GPHC 2019-2020

The Chinese government has been tracking and persecuting members of Muslim minority groups. The government of China has arrested hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and imprisoned them in “indoctrination camps” under the guise of “anti-terrorism”. China has implemented sweeping surveillance and monitoring of Uighurs using facial recognition technology and genetic testing. The US government has denounced the program, though President Trump has indicated his acceptance or apathy towards China and these obvious human rights and UCHR violations.  The Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has provided support or cooperation with Chinese government in their efforts to persecute Uighurs. Alibaba maintains worldwide and expansive reach into all aspects of digital commerce on a scale that makes them possibly the only legitimate peer of Amazon.  Although Alibaba is a China-based giant corporation, their stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and owed by many significant international investors. Big b

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/republicans-discover-dangers-selling-bunk-their-constituents/617197/ This article from The Atlantic draws the parallels between the lead up to, and the aftermath of the 1860 and the 2020 US presidential elections.  The divisions between modern day Americans and the two political parties are similarly as divided as back in the 1850’s leading up to the election of 1860 in which Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) was elected, much to the outrage of the US South; As described in the article the fiery speeches in the US Congress and toxic political rhetoric and conspiracy theories that were prevalent in the lead up to the 1860 election, which can also be said about the harsh divisions in the current 2020 political climate. In some ways, electing Obama president in 2008 helped improve race relations on some levels, or at least it opened up more dialogue about several important topics that had been ignored or downplayed for too long; issues lik

 Some of the most populated cities in the US are at serious risk from rising temperatures. For example, Miami, Houston, and Phoenix, all cities closer to the equator, and at high risk of unmanageable temperatures in the future. A new data set from the Rhodium Group states that climate change will target the southern third of the country, reducing its economic value by 8%. These problems compounded may change migration from an option into a necessity. The main problems will be heatwaves and flooding, primarily flooding, as that quite literally destroys houses. This is a major issue due to the first point I mentioned, the cities there are extremely populated, with Houston and Phoenix holding the fourth and fifth highest population in the whole US respectively. The devastation caused by this will be incredible. It won't just stop at housing though, migration may change due to other reasons, as climate change shrinks the zones where we can efficiently grow food. The map will be much mo

 Parts of the US Becoming Uninhabitable Due to Climate Change https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-make-parts-of-the-u-s-uninhabitable-americans-are-still-moving-there       I found this article to be extremely interesting and informative, in the main article it mentions the divide in ideas on where to live touching on how younger generations think more about this topic due to the advancement and progression of climate change in the not distant future. According to the article within the main article the majority of the southeast and really just the southern United States (even parts of the midwest) as a  whole will become uninhabitable by what looks like 2050 due to not only rising temperatures (Maricopa county in Arizona is expected to have an avg. temperature of 95 degrees and above for around half the year) and sea levels re-sculpting landscapes but also what they're calling a "wet bulb" were the intense humidity will make it difficult for the human

Jorge Larach 5/20/20 GPHC Donald Trump Impeachment Retrospective Blog https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50732900 The impeachment process is something that many people commonly mistake as simply the president is kicked out of office and someone else becomes acting president.. As defined by the article I chose, linked below, impeachment is a process that allows government officials to hold other government officials accountable for possible offences they may have committed while in office. After one is impeached, they are then required to go to trial in the Senate in order to ultimately decide whether they are guilty or innocent. Trump was accused of seeking help from the Ukranian government in order to get himself re-elected as well as obstructing congress, who was investigating him at the time. Regarding Ukraine, there were a couple of unlawful allegations. The first was that he allegedly held back millions of dollars worth of military aid to Ukraine and also put fo

This article mainly focuses on the United States and how it languishes behind in child flourishing. There are many very apparent reasons for this, but I'm not here to restate my Extended Essay, I'm here to talk about Norway. Norway ranks in the top three in this measure of child flourishing, but it also ranks as very unsustainable. Something that must be understood in the modern day is climate change and our current lifestyle. The consumer economy and the affluence of western nations has created an issue with our sustainability. Lavish lifestyles, easily obtainable luxury goods, excess of meats in our diet, reliance on automobiles, all of these things are a sign of wealth. Children reliably thrive in these environments, after all, the best measure of longevity is a combination of weight and wealth, but their futures are not secure. These lifestyles are supported by the natural resources and labor of developing nations, and unless we return to a directly imperialist and oppressi