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    Human Slave Trafficking While while many americans think slavery was abolished in 1865, it is still a problem all around the world; however, there are actions being done to put an end to modern slavery, and one day it will be revoked if people have the right mindset and awareness. The scary part about this problem is that the trafficked slaves are are among us. While they might look like they are working by their own free will and living the American Dream from a distance, if you look closely, the

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    Does slavery still exist in the U.S. today? Yes it does, but not like it was in the 1800s. People just don’t call it slavery, they call it human trafficking.it is a form of it because it takes away the person’s rights. What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is a movement of forced labor or sexual exploitation. There are many “cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 U.S. states; anyone can be trafficked regardless of race, class, education, gender, age, or citizenship

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    Under the United Nations Protocol ‘To Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons’, Human Trafficking is defined as the transportation, transmission, or reception of persons, by means of the “threat or use of force, of abduction, of deception, of the abuse of power, of a position of weakness” or of the giving or receiving of payments and benefits to accomplish the consent of a person abstaining control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Human Trafficking is equivalent to

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    Perpetual Bondage 22 He lamented “The Patel, Patwari, Deshmukh and all landlords of the villages pervasively watch each day to day activity of the poor and in particular the Shudras. They advance loans to needy poor persons and in lieu of interest payment; the person is forced to provide free labour in the field. In the event of a death of the borrower earlier the repayment of debt, the rest of the family members are forced to labor until the debt repaid, Since time immemorial generations

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    Summary and Response “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” John Hodgin English 111-54H Professor Bradford Ivy Tech Community College September 24, 2017 Cover Letter Professor Bradford, Obviously my primary motivation for writing my Summary and Response Draft is that it is a requirement for my English Composition Class. Having said that, I also have another heartfelt motivation for writing my Summary and Response about Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. I have studied about

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    Desiderius Erasmus, believed to be the illegitimate son of a Priest named Gerard, was born around 1466 in the Netherlands. He is also believed to have been born with a different name, and his birthday is unknown because he was born out of wedlock. Despite this, his father made sure he had a good education by sending him to a prestigious Latin school when he was 9 years old. However, when Erasmus’s parents died, he was sent to live with guardians who strongly believed that he should become a Monk

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    According to her, girls like to increase their bondage and intimacy by discussing each other or someone in common whereas boys have another way of showing their bondage which is not by talking or by discussing some other person but by doing things with each other or doing stuff together. This not only increases the bondage but also a relationship is developed between men or boys which is again strengthened by doing meaningful of meaningless

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    In Guinea, there are too many peoples and languages and cultures to name here. It is a massive region which spans to several thousand miles of coast in Western Africa, from the fringes of the Sahara to the southern ocean. It is here where the business of capturing slaves for their transportation to the new world is completed. The Niger river winds northeast into the continent for thousands of miles, and in the vast river basin from which its might is drawn is situated the kingdom of Tonga which reaches

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    Common Dreams A dream is to envision another life or characteristic that could be better or worse than what the person already has. In the case of most people it is a dream that is positive. People mainly are selfish dreamers who dream only about themselves but there are some who dream about the world or others such as friends and family. Two examples of these types of dreamers are Mama from the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream”

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    by the labor is demanded back in return as repayment of debt. It is also known as ‘debt bondage’ which mean bondage till debt is paid. The advance cash taken is known as "Peshgi". This is a modern type of slavery that enslaves millions of men, women and children each year across the world including Pakistan. The labor is trapped into working for very long hours with little or no pay, in order to pay back their debt. Such labors, held in bondage includes men, women, children and usually whole families

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