Reaction Paper
Part I. It is indeed saddening to think that one of the major goals of the world, globalization, has one of the worst-case problems of the modern day. According to the article, many of the world’s largest companies have been the ones responsible for creating such awful things in society. Instead of attaining the ultimate goal of unifying the world, they have only built themselves empires to which they trample upon the rights of many people. The loss of jobs, increasing numbers of child abuse and forced labor, these are only some of the factors which were the results of the government’s so-called “economic growth”. Why would they even call it economic growth if the people of the nation are the ones who were gravely affected? One clear thought which came into my mind: It’s all about the money. They do not care about helping the poor or those who are destitute. They care about themselves. It is indeed reassuring that at least some people care about the children who were subjected to forced labor as they are taking actions in their stand against it. One general comment about the second article is that it is too long. Some paragraphs tend to be wordy that the author’s intended meaning of the article may be hard to understand. But despite the length, some major points and issues were thoroughly discussed in the article.
Part II On the first article, one of the parts which surely affected me was the part about the child labor. It’s very sad to think that while I am here, having the privilege to study in the university, many of the kids who are around my age didn’t even get the chance to enter school. Due to their extreme poverty, many of them right now are striving to survive in this cold and harsh world. Many of them also were forced to leave school as they think they were much more of help to the family if they would work already. One of the