"Syrians in Crisis"

"Syrians in Crisis" 

By: Anthony Gonzalez

You have been forced out of your home, because of all of the destruction. You travel thousands of miles. You risk your lives seeking safety. Some of you have died during this long, grueling trip. Eventually you make it to somewhere safe, but only turned down at the entrance. Not being allowed to enter the country.

  Currently, there are thousands upon thousands of syrian refugees outside of the country not being allowed to enter the country. Even with this mind they are letting a few refugees in, they are still not letting in half of the thousands of refugees, because according to the article, “A total amount of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making almost half (45%)...”. This shows that even though they are letting in a lot of them, they are still thousands of Syrian Refugees still being denied entry into our country.

    With all of the drama going on with the Syrian Refugees some might forget that the Right of Asylum, is being violated. The right of Asylum is one of the universal human rights which means that everyone should have this right, no matter race or religion. But that's not the case with the Syrian Refugees, which is totally unacceptable.

Syrian Refugees

Syrian refugees being forced to leave their country, because of the Syrian Civil War. It was 2011 when the Syrian refugees started running away from their countries, all because of the Syrian Civil War currently going on. All of them risked their lives fleeing for their safety, with some of them even dying on the way to safety. They all went to different countries for safe places to stay. Some even looking for a safe haven in our country, but upon arrival being turned down. Why? Because of terrorism. They had found out that the terrorist attack in Paris, was carried out ISIS members that said that they were refugees. If it wasn't because of that event there would be many more Syrian refugees in the US.

Currently there are thousands upon thousands Syrian refugees currently not being allowed to enter the US. That's a number that has increased since the Syrian Civil War had started. When the civil war had started 11 million Syrians left the country. Since then the number of Syrian refugees have increased to, 13.5 million. That's a lot of refugees. Especially, because of the fact that almost all of them that are not allowed to enter the US.

Nonfiction Blog

The nonfiction book that I am currently reading is "Steve Jobs, Apple and IPod Wizard", by Scott Gillam. The book tells us about the life of the late apple ceo, Steve Jobs. Throughout the whole book we learn about the many event that led to Steve Jobs becoming one of the most successful buissness men ever and the apple CEO. Besides that we also learned of the many hardships Steve had to go through, like how he was put up for adoption at a young age. Also how he would have to drop out of one of the best colleges, because his family was not able to pay for it.

The passage that had interested me the most was, "Steve was obviously bright. One teacher later remembered how he had always had a different way of looking at a problem. His low grades and pranks, however, had gotten his school career off on the wrong foot. Fortunately, Steve's fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Hill, found a way to motivate him. "I have this math workbook," she said. "If you take it home and finish on your own without any help and you get 80 percent right, I will give you five dollars and one of these really big suckers." This passage is interesting because I find it really weird how one of the most successful businessmen would not like school that much. The other thing that I find interesting from this passage is the fact that he needed to be bribed in order to do he work. That was a complete surprise to me when I read because it was funny how one of the most successful businessman needed to be bribed.

Later on i will probably forget everything. Will except for the fact that he would need to be bribed in order for him to learn. I mean come on why would one of the most successful businessman in the world need to be bribed with money and candy. I mean for real why would a buissness man need to be bribed in order to learn, also the fact that he didn't like to learn was surprising as well.

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