| What specific problem does this project address? Our project addresses the problems of extreme poverty and natural disaster. |
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| What research was done for this project? ? Our group has been in tune with the news reports on the aftermath of this devastating earthquake. |
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| How was this project decided upon? We felt compelled to do SOMETHING to help those suffering in Haiti. We come from a wealthy community and have so much that in the face if this disaster, we knew it was our duty to do our part to help. |
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| How will this project remain ongoing? We have no plans on keeping this project going in the future. This is something we need to think more about. |
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How is this project going to make a difference? "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magni?cently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an in?nite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in de?ance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
- Howard Zinn, The Optimism of Uncertainty |
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