The document discusses the refugee crisis and provides background information. It notes that over 25 million refugees exist today, with 56% hosted by just 10 countries in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. An article is linked that provides updated statistics on Afghan refugees in 2016. The document aims to spread awareness about the refugee crisis and populations most impacted.

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Hello everyone,
The global societal issue that I have chosen to research for my
final paper is the refugee crisis. Further research on this topic is
important and absolutely necessary as the numbers continue to
change. More people are dying, more people are seeking refuge
in other places, more people are hungry. More people are being
killed by rebels. The horror that these people have been facing
for decades continues.
Thesis statement: More than twenty-five million refugees exist
today. One-sixth of the world's population lives on less than one
dollar a day. 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking
water. One-third of the world has no electricity.
This global societal issue, the refugee crisis impacts a specific
population indeed. 56 percent of the world's 21 million refugees
are being hosted by just 10 countries - all in the Middle East,
Africa and South Asia. Although America has much to do with
the struggles of these countries, no American or European
countries are suffering the way these people are. These are are
people of color and it's disgusting when we can do a lot more to
help.
The top five countries that account for the most refugees in the
world today are countries that are already fighting for
themselves. Still they are helping others seek refuge. There is
so much to study in order to spread the message.
https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2017-02/PB220-The-
Afghan-Refugee-Crisis-in-2016.pdf (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site.

2. Above is the link to an article that I found more interesting than
surprising. When I first started reading about the refugee crisis,
Afghanistan was among the first countries on the list, right after
Cambodia which followed Sierra Leone. This article provides
updated statistic information which is something that is
necessary for putting my paper together.
Ahmadi, B. (2017). The Afghan refugee crisis in 2016
[Elektronische Ressource] / Belquis Ahmadi; Sadaf Lakhani.
Washington/D.C: United States Institute of Peace.
Reply 2
The Me Too movement has given women the opportunity to
have their voices heard at a greater extent. Because the Me Too
movement is in its full effect, it is essential to understand the
inequalities that exist and the progress that has to happen in the
world to close that gap.
Thesis statement
While Gender inequality is not as vast as before, gender
inequality is still persistent in all aspects of our society because
It is observed in the workplace, it is seen it in politics, and it is
most evident in the world of sports.
Gender inequality not only affects female professionals around
the world. It also affects young men and women who are
growing up and viewing the differences in how society
perceives the two genders. Women are considered more
nurturing therefore they tend to focus more on family time than
their men counterpart, therefore when it comes to considering
who will go the extra mile if both have families, the belief is
that men will. Changing that perception is necessary to reduce

3. the gender gap and give every person an equal opportunity in
the workforce.
There seems to be a divide within all of us and we have our
barriers that always seems to need to be broke down and we can
never possibly have a positive outcome when it comes to change
a person’s view. “This discussion of gender equality has been a
topic of discussion for generations and how we would be able to
create a world where we all can get fair treatment for what we
do as a society (Howson, R., & Flood, M. (2015))”. I feel that
me being raised with all sisters and my mother, has opened my
eyes to see how valuable a woman’s touch can be for us men to
keep a balance within ourselves and we try to discredit it, but
deep down we know that women incorporate a huge amount of
their time to supervise our digressions and come up with
solutions to the fact they we’re incapable as men to dedicate
what we supposable feel passionate about to that, at that time.
They need the respect and the inclusion of what we have to
build upon to figure out what is that we need to embrace and
throw out, when it comes to separation from the opposite sex.
To understand the gender inequality that exists around the world
Nemoto (2013) points out that most of the women who work full
time are on the lower echelon jobs of companies (p. 515).
Nemoto (2013) continues to say that “In the USA and the UK
women constitute 43 percent and 35 percent of managers,
respectively, but they make up only about 10 percent in Japan”
(p. 515). The disparity between different countries are
enormous, culture has a lot to do with that discrepancy.
Education on the ability that women have in the world can make
a difference in reducing the inequality that exists around the
world.
References
Nemoto, K. (2013, September). Long working hours and the

4. corporate gender divide in Japan. Gender, Work &
Organization, 20(5), 512-527. doi:10.1111/j.1468-
0432.2012.00599.x
Reply 3
Hi class,
Unlike many popular sources, scholarly sources are written by
experts. Scholarly sources go through a peer review process and
are evaluated by independent experts unlike popular sources.
Scholarly sources have footnotes and bibliographies unlike
popular sources.Scholarly sources have minimal advertising or
illustrations unlike popular sources. Scholarly sources are based
on original research or intellectual inquiry unlike popular
sources.
Scholarly source
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report
(2016), the most likely global risk perceived during the year
2016 is large-scale involuntary migration – forced migration
caused by violence, conflicts, environmental, and/or economic
reasons.1 The report highlights three main factors that increase
the risk posed by involuntary migration: longer stay of forced
migrants in host countries; ineffective global humanitarian
interventions to meet the long-term needs of refugees for their
successful reintegration; and, as the over- whelming majority of
forced migrants live in developing countries that already have
weak socioeconomic and governance systems, the refugees
remain deprived of basic facilities.
Popular source
"Pakistan officially hosts the third largest refugee population in

5. the world after Jordan and Turkey, sheltering some 1.4 million
registered Afghans and, according to estimates, up to a million
more residing without documentation. Since 2009, Islamabad
has repeatedly pushed back a deadline for Afghan refugees who
arrived from the 1980s onwards to return to their home country,
but fears are growing that the latest cut-off — March 2017 —
will be final."
The Popular source didn’t have the a reference list or
credentials. Because I've written news stories for journalism
courses I can tell that it was just recycled information. It was
basically a basic read with no disclosed credentials or anything
of that nature. Nevertheless, this was a good article and the
writer(s) did have a pretty good and rather accurate timeline of
the history of Pakistan's Afghan refugees. It's definitely an
older article as the cut off for the refugees to leave has been
pushed back
Reply 4
The difference between a popular and a scholarly source lies
within the content. A popular source, such as a magazine or
blog, would have content that is created for a general audience
so the language that is used would be simple and easy to
comprehend. The sources that are used are not cited, as the
information is usually general interest topics, current events,
trends or buzzworthy subjects. The sources that are used for
scholarly written works are cited because the information that is
used contains content that is specific to a chosen topic. The
language that is used is more technical and academically
inclined as the work usually provides an in-depth analysis that
required extensive research into the subject matter.
I have found two sources, one popular and one scholarly, that
pertain to my final paper topic of social media censorship. The

6. scholarly source was found in the Ashford Library and is an
article written by Gabriel la Mas titled “#NoFilter: The
Censorship of Artistic Nudity on Social Media”. The article
discusses issues surrounding artistic expressions of nudity
online and the conflicts that arise from it. It mentions solutions
and policies surrounded by the First Amendment and how
private entities are protected by their right to not adhere to the
amendment. I see no biases or limitations in using this source as
it comes from a reliable platform, a university library.
The popular source that I have chosen to include is from Forbes
online magazine written by a contributor named Clyde Wayne
Crews Jr. The article titled “Social Media Filtering is Not
Censorship” discusses how Facebook uses algorithms to filter
content that their users share in order to push their own agenda.
This source does read with slight bias, assuming that the
government is using their power to censor social media posts
that don’t go along with their agenda. The information that is
most reliable in relation to my paper would be that social media
CEO’s and the people the hire to work the site have the ultimate
control over what content is allowed to come through their
platform. Even with the speculation that the government could
possibly have a hand in how certain political opinions are
shared, my focus would be more on the negatives of sharing
harmful information and how the younger generations need to
be protected from it.
References
Crews Jr., C. (2018). Social Media Filtering is Not Censorship.
Retrieved from
https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2018/04/26/social-
media-filtering-is-not-censorship/#7d0c7ed6438d
Mas, Gabriel la
. Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

7. , 2017, Vol. 54, p307-327, 21p. Publisher: Washington
University School of Law., Database: Complementary Index