The Paper Bag Game!

In this game we will have to try to survive by making paper bags. I think our family will survive because most of us already had practice with origami and we are prepared.

I will tell the next Global Issues class that global Issues will have the 'TIME OF YOUR LIFE!' You will learn about poverty, MEDC's, LEDC's, and you will learn many interesting information!

Third World Farmer Reflection

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Name: Marie-Benedicte Capuano
Home Group Teacher: Reiser


Global Issues Portfolio Reflection
3rd World Farmer Reflection

Describe the game. What was the purpose of the game?
The purpose of Third World Farmer is to make you know how it feels like to be in poverty. Third World Farmer is a fun game but it also makes you feel sad and angry for not doing anything for all those people out there that are suffering right now. This game builds up the awareness around the world of what is happening everyday.

Describe and explain your strategy during the game.
To survive in this game you must be very careful and thoughtful of what you do. For example, if someone comes to your house to asks you to plant *opium and you don’t have much money you HAVE to accept to get some money. Then what happens is you plant the drug and that’s when everything goes wrong. First you think it’s okay because your money is going up by selling it but then you kind of get sucked into this swirl of danger and get into the underworld. People might come to your house with guns or tell you to come to war with them.

What is a short- term decision?
It is a decision made without considering long term consequences.

Why are they bad?
Because you don't plan anything, you don't think about the future and what will happen.

Why could somebody in a situation of poverty get stuck in a cycle of short-term decision-making?
Because they can't, they don't have the money to plan it. They live on day-to-day bases and struggle to survive everyday. Their priority is not long-term, it is to deal with their immediate and basic needs.

What could get them out of this cycle?
To start with, they need a helping hand so that they can concentrate on other things than surviving.

What is a long-term decision?
It is a decision made considering long term consequences.

Why are they good?
They are good because they consider various options for the future.

Why do long-term decisions lead to development and increased standards of living?
Because the focus will be on a goal to be achieved in the long term and the steps to reach this goal will be developed. In the mean time, you can adjust your plans based on your new needs and the changes in your environment.

What did you learn from playing this game?
I learned more on how poor people have a really hard time to survive. They only have short-term desisions and only think about how to get food the next day. I definately learned that to get out of the cycle of poverty they need a helping hand, our helping hands.

Haiti Reflection

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The state of Haiti's children after the earthquake.
They were homeless. All there houses had been destroyed. Most of them were orphans, left with nobody to help them survive. They couldn't get food, Buildings, houses, schools, refuges, and shops got broken down. The hospitals got destroyed and they were sick.

What human rights are being denied to them?
Shelter, comfort, education, privacy, being safe and many other.

What action is being taken to address this?
There are people from MEDC's and the UN coming in to give them food water, help and supplies.

Discuss the difficulties faced by this country as it tries to recover from the earthquake.
There was deforestation. Not only that but there kept on having natural disasters. For example, they build the hospital back, an earthquake comes along and destroys it. They re-build it and another earthquake occurs. The hospital gets destroyed again and they are running out of supplies. It would take 12 hours a day for a year to remove all the wastes left from hospitals and buildings.

Why can some countries rebuild faster than others, and what is it about Haiti that put it at a disadvantage?Suggest how this country will cope in the forthcoming years.
Countries can rebuild faster than others because one of there advantages is that the natural disasters don't happen that often. In the other hand, countries like Haiti are having a hard time trying to recover because natural disasters keep occurring.

Reflection on Ayiti the cost of life:
I found this game very fustrting and sad. I was doing good though, I dad had a job the kids went to school and mum was working at the farm. I earned some money but definatly not enough to be able to survive

Peace Day

Today, the 21/09/10 is peace day. So far we have done two action projects in the last two weeks. One of them was an assembly and the other was a lunch peace. Today we, as a global issues class, made a lunch of Peace. We organized cookie sale, face painting, games, Photo taking and many other things. I took care of face painting. I really loved doing face painting because everybody tolled me I was good at it and I'm awesome =) . We could here people in the class yelling "MAKE A COMMITMENT!" and everyone was talking about how great this was and how fun it was to be there.

As a result, with all our hard work we were able to raise.......... 611 RM!!!!!!!!! I really enjoyed this action project and hope with all my heart that we an do another one just like that but instead it will be to give to people in poverty. I know that by these action projects we made it really boosted up the awerness of peace to the school.

Peace One Day movie

The big ideas I got from watching this video are that we have to make peace. If just for one day everybody got to stop, put their guns down and think about what they are doing, then maybe they will finally notice that it is completely stupid to have war. We are acting like 3 year old fighting like that. There is no meaning behind war. If only everybody could understand that it is completely pointless and that you don't gain anything from war but loose things.

If there is still war and no peace, then what's the use of living? YOU DON'T GAIN ANYTHING FROM WAR BUT LOOSE. You loose your family, childhood, freedom, life. People are dying out there for no reason! Well actually there is a reason, its because people are being stupid and not listening that war should end. They really have to understand that all this is stupid and useless. If we have peace and war stops, then countries will spend their money on things that actually matter like the MDG's.

Usually when a country has war the country is less developed than a country who doesn't. This is because when war happens everything gets destroyed and the government can't concentrate on the MDG's, it has to concentrate on making war stop. An example is that schools get shut down so kids cannot have an education which is one of the MDG's.

The hidden costs of war are that hospitals get shut down so if people get sick they have nowhere to go. If it is a disease like dengue people will die at home with no one to help or cure them. Also if there is war kids cannot go to school because their parents won't let them walk outside while there is a war going on so they won't have an education. Another hidden cost of war is that people can't go to the supermarket to get food and water either because the war is going on or because it has been destroyed.

I think we should all stop war together and help the ones who need help. We have to stop acting childish, think for a while, grow up and stop war. I will say this again once and for all:
"WE DO NOT GAIN ANYTHING FROM WAR BUT LOOSE THINGS."- Marie-Benedicte Capuano

What are Global Issues and why should I care?

Global Issues is a subject about Issues that are happening all around the world that are affecting our planet and the species living on it. Here are some Global Issues: Poverty, Deforestation, endangered animals, child abuse, climate change and Maternal health.

We should all care about these Issues because if we don't take care of them there won't be anywhere to go for the future generations or maybe there won't even be any generations left. As you are reading this there are probably people dying either because of bad water they get, hunger, natural disasters, or many other things. We have to stop that now. We all have to start worrying about it and start doing all we can to help others. As global citizens of this earth, we should all combine as one and fight against those Global Issues happening all around us. For our earth, and for our people.