Current Event- MDG

Here's my current event:

Millennium Development Goals
1. Summary
In the year 2000 all the member states of the United Nations (UN) agreed on some Millennium Development Goals (MDG) which they would try to reach before 2015. They wanted to reduce the number of people who live in hunger and extreme poverty, increase the number of children going to school, reduce the number of children dying of different diseases, improve the health for mothers giving birth, and have more equality between men and women. Bangladesh is also trying to reach the MDG. Bangladesh has built more schools for children and the number of poor people has decreased. The number of children dying before the age of 5 has also been reduced. But there are still many poor people in Bangladesh, and many people without a job. There are also many women dying when they give birth, because they don’t have enough hospitals. Another problem is the lack of clean and safe drinking water. The Government of Bangladesh says that they need more help from other countries to reach the MDG.

2. How is this related to population?
The MDG are supposed to give the population a better life. This can be done by improving education and health for everyone. It would also help if the population was reduced. Bangladesh has140 million people and there are not enough jobs or schools or hospitals for everyone. Bangladesh is also a small country and has very little land for 140 million people to live on. Therefore many people live in crowded slums. There is not enough safe drinking water either. Bangladesh is overpopulated in relation to its land and natural resources.

3. Poem
Dying mothers when they give birth.
Education for all children is important.
Very big difference rich and poor in Bangladesh.
Equality between men and women.
Land is scarce in Bangladesh.
Overpopulation usually causes
Poverty.
Millennium Development Goals.
Everyone deserves an equal chance in life.
Nutrition is important, especially for children.
There’s not enough jobs for everyone in Bangladesh.

4. Bibliography
Title: “Unemployment, rich-poor gap two major MDG challenges.”
Authors: Reajul Karim Byron and Sajjadur Rahman
Date: Saturday 8 March 2008.
Source: Daily Star newspaper.

MSN scenario

It is 10:00 pm on a Wednesday night; you have finished your homework and you are chatting on MSN with three other friends. After 10 minutes two more friends ask to join the chat. By 10:30 pm five more people have joined and it is fun; however, there is a joke said about one of the people, rapidly followed by an insult. At first, no one knows how to respond, and then seconds later a message pops up stating, “I didn’t say that! It isn’t me saying these things. Someone is using my name. What is going on here?”

What is the issue involved in this scenario? Why is this serious?

The issue is that a person is appearing to be talking when it's not really them. This is serious because a person can get into a lot of trouble when it wasn't even them and someone else should get the blame. In addition the person who really did it is sort of in a “disguise” because they were appearing as another person.

What would be a responsible way to handle this situation?

I think that people should be honest in situations like this, and the person who did it should admit that it was him/her. I think that in the long run this would make a much less trouble for more people than only themselves.

How could a situation like this be resolved? How would one of the three main characters from The Revealers deal with this situation? One of characters from The Revealers would defiantly post a story to the all of the middle school about the issue. I think they would do that because that's what they did to deal with most of their problems they had. A nice way to resolve a situation like this would be to simply say the word "sorry" to the person getting made fun of and the person they used to send the information out.

Bullying in Language Arts

In Language Arts class we were assigned to read a book called "The Revealers". It's about bullying. After class discussions we have to answer questions about our opinions of bullying, the first question is already posted on my blog (as you can see). There will be more posted later!
And as usual...loads of millions of hugs from ME=)

The Revealers

Blog Question: Is bullying a rite of passage of childhood and adolescence? Is it apart of the maturation process one needs to go through to reach adulthood?

I don't think that anyone deserves to be bullied just to be accepted into another age. The victims shouldn't have any more pain or problems in their life than they already are going through. Being bullied can actually affect a person's life later on when they are adults. Most bullies themselves have been bullied, and they are getting their aggression out on another person. In order for people to handle situations they do have to have gone through challenges and conflicts in life but i think that bullying too has to have boundaries. The victim should learn how to be strong and stand up fro themselves, but as I pointed out sometimes bullying can be carried on from person to person.

First blog

Hello gorgeous!
(yes, you are gorgeous...)
I'm Maria and am in class assigned to create a blog.
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Have a good day! And remember: someone will always love you.
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