modern day savery at walmart?

I was very moved by the presentation about human trafficking. Before this i honestly didn't know what human trafficking was. I was shocked to find out that it was basically slavery. And what amazed me the most was that Walmart and Sears use human trafficking to keep their prices low. This was such a shocking fact to me I wondered what other big companies use human trafficking. I googled stores that use sweat shops and got the site behindthelabel.org and it listed some of the stores that use sweat shops.
some would be:

• Ann Taylor
• Abercrombie & Fitch (This includes Hollister and abercrombie)
• Eddie Bauer
• Gap (This includes Banana republic and Old Navy)
• J. Crew
• JC Penny
• and many more!

This is very shocking to me and I want to try and avoid shopping and these stores from now on. I hope that human trafficking can be eliminated because it is very crule and sad. ♥

2nd PLN: Female athlete triad

link to article: Sports and Women Athletes: The Female Athlete Triad -- familydoctor.org

I was reading this article while doing research on eating disorders for my position paper and it changed my thinking about my friend's anorexia. The female athlete triad is a disorder that affects one's eating habits, a girls periods, and the strength of one's bones. This is exactly what happened to my friend. The article also tells the risk factors for the female athlete triad and everyone on my swimming team has these risk factors (my friend that is anorexic is on my swim team). The signs of a potential problem for one of us was there but the coaches ignored them and continue to this day with the mindset that winning is more important than anything else. We could have prevented anything like this from happening by making swimming about doing our best and having fun not about winning at all costs. And my poor friend had to pay the price for our carelessness. She will always have the effects of her eating disorder such as osteoporosis in her back. She may never be able to be the same person she was before; she will always have to eat much more than a normal person and always have to have a lot of calcium to help her bones. It's a shame that nobody payed attention to the signs. Before I read this article I wondered how she got her eating disorder and why it was her not any other person. It's all very clear now; my whole team is at a big risk for the female athlete triad, she was just the poor girl who actually got it.

PLN

I have decided to begin reading the Da Vinci Code again. Last semester I planned on reading it last semester but never got around to it. So this semester I am going to read it. I just started on it and it’s pretty good so far. I have seen most of the movie (I fell asleep before it ended) and the movie was very good and I heard the book was even better. I have seen Angels & Demons to and that was really good. I hope I enjoy the book so I will want to read the others in the series.
So far the main character Robert Langdon has been asked to go to the Louvre late at night because a person he was supposed to meet with earlier that evening had been killed in the Louvre. Also there has been a part that switches to this albino person that seems nuts. This book has a lot about religion and the secrets in it.