I-Search+by+Jennifer

by Jennifer I know that there are millions of people all over the world are suffering from hunger. Mostly in third world countries like Africa, Haiti, etc. Sometimes they don't get any food during the day. Some foundations offer food to those who are hungry. There are food drives for those who cannot afford food on a daily basis. People can die from starvation and that usually happens in underdeveloped countries.
 * Title **
 * Part I--What I already know about my topic **


 * Part II--What I Want to Find Out **

=== What I want to know is why do we use money? Why are kids starving? Why is there war? Why does the United States get involved in wars? Why are there natural disasters? How do natural disasters occur? Were do natural disasters and hunger usually occur? Can we stop world hunger? Can we ever reach a level of peace? Do we need to use money? Can we stop using money? Is anything free in this world? Why are there diseases? Can the diseases be stopped? Can we all trade peacefully with out money? ===

I was searching my websites that I have bookmarked on my diigo page. I found these websites by typing in world hunger into google. These websites include pictures and information about world hunger all over the world. Most of my websites include places in underdeveloped countries like Africa. A website I found is a website that has a lot of facts about the present and the past. The information does not focus on a specific part of the world but a whole. The website even includes what they think will happen in the future if we continue our ways. The future information was of no use to me because I was focusing on the present. The future information may not be right because it is what other people think will happen. Another website I found is a website that give maps of places that are suffering with hunger. I looked at my websites again and looked for information that can be included in my game. The website with all of the facts was of most use to me because I didn't have to look through all of the text to find specific facts, the website with all of the facts had everything laid out in a neat order. The website with the maps gave me ideas of what to put down on spaces where bad things happen. I went to the library and got to books. One book gave me an idea of what different families eat all around the world. The second one talks about the economy and how it affects the hunger. The book about the economic problems confuses me at parts because it has a hgier reading level then I am used to. I do understand some of what the book is saying. The other book is interesting because it doesn't focus on one family. It talks about all types of families and what they eat for one week. It is also in different parts of the world. Some families have more food than other because they have more money. Some people focus on one specific type of food. I also got two books from the library that talk about world hunger. They do not specifically talk about world hunger in Africa though. When I went to the library the librarians told me they did not have a specific book about world hunger but they did give me books about hunger. A book that I got talks about the global food crisis. I learned things about the beurecrats and how the world doesn't have enough money to buy food for everybody. I also got another book that went all over the world and took photos of families and a bunch of food that lasted them a week. The book talked about the normal food everyone ate in their countries. It also gave a little insight on how the family lived. Many of theses families were poor and lived in underdeveloped places. I also noticed that when the family had kids there were a lot of kids. There was this one guy that had two wives. This shocked me because most people are hardly scraping by and yet they have all these people in the family. One of the books gave me an idea of what people all over the world eat.
 * Part III--The Search **

I learned that 15 million children die of hunger each year. One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. One out of every eight children in the US go to bed hungry every night. About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age. Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger. Nearly six people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to the health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. This process has helped me so much because it was a step by step guide on how to do an i-search. There were always enough websites to look on to find information because hunger is a big part in today's world.
 * Part IV--What I Learned **


 * WORKS CITED**

//Hunger. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.wfp.org/hunger// //The World hunger issues. (2000). Retrieved from// [|//http://library.thinkquest.org//] World hunger facts 2009. (2009). Retrieved from [] Kukathas, U. (2009). The Global food crisis. United States of America: Gale and Greenhaven. Menzel, P, & D'Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet:what the world eats. California: Library of congress.