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Empathy
The Key to an Ideal Society The city of Mumbai in India is the nation’s wealthiest part, with the highest number of millionaires and billionaires among all cities in the country. Mumbai is also home to Dharavi, one of the world’s largest slums. Spanning a little over two square kilometres, and home to some seven hundred thousand people, it stands as one of the most populated places in the world, with the people all living below the national poverty line. However, Dharavi’s population manages to prosper in its own way, with people building their own small businesses such as textile work, electric businesses, and food stands. The people of Dharavi are all well aware of the poor economic state their tightly knit community finds itself in, thus going to great lengths in helping one another, volunteering, and providing charitable help to their neighbours. Although when thinking of an ideal society we don’t picture Dharavi, one must keep in mind that ideal does not mean perfect. The key driving force behind an ideal society always has been, and always will be empathy. This essay will go into depth about the effect that empathy has on a community, Canada’s rapid decline in altruism and how we can all work together to fix the problem.
Alex BarbuPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp- Top Story - December 2019
The 5th Youth Global Forum: 3 Important Take-Aways
I’ve been invited recently to the fifth annual Youth Global Forum in Amsterdam as a journalist. [Last May, I wrote a piece that could sum up the Youth International Movement and Youth Global Forum which you can read here.]
Karina ThyraPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp Marshall Malcolm- XY
In the Virtual Museum, I chose two objects from chapter 29, Malcolm X and Thurgood Marshall. I select these objects because there were active in the same decade and help to give blacks civil rights. They were both significant figures of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and had different views of blacks in the US. Marshal, and Malcolm X were the most influential figures in the public rights movement from 1960 to 1965. Malcolm X's view was to separate blacks from the population to have better rights, and Marshall used the law system to help blacks achieve to have the same reason as whites. They had different views, but they worked towards freedom for blacks. Malcolm X and Marshall are essential for history in the civil rights movement because of the use of motivation and action that made sense in a certain period in US history.
Moses AkeriPublished 4 years ago in The SwampGun Control: Life Shot for My Eyes
The problem with gun control has been discussed for decades. People have given arguments about gun control in the US. Some cases have been about the 2nd amendment, while others argued that owning a gun is essential for self-defense. Furthermore, the problem with gun control in the US is the Saws are not in every street, and the youth involved with gun violence.
Moses AkeriPublished 4 years ago in The SwampStop Blaming the Working Classes - That's What the Elite Want
With the British election results coming in, the "the working class have done this" rhetoric was always expected. Even from left-wing mutuals.
Why Vaping Bans Are a Terrible Idea
My grandpa quit smoking in 2002, after smoking cigarettes since he was 13 years old back in the early 60s. A time when doctors were the spokespeople helping tobacco companies sell their products.
Landon GirodPublished 4 years ago in The SwampDemographic Cost and Impetus on Health Care Industry
There are a few factors that are driving change in the home health care industry of late. Typically, it is the aging of the US population that plays the major role in bringing the changes in health care system. According to MedPAC or The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission:
Andrew RussellPublished 4 years ago in The SwampIt's Not the Science I'm Sceptical Of
Today, I awoke to the news that little climate scold Greta Thunberg is Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” I can’t say I’m surprised.
Grant PattersonPublished 4 years ago in The SwampBook Review: 'The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class' by David Roediger
In the year 2019, race remains an enigma often explored, but never resolved; its concept so intricate, that to thoroughly unpack almost seems outside the realms of realism. Race and racism are often limited to a perspective which analyzes their effects on their victims while ignoring their impact on their perpetrators. David Roediger’s 1991 The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class inspects the effects of racism on those who executed its ideals during the industrial age in America. Roediger offers a heavily dense, and informative synthesis of the cultural, linguistic and psychological ramifications of 19th century American labor. The Wages of Whiteness brims with various multi-layered arguments-- perhaps, the most distinct asserts that whiteness is a forged identity. White Americans living in the “free North,” Roediger implies, used whiteness as a form of agency. The prevailing motif argues that rather than an innate, default form of being, whiteness was intentionally constructed and purposely employed. The instrumentality and evolution of whiteness depicted through the lens of the industrial North reveals the perplexing nature of race, and racism in antebellum America.
Ivorine FungPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp- Top Story - December 2019
Congratulations Greta
Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been awarded Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2019 award. At a mere sixteen years of age, she is the youngest recipient ever.
Ian McKenziePublished 4 years ago in The Swamp Republicans Need to Come Clean About Trump
United States citizens are tired of the dog and pony show coming from our capital. Day after day members of the Republican Party show themselves to be more loyal to Donald Trump than the American people. How do these elected officials look at themselves in the mirror or sleep at night? The current commander in chief has never held a political office before. He is running the country the same way he has run businesses. Seeking the help of foreign governments to help him win in 2016 and again in 2020 is dirty pool but it’s the way the Donald had always done business. We really can’t fault him for being who he is. Those on Capital Hill who are enabling him have been in Washington for decades, and they know better.
Cheryl E PrestonPublished 4 years ago in The SwampThe Real Beneficiaries of Student Loan Forgiveness
The enormous student-loan debt in the United States is old news, but it has returned to the consciousness of the American public as a campaign promise. Democratic candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have laid out their plans to save the country’s heavily indebted graduates -- and dropouts.
Milica KosticPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp