Sunday, September 14, 2014
Cookies And Cream
Have you ever craved a food so immensely that when your parents refuse to buy it for you, you begin to cry? I have. This has only happened once. As a child, during a cold winter day, I was craving my favorite type of ice cream. I had to have it. My mother refused to buy me ice cream trying to reason that it was too cold and I would get sick. I did not care. I wanted my ice cream. My eyes started tearing up and I started to shed crocodile tears. My mother, not knowing what to do, led me to Baskin Robbins, which had my favorite ice cream. I stood on my tippy toes, scanning the different varieties of ice cream which were offered, but I already knew. My eye only caught one bowl of ice cream. It was labeled "Cookies and Cream". A waffle cone was filled three huge scoops of the heavenly ice cream. As I took the cone from the employee, the cone looked like a mountain compared to my small framed face. I gave the cone a look of appreciation before I took her in my mouth and devoured her. The vanilla and the mushy cookies and the cone all blended so nicely together. I was in love. The vanilla bean was my second favorite ice cream but adding cookies to it just made it scrumptious. I had a preference of what type of cookies I liked in my ice cream and Baskin Robbins perfected it. Some ice cream shops but hard crunchy cookies in the ice cream but I did not like that. I preferred the mushy, soft cookies which had been soaked to melt in your mouth the second it touched your tongue. The cookie was neither too dark or too milky but just in between to make it perfect. It was and still is the best ice cream I have ever had and will never betray cookies and cream to buy another flavor.
ISIS Against Women
"ISIS Is Attacking Women, And Nobody Is Talking About It"
By: Kira Brekke
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/isis-attacks-on-women_n_5775106.html?cps=gravity
Lately, the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria have caused a big commotion. This extremist group had beheaded two American Journalists named James Foley and Steven Sotloff. All people are attracting attention from the attacks of ISIS with the public media except for the women. No one seems to know what is happening to the women. Haleh Esfandiari, who is a director at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Middle Eastern program, has finally brought attention to the women who are suffering ISIS. When ISIS attacks a village, they usually murder all of the men. Later, the women are taken and separated into two groups: the elders and the adolescents. The elders are taken into slavery. Other villages try to collect money to buy and free the slaves but ISIS prefers to sell their slaves to other fighters. As for the young girls, they are either raped, married off to fighters, or both. These girls are as young as seven years old and can go up to fifteen or more. These marriages with the young girls are temporary. Once a fighter has had sex with the girl, he will usually pass her on to another fighter. Unfortunately, the suffering of these women has not grabbed the attention of the media as well as two men have.
The events taking place involving the ISIS are quite barbaric. Unfortunately, the women are not gaining enough media attention for people to realize how much they are suffering. Women have always been the target for everything. They never stop struggling. It it always a fight of equality between men and women. Women in the United States and some other countries have succeeded but the women in the Islamic States are failing. Attention must be brought to this. Women are not toys. They cannot be passed around. Women are not prostitutes. They cannot be sexually used then passed on to the next man. These situations towards women must be stopped.
By: Kira Brekke
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/isis-attacks-on-women_n_5775106.html?cps=gravity
Lately, the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria have caused a big commotion. This extremist group had beheaded two American Journalists named James Foley and Steven Sotloff. All people are attracting attention from the attacks of ISIS with the public media except for the women. No one seems to know what is happening to the women. Haleh Esfandiari, who is a director at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Middle Eastern program, has finally brought attention to the women who are suffering ISIS. When ISIS attacks a village, they usually murder all of the men. Later, the women are taken and separated into two groups: the elders and the adolescents. The elders are taken into slavery. Other villages try to collect money to buy and free the slaves but ISIS prefers to sell their slaves to other fighters. As for the young girls, they are either raped, married off to fighters, or both. These girls are as young as seven years old and can go up to fifteen or more. These marriages with the young girls are temporary. Once a fighter has had sex with the girl, he will usually pass her on to another fighter. Unfortunately, the suffering of these women has not grabbed the attention of the media as well as two men have.
The events taking place involving the ISIS are quite barbaric. Unfortunately, the women are not gaining enough media attention for people to realize how much they are suffering. Women have always been the target for everything. They never stop struggling. It it always a fight of equality between men and women. Women in the United States and some other countries have succeeded but the women in the Islamic States are failing. Attention must be brought to this. Women are not toys. They cannot be passed around. Women are not prostitutes. They cannot be sexually used then passed on to the next man. These situations towards women must be stopped.
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