Blog Post #10

The next 100 pages in Half the Sky really shaped my senior paper. At first, I was unsure what I was going to write about. I had a lot to say about the issue, but I needed structure, and a thesis. After reading the next section of the book, I got that. The book continued to follow a similar format as the first part; a personal story about a woman the author, Nick encounters on his journey basically across the world, followed by a certain issue associated with sex trafficking explained, and then a potential solution presented. In this section, the author focused a lot on the governments of the countries he visited. He explained in great detail how they work, why they work that way, the fatal flaws that result from them. He even went as far as to confront some government officials in person. Every government in the countries he traveled to was different in some ways from the next, but in general, they were very, very similar. They were all run by a corrupt dictator who only had his own interest in mind. Past the dictator, everything in the government was corrupt, even down to the police officers. It is an endless cycle that centers on somebody bribing somebody else. Brothel owners pay police officers who in tern pay a higher power and so on and so on to keep the brothels safe. Everybody is profiting by the actual girls involved, and nobody cares about them. I definitely want to write about this in my paper. Like Nick did, I want to address and identify the issues in the governments where sex trafficking is the worst. I want to share some of the worst stories I have read about trafficking. I then want to present solutions and possible interventions the western world could stage, because as of now, not much is being done at all.