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Pet Peeves

Pet Peeves

Human Trafficking

May 21 2012

In today’s world there is a lot of big problems that face our society. But one problem that we still have goes back over 500 years and that is human trafficking also know as slavery. People are still being brought over from other countries and are still being forced to work in homes today. People are taking advantage of humans so they can make money. Human trafficking is wrong and is inhuman.

Human trafficking is a huge problem in today’s world. It is estimated that more than 1 million people are trafficked annually around the world. Some experts say it could be double that number. Human trafficking has become a global business that generates huge profits traffickers and organizers. Human trafficking is taking over the world.

Human trafficking is splitting people’s families apart. It is a viscous crime. Human trafficking only helps the slave’s owner. Human trafficking should be stopped. I think human trafficking is wrong and people should stop doing it.

Human trafficking is really wrong. Because of it's underground nature, human trafficking is likely to remain an increasingly underreported crime. It will become even bigger if nobody stops it. People who are being used as slaves are missing out on their lives.

Human trafficking refers to transportation of persons for forced labor, sexual exploitation or other illicit activities. It is estimated that more than 1 million people are trafficked annually around the world; some experts say it could be double that.
Human trafficking has become a global business that generates huge profits for traffickers and organized criminal groups. Therefore, establishing reliable statistics on human trafficking remains a challenge worldwide.

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Inferno

May 21 2012

All sinners go to Hell; and in our world both men and women lust, hoard, falsify, steal, and murder. In Dante’s version of Hell he mentions important men in all of the circles; but for women he reserves mention only for sins of a sexual nature. In circle two the carnal include both men and women where lovers are punished together. Then the sexual sins that are documented become more one sided and deviant; men are spoken about with the sodomites in circle seven and a woman is placed with the falsifiers; all are punished accordingly. Throughout Dante’s journey through Hell the women and men who he observes that are punished for sexual sins, derive from the origin of mutual lust and need for one another to more devious and unnatural acts of sexuality.

Dante’s first encounter with sexual sinners is with the carnal. There are both men and women in this circle, several of which are historical figures. Both Semiramis and Dido are there for being unfaithful to their husbands; and Cleopatra who was a powerful tempest. This circle is also home to perhaps the most famous love triangle in history, Helen, Paris, and Tristan; it was Helen’s beauty “from [which] such ill arose” (Ciardi p59 line 65) that sparked the carnal relationship between she and Paris and prompted the lustful Tristan’s revenge. The main “couple” that Dante mentions in this circle are Francesca and Paolo who were caught in the act and murdered by Francesca’s husband. In Francesca’s lament she proclaims that it was “Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom-seized my lover with passion for that sweet body-from which I was torn unshriven to my doom” (Ciardi p61 lines 97-99), and she is now forced to live eternally never to feel her lovers touch again. Although Dante shows pity for the carnal, especially Francesca and Poalo, the punishment of being swept off by a strong wind when lovers are almost near enough to touch is an appropriate one since sinners who lusted together are punished together.

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C.S Lewis

May 21 2012

Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast Ireland. His father name was Albert Lewis, and his mothers name was Florence Hamilton Lewis. He had one older brother. Lewis had a fairly good relationship with his parents, but was never exceedingly close or far away. During Lewis’s childhood, his brother was his best friend. They often found comfort in each other, which only made their relationship become stronger. He grew up in an upper-middle class family, and was raised in Belfast, Ireland. Having a large house, he took to the attic, where he brought his imagination to reality. He created imaginary worlds such as Boxen and Animal Land. He and his family were relatively happy until the death of his mother in 1908. The happy atmosphere of Lewis’s house seemed to die along with his mother. It affected his father’s attitude and behavior dramatically. After this it he was old enough to return with his brother to a British Public Boarding School, who had been previously attending there. This school was extremely strict, as well as its Headmaster. This boarding school did not provide a very good education. He did not like this school very much, but his grades were never low as a result of his dislike. Lewis was shipped around to a few other boarding school during his childhood. In 1914, Lewis was sent to one of his father’s old teachers. He spent two happy years, learning different languages, as well as literature that provided the basis for his future career. His going to college was delayed because of his enlistment in the army. While enlisted, he met Joy Davidman Greshman. They were together for thirty years. In January 1919, Lewis entered Oxford University, where he read classical philosophy, history, and literature for three years, and spent an additional year studying English literature. He then spent thirty years as a tutor in English for Magdalen College, Oxford. He established many good friendships there including those with J.R.R.

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