English 100 Spring 2019 Blogs

There are four major smuggling groups in Alexandria. “The Doctor”, “Hanafi”, Abu Ahmed, and Abu Hassan. The group is currently using the services of Abu Hassan. The groups sabotage each other in order to to boost their own reputation. They rat out each other to the police or even bribe the police to bust their smuggling operations. It is hard to Get across the sea with smuggler warfare.

Alexandria is a corrupt city in a corrupt country. At night everything is worse though. The baltagiya control Alexandria at night. They deal drugs and run the prostitution rings. The baltagiya kidnapped the refugees on their way to the boat. They are put inside an even smaller aparrment while the kidnappers await ransom money from the smugglers.

Amar becomes the defacto leader of the group of 13 refugees in the apartment. He negotiates and speaks for the group. The group talks about the countries they want to live in. Most people want to live in sweden and germany, mostly scandinavian countries. This is hard to achieve with the Dublin Regulation…

Refugees have to meetup in a location and are then picked up by the smuggling organization. Amar arrives in Alexandria with several other immigrants. They are dropped off at an apartment complex where the smugglers pay the homeowner 3x normal rent and are told to stay the night there.

Amar Obaid is in Cairo with his family. They are originally fron Syria. He used to figbt for the resistance against Assad but he chose life with his family and started a small furniture import business in Cairo. Public opinion took a turn against Syrians after the military junta took control. Amars family cannot go back to Syria so he decided to search for a new home in Europe.

Usually the men of a family undertake the journey for asylum. They try to reach the desired country and get their families there with them through other means. Its hard for refugees to reach their desired countries due to the Dublin Regulation which decrees that asylum seekers have their asylum claim registered in the first country they arrive in.

The middle east is collapsing and with its collapse come thousands of refugees with it. Bashar al-Assad has fractured Syria and its people. The book “Crossing thr Sea” by Wolfgang Bauer talks about the syrian refugee crisis. He follows refugees and tells their story.

The average citizen in America has to understand that the Syrian refugee crisis is not going to be an uncommon event in the next few decades. With the looming dangers of global warming that will bring severe drought and floods which will cause famine across the globe, certain populations will be forced to seek refugee in neighboring countries. The average US citizen has the power to alleviate these future crisis by voting consciously for better immigration and refugee reform.

www.forbes.com/sites/unicefusa/2019/02/08/for-syrian-refugee-children-poignant-reminders-of-home/#3b3def432088.

This article focuses on different individual Syrian refugee children and what reminds them of their home in Syria. They share what their favorite toy is, a memory they hold on to, their favorite blanket. After experiencing such traumatic violence and chaos, these children hold on to what reminds them of a more peaceful time. Each of these children who are sharing their stories in this article also share what they remember about the first time they heard an explosion, or gunfire, or people screaming. Many of the Syrian refugee children in this article share that they don’t remember much about what Syria was like before the war began, all that they remember is being scared and seeing the people around them die. These children who have kept a memorable item will always connect the item to a memory they have, good or bad.

• The North Korean leaders pose the greatest threat to the women in their society, especially the women in the lower classes. The reason behind them being in such low classes is because of their song bun. A song bun is pretty similar to the caste system, but the higher your song bun is, the higher rank you are in the society. The threat is the way that they are treated in society. In North Korean societies, women donʻt get as many opportunities and canʻt even eat at the same table as their husband or sons. During dinner, women eat at lower tables compared to the men and also eat corn meal while the men eat rice.