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As you watch the presentation, think about As you watch the presentation, think about which option you would like to further your which option you would like to further your

research.research.

Trash Island

http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-marine-pollution/

What is Trash Island? Research sponsored by the National Science

Foundation has found that the affected area may be just twice the size of Texas.

The size is determined by a higher-than normal degree of concentration of debris in the pelagic (open ocean) water.

This area is characterized by high concentrations of plastic, chemical sludge, and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.

Sudan

http://insidedateline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/29/5544546-dec-3-winds-of-war-george-clooney-in-sudan

Sudan Jan. 24, 2011, New York Times

Sudan has been at war with itself for almost its entire post-colonial history, starting in 1956.

Nearly 99 percent of southern Sudanese voters chose to split off from northern Sudan and form their own country, according to preliminary results of more than 3 million votes, which brings the largest country in Africa a step closer to splitting in two.

http://www.enoughproject.org/multimedia/winds-change-sudan

Sudan http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalglobe-ima

gery/sets/72157625789759157/show/

Slideshow of the Sentinal Project – Enough Project has a goal of shedding light on the border area of Sudan. The purpose of this is to tell the Sudanese that we are watching and will be a witness so that violence doesn’t happen again.

http://www.satsentinel.org/blog/putting-sudan-six-oclock-news

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N. Korea Video overview of N. Korea

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/explorer/videos/inside-north-korea/?source=vidcarousel

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Nuclear weapon testing and development

N. Korea

Human rights violations

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim/them/defector.html

Gun Control http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/gun-con

trol/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/us/jan-june13/guns_02-01.html

Iran https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-w

orld-factbook/geos/ir.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14541327

Between The U.S., Israel And Iran, Who Blinks First? http://www.npr.org/2012/03/04/147904579/between-the-u-s-israel-and-iran-who-blinks-first

Injustice Optionshttp://www.globalissues.org/article/4/poverty-around-the-world

http://www.tutu.org/

http://www.unicef.org/

http://www.amnestyusa.org/

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/index.html

http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full-4.html

More choices http://www.splcenter.org/

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

http://www.clearwaterinitiative.org/

http://www.epa.gov/

http://fyb.umd.edu/HeLa/night-doctors.html

http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/9716.aspx