BURMA ESSAY
BURMA /MYANMAR ESSAY
First let me say that this is a really important topic that everybody should know about. It’s unbelievable to think that a country can sit there and treat people like this. Making a small child work for nothing, not allow the child to go to school because there is work to be done. It’s outrageous to think that a government does not want their people to have contact with the outside world, not allow their people to use other currencies. The documentary (Inside Burma: Land of fear) said that 5 U.S dollars would pay for a child to go to school for over a year. That is no money for the average American. We spend that much on our coffee in the morning. I’m not saying that we should stop what we are doing to help them, but there has to be something that we can do to help these people. Like donate to an organization that is giving this money to the people of Burma (already converted to their currency.) (What events led Burma to the state it is in today?) Burma is in the state that they are in now because they are not a democracy, they are still a dictatorship . They don’t want to adopt the ideas of the new worlds. One of the most important events was the massacre that left over a thousand men and women and children dead. They killed many monks because they refused to turn around. Burma is in the state it is because they don’t give the people a chance. They shut everything down that they don’t want to happen. For example in the movie (The lady) Aung San Suu Kyi was able to contact her husband but the government would shut off the phone at any random moment when they felt necessary. Then they put Suu under house arrest so that she could not spread her ideas of democracy. (THE LADY, 2011) The way of living in Burma is shocking. I cannot believe the government would let the people live this way. The government seems to not care about their people. For an example the people are living in these little shacks, they are putting their kids to work.
First let me say that this is a really important topic that everybody should know about. It’s unbelievable to think that a country can sit there and treat people like this. Making a small child work for nothing, not allow the child to go to school because there is work to be done. It’s outrageous to think that a government does not want their people to have contact with the outside world, not allow their people to use other currencies. The documentary (Inside Burma: Land of fear) said that 5 U.S dollars would pay for a child to go to school for over a year. That is no money for the average American. We spend that much on our coffee in the morning. I’m not saying that we should stop what we are doing to help them, but there has to be something that we can do to help these people. Like donate to an organization that is giving this money to the people of Burma (already converted to their currency.) (What events led Burma to the state it is in today?) Burma is in the state that they are in now because they are not a democracy, they are still a dictatorship . They don’t want to adopt the ideas of the new worlds. One of the most important events was the massacre that left over a thousand men and women and children dead. They killed many monks because they refused to turn around. Burma is in the state it is because they don’t give the people a chance. They shut everything down that they don’t want to happen. For example in the movie (The lady) Aung San Suu Kyi was able to contact her husband but the government would shut off the phone at any random moment when they felt necessary. Then they put Suu under house arrest so that she could not spread her ideas of democracy. (THE LADY, 2011) The way of living in Burma is shocking. I cannot believe the government would let the people live this way. The government seems to not care about their people. For an example the people are living in these little shacks, they are putting their kids to work.