Blog Post 1

In the article, “One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem for China” published from Newsweek.com.  The following quote by the author Susan Scutti, sums up the article by saying “Dealing with the profound and far-reaching devastation caused by the policy, however, will take many years to fix.” China has had a one child policy for 35 years. In 2013, they made it so you can have 2 children as long as both parents were single children. The one child policy created a problem, it made it so that there are more men than women in China. This gender imbalance has caused many issues for example, there are many people in the world and in China that are angry at the methods they are using to enforce the one child policy. Another problem China has is that most of the families are trying to have boys and not girls so they end up killing the girls, even after birth. The problem with having so many unmarried men is that the rate of depression, violence and sex trafficking has gone up.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/01/24/one-child-policy-one-big-problem-china-245118.html

I was surprised that many children were left to starve to death in the streets. I did not know this because I thought they would just get abortions and not kill them after they were born. I think it was a bad thing to have this policy because it has caused many problems and I hope they find a solution soon. The friends that I have in China said that the policy wasn't a big deal. I was surprised by this. I thought that they would say more things about the situation, but my friend didn't seem to care. Also, the families in China should be able to have as many children as they want. Something I found interesting is that there was thirty two million less girls than boys that are under the age age of twenty.I wondered how hard it might seem to be a girl in China?

Introduction about Me

Hello, my name is Noah Goldberger.  I’m 19 years old and I have 4 brothers. Their names are Josh, Jordan, Robbie and Eli. I am the second youngest to my family. One of my educational goals is to get a bachelor’s degree and maybe even a master’s degree. Although, I am still undecided on what my major will be. Some of my hobbies that I like to do are playing the piano, working out, and playing video games. I seem to have a good ear when I play the piano because even though that I don’t know how to read notes, I can still play songs like The Scientist from Coldplay,  Boston from Augustana, Let it go from Frozen and a lot more. I work at Jensen’s Food and cocktails in Eagan. I am a wait assistant/busser and I think it’s a pretty good job.