Racism - Why So Much Hate

My mom told about what she remembers growing up with racism. She said that in her school there were just two rooms and the kitchen, which they called the lunchroom. Each room had several grades in them. In one room, there were first grade to the fourth grade, and fifth grade to seventh grade in the other. The books were hand down from the white schools, their leftovers is what she called it. She said you could not help but learn in class if you listen. The children did not play around and cut up in class like they do now. While the teacher was teaching one grade, you paid attention if that grade was above you and you might get moved up to the next grade. She did just that and graduated from high school at the age of 16. She talked about going to town and having to go in the back door to see the doctor if she or one of her brothers or sisters were sick. She believes that is why doctors made house calls back then, so the colored folk would not have to be ashamed in town. She said she remembers asking her momma why they could not drink out the water fountain. She was hot and thirsty. She said her momma grabbed her and told her to come on; you can get some drink when we get home.

Panama and Poverty

I chose Panama to get more information about poverty in their country. The article I found gave me a better understand of how other countries deal with such a sad problem that is going on in the world.The rich stay rich and the poor keeps on suffering.  Colon has the highest rate of poverty and crime in Panama. There are the native people who suffer from malnutrition and higher levels of disease and illiteracy. This minority tends to live in the more remote areas of the nation where access to education and health care is limited.

Reference

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/about/work/panama.html

Water Water Everywhere

Water, it is great cold, but not to great when it’s hot. If you mix it with different things, it can be good. We use it for everything. We cook, clean, wash, drink, and bath in it. We use it to brush our teeth. Do we really know if it is good for us? When was the last time your water was tested?  In some of the neighborhoods that uses well water, they were not allow to drink it for a couple of months because it was tested and had something in it that made it unsuitable to drink.

In an article, I found, how other countries face the problem of having unhealthy water and how it claims the lives of the children.

UNICEF said that unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 percent of deaths from diarrhoeal disease, or more than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million children under five who perish from diarrhoea each year. Still unsafe levels of arsenic have been found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. “The problem is greatest in Bangladesh, where it was discovered that more than 30 percent of the tube wells sunk in recent decades are contaminated with arsenic above the nationally recommended level,” the report says.  The UNICEF report singles out sub-Saharan Africa – which represents about 11 percent of the world population – where almost a third of all people live without access to safe drinking water. (http://www.healthywaterfoundation.com/)

Childbirth––In Your Life and Around the World

 Write about a personal birthing experience. It can be your own birth, your child’s birth, or one you took part in. What do you remember about the event? I remember getting the call after I had made plans to go to the library to check out a few books. It was my niece Cathy, she was about to have her baby. She was at school, high school, 19 years old and pregnant when she begins to have contractions. I asked her if she was ok, or did, she need medical treatment right away. She said she was not going to the hospital in any ambulance. I made a few phone calls, picked her up and got her to the hospital. All of the family was there. The baby father, Eric and her mother were in the room when she had Tiana. She had a Caesarean section. It seem like it would be forever but after waiting a few hours, little Tiana was born.

Why did you choose this example? I chose this because I do not have any children and this is about the closest I have been to anyone having a child.

What are your thoughts regarding birth and its impact on child development?

Childbirth is the next stage in the development.  I believe this is where the child continues to learn and develop even more.

Choose a region of the world or a country, other than the U.S., and find out how births happen there. Write about what you learned, and the differences and similarities with your experience (in the personal example you provided). What additional insights, if any, about the impact of the birthing experience on development, did you gain from this comparison?

I chose Korea to learn the differences and similarities in birth. My sister-in-law is Korea and she answered some questions for me. They only eat seaweed soup and they are not allowed to do much moving around when they are home. She said that the mothers have to be strong to the doctors. She said it was harder to have baby in Korea hospital then in US hospital.

The fathers are not allowed in the room when the mother gives birth. This is something you have to ask for. They do not ask you if you want to have what may be common like keeping the baby in the nursery for a day or two. The rooms are not private and they are not clean. She said you have to tell the doctor what you want. Many of the doctors do not like the moms to tell them what to do. She said the doctors could have you doing the traditional things that you may not want to do