Silver or Lead vs. Live Free and Starve
Everyone sees our world in different shades of different colors. The United States is the worlds most powerful nation, and we have our hand in virtually all projects around the world, we do this to try to better it for the people inhabiting it. Is The United States actually creating a better planet? Is the United States the one causing all the problems? I will be comparing and contrasting two stories, one is about Columbians who are forced to work in the drug trade business, or take a bullet and die, while the other story is about how the United states wanting to pass a bill in the United States that would put a halt to all trade tied with countries that endorse child labor. These two issues are very similar while at the same time they differ from one another, and how here in the united states we are trying to fix these situations, but might not be able to fix or solve anything. These two articles are very similar in the fact that the U.S. is involved and trying to better and change certain ways of living for people over seas. In Silver or Lead, the united states is trying to pass a bill that stated, “The United States would no longer permit the import of goods from factories were forced or indentured child labor used(Divakaruni 442).” While in the second article, Silver or Lead, The U.S. sends billions on dollars to aid Columbia, but the money meant for the aid of the citizens, for the people that need aid, is being used in funding their militia, and the production of drugs that will be later flowed into the untied states, and other parts of the world. A similarity among both of these stories is that if the United States is tries to ‘fix’ the situation it will all end up backfiring on us and becoming a bigger issue than in the beginning. In the story Live Free or Starve, many children are being employed and paid for the work that they are doing. Without these jobs they would have no money and wouldn’t have what is need to survive. “But is this bill, which, if