My research paper is not organized as my teacher said. The essay has more than one topic so she said put each topic individually because I read about a topic on page 5 and I see it again on page 9. So all i want is to organize the paper it is due today by midnight.Fadi Khadoor
Dr. Hofreiter
English 124
07 December 2016
The Effectiveness of Humanity
“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of
some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness ”
(Clara Barton). News reporters, writers, editors, journalists and producers all share a common
point that is related to the same topic of human suffering that indicates the causes and the effects
of helpless human. Humans suffering have been around for multiple centuries and still exist in
the present and it will be in the future as well if we do not change the way that we act, behave or
believe. Human suffering is a hurtful pain that cannot be cured effortlessly; it occurs in numerous
manners and it has been around for many years. Society is neglecting human suffering whether it
includes an individual or a whole country and it is leading to major crisis. Society tends to
respond inadequately to the suffering of the most vulnerable, including the poor, victims of war,
and women, due to carelessness and ideology.
Several tragedies are being caused not only because of organizations but through the
neglected individuals as well. Humans are irresponsible toward lower classes and pay attention
to the higher class in order to fit among them. An editor in the Chicago Tribune news, Pete
Reinwald in the article “Why We Care About Some Strangers, Not Others: Walking Downtown
Puts Empathy to the Test” (January 18, 2011), demonstrates a story that shows the differences
between the rich and poor and how humans respond to each class by using personal experience.
Reinwald in his piece explains how he witnessed two different situations involving two women
who were from opposite classes by using personal experiences. He questions himself that, “…
why I and others had been so quick to help the woman on her back but not the woman on her
knees” (Reinwald 10). The author went through two different situations. The first woman was a
penniless woman who was begging for help among dozens of humans but was unable to receive
any, and the second was a middle class woman who was the center of attention because she had
fallen on the sidewalk. Society is choosing to assist people with nonessential need instead of
people in severe need and also putting much effort on unnecessary situations. People will react in
this way to make sure that they assist the rich people and ignore the homeless because they
believe that nothing is going to change if they give them money or food. If one person tries to
help these abused people, then he or she will be able to get other’s attention. This point leads to
Jeanna Bryner, a Science journalist who currently covers a range of topics, from human behavior
to geology to astronomy article, “Why We Care (or Don’t)” (May 18, 2008), she refers to
various authorities to demonstrate the distinct types of the reasons why people tend to help others
and how it benefits them personally. The publisher reaches an important argument in her article
that, “In the end, looking out for ‘number one’, could be the underlying reason we choose to
help, or choose not to help others, one scientist says” (Bryner 6). The scientist she references is
insisting that one of the main reasons people focus on supporting others is that it generates selfcenteredness among themselves and others. People help others in the interest of gaining back
multiple conditions that benefit them in their lives instead of focusing on the real crisis and on
the actual soule that is starving for help. We should not look for the result that helps us; we need
to focus on the accomplishment that helps the people in need, and that is not the case for the
current society. In simple words, there are different types of people who each think differently
in the situation of aiding the poor; some are ignoring it and some are trying to benefit from it. If
your homes get destroyed and your country is not standing up with you, you will probably
become homeless; not even homeless, you will become country less. In our daily lives, we
constantly need people who can help us overcome our worries, problems and concerns; however,
it has become common today to ignore poor people, such as homeless people as we are walking
down the street. In Reinwalds article “ Why We Care About Some Stranger, Not Others:
Walking Downtown Puts Empathy to the Test.”. Reinwald emphasized, “I saw a woman in jeans
and a t-shirt on her knees, pleading ‘please!’ Dozens of rush-hour commuters blew right past her.
I was among them” (Reinwald 3).
Indifference causes human suffering such as torture, genocide and numerous bloodsheds,
yet people are still performing it. “The Devil Came on Horseback” (2007), a documentary film
created by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, illustrates the continuing Darfur conflict in Sudan
and the tragedies that no soul is moving toward fixing them. Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
who inspired many people over their documentary and also the actor who is a former U.S Marine
Captain Brian Steidle talks about his experiences while working in Darfur. He gives an example
that states, “African Union is hoping to send troops to help the non-Arab people in Darfur”
(Sandburg/Ricki). The authors point is that the government is not serving the crimeless
Sudanese people who are losing friends and family members everyday. Sandburg and Ricki
prove that by using the word “hoping” instead of “helping” because they hope someone will give
a helping hand to solve the horrible situation. Due to people’s carelessness and especially the
governments, the criminal people or the terrorists in the case of Darfur are gaining strength and
therefore they are controlling and destroying the powerless societies. People do not experience
the pain that these people go through every moment. Therefore, they pretend that this is all false
information and they ignore the truth so that they do not get involved. Continuing with humans
suffering, a Holocaust survivor and a professor and political activist Elie Wiesel in his speech
“The Perils of Indifference” (April 12, 1999), clarifies what the word indifferent means and
how it’s being processed among individuals by writing multiple hypothetical situations. Wiesel
survived in the harshest days on Nazi concentration camps, and after several years he decided to
write a speech that accuses the human how decide to be indifference for all the crisis in the
world. In the middle of his speech he said, “… to be indifference to that suffering is what makes
the human being inhuman” (Wiesel 11). People are passing by and watching several souls
suffering from different situations that are leading them to death, yet they still pretend that
everything is normal, which is causing a loss of humanity. We believe that history will not repeat
itself, but the truth is, it will soon be repeated and it might be worse than the Holocaust if the
people indulge in the same carelessness. Humans are being indifferent and when the crisis
reaches them, then they will blame each other for not caring to the previous situations after it is
too late to go to the past and solve it. Wars, starvation, brainwashing, and indifference are the
main reasons behind human suffering. People’s carelessness is taking over humanity, and it is the
main reason why people are neglecting these crises. In Wiesels speech (April 12,1999), for
Clintons Millennium Lecture series at the White House, he spoke of his experience as a survivor
of the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. His major premise was that indifference is the purest
form of hate, and a gateway or accomplice to the atrocities that he and his people suffered;
furthermore, he warned America of the consequences of inactivity in the face of evil in the new
millennium. He argues that “indifference is worse than hate and anger.” Also he claims
“indifference is not a beginning, it’s an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of
the enemy” (Wiesel 8). Through his personal experience in the holocaust, Wiesel is trying to
show how indifference generates hate and discrimination, leading to human suffering. Wiesel
had a brutal experience during his teenage years due to indifference, from that time the human
suffering started spreading and it’s continuing on destroying peoples lives. However, in Wiesels
time, fewer people knew about the Holocaust because the technology wasnt invented, but
nowadays everyone knows how the Sudanese people are suffering from brutality. In
documentary “The Devil Came on Horseback”, illustrates the continuing Darfur conflict in
Sudan. Based on the book by former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steindler and his experiences
while working for the African Union as a photographer, he shows us through his pictures and his
speech that he gave in Washington DC next to the White House, how the Janjaweed and
Sudanese government are working together to wipe out the black Africans of Darfur, and are
freely committing genocide. He photographed and recorded events as villages burned to the
ground, and charred and mutilated human bodies which were left in the ruins to rot. Steindler
interviewed many Sudanese and among them there was an old man who said,” Where are Arab
people here? We never see Arabs in here wondering around here to us what you need and how
you live here” (Stern, Sundberg). In other words, Steindler and the producers show that the
Sudanese government is not helping the citizens to overcome starvation, nor contributing to
ending the violence occurring on daily basis. He showed the world some pictures that prove
thousands of Sudanese citizens are dying from starvation and poverty everyday, but many
deceitful people tried to deny it. Through his personal experience, we can see how Arabs are not
taking an action in order to put an end for this dilemma. Its quite shocking to see villages
destroyed, thousands of people dying day after day, and no country, organization nor human
being are responding appropriately.
The outcomes of these acts are leading to two different tragedies toward these oppressed
people, which are positive and negative and include violence and nonviolence results. The
negative effect of people’s acts and behaviors are driving solvable issues to violence and
physical abuse. Annie Sandburg and Ricki Stern address the genocide issue in Darfur and
strongly try to convince the audience that the Sudanese are being harmed every single day by
using statistics that reports: “Since 2003, violence in Darfur destroyed 180,000 people and
caused 2 million to flee from their homes”(Sandburg/Ricki). In making this comment Sandburg
and Stern prove that society is neglecting the outer issues that is leading to major crisis;
therefore, people should start believing that there are still people how are murdered and need to
support to stop the terrorist from committing these uneducated actions. The countries that have
terrorists as citizens are being destroyed considering that they are controlling the society and the
country itself because no one has the power to stop them and it’s increasing intermittently. This
is a crime against humanity; all of these people are burned to death and leaving their homeland
for no purposeful reason. A former lawyer who turned political comedian and writer Dean
Obeidallah in the piece, “Isis’s Gruesome Muslim Death Toll” (2014), address the major and
minor details about the current ISIS situation located in Iraq and Syria by using statistics. He
writes that, “ The UN concluded that in the first eight months of 2014, at least 9,347 civilians
had been killed and at least 17,386 wounded. While all these deaths are not attributable to ISIS
alone, ISIS is identified as the primary actor” (P.7). Obeidallah is trying to confirm the enormous
amount of people that are physically crushed in these two countries due to the uneducated group
that want to complete failure of the government and establish a caliphate in Iraq. All of these
guiltless human are dying without a reason and they are living in a community that no sole can
handle in it for one minute, therefore the government, organizations, and even individuals should
start adjusting this horrible case because each soul can make a difference. The Arabs are leaving
their homes that they build many years ago to survive and to save what is left of their family.
These people have no voice, they are afraid to take any step alone because they know for certain
that they will be murdered.
Non Violence and mental corruption are results established through the underdeveloped minds of
the society. The influential author of numerous opinion pieces on homelessness that struggles to
persuade people to services the homeless, Joel John Roberts in one of his pieces, “Ending
Homelessness is Strictly Business” (2011). The article focuses on the solutions to end
homelessness in America that still exists after centuries as it was mentioned in the piece that,
“Today …and homeless population that continues to persist after decades of compassionate
giving…” (Roberts 4). People see homelessness as an economic problem that can be fixed by
donating money, rather than actually assist them a solution that can influence them throughout
their lives. Homeless people are being prevent from having a bright future, which is impacting
them in a negative way such as being alcoholic at any age or die of hunger or coldness. These
people could influence their community in countless ways yet they are unable to succeed because
normal human are blocking them. An unknown publisher, emphasis the main causes and
outcomes of racism in various ways through the substance, Causes and Effects of Racism
(2014). This author provides some research about the past years results of racism by stating, “A
Cornell News Service study in 2009 did a study on the effects of racism saying that racial
discrimination erodes mental health” (p5). The inappropriate acts that people still perform are
composing health affairs such as depression and that surely is causing people to commit suicide.
These segregated people are separating themselves from the world, because they are left out in
public as of making their lives miserable. People should place themselves to the equivalent
position to really sense and understand what each of these individuals feel every moment they
are called different. Mental suffer is one of the common types of human suffering, because that is
not only in some countries, it is in every part of the world. On the other hand, People who are
suffering in their lives are the ones who are seeking to improve their living situation. To explain,
an uneducated people need to emancipate their undevelopment thoughts. In Sheryl WuDunn
show, “Our Centurys Greatest Injustice,” she presents a girl from China that her parents pulled
her out of school because they thought a thirteen dollar fee is a lot for her schooling and
education, yet this girl helped her parents to build a new house when she finished her school after
New York times newspaper wrote about her and collected money plus she donated the money to
the school, she was the number one in her class, but her parents didnt care about her concerns
and love to education. However, her education benefited them in a positive way, because she
built a new house for them with her own money. This highlights the courage this girl has, the fact
that she did not give up on her dreams gave her more strength and she finished accounting and
currently shes taking care of herself and her family as well. Its hard for some families to let their
children finish their education, especially women, they think its untraditional for her to attend
school, instead they want her to become a housewife at a young age. Furthermore, in the same
show, Sheryl WuDunn reports that there was a woman called Saima Dukens who lived in a small
village outside Pakistan. Her husband miserably beat Samia everyday because he was
unemployed and gambler and also the fact that she only gave birth to girls. When she had a
second daughter, her mother in law try to convince him to marry again and bring a second wife,
in order to bring a son that can carry the name of the family. Samia Dukens took sixty-five
dollar loan from micro lending group and she started embroidery business, and it worked well,
she hired thirty more women and when she needed someone to do the job of transportation, she
hired her husband. This example shows how this woman did not give up on her dreams, and
started a new business out of nothing and influenced many people in the village including her.
She’s a great example for all the married women that are living miserable lives with their
husbands and are prevented of preceding their goals. In some countries especially the Muslim
countries, society is suffering from the lack of education because terrorists are killing all the
people that want to educate. Likewise, in Malala’s personal experience, she faced Taliban and
faced all the militia groups that in Pakistan, Her voice reached the world and nobody stopped
her from completing her education because some people gave her hope and strength. Malala
insisted, “ They cannot stop me I’ll get my education whether I am at home, school, or anywhere
I am at” (Malala). This illustrates how Malala derived strength from the people around her and
no one could stop her from achieving her dream, even when they shot her in her head and was
almost killed. The shot gave Malala more power and courage to fight against everyone that was
standing as an impede in her way. Afterward, although millions of people are suffering, they are
trying there hardest to survive and improve their lives. People will never be able to overcome
their suffrage without the help of specialized organizations. Equality is the one thing that stands
out the most and receives the most constant attention, but there are many parts to it. The largest
rights violation that still seems to elude the most change for the great is the equality rights for
women and children. Everyday women are beaten as a form of ‘love’, arrested, whipped for petty
crimes, forced into abortions and sterilized against their will. In the essay, “World Food
Programmed Fighting Hunger Worldwide”, by an unknown writes that talks about a groups of
terrorist people killing and raping women and children due to their ideology. According to the
article, “Women and children are arriving in Cameroon in a shocking state, after weeks,
sometimes months, on the road, foraging for food. This is the most recent tragedy resulting from
the escalating bloodshed that has torn C.A.R. apart” (citation). This exemplifies how thousands
of women and children are struggling on the roads begging for food and other common needs
because of people’s behaviors such as harshness and being indifference. If there is right and
peace in the world, it will appear, because the truth will always present no matter what. Standing
up for your rights is always the right thing to create to be able to survive from suffering. Another
example, would be in Wudun documentary, she mentioned a true story about a woman called
Mahbuba that was pregnant and she got infection and her baby died inside her body, the
neighbors didnt know how to treat her, they decided to put her in the edge of the village and they
broke the door so the hyenas come and eat her. Mahbuba with one stick and he left strength
fought all the hyenas and walked to another village until they found her and took her to the
hospital. This is an example of a braveheart woman that fought for her life and her rights. If this
woman wasnt strong enough she could’ve be dead now. If there is more than one organization
out there that could protects the women rights, this situation would’ve never happen to Mahbuba,
but unfortunately there is not enough organizations that can save the women’s and childrens
rights. If individuals and organizations work together to help cure human rights, thousands of
families will be saved because there is people that wants to stand up and help stopping the
human suffering. In the article of “Hunger: Its Impact on Childrens Health and Mental Health”
by Linda Weinreb, MD, Cheryl Wehler, and Jennifer Perloff, they did a research that can prove
how homeless children are starving and they are not completing their education because they fear
to get abused from the society, they claimed, “ in the Previous studies that document the
deleterious effects of hunger among children cannot distinguish child from family hunger and do
not take into account some critical environmental, maternal, and child variables that may
influence child outcomes” (citation). This is an example of how children are suffering from
adult’s acts and also the Hunger that is destroying many innocent souls, and no one is taking a
step to fix this crisis. Children are a precious gift; we should protect them from any harmful
environmental. One of the reasons leading to the women and children’s struggle is are the
endless, evitable wars occurring all over the world.
Although people expect that the outcome of these consequences is misfortune, yet there is
still courage and strength in these fortuneless soles. An American business executive, writer,
lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner Sheryl Wudunn in the Ted Talk speech, “Review Prior to
Viewing” (2010) talk in deep about education and women in some villages around the world.
Wudunn informs people that women and education are the solution to many problems and uses
examples of successful women who went through several affair and one of her examples is,
“Saima Dugan who lived in a small village outside of Pakistan that was beaten by her
unemployed husband because she gave birth to girls only and later on she opened a market in the
village for people’s needs” (11:37-14:36). In other words Wudunn means that this victim
benefited many people that are like her including her harsh husband who abused her every single
day for something that she was unable to control, which is childbirth. The purser and the
violence that this innocent woman lived with gave her strength to stand and improve her
miserable life. In the documentary issued through ABC 20/20 by Diane Sawyer who interviewed
a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest- ever Nobel Prize laureate Malala
Yousafzai who uses authority through her interview. A young girl fought for education that she
was lacked from attending that stands up in front of officials saying, “ ‘they can not stop me, and
I will get my education, if it is at home, school or any other place’ ”(6:40-6:50). Children and
especially girls in terrorist’s countries are forbidden from attending school and that led to lack of
education and success. However, one girl stands by her goals and is willing to die rather than live
without education and assists other females to be able to precede their life as a normal human.
The girl that is changing the world, Malala is fighting for simple rights that many children in
other countries take it for grand, which is school. We should support this individual and believe
in her in order to help other girls that are also in the same situation otherwise women will be
turned to tools that are used only for homes. Afterward, it is possible to receive strength from all
the violence that surrounds these people, because no matter what happens they will still have
faith. Nowadays, many people do not help others unless if it contributes their benefits. We are all
human beings, sharing one earth, for which reason it is our obligations to help others across the
boundaries of communities and countries. Our impulse to offer relief is our human nature. Our
human response system is geared toward emotionally loaded images and motivations. In
Wiesel’s speech, when he reported, “I dont understand. Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart.
He understands those who needed help. Why didnt he allow these refugees to disembark?”
(Wiesel 12). Wiesel was alluding to Roosevelt and how kind he was, but he didnt help them,
instead he only thought how to benefit his own country and citizens. This is justified the society
today, because people are only caring for their own benefits, which is not acceptable for the
rights of humanity. Research can proves how we only help the people that are in need for peace
of our minds. In the article “Why We Care about Some Strangers, Not Others,” Reinwald states
that, “Research has shown that helping others, either through donating money or time, makes a
person feel good. Powerful images move us to support because we feel and we want to alleviate
those negative feelings.” In this research, we can prove how we only aid others to alleviate the
harsh feelings inside of our bodies or to benefit ourselves, because homeless and innocent people
need someone to assist them and not ignore them. This move will become more successful
through individuals supports. As a result, the people in weakness, needs us, demand our worries
about them because we can benefit them more if we try and not only help them to make
ourselves comfortable. Their fears will be gone if the humans concern more about them every
day because Organizations are not giving much help as need it. Many young and old people are
suffering from homelessness and what they need is individuals care and organizations help, they
also needs the media to spread their soreness.
There is no doubt that war is an evil one (needs more). It is the greatest catastrophe that can
befall human beings. It brings death and destruction, merciless slaughter and butchery, disease
and starvation, poverty and ruin in its wake. Furthermore, Mohammed A. Salih is a Kurdish
reporter with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers
northern Iraq as a freelancer for several international news outlets, when he interviewed her she
insisted, “My good childhood friend Shayma and I were given as a gift to two Islamic State
members from the south, near Baghdad. They wanted to make us their wives or concubines”.
This example shows how the Children are exposed to situations of terror and horror during war,
experiences that may leave enduring impacts in posttraumatic stress disorder. Severe losses and
disruptions in their lives lead to high rates of depression and anxiety in war-affected children.
Wars are spoiling billions of lives, killing guiltless people. Moreover in Darfur, when Ricki
Sterin said “something terrible thats happening in Darfur… we have general humanitarian access
that’s not being addressed” Darfur is not the only place facing this hypothetical situation, all the
middle eastern countries are facing the same dilemma. Many innocent people are facing severe
cases. The reason for these severe cases is carelessness of us of the country; People are
destroying humanity, by letting children to be tortured to death without moving toward solving
these crimes. For instance, the Peshawar in Pakistan, its an unforgettable war, that’s committing
violence to humans, especially children. As the BBC news provided how, “The Pakistani city of
Peshawar is burying its dead after a Taliban attack at a school killed at least 132 children and
nine staff” (BBC News). This example shows how merciless terrorists are abusing and killing
innocent children. Satan is controlling our minds and thoughts to human rights. The hardest thing
on earth is to bury a child that lost their life that could’ve influenced the society around them.
The smallest coffins are the heaviest. As all the authors mentioned in their documents, speeches
and articles, we are losing dozens of pure people because of indifference and wars. To sum up,
various people were tortured to death over the past centuries because of the pointless wars
constantly occurring in the world.
The main argument of this essay is to justify the horrible responses to human suffering
that the society is deciding to make today, which is leading to several matters along with power
and courage The entire population not only in America but also in other countries is not
supporting the people in need enough, because if that were the case then there would’ve been a
difference in today’s society. No one can argues that there are several organizations who are
helping, yet the question comes to how much effort is being established to aid these harmless
people?. Our community needs to start realizing that it’s the time to treat everyone the same way.
Due to personal experience, Reinwald believes that homeless people are being ignorant today
and have been ignored for the past centuries. The author argues that we are not providing
homeless people with care and help because we tend to assume that they do not exist. Genuinely,
we are avoiding homeless suffering, we ignore them, and we predict that they dont abide. In
these three articles, we can see how indifference is one of the major problems leading to human
suffering. Every human is equal, whether it is black or white, wealthy or penniless.
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Fadi Khadoor
Dr. Hofreiter
English 124
07 December 2016
The Effectiveness of Humanity
“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of
some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness ”
(Clara Barton). News reporters, writers, editors, journalists and producers all share a common
point that is related to the same topic of human suffering that indicates the causes and the effects
of helpless human. Humans suffering have been around for multiple centuries and still exist in
the present and it will be in the future as well if we do not change the way that we act, behave or
believe. Human suffering is a hurtful pain that cannot be cured effortlessly; it occurs in numerous
manners and it has been around for many years. Society is neglecting human suffering whether it
includes an individual or a whole country and it is leading to major crisis. Society tends to
respond inadequately to the suffering of the most vulnerable, including the poor, victims of war,
and women, due to carelessness and ideology.
Several tragedies are being caused not only because of organizations but through the
neglected individuals as well. Humans are irresponsible toward lower classes and pay attention
to the higher class in order to fit among them. An editor in the Chicago Tribune news, Pete
Reinwald in the article “Why We Care About Some Strangers, Not Others: Walking Downtown
Puts Empathy to the Test” (January 18, 2011), demonstrates a story that shows the differences
between the rich and poor and how humans respond to each class by using personal experience.
Reinwald in his piece explains how he witnessed two different situations involving two women
who were from opposite classes by using personal experiences. He questions himself that, “…
why I and others had been so quick to help the woman on her back but not the woman on her
knees” (Reinwald 10). The author went through two different situations. The first woman was a
penniless woman who was begging for help among dozens of humans but was unable to receive
any, and the second was a middle class woman who was the center of attention because she had
fallen on the sidewalk. Society is choosing to assist people with nonessential need instead of
people in severe need and also putting much effort on unnecessary situations. People will react in
this way to make sure that they assist the rich people and ignore the homeless because they
believe that nothing is going to change if they give them money or food. If one person tries to
help these abused people, then he or she will be able to get other’s attention. This point leads to
Jeanna Bryner, a Science journalist who currently covers a range of topics, from human behavior
to geology to astronomy article, “Why We Care (or Don’t)” (May 18, 2008), she refers to
various authorities to demonstrate the distinct types of the reasons why people tend to help others
and how it benefits them personally. The publisher reaches an important argument in her article
that, “In the end, looking out for ‘number one’, could be the underlying reason we choose to
help, or choose not to help others, one scientist says” (Bryner 6). The scientist she references is
insisting that one of the main reasons people focus on supporting others is that it generates selfcenteredness among themselves and others. People help others in the interest of gaining back
multiple conditions that benefit them in their lives instead of focusing on the real crisis and on
the actual soule that is starving for help. We should not look for the result that helps us; we need
to focus on the accomplishment that helps the people in need, and that is not the case for the
current society. In simple words, there are different types of people who each think differently
in the situation of aiding the poor; some are ignoring it and some are trying to benefit from it. If
your homes get destroyed and your country is not standing up with you, you will probably
become homeless; not even homeless, you will become country less. In our daily lives, we
constantly need people who can help us overcome our worries, problems and concerns; however,
it has become common today to ignore poor people, such as homeless people as we are walking
down the street. In Reinwalds article “ Why We Care About Some Stranger, Not Others:
Walking Downtown Puts Empathy to the Test.”. Reinwald emphasized, “I saw a woman in jeans
and a t-shirt on her knees, pleading ‘please!’ Dozens of rush-hour commuters blew right past her.
I was among them” (Reinwald 3).
Indifference causes human suffering such as torture, genocide and numerous bloodsheds,
yet people are still performing it. “The Devil Came on Horseback” (2007), a documentary film
created by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, illustrates the continuing Darfur conflict in Sudan
and the tragedies that no soul is moving toward fixing them. Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
who inspired many people over their documentary and also the actor who is a former U.S Marine
Captain Brian Steidle talks about his experiences while working in Darfur. He gives an example
that states, “African Union is hoping to send troops to help the non-Arab people in Darfur”
(Sandburg/Ricki). The authors point is that the government is not serving the crimeless
Sudanese people who are losing friends and family members everyday. Sandburg and Ricki
prove that by using the word “hoping” instead of “helping” because they hope someone will give
a helping hand to solve the horrible situation. Due to people’s carelessness and especially the
governments, the criminal people or the terrorists in the case of Darfur are gaining strength and
therefore they are controlling and destroying the powerless societies. People do not experience
the pain that these people go through every moment. Therefore, they pretend that this is all false
information and they ignore the truth so that they do not get involved. Continuing with humans
suffering, a Holocaust survivor and a professor and political activist Elie Wiesel in his speech
“The Perils of Indifference” (April 12, 1999), clarifies what the word indifferent means and
how it’s being processed among individuals by writing multiple hypothetical situations. Wiesel
survived in the harshest days on Nazi concentration camps, and after several years he decided to
write a speech that accuses the human how decide to be indifference for all the crisis in the
world. In the middle of his speech he said, “… to be indifference to that suffering is what makes
the human being inhuman” (Wiesel 11). People are passing by and watching several souls
suffering from different situations that are leading them to death, yet they still pretend that
everything is normal, which is causing a loss of humanity. We believe that history will not repeat
itself, but the truth is, it will soon be repeated and it might be worse than the Holocaust if the
people indulge in the same carelessness. Humans are being indifferent and when the crisis
reaches them, then they will blame each other for not caring to the previous situations after it is
too late to go to the past and solve it. Wars, starvation, brainwashing, and indifference are the
main reasons behind human suffering. People’s carelessness is taking over humanity, and it is the
main reason why people are neglecting these crises. In Wiesels speech (April 12,1999), for
Clintons Millennium Lecture series at the White House, he spoke of his experience as a survivor
of the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. His major premise was that indifference is the purest
form of hate, and a gateway or accomplice to the atrocities that he and his people suffered;
furthermore, he warned America of the consequences of inactivity in the face of evil in the new
millennium. He argues that “indifference is worse than hate and anger.” Also he claims
“indifference is not a beginning, it’s an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of
the enemy” (Wiesel 8). Through his personal experience in the holocaust, Wiesel is trying to
show how indifference generates hate and discrimination, leading to human suffering. Wiesel
had a brutal experience during his teenage years due to indifference, from that time the human
suffering started spreading and it’s continuing on destroying peoples lives. However, in Wiesels
time, fewer people knew about the Holocaust because the technology wasnt invented, but
nowadays everyone knows how the Sudanese people are suffering from brutality. In
documentary “The Devil Came on Horseback”, illustrates the continuing Darfur conflict in
Sudan. Based on the book by former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steindler and his experiences
while working for the African Union as a photographer, he shows us through his pictures and his
speech that he gave in Washington DC next to the White House, how the Janjaweed and
Sudanese government are working together to wipe out the black Africans of Darfur, and are
freely committing genocide. He photographed and recorded events as villages burned to the
ground, and charred and mutilated human bodies which were left in the ruins to rot. Steindler
interviewed many Sudanese and among them there was an old man who said,” Where are Arab
people here? We never see Arabs in here wondering around here to us what you need and how
you live here” (Stern, Sundberg). In other words, Steindler and the producers show that the
Sudanese government is not helping the citizens to overcome starvation, nor contributing to
ending the violence occurring on daily basis. He showed the world some pictures that prove
thousands of Sudanese citizens are dying from starvation and poverty everyday, but many
deceitful people tried to deny it. Through his personal experience, we can see how Arabs are not
taking an action in order to put an end for this dilemma. Its quite shocking to see villages
destroyed, thousands of people dying day after day, and no country, organization nor human
being are responding appropriately.
The outcomes of these acts are leading to two different tragedies toward these oppressed
people, which are positive and negative and include violence and nonviolence results. The
negative effect of people’s acts and behaviors are driving solvable issues to violence and
physical abuse. Annie Sandburg and Ricki Stern address the genocide issue in Darfur and
strongly try to convince the audience that the Sudanese are being harmed every single day by
using statistics that reports: “Since 2003, violence in Darfur destroyed 180,000 people and
caused 2 million to flee from their homes”(Sandburg/Ricki). In making this comment Sandburg
and Stern prove that society is neglecting the outer issues that is leading to major crisis;
therefore, people should start believing that there are still people how are murdered and need to
support to stop the terrorist from committing these uneducated actions. The countries that have
terrorists as citizens are being destroyed considering that they are controlling the society and the
country itself because no one has the power to stop them and it’s increasing intermittently. This
is a crime against humanity; all of these people are burned to death and leaving their homeland
for no purposeful reason. A former lawyer who turned political comedian and writer Dean
Obeidallah in the piece, “Isis’s Gruesome Muslim Death Toll” (2014), address the major and
minor details about the current ISIS situation located in Iraq and Syria by using statistics. He
writes that, “ The UN concluded that in the first eight months of 2014, at least 9,347 civilians
had been killed and at least 17,386 wounded. While all these deaths are not attributable to ISIS
alone, ISIS is identified as the primary actor” (P.7). Obeidallah is trying to confirm the enormous
amount of people that are physically crushed in these two countries due to the uneducated group
that want to complete failure of the government and establish a caliphate in Iraq. All of these
guiltless human are dying without a reason and they are living in a community that no sole can
handle in it for one minute, therefore the government, organizations, and even individuals should
start adjusting this horrible case because each soul can make a difference. The Arabs are leaving
their homes that they build many years ago to survive and to save what is left of their family.
These people have no voice, they are afraid to take any step alone because they know for certain
that they will be murdered.
Non Violence and mental corruption are results established through the underdeveloped minds of
the society. The influential author of numerous opinion pieces on homelessness that struggles to
persuade people to services the homeless, Joel John Roberts in one of his pieces, “Ending
Homelessness is Strictly Business” (2011). The article focuses on the solutions to end
homelessness in America that still exists after centuries as it was mentioned in the piece that,
“Today …and homeless population that continues to persist after decades of compassionate
giving…” (Roberts 4). People see homelessness as an economic problem that can be fixed by
donating money, rather than actually assist them a solution that can influence them throughout
their lives. Homeless people are being prevent from having a bright future, which is impacting
them in a negative way such as being alcoholic at any age or die of hunger or coldness. These
people could influence their community in countless ways yet they are unable to succeed because
normal human are blocking them. An unknown publisher, emphasis the main causes and
outcomes of racism in various ways through the substance, Causes and Effects of Racism
(2014). This author provides some research about the past years results of racism by stating, “A
Cornell News Service study in 2009 did a study on the effects of racism saying that racial
discrimination erodes mental health” (p5). The inappropriate acts that people still perform are
composing health affairs such as depression and that surely is causing people to commit suicide.
These segregated people are separating themselves from the world, because they are left out in
public as of making their lives miserable. People should place themselves to the equivalent
position to really sense and understand what each of these individuals feel every moment they
are called different. Mental suffer is one of the common types of human suffering, because that is
not only in some countries, it is in every part of the world. On the other hand, People who are
suffering in their lives are the ones who are seeking to improve their living situation. To explain,
an uneducated people need to emancipate their undevelopment thoughts. In Sheryl WuDunn
show, “Our Centurys Greatest Injustice,” she presents a girl from China that her parents pulled
her out of school because they thought a thirteen dollar fee is a lot for her schooling and
education, yet this girl helped her parents to build a new house when she finished her school after
New York times newspaper wrote about her and collected money plus she donated the money to
the school, she was the number one in her class, but her parents didnt care about her concerns
and love to education. However, her education benefited them in a positive way, because she
built a new house for them with her own money. This highlights the courage this girl has, the fact
that she did not give up on her dreams gave her more strength and she finished accounting and
currently shes taking care of herself and her family as well. Its hard for some families to let their
children finish their education, especially women, they think its untraditional for her to attend
school, instead they want her to become a housewife at a young age. Furthermore, in the same
show, Sheryl WuDunn reports that there was a woman called Saima Dukens who lived in a small
village outside Pakistan. Her husband miserably beat Samia everyday because he was
unemployed and gambler and also the fact that she only gave birth to girls. When she had a
second daughter, her mother in law try to convince him to marry again and bring a second wife,
in order to bring a son that can carry the name of the family. Samia Dukens took sixty-five
dollar loan from micro lending group and she started embroidery business, and it worked well,
she hired thirty more women and when she needed someone to do the job of transportation, she
hired her husband. This example shows how this woman did not give up on her dreams, and
started a new business out of nothing and influenced many people in the village including her.
She’s a great example for all the married women that are living miserable lives with their
husbands and are prevented of preceding their goals. In some countries especially the Muslim
countries, society is suffering from the lack of education because terrorists are killing all the
people that want to educate. Likewise, in Malala’s personal experience, she faced Taliban and
faced all the militia groups that in Pakistan, Her voice reached the world and nobody stopped
her from completing her education because some people gave her hope and strength. Malala
insisted, “ They cannot stop me I’ll get my education whether I am at home, school, or anywhere
I am at” (Malala). This illustrates how Malala derived strength from the people around her and
no one could stop her from achieving her dream, even when they shot her in her head and was
almost killed. The shot gave Malala more power and courage to fight against everyone that was
standing as an impede in her way. Afterward, although millions of people are suffering, they are
trying there hardest to survive and improve their lives. People will never be able to overcome
their suffrage without the help of specialized organizations. Equality is the one thing that stands
out the most and receives the most constant attention, but there are many parts to it. The largest
rights violation that still seems to elude the most change for the great is the equality rights for
women and children. Everyday women are beaten as a form of ‘love’, arrested, whipped for petty
crimes, forced into abortions and sterilized against their will. In the essay, “World Food
Programmed Fighting Hunger Worldwide”, by an unknown writes that talks about a groups of
terrorist people killing and raping women and children due to their ideology. According to the
article, “Women and children are arriving in Cameroon in a shocking state, after weeks,
sometimes months, on the road, foraging for food. This is the most recent tragedy resulting from
the escalating bloodshed that has torn C.A.R. apart” (citation). This exemplifies how thousands
of women and children are struggling on the roads begging for food and other common needs
because of people’s behaviors such as harshness and being indifference. If there is right and
peace in the world, it will appear, because the truth will always present no matter what. Standing
up for your rights is always the right thing to create to be able to survive from suffering. Another
example, would be in Wudun documentary, she mentioned a true story about a woman called
Mahbuba that was pregnant and she got infection and her baby died inside her body, the
neighbors didnt know how to treat her, they decided to put her in the edge of the village and they
broke the door so the hyenas come and eat her. Mahbuba with one stick and he left strength
fought all the hyenas and walked to another village until they found her and took her to the
hospital. This is an example of a braveheart woman that fought for her life and her rights. If this
woman wasnt strong enough she could’ve be dead now. If there is more than one organization
out there that could protects the women rights, this situation would’ve never happen to Mahbuba,
but unfortunately there is not enough organizations that can save the women’s and childrens
rights. If individuals and organizations work together to help cure human rights, thousands of
families will be saved because there is people that wants to stand up and help stopping the
human suffering. In the article of “Hunger: Its Impact on Childrens Health and Mental Health”
by Linda Weinreb, MD, Cheryl Wehler, and Jennifer Perloff, they did a research that can prove
how homeless children are starving and they are not completing their education because they fear
to get abused from the society, they claimed, “ in the Previous studies that document the
deleterious effects of hunger among children cannot distinguish child from family hunger and do
not take into account some critical environmental, maternal, and child variables that may
influence child outcomes” (citation). This is an example of how children are suffering from
adult’s acts and also the Hunger that is destroying many innocent souls, and no one is taking a
step to fix this crisis. Children are a precious gift; we should protect them from any harmful
environmental. One of the reasons leading to the women and children’s struggle is are the
endless, evitable wars occurring all over the world.
Although people expect that the outcome of these consequences is misfortune, yet there is
still courage and strength in these fortuneless soles. An American business executive, writer,
lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner Sheryl Wudunn in the Ted Talk speech, “Review Prior to
Viewing” (2010) talk in deep about education and women in some villages around the world.
Wudunn informs people that women and education are the solution to many problems and uses
examples of successful women who went through several affair and one of her examples is,
“Saima Dugan who lived in a small village outside of Pakistan that was beaten by her
unemployed husband because she gave birth to girls only and later on she opened a market in the
village for people’s needs” (11:37-14:36). In other words Wudunn means that this victim
benefited many people that are like her including her harsh husband who abused her every single
day for something that she was unable to control, which is childbirth. The purser and the
violence that this innocent woman lived with gave her strength to stand and improve her
miserable life. In the documentary issued through ABC 20/20 by Diane Sawyer who interviewed
a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest- ever Nobel Prize laureate Malala
Yousafzai who uses authority through her interview. A young girl fought for education that she
was lacked from attending that stands up in front of officials saying, “ ‘they can not stop me, and
I will get my education, if it is at home, school or any other place’ ”(6:40-6:50). Children and
especially girls in terrorist’s countries are forbidden from attending school and that led to lack of
education and success. However, one girl stands by her goals and is willing to die rather than live
without education and assists other females to be able to precede their life as a normal human.
The girl that is changing the world, Malala is fighting for simple rights that many children in
other countries take it for grand, which is school. We should support this individual and believe
in her in order to help other girls that are also in the same situation otherwise women will be
turned to tools that are used only for homes. Afterward, it is possible to receive strength from all
the violence that surrounds these people, because no matter what happens they will still have
faith. Nowadays, many people do not help others unless if it contributes their benefits. We are all
human beings, sharing one earth, for which reason it is our obligations to help others across the
boundaries of communities and countries. Our impulse to offer relief is our human nature. Our
human response system is geared toward emotionally loaded images and motivations. In
Wiesel’s speech, when he reported, “I dont understand. Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart.
He understands those who needed help. Why didnt he allow these refugees to disembark?”
(Wiesel 12). Wiesel was alluding to Roosevelt and how kind he was, but he didnt help them,
instead he only thought how to benefit his own country and citizens. This is justified the society
today, because people are only caring for their own benefits, which is not acceptable for the
rights of humanity. Research can proves how we only help the people that are in need for peace
of our minds. In the article “Why We Care about Some Strangers, Not Others,” Reinwald states
that, “Research has shown that helping others, either through donating money or time, makes a
person feel good. Powerful images move us to support because we feel and we want to alleviate
those negative feelings.” In this research, we can prove how we only aid others to alleviate the
harsh feelings inside of our bodies or to benefit ourselves, because homeless and innocent people
need someone to assist them and not ignore them. This move will become more successful
through individuals supports. As a result, the people in weakness, needs us, demand our worries
about them because we can benefit them more if we try and not only help them to make
ourselves comfortable. Their fears will be gone if the humans concern more about them every
day because Organizations are not giving much help as need it. Many young and old people are
suffering from homelessness and what they need is individuals care and organizations help, they
also needs the media to spread their soreness.
There is no doubt that war is an evil one (needs more). It is the greatest catastrophe that can
befall human beings. It brings death and destruction, merciless slaughter and butchery, disease
and starvation, poverty and ruin in its wake. Furthermore, Mohammed A. Salih is a Kurdish
reporter with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers
northern Iraq as a freelancer for several international news outlets, when he interviewed her she
insisted, “My good childhood friend Shayma and I were given as a gift to two Islamic State
members from the south, near Baghdad. They wanted to make us their wives or concubines”.
This example shows how the Children are exposed to situations of terror and horror during war,
experiences that may leave enduring impacts in posttraumatic stress disorder. Severe losses and
disruptions in their lives lead to high rates of depression and anxiety in war-affected children.
Wars are spoiling billions of lives, killing guiltless people. Moreover in Darfur, when Ricki
Sterin said “something terrible thats happening in Darfur… we have general humanitarian access
that’s not being addressed” Darfur is not the only place facing this hypothetical situation, all the
middle eastern countries are facing the same dilemma. Many innocent people are facing severe
cases. The reason for these severe cases is carelessness of us of the country; People are
destroying humanity, by letting children to be tortured to death without moving toward solving
these crimes. For instance, the Peshawar in Pakistan, its an unforgettable war, that’s committing
violence to humans, especially children. As the BBC news provided how, “The Pakistani city of
Peshawar is burying its dead after a Taliban attack at a school killed at least 132 children and
nine staff” (BBC News). This example shows how merciless terrorists are abusing and killing
innocent children. Satan is controlling our minds and thoughts to human rights. The hardest thing
on earth is to bury a child that lost their life that could’ve influenced the society around them.
The smallest coffins are the heaviest. As all the authors mentioned in their documents, speeches
and articles, we are losing dozens of pure people because of indifference and wars. To sum up,
various people were tortured to death over the past centuries because of the pointless wars
constantly occurring in the world.
The main argument of this essay is to justify the horrible responses to human suffering
that the society is deciding to make today, which is leading to several matters along with power
and courage The entire population not only in America but also in other countries is not
supporting the people in need enough, because if that were the case then there would’ve been a
difference in today’s society. No one can argues that there are several organizations who are
helping, yet the question comes to how much effort is being established to aid these harmless
people?. Our community needs to start realizing that it’s the time to treat everyone the same way.
Due to personal experience, Reinwald believes that homeless people are being ignorant today
and have been ignored for the past centuries. The author argues that we are not providing
homeless people with care and help because we tend to assume that they do not exist. Genuinely,
we are avoiding homeless suffering, we ignore them, and we predict that they dont abide. In
these three articles, we can see how indifference is one of the major problems leading to human
suffering. Every human is equal, whether it is black or white, wealthy or penniless.
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