Octomom vs. China's One Child Policy...

You would probably call Octomom obsessed and China's Policy against human rights. I too had similar thoughts, especially about the woman who gave birth to 8 children even though she had 6 before. But when I thought about that one- child policy in China that confused me and made me think about which one to vote for. Eventually I ended up leaning towards China's policy but also toward the Octomom. Somewhere in the middle, I concluded with this by thinking of the resources you would need to raise that many children and of how human rights come upon this discussion. The point was brought up that human rights can be for both Octomom and China's one child policy, as child rights state that children should have the right to have enough resources to have a healthy life and human rights where every human should have the right to choose how many children they want. But you shouldn't have a dozen kids and expect to have an easy life with your children having a great future unless you have enough money to educate them, and take care of their needs. So if you have 5 to 6 children you will still have problems but don't have more if you know that you will have trouble affording them and if you are smart enough you will make the right choices (hopefully).

14 children, is there a limit?

In California a lady named Nadia gave birth to octuplets. She now has a total of 14 children as she had twins and quadruplets before. Nadia doesn't have a job either; her expenses will increase by the year. Is that the right thing to do; is it the SMART thing to do? Having a discussion did show me what others thought but we didn't reach upon a conclusion to the question, how many children should the government allow a couple to have? The statistics show that Nadia will have major problems concerning her children. She might not have enough money to educate them or even feed them. Unless she gets lucky and gets married to a wealthy man or gets a very good job giving her the money she needs. In this case, the children are paying the price; they won't succeed in life and will have many problems. Mothers that give birth to too many children at one single time have health problems and their children might have respiration problems or even death. Health related issues will only make it worse for the children.
The clever thing for her to do is to put some of them for adoption, even though this is hard for a mother to do so, it will make her and the lives of her children easier.
Some families, however, get money from the government, TV shows or charity funds, which help, them educate and feed their children. This helps but they probably have many problems, so should the government put a maximum amount to the children each couple should have or sand the decision will obviously should they just keep helping them by giving them money? The question is yet to be answered, be made by the government.

One child, more children... Right or Wrong???

When Mao announced the baby boom in China it really was well, um, a boom. 5-6 children per couple= the decreasing of resources and increasing of population. After Mao's death the rule of one child per couple was enforced. People obviously would go against it, to prevent such circumstances the government also tagged in that there was a fine if the policy was broken. With that also came the rule that disabled people weren't allowed to get married, and if the first child was a female the couple could have a second child and if that one was a female too then they had to put her for adoption. The preference of a male over a female doesn't just happen in China but also in India where they let the female babies die on their own. Is this policy just?
China already consists of almost 20% of the world’s total population and if this policy was not enforced the population would be double of what it is now. The biggest problem, however, would be the resources and the future of the children. They would not have enough food, water and other things for a person to stay alive. After all it was China’s fault for the baby boom. Shocking, that by 2020 30 million men would not have a chance to get married or have their own child, because of the imbalance of gender. How is this fair for them if it was their countries fault?

Never thought about THAT… Sonnet 7 extended thinking…

Shakespeare Sonnet 7, what is it trying to convey? I think the sun rising… actually that’s what everyone in my class thought after the performances we had (our class of 20 was divided into 3 groups, one group had to do a musical performance, the other an acting and the last an art exhibit). But today was an extension to the bigger picture, which in this case was the sun. The representation of what the actors did painted a bigger picture in my mind. They showed the connection between the sun rising and setting and human life and death. The Egyptians thought that the sun died when it set in the west, humans of course die when their time comes. That really fascinated me how 2 totally random things can be connected in such a meaningful way. We also talked about how people in the olden days looked away from the sun when setting, connecting that to human life, senior citizens aren’t noticed and younger people find them weird and not “cool” in a way that is looking away and facing away from them. Interesting how we start with something and end up with something quite the opposite, and if we look back at how we started we realize how far we have come, just like a journey, perhaps of life and death.

Shakspeare Sonnet 7... Wait, what?

The first time I read the sonnet all I could see were a bunch a words on an a4 sheet of paper, but the second time I read I started to let my imagination run wild, I started to make connections of what each line could mean. I knew that old poets always complicated simple things, but I found that very interesting. At first I thought of a handsome man, then I realized that it might actually be talking about the sun, because of the way it says “Lifts up his burning head, each under eye”. If once you get the idea of the sun rising and setting then the connections between the sun and the lines in the sonnet are visible and make sense. By seeing the performances we are going to have tomorrow in humanities class might change my thinking and show me what others saw through their eyes and thought using of course their brains.