Feminst Women Health Center

I really enjoyed our Tuesday's presentations, but I was interested to learn more about Women's Health Care Center. The opportunities which this organization provides to the women are great.
From the statistics which we have there are more than 10,000 women and girls every year who receive their respectful health care services, community education and outreach education. This huge number of patients which entrust the services provided by their doctors shows the connection between doctor and patient. I think that this kind of relationship among people should be established in every medical center. For example, in "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down", the attitude which the Hmong people received from the doctors was unsatisfactory. They did not have an appropriate attitude to the family in general and may be that was the main problem why they could not heal Lia. That is why I am glad that the Women's Health Center in Atlanta makes their patients comfortable with the medical atmosphere giving them their best support.


I was also impressed by the fact that the Women Health Center serves those who have difficulties in obtaining care and information due to economics, race, ethnicity, and many other conditions. Their services are available to all kinds of women whether they are white, black, able, or disable. Through their work, people from the center strive to achieve reproductive justice for women everywhere, which can be made a reality through our generous support. I am glad that there are such organizations which provide the right medical quality of treatment which every women deserve.

Activist Practicum

I really enjoyed students' Activist Practicums which they shared with us in our class today. Everyone presented their own ideas which I find great. They all touched on very important and in the mean time interesting topics which our society faces nowadays. Problems like sexual assault, exploitation of children, physical health vs. appearance, and etc. are serious issues which influence not only mankind, but the whole world.



I was impressed by Caitie's presentation about children's sexual abuse. It was definitely disappointing for me to find out that so many children, especially in Atlanta, were victims of such exploitation. The statistics which she presented to us exceeded my worst expectations. I could not believe that even eight or ten-year-old girls were targeting and forcing to satisfy men's needs and this continues to develop. I was also surprised by the fact that this is happening even in America, because this is one of the countries or may be the only one with the flawless Law System. My expectations about the javelin delinquency were not justified. The sizes of children's pornography are insane and the Government should keep doing everything in the name of kids' care-free children hood. I really respect the support which different organizations give in order to remove children's exploitation. I think that if we want to overwhelm such problem, we have to establish more alliances like these.

Global Warming

We are on the verge of massive global climate change which will see a significant rise in sea levels, chaotic weather patterns, and catastrophic droughts all caused by small increase in global average temperature. The earth has been doing fine but now many countries are in the industrial age and are manufacturing things and releasing more greenhouse gasses. The earth is essentially being thrown out of its natural balance. We started doing harmful things and only now do we realize what we have done.

Global Warming needs to be stopped because it is infecting animals and sea life that we eat with parasites that come from the warmer sea temperatures. And it doesn’t stop there. Imagine that you are placed into the future. It is somewhere around 2050. You begin to live in this new world, but the planet is not the same any more. You hear about huge storms over much of the North America that cause severe damage. Many cities experience major flooding from the ocean level having risen so high. Thousands and thousands of people die each summer across the world as the temperature soars to 65° C for 2 weeks straight. No, this is not total fantasy. All of these events could really occur over less then half a century. All of them are results of one problem — Global Warming. It is a huge issue with many consequences. But even though we know that our future could lead to a global catastrophe, very often we change the subject and don’t want to talk and think about it. We all must be ashamed of it. In order to preserve the world clear and safer for our children we must take serious responsibilities for our acts. We must think first about our home, then about ourselves.

Lesbian Bodies

I was really interested by Barbara Creed's article "Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys, and Tarts". The author touched the idea of sexuality which can exist between women. In the past, lesbians were defined as "different" than other people and they were treated as breakers of the established social order. The Government considered, that lesbians can lead society to collapse, but through the years it decided to change its attitude toward these women.



Nowadays, the stance which mankind has toward lesbians is different, for example, such women can be married. Even though there are still some communities in the world which are more conservative and words like "lesbian" and "gay" are not appropriate for their cultures. I think that Barbara Creed tried to explain to the audience that even lesbians should be considered as "normal" human beings who deserve to exercise their sexual orientations. I think that these women should be accepted as the way they are and society should try to understand their emotions and preferences.



I have a friend who is a lesbian and she is a very kind and nice person. The relationship between her girlfriend and her is very strong and both of them enjoy it. I cannot really understand their feelings and experience, but I am pretty sure that they are one of the best couples I have ever seen. They both come from extremely pious families which is a problem for them to consume their love. This is a brief example of how religion stays between people's feelings. I am a pious person too, but as Shakespeare said:"Love is blind", I think that everyone should spend his or her life with the person they love in spite of all negative stance around them.

The Dark Side of Birth Control

When I read the article of Birth Control, I concluded that the sterilization methods which were used in order to control the birth-rate among people were extremely inhumane. I was shocked to realize that such experiments exist. The sterilization has its positive and negative sides, but for me it has more contrary ones. In my opinion, the Government has the main responsibility of birth control, which can be seen as the only good side of sterilization. It is trying to reduce the population growth which is the most developing component in our society. I also think that the Government has no right to exercise such method of sterilization and go against women free will. The sterilization is an irreversible proses and it does not give the opportunity to women creating their own offspring. This is a kind of punishment for them and may be the worse one.
Sterilization was used as one of the radical factors of birth control. It was mainly applied to people who were uneducated and that is why the Government was trying to take advantage of them. As we know, in the past, black people were the most common work labor and they were treated with no respect. This cruel attitude which masters exercised with their laborers continue to develop in nowadays. The only difference is that the fate of these poor people is controlled with the Government. For me, the Government gives them the wrong idea that they are free, but it also tries to control them indirectly. I think that its main goal is to create more intelligent and prosperous society. But even though, their method of sterilization which affects less intelligent people is not the right decision to control birth rates.