STL issues

ST. Louis is a city with problems but every city has problems, but also every city has agencies that let us know how extreme these problems are. CVAC is the Crime Victim Advocacy Center, this agency helps us with rehabbing crime victims that have been effected in the city. St. Louis also had an agency called Turning Point, this agency helps victims of crimes get back on their feet and helps them get a steady job once again. These agencies are important because there is a lot of crime in STL and these effected people need help. The St. Louis food bank is also a very effective agency with feeding the hungry in the city, which is a surprisingly large number, 1 and six people are food insecure.

Feedom rides podcast

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research questions

why was the first freedom rides so important?

How did the freedom rides help the civil rights cause?

What do the freedom rides say about our society at the time?

what does the fact that African Americans did not have freedom say about our society?

What was different between each of the freedom rides? as in differences each made.    

what brought thousands of people to start going on freedom rides after the first crew?

what was important about each individual in the first group of freedom riders.  

Human rights first assignment

1. I am interested in U.S human rights history such as Rosa Parks, The freedom rides, womens and African American right to vote.
2. http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfreedomR.htm
http://www.freedomridersfoundation.org/
3. How many people ended up going on the freedom rides?
The original freedom riders were all beaten, and never got any credit what happened to them?
There are 932 hate groups in the US.



Emma Till

Maus II

A common theme i see to be coming up in this book is the authors father being very sly and saving many people around him. First he was the only one who survived the first shipment of prisoners because he used his language skills and his sneaky skills of connecting with this Pole and his humanity. Then By Vlad getting a job as a Tinman he was able to contact his wife and keep her strong enough to not take her own  life. In the meantime he had to yell at his wife to not give up any food, but Vlad is seen giving food away many times sometimes to people he knows is going to die so there was not point to do so, this shows he really has a kind soul. Finally Vlad gets a job as a shoemaker and eventually gets his wife transfered to a new camp right next to him. The obvious theme here is that Vlad is a pure alpha male looking out for as many of his own kind as possible.

Congo

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/01/congo.atrocities.un.report/index.html?iref=allsearch

The UN has recently filed a report concerning the problems with human rights in the Congo. There have been a series of killings and rapes over a long and terrible ten year period. "Tens of thousands of people were killed, and numerous others were raped, mutilated or otherwise victimized during the decade." This report includes an accusation about armed Rwandan forces committing serious human rights violations inside the Congo.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/09/30/ashley.judd.africa/index.html?iref=allsearch

In the Congo there is an extreme amount of violations towards women including: Beating, Kidnapping, even killing. That it why there needs to be safe houses such as the Panzi Clinic, a remarkable facility in eastern Congo that manages, under extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to accommodate a small number of women who have survived excruciating acts of gender violence.