Monday, October 31, 2011

Discuss your impressions of yesterday's refugee assembly

I felt that they were strong, passionate, determined people because they went through really tough and horrifying events throughout their life, like their parents were taken away from them and they had to flee from their countries and live alone with their family away in a new one, but they still believed in themselves and could achieve things like learning how to speak English, even though when they went here, they couldn't speak a single English, they could only speak their own language. They also have big hopes and dreams like to educate other people, they want to make the world a better place. 

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Issues of Basic Right

Our issue we are focusing on is basic rights in the universal declaration of human rights. Each of us will have two sub topics that we are going to talk about. I am going to research and focus on shelter and poverty, while my partner will focus on health care and education. We both will be finding these issues on Zimbabwe because it's one of the major 3rd world countries who need help.  I picked this issue because I thought it was an interesting issue to write about because if everyone has the right to food and shelter, than why are there still countries out there like Zimbabwe who still live on the street and are living in poverty? It is still an on going issue that are affecting a lot of people in the country. We are going to show our research in the style of a power point presentation. We each will have our own slides and present on the areas we are focusing on, which for me is hunger and shelter.