It just so happens that I will be going to the city this sunday, Decemeber 2nd. It wasnt planned, but it turns out i have to go their for a family outing. When i go to the city this sunday I won't have time to fully watch the homeless people in their habitat but i am hoping that I will be able to answer a couple of survey questions for visual appearance. I will ask myself questions like "what are they wearing?" "do they have teeth?" "how bad is their physical hygiene?" I will do another visit to the city probably a couple of days before Christmas. This will give me the chance to fully watch the homeless people and answer some more questions do to the way that they act.

2nd Quarter Project
I have already mentioned my 2nd quarter project and what I am going to do, but I am going to get into more details about my project. Of course my project is going to study poverty, but mainly I am going to be studying the homeless. I am going to take a trip to the city and study the homeless. I am going to write up a survey for myself. Hopefully, I will be able to answer all of the questions in the survey after my visit in the city. I am going to study a homeless person and do a write up about how they look and what they are wearing. I am also going to study what they say and if they have good speech. Not only am I going to study the homeless, but I am going to study the types of people who put change in the homeless people's cups. I am going to try to make my trip to New York as soon as possible before it gets to cold because hopefully their will be more people on the streets. I think that I may take a second trip, more towards Christmas to see if their is still the same amount of homeless people in the cold. Also, I am going to see if people are more generous during the holidays. I am really excited to see how my survey and natural observations come out!

For my quarter two project I am going to participate in natural observation. I am going to find a day to go the city and truly study the homeless. I am going to study what they wear, how they act, what they say. Not only am I going to study the homeless, I am going to study the way people react to their poverty.  What does it take a homeless person to say to get someone to put a little change in their cup?

I cant believe this picture. The thing that makes me sad about this is how skinny the kids are. Girls in america are anorexic and think that they are so fat when they are not. Meanwhile, kids here are so skinny and their is nothing they can do about it. The size of their body shows how much little food they are eating and it looks like they are close to death. It is sad that anorexic people chose to look like this and think this is healthy, where as people in poverty can't do anything about it.

This week I found a website about Poverty. This website told me something I had not yet come across in my research so far. This website says that we actually have plenty of food in the world to feed everyone, but the people that are suffering from hunger are so deep in poverty they don't even have the money to get this food.   So this website proposes that to get people out of poverty we do "food for work". Basically, you work for food. This way no one is hungry. Also, they give education for food. So when people get food from work they can also use that food to pay for education. This is a great way to end poverty.

I found the perfect website that you all should participate in to help hunger in other countries and to help poverty. This website is called Free Rice. On this website you can learn, while helping people through the World Food Programme who are suffering from hunger. All you have to do is answer the English questions on vocabulary correct and automatically 10 grains of rice are donated through the World Food Programme to help end hunger. This is something so simple that goes such a long way. It does not cost anything either. Please, if you are reading this blog, click on the website and answer a couple of questions. I promise that you will end up being addicted to this, and it isn't a bad thing. Look how great this is! You are having fun, but doing something of service at the same time. Hunger is a huge part of poverty and if we can stop hunger maybe we can stop poverty all together.

Poverty

This video says more then I am about to write, so watch the video first and then read the rest of this paragraph! This video is completely right. You always find people that act as if they are upset about poverty. They cry because they feel so bad about the people around the world who need help. But the people who are in poverty don't need everyone else's tears they need their help. I think that the idea this video has is amazing. How are people going to get out of poverty if they don't have a head start? If they don't get out of poverty then their kids won't get a good education which means that poverty will just keep on being passed down further and further. If we can make a difference in one person and just give them a head start, it could not only change their lives but it could change lives in the future. I think that aid is the best idea to fix poverty. The people who have the money to give aid should. Then when the person gets a good education and a job they will be able to pay back the loanes and everything, but it needs to start somewhere.