I-Search+by+John

=Crime and Drugs in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro= by John

**Part I--What I already kno****w about my topic**
Before I began my research on the favelas of Rio de Janeiro I had actually known quite a lot about the topic. I had known that in this region of the world that is in pretty poor condition. Previously in the country there where political problems, but now currently the major problems are poverty, crime, drugs and over population in certain areas. It has also had many political problems over the years. Recently there have even been many riots as well. I also know that Rio de Janeiro is doing to be the host of the 2016 "summer" olympic games. Lastly I had also known a little bit about the special forces anti-crime ,drug and terrorist unit, B.O.P.E., from watching a TV show that discussed the special forces units of the world. It had been founded to combat the raising crime and drug rate in Rio de Janero, its Favelas, and the rest of Brazil during the 1070's and was originally trained by the British S.A.S. (Special Air Service). They conduct regular raids all over Brazil, including in the Favelas.

Part II--What I Want to Find Out
Well I need to get a lot of information on details about what the favelas look like on the inside and what people might do there. This wold help me then formulate the major parts of my game, due to it either way being involved with the hadships of living in the conditions there and getting into major detail about the problems that the area faces.

Well first off, how is life there? What are the conditions like? Sunny? Rainy? etc.? What type of food is avdabile? What is the currency there? How does it compare to the American dollar ($1.00=???)? Are crimes and drugs a major problem in the favelas? Are there certain "sectors" in which crime and drugs are more of a problem? What do people do in there spare time? What type of jobs are avadible?

Part III--The Search
Well after some searching in my local and school library I was finding it very hard to find anything pertaining to the __**Favelas**__ of Rio de Janeiro exactly, but typically found things that talked about Brazil's, or Rio de Janeiros history. All that could really be found was a small section in an encyclopedia about the favelas history, but not pertaining to crime,drugs, or poverty which made it irelavant to my topic. I will continue to search, even through the creation stage if I can not find a book with information relavant to my topic.

For my search on the internet I had a much easier time finding info. I found 3 very good websites, one of which could technically be considered a article, due to it previouly being in the newspaper "The New York Times".

The first of my resources is a page on Wikipedia which spoke strictly about the Favelas. When I did my search on google about, it was the first result on the page. It contained lots of useful information pertaining to the conditions (temperature high and lows, rain fall, etc.) and, I was really happy about this, crime and drug rates as well as how a favela house is typically built.

Then there was the "New York Times" article. I found this by simply searching "favelas" and then changing results to "with in last 12 months". This talked about how there have recent raises in crime by the drug trafficers, which is thought to be in response to Rio de Janerios recent awarding of the 2016 summer olympics. This recent violence is worrying but officials did bring up that in countries that get awarded with the oympics have had similar events (ex. in Britian terrorists destroyed trains and cars).


 * Planning my interview

Need to set up a time to interview my person!** (Delete this once done)

My plan for interviewing my person (one of my schools science teachers), is to ask questions carefully. What I mean by that is I might ask simple questions that are not to "protruding" first (ex. what type of food is avadible?), and then move on to more topics that are somewhat "personal" (ex. what did you do to entertain yourself), later on towards the end. I hope to be able to ask the large majority of the questions I came up with earlier in part three of this I-search, just minorly modified to be asking more of a personalized question instead of a generalized one.


 * Interview**

Part IV--What I Learned
The most important things I learned that are going to help me design my final game are from the web. By far the most important thing I learned from the web is how a house in the Favelas is typically built. In my final game you will be responsible for surviving in the Favelas by maintaining your health, water, and stamina.