​This Simulation deals with putting yourself in the shoes of one of the millions of Americans living under the poverty line, going from paycheck to paycheck to survive. Can you do it? Prove it: http://www.playspent.org/ 

After you have completed, please analyze the simulation and discuss the following points in a well thought out  paragraph. 

1.) What were some of the challenges of trying to succeed for a month as a person in your situation?


2.) What were some hard choices you had to make as a paycheck- to-paycheck wage earner.

Opener: You will have half an hour or so to play a game based around the challenges people face in third world socio-economic situations go here for the simulation : http://ayiti.globalkids.org/game  Your job is to survive. When you finished, please respond to the following questions in a few well thought out paragraphs.

1. What was your original strategy for winning- education, money, happiness, or health? Why did you pick this?


2. Write about the specific challenges you faced during your four year game cycle (one paragraph should suffice). How did you try to respond to the challenges and win? Did it work? Why or why not? 

3. How was poverty different in a place like Haiti to that of a city in the US? ​

Opener: You will have half an hour or so to play a game based around the challenges people face in third world socio-economic situations go here for the simulation : http://ayiti.globalkids.org/game  Your job is to survive. When you finished, please respond to the following questions in a few well thought out paragraphs.

1. What was your original strategy for winning- education, money, happiness, or health? Why did you pick this?


2. Write about the specific challenges you faced during your four year game cycle (one paragraph should suffice). How did you try to respond to the challenges and win? Did it work? Why or why not? 

3. How was poverty different in a place like Haiti to that of a city in the US? 

After completing the peacemaker simulation, please respond in a 4-5 sentence paragraph on it. Include the following information- what were the biggest challenges to peace coming from outside of your country/nation? What were the biggest challenges to peace coming from within your nation? What was your strategy for success? What did you learn about peace in the middle east based on this simulation? 

PLEASE CLICK COMMENT/S to respond. IF IT GIVES YOU A RED RESPONSE LIKE "MODERATOR APPROVAL NEEDED" THAT MEANS I GOT IT!!! 

Opener: You will have half an hour or so to play a game based around the challenges people face in third world socio-economic situations go here for the simulation : http://ayiti.globalkids.org/game  Your job is to survive. When you finished, please respond to the following questions in a few well thought out paragraphs.

1. What was your original strategy for winning- education, money, happiness, or health? Why did you pick this?


2. Write about the challenges you faced during your four year game cycle (one paragraph should suffice). How did you try to respond to the challenges and win? Did it work? Why or why not? 

3. How was poverty different from the first game to the second game? 

In class we watched one man's attempt to get to the roots of a problem plaguing the waters off of Somalia- Modern Day Piracy. In a paragraph, please explain the SOCIAL and POLITICAL problems which cause people to turn to piracy as a job. 

In your second paragraph, please describe what you took away from this video. How can the world tackle the issue of piracy to protect its citizens and cargo? 

We spent the past couple days watching a documentary on the drug war in the US.  

In a 4-5 sentence paragraph, please respond to the following prompt: 

"America and Mexico have a symbiotic relationship when it comes to the
global drug trade". To what extent is this quote accurate? Please use examples.