StefanoG

=Journal= Friday had an awesome discussion about injustice with a guest speaker from toybox charities. She told us about things that she saw and we told about what do we think is injustice. We also saw a video about kids whose human rights are been violated. It is hard to think about how some people are so rich and how some people are so poor in the same world and place. We are all brothers from the same race (humans) and in the same place (world) but still we fight againts which other by differences that doesn`t really matter. The only thing that can save us now is with people unite and start to open other peoples minds.

=Journal 2= Congratulation for your prize. It is amazing after all that you passed through you continued fighting for other peoples rights. People like you are the hope of this world. Thanks to you opression and disrespect for other peoples rights lost a lot of good battle but the war is still on. I hope that you still are able to fight more against ignorance and intolerance. Any way congratulations

=Journal 3= Latvia is a country with a violent history. The only thing that it is simmilar with Canada is the cold wether there. Is good to know that Latvia is now indepedent again, but I ask myself will this peace last long in this new country that just emerge? Well without names like Hittler and with the end of cold war and the defeat of sovietic union is almost sure that Latvi will grow fast and in peace. Different from Canada, Latvia has passed from differents cultures, languages, and militars domain with big wars in the last 500 years. Lets just hope that for the next 500 years Latvia enchieve peace, progress and prosperity.

=Journal 4= Germans ordered the establishment of a ghetto in the southeastern area of the city; this ghetto was sealed in October 1941, imprisoning some 30,000 Jews. The surviving Jews in Latvia, from the destroyed ghettos of Riga, Liepaja, and Dvinsk, were concentrated in Kaiserwald and its subcamps. On October 13, 1944, the Soviet army liberated Riga. Almost all of Riga's Jews had been murdered by the Nazis.

=Journal 5= The natives of Australia today are in a good situation after years of discriminations and mistrements. By the fact that they were colonized by the british theire past is almost the same as the one from the north american natives. Of course by the wether and the etnics cultures there are a lot of differences topo. It is weird how european claimed every land in their name and misstreted the natives in theire mother land.

Article 1

This article made me a little bit sick. How can a person judge another person without knowing each other? And worst being a coward and spreading rumors. Basically the girl in the article ruined another person’s life for nothing. I just think that the victim should attack back. Bullies are actually insecure cowards, that just mess with weaker people to try to feel save from the eyes of other people.

Article 2

In my country everybody calls everybody faggots for everything, but always joking. Racism is really serious thing. That is in the perfect discretion of injustice, other people judging another because you can hide that you are homosexual but when you hide your mind you suffocate your soul. I never had people picking up me at the school but when I go out with my parents I always am afraid that someone may offend them or me, and like everybody loves their family so when someone do stuff like that you just get cracked, the life of that boy was living on this constant fear. This is almost like a fear from the time 2nd world war, when from different color, religion and homosexuals were hunt down on the streets.

Article 3

I guess we are going back to middle age when Christians and Muslim were in constant war. Terrorism is bad, but offending muslim in the schools and streets calling them terrorists wont resolve the problem I can guarantee. Stereotypes are getting everyday more a reason for bulling, every guy from the Americas from the south is illegal in USA, every Italians are mobsters, black people are thieves and the muslims are terrorists.

Article 4

Well this article for me is not about bulling, is about crimes. Those girls were not picking simply someone to make fun off because they were bored, no they wanted to spread fear and to get things done more easily for them-self, is just sad you seen young girls like that doing crimes of this type. It is sadder when you think of how other students must have felt between the start of the threats and the girls arrestment.

Article 5

I was a bully once. My reasons were the same as Claire, I wanted to feel more safe so I made fun of other people, that today are my friends because I realized at the time that they should feel bad and I apologized. Being a bully is feeling powerful and safe from the other bullies, but is also a chance to you be alone, without true friends, specially because the people that you can trust are the ones that you make fun of. I learned my lesson at a good time and fixed my situation, I just can hope that others bullies do as I did.