Describe what you know about life in the trenches

The military have to live in harsh conditions when living in the trenches to hide from enemies. They have to sleep on each other in bunk beds or worse, in the mud. It is really claustrophobic, because the spaces are limited and squished. The area is uncomfortable, wet and damp. When it rains, the water rises to knee length and causes trench foot and other dirty diseases. Mice live in there and steal and eat their food. They have to constantly hear the shots of guns and their partners dieing and rotting.

Why do you think the idea of conflict is more prominent than peace in the world?

I think for there to be peace, there has to be a conflict first because there needs to be an argument to begin with. Or sometimes the conflict doesn't get solved, so therefor there is a lot of problems being piled up than it being solved because it takes a lot of time for some big issues to come up with solutions. There is more drama and tragedies happening in war where else peace isn't.

What is conflict?

Conflict is when there is a fight or problem between two or more groups of people. One group is going against the other and there is violence and a clash between the two.

Development gap topics

Luharia Mystery

Where- He moved to living in a city in Gujarat

Who- Luharia was a fisherman living in a village near the Narmuda river. He is a father, a husband and a healer.

Why- He was forced by the government to move out because they are building a dam and the government offered them land in city. He decided to move out of his village because in the quote " ultimately in our culture we are taught that if it helps the society, you have to sacrifice a little bit." After a while he was finally convinced because it is in his culture to sacrifice for the better. The good part in moving to the city is that they get more water and electricity.

 

Grace is happy because after all the hard work her parents and herself did, they have enough money to finally send her to school. After her dad joined Kuapa Kokoo, their life got better because for the first time they were living on less than 50 p a day. Now they have enough money to buy basic needs like food, clean water, healthcare and an affordable education that even gets an uniform. Her dad got all the money because the fair trade is more developed now because cocoa is Ghana's main export crop.

To understand and explain how development is measured?

Development is measured by several different categories. Like the country's GDP or the population and the growth and death rate.

- We think that the most important for measuring development is the gross national product because it will show how much money a country makes as a whole. It shows how well the country can ship and trade with other countries worldwide. The richer the country, the more it develops. The poorer the country, it will be less developed. 

- The least important is the percentage of people employed in agriculture because it might not only be food products that are traded and made for income. It could be tourism, gadgets, clothes or more. There are also other jobs more less and more than agriculture.

- We think that number of people per doctor is quite important as it shows how much healthcare the country receives. Population growth rate is important because it shows how much people keeps getting added and infant mortality rate is how many infants are removed. It's like the same thing.

- We didn't use car ownership as it is not important because you could buy another type of vehicle like a van or a motorbike and you could still be rich.

- There should the indicator percentage of people living in a rural area or without a home. Because it is important to see how many people are still living in the streets or in the village. Because it shows us if a country is being developed as people need to have shelter and other basic needs.

-It was easy to make the decision because we all knew how important or unimportant each indicator was. We knew the first and last indicator easily but the middle ones we had some trouble as we had to discuss and rotate for awhile.