Discuss your impressions of yesterday's refugee assembly.

I felt sad and sorry for them. When they told their stories, I finally realise the hardships and pain that they have to go through to escape from their country and live in another. I also realise how many cruel people can take advantage of these refugees so they can gain profit. Their stories made me want to do something to help every one of them. I feel as though I have not done enough and should do more to help them through these things. Their stories touched me as each story was different yet equally sad, and they have the same will, to survive. I find them very brave to be able to say these things when I know that it is very hard to tell people the bad things in their life. I also feel that they remain extremely strong and resilient no matter what happens to them, that they can still look at the bright side at the worst of times. I now realise that how lucky we are, able to get a good education and live a happy life while there are people out there suffering all the pain the society throw at them. I feel angry at the people who take advantage of them, thinking how cruel all their actions are, and not thinking about how the refugees feel. I can't imagine myself leaving my family and everything to try and escape my home country, and finding the place I escaped to was not what I expected at all. I also felt disturbed by the fact that they are still not treated well and were looked down even though they moved to another country. In the end, I realise what is happening in this world, and that every little action can change one person's life.

Decide on success criteria for this assignment -individual -group.

My group's and my own's Success Criteria and Learning Intention

Our group's success criteria:
1. To understand a specific person's feeling under certain conditions and consequences.
2. To describe events realistically.
3. To PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explain and Link to Human Rights)
4. To use our thinking skills to help with our research & writing.
5. To work co-operatively as a group.
6. To be able to research independently and come out with a set of organised notes to put inside the final biography.

My individual success criteria:
1. To be able to predict a consequence upon a certain action.
2. To be able to skim and scan through large documents to find essential information.

My teammate's Success Criteria.

My teammate's Success Criteria.

Our issue: Child Soldiers.

Our full poster.

Our group's Learning Intention:
1. To emphatise.
2. To construct an understanding of a Human Rights issue.

Now on to more researching and starting the biography.

When you choose your issue blog: -What is the issue? -Why have you chosen it? -Add pics/links.

I chose to write a biography about child who was forced to be in the army in Myanmar. I chose this issue because I want to know why the children are badly treated and want to understand the feelings of a child soldier. The children are constantly abuducted and forced to be in servitude. I have looked through several websites and I found the Human Rights Watch extremely useful: http://www.hrw.org/news/2002/10/16/children-war
http://www.hrw.org/news/2002/10/15/testimonies-my-gun-was-tall-me-child-soldiers-burma
http://www.hrw.org/news/2002/10/15/burma-worlds-highest-number-child-soldiers
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uganda_25184.html

I downloaded several files from other websites. I also looked a bit at the Lord's Resistance Army from this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

What is/are the issue/s that you think you would like to focus on? Why?

My first choice would be the child soldiers. I would like to investigate upon the issue of child soldiers since I feel that the issue is one of the most cruel upon the topic of Human Rights. I find it hard to believe that governments would force a child to step on a mine just to ensure the safety of other elder soldiers. I find that burning down the parent's houses to force a child to be in the army an act of atrocity. Many children have died because of these armies without conscience. I want to find out how many children are being mistreated and in what ways. When I write a biography about a certain person, I would write a fictional biography about a child who was forced to join the army in either Uganda or Myanmar. If it was in Uganda, the army is called "Lord's Resistance Army" which is an opposition of the government. If it was in Myanmar, I would choose the government itself as almost 20% of the army are made from child soldiers.

Share 3 things that you learned from Monday's presentations.

I learned that some people, for example Julian Assange uses the right for Freedom of Expression and Opinion to their own advantage to post classified government files on the internet. By doing this he is using rights to leak a lot of secrets thus breaking the rights for privacy. I also learned that many people try to protect other people who acted with conscience. The Amnesty International has over 3 million supporters and they want to protect people who were prisoned for their conscience. I also realised that many countries can come to force one country to do a certain deed, for example, releasing Nelson Mendela. The world created pressure to force South Africa to free Nelson Mendela by not trading with them and not letting anything to go to South Africa.

Share 3 things that you learned from Thursday's presentations.

I learnt that peace and equality can be achieved just by confidence and words. Mahatma Gandhi used non-violent ways which succeeded in achieving equality for the Indians. I also learnt that the Holocaust was created by just one person's vision. Just by one person, he can achieve in creating such a massacre in the history. I learnt that previous times where the countries tried to unite to achieve peace failed quite some times.

Describe 3 things you learned from yesterday's presentation.

I learned how each small conflict can make such a huge impact on history, ranging from originating from a tiny thought and war at a huge scale. I also learned that whenever I present, I need to speak slower and clearer so that the audience can understand me. I learned that if you have too many information, the audience will get bored easily. I also figured how each part of the history impact the Human Rights.

Is your presentation finished? Explain.

I feel that my presentation is pretty much finished, unless I can think of any other things to add to it. In my presentation, I have explained what the War of the Sixth Coalition is, how it happened, who caused it, why did it happen, where did it happen and when did it happen. I also explained how this war linked to the History of Human Rights. I think I included sufficient information and I think my presentation is understandable. I also made a script to go along with each slide to add in more information about the War of the Sixth Coalition. I also put in the bibliography of every source that I took information from. I also used pictures to help the audience visualise the scene. I feel that my presentation is good to go.

Why is a bibliography important?

A bibliography is important because when you keep track of every website or source you take information from, a teacher can check if you copied and paste. This will make sure that you learn as that is the main priority of being a student. You can also go back and check if your sources are reliable and see if there are any mistakes. If a website changes over the time, you can go back and see the time where it changed, and state that what you took was true. You can also go back and add more information when you think that what you have is not sufficient.