Empathy.

We were given a task to put yourselves in this boy's shoes. He feels sad, angry and frustrated at times. You can see this because he is hoping that he can pay football, instead of just making tons of footballs. And typically, if you don't get what you want, you would feel angry upon the people who can. His hopes are just to play football with his friends. But all he can do right now is to sew millions of footballs for very little profit or salary. This could also take on a metaphorical way, where he dreams that everyone could be equal, in the form of playing football. We could stop child labour. We could also give money to charity, where they would get a bit of money. There are many things that we lack of, and this is the first step to letting them achieve their dreams.

One of the Hardest Games Ever.

Today, we discussed about a topic called 'Slavery Today'. We voted on a poll if we think that slavery in the modern world still existed and I voted that 'Slavery still exists today but in a different form' or something along those lines. :P Then we wrote on a forum about what we think about slavery today. I said that I think maids are still considered slaves, just with better living conditions and has a pay. So I wasn't sure whether they are still considered slaves.

We then played a game with a storyline about life in Haiti when there is extreme poverty. It was extremely hard to succeed. I played it two and three times which failed in succeeding the game. On the third go when I was going to fail, I had a lot of debts and very low health, so I decided to try and start a new game, but when I tried to make them die, they survived, and here are the results.

I then gave up and started to see how high I can go in debt. This is the result:

I've learnt that when we think that parents that send their children to work are horrible people, they are actually not since they had no choice. All of us sent our children to work in the game because money was rapidly decreasing and going into debt. I also learnt that a lot of people die from very simple diseases because of lack of safety. They die from the most basic things in life, like mosquito nets and normal medicine. I also learnt that education is extremely hard to afford in places like that. All in all, life is pretty hard for people over there.

Slave Diary Entry 5

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Slave Diary Entry 5

Slave Diary Entry 4

Please read the earlier ones to know the full story (well some of the full story) :)

Slave Diary Entry 4

Slave Diary Entry 3

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Slave Diary Entry 3

Slave Diary Entry 2

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Slave Diary Entry 2

Slave Diary Entry 1

          We had to make several diary entries of being a slave during the British Empire in Humanities! It was kind of a bad time to live as a West African... But anyways, here it is!

Slave Diary Entry 1