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in my art work i used cut out pictures from the Internet and colored markers.

i used markers to color in my emptiness person. i colored him grey to show how he's not happy. i choose the pictures off the I Internet because i thought it would be more affective to show actual picture of hungry children and the affects it has has them.

Hunger has always been a big deal for me. for me, growing up with both parents having jobs, I wasn’t ever starving. However, i hate seeing and hearing the stories and picture of the poor children that die every couple seconds because of this huge deal. There are many organizations that are in the fight to end hunger. Action Against Hunger is a well-known organization. It’s helped many people in major hunger spots like Africa and some places in Asia. Fighting this horrible issue is important to me because I don’t want kids to feel empty.

        Through my artwork, I really wanted to exaggerate the issue. I started out drawing a picture of a skink person. I drew him gray because I wanted to show that this is not a happy situation and when you think of grey u usually think of sadness. Then I decided to draw the stomach of the person. But, I had to show that it wasn’t full, therefore the “emptiness” written in it. I didn’t want it to be just a picture of a make believe person. So, I went onto the Internet and printed picture. The pictures show how bad this situation really is.
 
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I used paint and the computer to create my hexagon. over 5 hundred kids are child abused everyday. The are so many concerns that people/kids are getting killed because about parents hitting them and getting them hurt. This is important to me because i hate when people hit there kids. it is also important to me becuase i love kids and i hate to watch them suffer. i showed some blue and dark blue for the colors because they represent the sadness and i showed the quotes so that people know and pay attention to this problem. <3 :)

 
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This lack of children education problem is most prevalent in a country called, Nigeria in Africa. Around 7.5 percent of the world’s children are out of school. Children should be able to learn and be able to get an education. People then can grow and be successful for the future. Luckily, global initiatives are being done to address this issue. Unicef, and The Commonwealth Education Fund are currently helping. Unicef and The Commonwealth Education collect money in the simplest ways to end countries lacking education. They send pencils and supplies for schools to use. The little things we take advantage for, some countries don’t even have.

            In my picture, I drew many things to represent the problem, lack of children education.  In the middle I drew hands connecting, showing interdependence. I wrote words and quotes that represent education, like “Learn,” and ”A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” On the sides, I drew books and a graduation cap to show that children need the education, and can graduate to succeed for the future. Also, I drew a world globe representing Unicef helping all across the world. The pictures on the side show the classrooms in Africa. They are improving the level of education daily, from the improvement of education supplies and books. The drawing of the boy represents him being happy, and the green and white is the flag of Nigeria.

I used colored pencils, paint, sharpies, and printed pictures in my drawing. I used this media to make the drawings pop and put color in the book. 

Abby Y.




 
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Violence is a terrible. Every year it takes more than 1.5 million people world- wide. Of this number, 50% is due to suicide, 35% to homicide, and over 12% as a direct result of war or conflict. There are many kinds of violence. Verbal, nonverbal, physical, social, sexual, economic and psychological are just some of them. An offender can be anyone, a friend, a random stranger, even a loved one or spouse. In 2005, 389,100 women were victimized by a spouse. Violence is caused mostly by psychological problems, jealously, behavioral problems, social theories, mental illnesses, gender aspects of abuse, and marital conflict disorder. An article states that the tendency for rates of violent crime and homicide to be higher where there is more inequality is part of a more general tendency. This is saying that violence tends to be higher where inequality is more common. I think people have a right to be safe and that people should not hurt other people. This is why violence is important to me. I believe that no one should ever be abused and anyone who is an abuser should go to jail. In my Hexagon I used red and black watercolors on white because they bold colors would stand out. I made a red stop sign with guns coming out of the side. Underneath the sign it says the violence. There are bullet holes around the stop sign and some of them have blood splatters. Above and below the sign there are all sorts of words in black and red relating to violence. I hope that this will help people understand how terrible violence really is and become more aware of it.


 
LACK OF EDUCATION:
By: Julissa P.

Lack of education is a very important issue around the world. In Somalia, less than 10% of kids attend primary school. It impacts many children early-on in life, affecting them in their future, and creating a chain reaction. Many kids are in camps learning how to use guns rather than learning to read and write. There are many groups and organizations to help this issue worldwide, for example; Care For Children, Education in Somalia, Pennies for Peace & Sylvan, and they have made progress. Building schools, helping communities, and guiding people towards a better future. Yet, many kids still live without the education they deserve and need. It is important to me because many kids in America, all around my age, don’t appreciate the well education that is provided. They take the education for granite, and don’t realize how lucky they are to get it. Many kids in Somalia, do not know how to read or write, yet they know to manage and handle a gun. Even adults living in Somalia have not learned to read or write, because them too didn’t get education as a kid. Education must come to attention and be taken care of, it plays a very important role in one’s life, and future.

The media I used was colored pencils, marker, and pen. I used the pen to have the writing stand out and be easier to read. The marker divided each of the sections clearly, that way it was more understandable. The color pencils were used to show creativity, and add more emotion and color to the hexagon itself. When using all of these material it tied the whole project together nicely.
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Dennis Gainulin's hexagon

I drew the world made up of little stick people and that they are falling off the Earth symbolizing overpopulation and an overcrowded world. I also drew the population trend and on the line of the trend, I drew a train with two carriages carrying World Resources and Food, and the train is symbolizing the little train that could and he is trying to get up the line graph which is going all the way up and the train needs to give the food to us. This symbolizes the limitation of resources later on when the world gets overcrowded and overpopulation.

Overpopulation is mainly an issue in India and China where the density is 73,550 people per square mile. There is, however a way to stop this. In China the government has a policy that they enforce which is called the One Child Policy that restricts Chinese families to have more than one child in order to slow the population down but this won’t help later in the future. This policy may be working out for now, but once there are more families then that defeat the purpose of having a policy like that.

 
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Taras Hexagon
My hexagon is called the end to poverty. I called it that because it shows people holding hands so that means they’re coming together and the hands in the middle are holding the things that we need to end poverty which are water, food and houses. To make this I used paint I also put rice and a cut up water bottle that I glued on the paper. 


 
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Bennett Cullen

“End Discrimination”

Markers, colored pencils, regular pencil, paper cutouts

The significance of my hexagon is that it has to do with discrimination. Which is the act of being prejudice towards a person of another race or culture.

This topic is important to me because I believe that among many of the faults humans have discrimination, I believe is the worst. If we weren’t so prejudice towards one another then we would have a more interdependent world and we wouldn’t bring each other down but strive to encourage each other to do better.

The people in my hexagon are different colors. The people on the right and left are  farther apart and have opposite colors, but the person in the middle joins those two people together with the colors that they already have, making them connected. In the background it is black representing the destruction and irresponsibility of humanity. The blotches of color represent that even though things are dark and cruel if we come together we can bring forth the light and make a change in the world even if it is small it still creates an opening and opportunity for light to shine and for there to be more happiness in the world not hate. I also chose the colors of the rainbow to represent because there are a variety of colors as there are people. Since the colors of the rainbow blend and don’t contradict one another they become a beautiful sight. Making the colors interdependent. I believe that we as different races, must come together during difficult times. Even though each of us are a different color we can still blend well if we work together.


 
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Andrew R
Animal Abuse
Colored Pencils
It is important because animals should not be abused and they should be treated like humans.
I drew an eye with tears coming down its face to show how it affects the animals and other people. 

 
Juliana Harr

“Pollution”

I used colored pencils and pastel chalk to make this piece of artwork.

Pollution does some real damage,
  In such a short time we can’t even manage.
  There are two ways our Earth can appear,
  So lets keep it pretty, and have no fear!
  Pollution, to me, is a worldwide issue,
  Just waiting to be fixed,
  Believe me, pollution. We won’t miss you!



 

    Emily Erickson Cook

    _National Board Certified Art Teacher
    Technology Specialist Endorsed
    Curriculum and Instruction M.Ed

    I teach middle school art in the suburban Chicago area. This project has allowed my eighth grade students to confront global issues and to have an artistic voice that expresses their concerns and passions that one day just might change the world.


    Amy Weiss

    Global Perspectives Teacher
    World History, U.S. History, and Social Studies Endorsed
    Curriculum and Instruction M.Ed

    I teach with Emily Cook in a Chicago suburban school. While my students have learned about global issues in the past, this project allowed them to see that these are not problems that people in other places in the world have to deal with, but rather, that these are world problems, and since we all have a civic responsibility to the world, these are our problems too.

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