What does the average American know about Human Trafficking? This question came to mind when thinking about the topic. This is an issue that effects every single last American with out them knowing they have taken part in this cruel cycle. I asked five average Americans five questions to test their knowledge of human trafficking.

1. What do you know about Human Trafficking?
2. Who do you think is most targeted?
3. What countries do you think this takes place?
4. Do you think Human Trafficking goes on in America?
5. How many people do you think are trafficked every year in America?

I found that people know the bare basics about Human Trafficking but don't know the facts. When I asked, "What do you know about Human Trafficking?", they answered that they didn't know much but they knew women and teen girls are being sexually exploited. Only on person knew the forced labor side of Human Trafficking. When I asked, "Who do you think is most targeted?", the answered young women, but a children are at a high risk and men are targeted for hard labor.

Everybody thought That it was an international business and that Europe and
Africa is the major spots, but it happens in almost every country in the world. I think we have an idea the America is a place of morals and strict justice and we know right from wrong but that isn't true. Human Trafficking does happen here in America and people are trafficked by the thousands.

Progress

 I felt like this project is going well. I was very interested in the topic I chose because it affects young girls like me. For the pass few years I have been trying to get the word out about Human Trafficking through school projects. Human Trafficking happens all over the world even in America and many Americans are unaware of the topic. I thin this is a really great project in that it helps the students learn about the cause and share it with their families and who ever else sees drupal. I have a really good idea about creating a visual piece for my and about Human Trafficking. 

What Have I learned?

 People across the world are still enslaved and exploited in this day in age 

Anyone can help in the fight aganist Human trafficking by: 

Funding Federal Progams 

Calling in when you see something that doesn't seem right

What Is Being Done?

The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) is led by Ambassador Louis CdeBaca. The program provides the tools to fight human trafficking and helps in the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts both nationally and internationally. The TIP office funds 63 projects in 43 countries, 6 regional projects and 4 global projects, in some countries and regions like the East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, South and Central Asia, and Western Hemisphere.

In the U.S. we are a nation of freedom and fighting spirit. The 13 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude. The Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force (TPWETF) was established to provide a coordinated, government-wide effort to prevent Human Trafficking throughout the United States. It works closely with the FBI, U.S. Attorneys Offices, and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section to investigate and prosecute cases of trafficking in persons and worker exploitation. The Civil Rights Division also funds and staffs the national complaint line for reporting trafficking crimes. Don’t leave it all to the government to stop corruption and crime your country, It’s a task that everyone can take part in to help save our young women and children.
 
What Can You Do?

Report trafficking crimes

Get help by calling theTrafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force Complaint Line.

Fund programs that help Human Trafficking Victims

 Who are Victims? 

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. State Department has calculated that 18,000 to 20,000 people are trafficked in to the United States each year. It can happen to anyone within this country, but traffickers mostly prey on  young women and children.
 
         Imagine your daughter, she’s excited about going to a modeling audition, that she practiced for, for weeks. She gets picked and flown to another country. When she arrives she is told that she has a debt to pay off. She must work as a sex slave or prostitute.

          Imagine your son he needs to find work to support the family. Someone finds out the situation and tells him there is work for him in another country and he can send the money back home. He accepts the offer, is taken to another country then forced to do hard labor for little or no pay. These things happen everyday right under our noses and we don’t even know it.

Human Traffickingis my topic.


Why I Picked It:


I have  been studying topic


It effects every single person around the world 


It could happen to anyone  


          I  need to you about an issue that has devastated our global community, Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking victims are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. It has been going on since the being of time but in different forms, from slavery to child sweatshops. 


          According to the National Organization for Women, annually, about 600,000 to 800,000 people, mostly women and children are trafficked across national borders. It is estimated that about 80% of the victims of human
trafficking are female and up to half are minors.

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The place were my mom votes is now Elwood Elementry School. We went After she got off of work around three o'clock. During that time it was very little people there because lots of other voters did not get off of work. Interviewed the head poll worker who was a really nice and confident woman who was willing to answer all of my questions. This woman had worked the polls last year and has saw that there was significant decrease of voters from last year. For her the best part of being a poll worker is being involved politically in the community; and the most difficult is part is waiting for voter to come and vote.

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- Desirée Mack

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The Things They Carried is a very interesting story and is
relatable even though I’m not at war. Thinking back to the interview we
listened to and the question, do we trust the author, I do. It is not about
whether or not you trust the story is true. It’s about trusting the emotion
behind it. I think the emotion O’Brien writes about is what he would have felt
about being at war. I think its kind of what we all would feel like going to
war, worrying if we would ever make it home. I trust that he did research to
give accurate details and a full sense of the characters surroundings. I trust
the author put his heart in this book.

Desiree Mack 

Water

      When reading the things the carried it gave me a insight on millitary life. It showed me what life is like for a solider. I can start to understand how my cousin mark felt during is tour in Iraq. how hard it can be to miss the person you are in love with at home. So far I really like the book it feels relatable. I think in the long run Luientent Cross will start to regret focousing on Martha during the war. He already started to blame him for Ted Lavender's death. Martha will be his weaken in war but the strength to get him through the war. 

Thich Nhat Hanh   
    Intro

   Desirée Mack       

                                          Language and Life

      Through out my 15 years of life, many different types of cultures, languages, and ways of speaking have always surrounded me. I have taken something from all of them. I have learned more from talking to people and being around people of a different cultural backgrounds than I could ever imagine. Because of that I try to look at things from all sides and perspectives, and I realized we all just want to be apart of something that is meaningful, to connect with each other, and be acknowledged. To achieve this we use language.
     

What is the assignment: For this assignment, we were put into groups and were given topics to choose. My group picked the Sierpinski Triangle. 

2. How I completed this project: To complete the project my group and I had to create a wikispace on our topic and teach it to our class. We did lots of research and picked what would be best to use.

3, What I would do different if I did this project again: If I were to do this project again I would try to put together a better presentation to teach to the class. I would make it more interactive and hands on.