Into The Eye of the Storm

I've decided to choose Poverty and Hunger as my MDG. I'm not sure how it relates to the country I'm researching for Social, which is China, but I'm sure I'll find a connection. In the library, I choose a book called "The Homeless," it's not so much of a narrative but more of an in-depth analyzation of homelessness and opposing viewpoints. Unemployment has triggered by the past few economic problems we are facing. Jobs are lost and now many people are finding themselves living in extreme poverty. It may not be possible to end poverty in 2015, but we will succeed if we keep trying.


I was lured in by a short and sweet video that ended up displaying frightful facts."1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day." That's almost the population of China, the country I've been studying for my MDG. Thinking about it makes me gloomy because I haven't done any much to aid. We are blessed to live in such a prosperous and excellent society. In Canada, we are able to have access to clean tap water, that is unavailable to a billion people on this planet.

If we invest in disaster protection, we can speed up the process of completing our MDGs. Many life threatening earthquakes occur in China and the result is devastation. Death and economic loss are presently escalating due to the increased rate of natural disasters occurring in developing countries. Prevention from natural disasters will allow us to save money from reconstruction and use it for a more productive economy.

China

I'm choosing the People's Republic of China (generally known China) as my country for my MDG. China's economy amazed me because they're still a developing country yet their economy is exponentially growing ever since the economic reforms in 1978. Under successful years of administration, 150 million peasants were pulled out of poverty. China’s economy today was different from the past decades. It has moved from a centrally planned system that isolated itself from international trade and moved on to a market-oriented economy.

Culture can be understood by a countries daily life, sports and recreation. In China, many people come together at dawn to practice tai chi. China excelled at the 2004 summer games with 63 medals. Everything relating to recreation in China amazes me. From acrobatics to kung-fu, many of the finest people in American cinematography came from China surpassing the humanly borderline with their unimaginable stunts. Martial arts whose origin dates back two thousand years ago where bandits and warlords fought each other is now being used for entertainment, is weird to me and raises my eyebrow.

Music and dance are one of the oldest forms of art in China. Historical narration in China is unsurpassable by any other country. The most educated of the Chinese back in the day boasted great competence in calligraphy and painting which is rivalled by each other in visual arts. Calligraphy shows that the Chinese are quite fond of their written characters. Paintings are often fused with beautifully written poetry. Calligraphy is cherished for its aesthetic qualities of balance, energy and strength.