In class we read and commented openly about how being both young and old have their advantages and disadvantages. This discussion was similar to the material we learned in class. We learned about the “lost youths”, children in Uganda who live right in the middle of a war every day of their lives, and life of children in the poetry of William Blake. The “lost youths” was all about how children were treated in factories during the Industrial Revolution. They were working 19 hours a day, they were shackled at night so they didn’t run away, they were tortured and beaten whenever they got caught trying to run away, and their parents sold them into slavery! Their parents who are supposed to love them dearly, sold their own children into slavery for money! There’s only one really logical way we can respond to this, and that is by doing our best to make sure that it never happens again. I know damn well that I’d never sell my children into slavery like that and I know most of us would do the same. Mrs. Ring also came in to talk to our class at the end of the day to show us what life for a child in Uganda, Africa was like. Turns out,their life, even today, is 10x worse than the life of a child back in the Industrial Revolution. A Uganda child, is in the constant danger of being abducted and manipulated into believing that violence is OK. They live in the middle of a country-wide war that has been going on for many many years, and they,still today, this very moment, are still living in that constant fear of being abducted, most likely killed, and if not that then made a killer. The poems that we read by William Blake were all about genuine love and naive trust toward all humankind, unquestioned belief in Christian doctrine, profound disillusionment with human nature and society, and one entering a state of “Experience” sees cruelty and hypocrisy only too clearly but is unable to imagine a way out. Ways that we can fight social injustice is by treating everyone as equal just like our forefathers and the way God wants us to treat each other.