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The Heaven Shop;

The Heaven Shop is a very intense and and book. It's very straight forward and explains how people live in poverty. It's so sweet that the children and parents are still very happy even though they live in a very poor environment. I just want to keep reading and I don't want to stop.

The Paper Bag Activity;

For the activity I'm very scared because I have no idea about anything that's going to happen I'm not sure if we're going to get any tools to help us. I think if we all work together we can do this very easily!

Global Issues;

Global Issues is actually the BEST class I have in my whole schedule and It's very sad, fun and interesting. You learn a lot of things that you haven't known about the world and I love it, it's very inspirational.

1) What big ideas did you get from watching it?
There is a young man that noticed all of this horrible fighting and war and was very frustrated with the fact that no body's doing anything about it so what he did was he started making a video and then suddenly noticed, there is no day for peace. That was the moment he decided to make a peace day. It was official and in the video it showed how peace day has helped people around the world.

2) Why is peace so important?

Peace is important because without i t people grow without respect for others, no happiness and lives are ruined, and not just in a small way but even to the point where people are losing lives. Without peace people aren't going to stop killing, war and really making problems in other countries and families.

3) What are the links between peace and development?
Yes, because if someone were to try to develop a country this cant be done without peace for example; somebody were to try to help make a village better, this wont work if people are shooting at the person helping. There is a big similarity between peace and development.

4) What are the hidden costs of war? (Sometimes they aren't so 'hidden' - but often they aren't monetary costs).

War around the world is really effecting innocent people around the world without a good reason. And children fighting in war (armed with weapons as well). Peace day has helped with aid supplies, mosquito nets, unity that saves lives, injections are giving ( 1.4 million in Afghanistan in 2009) giving people everywhere relief.

On the 15th of September, our Global Issues class had an assembly based on Peace! We had a video about peace and a small clip of Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Chemelic made a speech that was very heartfelt and it had been about the way ISKL has their own goals and peace around the school. Afterwards the students took a minute of silence to think about how grateful we are for what we have and our advantages. A few of the student in the Global Issues made a poem and speeches. Everyone in the theater were very quiet and since they had time to think about the unfortunate people in different countries, people were in a very serious mood. Suddenly music turns on and my class begins to dance. It was very fun, the whole middle school joined in and we all had a wonderful time.

What are Global Issues? Global Issues are problems that people have been suffering with in the world such as, No Education, lack of Environmental Sustainability, needed Child Health, very little Maternal Health,disrespected Gender Equity, End Hunger (poverty), Combat HIV/AIDS and lack of Global Partnership. Every country in this nation have Global Issues! Many people have attempted to solve these problems and even though people didn't solve the issue worldwide; however, helping one person is always a big impact on the life of this person. That is why people need to help those in danger and close to death. It is very important and we all need to care because we are all one big family and we all need to work together. A lot of people are put into families where they have enough money to get everything they need and want. That's why those people need to be grateful, we have to help and we will help one at a time.

Young girls are put to work everyday carrying buckets of water two times their own weight while the boys are getting educated and after all the work those young girls have to do, the boys get the credit (universal education and Gender equity.) Women are pregnant worrying everyday knowing that there is a small chance their baby will even live because they need money and a proper doctor to take care of them (maternal health). Babies', and children live alone without food because their mothers' die from lack of maternal health. These children could be very ill but they don't have any money to go to a doctor to be cured (Child Health). A lot of babies have no chance of living over a month because they have no food (poverty, end hunger). Children don't have parents also because of HIV/AIDS and this illness is passed on down to the children (Combat HIV/AIDS and also another example of Child Health.)