final blog post

The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis.

I liked this book it it very good and I enjoyed it it was fun to read. The thing that shocked me the most was that how hard they had to work and that how mean the relatives were.

Paper Bag Game.

Our strategy is to make good bags and that if we are in really bad time then we have to sell Rachel. I think that this will work and that we won't survive because it is very hard.

Describing This Course.

I liked this corse it is very fun and it makes you more matcher and wiser.

3rd World Farmer Reflection

The purpose of the game is to understand how it is like to be in the cycle of poverty, how hard it is to get out of the cycle of poverty and how much shock factors affect you when you are stuck in the cycle of poverty. My plan was that I will send my daughter to school so that she can be educated and wont have to walk to get water but it coasted a lot of money and she got a job in the city so i had no help on the farm I also tried to make a well so that we get better access to water but my well caved in and I had to let the military on my farm because they paid me and I had no money but the military told me i needed a farm license so I got broke and every one ended up dieing from low health so I quit. Short term goals like survival and food was all that I could worry about because I had no money. Because of the short term goals my people can’t worry about the MDG’s they only worry about survival so they end up with bad health and people dumping sewage on your farm. I was trapped in a poverty cycle and the characters can’t afford to help the world and others they could only worry about themselves. I wished that a NGO can come and help me but it never happened. If I could worried about the future, illness and business I could have won the game because they affect me more than the short term survival goals. These goals increase the standard of living by affecting health, and poverty. I learned that it is very hard to get out of the cycle of poverty. This game relates to the SLR of reason critically because we have to worry about health, money and survival. This game relates to MDG #1 end poverty and hunger.

I picked this image because this is the start up page of third world farmer. Notice that it says endure the hardships of 3rd world farming. I think that they are trying to prove that farming is very hard and it is harder to get out of the cycle of poverty.

In L.E.D.C’s farmers are affected by shock factors, unfair trade and not having the freedom of choice. Short term goals are like a metal wall blocking development they cant worry about long term goals because they need to survive. Farming is mostly done in L.E.D.C’s by peasants who are in poverty since they don’t get much crops to sell the have to worry about survival and can’t develop into the modern world.