Ghana Learning Community. Ghana is on the coast of Africa. The official language there is english. When you are born you get two names, one from your parents and one from the day of the week you are born named by the gods. The exportation of slaves was going on for there for around 350 years. 30% of the community is below poverty lines. The majority of the people stop getting educated at the age of 12 and only 5% of the population goes to college. Diarrhea is the most common cause of death there. Ghana has open sewers on the street. Access of clean water is a problem in Ghana, which is probably the main cause of the most commons deaths (diarrhea). One of the projects the students are doing is testing the water with biological chemicals. They are also trying to get some ceramic filters for the villages to help filter out some of the particles and germs out of their drinking water.
This relates to the question: Are we free or is our lives determined? I would say these peoples lives are determined, because of bad drinking water, most end up with diarrhea and eventually die. It relates to the question: What is knowledge and how do we really know something? Knowledge for this learning experience is a presenter sharing their experience and pictures about what is going on there. We now really know that it is going on because we see it through pictures with our own eyes. It relates to the question: What is the meaning of life, because it makes you realize that no matter how hard you think your life is, there is someone out there that there life is extremely worse off than yours. It makes you treasure what you have even more.
well put blog.
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