Anyone Who Thinks North Korea Is Awesome Needs To Read Escape From Camp 14.

Anyone who thinks North Korea is awesome needs to read Escape from Camp 14.

I finished watching a documentary called Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul that was about two ex-citizens of North Korea who had very different takes on their country than what we usually hear from popular defectors.

We all hear the stories of North Koreans starving during the famine but what we're hardly told is that the US wanted them to starve and made it worse by placing sanctions to destabilize the country. Even former president Jimmy Carter admits this yet we still wonder why North Koreans hate America so much.

Another thing talked about in the film was that many defectors are paid to lie and exaggerate their stories by South Korean intelligence agencies and American organizations. I am by no means a tankie but this made me question how much of the propaganda we see about North Korea is actually true. Here's the link if anyone's interested: Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

Women BE AWARE!!!!!

This is amazing. Something to celebrate, working against the culture of sharing nudes in high schools today. These kids are living in a world we couldn't even imagine. Among drugs, bullying, and peer pressure, there is one big problem the millenial generation never faced that twist the facets of these three common "high school" concepts into something new: smartphones.

Drugs: (I will come back to this post when I am not studying for my nursing boards to be taken in a week and add more info and sources) For now, take it from the girl who wrote an epidemiology paper on the vaping epidemic in America for a Masters course in community health last semester, that what is considered 'cool' is decided in entirely new formats now. For example, even if you had friends that smoked during high school (anytime before 2014ish) but lived in a smoke free home, it was likely an 'out of sight, out of mind' deal once you were away from the smoke. Not to mention, while I am well aware that people still smoke today, I do feel that the millenial generation was not nearly as grasped by the tobacco industry as earlier generations because of constant messages that cigarettes were harmful. The laws against ads on TV and in magazines, the increased taxes, the effects we saw in older adults with emphysema and COPD? All of that worked at least somewhat well in discouraging millenials to smoke. So that, for the most part was not a hard battle to fight. Now let's look at vaping. The messaage Gen Z recieves from their peers is that vaping is cool. And the difference between us and them is that they can't turn off the message that 'everyone is using ecigs'. It shows up on instagram, tik tok, snapchat, and this influence causes more teenagers to purchase the products, so that people actually encounter their friends now using vaping products. I have found e-cigarettes in my own 16 y/o sister's room. My best friend was 22 when her 15 year old sister begged her to buy her an e-cigarette in secret. Gen Z-ers pull out their phone at every opportunity and now, the tobacco companies have found a way in and it's working. (I will add sources and info about how how vaping is leading to regular cigarette use as well as talking about the drug use today next week when I am not an overwhelmed ball of stress).

Bullying: do you even need an essay on cyberbullying? Yes, some of us younger millenials (born in the early 90s) had texting, and yes cyberbullying was very real, but all you have to do is read the above posts to show how someone can be taken advantage of in whole new ways today. Did my phone have a camera when I was 15? Yeah, technically. A frontfacing one? I don’t remember but probably not. The photos were grainy and picture messaging cost extra. The mass spreading of a person's nude photo was not a possibility on the large and immediate scale it is today. We have to teach teens what they are putting on the line.

Be Careful What You Agree To - Ad campaign making teenagers aware of the dangers of sharing intimate photos.

the more I think about that video of the guy kicking the anti-choice woman to the ground (presumably) the more disturbed and angry I become… I would never want a woman to be harmed by a man in the pursuit of women’s rights generally. that’s so backwards and not at all what feminism should stand for. everyone should be slamming that kind of behaviour lol

If you know where the follow up article is, please link it. All Google had was this Snopes article, which confirms he did purchase the land for conservation, though the actual price was never revealed.