"More Money is Pouring In for Clinton and Obama"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/us/politics/07campaign.html
March 6 2008
Summary:
As the presidential campaign becomes close battle, candidates start to pour more money into the campaigns. In February, Senator Obama had raised $55 million and Clinton raised $35 million. Also, dating from March 1st, Clinton’s campaign has raised $6 million, a rate of about $1 million a day. In Republican side, McCain has raised $85 million that is to be spent in the final two months of the race. As they raise money, polling shows that Mrs. Clinton leads statewide in Pennsylvania, but Mr. Obama is counting on doing very well in Philadelphia, with its large black population. Despite arm-twisting from the presidential campaigns, the city’s 69 Democratic ward leaders may not endorse anyone as a group at their meeting, which is closed to the news media. But of the 27 ward leaders who are African-American, most have endorsed Mr. Obama.
Analyze:
Presidential candidates’ battle is the headline in the modern days. To win the battle, candidates come on TV as much as they can and they travel around the states to promote themselves. To exercise such things, they raise money for their campaigns. Up until February, Hilary and Obama raised $90 together. Well, it seems reasonable that they have to raise money, but it is questionable if the one who spends more money earns more votes.
In my opinion, there seems to be no parallelism between pouring money into campaigns and earning votes. I understand that they have to spend certain amount of money to promote themselves and their viewpoints. However, spending fifty millions of dollars in a campaign seems to be a waste. Voters pick certain leaders not based on how much money they spend, but who they are as people and if they are good leaders who can lead the country. It seems to me that candidates should save the money that they are going to pour into the campaigns and use it for the public developments.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Women and Girls
"UN asks members to 'invest in women and girls"
Friday, Mar 5 2008
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=388691
Summary:
Recently, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon has lent his support to a worldwide drive to invest in women and girls to foster gender equality. He argues that this will help to fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and diseases, which are the goals of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. This program exists all across America, Asia and Africa, and will start to introduce to Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. When this program works out efficiently worldwide, Ban claimed that this will bring out multiplier effect on productivity and sustained economic growth.
Analyze:
In the past, women were not even considered as human. They stayed at their homes, watching over their children, or worked at poorly-conditioned factories to support their families. Also, they held no power at all and they followed what men told them to do. In contrast to the women, men lived such flourish lives. They were the ones who held social powers in various fields, from medical to politics. Such power gave them to dominate the society, giving no power to women because men thought women could not do anything.
Fortunately, such conditions altered in the modern society. I believe women take more important roles in these days than they did in the old days. For instance, in the presidential campaign in the U.S, there’s a first woman candidate, Hilary Clinton, who fights with other male candidates. This would have been seemed completely nonsense in the past, however, because our world changed since then, we can see more equality among genders.
Then, does gender equality actually help the society to develop as the UN chief Ban Ki-moon stated? I believe it does because in the developing countries, sexism still exists. For instance, in Korea, because people are conservative, they believe men should hold greater power than women do. Such views cause hinder them from development.
Hence, I believe Ban’s proposal is an effective strategy that will fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and diseases because the society will become more competitive and children will grow up in an improved family conditions.
Friday, Mar 5 2008
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=388691
Summary:
Recently, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon has lent his support to a worldwide drive to invest in women and girls to foster gender equality. He argues that this will help to fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and diseases, which are the goals of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. This program exists all across America, Asia and Africa, and will start to introduce to Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. When this program works out efficiently worldwide, Ban claimed that this will bring out multiplier effect on productivity and sustained economic growth.
Analyze:
In the past, women were not even considered as human. They stayed at their homes, watching over their children, or worked at poorly-conditioned factories to support their families. Also, they held no power at all and they followed what men told them to do. In contrast to the women, men lived such flourish lives. They were the ones who held social powers in various fields, from medical to politics. Such power gave them to dominate the society, giving no power to women because men thought women could not do anything.
Fortunately, such conditions altered in the modern society. I believe women take more important roles in these days than they did in the old days. For instance, in the presidential campaign in the U.S, there’s a first woman candidate, Hilary Clinton, who fights with other male candidates. This would have been seemed completely nonsense in the past, however, because our world changed since then, we can see more equality among genders.
Then, does gender equality actually help the society to develop as the UN chief Ban Ki-moon stated? I believe it does because in the developing countries, sexism still exists. For instance, in Korea, because people are conservative, they believe men should hold greater power than women do. Such views cause hinder them from development.
Hence, I believe Ban’s proposal is an effective strategy that will fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and diseases because the society will become more competitive and children will grow up in an improved family conditions.
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