In poor rural Indian villages, culture and tradition enveloped the lives of women and teenage girls into a living nightmare. The traditions of women being a “servant” of God has been passed down for generations. Even today, this traditions remains and is still practised not for the sake of preserving tradition, but because young teenage girls are forced to have sex, or because of money. In India, a religious tradition called devdasi is practiced. This traditions defines women as servants of God whom were chosen to dedicate their lives doing sex work in the name of their religion. While it first started as doing dances and entertaining princes and kings, this tradition later off became an excuse for making prostitution to be considered something completely normal in Indian society. Today, once girls hit puberty, they are sent, even forced by their fathers and brothers, to brothels to have sex. Women also become prostitutes for the sake of their children. Money, being a dominating problem in poor societies, women work as being prostitutes to support their children. During the nighttime in New Delhi or other cities, the streets become a work place for prostitutes. In the short run, I believe prostitution can financially help the rural families in need of money. However, in the long run, prostitution damages the economy as continued practices of prostitution allows room for girls from younger generations to follow their mother’s footsteps into becoming another prostitute. If this tradition is stopped, then the younger generations can get seek education, find a life supporting healthy job, and increase the economy of  India by working in long term jobs.

Charity programs are set up to give girls education and to prevent parents from selling their daughters into prostitution.

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21/tradition-forces-daughters-into-prostitution/?hpt=hp_mid

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Tom Dobrzanski, a Sauder graduate at UBC, is a successful business man. Graduating with a bachelor of commerce degree, he holds much knowledge of what goes around in the business world. Tom, however has another side to him, a side that is filled with talent and artistic passion: Music. Tom loves to sing and play the keyboard. However, following family footsteps of his mother and father (both whom were business student graduates) he chose the path of business as his future field of interest. His passion in music, however made him join a band and give him ideas for making a home studio. Of course, this did not come easy as there were risks along the way: sunk costs, fixed costs, and variable costs of maintaining the studio was far beyond what he could earn. Using loans and mortgages, he was eventually able to create a home studio where he would record his own songs with his or rent it for other bands to record at a payable price. Being well informed in business, he was able to contract banks and other people to support his path in becoming a successful band.

Tom inspires me as I am also a musician. Using business ideals, Tom was able to use business concepts to support his passion of playing music. Recording his own songs in his own studio, he was able to become a successful mainstream band. Tom essentially persevered and worked hard at doing what he loves. He sought opportunities and was motivated by music and was able to achieve success.

http://thezolasmusic.com/

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