Burma Cyclone Bringing Change?

I recently read an article about the recent cyclone that ripped through Burma. Natural disaster themselves do not usually cause change to occur, but here it may. After the cyclone many died, 22,000 and rising. "The higher the death toll climbs -- and the less effective the government's relief efforts prove -- the bigger the potential for undermining the military's mandate to rule." The cyclone occurred just a week before the May 10 referendum on a proposed constitution that the military had hoped would go smoothly in their favor. However, with what's happening with the cyclone and the people noticing how little their governments relief efforts are working this could be a time of change in Burma. There is a group in Burma the is pushing for democracy and not a military ruled government. This vote will give people the rare and relatively safe way to express their discontent with the countries junta. This could be a very big time in history for Burma, a time of change.
I feel that with the way things are going that people will take this opportunity to better their country, better their lives, and better their futures.

Is it right to eat meat?

There is no correct answer to this question, only opinions. My opinion is no, I do not think that eating meat is right. Animals deserve all the same joy and happiness that people do. There are different ways of getting the meat though.

The first way, and in my opinion the worst, is large farming corporations. The way the animals in these farms get treated is non forgivable. They lock the animals up in cages where they can barely turn around. These giant farms feed the dead animals to the living ones. Also, the animals are given a very large number of medications to make them grow bigger and faster than ever. These pills are very dangerous to the animals,
especially with the amounts they receive.

Another kind of farming which is better but still not the best is small family farming. On these farms the animals are given more space to move about. They are fed actual food and not given any medications. All Natural. These farms are much kinder to the animals and give them better lives than the big corporation farming.

In my opinion, hunting is the best way to get your meat. The animals have lived a happy life, free in the world. Animals in the wild eat what they want, do what they want when they want. People have been hunting for their food since way before the farms appeared. Hunting is the most natural and honest way to get your meat.

In conclusion, I believe that eating any kind of animal is wrong(I do eat it though..) But, to prove my point I am becoming a vegetarian until dinner time tonight.

And remember folks, I do believe that happy meat is good meat..

China's Quake

I did not read an article about the quake in china that devastated so many. Instead I talked about it with my mother. Th quake was a 7.8 on the quake scale. That is the most powerful quake in China in three decades. The number of people killed is, as of now, unknown. But one thing is for sure; the total number of deaths is very high. My mother told me some of the things she heard at work. She told me one story of two grandparents carrying their dead grandson for two days without putting him down, because they did not want to put him on the rubble, debris. Another of how a live baby was found under his dead mother and father because they had covered, protected, him from all of it. His parents had blocked him from being hit by everything that falling around them. These are two true stories from this incredibly destructive quake. I feel that this quake has done much damage to China and China's people. It is amazing to think that so many people have died and yet, I don't feel any different and I didn't even know there was a quake. There are some things that you just cannot control, you wish you could, but you can't. You don't feel any different, but you know something major that effected so many has occured. This and this is one of those things...

Stalin/ Soviet Propaganda

After watching the Stalin/ Soviet Propaganda video I thought that Stalin would make a good leader. The video used the background music to should power and leadership. The pictures of Stalin were all nice pictures and kind of made you like him. I would have definitely voted for Stalin after seeing the video if I didn't know anything about him that I do now. I would see him as a person with good leadership skills and someone who was loved enough to make such a good video. I think that the video was made very well, which I have already proven by saying that I would have voted for him. The video uses pictures of Stalin with children, shaking other mens hands, smiling, surrounded by people, or just on his own making him look more appealing as a new leader. This is definitely a Propaganda.

Buddhist Monks Protest

Burma's dictatorship is facing its largest protests ever. The protests are being led by the young Buddhist monks who say that they should be given more political freedoms. The monks are protesting on the streets to fight for their right to more political freedoms. There are,like, 400,000-500,000 Buddhist monks that are protesting against the dictator. A lot of the monks are younger and know that they, in fact, do deserve more political freedoms, and that is why they are protesting in Burma. I feel that they have good reason to be protesting. The Buddhist monks do deserve more of the political freedoms they are fighting for. If I lived in Burma and I were a Buddhist monk, I too would be protesting.