Sing Praise to Him

             Have you ever been watching the news and a horrific story came on and you change it, thinking I don’t need to be hearing about that? I’ll admit I have and I would be arrogant to think that just because I change the station that the horrors stop.  As I lay down to rest at night no longer do I go over the plans of tomorrow, but I find myself thinking about the young children just getting up, beginning to plaster on their make up, get their quotas and hit the track. Forget curfews these children have a job to get done, money to make and for whom? Their boyfriend, their pimp and if they do not make their quota a beaten awaits.            A child does not begin to grow up thinking, “I want to be a prostitute” in fact a child prostitute legally can’t consent to sex.  Under federal law age of consent is 18, which means any child who has sex even wil...

                                      The topics to choose from where all of equal interest to me, each of great importance.  Of the list however I chose to research in more depth about fistulas, a medical condition in which people of the Western world have most likely never heard of.  A fistula is an abnormal development between two organs or parts of the body.  Examples of a fistula could be between the two blood vessels or in the case I am to focus on the development of a fistula between the bowel and vagina known as an obstetric fistula form due to complications of surgery, injury, infection or diseases (Fistulas: MedlinePlus, 2015). For many women in poverty stricken areas the horrors do not stop at being brutally raped and sodomized but continues when the...