On June 5, 2011, Perú may elect the daughter of former dictator and mass murderer Alberto Fujimori as president. She has her own records of crimes against the people of Perú and the government, but this does not discourage those who remember the Shining Path, even though Fujimoristas have slaughtered thousands and Keiko sold clothing that was sent to the poor in Perú for her personal enrichment. Perú is accustomed to corruption and votes not because of choice but because of law.
More students are dropping out of high school every day, at an alarming rate. As of 2007 it was one student every 26 seconds. The cause: bad schools, poorly trained teachers, inadequate librarys, and politicians who want to “save money” at the expense of an educated populace, with the Tea Party and GOP taking aim at further dumbing down learning and the advancement of civilization
Language is to be a tool used to communicate; with the rise of slang and local idiomatic expressions, language is difficult to learn or understand. What can be done to solve this crisis?
Deliberate or unintentional misuse of a language has and will continue to lead to wars, violence and misunderstanding. It is the responsibility of teachers of language to use the language correctly–not in current jargon, but in precise, clear, cogent, and coherent studies of that language.
The Tahuamanú Rainforest supplies more than mahogany to the world. It is one of the remaining rainforests that stops the enlargement of the ozone hole and advance of global warming. American lumber interests located in the USA state of Mississippi, are more concerned with making more money and are willing to destroy the planet in the name of profit even if it means killing thousands of Amazonian people.
The lack of water will end life as we know it. No place has a greater loss of water than Perú other than small nations in Arabia (such as Yemen). The lack of water is the result of the greed of governments, agribusinesses, retailers, and industries such as the Koch Industries of Kansas (USA).
Climate change is global warming, and today it spells the death of South America and other areas if remedies are not found. Religion will be the biggest enemy of stopping this natural end of the planet as we know it.
A worldwide myth of their being a great ship that carried no less than a pair of all nonaquatic animals still is believed to be authentic by religious fundamentalists. Was there a Noah, an Ark, a Flood–or what does the story really say?
Racism has been a part of recorded history since its beginning of more than 15000 years. Much of it has come out of a myth that is popular among Jews and Christians: Genesis 9:20-27 which is plagiarized from a far older Egyptian text based on the theology centered around the God Osiris, coupled with ancient Greek tales.
While the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution still raises the blood pressure of USA Tea Bag Party Republicans/GOP, climate warming is now the monster of the moment. “Science is bunk” most Tea Baggers brag; and 74% of the GOP in the US Senate concur (http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2011/04/11/gop-is-against-using-science-to-solve-problems/ and http://www.alternet.org/story/150340/ and http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/10/how-did-an-entire-political-party-decide-to-reject-climate-change-science/ on the economics of climate change and geopolitics, …