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?