Human Trafficking

   Reading the article about human trafficking by Owen Weldon was very breath taking. I wasn't aware that so many people owned slaves today. I think that the idea of human trafficking is cruel and unfair. Im pretty sure that most of the slaves being held to work don't want to do what they are forced to do.

   I think that it is great that google is giving millions of dollars to stop human trafficking."There are currently 27 million children,  women and men are held in slavery." I thought that we were done with slavery a long time ago. I don't understand why this is still going on. The number of slaves is way to high to even be true, people are forced to work for others that probably don't even care for them. Hopefully the money google just gave will make a huge impact on human trafficking because i'm sure if we were in their shoes we would want human trafficking to decrease.
   Imagine you were  little girl  in africa just minding your own and you get kidnapped. you are helpless alone and scared wishing you weren't in this position. Now your being sold in the sex trade. No one wants to be in this position and unfortunately many people are.

Friendship ties

   Friendship is like a knot. A knot held together by millions and millions of fibers, fibers representing each and every memory made by two friends. This is what saves the two friends that were almost separated by love and selfishness. In my book Something Like Fate  by Susane Colasanti Lani and Erin were best friends but then they let a boy get in and ruin their friendship. Erin was dating Jason but right when Lani laid eyes on him she felt a connection and he felt it too. When Erin went off to camp Jason broke up with Erin and started dating Lani. This situation got Erin mad and made their friendship into a disaster. But in the end friendship always prevails.
   "you don't hate me anymore?"Erin smiles a little. It's the first time i've seen her smile since the whole disaster started." I can't hate you, Lani. There's too much history between us." The memories that Lani and Erin share are too strong and there are too many to try to cut through their strong friendship. I don't think that anyone will ever be able to stop there friendship They are way too close and after what they went through now makes it even harder for one to break their friendship. The only ones who could probably break their friendship is them and maybe that won't even work.
   I'm not sure if our friendship is strong enough to survive into next year when we're away at college. But. We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected. So i have hope for us. All i can do is hope. This shows that not only Erin realizes how strong their friendship is but Lani does too. If they both realize it then they will both still have each other in the back of their mind.