment is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. I think that this practice is antihuman, even though it’s currently allowed in 58 countries around the world. This punishment it’s against human rights because he or she, the alleged criminal, is still a human being, and it could have been a mistake, and if not then it won’t be “cured” in jail because that is the main goal of it. According to Amnesty International, at least 714 executions were known in the last year. This is a cruel, antihuman and degrading retribution and would turn our society into a violent one, in which “an eye for an eye” it’s not the answer. So I consider it must be eliminated this ancient process.

This antihuman punishment it’s done through different unbelievable ways. Electrocution, in which the criminal is in a chair with his/her head covered; then, he’s electrocuted. An Islamic practice is shooting or stoning so the criminal suffer a lot and this is the consequence of doing the crime that he committed. Decapitate which in the last years a victim of this was Hussein, and it’s also really suffered and degrading because everyone was shouting things about him. And the last one is the lethal injection, which they injected 3 shots, one to get him asleep, the second one is for stop feeling any pain and the last one potassium chloride which actually stops the systems and make your dead. With all of these ways it’s obvious that no matter the one that it’s done, it will kill you and its very denigrate and against human rights, because it’s the life of a person which is going to be taken.

The worst about death penalty is the people that had been executed and they were innocent. As we know, a juridical process tries to find out what happened but off course that there could occurred a fraud or a mistake and the alleged criminal could be punished with this mistake. And the answer of the government is to gave to the family a compensation as if this would replace the life of the victim that have just been taken away.

As a conclusion, I think death penalty it’s not a solution. This just will make a violent society and Human Rights have to be respected worldwide, that some cases are mistakes and in some others innocent people executed and no one should punished you with this sanction, because the judge it’s also a human being and nobody it’s expelled from this.

Destiny

Where did I go wrong?

What can I change?

Think only in the present

Because future or fate, they will all came

Never the less I could amend my path

And laugh about my life

Won’t do crazy stuff

Because then, Karma will attack

Just smile and live your life

Be kind, be fine

And everything will be alright

And for the last, stop thinking about the past!

The Processes of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding Around the World

The Processes of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding Around the World

A number one goal, for many countries is to have a peaceful society and harmoniously environment. In the last century, there had been a lot of wars, mainly because of showing who wants to be the most powerful country in the world, and also because of economical issues. Therefore, it exist some organizations that fight for peace all around the world.

Some countries, who promote this peaceful atmosphere, are: Costa Rica, Grenada, Liechtenstein, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands and Vatican City, among 8 more. This is as a reflection of a living without army, guns and a peaceful society could be done. Also, its kind ironic, because with all of the last wars, like 2003 invasion of Iraq, 2004 War in North-West Pakistan, 2006 Lebanon War, Gaza War and more, the citizens of this peaceful countries, may have not seen a military guard, or a tank and couldn’t imagine that this its pretty normal in some other countries.

Because all of killed people during wars, it’s that there exist a international organization which had a lot of power and it’s uncharged of aiming facilitating cooperation in international law, security, human rights, and achieving world peace. This organization its named United Nations (UN), this group helps injured people during war, civilians and obviously women and kids, claiming for peace and promoting the human rights. UN not only acts against war, also it’s involved with topics against genocide, protecting indigenous peoples, and helps also the Red Cross, in which they pact a declaration about this kind of protection with the people who need it.

Not only exist this huge organization named UN, there are also social movements who claim for peace all around the world, and also that believe that there could be non violent conflicts, in which peace should be present all time long. One of this movements in which in my opinion had a huge impact was 2003 invasion of Iraq, 2 years latter than 9/11, when former President Bush, said that they had knowledge that Iraq had had nuclear weapons, but as we all know they didn’t found anything and it’s supposed that they invaded only because of the oil.

As a conclusion, I think that we are very lucky to live in a country that had abolished military, that most of all haven’t seen a military group of soldiers marching among the street. Also we have to be very grateful with all the volunteers that help organizations like UN and/or peaceful movements because without them maybe consequences during World War I and World War II may had been different, and it would have changed a lot of things in the present that maybe these days wouldn’t have exist.

Globalization of Infectious Diseases

Globalization of Infectious Diseases

Is important that people know the issue about this topic, especially because it became an unstoppable situation. This essay will try to explain why it happens and how it started.

Is essential to describe what globalization in general is before talking about this topic. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “the word Globalization was first employed in 1930, to denote a historic view of human experience in education. Also the United Nations say “Globalization is a widely used term that can be defined in a numerous of different ways”. As a consequence of this had made that a lot of countries loses their own identity. Thanks to this everything has turned into a unique global culture. This depends on each point of view, if it is a positive or a negative aspect. But what is undeniable is that infectious diseases become easier to get.

A lot of infectious diseases which are really dangerous to humans have spread easily thanks to globalization. Ancient civilizations like Inca, Maya, and Aztec were killed by diseases that Europeans brought during the Colony. Another disaster of this kind was the Black Death, which started in Asia and went to Europe and killed one third of Europe’s population, at least. Modern way of traveling allows more people to go around the world in a faster way. But this also opens the gates to a easier movement of diseases around the world. The most recent example was last years Swine Flu (AH1N1), which started in Mexico and spread around the world because of traveling. This had so much impact that it became a plague. Thanks to this examples its easy to appreciate how through time the regions that were affected had become more extended the quantity of population around the world.

During time, diseases had become even more powerful, the quantity of dead people has increase in numerous ways. But this also brings benefits to terrorism, when the twin towers disaster happened, terrorists started to send letters with anthrax, which os a disease created in a laboratory. These kinds of disease were easy to transport because of globalization.

As a conclusion, globalization has a lot of negative impact in the world. But for sure the hardest one is the easy way of getting infected of a deadly disease. It’s time to understand that is impossible to stop globalization but it’s possible to take some precautions measures.

Alonso Álvarez

Ronald Bonilla

The impact of migration on receiving countries

The impact of migration on receiving countries

Immigrants are the people who go from their country to another one, looking for job and a place where they can live in a better way than their own, or at least that’s the goal. Also, to immigrate is the entrance of a person to another country. They suffer because of lots of issues; some are for example, racism, legal problems and some more, but as well as they suffer a lot, there are some cases, in which they get along easily.

Immigrants, usually suffer because stay for much time that they should, in the cases in which they enter legally to the other country, and illegally it’s even worst, because they have to be hiding from police, people that could betrayed them. Because they are illegally, they receive the lowest salary, doing the jobs that no one would like to do.

Racism is one of the worst things that could happen to any immigrant. We cam see that it doesn’t matter the country this exists in almost every part in the world. In the US we can see it, a good example is the Mexicans who immigrate and in Europe, because of the European Union, their citizens are allowed to travel anywhere in there, and there are some countries that don’t like it. For example in these days, in Italy in a soccer game between Inter vs. Cagliari, a player named Eto’o which is a Cameroonian, suffer from lots of racist.

Examples of immigration, in America, the first one that we associate is Mexicans immigrating to the States, some years ago we heard the problem when past president of the United States, George W. Bush, began a project to built a wall so Mexicans won’t be able to pass. In Europe, because of the creation of the European Union, citizens are able to pass from every country. But also Africans immigrate to Europe, and some countries are really racist and this had become a problem.

I think that immigration it’s not a problem, because they will help the economy of other countries, hopping for a better life,but in the right way, legally. And also that they had to be conscious that where they are it’s not their country so they must help and not damaging where they are.

Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

The weapons of mass destruction are arms that could kill a huge quantity of humans or cause serious damage every time they’re used. Normally, they are nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

There is also a non-proliferation treatment in which limits its propagation and it recognized as nuclear weapon status which are: United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China, ironically all of this are some of the most powerful countries around the world.

Even though with this treatment, there is also known that countries like India, Pakistan and North Korea have declared that they possess nuclear weapons which are some of the four countries that decline signing the treat.

There are nuclear weapons as, bombs, warheads, shells, and some more, and these are from countries like the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada (even though now Canada has not stockpiles of this kind of weapons since 1984), India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea. So with this information and knowing that some of these countries have not a good relationship which each it’s kind of worrying that a huge conflict could occur.

Finally, I really think that all these weapons of mass destruction should be illegal because of the damage that produces, not only in humans, in which they could be murder, also it could deform the human body; also un every living thing, and actually every thing that surrounds whenever these weapons are used. But the problem is that the countries that had these arms are the most powerful in the world so because of their interest they are not going to accept in dropping or eliminate its production.

Reference:

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1970). Retrieved October 4, 2010, from

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/infcirc140.pdf

Weapons of mass destruction. Retrieved October 4, 2010, from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction

Army Technology. Retrieved October 4, 2010, from

http://www.army-technology.com/glossary/weapons-of-mass-destruction.html