Articles in the Many Forms of Slavery Category
Cultural Differences, Many Forms of Slavery, Men & Women, Tolerance »
In India, and in some parts of the Muslim world, marriage is entered into much like a Business Agreement (contract) is entered into in the United States. Under US law, in order for a contract to be binding, it must include four components: An Offer, Acceptance, Competency, and Consideration (the exchange of value.) An offer must be presented and accepted. The parties entering into the Agreement must be mentally competent and of an age of accountability. Something of value must be exchanged.
In seeking marriage:
The process of Sourcing for the contract …
Eyes of Children, Many Forms of Slavery, Social Entreprenurialism »
There are eyes of children looking up from sewer grates in Addis Ababa, the capitol city of Ethiopia. They are not just street children- they are underground children. They have made their homes in the sewage piping and filthy underground caverns below the city. They live in dirty tunnels, sewers, caverns and drain holes for the septic waste system, under city streets where thousands walk over them every day without “seeing” them. The world needs to know this.
Who will help them? Can I?
How can we go about our days eating plenty, choosing more expensive clothes than …
Economic Opportunity, Many Forms of Slavery, The Face of America »
We seek prosperity, better lives for ourselves and for our children. We access opportunity and measure success by the degree of escalation we have achieved from the point at which we started. Yet in pursuit of success, too many find an endless seeking that is never satisfied.
Is it a disease of America or a disease of Man- this desire for more? Or is the quest for “more” chiseled into the nature of our existence, embedded in our DNA- the road map of life? Ironically, true success and the quenching …
Defining Root Problems, Economic Opportunity, Many Forms of Slavery »
So many things in life are insidious. They creep up, unnoticed. In the beginning: normalcy. A range of “acceptable” that is generally agreed by the majority of a society or culture. Then, as the boundaries of normalcy are pushed, ever so slowly, the centering point for what is “normal” shifts, with motion barely perceptible, till one day the recollection of “what used to be” creates a sense of aghast over the extremity of the change. Like shifts in acceptable hemlines over time (one day the knees must not show and …
