Poverty

Poor people are very vulnerable to abuses in many ways. Some people are as desperate for money as to sell organs to other people to get money. An example will be selling kidneys, which is short in supply for transplants. In this kind of shady business, the rich pays the poor to get a chance to live a longer life. 56% of those living in poverty are woman, 36% are children, and the rest are men. In 2007, the overall people who live in poverty is 37 million people. Poverty is not just in America, but in every place in the world. There has been programs that is helping those that are in need. An good example is freereice.com (http://freerice.com/) which helps donates free food. Some of the poorest countries includes Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, and many more. There are many poor countries that needs help even today.




http://poverty.suite101.com/article.cfm/human_organ_trafficking_on_the_increase
http://poverty.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_men_may_change_the_face_of_poverty_in_americ
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_poorest_country_in_the_world
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_poorest_country_in_the_world

White fang comparing book and movie

Movie
-Less information about White Fang's childhood
-Main character was a human, not the dog
-White Fang did not go to San Fransisco
-Shorter and less scenes
-Added some scenes
-Gets sold/taken to different owners by different ways
-Different ending
-Slight/totally different characters

Book
-More descriptive
-Longer
-Story line is different


Same
-Has a dog named White Fang
-Gets three different owners
-Born in the wild
-About dog and humans

If I were to compare the book and the movie, I would say they are two different stores. The main character is suppose to be a wolf-dog named White Fang. But in the movie, instead of the dog, the main character is a fat American guy that comes along looking the gold. I prefer the book over the movie. Some scenes in he movie was switched and added, making parts of the movie to be confusing and dull. But the book also have flaws, the author tends to get over descriptive. Just the fact that the main character is different in the movie than in the book, the story can be changed alot. Basically almost all of the story line and ending was affected by this. The history of the dog White Fang was changed as well. Instead of being born from a hole that suddenly appeared in the ground, White Fang was suppose to be born in a cave in the wold. Different characters appear and die which can make me sometimes think "What happened to ......"

Language Arts-How can we Reduce, Reuse, and Rycycle?

Reducing
-Walk, run
-Turn off lights/ other electrical devices
-No air conditioning
-Fast showers
-Less homework (wastes less electricity and saves trees)

Reusing
-Don't throw away new plastic bottles.
- Give anything you don't one to someone else instead of throwing it away.


Recycling
Batteries, Plastic, Paper, Glass, Aluminum, Steel, Motor Oil, Tires, Toxics, Refrigerators, Computer Printers, False Claims, Curbside Recycling Tips.

Opposition Leader Wants to Stop Zuma

With the national election being held next Wednesday, The opposing leader, Helen Zille started a campaign to stop Zuma. While it may be imposable for her to keep Jacob Zuma, the leader of the governing African National Congress (A.N.C), from being president, she hopes to stop the A.N.C from getting two-third of all the votes and make changes to the Constitution. The A.N.C. wants to defend itself “from corruption investigations, even if it means undermining the constitution,” she warned that South Africa can become a “failed state.” The governing party has held a two-thirds majority for the past five years without making these changes.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/africa/16briefs-002.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=south%20africa&st=cse

Culture of Africa

In out humanities class we read two stories ("Fafi's Sheep" and "The Three Tests") and we are are suppose to write a blog post about what we learned about their culture after we read to story.

Since lots of people that live in Africa can not read or write words, they tell stories. The stories are usually being passed down from grandfather to father then to children.

In the first story ("The Three Tests"), a prince went traveling around the ocean to search for his brothers. On his way, he met lots of friends. There are lots of supernatural occurrences in the story too. The main character was able to see genies. The next story was about a boy who never listens to anybody. One day, his pet sheep escapes and he was able to lear his lesson to listen to advices.

Most of the people in Africa were poor. They lived in communities so the chance of getting attacked by other people or animals will be less. The jobs there are mostly selling products. Instead of horses, they race with goats and sheep. People there live in small round huts made of mud and grass. It was not a rare sight for a child to get beaten by a stick. The clothing they wore was very simple, it was rare to see a person wearing jewelry or precious stones.

There are lots of other stories. Some about daily life and some about adventures, but all the stories I have read so far have included a moral.

Humanity-Journal

In humanities class. We are learning about Africa. We read some of their websites bout their daily life and what they do. Our teacher told us to make a journal of our daily life on the blog and explain how ours is different from theirs.



Once you get home from school, nothing beats playing on the piano, though I want a real one. I never really like playing songs I am told to play be my teacher...



A drink, I only like cold drinks.. Then I will stuff my face with food.








RELAXX~~~~ Play wii or read manga on the computer.








Homework.... You can never be done with it. Time goes so slow when you do homework....







If I don't have anything else to do or don't need to go to any classes then I will start to do random things (Read manga, watch TV, run around, draw, piano, you get the point)

Difference I have with the children in Africa in my daily life.

-I have electricity, some of the places in Africa does not have electricity .
- I don't need to plant my own meals. Some schools in Africa has their own vegetable patch for them to provide food for the people at the school.
- I live in an urban area, most south Africans live in more rural areas.

Humanity- Teenager Stabbed at School

17-year-old Pietermaritzburg pupil was stabbed and died at on Monday. A KwaZulu-Natal police said

"Today police received a report of a stabbing at the Amakholwa High School in Snathing. On arrival at the scene, police found the body of a male learner, who has been identified as Nhlanhla Buthelezi, on the ground outside a classroom," said Superintendent Henry Budhram.

The pupil that died has been stabbed three times in total. Some people has said to see two males entering the school through a hole in a fence.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20090330182909965C383293