Current Events #2

Title:Ghana: 116 Child Laborers Rescued
url: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/world/africa/28forbriefs-116CHILDLABO_BRF.html?ref=childlabor


                                                            Summary

The significance of this article is to inform readers about what is going on in other places around the world. This article is particularly focused on Ghana. The official, Patience Quaye, said that officers had found parents in fishing communities who had sold children as young as 4 for as little as $100. This reminds me of the consequences of education, child labor and the conditions in the coal mines. The parents of the children working could not afford to take care of their kids so they send their children of to work in factories, farms etc. The article was talking about how police rescued 116 children who had been forced into labor in Ghana’s Volta Lake area. This is reflective of the time the government of the industrial revolution sent investigators to see how the children were being treated. I believe that the police officers who rescued the asked them and tried to find out how the children from Ghana were being treated while working. The police also rescued 284 kids during that time period. I think that the children should be put into foster care instead of just selling them off to strangers. The reason why I stated that is because the child will be in a safe and legal environment. The people affected by the situation is an positive effect because now they have the opportunity to have a good education because they are now going to be taken care of by the government. They are also going to want to go help other people that are I there predicament. This issue is very complicated because the parents can’t always be blamed because we don’t know why the parents would sell their own child for just $100 instead of just giving them up for adoption.

Current Events #1

Title: Amanda Knox freed after appeal in Italian court
Source: New york times
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/europe/amanda-knox-defends-herself-in-italian-court.html


                                                  Summary

                           This article is about a woman named Amanda she was accused of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher. Her and her ex boyfriend were accused and arrested in 2007. Today she was released from prison. This article is significant because i have a uncle in the same predicament. This article gave me hope that my uncle will also be released.After 4 years in prison and being accused of something she ''didnt do'' she was still able to be proven not guilty.I think that the experience of being in prison is going to make life hard for her because she probably went through a lot and seen a lot for no reason. The reason why i stated ''no reason'' is because she was proven not guilty. I think that this is going to give a lot of people in her situation or worse some  kind hope because it gave me hope. I think that she is going to take life more serious and think about her actions before she makes a decision because already knows the affect of he actions and she was also close to losing her life. The reason why I say ''losing her life'' is because she was going to spend half of her life in prison and by the time she was going to be released it would have been too late for her to put the missing pieces of her life together again. I think that other people would not be interesting as much as i am because they are not in the same predicament as I.They probably never experienced what the family was feeling when Amanda was arrested. John Locke would have been the thinker that I chose because he believed that everyone should have the same rights. I also would have chosen Mary Wollstonecraft because she believed that woman and men should have the same rights. The reason why i chose those 2 thinkers is because without there contributions Amanda would have been killed because she was accused of murder and also because she was a woman she would not have had the right to speak up for herself. These thinkers would have been supportive of this article because it was an example of justice that both individuals were fighting for.

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Blog Entry # 4.6- Personal Research (A)

1. Name of Notable Person: Coco Chanel

2. Web Addresses of all Sources (copy and paste)

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_coco_chanel's_mother's_name#ixzz1LPRoU3kR

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_coco_chanel_father_name&alreadyAsked=1&rtitle=What_is_coco_chanel_father%27s_name

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_coco_chanel's_mother's_name

http://www.biography.com/articles/Coco-Chanel-9244165?part=0

3. Biographical Information

a. Date of Birth and Death

Born on August 19, 1883 and Coco Chanel died on January 10, 1971, at her apartment in the Hotel Ritz.

b. Place of Birth and Death (or current residence):

 Born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France Coco Chanel died on January 10, 1971, in her apartment in France Coco in the Hotel Ritz.

c. Family (e.g. parents, siblings, spouse, children)

Coco was never married. Coco mother Jeanne Devolle died when Gabrielle "Coco" was only 12. Her father Albert Chanel was traveling salesman.

d. Education

e. Occupation

After her mother died her father sent her to an orphanage and she was raised by nuns. She became a choir singer and then she became a club singer and that’s when she got her nick name “coco”. Around the age of 20, Chanel became involved with Etienne Balsan who offered to help her start a millinery business in Paris. She soon left him for one of his even wealthier friends, Arthur “Boy” Capel. Both men were instrumental in Chanel’s first fashion venture.     

4. Two-three Quotes (either about the person of from the person)

“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”

“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster—but there is only one Chanel!”

“ In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

5. Significant contribution(s) to World History

She made a fashion industry that is well known all around the world for all sex and in those stores they sell perfumes, clothing, bags, accessories, and shoes.

6. Ten terms related to the person

1.       “Coco Chanel”

2.      France

3.      mother died

4.      Orphanage.

5.      interested in fashion

6.      world wide industry

7.      performed in clubs

8.      little black dress

9.      Independent

10.   Fashion designer

7. Timeline of at least five important dates in the person’s life                            

·         Born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France.

·         Opening her first shop on Paris’s Rue Cambon in 1910, Chanel started out selling hats. She later added stores in Deauville and Biarritz and began making clothes.

·         In the 1920s, Chanel took her thriving business to new heights. She launched her first perfume, Chanel No. 5, which was the first to feature a designer’s name. Perfume “is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. . . . That heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure,” Chanel once explained.

·         In 1925, she introduced the now legendary Chanel suit with collarless jacket and well-fitted skirt

·         Romance for Chanel began in the 1920s. She met the wealthy duke of Westminster aboard his yacht around 1923, and the two started a decades-long relationship. In response to his marriage proposal, she reportedly said “There have been several Duchesses of Westminster—but there is only one Chanel!”

·         In 1969, Chanel’s fascinating life story became the basis for the Broadway musical Coco starring Katharine Hepburn as the legendary designer

·         Coco Chanel died on January 10, 1971, at her apartment in the Hotel Ritz. She never married, having once said “I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.” Hundreds crowded together at the Church of the Madeleine to bid farewell to the fashion icon.

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