Questions&Subjects

Research Question: Why global poverty is being issue around the world? What efforts did international organizations put on to prevent global poverty and what is limitation of their efforts?

Thesis Statement: Many international relief organizations like the United Nations and the Red Cross confront this serious issue around the world. The United Nations has many programs focusing on reducing poverty around the world. For example, World Food Programme helped many poor countries’ children by sending aid to those countries. However, the limitation as an international organization, such as lack of sufficient funds and corruption disturb these activities.

Audience: Students & scholars who interested in global issues especially global poverty, employees of international organizations who working on that global poverty issues.

Purpose: to explain status of poverty around the world & analyze global organizations actions toward that issue.

In my opinion, people doesn't really know much about why they didn't get to learn about global poverty in depth at school. The fact that school doesn't touch global poverty issue for their subjects of school material because it is brutal reality and facts to know and this subject somehow consider as taboo.

Why does school doesn't go over global poverty issue that enlighten students view of the world?
What other global issues that related to global poverty?

I already have an source for first question but I need to find an article about global issues that related with global poverty.
I need the general information that global poverty and other global issues are related to one another.
The websites that discuss about global issues.

How to "meaningfully incorporate" slideshow and podcast? Can you give me an example?
Is that mean like hyperlink the certain word that direct to my podcast and slideshow?
Is it possible to use the picture to incorporate slideshow and podcast?

Also, If my recommended reading is a book, Did I have to provide a link about that? What should I do?
Did I have to consider the length of description for recommended reading? Did I have to make it longer?

If I paraphrase the overview of some topic, Is it consider as sources? For example,

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/pakistan/northwest-pakistan/swat_valley/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=swat%20valley&st=cse

http://www.wfp.org/our-work

Do you think this is relevant sources to use?

Group Work in class Nov. 9th

Everyone in the group have underlined thesis and topic sentences. Also, everyone in the group understand how to form in-text citation and APA style reference. Our group member ask each other to make sure that we got it right and everyone looks confident with their work.
However, Delisa who was absent last class need to catch up the stuff about podcast so she didn't work her slideshow yet. But, otherwise, everybody seems right on track.

For image, I have a extra time to search the image because I don't have revise the podcast.
So this is the images that I got so far from my research and group members help.

http://www.countrywatch.com/imgs/global_thematic/World_Desertification.gif

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/deforestation-2.jpg

http://www.icarda.org/HomePageStory/Desertification_1.jpg

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/healy082/architecture/deforestation.gif

http://nksandeep.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/sdm-gene-02-deforestation.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Desertification_map.png

Obviously, my topic for slideshow is pretty decent for finding image.
Still, I have many choice of picture, but I need to decide my content of slideshow.

Slideshow Main Point

My main point of slideshow is going to be the Relationship between Environmental Issues and Poverty.

Facebook comment - The relationship between environment change and poverty. Because of poverty, populations relied on livestock for survival. When one area started to be affected by desertification they would move for their livestock. Also, deforestation will be discussed.

My plan is first introduce some big issues in environment such as desertification and deforestation and then in content explain how poverty is affecting those issues. For example, deforestation of tropical rain forest in Brazil is caused by paper companies but it is also caused by poor peoples who lives around the forest that need lands to cultivate. These people put on the fire in the forest so that they can get rid of all the trees and plants important grains for their survival. This topic is fairly easy to find effective resources because there are ton of people who tried to resolve this global issue. Also, it is very effective to touch and relate poverty issue into environmental issue because it will bring attention of people who concerned about environmental issue to poverty issue which not many people realize the seriousness of the issue.

Podcast group work

Robert and I talked about our possible topic that he and I can use for 3~5 minutes podcast assignment. He and I both clearly know what we want to talk about our podcast.
Robert want to expand his point in the webtext about ethical issues of human cloning and I want to talk about how poverty driven people to piracy in Somalia. This could be our main point. We helped each other about our opening, content, and closing. Robert suggested me to start my overview with the introduce of issue which is piracy in Somalia and describe the poverty situation of Somalia. I think this expanding example of Somalia will well-suited with my webtext because it is reality example of poverty effects people lives.

Ethos, logos, and pathos appeals in the information about writing a podcast script. Ethos appeals by style of writing in this article which was numbering the important points of the information. This appeal make this article credible for those of who seek for information about podcast. Logos appeals in this article by more information links and checklists on the bottom of the page. finally, pathos appeals in the example sentences because it appeals good reason why or why not follow this information.

Peer Review & Conference

As both Jen and Mrs. Medley pointed out, I need to explain little bit more deeply about each limitation. For improve the point of limitation, I'm thinking about give an example of each limitation to help people to understand it better. Also, there are couple of things that I'm planning to do for enhance my point in MM webtext. First of all, after economic poverty explanation, I'm going to describe why economic poverty is big issue and give example of country that indicate this situation. Second, I am planning to reword some of the limitations, add new aspects and details to each of limits. finally, I am planning to improve my conclusion by providing suggestion of future relief activities.
Both Instructor conference and peer review was great encourage to me because I felt that I'm on right on track for everything. When I was try to finish my 1000 words webtext, I felt exact opposite feeling so, it was great to have the time to revised my current work. Also, Jen's peer review was give me a possible direction that I can consider about so, it was very helpful for me.

Instructor Conference

To be honest, I was really struggle with 1000 words draft in Sunday night because I ran out or couldn't think of details that I want to put in my draft. So, I was really discourage by that even though I made 1000 words somehow. However, the instructor conference with Mrs. Medley was really helpful to me because she gave me a good feedback and encourage me to continue to develop my work. She and I were not discuss whole lot of things because my conference was Wednesday which was I have a time to fix my problem that she point out and send me through Email. Also, It was very productive because I was able to discuss some of the details that I'm planning to add in my webtext with my instructor.

1000 words webtext group work

Today, Jennifer give some good suggestion that helps me to improve my 1000 words webtext. She thinks that I am on right track for the small stuff like chunk paragraph and images. However, she points out that makes a hyperlink on organization like World Food Programme and International Monetary Fund so that people who want to know more about the organization can get information about it. Also, she gives me good reword suggestion of sentence that I struggles on wording.

For the rhetorical appeals, we are both agrees that I used combination of all three appeals on my webtext. Also, we are agree that pathos is the strongest one because the image that I used touches people emotions. However, I also thinks that logos is stronger like pathos because the information that I provide is not always approach to people emotion.

Part 1 Summary& Part 2 Synthesize

One of my important research pieces is Human Development Report 2007/2008 from United Nations Development Program. This report contains detailed information about global poverty statistics. For example, there are about 1 billion people who living with $1 US for their income and richest 20% around the world earned three quarter of global income. Also, this report mentions about statistics of Nutrition, child mortality, and Health which was all causes by poverty.
This research piece is very valuable to me because it contains reliable information about poverty around the world right now. The report itself doesn't focus on global poverty but international issues like climate change however it is still useful source to me. Also, this report is valuable because it answers my questions about how serious poverty is around the world? And what are important statistical facts that I can found about it? I found this report from the website in globalissue.org, the author of the website made the link to this report so it wasn’t hard to find at all.

Dr. Susan Hawley’s article of corruption is also one of my valuable research pieces. In this article, she focuses on growing corruptions of multinational companies which came from privatization of public enterprise. Also, she focused on governmental corruption which originated from Western government in most of the time and global organizational corruption like World Bank and International Monetary Fund which highly influenced by western government. Moreover, she mentioned about how global policies used as tools for corruption.
Even though this article provides very interesting piece of information to me, I’m not going to use all the portion of this article because it is talked about corruption itself so some of the topics are not related to global poverty. The portion that I’m definitely going to use is the Global Policies and Corruption part. I think this part is more suitable for my project because it provide the categories of concepts that affect poor countries economy which lead to poverty. This part gives me a brief explanation about what policies discourage the poor countries to escape the poverty. As same as Human Development Report 2007/2008, I found this article from the website that linked by author.

Our World is very lopsided in terms of economic. According to Human Development Report 2007/2008, there are about 1 billion people who lived with $1 US dollar a day. Also, while 40 percent of population around the world makes 5 percent of global incomes, wealthiest 20 percent earn more than three-quarter of global income. Why is this income inequality happening? Dr. Hawley wrote article that explains one of the factors of this incomprehensible incident: Corruption. Dr Hawley’s article focused a variety of different form of corruption. In her article, she mentions about global policies that proposed by World Bank and International Monetary Fund which lead to eliminate the chance for poor countries to grow economically and able to support their people and ultimately reduce the poverty rate.

Hawley S. (2000). Exporting corruption: Privatisation, multinationals and bribery. The Corner House, 19. Retrieved from http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/briefing/19bribe.pdf

Watkins K. (2007). Human Development Report 2007/2008. New York: United Nations Development Program.

Paraphrase

In 1920, drinking was illegal for the most part. However, this law was not functioning well because almost everyone had access on alcohol in the local pubs somehow. On the other hand, it was the era of great exchange of culture. For example, music like Jazz became popular in the Nations which was dominated by classical musics (Yancey 25).

All three of my group has different paraphrase of this paragraph. it is really hard to find the similarities between my paraphrase and theirs' because they got the main point of twenties lawlessness however, my paraphrase focused on drinking which was example of violated law.

The major differences of my paraphrase with possible answer was my paraphrase is more focus on example like Jazz and drinking violation however, the paragraph is more focuses on America in 20's.

Yancey, K. (1989). English 102 Supplemental Guide. p.25

Discuss

In my opinion, Mika did a great job on her summary about introduction of pharmaceutic ethics. Compared to summary that I write, her summary is more in-depth than mine because I know the article explained the terms and introduced the concepts but my prior knowledge is not deep enough to understand what is mentions about, so my summary in less deeper than Mika's.

Ashlee read my report about facts of income poverty and other issues. she and I both agree that it is a good facts and stats for my topics.

In class group work #3

Today, I finished the assignment about hypertext practice with Peggy. First, we reviewed hypertext writing style together because we both didn't do summary on that. Later, we help each other to figure out how to do on heading and hyperlink. I finished pretty earlier than usual because I have no problem on chunk the paragraph and single space. I think this is because I went to writing center to revise my 500 overview so I'm pretty happy about it.

Summary

One of my important research piece is Human Development Report 2007/2008 from United Nations Development Program. This report contain detailed information about global poverty statistics. For example, there are about 1 billion people who living with $1 US for their income and richest 20% around the world earned three quarter of global income. Also, this report mentions about statistics of Nutrition, child mortality, and Health which was all causes by poverty. this research piece are very valuable to me because it contains reliable informations about poverty around the world right now. The report itself doesn't focused on global poverty but international issues like climate change however it is still useful source to me.

United Nations Development Program. (2007). Fighting climate change: Human Solidarity in a divided world. Retrived from http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf

Reading for Week 4

Research: Overview from OWL was going to be really helpful for my semester project. Because it gave me not only an idea about where do I begin to research but also some suggestions of sources that I can consider to look up when I have hard time to find elsewhere. One of the big troubles that I had for my research is I don't know where to start my research. Even though I know what I am looking for and What I need, I wasted my time wandering around the Internet because I don't know where to begin with. Furthermore, it seems to me this website will be helpful for me because the three questions which is what kind of information that I looking for, where to look, and how much information I need are key questions that I usually struggle with. so, I think I can apply this three questions and type of available sources to my resources that support my research.

Proposal Questions/Comments

The most impressive comment about my topic was Question #4 from Mika's group. For my Methodology, I've already thought about look up Newspapers, however, I didn't thought about interviewing professors who may know about these international issues. Also, Sharon's group comment about professors as a audience was a good idea of audiences that I could possible has.
Finally, Natasa's group gives me good idea of mentioning programs by ask questions about it.

In class group work #2

For my 250 words topic, I need to know how to include in-text citation and references for APA style. Sharon shows me how to make in-text citation which is include author's last name and year. Also, I was able to know about how to reference if there is no author but organization. So now, I know how to make proper in-text citation and reference for APA style.

250 words topic

Global vs. Poverty

In the 20th century, our world became very modernize in terms of mass production, market, science and technology. However, like a light can’t exist without shadow, there are many international issues of this highly modernized world. Global poverty is one of that issues indicate the dark side of the world. According to United Nations Development Program, 40 percent of the world population earned 5 percent of global income however, 20 percent of richest population earned three-quarter of it.
Also, poverty issues are closely related to other world issues. For instance, lack of food and nutrition leads to diseases and child mortality. Ultimately, this whole issues are point to human right issues how people be treated as human. Many world organizations like United Nations and Red Cross confront with this serious issue around the world. United Nations have many programs that focusing on reduce poverty around the world. For example, UNICEF helped many poor countries children by send aid to those countries. However, lack of sufficient fund and donor countries self-interest disturb these activities.
United Nations is the organization that deals with this issue fairly easy. The reason is that they have most efficient organization body structure around the world. For example, getting funds for certain program and obtaining route for helping developing nations are far more easily than other non-profit organization because U.N. is trustworthy governmental organization.
Despite of these efforts that United Nations put on to this issue, the world doesn’t look different than few years from now. There are three major obstacles that United Nations has: lack of funds, donor countries self-interest, and corruption.

In class group work

Today, I worked with Peggy and Delisa. They are also have a hard time to write research questions and thesis. Peggy pointed out my research questions need to be one question instead of three similar questions. Delisa gives me a ideas what would be my revised research question.

Revised research question: What efforts did United Nations put on to prevent global poverty and what is limitation of their efforts?

Revised thesis statement: United Nations have many programs that focusing on reduce poverty around the world. For example, UNICEF helped many poor countries children by send aid to those countries. However, lack of sufficient fund and donor countries self-interest disturb this activities.

The one thing that I figured out was I need more preliminary search about this topic.

United Nations poverty issues

• Working research question: What is programs, plans or activities that United Nations do for preventing global poverty? What is limitations that United Nations faced on by prevent the world poverty?(Why is it so hard to prevent global poverty?)
• Working thesis statement: An analysis of United Nations program of preventing global poverty: Why is it global issue? What are their plan? How's that reactions help to reduce poverty? What is limitation of that program?
• Purpose: to explan & analyze United Nations actions toward one of the global issue: Poverty around the world.
• Audience: Students & scholars who interested in global issues especially global poverty, U.N. employees who working on that global poverty issues.

Shah, A. (2009). Poverty Facts and Stats. Global Issues. para 21. Retrived from http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats

Dugger, C. W. (2005). U.N. vs. Poverty: Seeking a Focus, Quarreling Over the Vision. The New York Times. Retrived from http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/international/14poverty.html?_r=2&scp=3&sq=United%20Nations%20International%20issues%20poverty&st=cse

Basically, I have two similiar sources that share similiar topic but use different way to express that topic. Anup Shah, the author of Poverty Facts and Stats, has little unreliable authority toward this topic. He describe himself that has computer science degree very passionate about this issues enough to create this website and articles. However, because he awared that he doesn't have enough authority toward this issues. He pay attention to improved others like accuracy, objectivity and currency. On the other hand, Celia W. Dugger's article have trustworthy authority because it's news analysis of New York Times. However, I could totally depend on this article because it could be little opinionated.

Preliminary Google Search

Keyword: United Nations

Using Keyword 'United Nations,' I found the websites of United Nations http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/index.shtml , the websites programs and Specialized Agencies that related to United Nations http://www.unep.org/ http://www.unodc.org/and brief overview information of United Nations in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations.
The keyword itself was somewhat helpful because I kind of get the general ideas of what is United Nations. However 74,400,000 results for this keyword and I think more than 90% of this results are not what I need for my research. Furthermore, in google scholar, this keyword brought up some random report or yearbook about UN. So, I really need to narrow it down!

Refine Keyword: United Nations History

Because I'm curious about history of United Nations I used the search within results and put keyword 'history' on there. Although it didn't really narrow it down to my expectation however I was able to find some good articles and web posts about United Nations history and history of peacekeeping forces
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1988/un-history.html
http://www.adl.org/international/Israel-UN-1-introduction.asp
http://www.unaoc.org/repository/6865Civilization%20-%20Truth%20or%20Tool%20-%20R.%20Bulliet.pdf
Even though, I found some good resources on this keyword it was still too much results and unnecessary results for my research. So, does it helpful? I should say no because there is no big differents between results that before refined keyword.

Refine Keyword: United Nations History International issues Peacekeeping Forces

Since I figured that putting only one keyword for refine doesn't get narrow down to the point that I want to, I put two keywords for refine the 'United Nations' the 'International issues' and 'peacekeeping forces.' Most of the information that I found was either articles or journals about Peacekeeping forces or International issues that United Nations dealing with.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Vedran.Dzihic/Kagan.pdf
http://books.sipri.org/files/books/SIPRI02Findlay.pdf
http://www.mofa.go.jp/POLICY/un/pko/issues.html
http://italy.usembassy.gov/pdf/other/IB90103.pdf
http://www.sam.gov.tr/perceptions/Volume4/December1999-February2000/cavusoglu.PDF
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/
I can confidentially say that Keywords are really helpful this time. It was still 167,000 results which was a lot however it narrowed down to the point that I can found useful informations. The only bad thing about this research is I was ended up with so many things to read. I am still mot used to read in english so this much reading will take me a semester to finish it.

Keyword

Summary

From the Keyword article, I learned that keyword is specific word which was able to represent the information that I'm looking for through online, library or both.
Also, I realize that refining a search is not a ridiculously hard thing to do. It is just narrow it down by using or adding other keyword to search engine!
Furthermore, i was little surprised about free text searches because I didn't know about it.
Honestly, I was expected advanced researching method when this homework assigned to me however I'm so glad it wasn't like that at all.

Questions

• I'm familiar with MLA than APA, Do I have to use APA?
• About APA format, in little brown handbook mentions about APA abstract and title page Is that always required for my writing?
• What is the things that I have to keep in mind about APA?
• How many outside sources that I have to find?
• Did I have to do all five steps for all of my keywords that I worte on due saturday september 12th material?
• For preliminary Google search, is there any specific things that I have to focus on?

United Nation

The International organization that has 192 nations involved for member states. It was founded in 1945 after World War II. Organized for keep international peace and security and developing friendly relation between nations. Taking many action toward international issues such as war, poverty and human right. Formed with General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice and many different organizations and assmblies. Current Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is Korean.

• What issues does U.N. dealing with?
• What is Secretary-General and what position that he in charge of?
• How large is U.N.?
• What kind of organization they have and what is their job?
• What is General Assembly and What are they deciding?

Secretary-General, job, international issues, General Assembly, United Nation

English 105

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