Top 10 most influential people

In the times 2010 top 100 most influential people, I have chosen the top ten to be:
#1 Barak Obama.
Obama is not only the President of the United States, a job that holds a lot of power and requires a lot of hard work, but he is also the first black President in the United states and he is proving America that coloured peoples can do it to! He had a rocky first year, battling two wars, but he also "became the first Democratic President in 40 years to enact a historic piece of social welfare legislation — an achievement that bolsters his presidency as he braces for the coming fight over financial re-regulation." He i a leader to the people and to the good of the U.S and he is using his presidency for the right things like healthcare development.

#2 Oprah Winfrey.
I chose Oprah because she has made a career for herself out of nothing. She had a hard up-brining and was very poor, but she made a living for herself and became one of the richest Women in America. How ever I didn't only choose her for her money, I also chose her for the fact that she created her own show and she uses it for all the right reasons. She helps so many people in America, and uses her show to create awareness for people and she raises and sends money to so many organizations.

#3 Sheik Khalifa.
I chose Sheik Khalifa because he is the President of the U.A.E and recently bailed Dubai out of debt using $10 million of his own countries money yet he remains one of the richest men in the world. I think this is a good asset because with money comes power. He used his money to pretty much save the world from debt, and keep some of it for himself. He is said to have about $19 billion and he has been using it for all the right things and is a very influential person. By using his money to bail Dubai out of debt, he saved the whole worlds stock market and money flow.

#4 Marissa Mayer
I chose Marissa Mayer because she is basically universalizing all data entered in google by trying to translate every search queries into every language so that they are searched through every page on the internet. She is influential because google is the worlds biggest search engine and she is helping that along. With over 200 million google searches per week, Marrisa Mayer and her work will have a lot of influence on the people that search on google.

#5 Michelle Obama.
I have chosen Michelle Obama because I think that she is a very powerful woman and she has used per husbands presidency to write her own book and promote excersize for secondary kids with a "let's move" campaign. She has a lot of influence on the people through her book and she gets people to respond to her.

#6 Gisele Bundchen
Gisele is a very famous model often on the front of the biggest fashion magazines. She is, unlike many celebrities out there, using her fame to promote awareness and has become a UNICEF speaker. She has a very successful brand 'ipanima' and she is endorcing aid programs and her 28 million dollar fortune is not being wasted, but being put towards charities and her aid programs.

#7 Douglas Schwartzentruber and Larry Kwak
These men are Both doctor’s and they have both been fighting cancer. They both want and are trying to cure cancer, and find a vaccine for it. Cancer is a very serious and common disease killing hundreds of people every year.They have been working separately but have the same common goal and ideas in the same field.

#9 Mark Zuckererberg
He is an influential person because he co-founded facebook while studying in Harvard at a young age. He is now a billionaire, and has created a site that millions of people use world wide to stay in touch and communicate from where ever they are in the world. He is only 20 years old, and he has created one of the most popular websites in the world.

#10 Manmohan Singh
Literacy, poverty, and environmental destruction are all problems in India. The Prime minister Manmohan Singh, is trying to help these along though. With him trying to overcome these obstacles, India has been improving with it's economy. He is building relations with Israel and has helped them to reform. India seems to be improving in the capable care of Singh.

State of Haiti's children.

2006:
Children in Haiti's rights are not respected of the Childs rights due to the conditions they suffer in. The major problems are mortality rate, health care, survival, education and exploitation. Only 1 of every 14 kids will survive until they are one. In 2006 Haiti voted Rene Preval their new president in hope of change. Preval enforced the Political Agenda for Children to attain social reform, improve heath, increase their education, decrease aids and protect children from rape, abuse and exploitation. Haiti struggles to achieve Millennium development goals in the areas of child survival, immunization and primary education. This adds to low child survival rate. Clean water and sanitation is a problem because a lot of children have to find water, and then they have to boil it, with only 3% of forest left in Haiti to find wood. In desperation parents send their kids to be restaveks and are promised a good life, but often are exposed to exploitation, trafficking, rape and abuse. Some orphans in Haiti are forced into street gangs but some find it access to free food and shelter. In gangs, kids are forced into crimes, raped or abused as revenge from the other gangs, or as punishment for refusal of chores. Children in Haiti are being neglected of their rights because of the situation in Haiti.

2010:
In this Article you can see that in Haiti, after the earthquake they are suffering even harder. as you can see from this image, the aids required in Haiti are huge, and food is one of the biggest problems. Getting safe water has also become an even bigger struggle since the water supply that before the earthquake supplied 40% of Haiti with water, has completely collapsed. Even though Aid agencies are shipping in intense amounts of bottle water and water purifying tablets, there is a lot of people not getting much, or any at all. There are other problems with health and medical supplies affecting many people since there are so many injuries after the disaster. A lot of people are having amputations but with lack of facilities are not able to go to rehabilitation and the doctors are worried that these people will languish or even die without the proper help they need. Since the earthquake hit so many villages, there is now 692,000 people living in makeshift shelters within 591 camps all over haiti. People are trying their best to take people to different locations and get more tents, but there is difficulties because they have to find food and clean water before they can move. The rights that are being denied to these people are huge, and although Aid agencies are doing all the can for the Haitian people, there is still so many things that are going wrong, and there are so many people suffering.

Human rights Wordle

Jeffery Sachs Article Summary

In Sauri, J.Sachs has helped people improve their lives by teaching them simple things like breeding catfish and harvesting honey. Sachs also introduced some technology based programs to improve health, education and communication. Also teaching crop rotation and working against malaria -a disease that kills over 1million children a year- with an SMS program and bed nets.All of this had great results and lifted people out of poverty. People now want to know if Sauri's success can be replicated and help other countries. Sachs believes that poverty may be linked to terrorism and if people were aware of all the obstacles and government corruption it could end 1/3 of the problem.

Response to questions and Poverty

The World bank is an organization that loans/gives money to charities and organizations for good causes. It is important to get information from many countries so that the data is universalized. Poverty is a very extreme, devastating and serious factor that is adding to the constantly increasing death rate in the world. The difference between poverty and extremem poverty is that with poverty, you may only have 1 or 2 meals a day, where as sometimes in extreme poverty you have to choose wether to clench your child's hunger, or your own. A poverty trap is when you can't get out of poverty easily because you don't have an education or any qualifications for a job. The world bank defines poverty as a person that earns under $1.25 a day 1.4 billion people live under the poverty line in the world. In this video, I discovered that 850 billion people go to sleep hungry every night. Worse than this, 22,000 people die EVERY day from extreme poverty. The numbers have improved, in 1981 there were 4 in every 10 people living in extreme poverty, now there are fewer than 1 in 4. There are organizations online such as unicef, world bank etc that are give and get loans for helping build houses and get clean water and donate a lot of money for the countries in trouble. I have seen poverty many times, around the streets, shops and every time I see it, it makes me feel bad, especially after I have been shopping. Seeing these people, in need and desperate for food and money, begging for money from strangers because it is their only chance. Sometimes I imagine myself in their situation and it's awful to think like that because I can't imagine sleeping on the streets, having people walking past with shopping bags, food, expensive items and wish that it was my life. I feel awful, and I want to do as much as I can for the people I see, but I feel powerless.

Intro to Global issues.

"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~Robert Ingersoll

I chose this quote because I think that equality is the most simple, yet diverse and important right that we need in our lives. This quote to me, shows equality because it is talking about how we should give everyone the rights that we think we deserve. I like this quote also, because it reminds me of what my mum always told me, and that was to 'treat everyone the way you want to be treated'. I truly believe in this quote, and I think it is very important because no one deserves to be treated differently because of race, difference in salary, religion or any of that. People are the unique and diverse and in

stead of people pushing that away, we should embrace it.

I chose a picture of many different hands holding up the globe.There are different coloured hands, some dark and some light. To me this shows equality, because no matter what colour you are or where you are from, you are part of this world, we have to accept it no matter what. Even though I accept it and embrace it, there are people out there that don’t and I just want them to know…

We are all equal, there is no one less or more superior.