research

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906245-2,00.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/20/world/fg-madeinitaly20?pg=4

reaching a potential topic

Reaching a potential topic
1. What is a social justice issue?
Social justice: the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society.
Poem: The world isn't what it seems
-criminals lurk into the dark and empty streets.
-big groups of people who claim to have unknown identities.
- you wake up every morning in your bed wishing that life was simpler
-that you and your children could live in glory
-but a disadvantage is found in the core of your government
-our society is truly as bad as everyone says it is
-but if so why do people still come and live here?
-why are our visitor groups still so big?
When people are being given the advantages and freedom that they want and need justice is all that is asked for.
2. Ideas for topics:
Topic 1:
A. Topic: Genetically Engineered food
this topic interests me because now there are so many factories around the world. And I'm curious to think how the food is cheap and how the money is given to the factory not the people working in the factory. Are sweat shops easier to run then high class factories? Or are the processes both the same.
B. What are ten interesting facts or ideas that you learned? You MUST put them into your own words.
1. There is a growing wave of concern from other people (including farmers and scientists) who question the research that is currently being handled by a few large profit wanting companies.
2. Bio technology might be the ‘wave’ of the future and genetically modified foods could really give alternatives to help increase food population.

3. Food shortage and hunger are and will be experienced by poorer nations, for the poorer the nation the less the number of food factories.

4. Genetically Engineered food is more expensive that farmers who are devolving nature may not be able to afford all of the new technology needed.

5. Most of the food we eat today is Genetically Engineered food.

6. Genetically Engineered food is slow and UN tested technology and not the correct result and answer to world nation wide hunger.

7. Crop uniformity: when crops are produced with an even tuber size that is related to the target market. The Quality is then increased and related to size and shape.

8. Though Crop uniformity will increase the amount of crops that are grown and sold throughout the market it will increase disease and pest impact. This will cause a lot of de sprouting of the plants and the soil conditions will be changed drastically.

9. This all leads to questions about the motives of the cooperation’s and countries that are using the plight of developing world as a marketing plan.

10. They are against any labeling or other precautionary steps that measure the states that are taking paramount concern.
C. Can you see this becoming your exit project topic? Why/why not?

I can see this becoming my exit project because the two countries that I want to study are full of factories. And they are most likely factories that support Genetically Engineered food. I could compare and say which situations are harder then the other.
D. What is a question you have after doing your reading?

How does all of this compute with the economy? Is the economy the reason why such precautions are being made?

Topic 2:
A. Which topic did you choose to research? Why is this one that interests you?
Human Population, due to the fact that all of our countries have so many people living in them. I find it interesting how some countries are over populated and some are not. I am curious as to why in some cases are the smaller countries filled with more people then the bigger ones.
B. What are ten interesting facts or ideas that you learned? You MUST put them into your own words.
1. Many feel that the major international wars to be fought in the futures will continue to be on natural resources found on our Earth.

2. The human population is estimated to have now passed over six billion people. But large numbers are a problem

3. Europe has a higher population then some densities in Asia

4. Poverty is the number one health problem and is scattered all over most of the world’s population.

5. Women play a crucial role in the development of society; May issues had lead to this fact.

6. Studies point to ecological limits to sustain people

7. The figure of 6 billion and literature about over population looks to the poor regions where there are high populations and environmental disorders that cause the problem as well.

8. The majority of people in poverty are cased by factors which people have no control over.

9. The poor seem to be the ones that are blamed for hurting the planet and not the smaller population of richer people.

10. Human population: it is commonly refers to the TOTAL number of people living on the planet at that current time. Censuses are taken every few years for this very reason.
C. Can you see this becoming your exit project topic? Why/why not?
Yes because I am really interested in the amount of people that are living in each country. There are so many people around the world that experience new things, that some are good things and some are most certainly bad things so I just want to see their cultures, the beauty or their country.
D. What is a question you have after doing your reading?

Why are the poorer nations blamed for destroying the planet when the reason that they are in poverty is of victim and not of fault?
3. Other ways to get ideas for topics is to BROWSE headlines.

1. Article 1
Title: RIGHTS: For Some, Childhood Is Rubbish
Could this be an interesting exit project topic? Why/why not?
Yes because it explains children’s rights and this could be compared to another country that has different points of view s on Children’s rights and them working to help support their family money wise. Instead of doing what children dealing with their childhood should be doing (education, playing sports etc.)

What did you learn about this topic that you didn't know before, after reading the article?
I learned that the specific dump in Guatemala that was being described in that article was also opened to children. Who would in the morning go to school and then go home at night to help support there families revive money by working in a dump. But such actions are now cancelled due to the fact at children are no longer able to experience their childhood by working in a dump.

What questions do you still have?
Why would such extreme precautions be made that children have to work in a dump in the first place? Why would there state be in so much poverty? Were they victims or is it all laziness?

Topic: 2

Title:
Divorce Rate Triple for U.S. Female Soldiers

could this is an interesting exit project topic? Why/why not?
Because due to fact that women would disregarded before I find it interesting that when a women devotes herself to her worked (for ex: joining the army) she then loses her marriage with her husband. This might be coincidental or just by accident I have no clue.

What did you learn about this topic that you didn't know before, after reading the article?
That women who are in the army only have four months to spend time with their family members giving them not that much to spend time with their husband as well. About 11% of Iraq and Afghanistan’s veterans are women. And veterans are four times more likely to be homeless then women who have served in the military. Most of the homeless facilities don’t even appear to accept women. The divorce rate for female soldiers are thriple amount for men who have the same job and carry the same uniform.

What questions do you still have?

Why would such a problem be coincidental or by pure accident? Is it because of the stereotype of women that they should stay at home?