It was the night of July 19, 64 A.D., when the Great Fire burst through the rooftops of shops near the mass entertainment and chariot racing venue called Circus Maximus. The flames, whipped by a strong wind, rapidly engulfed densely populated areas of the city.

After burning uncontrolled for five days, 4 of the 14 Roman districts were burned to the ground, and seven more were severely damaged.

Nero: Fiddling While Rome Burned?

Nero might have been playing a kithara while Rome burned, but he wasn’t playing a fiddle. That’s because violins weren’t invented until around 1550.

Nero, probably the most infamous Roman emperor, was a great-grandson of Caesar Augustus.

When his mother’s husband (also her uncle, and Nero’s adopted father…) was murdered with poisoned mushrooms, Nero succeded to the throne.

Like many kids in those days, he wanted to be a famous singer and a poet. His talent was poor, but as emperor, the empire doubled as captive audience.

His mother tried to control Nero, to the point of having intercourse with him. He tried to murder her by booking her on a ship that was designed to fall apart at sea. Unfortunately, his mom was a good swimmer. After she survived, he had a soldier kill her. This shocked the public, a little bit, but they got over it.

Neropolis

It was no secret that Nero wanted to build a series of palaces that he planned to name Neropolis.

But, the planned location was in the city. In order to build Neropolis, a third of Rome would have to be torn down. The senate rejected the idea.

Then, coincidentally, the fire cleared the real estate Neropolis required.

Despite the obvious benefit, there’s still a good probability that Nero did NOT start the fire. Up to a hundred small fires regularly broke out in Rome each day. On top of that, the fire destroyed Nero’s own palace. It also appears that Nero did everything he could to stop the fire…

Nero’s Reaction to the Fire

Accounts of the day say that when Nero heard about the fire, he rushed back from Antium to organize a relief effort, using his own money. He opened his palaces to let in the homeless, and had food supplies delivered to the survivors.

Nero also devised a new urban development plan that would make Rome less vulnerable to fire. But, although he put in place rules to insure a safer reconstruction, he also gave himself a huge tract of city property with the intention of building his new palace there.

Fake Terror Gives Poll Numbers a Bump

People knew of Nero’s plans for Neropolis, and all his efforts to help the city could not counteract the rampant rumors that he’d help start the fire.

As his poll numbers dropped, Nero’s administration realized the need to employ False Flag 101: When something—anything—bad happens to you, even if it’s accidental, point the finger at your enemy.

Luckily, there was a strange new cult of religious nuts at hand. This cult was unpopular because they refused to worship the emperor, denounced possessions, held secret meetings, and they were always talking about the destruction of Rome and the end of the world.

Even more lucky for Nero, two of the cult’s biggest leaders—Peter and Paul—were currently in town.

So, Nero spread word that the Christians had started the Great Fire. The citizens of Rome bought his lie hook, line, and sinker. Peter was crucified (upside down, at his own request) and Paul was beheaded. Hundreds of others in the young cult were fed to the lions, or smeared with tar and set on fire to become human street lamps.

Such is the fate of those unwittingly caught in a false flag operation.

copyright©2007 Joe Crubaugh

Joe Crubaugh is a freelance writer whose psyche is often absorbed with current events, politics, art, culture, society, and the creamy bitterness of a steaming cup of white chocolate mocha. He is the author of numerous personal emails, and on most days he blogs at Hard-boiled Dreams of the World. When he’s not writing, Joe spends weekdays masquerading as a software consultant in an undisclosed Southeastern U.S. state.

In the article entitled “The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All,” sociologist Herbert J. Gans discusses the strange alliance between the poor and the wealthy in American society. He states that the underprivileged in essence have kept several vocations in existence such as social work, criminology, and journalism. These vocations serve the double pretense of aiding the less fortunate and protecting society from these same individuals. He compares his analogy with that of Richard K. Merton, who applied the functional analysis theology to explain the prolonged existence of the political machine in urban areas.

Mr. Merton’s reasoning was that the political machine continued to exist because it served several positive functions in society. Mr. Gans applies this same logic to the existence of poverty in a society that had so much material wealth and concluded that poverty had 13 functions in society that was beneficial to non-poor members. They include: making sure that the menial work tasks of society will be taken care of, the creation of jobs that provide aid for the poor, and the existence of the poor keeps the aristocracy busy with charitable works, thus demonstrating charity to the less fortunate and superiority over the elites who chose to spend their free time making more money. He also give several alternatives to poverty such as redistribution of the wealth in society, putting everyone on a more even playing field, but ultimately concluded that poverty will continue to exist because disturbing the unequal balance between the poor and the wealthy in society would prove to be dysfunctional for the affluent and that will not happen.

In a hierarchical society such as in America, there will always be someone on the low end of the totem pole.

In an excerpt from her book, “The Feminine Mystique”, Betty Friedan defines women’s unhappiness during the Fifties as ‘‘the problem that has no name.’’ She identifies “the problem that has no name” as upper-middle classed suburban women experiencing dissatisfaction with their lives and an unarticulated longing for something else beside their housewifely duties. She pins the blame on a media perpuated idealized image of femininity, a social construction that tells women that their role in life is catch a man, keep a man, have children and put the needs of one’s husband and children first.

According to Friedan, women have been encouraged to confine themselves to a very narrow definition of “true” womanhood, forsaking education and career aspirations in the process by experts who wrote books, columns and books that told women during that era that their greatest role on the planet was to be wives and mothers. The role of a “real” woman was to have no interest in politics, higher education and careers and women were taught by these experts to pity women who had the nerve to want a life beyond the cult of true womanhood.

If women expressed dissatisfaction with their charmed lives, the experts blamed their feelings on the higher education they received before becoming a housewife. During the fifties, little girls as young as ten years were being marketed by underwear advertisers selling brassieres with false bottoms to aide them in catching boyfriends and American girls began getting married in high school. America’s birthrate during this time skyrocketed and college educated women made careers out of having children. The image of the beautiful, bountiful Suburban housewife was accepted as the norm and women drove themselves crazy, sometimes literally to achieve this goal.

Friedan ultimately concluded that “the problem that has no name” is not a loss of femininity, too much education, or the demands of domesticity but a stirring of rebellion of millions of women who were fed up with pretending that they were happy with their lives and that solving this problem would be the key to the future of American culture.

The Monument to the Expeditionary Force in Bangkok is a memorial to the Thai soldiers killed on the Western Front in World War I. It’s not widely known that Thailand deployed an expeditionary force to fight on the side of the Western powers during the Great War in Europe 1914 – 1919.

At the northern edge of Sanam Luang near the National Gallery, there’s a neat garden with well trimmed hedges. In the center stands a white four-sided structure topped with a chedi-like spire. This is the Monument to the Expeditionary Force with the names of the dead inscribed on the sides; 9 on the western face and 10 on the eastern face. Some of them were just 21.

In the reign of King Vajiravudh or King Rama VI, World War I broke out between Britain/France and the Central Powers made up of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Like the USA, Thailand was initially neutral.

When the USA entered the war in April 1917, it became clear that they would tip the balance against the Central Powers. Thailand decided to join the Western allies. Why did Thailand join in a European war among mostly colonial powers, to fight on the side of Britain and France?

These two countries have forced Thailand to give up large areas of her territory. France has blockaded the Chao Phraya River with warships and bombarded Bangkok after a dispute on the Thai-Cambodian border! Both countries have imposed extra-territorial treaties on Thailand giving them special privileges.

King Vajiravudh’s leaning to the Western allies may be no surprise. He was the first Thai king to be educated overseas, having studied at Oxford, trained at Sandhurst and served in the British Light Infantry. The call to war was a fight for right and civilization.

But there was a political reason; the troop commitment could provide future leverage with the West to rid Thailand of the unequal extra-territorial treaties which exempted foreign nationals from Thai laws and tariffs. As the war progressed, Thailand feared that her neutrality might be held against her later.

On 22 July 1917, Thailand declared war on the Central Powers and committed 1,300 troops. The Thai contingent arrived in France in 1918 flying the new tri-color national flag embodying the national trinity; white for religion, blue for the monarchy and red for the blood of the people prepared to sacrifice in defense of the nation.

The Thai expeditionary force consisted of detachments from the Army Air Corps, Army Transport Corps, field ambulance and maintenance under the command of Major-General Phya Pijaijarnrit.

At the end of the war, the Thai contingent joined in the victory parade in Paris on 19 July 1919. They returned to Thailand on 21 September 1919. The 19 dead, cremated earlier in Europe, had their ashes enshrined in the Monument to the Expeditionary Force on 24 September 1919 after religious rites in Wat Mahathat nearby.

The Monument to the Expeditionary Force is one of two war memorials in Bangkok. The other is the more prominent Victory Monument for the Franco-Siamese War in 1940/41.

Compared to her allies, Thailand’s military commitment was small, time spent on the Western Front short and losses light. British losses in the Battle of the Somme were 58,000 on the first day!

However, the political gains were significant. With her international standing enhanced, Thailand was present at the Versailles Peace Conference and was one of the founder members of the League of Nations (forerunner of the United Nations) formed after World War I.

King Vajiravudh’s political objectives in World War I were realized in his lifetime. After intense lobbying and negotiations, the USA ceded her extra-territorial rights in September 1920, France in February 1925 and Britain in July 1925. King Vajiravudh died in November 1925.

Ironically all this was undone in 1942. Thailand under the military government of Field Marshall Phibun Songkhram declared war on the western allies after the Japanese invaded Thailand to launch their offensive on Malaya (Malaysia), Singapore and Burma (Myanmar). It would take another war for Thailand to restore her position, the Cold War.

There aren’t many visitors to the Monument to the Expeditionary Force; it’s hardly noticeable in the heavy traffic. Thais prefer to pray at the monuments of former kings and shrines to gods and deities, not at war memorials. Foreigners are drawn to the Grand Palace and Temple of the Emerald Buddha.

Nevertheless, the Monument to the Expeditionary Force stands as a memorial to the airmen and soldiers who answered the call of duty of their king. They didn’t realize then that the benefits to their nation went beyond the battlefield.

It’s difficult to imagine what went on in the minds of the Thai soldiers when they volunteered to fight in a faraway place in a war that had little to do with them; a war sparked off by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian arch duke by a Serb in Sarajevo, half way round the world from Thailand.

The Monument to the Expeditionary Force is a dedication to these men. There were burnt joss sticks, a bottle of water and jasmine garlands at the monument. Someone still remembers.

For the location of the monument, please see the >map to the Monument to the Expeditionary Force.

The author Eric Lim lives in Bangkok, Thailand and writes for the historical travel website Tour Bangkok Legacies, a do-it-yourself tour guide for independent travelers.

The Monument to the Expeditionary force is in the old city Rattanakosin.

Good morning, there’s a pecan on my desk. An oblong, roundish object about the size of a pigeon’s egg. It is very hard and dark brown, wih areas of scraped bark that look like the craters on the moon or an aerial view of the River Nile in winter. It has an equator, my pecan, through its middle runs a crack that joins the two pointy poles of this object, a fruit, a hopeful seed, in reality neither one. It’s an inconsequential, useless asteroid of hard organic matter, except for one fact. This pecan fell off the tree that hovers over the last resting place of James Byrd Jr., the Perpetual Rest Cemetery on main street. I was there two weeks ago and visited the site to see with my own eyes the funerary stone.

March in Jasper is gorgeous. there are white, pink and crimson Azaleas on every garden, fucsia and purple bougainvilleas are in bloom, the flowers in love with spring and the bright sunshine. The bees and other insects pollinating to their hearts content until a miracle of color, hope and re-birth brings joy to the eye. The six by four feet black marble slab that was bought by Dennis Rodman has an engraved laurel wreath and is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. There is nothing other than his name, his birthday and June 7th, 1998, the date of his death, when his body was dragged behind a truck with a logging chain in the eastern outskirts of Jasper until it fell apart, he was forty nine years old. Vases of plastic flowers surround the tomb, hooked on the fence, bouquets of carnations and roses in bleached yellows and reds. A flock of finches and crows pecks on the ground of the grassy cemetery, large oaks and pecan trees keep watch on the place.

Near the grave there are names like Frazier and Williams, Ella Mae’s and Jeanetta’s, black southern names. His body rests in what was the black side of the Jasper Cemetery before the fence was taken down.

When his sister died in 1999 and was buried nearby, the family made a statement, they said even though the fence that separated the white side from the black side of the cemetery had been torn down, nothing had really changed. In fact they felt she’d rather be laid to rest with the black folks, on the black side, near her brother and that’s what they did. Because black is black and white is white. Not much has changed since the civil war. In the living rooms and parlor’s of the white folk houses still resonate the “coons’ and the niggers” the white people still follow their grandaddy’s advice.

‘Just say hi and bye to them, don’t get mixed up withem’…’

Whereas on the other side of the fence, when a black man comes across a milky-white skinned, blonde-blue-eyed belle the words of his grand momma resonate in his ears,

‘Don’t look them in the eye son, walk past and make sure you treat them lady-like…’

Lest you may end up hanging from a tree with a noose ’round your neck or have your balls cut off and stuffed in your mouth, trashed in a dumpster. Jasper is about evenly split blacks and whites, it was one of the last hideouts for consciencious objectors of the civil war. The rebel flag is still perched high and mighty in homes, schools and pick-up trucks. If you drive south of Woodville to the little town of Kounze, at night, you will be forced to drive by a house that sports a proud white cross in the middle of the front lawn. An eight foot cross with a multitude of light bulbs that make it look like it’s on fire. The civil war passed through the piney mountains at night. never mind that General Custer and his wife spent some time in this town that has been called the Jewel of the Texas, the races coexist but the great divide goes on.

Pity isn’t it, that so much blood was shed on both sides and still so many years later opression goes on. I guess it goes back to William Rehnquist who said one couldn’t take the prejudice out of any man’s heart. That in his bathroom, as he shaves, the fear and hate of the otherness, diferentness hurts him. When he is alone, the man agrees with himself, those guys are weird, why don’t they go back to Africa or Korea or Mexico or wherever the hell they came from, the specs and the chinamen, the “cans”, Meixicans, Puertoricans, etcetera. Yet on the street in the fiber of society, on the working stages where we all scratch a living, the law and oportunity should apply to us equally. Isn’t the plight of man the world over one and the same?
I’m going back to Jasper this weekend, the blue bonnets and indian paint brushes are in full bloom, the red bud trees remind me there is a universal all loving and caring artist that painted the forests with an exquisite palette. I can see his message written on the wall,

“Treat others the way you’d expect to be treated yourself.”

Vauban and his time at School

Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban was born in May 1633 in the Morvan, and it was in these surroundings that his infancy and his years of schooling took place. What we learn is that he was born into a small family of nobility in the first half of the 17th century.

The first skills Vauban would have acquired were reading, which one tackled in Latin texts, and writing, then simple arithmetic, elements that Sébastien probably studied at home with a tutor like is often the case of noble families. For his later studies, the child was sent to college at Carmes at Semur, which took nobles of the region, to follow the normal cycle of Humanities. The young students there studied grammar and syntax, always favouring the authors of Latin classics, and practising reciting and declamations. Some were pushed towards the rhetorical.

In scientific matters, the future engineer appeared to profit from this generation of progress born in the 16th century and his development of printing was greatly favoured. His advances are particularly notable in several areas like that of Geometry, arithmetic and analysis, and the students were initiated in modern algebra and physics.

The young Vauban could lend himself equally on applications following theories on hydraulics and mechanics as well as the art of planning, and also studied practical elements like the measuring of stones, without forgetting surveying and the method of gauging things by eye, drawing and draughtsmanship. Many amongst the children of noble lineage were destined to work with weapons and they could study in superior classes in the art of fortification. These apprenticeships had been necessary since the appearance of modern fortifications which required master builders with new knowledge. Of his years of studies, Vauban spoke little of but did say, in summing up his duties in writing at the end of his career, when asked by the king, that he had received “a fairly good smattering of mathematics and fortifications, and was not bad at drawing either”.

Vauban’s Fortifications

Between 1667 and 1707, Vauban upgraded the fortifications of around 300 cities, including Antibes (Fort Carré), Arras, Auxonne, Barraux, Bayonne, Belfort, Bergues, Besançon, Bitche, Blaye, Briançon, Bouillon, Calais, Cambrai, Colmars-les-Alpes, Entrevaux, Gravelines, Huningue, Joux, Kehl, Landau, Le Quesnoy, Lille, Lusignan, Le Perthus (Fort de Bellegarde), Luxembourg, Maastricht, Maubeuge, Metz, Mont-Dauphin, Mont-Louis, Montmédy, Naarden, Namur, Neuf-Brisach, Perpignan, Plouezoc’h (Château du Taureau), Rocroi, Saarlouis, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Saint-Omer, Sedan, Toul, Villefranche-de-Conflent (town and Fort Liberia), Ypres

He directed the building of 37 new fortresses, and fortified military harbours, including Ambleteuse, Brest, Dunkerque, Rochefort, Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Fort Socoa), Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Toulon, Wimereux, Le Portel, and Cézembre.

This article was written by Lin Davidson, who is a major contributor to various web sites about Serre Chevalier, a ski resort in The French Alps. Lin’s own blog, about life in France came about because she has kept a daily journal about living in France since leaving England in 2002.

Lin is also a founder of Serre Chevalier Property, a site about buying property in The French Alps.

Case Study: Nigeria

Firstly, poverty according to the dictionary means the state of being poor or when you lack something.

I have taken my time to ponder on the causes of poverty in Nigeria and the rest of the African Countries, and I have come to the conclusion that Africans have taken poverty to actually be one of their ways of life i.e. culture. Now let me break it down, some of the causes of poverty in Nigeria are:

Bad Leadership: For the fact most of the people we look at as leaders are cheaters, this has seriously affects the circulation of money to the masses (ordinary man) and basic infrastructure are not provided to the masses, thereby making production a mere story.

They travel out for vacation with the Country’s money, deposit money in foreign account and when they come back, they tells us they went for negotiation, peace talk, treatment and whole lots of nonsense.

Poor Resources Management: When we fail to manage the little resources at our disposition may be the government or the private individual then there is only one language certain that is Problem. For instance when you have N20 (N the Nigeria currency symbol), most of the Africans prefer to spend the money instantly to saving it for the raining day when there will be nothing.

Our Mentality about Foreign Countries: Most of the Africans believe that they can’t make it in their country; they prefer to travel outside their country to like USA, UK e.t.c. to work and invest in the economy of that country. Now my question is, how do you expect the African Countries to grow when majority are yawning to travel out and are not ready to work and invest in their own country, the simple answer is that Development in that country is just a “mere story” and poverty will surely take the lead. Unfortunately 99% of the people yawning to travel out are Youth.
Most surprisingly, the one’s so called Leaders are also leaving the country to foreign countries.
Worst of all, Africans have stupidly taken all these problems above to be normal way of living just because their mentality is low, they reason poorly, they are daft e.t.c
For every problem there is always solution

Solutions

The solution to the problems above are simple and so clear enough that on a good day if all Africans can follow it, it will go a long way reducing the rate of poverty.

1. Let our leaders come to our aid, they should also come down to the level of the masses so that they can understand their problems. Transparency in government helps.

2. Resources should be properly managed either by the Government or the Private individual.

3. Africans should change their mentality and believe in their selves and in their countries that they can make it big therein.

Thanks for reading

Opeyemi Fred Olugunojin
Fred of Africa

There is a famous saying that goes, “Man is what his mind is.”

Humans are controlled by their minds and each action that it takes is based on the thoughts generated. These thoughts, no matter what the situation is, reflect the nature of man, his behaviour and aspirations. One famous philosopher once said, ‘Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him’.

Thus, we can see that a simple thought is where any deed or action takes root. A thought acts as a seed. A farmer when sowing is absolutely cautious about the quality of seeds. He takes care to till his land well, adds manure, then sows the seeds and sprinkles the soil with fertilizers. Similarly, we should allow only good and pure thoughts to reside in our minds. This can be done through personal spiritual growth and immersing ourselves in spiritual works. These thoughts in turn will reap good actions. Actions hat we can be proud of and will never have to be guilty or scared of hurting anyone. Thus, we too like the farmer have to be ruthless against all evil, pride, malice, slander and other evil manifesting around us in abundance. Do not let them even gain a foothold into your minds. This will ensure you stay away from negative acts and thereby negative thoughts in the long run.

As land needs fertilizers to reap an abundant harvest, we too need to cultivate a healthy thinking. In spite of all the chaos around us we should learn to take refuge and derive our solace from the fact that we are ONE with the Source and whatever life brings to us we have the capacity already to overcome. Strength can be found from inspirational material easily available like motivational e-books and tapes.

Never be afraid what may happen. Remember what you focus on will grow. If you focus on what you are afraid of, you are invoking the creation process of your fears. A farmer will never let his crop be harmed by digging or uprooting them. Treat negative thoughts the same way. Never let worries and doubts infiltrate your mind. Always stay calm and assured that you possess the ability and attitude required to get you out of any situation.

Keeping oneself surrounded with such self help material and developing a sense of affirmative thinking will ensure a steady stream of healthy and loving thoughts in your mind. With time, positive thinking will become second nature and no situations will put you off track. Persevere to cultivate good thinking and you will create a desirable reality. It is amazing to realise the mountains you can climb, the bridges you can cross and the success you can achieve when you change the way you think.

Ultimately, it is man’s thoughts that determine his course of life. These thoughts possess tremendous power. This can all be summed by the famous proverb, ‘as a man thinketh, so is he’

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Sharon Eiffel writes on positive thinking, motivation, self-improvement and spiritual growth. For inspirational books please visit http://www.ecanhappen.com

© Copyright Sharon Eiffel
Sharon Eiffel writes on positive thinking, motivation, self-improvement and spiritual growth. For inspirational books please visit http://www.ecanhappen.com

Throughout history, women have always struggled to gain equality, respect, and the same rights as men. This has been difficult because of patriarchy, an ideology in which men are superior to women and have the right to rule women. This ideology has permeated the social structures of societies throughout the world and as a result, even in the new millennium, women are still struggling for rights that most men take for granted. The struggle was even more difficult for women of color because not only were they dealing with issues of sexism, but also racism. In order to fight patriarchy, feminism and feminist theory was born.

What is feminism? By general definition, feminism is a philosophy in which women and their contributions are valued. It is based on social, political and economical equality for women. Feminists can be anyone in the population, men, women, girl or boys.

Feminism can also be described as a movement or a revolution that includes women and men who wish the world to be equal without boundaries. These boundaries or blockades are better known as discrimination and biases against gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status and economic status. Everyone views the world with his or her own sense of gender and equality. Feminists view the world as being unequal. They wish to see the gender gap and the idea that men are superior to women decreased or even abolished. There are many different types of feminist theory and each has had a profound impact on women and gender studies.

The first is cultural feminism, which is the theory that there are fundamental personality differences between men and women, and those women’s differences are special. This theory supports the idea that there are biological differences between men and women and sexism can be overcome by embracing the “women’s way.”

The second type is individualist or libertarian feminist. This feminism is based upon libertarian philosophies, with the focus on autonomy, rights, liberty, independence, and diversity. Next, there is the radical feminism; this theory began during the Sixties. This ideology focuses on social change, and “attempts to draw lines between biologically – determined behavior and culturally- determined behavior” in order to free both men and women as much as possible from their previous narrow gender roles.

Finally, there is liberal feminism, a theory that focuses on the idea that all people are created equal and that education is the primary means to change discrimination.

I was walking into a friend’s house when he hurried me in, to watch a popular talk show being aired. This time it was a special, because it dealt with an important issue that had earlier happened in the forties which too the world by storm. It was about a man’s desire to take over the world thereby making lots of innocent people suffer in his bid to rule. I did not get to watch the whole show and don’t really know much about what he did, but the inspiration for this article came from the professor being interviewed. At this time he was standing in front of a room with millions of shoes owned by children who had died during that period and then he said something that hit me strong. He said “these shoes are crying, saying, look at me and see how I suffer”. And then he went on to say, some of the future Nobel Prize winners died at the age of one or two, and probably the cure for aids and cancer died with these children. And that was the moment.

It does not have to be through a major tragedy we loose our future leaders or Nobel Prize winners. But through something that happens right next to us. In some cases it’s in our homes and other cases in schools and on campuses and we generally play blind to it. I believe abortion is the biggest mistake any woman or couple could make, because it not only destroys a life but also destroys our community, our country, the world and most especially our future.

Some reasons heard through the years for such an act, don’t really have a strong defense and I feel it’s grounded mainly on selfishness, self- satisfaction and ignorance. This young child killed without justification just because of an intercourse without protection and then both parties feel they don’t have the right experience or sufficient fund to cater for a child and they think the best way is to have an abortion. Well, I strongly disagree, because not only are you going against the bible by taking the life of another, you also are depriving a child of a future and the country as well of probably the solution to aids or even cancer. I once heard a great man say, ‘God is looking for men and women to give earth shaking ideas to’. And who knows, it could have been that child you thought was a mistake and went ahead to kill. A child should always be seen as a gift from God, and even at the oddest times and situations, we all should see that unborn child as a gift.

A girl at a young age could be in a difficult situation, having an unplanned pregnancy and probably the other partner does not want anything to do with that child. Also at home, she scared of what the family would say, especially he father. Or she could still be in school and then she may worry about what her friends would say or the society. Be it whatever, these situations are what life in general is about. The results of our actions is something we need to face and not run from, because we were quite aware of what we were going into and never thought it necessary to take precautions before acting. And at this time, seeking the easy way out is not necessarily the right way out. Because not only are you putting yourself at the risk of dieing, you also are killing an innocent child who also has dreams, who also wants to show the world his ideas, talents and creativity just like you. And also, a child who could be answer to the worlds questions, researches and a savior of many.

I think its time to speak out against such actions, before we run out of hope.