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Space Travelers

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For this Action Project, we had to create a game. We had to do many other things like making a slide show and a video of the game but the main thing was the game. For me and my group, this project went very well for us. I also really enjoyed working on this because it was a different experience for me. Even though this was a group project I feel like it was a lot more work but it was fun to work on.   I talked a lot about the game and the rules. We made a video of the how to play and a slideshow of our process we went through to make the game below. The video is at the end of the slideshow which explains a lot about our game.       

Shooting Donations

Hunger happens all around the world. Even though hunger is not violent, it's still a type of violence. Hunger is structural violence because many people are don’t have food and starve. Structural violence is people getting their basic needs met but when they don't get food there not getting their needs met. Statistics show that one in eight people on the earth goes to sleep hungry. There are many things that cause hunger but the main causes are poverty, not a lot of investment in agriculture, and weather/ climate. If I put myself on the Ladder of Tolerance (a tool that is used to see two groups position on an issue), I would be at Mutual Learner because I'm higher than awareness because I’m giving to the hunger cause. Other people I know would be at awareness because they’re exposed to it, but they are not doing anything to help starving people around the world. People usually don't give homeless people money because they think they’re going to use it for something ot...