Thursday, November 5, 2009

Two Articles that I choose for my topic about Health Issuses

Article 1.)
Title: Gaza on swine flu alert
By Paula Hancocks
site: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WPRLD/meast/11/03/gaza.flu/index.html

Article 2.)
Title: A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis
By Claudia Wallis
site: http://www.nyctimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?bl

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Exit Project: The Two Articles

Article 1.)
Title: The Right To Have Nuclear Weapons?

Could this be an interesting exit project topic? Why/why not?
- This might be interesting topic for the exit project, but I would not choose this one. That's because I'm not really into this topic about the nuclear weapons like the other people who likes about the nuclear weapons.

What did you learn about this topic that you didn't know before, after reading the article?
- I learned that
the U.S. wish to dissuade/persuade others from pursuing the nuclear weapons development.

What questions do you still have?
- Why does the
right to the nuclear weapons will be an attractive argument for those who feel threatened by the current world powers?

2. Article 2:
Title: Today, Over 25,00 Children Died Around The World

Could this be an interesting exit project topic? Why/why not?
- I would might choose this article for my exit project. That's because I would like to learn more about how and where does the most of the children die around the world.

What did you learn about this topic that you didn't know before, after reading the article?
- I learned that the silent killers are the easily preventable diseases and illness that is much less sustain.

What questions do you still have?

- How did they born without not having diseases or being health?

Exit Project: Two Ideas Topics

Topic 1.)
A. Which topic did you choose to research? Why is this the one that interests you?
- The Topic that I choose to research is the "Health Issues." This made me having interests to me, because I would want to know about how many people in different countries are healthy or having the diseases. Like AIDS, HIV, and more . . .

B. What are ten interesting facts or ideas that you learned? You MUST put them into your own words.
I learned that
-
each year, about 11 million children that is under the age of 5 is dieing from malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases.
- there is about 32.8 million people is living with HIV
- about 2.5 million people is having new infections of HIV
- about 2 million deaths from AIDS

-
about 8.8 million people having the new cases of tuberculosis (TB)
- each year, about 1.75 million deaths from TB
- each year, about 1.6 million people still die from pneumococcal diseases
- malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses, at least it makes about 1 million deaths

- more than half a million people, died from measles in 2003

- mostly children get the disease called measles
- measles has been available for over 40 years

C. Can you see this becoming your exit project topic? Why/why not?
- I would think this could be my exit project. That's because I would want to know about which country are getting lots of different kinds of diseases than any other countries.

D. What is a question you have after doing your reading?
- How do the people could get different kinds of diseases?

Topic 2.)
A. Which topic did you choose to research? Why is this the one that interests you?
- The topic that I choose to research is "Genetically Engineered Food." This made me having interests to me, because this
issue has entered about the main media in a lot of countries that is about the Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food.

B. What are ten interesting facts or ideas that you learned? You MUST put them into your own words.
- U.S. is the country that is not has entered the main media in a lot of other countries
-
lot of foods that we eat today are contains with genetically modified ingredients
- the problem of food shortages is a political and economic problem
- the GE food is an expensive technology that the farmers of the developing nations that would not be able to afford easily
- the way of the research of a growing wave of concern is currently being handled by the profit of hungry corporations
- the crop uniformity will reduce the genetic diversity by making them more vulnerable/harmful to disease and pests
- the motives of corporations and countries are the one who is using the plight of the developing world
- it is marketing the strategy to gain acceptance of GE food
- they are against of any labeling or other precautionary steps and measures that states may wish to take it as the "paramount" concern
- the economics and politics at all levels that have often prevented the foods from reaching hungry people, and not a lack of production

C. Can you see this becoming your exit project topic? Why/why not?
- I would think that I should not do this topic as my exit project. That's because it would make me hard of researching more about the GE (Genetically Engineered) Food for a whole year at my last year of my junior-high school .

D. What is a question you have after doing your reading?

- Since when and where did the problem of foodshortages become the political and economic problem?

Monday, November 2, 2009

Exit Project: Social Justice (ten line poem)

What is a Social Justice?

it is hard to arrive at and even harder to apply it

it is also meant for the political orientation, religious background, and also political/social philosophy . . .

it concerned with equal justice,

except not just in the courts

but it is in all of the aspects society

in societies like the US,

we have distinct problems

like hungry children, homelessness, and making sure that all children receive the same high standard of education

but there is no reason

to abandon attempting to promote a just society and trying to aim for it

The Exit Project

1.) What are you most excited about with the exit project?
- I'm most excited about the exit project of finding different kinds of information of the topic that I'm researching about.

2.) What are your biggest fear and why?
- My biggest fear of this project is not able to find the infomations of what I need research for my topic. That's because it would make me feel that I'm the only one who couldn't do what I need to do.

3.) What do you hope to get out of it?
- I would hope to get out of it by finishing my project with putting my own thought in it.

4.) What is your advice to yourself about meeting your goals?
- My advice to myself of meeting my goals are put lots of interesting facts, more details, put into my own words, and do my best.