My parents tell me I was 4 years old when I first exclaimed that I wanted to play with an orchestra and made it clear that I would be the guy standing at the front, Throughout early childhood, I would often dress up in a jacket and bow tie and pretend. In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. Mitchell Gibbens-Schneider I don’t remember a time when I didn’t play the violin.
Her children sob and shriek and in the ensuing months they often endure neglect and are far more likely to die of hunger or disease. When she dies, her body is bundled in an old blanket and buried in a shallow hole, with brush piled on top to keep wild animals away. Her husband and children wait anxiously outside the hut, their faces frozen and perspiring as her groans weaken. A young woman lies in a hut, bleeding to death or swollen by infection, as untrained midwives offer her water or herbs. Retrograde decisions on reproductive health are reached in conference rooms in Washington, but I’ve seen how they play out in African villages. The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa. What a shameful, negligent act.įrom Nicholas Kristof's Op Ed in the Times Thursday. No stranger coming into a class of adolescent strangers for 45 minutes is going to change any outlook or perspective on the most primal of human desires.Īnd now, the madness spreads to more impoverished peoples around the globe, courtesy of the global stewards of the century, The Bush Administration, who have stopped funding non-abstinence reproductive health NGO's in Africa and around the world. To attempt to isolate high school students growing up in the inner city for 45 minutes and negate all influences that saturate their other 23.25 hours of ad-mad hip hop envy lives is quite simply arrogant.Īnybody with any idea, the slightest clue as to the workings of the human mind and the drives and desires of adolescents would come to the rational conclusion that this is more than a waste of our students time, our class resources, and teachers patience. Thank you very much for your participation, I hope you are as excited as I am about the prospect of the most gargantuan internet adventure network evolving.There is a new abstinence program at my high school in the Bronx, which is supposed to be educating our already-sexually-inundated-students on the ways of just saying no. I will also create a Hoppit dead-end blog, in which game players can report dead links. As contributors, please check your exit links from time to time to make sure their destinations are still live. Linking to non-adventure pages is very naughty, and will lead to bad karma. You may link the exit(s) of your adventure page(s) to any existing GIANT pages, however it makes the GIANT much happier if you fed him with fresh virgin pages, so please help new contributors by revisitng this blog and looking for the latest post replies showing the most recent contributions.
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