Blog Post 10

In his article, “THE CHILDREN WILL KEEP COMING” published by Nation Company, author Oscar Martinez talks about how the violence in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico is causing the children to flee their countries into the United Sates. David was 11 years old. He walked home from school, and he didn’t come home. His family couldn’t find him and the next day he was found dead. He was stabbed several times. The police later made a decision that his cause of death was because of David’s refusal to join a gang. So many kids die from gang related violence and that’s why kids flee to the U.S.A. “The Obama administration initially sought to change the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act to allow the 52,000 or so child migrants who have arrived on US soil in the last nine months to be deported without going before an immigration judge.” In 2008, El Salvador had a murder to people rate of fifty-two murders for every 100,000 people. Also, thirty-eight percent of the people who were murdered every year were somewhere between the ages of 15 and 24. The 18^th street gang and the Mara Salvatrucha gang have over 60,000 people in their groups. The problem is, these gangs were made in the US and when the US started to deport as many as 4000 gang members back to their countries. They made gangs there. Kids who enter gangs re now at an age as low as 12. Many kids have plastic backpacks that you can see through to show the police that they aren’t carrying any weapons. The parents don’t see an end to the violence in these three countries so the only way to help their children is to buy a coyote. The US says that Coyotes are criminals Jose is an anonym’s coyote because Jose is not his real name. He used his own ads and put them in the newspaper to help the kids find out how they would get to the US. Jose brought children north using his connections with the people he knows and he coordinated it by phone. He used busses and bribed police officers. He thought this was safer instead of hopping on the trains. The US is not going to stop deporting immigrants, but the children are going to keep coming.

I was shocked after reading this article. I didn’t know that gangs were such a big problem in all these countries other than Mexico, and Mexico isn’t the worst one. I feel so bad for the kids because they were born in a bad place. It’s not fair to them to have no choice but to either join a gang or die trying to get to the US. Something that surprised me was that if a kid said no to join a gang, they would probably get killed. If I was in that situation I would probably say yes so I wouldn’t be killed. Then I would try to somehow escape. One question I have is will there ever be an end to the gangs in these countries? I think so, but the US doesn’t seem to care to stop it. 

Blog Post 9

In his article, “Watching Sony Slide” published from New York Times, author John Divorak explains why the company Sony has no idea what they are doing and if their new boss can’t fix what is happening to the company, it will be the end of Sony. Sony’s CEO is named Kazuo Hirari. He wants to help Sony put their name out as the best TV making company. This company is very strange. They make anything from cameras, laptop computers, phones, music, and even their own video game business. The video game business is keeping Sony going because that is their most successful business.  John Divorak says that it’s so bad that the company “Apple could buy Sony five times over with what it has in the bank.” The corporate culture at Sony is to blame because they keep making things that are more faced towards older media.  The only way Sony can figure out how to not run out of business is that Hirari needs to find a way to pick what business Sony is actually going to be. They can’t make everything.

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I also think that Sony needs to focus on fewer things. Their CEO said that they wanted to have really good TV’s so they should focus on that and their video game business because the video games are their most popular business. The other things like cameras, laptops, phones and whatever else they have should all go away because they are losing money. I personally like Sony. I have a PS4 and I think it’s really cool. I don’t want Sony to run out of business and I know a lot of people who would agree with me. Something that shocked me is that Apple could buy out Sony five times over. Something I didn’t know was that Sony had so much stuff and like it said in the article, it’s bad to have too many different things to sell. I always thought that Sony was really rich. I never thought that they could go out of business.

Blog Post 8

In her article,” My Marriage Was Arranged” published from New York Times, author Jyothi Sampat talks about how she thought that having an arranged marriage is just an Indians tradition and how hers worked out for her. She lived in a city called New Delhi. Her parents always told her that marriage is supposed to be with similar families and similar castes which divide Hindus into different classes. For example, they want to marry someone with the same religion. Her parents also told her that love is not supposed to happen before marriage, “Love happens after marriage. “Also, someone’s good looks are a bad reason for choosing a husband or a wife. Jyothi was not allowed to date in high school so she just had to work really hard in school. She eventually got a scholarship in speaking French and wanted to get her masters too. Her marriage was arranged when she was twenty four years old and she married a guy named Praveen. Before there weeding, they talked on the phone about once a week and she thought that he had a gentle voice and thought that he was very funny. After they were married, they always went out together. They went shopping and went out to eat. She found out that they had similar interests like Italian food and traveling places. Each day, they both felt more attracted to each other even though they didn’t even hold hands because they were in India. In the end, Jyothi found out that her mom was right that love does come after marriage.

 
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I do think there are benefits for getting an arranged marriage. Some are having the opportunity to fall in love together after your married and I’m pretty sure that is a unique experience and another is that you are setting up yourself to have a good life instead of hoping that someone is going to take care of you and have lots of money. With these arranged marriages, you don’t need to worry about money problems because you have the money. I personally wouldn’t want an arranged marriage because I want the freedom to choose who ever I want to marry. I don’t want my parents doing it, no matter what the benefits are. It just seems weird to me. One question I have is why Indian’s can’t hold hands together in public even though they are married? I don’t think it matters if it is arranged ornot, couples should be able to hold hands where ever they are.