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.