Reflection for "Castro's Last Battle" by Jon Lee Anderson

Families around the world slowly keep on falling apart. The families are still together but as generations go, they connect less. Families before would always be together and they would connect with things better because that was one of the many traditions in the past. The women and the daughters would cook and clean together and the men and their sons would hunt together. Now the children in the families are more apart. They have their own lives out of the house and they start to use that one more than the life in the house. Some families, according to how they were raised to be, don’t interact through out the day; the family members spend it doing their own things. By doing this, they families grow apart and when they need help from someone, they can’t trust their family to help. Other families are the opposite; they trust each other and spend most of their time together. These families are the ones that stick together and are the ones that are more alike to the ones that they had in the past. These families are all different and there are positive and negative things about bout of them. One type trusts each other and they can lean on each others shoulder for help, but the other is able to make mistakes on their own and learn from them.

In this article, the Castro family first doesn’t trust each other and later they do. When they do not trust each other, Fidel Castro orders a secretary for Raul Castro to help him do things right. They also do not talk to each other a lot. The family is so big that they don’t remember what job the other is in. Also in the news reports, they did not know exactly how many children and ex-wives he has had. I think this means that he didn’t tell anybody about them because he doesn’t care about them that much. In another part of the article, they say that Fidel Castro expected that, when he dies, his brother, Raul, would continue after him. Here it means that Fidel trusted his brother, along with other people, would be able to continue doing is job right. At the end of the article it talked about a baseball game in the end. At the baseball game a few of the family members were their. This shows me that they cared about Fidel that they went to the baseball game to watch. Also some of the family members had a job there.

In my family, I think that we would use both types of family’s. We all stick together and we trust each other. When we are stuck in a problem we always know that we have each other to go to for help, but we also know that we can try to resolve it alone. We feel as if we can try to be independent but we remember that we can trust the other person and be able to ask them for help. I think that this type of family is good because we all are able to make mistakes and learn from them but we are also able to ask each other for help. In our family we also know how to keep our own secrets. We each trust each other but still it is always good to have secrets and that is how we are.

Reflections for "Camp Justice" by Jeffrey Toobin

Discussions are what people use to change things and to get peoples ideas on how to change something. They discus about the situation and give their ideas to it so that the final solution is one that the greater amount of people agree on. Also it is a way for everybody to know that it was a fair decision. Changing things is always a hard thing to do and asking other peoples opinions to help them is what most people do. They talk with each other to finalize the situation and to come to an agreement. Getting to that agreement is also something that is hard. Obviously many people have their own ideas about something and they all want it to go their way so not many people let the other person win with the discussion. What people do is try to include everyone’s thought in the agreement but that is also very hard to do. This is why discussions can sometimes go on for a long period of time according to the importance of the situation.

In “Camp Justice”, Political parties are trying to get to an agreement about were they are going to put the prisoners of Guantanamo after they close it. In Guantanamo, they have many areas like Camp X-ray and Camp Delta. In these places they have different Camps were they keep different type of people. Some are the ones that carry useful information, others are “High Value” to them, and some are dangerous and so on. All these Camps have a very bad environment in which they do not treat the prisoners how it is expected in the US. They think that since the Camps are not in the US, they can treat them how they want. In the camps there are many prisoners that people thought it was at best to keep them their, they are many. This is why the question is: What will they do with all the prisoners once they decide to close Guantanamo? This question is a very hard one to answer and that is why the government is trying to make answers with discussions. I think that it is a very hard matter to discuss because many people have many different ideas about it. It is something that might be very important to discuss and very hard to include everyone’s ideas. One idea that was used was to use a national-security court. At the end they still do not have an answer to the question after all the discussions that they have. So one question I have is: When will they finally have the solution to this problem?

Discussion is something that also is present in my family a lot. Something that we do to try to keep the family more united (it works) is by resolving problems as a family. This involves discussions with all of us and finding a solution all together. This is something that we have been using in our family as long as I can remember so it is something that everyone is used to. If I could, I would even tell other people about our method and show them how useful it is to discuss all together. Not only does this keep us united, but it also help us remember that whenever we have a problem, we can talk to anybody from the family and be able to trust the family. This shows that discussions aren’t just useful to use in the government but also in families and everything else; it helps reach good solutions by listening to everyone’s ideas and in the end find the correct solution.