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Moldova Human trafficking is a major crisis in Europe especially in Moldova. Each year around 25,000 Southeastern Europeans are victims of trafficking each year. According to the IOM 10% of those Europeans are children. Victoria, one of 55 females helped each year run by the International Organization of Migration and the Ministry of Labour, had a friend she had known since she was a child worded at a boutique in Dubai and told her that she could get a similar job. After booking the trip to Odessa through a guy her friend put her in touch with she was kidnapped. Once she arrived she was met by a german speaking woman who took Victoria's and six other girls passports away and told them that they had been sold. The girls were denied food until they agreed to meet with "clients" and were continually beaten. Victoria is one of an estimated 800,000 women sold into a life of rape and torture. Majority of men are put into forced labor on construction sites while women are...

Movies can change minds. Although Hollywood cannot get everything historically accurate movies are a great way to experience history through time. Glory and 12 Years a Slave prove that movies can help develop analytical thinking towards real events, circumstances, and attitude by critical watching and researching. Both of these movies were taken from true events that the filmmakers were able to present years of history into a couple of hours. Colonel Shaw The movies were presented in different perspectives to create eye opening experiences of how blacks were treated pre-civil war based on different circumstances. Glory was told from the perspective of a white general leading the 54 th Massachusetts regime. In an interview with director Edward Zwick he was asked why he chose to have the movie told from a white officer’s point of view. He replied,” I think the choice was to try to focus on neither blacks nor whites, but on the regiment. One of the points of the story was to explo...

What I have learned Today: -Only use a direct quote when it adds power and style to my writing. -Always make it clear, from context, that I understand the full meaning of the quote. - Whether I quote or paraphrase, I must always be transparent about the source and how I'm using it. - If I use another author's exact  words or phrases, to any extent, I have to use quotation marks and give credit. - If I use another author's presentation of facts or ideas, but put their ideas in my own words, (paraphrase) I better have a good reason for doing so, and I MUST give credit. -Hyperlinking is so easy, there is no excuse for not being transparent about my sources. Quoting and paraphrasing is a great writing skill that can help strengthen any argument. Direct quotes are useful because it comes from a legitimate source to help prove your point. I have learned that it is very important that I fully understand what the source is saying before I use it. Its important to make this ...

The movie Glory  was in intriguing interpretation of what black regiments faced during the Civil War. The review on cwmemroy makes a point that, " Like all historical movies  Glory  gets certain things right and certain things wrong." It did a great job expressing the sudden change both the white and African-American men experienced as they were united fighting a common enemy. Though the scene where the men refuse pay due to the Militia Act was well done it failed to show the ongoing problem of this act. This unfairness continued until July 1864 when finally all soldiers where given equal pay. Though the movie had a few chronological errors it gave an accurate experience of what the men of the black platoon experienced as part of the Union. It is very difficult to make a movie completely historically accurate because of all the details of the past and striving for good rating so people will want to see it. Despite these errors this movie did ...

Film Review from Civil War Memories:  " The movie does a very good job of addressing the discrimination faced by the 54th Massachusetts as well as their heroic performance at Battery Wagner in July 1863.  One of the themes that the movie captures is the slow progress that Col. Robert G. Shaw experienced in learning to more closely empathize with his men as well as the gradual changes that took place among white Union soldiers as they questioned their own racial outlook in response to the battlefield prowess of black regiments like the 54th... As for problems, well, they abound throughout the movie such as the profile of the regiment, which is presented primarily as a unit of fugitive slaves. Most of the men were free blacks from Massachusetts. Other problems include the time frame for the raising and training of the regiment which began in 1863 rather than 1862 as well as the failure to acknowledge Shaw’s marriage at any point in the movie."  My Paraphrase:  G...

Throughout all of history and in todays society everything comes with a price. Whether its economically or morally nothing is for free. In 1764 the spinning jenny was invented because it could spin more thread in less the amount of time of a human being. Not only was it faster it was cheaper because people did not have to pay individual workers. After the decision was made  to industrialize spinning not long after the mechanical loom was created. From 1800- 1850 a normal 2,4000 looms increased to 24,000 looms thus replacing those made by hand, thus saving more money, time, and labor. These two inventions called for a machine that could clean the cotton faster therefore the cotton gin was created. What used to take a single person 1 pound of cotton cleaned per day increased to 50 pounds of cleaned cotton by machine. All these inventions were to save time, money, and efforts. But the picking process wasn't industrialized until the 1930's. There is around a 100 year gap betwe...