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Which issue did you find the most interesting to explore and why?
What will you find interesting about the issues we have chosen as a class?
Tell me two facts you have dioscovered about our issues and tell me where you got those facts from.
Tell me about a useful website for research- what is good about it?
What do you hope to achieve in this unit of study?
We have to create a play which is culturally transferrable - give me one way we might achieve this.
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I found that the most interesting topic to explore through drama is drugs. The reason I found this topic to be the most interesting is because drugs have many other outlets to other significant topics such as poverty, reasons for doing it, abuse and others.
The things that I have found interesting about the topic are the way we will show the drugs and the significance of them. We will also show the affects of the drugs on the user and how they react to the affects, will they be mad and hysterical, or maybe a laugh and having a good time, this will all be explored more in January.
2 facts that I have discovered is that drugs are used frequently in people who live in the streets or have low expectations of life. Another fact about drugs that I have found is that the main reason of using drugs is recreational purpose. I had gotten these facts from a website on the internet on several important sites.
The site that I found to be quite useful is http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01220/reasons_for_drugs.htm
The reason I found this site to be useful is because it gives the reasons on why street kids turn to drugs and other issues we have been discussing in class.
What I am hoping to achieve in this unit is the understanding of lives of street children and they’re everyday struggles to survive and make it through the day with dignity, respect and enough food, water, shelter and clothing.
I think a play that would be culturally transferable is not stating any specific whys, where, who, how, etc. because that way it would be more malleable for other cultures and other schools to use this play.
We were investigating different world issues and came up with a number of issues. One of the issues that most interested me was racism. This interested me because I wanted to understand why people think about other people with prejudices. Its interesting to see how people act on these prejudices as well as how the victim reacts. We have decided on using the global issues of rape, child abuse, street children and drugs. I think that it will be interesting exploring drug use and rape becasue both of these affect people very differently and there are also quite difficult to portray unless the class is quite serious about it. Also, these problems are viewed very differently culturally. This will be quite difficult to portray internationally, although i think after learning more about the issues it will become easier. Whilst researching about these topics on the New Internationalist website i discovered an article about trafficking of women for prostitution. I found that over 1.44 million people are trafficked for this reason. http://www.newint.org/issues/2007/09/01/ I think that human traficking would be a good idea to put in the play because it is very global, happening all around the world. Another fact I found, also on the new internationalist is that in a survey of 1200 women in London, 1/6 had been raped, with half of these being inside their own homes. http://www.newint.org/issue158/facts.htm I found this number to very high and i didn't expect rape to be so common. I think that rape in the home would also be an interesting subject to use in our scripts. I found that the New Internationalist website was one of the best websites. This is because they have such a wide variety of topics, with facts as well as first hand accounts. I think it gives a non biased opinion and gives in depth articles. During this unit I hope to gain a much better understanding of the topics we are studying. I think that right now i don't understand what these people experience and how they as a person feel as well the impact these issues have on a global scale, and i will become better educated about these things by the end of the unit. Our play has to culturally transferable, or can be used internationally. To do this we have to understand different cultures perceptions of each global issue and unless we do thi swe won't be able to make it international. One way we might achieve this is if we ask other schools around the world to review different themes in our script and make sure that they are well understood and not specific to one place.
I like issues that we’ve chosen. We chose global issues of-street children, child abuse, rope and drugs. These issues are important to the now days world. During one big theatre people can analyze our choice more. All of them have something in common, so they fit together. Street children usually take drugs. Children usually become street children, because of the abuse. Of course, we have to do more research for them. Right now I don’t really know how to act them but I think that after some research, rehearsal everything will be fine.
The issue I found the most interesting is racism. I think that racism is the beginning of all other issues. All people in the world are same. No matter how they look, or where are they from. Why do those “other” people have lower rights than we do?
I did some research on issue of street children. I found out that an estimated 100 million children live and work on the streets in the developing world; 40 million of tem in Latin America. It also says that of the 40 million street children of Latin America, 70 percent are addicted to glue. Twenty eight million customers, who consume about 28 million gallons of glue a month.
I think that during this unit I will learn more about these issues. I think that I will have better understanding of the world problem. I will have better understanding of life of street children, their problems, and their commonness.
Web-site that I found useful: http//:www.homelleschild.org. This website has a lot of information about children’s problems. It has lots of fact, stories and issues.
I think that our play shouldn’t have any specific places, people etc. in it. We should do something that is important to everyone. Somethink that everyone should think about.
after thinking for a while i desided that the most interesting of the different yet related catigories is street children. within that topic i desided to research the day-to-day-life of these street children. this is because it will be interesting to compare my life to these childrens'.
additionally it will be interesting to see what other people come up with and to see how the play turns out. i hope that we discover and learn as much as we can, as much as we are given.
during my research i found alot of interesting facts of them two of the most intreging are:
first) pourposfully or not, people kill a thousand or so street children every year.
and secondly) most of the weakest suffer first - and the weak are the children
the website i found most helpful was the New Inquirer. this is because it had interesting and helpful information, that i could get with out wasting time discovering how the navigational system works.
to make this play coulturally transferable we can avoid using typical names, places and times so that it could be any where, any time.
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