"The pearl"

1)Family is the most important thing in life!
I entirely agree. What builds up a family is love. Family provides life foundations and is there for you, in good and bad moments. One can truly notice that family is really important when one has a health problem. Teachers and friends are not there to help with this condition but family cannot run away from the problem; the family will deal with it in the best way they can and will show their affection and love through their actions. A loving family always place family members first even before their individual selves.

2)Sometimes winning the lottery is a bad thing!
Agree. Once someone wins the lottery, it’s broadcasted on TV and then everyone knows. People start researching about it and will not leave you alone until they have got some money. People will steal, blackmail and even kidnap, if they set their minds into getting one’s money. Tragedies can happen from winning the lottery that was supposed to be a blessing on one’s life. If a person does not know how to deal with money, banks, shops and other places will try to trick you to get some of the money.

3)Our lives are ruled by fate, no matter what decisions we take, our lives are already planned out for us!
Strongly disagree. Someone’s fate is determined by his or her own decisions i.e. if someone is born in a doctor’s family (who have been doctors for generations) and everything is planned for that person to become a doctor. If that person decides to take its destiny into its hands and decides to become an attorney there is no such thing as fate preventing it to become one. Our lives will move in different directions according to our very own actions.

Sloppy Firsts reading

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Reading Contract

Democracy by Langston Hughes

Democracy
-Langston Hughes

Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.

I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

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Haiti earthquake

The death rate in Haiti increased because of an earthquake.

1. Untreated injuries.

• Doctors from all over the world have gone to Haiti to treat the millions of patients caused by the earthquake. But there is an extreme lack of nurses to provide basic medical care.
• The lack of medicines has made doctors incapable to treat their patients effectively. Medical supplies are urgently needed to be bought by other countries and sent to Haiti.
• Evacuation is required so injured people who can’t be treated in Haiti can go to available hospitals in nearby countries.

2. Lack of clean water, housing and sanitation.

• Charity institutions should not give tents to the victims but instead wood and metal so Haitians can build sheds before the monsoons.
• Clean water and sanitation should be made available to avoid dehydration and water borne diseases.

3. Lack of food.

• Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. The available food is not enough for the victims to recover from their injuries neither for them to survive. Therefore other countries and NGO’s should support Haiti with food and water.

4. Security problems result in a fight for survival.

• Funds have been raised by countries and NGO’s but since that money will be used mostly to buy food and medicines, the earthquake victims will do anything to obtain money. Many children have become orphans and some groups of people will try to sell them for adoption.
• Accountability of the money should be enforced so the contributors could know that the money they gave reached the victims of the Earthquake.

The solutions mentioned above could be easily introduced in Haiti. There are millions of people in the world who have a lot of resources. Those individuals are egotistic and normally don’t want to share the resources they have. There are also many doctors and nurses that don’t want to leave their comfortable jobs and set out to help others in need. If Haitians and the rest of the world work together they may find the solutions to this catastrophe.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122556026