Project 1
Project 1 was inspired by the global problem of extreme poverty. My end all mission was to get a understanding of what people who live in extreme poverty have to go through.
Honors Apollo ArtHow I incorporated art with my project idea?
In general, I wanted to do something with this project that would allow me to really to feel and go through what I what others were going through. I presented the idea of putting myself through a stimulation of only spending $2.95 a day to my Apollo teacher. And with this, I made a daily vlog. To further my knowledge I watched the wonderful documentary, Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock. This allowed me to get a feel of what vloggers do and what type of things are talked about when recording. Also in my preparation stages, I chose to narrow my focus down to one out of the many places that deal with extreme poverty. Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the many places that deal with poverty. Despite the countries abundance resources that are worth trillions of dollars the average person makes $800 a year. DRC current currency is Congolese Franc. $0.98 Us = $1616.00 CF. I decided to settle on spending $2.95 a day which is equivalent to spending $4848 CF.
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Honors Apollo EnglishHow I incorporated english with my project idea?
During this project I wanted to display the reality of what someone could really eat off of $2.95 a day. For most of us, eating off a $2.95 isn't a lot. I made a cookbook that includes breakfast ,lunch, dinner for only the given amount. To prepare myself by analyzing a cookbook to see what was in there and also the format of the book. The book itself was very informational and a huge help to my project thanks to Rachel Ray. In my cookbook I gave 15 great recipes and dollars amount of savings!
A few pages of my cookbook.
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