Journal 3 - Oppression

Excessive oppression in countries lead to revolution. Sadly, many types of oppression exist in this world. However, some kinds of oppression does not lead to revolution. There is oppression in China, North Korea, Myanmar as well as the United States. It could be said that oppression is global. There is a lot of oppression in Myanmar. There is a lot of gender inequality in Myanmar and females are oppressed. More oppression is directed towards poor people. Beggars, are ignored, sent away or sometimes even insulted. However, oppression is not continuous. Most of the people will give donations and be kind to the beggars as well. The big event that occurred due to oppression is the Civil War. The Civil War helped stopped oppression and Abraham Lincoln took the side of the slaves. Oppression is usually presented by one group or person or thing showing inferiority to the other. The characteristics are very evident in racism, sexism and many others as well. Basically, the inferior ones are pushed down by the powerful ones. Sometimes, there are no limits to oppression, causing both mental and physical damage to the victims. I think that when I was young, I was oppressed by my parents a lot. Everything such as time to eat, time to play and grades to get are set by my parents. Now that I do most of my own things, I feel like I was oppressed in the past. I usually don't have a say in what happens at home. I feel kind of bad and it would depress me at times when this happens. I just have to make myself feel better and that was it. I was once the oppressor. I once oppressed my younger cousins by making them stay still by hitting them with an empty water bottle. It didn't hurt that much but I feel bad for them after it happened. I did it because we were out in the countryside, where water is hard to get and they were still sweating, not ready for the shower. After the thirty minutes, they went and took a bath. I believe I would not do this kind of action to them again.

Journal 2 - Revolution

When people are pushed to limits for a long time, they would start to want to break out. No one wants pain or sadness or injustice for a long time. In the world right now, all of this is going on. There is pain, sadness and injustice in many countries and it continues to rise. Eventually there would be a revolution because not only the people who suffer hates it but also the people who see it or hear it would too. The gap in the world today is increasing. The rich is getting richer and the poor is getting more and more poor. The gap is widening and there is nothing going on that would stop it. Some people try to help but effects are rarely permanent. The revolution, I believe, should be peaceful. People nowadays know that violence is usually not the right way to do things. Because it is the bad things that we are trying to solve, we can't use violence. Doing that would just make things worse. There is not much we could effectively do to avoid a revolution. This is because the results are not permanent and most of the rich are not willing to give up their power. The poor can be helped but there is too much. The problem, also is that some of the people will be freeloaders. Some of the people are also just poor because they don't want to work. The governments could do donations and help create jobs but I doubt there is much the government could do because it also depends on free will. If a revolution did occur, I would want to be on the right side but I would also want to remain neutral and escape all the violence. My dad is a doctor so I think that he would want to help everyone but he would have to take the side of the choppers. This is because he works for the government. I personally would like to choose the choppers although I don't like violence. Violence has an impact on everyone and the most unfair things that could happen are the killings of the innocent. My family is innocent because we don't do anything that is illegal or would harm others. My father is a doctor as well as my grandpa and they save lives. We are not finding money in a bad way and we believe in justice. I hope a revolution, without violence and bloodshed, occurs.