SUMMARY:
Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest person, had shocked people by saying that one way to defeat world hunger is to get products from poor African farmers. With help to add value to agriculture, it will be more sufficient and sustainable. It will also reduces the use of excess energy and be more environmental [...]

Another xtranormal project published, later than it was due:
Our job was to create an xtranormal video about the millenium development goals. In school, we have been studying the MDG’s for a quite a while. This video is an interview between two people which shows my thought on the goals and how we can help.

*The capital of India is New Delhi
Summary-
India has a mostly subsistence economy and is still an LEDC, and they depend greatly on water. Whether it rains or not has a huge impact on their lives. No one is able to predict when or how the summer monsoon will arrive, if it arrives at all. The [...]

More children in school, fewer dying
Summary
Although its been 20 years, 1 billion children still do not have access to enough food, shelter, or clean water; not including the 200 million children who are malnourished. In the last 2 decades UNICEF has been working to instill child rights in every country in the world, and from [...]

Summary: China has executed two men, Hu Ming (55) and Su Binde (27), for abducting and selling 15 children. They were executed Thursday morning. Hu Ming sold nine children from April 1999 to October 2005 and all the boys were returned to their families. Su Binde abducted 6 children from September 2005 to July 2006. [...]

Country: Yemen
Capital: Sana’a
Summary:
In Yemen, it is very easy to look for children who are suffering from severe malnutrition. Because Yemen is in the middle of the war between government troops and the Houthi rebels , there is no access to medical facilities and food. Rajia Sharhan, a nutrition officer, UNICEF, tells that the child malnutrition [...]

Women’s Health an ‘Urgent Priority’
Summary
Recently the World Health Organization has declared women’s health and urgent priority. In many developing countries, women do not receive quality healthcare during their adolescence; this may cause problems later on in their life. According to statistics, death rates in richer countries have a larger amount of deaths of women older [...]

Summary: Just because you are using electric power doesn’t necessarily mean it is clean energy. Power plants all over the world burns fossil  fuel which emits thousands of tons of CO2 and other fumes. David Wheeler, created a database that tracks down the power plant polluters. He said that we are not limiting the emissions, [...]

“Oil is an essential part of our lives. Therefore, our main goal is to drill for more oil anywhere.”
 

That was our debate topic for geography. I was assigned to be be on the Against Team for this issue. From the beginning, I felt very strongly on this issue, and my own opinion was that we [...]

In our geography class we did a debate on whether or not we should drill for oil. We looked the pros and cons of oil as well as the different affects oil has on us, the environment, and the economy. We tried three different styles of debating: that included something similar to instant messaging, another [...]