Omar


 * Peace**



//**"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace." -Buddha**- //

__**-How did working together with an ES class move us towards a more peaceful community?**__

-Working with an ES class moved us towards a more peaceful community, in many ways. However they were eight years younger than us, we worked together,kindly, and shared information. We taught them about the bombing of Hiroshima while they taught us about Sadako. It represented the movement towards a peace coommunity because it showed how we, the CAC community, could work together as a team and how we can learn from eachother, regardless of the age difference and profession.

__**-How did the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes make the topic relevant?**__

-The story of __Sadako__ and the __Thousand Paper Cranes__ made this topic relevant to our peace conventions, in several ways. First of all, Sadako Sasaki was a strong, courageous, and athletic Japanese girl, born in August 1943. She was diagnosed with Leukemia, which was first noticed after falling to the ground while she was practicing for a big race and became dizzy. Later, a friend of Sadako told her about a Japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. In Sadako's situation, she wanted to recover from Leukemia, which caused easy bruising, frequent infection, bone pain, and many other harmful effects. Before dying on October 25, 1955, Sadako had completed over 1000 paper cranes. In conclusion, this shows that she never gave up, which creates relevance to the topic of peace because we should never give up on creating a peaceful world.



__**-How would you extend this project or interaction with the elementary students?**__

-In my opinion, i would extend this project by visiting the elementary students every now and then, to see their developing thoughts towards peace. For example, when we went the first time, we got to know their names and we made a peace poem. The second time we presented the bombing of Hiroshima. The third time, they taught us about the story of Sadako and we also constructed paper cranes. So, there are more things that we can learn from them and that they could learn from us.


 * __-What was the most significant or surprising thing you learnt about the dropping of the atomic bomb?__**

-The effects of the war due to the 9,700 pound bomb



__**-How can we make the world safe from nuclear weapons?**__

-We can make the world safe from nuclear weapons by letting Russia and the US not violate the Non-Proliferation Treaty they have signed, which is to eliminate their nuclear weapons, as soon as possible. If the world's two largest nuclear powers do not eliminate their nuclear powers, other nations will not put aside their development of nuclear weapons.

__**-How can we create peace within the CAC community?**__

1. Help others 2. Forgive others 3. Respect others 4. Treat others well 5. Contribute in decision-making



Bibliography

http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/peace-&-war/start/peace-quotes/index.htm http://www.cacegypt.org/newpeace/Images/PeaceLogo1.jpg http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm [|http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm] http://library.thinkquest.org/5402/images/pcranes.gifhttp://www.llnl.gov/50th_anniv/images/accomplishments/1965-Arzamas.jpg