Women in Botswana

Botswana is located in Southern Africa. There has been said that close to half of 37.2 million adults living with HIV are women, according to new UNAIDS/WHO report in Botswana. In Botswana, men and women are not treated equally. This has been a major problem in the past years that have come. Most of the things that happen in Botswana is because their opportunities are not divided among the men and woman who live there.Women have more constraints on time than men.

In 2003, 37% of pregnant women in Botswana were infected with HIV. The cases have gotten worse ever year. The clinics offered lots of prenatal screenings, therefore there were a large majority of women found to have the disease. Women are brutally beaten and raped by their male partners daily. The environment and living conditions are very significant to the well being of the population. Being that the women have to go every where by foot.

Women in Botswana are having a double career as professionals and mothers are often judged as less able to perform their scientific work. By the time they go to college, many young women lose confidence in themselves and, especially, in their ability to do math and science. In the work place, Women are discriminated because men think women can't do good enough work as men, most of the work that women in Botswana are pursuing jobs such as teaching and engineering. Men appreciate women working lower than them to make them feel better.

Living Together

Well in Florida, living with your boyfriend or partner without being married is called "shacking-up". This is common down here in Florida.

I think that this is a good thing and a bad thing. Couples should not room together. In the bible, it states that if you room with your partner, you are sleeping with them. Therefore, this is called fornication. However, a good side to living together is to determine if you want to marry them in the future.

Family

I agree and I diagree. Family are the ones who will be there for you when no one else is there to help you. However, family can also be the ones who hurt you the most because you care about what they say and think about you. My family is very close and supportive in the things that I do, but I have friends who have family memebers who often hurt them more than others around them. This is unfortunate because everyone needs someone and family is usually there when everything is going wrong to pick you up and strengthen and encourage you. But so many teens today donb't have that support base, and I feel sorry for them, that is why I try to be the best friend I can be to others.

Chinese Poetry

1. The first poem appealed to me the most was the poem called: "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter."

2. I would describe the relationship between the speaker (which is the wife) and her husband a to early relationship. They got married at the age of fourteen and he left at the age of sixteen, but the relationship is very loving.

3. The speaker's feelings in the second poem called: " Still, Night Thoughts" i thoughts was wanting to be home because the speaker says how he dreams o home.

4. The effects that the waterfall has on the speaker in " Gazing to the Lu Mountain Waterfall" would be, the way it's calm, at rest, beautiful.

5. Visualizing the events that happened in the poems made it easier to understand the poems and maybe even pictured the people.

6. The speakers feelings in " The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" were much deeper than the feelings in the other poem. A difference was the other poem talked about how the leaves felt.

7.People today view nature as a relaxing thing. It helps you when you are very stressed. People rely on nature for many things but most of all for it's beauty.

Handguns

I agree with you. It would be safer if students or just people in general could not walk around with hand guns. Someone could truly get hurt by someone being angry and just start shooting at you. Nobody wants to hear that they have lost a loved one towards a handgun. I think that what they are doing in your country is very good- having a law against handguns.