Fashion models expose sexual harassment

This news talks about the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme that showed some stories of models that had been sexually harassed.

It mentions some short stories from different models. The first one is Marissa who says that she was doing a photo shoot for a jeans brand and when she took a break and came back, the photographer wanted her to make “a performance” for him. The second model is an anonymous one; she says that a stylist wanted to kiss her against her will, so she pushed him away and he ended up masturbating next to her, and the worse part of it is that this stylist is still working in the same place.

There are a few reports more from other models like photographers who wanted nude photos, or molestations by photographers or stylists.

Personal opinion

I simply haven’t got words for all these events, I don’t understand how evil can people be. I mean, when these models are posing for a photographer, they are working to get some money from it; they don’t need to go through all this abuse. The most shocking about all this, is that most of the assailants turn out uninjured and are still working with other girls. In my opinion, a worker who molests anyone as, little as it might be, should be fired and punished by law.

Another sentence that has me freaking out is the next one: "I told my agent about my abuse, they told me to 'stay quiet, he's too important to lose as a client'" I can’t believe that someone can play down something as big as an abuse. This agent has even thought how the model felt when “the important” photographer abused from her? I think not, this man clearly has neither empathy nor heart.

To sum up, I think that this should be more reported to put all these abusive workers in jail.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42230705

'Butterfly child' given life-saving skin

This piece of news talks about Hassan, a boy who suffers from an odd genetic disease called junctional epidermolysis bullosa that leaves his skin fragile as a butterfly’s wing therefore the title of the news. This sickness means Hassan’s DNA lacks the instructions for sticking his epidermis to the dermis.

There was no cure, but a team of biologists specialising in gene therapy helped the family, and the parents, desperate because their child was going to die, approved the experimental therapy. They extracted from him a little bit of his skin and they injected a virus that inserted in Hassan’s DNA, the instructions to stick his epidermis to the dermis.

Nowadays, his skin is totally functional and there’s no sign of blistering.

Although this treatment is not currently available to the public, with some improves it could be a therapy that lasts a lifetime.

Personal opinion

From my point of view, science is making progress at full speed. Every day the world discovers and learns lots and lots of new things, and this is something amazing. Although, it could be good like new treatments or medicines, it could also be bad, like new weapons or bombs. But in this case, science has won and these scientists have probably discovered a cure for this illness.

I believe that maybe if this boy had been born to a different family, maybe he wouldn’t had survive, because nowadays there is still a lot of people who don’t believe in new science and refuse to try new treatments. Thanks to him and his family, science has taken a step forward and probably found a new solution to an illness.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41914101

Bethnal Green sex assaults: Girl attacked three times in hour

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This news informs us about 29th of September this year when a 17-years-old girl was sexually attacked 3 times in an hour. On the night of the 29th to 30th, someone found a girl distressed, lying on the floor and under the effects of drugs. The police said that the victim was seen on camera being carried by a man who was wearing dark clothes, so that was the first assault.

After midnight, the girl was seen stumbling down Mint Street followed by another man, riding a bike, so that was the second attack. And minutes later, detectives believe that she suffered a third assault.

Personal opinion

I believe this is one of the most horrible things that can happen to anyone. This girl was going back home from a night out, and instead of arriving safe, she came across 3 horrible people who raped her. Also, it wasn’t just one person, there were 3, and one after another, so they saw this girl was hurt, and they did it anyway. These three people had to be very evil to be able to do that.

Seeing this and all the similar cases, how am I supposed to leave my house at night calmly? Or come back after a party without thinking all that can happen in only 10 minutes? I think it’s not fair for anyone to be walking in the streets in fear, looking everywhere if someone is following them.

On the other hand, how can someone attack another person just for fun? These people clearly have no empathy, because they are doing something that the victim will never forget. I think that rapists sometimes are worse than killers, because, you can kill someone by accident, you can hit them with the car or something like that, but when you rape someone, you don’t do it unintentionally, you do it in bad faith. That’s why I think in these cases, rapists should be punished by life sentence, because a violation is never a mistake.

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100 Women: Where are the female Nobel Prize winners?

Summary
This news talks about the scientific winners of The Nobel Prize. It mentions the laureates in all the scientific areas: physics, chemistry, physiology, astronomy and medicine, and all of them have something in common, they are all white men.
Since the beginning of the awards in 1901, only 17 women have been awarded in the three science categories, and there hasn’t been any black science laureate.

Personal opinion
First of all I think that something as big as the Nobel prizes, shouldn’t discriminate. I think that to be fair, the judges or whoever chooses the winners, shouldn’t know the names or have photos of the candidates, because if they have any prejudices, they won’t choose the best research or project.
I believe this is an injustice because there are plenty of women who work hard every day, discovering new things, and they are not rewarded, and the same is happening with other people, of different races.
There are a lot of people who have good ideas, that maybe aren’t winning this award because of who they are or how they look, and this is totally unfair.
Everyone should get the chance to be recognised and rewarded for their efforts.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41513261?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ea10d9be-b2fa-46e5-9711-183b6480c675/sexism&link_location=live-reporting-story

Las Vegas shooting: Paddock may have planned to escape

Summary
This piece of news talks about last October the 1st , when the deadliest mass shooting by a lone shooter in the U. S. history took place
Paddock was an old man, retired, divorced and with no children. His father was a bank robber but he had never had any criminal history, in fact, he lived in a retirement community.
He was staying at Mandalay hotel in Las Vegas, and from there he instigated terror in The Route 91 Harvest festival; Paddock killed 58 people attending the festival, and then he killed himself.
The FBI said that there were no link to terrorism and even if it’s quite difficult to carry out this alone, he did it. His girlfriend said that two weeks before the attack he bought her a ticket to see her family in Asia, and while she was there he wired her 100,000 dollars.
Personal Opinion
Honestly, I have no words for all the things that are happening in this world. Lately everything has been bad news, terrorism and violence are everywhere and I can’t understand it. I can’t even imagine what can have been happening in Paddock’s head when he did this. It seems that he was a quiet man; he lived in a retirement community, he was growing old with his wife, and although his father was a bank robber, he never had any criminal history, so why would he suddenly kill 58 innocent people? I mean, I don’t get it, they were someone's parents, someone's siblings or someone's children, they were innocent! There is no excuse for such a horrible incident. The people in the festival didn’t deserve to die because some evil, heartless man had lost his mind and started shooting people. No one deserves to die like this.
We are all humans; we should love each other, and take care of each other. There are so many problems in the world that we can’t control, so why can’t we stop creating more?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41511666

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