Sociology Project

The sociology project was about going around San Diego and act out of the norm around people to see their reactions. Me and my group decided to ask a random person to tie our shoes and instead of using money to pay we used jewelry and a cell phone. During these acts it was interesting to see the peoples faces and reactions.

We went to In and Out and one of my group members asked a guy to tie her shoe. He reacted in a weird way and got shy. He was staring at her and decided to tie her shoe. The people around us just stared at us and thought we were weird.

We went to Subway and one of my group members decided to order subway. As she got at the cashier she decided to pay with her necklace or her cell phone. But the cashier didn't want any of them, he wanted something better.

Resource Management Project

This project was about us choosing an issue that we were interested in learning and helping a place in the world with the issue. The resource that my partner and I chose is clean water in Nairobi, Kenya. We want to help Kenya so that they can improve their water supply. The water in Kenya is not clean for the people to drink. Some of the water they drink is from the ground or from rivers which can be infected with many diseases. Many of the diseases are deadly and many people die from them every year. A common disease that many children are dying from every year is water-bone disease. A law needs to be made so that it will help them have cleaner fresh water and not have dirty water to drink. This is important because many people are dying and their needs to be a difference. What is needed in order to make a difference is to make a law and to build wells around villages. The government should also make a building to clean the water and give it to people in water bottles. Although this doesn’t affect us we should help them and care for them so that they can drink clean water just like us. We should all be equal and help each other.

Letter:

Dear Mr. Thamsanqa Dennis Mseleku,

My name is Xochitl Lopez and my partner is Jocelyn Hernandez. We both are students from High Tech High International and it is located in San Diego, California. We both want Kenya to change the water sanitation in Nairobi so that people will stop suffering by drinking dirty water.

Many people in Kenya don’t have clean water to drink. This is bad because drinking unhealthy water full of bacteria and viruses cause people get sick. Some diseases that are found in the dirty water are diarrhea, cholera, and malaria. Water Bourne diseases are deadly and they have killed many people. Flies and other disease-carrying insects are drawn to unsanitary water sites and they infect the water with the diseases that they carry. Only 61 percent of the rural population has access to an improved drinking water source and everyone deserves to have a good water source. Dirty water kills 5,000 children a day. That is a lot of children dying from something that needs to be resolved.

I request for you to make a change in U.S. policies toward Kenya so that people don’t have to drink disgusting dirty water that makes them sick. Please help your country by changing the water sanitation and the people in Kenya will be happy and healthy. The government should help by building wells and build a place to have clean water. Helping Kenya will help us see the improvement in the water sanitation and see the people in Nairobi drink cleaner fresh, water.