Rock Mountain Husbandman

         Diamond City Montana is a small town on the west facing slopes of the Big Belt Mountains. In 1876, many of the newspaper articles related to railroads, agricultural issues, as well as a negative view upon all of those who were not white.
         This was a town secluded from the rapidly growing world. The nearest railroad was over 35 miles away, which was the cause of many of the articles to surround the topic of a new taxing system to start a fund to extend the railroad into the town. Since there was no railroad, this town also faced agricultural issues that came with not having access to the materials needed to keep up with the growing population or changing needs of people. The town started as a solely white town, and without a railroad, few to none non-whites were coming in, keeping the views opinionated and racist. 


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ISIS Human Trafficking

          Human trafficking is still an actively growing issue today as terrorist organizations such as ISIS are starting to play a larger role.  There are many reasons as to why ISIS is able to succesfully continue this trade, most revolving around the conditions this group works around. Many locations native to terrorist groups such as this one, are usually poverty struck which causes a drastic need for money. This need is used to attract desperately poor young women, by offering them supposedly sustainable jobs, but in reality they end up kidnapped or sold. Other conditions in which this occurs include cities torn by war and politics which leave many people of third world areas homeless, and children uncared for, making them vulnerable to ISIS members. The efforts to stop human and sex trafficking are slowly increasing, but in cities such as Aleppo and Damascus these efforts typically go unnoticed since there is a strong historical culture of exploitation and the devaluation of women. 

        ISIS utilizes human trafficking and sex trafficking to intimidade populations by crushing them pyschologically, to generate revenue, and to reward succesful combatants  (typically with a young girl). The increasing fear of being kidnapped at any time creates a sense of fear and trauma amongst most young women. It has the ability to mentally destroy communities by keeping them in fear as well as sending a political message stating that ISIS can do whatever they want. These terrorist groups are able to greatly profit from trafficking by selling women based on the buyers needs. However, this has caused a growing spread of health risks such as HIV and aids, not only amongst the civilian population but the ISIS combatants as well. 

        Terrorist organizations are now also using social media and local "outreach" groups to attract young girls of a certain type, before enslaving or selling them. This happens in almost every community all over the world including America which is why everyone needs to be aware and concious of the threat.