Executive Summary of Africa

*The Millennium Development Goal program has been established by the United Nations to achieve to end poverty in developing countries by 2015. The main goal of the program is to decrease the rates of hunger, diseases and poverty.
*The Millennium Development Goal program gives money to undeveloped countries or regions, and for them to be able to improve the life style, they do not attempt to do it all at once, but a group at a time. For the UN they are not interested on the fact that if the country or region is their neighbor or not, they are more concerned and focused on what they are morally obligated to do.* The Millennium Development has eight main goals that are in-reach, but in order for them to be achieved global support is needed. The U.S. being an extremely rich nation should be a significant supported, but they are not giving much to the greater cause.
*The Millennium Development goal is to reduce the number of HIV positive, improve and ensure environmental sustainability, decrease the number of kids dying because of child mortality.
*Currently there are 28 thousand kids that die a day due to poverty related causes, by 2015 the UN and Millennium Development goal is to reduce this number dramatically.
*By the year 2015 one of their many goals if to reduce by half the number of people living on a dollar a day.
*The Millennium Project is also trying to achieve universal primary education, for everyone, with that also promote gender equality and empower women. Once universal primary education is reached, to eliminate gender or age disparity in primary or secondary schooling.
*A great part of the Millennium project is to stop and reverse the spread of HIV/Aids, Malaria and other diseases.
*For example, it is rarely heard that tuberculosis is also becoming a big problem in Africa, and people need to become aware of the problems, in other to be able to help.*The Millennium Development Goal project number one goal, is to be able to aware others, whom are not Africa's neighbor to be able to help them, because we are all humans, and it could happen to any of us, no one is a 100% protected from any of the problems going on in Africa.*The recommendation the report gives to those who wish to help, is that as a class the best way we can help is by keeping people aware of the problems, and giving them statistics because it is more shocking rather than just repeating the same information over and over.*I think the Millennium Development Goal project is a really positive and good one that not only aware us but also does things to help those we are learning about.

DP 2: What Should We Do?

I think as a hundred of us, and as a diverse school that were attend, all of us come from different neighborhoods, backgrounds, we together as a class can spread awarness to our churches, comunity centers, putting posters around our neighborhoods. Even as a class, we can have a booth at our homecoming came to raise awarness to parents and visitors about You + Village and how a dollar they would spend on a tattoo can help treat a child from malaria with a .05 cents pill. I think we have the potential to do a lot as a class, we just have to plan it.

"Singer: Moral Obligation/Extreme Poverty."

1. Are we morally obligated to help EVERY that is having a hard time economically?

2. Are we morally obligated to think about other's well being before thinking about ourselves?

3. Are we morally obligated to give up our 'extras' when we work really hard to achieve them, because there are others out there that have nothing?

4. Are we morally obligated to change a problem that is way beyond our hands?

5. Are we morally obligated to help any certain cause depending on where we come from?

6. Are we morally obligated for those kids dying from malaria because they can't affort a 7 dollar net, and that is what we spend for lunch everyday?

7. As human beings, we do have an instinct for all human beings to have clothing, housing and food, but are we morally responsable to provide those three things for people that are not working for it?

8. Are we morally obligated to help those that do not want the help?

9. Are we morally obligated to work for our valueables, but then have to give them up because others are very lazy and know that since I'm morally obligated to help them they don't have to do anything about it?

10. Are we morally responsable for what goes wrong with the people that don't make enough to be able to support their families?

Portfolio 2: Good Samaritan Interpretation

With the parable of the Good Samaritan Jesus criticizes the economical and power archery during the 1st century in Palestine. The parable of the answer to the lawyer’s question of who is his neighbor, gave Jesus a way to criticize how the ones you expect them to help you, don’t because you are a different class than them, and those whom you would think are your enemies actually are the ones that will help you out. The parable shows how Jesus saw of the power archery as a faulty system that just made distinctions among people, where it should not be done.

John the Baptist

John the Baptist was Jesus’ cousin; he also set the example for Jesus’ teachings. He taught the people not to be greedy with what they had, and learn how to only take what were rightfully theirs, and no more. He also preached about unity and caring. He knew that caring was essential for any kind of relationship, and in order for a society to be successful, relationships needed to be established. His teachings about greed and caring, and working together helps emphasize the message that in order for a society to succeed, everyone needs to work as a team and care about each other.
John’s teachings also foreshadowed what Jesus did, because Jesus helped the poor out and taught people that we are all brothers and sisters, like John he taught the meaning of unity. He emphasized the fact that we need to help each other out at our times of need. Jesus looked out for the poor, them being the ones that got oppressed the most and had no saying or power against the Elite, Jesus just wanted them to get all that was necessary and no more, just like what John had said to the tax collectors in Luke 3. John and Jesus also told the people to repent for their sins, because that’s what God had said for the children of Abraham to be raised with. John gave some type of introduction to the people about Jesus as well as to the teaching of Jesus about repentance, the sins, and about we are all brothers and sisters. It all tied back into how Jesus was raised in a poor and unknown environment, where people had no respect for the poor and just abused of them because they had no power to go against it.

I'm a Refugee

Jesus coming from a refugee family must have been hard, and made him wonder what or why his family had to leave their whole lives behind to go to a place where they don’t know anyone or anything. I think by being a refugee and knowing that he was going to be oppressed at certain places due to his believes, he wanted to help and protect the oppress and the ones that were scared of being oppressed. Coming from a refugee family, did affect his mission, and consciousness, because he would not want any one to go through what he did because of his family’s believes.
Jesus’ mission was to help the poor and oppress. His childhood was being a refugee and he knew what the poor and oppress had to go through, which would make most sense why he would wanted to protect them, because maybe he could have wished if someone had been there to protect him and his family.
In Jesus’ consciousness, he has that feeling that he wishes he could have had some one that was able to help and protect his family because they were “strangers” to the people and the place, and most of all they were poor and had no power or wealth to at least help them out economically. In his consciousness, Jesus might have felt that he NEEDED to do something; he thought that the reason God had put him in this world and made him go through all that, for him to have the purpose and responsibility to help those that aren’t able to help themselves.

Portfolio 1: Who’s Your Momma?

I think Mary is a woman, whom followed Jesus and she gave birth to him.Mary just gave birth to the son of God, she did not make him. She seems to be a religious Jew, whom follows the word of God. Mary seems to be a housewife and a caring woman, who is very clean and organized. She seemed to care for Jesus a lot, and look out for his own well-being before hers. She seems to be Holy and religious, in most of Mary's statues she is

After reading LUKE 1: 39-56 and MATTHEW 1: 18-25 Mary is a virgin and had a Son that was given to her by the Holy Spirit. Mary belonged to a lower economical stratum, being that her husband-to-be was a carpenter. Women seemed to be important to keep the family and generations growing, her pregnancy would have been seen as wrong and not rightful to her society because when the Holy Spirit gave her Jesus, Mary was still not married. Her society would had seen her as a dirty woman, whom had no respect for herself by getting pregnant before being married, and being owned by a man.

I personally think that God choose Mary because she showed the characteristics he wanted a mother to have. She was caring,responsible, Holy, and religious, as well as ethical. She showed she cared, by going to see Elizabeth when she was pregnant. She was responsible by being a housewife, and being loyal to her husband-to-be Joseph. Mary has demonstrated that she was Holy and born with out original sin, by being able to bear a fruit out of her womb given to her by the Holy spirit. Mary seemed to be religious by trusting in God and the Holy Spirit when they instructed her to have a Son and name him Jesus, that showed that she trusted in God and she knew that what God said would be the right thing to do. God wanted to choose a woman whom was going to trust him and look out for the well being of his son Jesus, he wanted someone he can trust as well.