oh, about letters, and teaching plan.

Yes, I wrote letters to three organizations I picked and I sent them...

and...about teaching plan...I made a board game that might be little bit difficult for 5th grade children...but I did it on purpose because I want them to learn.

Timed writing...

Through the experience of project three, I was able to receive a lot of useful advise from many people such as my friends, my family, classmates, an unknown person who gave us the example, and professor. Without their help, it was impossible to create and finish this last project in this class. Not only I learned about how to write a letter to the organizations I chose but also I was able to experience to feel human’s warmness through project three.

I probably was not able to pass a trial to work on project three without any advice that a lot of people gave me because I encountered difficulties to think what I was going to write a letter about and what teaching plan I would have for fifth graders. Since I was in trouble to come up with the idea of letter, I really needed someone to advise me. One day, when I walked in to the classroom and sat down on the same spot as usual, my professor gave me the example of letter that someone wrote before. And during the class on that day, she talked about many helpful things so that I could finally start writing three letters to the organizations. As Campbell said in his book, these advises were Supernatural Aids to me. According to Campbell, guardians are the people who enable a hero to pass a danger with amulets and these figures have the guiding power. In my case, guardians are the professor and an unknown person who wrote a letter before, and they gave me, a hero, amulets to save me from failing this class. So, I do not think that I would be able to finish writing letters without the Supernatural Aids.

I also was suffering to create a teaching plan for my project three. Since so, I called my mother that I suffered so much and needed what she thought. Even she only said a few thing about my teaching plan, she was also my Supernatural Aid and gave me a good idea. After the conversation between us, I next talked to my friends and they were very eager to think what would be the best plan. They, too, gave me some useful advises and I finally decided what I was going to create; a board game. After I finished making it, I showed it to my friends who helped me and they were very impressed what I achieved. Also, I called my mother that I was able to create a board game for my teaching plan because of my friends, and she was very proud of me. Then I felt like returning with the Elixir which Vogler explained. I was in a special world to create a teaching plan and I finished it with having something powerful that I could tell everybody proudly. In fact, all people I told about it were proud of what I have done.

In conclusion, I faced many difficulties to do the project three. However, I was able to pass these trials because of the amulets from human hearts and through this experience, I felt that I returned to the Ordinary World with having Elixir.

Project3...letters...draft...

Dear Africa Educational Trust

I am an international student from Japan at Eckerd College, Florida. I have been researching about a poor education in Africa and I just found your website. I am really impressed that you have been supporting many young people in this last 50 years, and I believe those who are not able to obtain an education need your organization.

It amazed me that 750,000 people have been supported by your organization since 1958. I had been to other websites that have helped same issues but I have never encountered the organizations like yours, long-term and very effective supporting.

The lack of good quality education is still a big problem in Africa and I urge you to continue what you have been doing because the things you have done must have had broad implications for future Africa. It will make much difference whether you leave or stay with them. So please, keep supporting them.

Lastly, I have a question for you: what encourages you to keep supporting them for a long time?

I am looking forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Hisa

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Dear UNESCO

I am an international student from Japan at Eckerd College, Florida. I have been doing some research about the environment of poor African countries, and since I was curious about what you have been doing for the people who are in those countries, I visited your website that I found to be very inspired with one of your projects.

The project, “UNESCO Project to Fight Human Trafficking in Africa”, must be playing very important role to make African societies better. One of the reasons why the poor educational system still exists is that the trafficking prevents many children not to go to school. It is true that there are only few laws to prohibit the human trafficking and as a result, children are sent away by parents to strangers to earn money to support their own families. I do not think that is children’s job. Children are supposed to go to school because they are the people who are going to make our future communities. So I am so glad that your project has been fighting against Human Trafficking.

I believe it will make much difference whether you leave or stay with them, I urge you to encourage the government to create a new law to prohibit Human Trafficking. So please, continue to fight against the trafficking.

Although, I have a question for you: It seems like you have not uploaded the news since September in 2007. Why don’t you let us know the latest news?

I am looking forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

Hisa

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Dear CNN

I am an international student from Japan at Eckerd College, Florida. I have been researching about a poor education in Africa, and I used your website many times to know the issues African countries have suffered from.

I am very impressed by your hard working to let everyone all around the world know matters that a lot of poor African countries have been facing. The news you provide is always latest and I cannot imagine how quick it will be to let us know those latest news every day.

However, I believe there are many things we still do not know about poor African countries and raising a public awareness is the first step to make African societies better. Since the internet is the most powerful material to spread worldwide news, I really would like you to keep making effort to have us know the latest news so that we can be well informed.

Lastly, I have a question for you: As a news reporter, do you think is there any effective way to let my friends know the issues I want to tell?

Sincerely,

Hisa

annt. bibs for project 3.

1. The Africa Educational Trust: The Africa Educational Trust (AET), founded in 1958, is a UK charity committed to support the educational system in Africa. They work with local communities that are affected by conflicts because there isn't any school to provide the education for the children and young people. Only a hopeless future exists. What AFT does is to provide supports for kids in elementary and secondary schools, and moreover, they help the people who failed to go to school because of the conflicts. 750,000 children and young people have benefited from AET since 1958.

2. UNESCO Project to Fight Against Human Trafficking in Africa: The project UNESCO plans to fight against Human Trafficking is to inspire policy-making appropriately against the trafficking of children in Western and Southern Africa. It brings the policy oriented research in relation to the trafficking in pilot countries such as Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa, and finds out best practices to fight against. Then they organize the training workshops for policymakers, NGOs, community leaders and the media.

3. CNN Africa: This site provides us a lot of news in Africa and I am impressed how fast they keep sending the issues going around in Africa. They always have something NEW things to let us know what is happening over there. That is why I think CNN Africa is the best organization to raise the public awareness.

My 3 most salient organizations.

1. Africa Educational Trust http://www.africaeducationaltrust.org/
2. UNESCO Project to Fight Against Human Trafficking in Africa http://www.unesco.org/shs/humantrafficking
3. CNN Africa http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/archive/

With 1, I would like to work to improve the quality of Educational System.
With 2, I would like to work to prohibit and prevent the children from Human Trafficking.
With 3, I would like them to raise a public awareness through out the world.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76411
This is the resource which talks about the issue.

5 organizations or individuals...

I would like to work with:
1. Invisible Children http://www.invisiblechildren.com
2. Africa Educational Trust http://www.africaeducationaltrust.org/
3. UNESCO Project to Fight Against Human Trafficking in Africa http://www.unesco.org/shs/humantrafficking
4. BBC Africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/
5. CNN Africa http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/archive/

The Fact of Poor Education...Project2...

Most of the students who were born in the advanced nations go to school and study as usual. However, not only do children but many adults in poor countries still face a lot of difficulties in their lives, and education is one of the most important problems. The people who were born into a low income family have had a hard time to obtain an education in school which the people in the advanced nation have taken as a matter of course. Many problems of the educational system exist in some African countries from long time ago because of the historical and political reasons. It is very important to understand that many children are not able to go to school and they need help.

It is obvious that the quality of the education system between poor African countries and advanced nations is not equal. Therefore, all children in poor countries should be entitled to a quality free education. According to the United Nations, about forty six million African children, almost half of the school age population, have never studied in a classroom (Kennedy). The biggest reason that makes children take a distance from school is excessive poverty. In fact, since democracy became a dominant political concept in many African countries, a lot of teachers, pupils, and governments struggled to iron out the inequalities in education (Pearce). In the article, “SA’s poor education struggle,” one teacher is asked what the greatest challenge teachers’ face, she replied that it is poverty and students come with no food so we have to share our lunch with them (Pearce). Even the children enrolled in school tend not to complete the programs for graduating. According to the research of International Monetary Fund, fifty percent of the students in sub-Saharan Africa drop out of school before graduating whereas twenty seven percent in developing countries and nineteen percent in East Asia (Jenkner). These educational problems are on the supply side; the government’s inability and lack of will to provide financed schooling (Jenkner). However, countries such as Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Ghana have abolished tuition fees to keep children in school (Kennedy). In Uganda, a limited program that offered free junior high school started in 2007 (Kennedy). The children were required to pass an exam produced by the government to qualify and about 234.000 children have been accepted (Kennedy). Since it is possible for government to establish this kind of educational system, the parents in low-income countries might be encouraged to send their children to school if the governments became willing to take responsibilities for educating children in the publicly financed, free and good quality school (Jenkner). However, the governments might need more support from advanced nations to maintain this system.

The reason why the governments should found a free school is that some parents want children to work to earn money for their families. This is known as human trafficking and it prevents children not to go to school. In January 2008, 105 children were found in a truck by the Nigerian police (Poverty). The children, from the age of four to eighteen, were allowed to leave the house and sent by their parents and promised that they would be studying and be fed by strangers (Poverty). This experience is both physically and mentally painful for the children. In fact, as a result of being packed like sardines in the truck, they were starving, had swollen legs and were traumatized (Poverty). Since the vast majority of the population is in extreme poor in Nigeria, human trafficking such as domestic and forced labor, pornography and prostitution is anticipated to be widespread (Poverty). According to the UN children’s fund, child trafficking is one of the rapidest growing criminal issues with estimated numbers of 1.2 million victims every year, of whom 32 percents are African (Poverty). The parents do not realize that they are doing something bad and decide to send their children away to enable their children to work to feed themselves and after that, they go to school which never happens (Poverty). According to the spokesperson for the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons, it is true that the children sent away from their communities, will be easily abused (Poverty). The most effective way to regulate its trafficking is to create a new law by the government. In 2003, to fight human trafficking, Nigerian government agency implemented a new law to prohibit human trafficking (Poverty). If the government began to work very hard to prohibit the human trafficking, more children would attend school.

It is very important to know that obtaining knowledge from education is one of the ways to be free from poverty. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) education is the most powerful and useful way to authorize the rural poor to get out of poverty (Antonios). Many believe that African countries have a potential to develop the global community by strengthening the educational system. In fact, the UN agency emphasizes the vital role of agriculture and brings out the important contribution of education for sustainable development (Antonios). The biggest problem in education is that they cannot write and read. According to Lavinia Gasperini, FAO education expert, illiteracy associates with poverty and is a rural phenomenon that disturbs the development of rural areas’s food, and security. It endangers their productivity, health and also limits chances to promote their livelihoods (Antonios). Ms. Gasperini also said that since most of the people in sub-Saharan Africa are rural, and agriculture plays a very important role for rural development and economic growth, more efforts are required in educating the poor people in rural areas to help them in adapting improved technologies to make small-size farming gainful and viable (Antonios). Moreover, the supporters for this plan are very solid. This project is expected in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, and organized by a lot of international institutions such as FAO, UNESCO's International Institute for Education Planning, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa, Ethiopia's Ministry of Education with the support of the Italian Development Cooperation and the Norwegian Trust Fund for Education in Africa (Antonios). The people in rural areas need to realize that they are able to be free from poverty by acquiring education, and once they start obtain the knowledge needed from the education; the community will develop very well.

In many poor countries, countless children are not able to go to school. Especially in many African countries, political and historical reasons prevent them from obtaining an education, and human trafficking is one of the examples. The children born into a low-income family should have right to study at a public financed, good quality and free schools. Not only children but also adults in rural areas need to be aware of the effectiveness of education. Also, strengthening the educational system in poor countries leads to a well developed global community. It is clear that the poor educational system still exists so raising the public awareness might be the one step to make their lives better.

Source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/107444/index.html
: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues33/index.htm
: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-07-21-africaschild_N.htm
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3605275.stm
: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76411

Ethos...Pathos...Logos...

Ethos...
1. The publicly financed, free and good quality school.
2. Human trafficking.
3. Illiteracy

Pathos...
1. We think it is natural for us to obtain an education in school.
2. Countless children are not able to go to school.
3. Raising the public awareness is one step to make their lives better.

Logos...
1. Extreme poverty poor African people face.
2. Problems to provide financed school programs.
3. Domestic and forced labor, pornography and prostitution is anticipated to be widespread.
4. Obtaining the education leads to be free from poverty.

Project 2...

Hi, it's hisa!
So, here is what I am going to do.
My topic is "Poor Education in a Poor Country."
There are some historical and political reasons behind this problem and I'm going to analyze these problems...and write down what makes better to obtain the education...

Home-Westlife

Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome.
I wanna go home.　　
Maybe surrounded by a million people I, Still feel all alone.
I just wanna go home, I miss you, you know.
And I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you.
Each one a line or two, I'm fine baby how are you.
Well I would send them but I know that it's just not enough.
The words were cold and flat, and you deserve more than that.
Another aeroplane another sunny place,I'm lucky I know,But I wanna go home.
I've got to go home. Let me go home, I'm just too far from where you are,I gotta come home.
Let me go home, I've had my run, Baby I'm done, I wanna come home.
And I feel just like I am living someone elses life.
It's like I've just stepped outside, When everything was going right.
And I know just why you could not come along with me, 'cos this was not your dream.
But you always believed in me.
Another winter day has come and gone away in either Paris or Rome, and I wanna go home.
I miss you, you know.
Let me go home,I've had my run, Baby I'm done, I wanna go home.
Let me go home, and I'll be alright, I'll be home tonight.
I'm coming back home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pARWwOkED5U

Ok, so In this lyric, they sing "I wanna go home...let me go home..."over and over...
To dream that you cannot find your way to your way home indicates you have lost faith and belief in yourself.
A word from first line, "summer" represents growth, knowledge and maturity... in this song, these are gone...
Paris symbolizes your need for romance and passion...
Feeling alone means feelings of rejection...like we can expect.
He has been keeping all the letters he wrote...letters represents a message from your unconscious mind...
So...it seems like he somehow physically, mentally became very young to look for love... and... got lost...??? Because he is unconscious!!!

Interestingly, on the second part, taking on an aeroplane represents to experience a higher consciousness, new-found freedom and greater awareness...this sounds like very opposite to the first part!
Around the end of this song, the winter day has come and gone...winter symbolizes the ill-health, depression. and misfortune...so, it looks like he recovered his physical and mental problem...??? Because at the end, he finally said "I'll be home tonight" which means he is now sure to get back.

Hello All, フロリダから、こんにちわ。

Hi, All! It's Hisa!
I've never had a blog...so I might need sometimes to post...
I just found out they have my language version...yay!
See you tomorrow.

どうも、ひさです！
学校のライティングの授業でブログを作らないといけなくてこういうことになったんやけど。。。
どうせ学校の授業でつかうだけで、あとはMixiとか、Facebookになると思うな。。。多分（笑）