MY REFLECTION ON THE PROCESS
I chose war for my topic because I read a book about war and nuclear weapons and how much harm they cause. It was hard thinking about counter opinions and other points of view and saying how I agree and disagree with them. Something that was easy for me was searching up statistics and researching. I thought recording would be the longest and hardest part but it was really fast. Making the script was harder than I thought I thought It would be fine if I just copied my essay into my script but I had to get rid of a lot I went from 28 slides to 14 slides. I really hated making the slides in adobe it was hard finding pictures and making sure they went with what I was saying also my script didn’t have the correct numbers for the slides so it was a pain making the slides. Making the essay was pretty easy because I already knew a lot about my topic and had many ideas of what to write. I chose my topic because I want people to think about what could be going on in other parts of the world maybe they didn’t learn anything from my essay but at least they would realize how lucky we are to not live in a war zone or a war torn country. My favorite part was recording because I didn’t have to think of anything I just had to talk. I’m proud of my final project.
MY ESSAY ON WAR
Did you know that 40 million people were left homeless, enslaved, or imprisoned a lot of innocent people mostly Jews had their houses bombed about 750,000 new houses had to be rebuilt. I feel like the human race should live in peace and stop killing each other. We should recognize that we all want the same things out of life. We all want freedom and we can get that if we settle arguments without violence. We are saving many lives and are making the planet a better place by stopping war. Let’s decide not to have war, and everyone will win.
In my opinion, nuclear weapons shouldn’t be used, they are too powerful and destructive. We use nuclear weapons to affect the entire population, not just the military or government. It is our goal to harm our enemy’s population, and kill innocent citizens .This is wrong. I get that someone might think that nuclear weapons are a great way to make another country surrender but that will probably just start nuclear war. When we start nuclear war, horrible things happen. Like nuclear winter, ruined crops, natural resources are destroyed, other horrible things will also happen, and many innocent lives will be lost. Also nuclear weapons are used to affect the entire population so people who agree with you or have nothing to do with the war will die. Another example is nuclear weapons harm the environment and lead to a major population loss.
Governments are taking war lightly they don’t care if their people die, they just want to destroy their enemies and don’t think about what would happen if they fought a war with them you might argue that it’s good to destroy your enemies and get them out of the way, but there’s no guarantee that they would surrender and terrible things like food shortages would happen. Governments are spending too much money on war and not education, I get that you might argue that we need weapons and military for protection, but I think that we should protect our selves without killing millions, if we spend too much money on war we won’t have enough money for natural resources and other important things. Governments are using nuclear weapons as a plan A it’s their first decision when another country declares war on them, we should never use nuclear weapons or it should be our final decision. When we have nuclear war there can be food shortages and other horrible things we should think about this before we start or get involved in war.
When we have nuclear war no one wins as long as both sides have nukes, you might think this isn’t a big deal but it is. Things like major population loss, and crops failing can happen if governments don’t think before starting nuclear war. When governments don’t think before starting nuclear war they are putting billions of lives in danger. When we start nuclear war we are wasting money if we spend to much money we could change the way we live in the U.S. we could also put thousands of lives in poverty. Nukes destroy the environment and if we destroy the environment too much we could run low on natural resources and die. By starting nuclear war we are just making an enemy weaker but your country will be losing money, losing food, losing people, and losing important natural resources, but if we decide not to start nuclear war we are saving billions of lives and you are helping yourself by saving money and giving peace to yourself and all your citizens.
I hope you now see how bad war is. It’s time to make a difference, you can help by donating money to war torn countries and if where you live has a high chance of being bombed you can help build shelters for people who have no protection from the bomb. I think everyone should recognize that we are not accomplishing any thing by starting war. In war you lose and so does everyone else. War is a total waste of time and money and it’s about time someone understands that.
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d I want people to see how people in poor countries live. Not everyone lives the way people in the U.S. live. I want people to see what poor unfortunate people have to do. Making the infographic would be a total breeze if adobe wasn’t so glitchy. It was easy finding facts and statistics I learned a lot while doing it, but it was hard turning that information into bar diagrams and pie charts, that’s why I found other infographics and added them to my infographic. First I found information and jotted notes on a sheet of paper them I transferred that into my social studies notebook then I started turning that into an infographic I tried to make sure I had more pictures than words. I didn’t enjoy grouping things in adobe it was hard. I’m happy with my final project though I feel like I could have less words.