Considering Your Audience

I would aim my research at first at

My Research

Fact File Child Labour

Process

Our process was:

• Introduced to modern day slavery
• Viewed TED talks about slavery
• Wrote notes from TED talks video
• Independent research
• Groups (Me, Aizuddin, and Danial)
• Decided our results (script)
• Our focus point of slavery (Child slavery)
• Me (Researcher)
• Aizuddin and Danial (Script)
• Danial (movie documentary)

HW - Human Trafficking

I am researching in life of a slave in South Africa

Ted Talk Kevin Bales

Human slavery ted talks transcript

Mind map on slavery and human trafficking

Human Trafficking

Slavery Muhammad 10N

Human Trafficking Keywords

Labour - Physical work

Wage - Tax on money

Trafficking - moving things illegally aka smuggling

Debt - Something that has to be paid

Humans and other Species

Animal cells
Mammals
Habitat
Diet
Feel pain

Peak Oil Project Reflections

It is time to review your ‘mock project’.  As a group discuss and answer these questions on your group wiki/blog/webpage.

The Project

1.     What area of study did you choose?  Why?

      Peak oil, because we were assigned to the topic, because of when did it happen.

2.     What did your group hope to achieve?  What was your proposed outcome?

   They hope to achieve their goals and to teach the younger generation on the effects and management of peak oil. Our outcome was that we could preach and allow the younger generation to understand the devastating effects of peak oil and how it can be managed or prevented.

3.     How could you critically evaluate the success of your outcome?

     In working divisions was imbalanced. Important issues were disagreed on at first and group members did not fully participate to the tasks at hand.

4.     What were your specific group roles and responsibilities?  How did you organise them?  Was the allocation effective?

     There was not a definite allocation of role. The work that was presented on that day was divided among each other, this made work allocation much worse and not all group members played a full active role.

5.     Did your project have enough scope for every group member to play an active, full time part in the group work?  How could you improve this?

     There was not enough scope as we were only doing the global's view so not all members could play a ful active role. Next time, We suggest that we should include more view such as national, self etc to give group members a full and active role.

6.    Was the workload manageable in the time frame?

     Yes it was manageable in the time frame.

7.     How effective were your minutes and agendas at keeping the task on focus?  How did they help you?  How could they improve them?

The Perspectives

1.     How did you gather information and opinions/viewpoints from a personal, local/national and global perspective?

2.     How did/could you make sure you consider all these perspectives in your project?

     I could make sure I consider all these perspectives in our project because, by helping my group.

3.     Would your outcome need to be accompanied by some additional explanation or elaboration?

    Yes it would, because like facts and evidences about peak oil from videos, schoolwork, news and information and facts from other websites.

4.     How could you make sure you include cross-cultural views?

Peak Oil - My Perspective

My family use oil to drive our cars to work, school, supermarkets, and other places everyday our lives. At times we even use taxi, bus, train, even plane depending even where we are going. When there is a rise in  the price of oil, the price of transportation, health care, education, housing, services, foodstuff, household goods, clothing, sports items and etc… will rise also because most of the manufactured goods are made from oil and worse they are transported from one place to the other using vehicles run on oil. My family ends up paying more when there oil price rise. This is because we buy food from supermarkets and it's not practical to grow food ourselves. However income does not rise at the same time the rise in oil.

Of the 85 million barrels of oil the world uses everyday, 44% is made into petroleum/gasoline, 35% into other fuels and the rest goes to manufacturing household goods, chemicals cosmetics clothing building materials that we use everyday. Imagine if there is no oil than these goods become scarce!

Oil is finite resource, it is a fossil fuel and found in limited supply. What is peak oil debate? It is about the time when the maximum rate of oil production is reached, after which it declines. The scientists also debate on how much oil is left and how long it will last. Global depletion will eventually occur if no new oil wells are discovered to mitigate the process. Malaysia is fortunate to be one of the oil producing nations. If there is a price hike, our government will subsidize it. Petronas is government owned oil company and my uncle is one of the employee. Since oil is declining we can reduce our consumption and try to conserve our oil reserves by not using cars instead we should cycle or walk to nearby places or use public transport for reaching far places. We could change fuel for cars to hybrids, LNG, or biodiesel. We must recycle as much as possible to lower the demand of oil manufactured goods. We must change our lifestyle, eat more greens and fruits or else grow our own food. Buy local goods, fresh produce and not processed food. And wear clothes made from natural fibers. For a more drastic change, we just simplify our lives by building homes using recycled or recyclable materials and use far fewer resources and live in nature friendly sustainable places and not in cities. It is possible to live a simple life in Malaysia!

Peak Oil Success Criteria

My SC are:

• Don't use um's and aa's
• Summarize the information don't plagiarize or use whole information
• Use diagrams

Dream Team - My role

In my view, I think I am the (PL) Plant. I had to play the role because I provide ideas, remembering what happened to what topic, may help solve solutions and obstacles.

Should Deforestation Be Allowed in Malaysia?

I have been researching the deforestation of Malaysia for my first Global Perspectives project. The deforestation is happening because....

With the higher production of palm oil the higher the profit which help Malaysia to become a developed nation by 2020, more work opportunities, advancement of country in various sectors and better infrastructure will attract other countries to invest in Malaysia.

My personal perspective on this issue is that the deforestation is a _good_ thing _bad_ thing because:

The good thing is that Malaysia is aware of the deforestation issue and is gearing towards sustainable development. At the moment 62.3% is forested according to FAO. Of this 18.7% is classified as primary forest, the most bio diverse and carbon dense form of forest. It dated 130 million years old. Malaysia could develop eco-tourism from its forest.

The bad thing about deforestation is is it will increase in floods, destroy environments, surface runoff, landslide decline of animal habitat and migration of native peoples to other parts of Malaysia.

The Malaysian government feels that the cost of losing some forest is worthwhile because:

In 10^th Malaysia Plan, Malaysia aims to increase its annual export earning from palm oil by RM29.9 million to RM69.3 million. Palm oil is Malaysia’s second largest income exports. Since 2008, Malaysia has increased the volume of certified sustainable oil palm to over 3 million tonnes and it has progressed the standards for sustainable palm oil which include banning the clearance of land which is important for wildlife, the environment, and the local people who depend on the land for living.

However, this is not the view of everyone. From the global perspective, opinion is much more split. Supporters of the deforestation include the FAO. They argue that in their report: Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 that Malaysia loses about 0.19% of its forests annually, which means Malaysia is responsible for 13% of the world’s forest every year. But Malaysia is taking an active role in reforestation and eco-friendly projects.

On the other hand, some argue that is should be stopped. These include groups such as....

1. Wetlands International in Netherlands reported two thirds of Sarawak’s peat land covered with thick rainforest was rapidly opened up largely for all palm production. In the year 2005–2010, almost 10% of Sarawak’s forest and 33% of peat swamped forest have been cleared. Of this 65% went to oil palm production.

2. Rainforest Action Network (RAN); in their updated issue July 28 2011 Palm oil: A Global Threat to Rainforests. It claimed that oil palm is used in 50% of all consumer goods from lipsticks to biofuel. They are working to stop the destruction of the rainforests by using grassroots, pressure, corporate engagement and non-violent direct action to encourage companies and their customers to stop producing trading and purchasing palm oil that destroy rainforests.

In the future, I believe that....

There will possibly be more tourists for eco-tourism and its resorts

It will increase the standard of living for Malaysians

Must control deforestation rates by banning the export of raw logs instead Malaysia should export processed timber

Must help to support the environment to be an Eco-Friendly country from destroying biodiversity and wildlife habitat

Setup rangers’ camp by professional rangers to monitor the sustainable practice of logging companies