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Poverty in Honduras by Matthew Chu Honduras is a place in Central America. In my church, I have heard that in their villages, it is a hard place to live in. People barely get enough food and water to survive. At my church, we have met missionaries who traveled there to help bring food, water, and items to make life easier. These people struggle, and are very poor. Most of the people though are optimistic, and can live life very well. The people in Honduras have no electricity, so it is hard for them to preserve food, and the percentage of water there is not 100% drinkable. Some things that I want to find out about Honduras is how come not many people seem to help these people? Why does the government of Honduras do nothing to help their people? I also wonder how did Honduras get in this shape. Was Honduras always filled with the poor and unfortunate? Is there enough money to go around? Is it even possible to help the people living there, or will it be some vicious cycle where everyone will become poor again? **Part III--The Search** From my research, I have found one book and some websites. The book that I found is called "Discovering Central America:Honduras". I chose this book because it was the only book I could get my hands on at the library. Even though it is a small picture book, it still has a good amount of information. This book is helpful because it features things like the population of Honduras, reasons of war and poverty, the people, and other things too. This book also featured the geography and government of Honduras. The bit of information that this book supplied was good, because I think that it was not too much information(although you can never have too much information on things) and it was not too little information either. This book gave me just enough information to start off a good idea on how I want to create my serious game. I also found information about natural disasters, wars, and political issues, which sort of shocked me. These facts didn't really shock me at first, because I knew how bad the conditions of Honduras were, but after reading this book, I learned that conditions were worse than I thought. I also found some information from a few sites. One of the sites that I enjoyed reading from was also called CIA-The World Factbook-Honduras. This site was interesting to me, because it featured a lot of detailed things on Honduras. This site included the history, the population, education, infections, deaths, and much, much more other facts. I think that I made some pretty good progress from looking at the information that I found. One person that I have recently asked was a missionary named Buck Kellaway.During my journey, it was hard to contact him, because I didn't get to see him in church as much. He was also helping in other mission trips, and was away for awhile. In the end though, I was able to have a quick chat with him, and learned some things too. On my topic, some important things that I learned was that Honduras is facing many problems, some that I didn't know about. Some important things that I learned about the Hondurans was the details on the populations. There are many death rates in Honduras, and Hondurans should get more help. Honduras has been corrupted for a while, and had the military running their government in the 1980s, so this dictatorship affected the economy of Honduras. Even though things should hopefully run better for the Hondurans, the history of these people has given many problems with the government. For example, the Hondurans' former leader, Manuel Zelaya had caused a crisis in politics. He had attempted to change the constitution and started to have too much power. He also tried to become immune to the Honduran law. Luckily, he had been kicked out of Honduras and forced to the Dominican Republic, succeeded by Roberto Michelletti. Even though Michelleti has been succeeded by Porfirio Lobo Sosa, things in Honduras is changing, hopefully giving them a brighter future. As an investigator, it was very hard to find all of the information I needed, yet alone read all of it, but I learned a great deal of knowledge out of this process. I think that an investigator plays an important role in a design cycle, because with a better understanding of what something is based on, a design will probably get better results if someone knows what they are working with, and how well they know it. This investigation process to me has seemed to be the longest, and might be as equally as long as the creating stage. Based on all of the information found, I think that it will be easier to create a game based on a serious issue. As an investigator, it is easier to know what to create, because I have found the information needed to create my serious game.
 * Part I--What I already know about my topic **
 * Part II--What I Want to Find Out **
 * Part IV--What I Learned **
 * Part V--Bibliography(Work Cited)**
 * "Country of Honduras-HONDURAS.COM." //Honduras.com//. n.p, n.d. Web. 21 Apr 2010. <[]>,
 * Shields, Charles. //Discovering Central America:Honduras//. n.ed. n.vols. 370 Reed Road, Broomall, PA 19008: Mason Crest Publishers, 2003. 63. Print., "CIA-The World Factbook--Honduras ." //CIA-The World Factbook--Honduras// . CIA-The World Factbook, April 1, 2010. Web. 21 Apr 2010. <[]> ,
 * "Honduras." //http://travel.state.gov/travel///. Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State, October 2, 2009. Web. 21 Apr 2010. <[]>,
 * "Honduras(11/09)." //Honduras(11/09)//. Bureau of Public Affairs, n.d. Web. 21 Apr 2010. <[]>.
 * n.a, n.a. "Honduras Facts." //www.compassion.com//. Compassion International, 2010. Web. 25 April 2010. <[]>.