Learning Journal 0

Today we started the lesson by seeing a video campaign of the International Amnesty which I thought absolutely brilliant. It is only made of images and some sad music, there is no text (only in the last second), not even people appearing. This actually gives a tremendous power to the campaing. I'm sure you're curious, you can see it here if you want.
After discussing some main ideas about the video, we read a speech by Muhammad Yunus and I found some very good points of view that I would like to share. He says that "poverty is a threat to peace" and with so big differeces on the income distribution, in which more than a half of the world population lives on two or even less than one dollar a day, there's no "formula for peace". He also mentions the Millennium Development Goals, that seemed to be a bit forgotten because of the big BOOM of terrorism with the 9/11, and then the Iraq war. But I totaly agree when he says that "putting resources into improving the lives of the poor people is a better strategy than spending it on guns", and I hope that more people around the world thinks this way too.
Anyway, we started doing the worksheet but of course there wasn't enough time, so we are now supposed (supposed, is this correct?) to deliver our work done next Wednesday. This was more or less what we did today. Now, time to work on the sketch! Bye :)*