Making the Invisible, Visible: The First Step...

The issue that our class is addressing is police corruption in Malaysia. It is important to resolve this issue because the police are supposed to be the people who are our role models, the people who keep peace. If they are corrupt, can we really trust them? Police corruption affects many people.  I think some of those who give the police officers' money don't realize they're not paying their fine; they're putting money into the police officer's pocket. I found it really surprising that so many police officers are involved with corruption. An article stated that there are 4,500 of 90,000 police officers involved with corruption. That's only 5% but 4,500 people is a lot. Studying this issue opened my eyes to the real world and that everything is not what it seems. Although I know more about police corruption now, I started off with pretty much no knowledge about police corruption, whatsoever. I knew that a lot of my family had experienced police corruption first hand, but I didn't know much about the whole system of police, and how many people were involved with corruption. The stations helped me get a general grasp about human rights and it helped my understanding grow. I'd studied human rights in 5th grade and 7th grade. This year, I feel like I fully understand them. Deciding on what to choose as a final topic was difficult because I wanted to go deeper into so many topics. It was interesting to hear everyone's opinions and reasoning for the topics they wanted to study most. I found the domestic workers' rights quite interesting but it's so important to have a good police system in Malaysia otherwise we can't do anything about many issues. For example, we can't help domestic workers if the police don't bother to do anything about it. In the end, I was satisfied with the choice that we'd made as a class. It was quite difficult to go through article after article, trying to find relevant information for our research topic. There are so many articles about police corruption, most of them being examples of police being fired or how much money they'd asked for. I couldn't find much about anything else. Using the school's resources helped a lot, though, otherwise it would have been crazy to search something up and find unlimited articles. The NoodleTools are very helpful because it's easier to gather information and cite the sources we used. I hope by the end of this unit, we will find ways for us to inform people about police corruption, so that something can be done to stop it.

How To Deal With A Dictator

To this day, dictators dominate their countries and suppress their citizens. Many are trying to stop them, in the best ways they can. Firstly, what is a dictator? A dictator is someone who rules the country on his own, and has ultimate power. Often, dictators misuse their power and, in most cases, end up making the whole world hate them. Most dictators are power hungry and omnipotent. Examples of dictators would be Julius Caesar, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un. People are trying to take these dictators down from their power. In Julius Caesar, the conspirators chose assassination, but as the play shows, assassination isn't always the best option. Bit by bit, there are ways to remove a dictator from power. An example would be to organize a group of people to peacefully protest against the leader. Doing this will spread the word of how people dislike the leader and the leader may have to step down from his power, for the better of the people. Someone could also confront the leader. Talking to the leader may not take him down from power, but may make him realize how unreasonable he is being. Caesar had so much power, that he lost his sense of logic. Maybe all he needed was for someone to talk to him about it. Another solution coud be to cut off all trades and communication with the country so that the leader is forced to allow communications with other countries. North Korea has absolutely no communication with the rest of the world and a blockade could be a solution to that. Although there are many solutions to get rid of a dictator, sometimes it isn't always successful. There are still many dictators around the world and it's obviously going to be a challenge to get rid of them, but it has been done before, so it can be done again.