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Cambodia is becoming one of the top spots in the world for corporations to settle their factories. Companies such as Gap, Nike, and Wal-Mart have their factories all around Cambodia. Not many people in the world know about the suffering and effort that workers in these sweatshops put into the work. The workers are in harsh conditions all day. These workers are willing to work for only $40 dollars a month while the company makes millions and millions of dollars from these workers. They work 12-14 hours a day. Around 90,000 people work in these factories. A lot of these factories provide protection for the workers unlike other factories around the world. If the owners fail to pay their wages, they can end up in jail. This shows how serious the companies are in taking care ... read more

In Bolivia, there is a project happening that is helping the sickened children and parents of this country. Project Ninos is part of "The Center for Global Initiatives". This global initiative helps countries such as Bolivia, Cambodia, Benin, Tanzania, and India. This project is based in Bolivia. It collaborates with Doctors of America to help citizens of Bolivia. They were the first non-Bolivia based group granted access to the prisons in Bolivia. These prisons contain parents and with them are their children. This is a major issue in Bolivia because there are children that have to endure the disease filled prisons. Project Nino provides general medicine, pediatrics, and gynecology. This issue is big because there are non-criminals in prisons and these non-criminals are children. Since there are schools in the prison, Project Nino will plan to ... read more

"Keeping up with The Kenderian" is a dramatic/thriller about a young man who was living his life as a child. He was born and raised into a rich family. His father's name was Sirak. He was a very arrogant and selfish and spoiled child. He didn't know how to live outside of his home and on his own. This was all going to change as the Armenian Genocide began. He lost everything he had, his reputation, family, home, and pride. Vahan lost his father and most of his family during the Genocide. He was separated from his family when given the orders to from his mom. Sisak and Vahan were told by their mother to leave. So, they left the scene of the massacre. Soon, Vahan was going to have to learn how to be independent ... read more

The Cambodian Genocide was started in 1975 by Cambodia's communist leader: Pol Pot. He had a vision of Cambodia's future to being a communist country. Pot wanted Cambodia to be a country in which everyone worked on projects and removed buildings that had any western influence. He wanted the country to be just like the old ages of Cambodia. He formed a military with Chinese tactics and Viet Cong. This Khmer Rouge military successfully overthrew the anti-communist leader, Lon Nol during the Vietnam War. Cambodia was neutral during the war with the leadership of Lon Nol but thousands of citizens were dying due to American troops settling in. After the take over, Pol Pot ruthlessly took charge in changing Cambodia into the Mao's China communist country. This point in time was considered the Genocide because of ... read more

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential modern day philosophers. She had a television show in which she talked about life. She believes that everyone is in control of their own lives. They should always follow their dreams. One's thoughts or actions are key to someones life. The decisions someone makes influence how he/she lives their life. Oprah believes that the point of life is to evolve into the complete person he/she was destined to become. She believes that the key to dreams are significants and not on really success. If the dream is important to you or significant to you, then the dream can have a big part of your life. When you experience more things, these experiences paint a picture of what your future will end up being like. Your dream must be ... read more