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Script for Argon Video: (my poem)

I help in many ways you never even knew

I protect other elements

My gas is also used.

I’m a non-metal gas

And proud of it too

Sir William Ramsey of Scotland

Is why I am known to you.

I am know as number 18

I will never be seen

For I am way, way too small

.93% is all.

I live in the Atmosphere

Above your head all day

You never guessed my gas could be

Your source of light today.

At the end, in my credits, I will post all the written information I have about Argon.

Below, i have posted a symbol representing the element Argon. We have been assigned a project where we had to create a symbol on Adobe Photo shop, and then show it on a public Google map.

http://ssissaba.edublogs.org/files/2008/11/argon-sign.png

Last week, a few volunteers from an organization called crossroads came into our lives and changed our perspectives. Thursday, 6th November was a day filled with sympathy for the people living in poverty and a day filled with activities which helped us understand how these poor people have to live. We had a guest talker called DJ who really spoke to our hearts and explained what crossroads is and does. Crossroads is a group that collects donated items from prominent and wealthy companies and donates it to charities that help people in need. DJ told us the story of how crossroads came and how it was an accident. All the things people donated happened to be exactly what other people needed.

To help us learn how people in poverty lived, for 30 minutes, we experienced a life changing simulation. Our objective was to make paper bags, literally, and to sell them. We had 10 minute increments to make and sell. If we failed to earn a certain amount of money, we had to live under a bridge and pay our debts. I learned so much by this simulation, I’m having a hard time putting it into words. By raw experience we understood what poor people had to face everyday! Challenges such as pleasing the shopkeepers, or making the bags perfect were thrown in our faces every minute. We all know that poor people live on the streets. Actually, people in poverty live in Slums; which, if you think about it, are much worse that streets. There is a higher chance our getting infected and you put your body at more risk. A plastic 2×2 mat was supposedly our house. Paper and a bucket of makeshift glue (flour and water combined) were our only possessions besides the clothes on our backs. After the simulation ended i reflected on what my family and me had to do to earn money. I am ashamed to admit it now;for money, we had to sell one oh our family members. I learned that we have to do as much as we can for those who are less fortunate.

I thank my teachers an incredible amount for deciding to ask crossroads to let us experience this simulation. Without it, i would have had know idea how mindless poverty is. You become a slave to whomever may be buying your products. Its sad how poor people have no freedom. DJ explained to us how a woman told him about poverty. There is a continuous poverty cycle and if you are born poor, you will marry poor and you will end up staying poor. Same goes for your children. There is almost no hope that someday your family will break free from this unjust life cycle except for the fact that our generation, today, can help. I find it hard to believe that 40% percent of our world population live on under a dollar while we sit at home reading about people who have much more money than they could EVER need.