Iowa Lakes Community College - BIO 105Living on One Dollar a Day-Video Worksheet - Copy (2)

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Living on One Dollar Knowledge and Communication Questions 1. What is something important that you took away from this movie? Education is essential to people, people live in the poor want to chang... e the future by attending school and get education. However, many of them do not have enough money to pay for the tuition, and the tuition is not cheap for them. Smart kids like Chino does not get a chance to attend school, so he cannot get education. He knows that since he was young, and he said he wants to be a farmer, this means that he gives up to imagine studying in a school. Compared with them, we are living in a much better circumstance with enough source and better education; by no means should we not work hard. 2. What surprised you about the lives of the poor? People who live in poverty live in bad conditions with dirt roof and no windows; the food that they ate was dirty and simple. People could only afford the staple food, they could not even pay for the vegetables, and to them, dealing with starving and worrying about the next meal are the main concerns. Children were not getting enough education, the school did not have supplies like books, pens, and papers for student to learn. In addition, the primary school’s tuition was not free, one child’s tuition was 25$, which equals to the saving of one person for working 25 days without spending single dollar. 3. What do you think would be that hardest thing for you, if you were living on $1 a day in that village? If I only live on $1 per day, the most challenging thing for me is to have savings. $1 can barely pay any food or drinks, and not even 25 cent will be left after paying for basic needs like food, drinks, and shelter. If I do not have savings, and some accidents happen, I will not have enough money to deal with accidents. If I look for debt, get 1$ one day may not enough to pay the interest, so I just get poorer and poorer after the accidents. 4. What were some of the hardest things you saw in Chino’s life? Chino’s family cannot pay for his education and supplies fee, which is only 25$, so Chino has to farm in the field to make money. When he was asked about his dream, he said he wants to be a farmer. In his life, he only saw farmer as his future career, and he thought he was destined to be a farmer as his father did. He knew that he could not change the fact that his family cannot afford the tuition, which made him illiterate, so he could not find any job rather than being a farmer. 5. What do you think Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan learned by living on $1 a day themselves instead of just reading about it? This study source was downloaded by 100000784424693 from CourseHero.com on 04-17-2021 09:37:07 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/52631983/Living-on-One-Dollar-a-Day-Video-Worksheet-Copy-2docx/ This study resource was shared via CourseHero.com Name:_____________________ CGW4U They learned how hard it is to live on $1 a day. On the books, they may learn that people who live on $1 per day are starving and struggling about the next meal, but they do not know that kind of feeling unless they experience that. By living on $1 a day for two months, they experience the life and understand how terrible it is to only have $1 per day. 6. Did Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan each get exactly $1 to spend every day? Why not? No, $1 a day means they get $1 on average through a long period. In some days, they may get more than $1, and someday they cannot get money. Although they can get $1 per day, but the money that they can get is not guaranteed, they are not sure about how much they can get every day. This means they should save money every day to prepare for future. The future is not guaranteed, they are easily get sick because the food that they eat is not good and fresh, and clean. 7. Chino’s family couldn’t afford to send him to school, but Rosa was using the money from her weaving business to go to school, herself. What helped her start her business? She got a loan from the loan company, and the interest of the loan was lower than the loan offered by the bank. Also, the loan from the loan comapny was more accessible than the bank, less information was needed to borrow a loan. She borrowed the loan to open a weaving workshop to earn more for paying back loan and having savings. Once she accumulated enough money, she decided to go to school because the only solution to get rid of poor is to get [Show More]

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