I'm DESPERATE. HELP ME on HISTORY..... damn it..?

Question

okay guys, here's the deal, i've got a research paper that i have complete before school starts. I'm gonna need all the "Depressing/Sad Facts about the World we live in."
- Confused?
here's one that i found.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

someone around the globe commits suicide every 40 seconds.

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.


- that's pretty all i can find. So if u guys can help on this, i really appreciate, plus all the resources, u can't just put "1983401770981 died from war so far..." unless u have a bulletproof resource that u can site on.


THANK U >>>

Answer 1

http://leahy.senate.gov/text/issues/landmines/facts.html
Major Issues: Landmines

FACTS

There are an estimated 110 million landmines in the ground in 68 countries.

255 UN and NATO troops have been wounded and 29 killed by mines in Bosnia.

20+ types have been used in Bosnia where there are millions planted. The Pentagon says mines are among the most serious dangers to U.S. troops in Bosnia.

Landmines maim and kill indiscriminately. The Red Cross estimates that 500 people are wounded or killed by mines each week. The majority are civilians.

A mine costs as little as $3 to make, and $300+ to clear.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/31.htm

Millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection.

Every year the lives of more than 60 million children are caught up in emergencies.

South Asia floods
Floods in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal caused by monsoon rains and cyclones have devastated the lives of over 20 million people.
We are already there helping some of the millions of children and their families who lives have been turned upside down by the flooding.
Homes have been swept away, water supplies have been contaminated, exposing children and their families to the dangers of water-borne diseases.

Crisis in Darfur and Chad
Nearly one in three of Darfur's population - approximately two million people - have been forced to flee the conflict to camps. Despite our efforts, over 70 children under the age of five are dying every day.

Fleeing Somalia's conflict
We are helping thousands of families who have been affected by the ongoing conflict in Somalia and the flooding last year in north eastern Somalia and Kenya.
Over 400,000 people in south and central Somalia are thought to have been displaced at the start of this year due to an outbreak of fighting

Education
Millions of school-age children will never see the inside of a classroom. Millions more find themselves in overcrowded classrooms with untrained and underpaid teachers and no books or equipment.

Health
Every day, 30,000 young children die. Most of these deaths are preventable. We save children's lives through our healthcare programmes and our campaign work.

Tackling hunger
Nearly one third of children in developing countries are stunted or underweight. The cause? Malnutrition.

Child protection
Millions of children are exposed to abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect. That's appalling.

Answer 2

Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.

Scientists estimate there is a 1 in 85 chance that a "class E catastrophic" asteroid will hit the Earth within the next 50 years!

50,000 cubic feet of polar ice caps melt every day. That's enough to fill Yankee Stadium.

Most hungry people live in countries that have food surpluses. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, we are already producing one and a half times the amount of food needed to provide for everyone, yet one in seven people is suffering from hunger.

Answer 3

I dont know if you are up to reading and actually learning something in the process but i will say go to the library and check out philosopher Peter Unger's "Living High and Letting Die" somewhere in there he lists all the atrocities of the world and how we just stand by and watch it happen saying we dont have money but spending millions on foolishness. He breaks everything down. You dont even have to read the whole thing. My copy is buried in a box or i would have told you what pages.

Answer 4

I could not even give a s h i t about all that suffering people crap. People cause their troubles for themselves and there are way too many of us anyway.

Why don't you be original and write about the animals slaughtered every day for food and tortured for purposes of medical research or cosmetics or, hey, like always, just for fun? Why not write about the acres of wildlife habitat destroyed everyday and all the species extinct because of the progress of man?

Visit the sites of the American Antivivisection Association or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or PETA and get some facts to make your "research" paper original and meaningful. Oh, but obviously you don't really want to do the research; you just want someone to tell you about it.

Answer 5

You really aren't trying very hard, are you? The internet is chock full of statistics ... just Google a few. Or, here's an interesting thought -- try your library. They have real people (aka librarians) who are trained to help you research.

Answer 6

i have a deck of cards from the deparrtment that regulates alcohol that says on the back a person dies from an alcohol related crash every 15 seconds.

Answer 7

I don't want to do your work for you, but try this.

Look for statistics on global warming and how the earth is heating up. (Try a site like the EPA, just google EPA)

Look for news articles about racism and intolerance. (Look for sites on MLK)

Look for online statistics on depression. (http://www.depression.com/)

Answer 8

Please don't curse, or at least not in your question.

How about doing your own research. Try google. All the info you need is out there in our great ever expanding net.

Be a man, do your own work.

P.S. if you're female, sorry, be a grown up!

Answer 9

They have blackened hearts and you will never wake them I tried and its impossible because they are SEALED TIGHT!

Answer 10

With 82 years Japan has the highest life expectancy. All 35 countries at the bottom of this list are located in sub-Saharan Africa; their citizen's average life expectancy is between 52 and 39 years.
Many of the republics of the former Soviet Union are landlocked. Their recent independence has radically increased the number of countries, that suffer this unique condition.
The combined personal income of the 120 million Japanese people is equal to the combined personal income of the roughly 3.2 billion citizens of the 62 poorest nations, significantly more than half of the world population.
Since 1985, due to agricultural engineering advances, the earth has yielded more food than we can possibly consume; yet geopolitical structures continue to leave millions of people dying of starvation.
The overall number of refugees has decreased subsequently, the number of internally displaced people has radically increased.
A second permanent ozone hole was detected in the area of the North Pole in 1990, producing radical meteorological changes in parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
At an average of every three months this globe becomes obsolete due to yet another major oil spill.
At the outbreak of war in Afghanistan in 1979, there were 15 million Afghani citizens. By 1988, 10 Million of those people had become refugees, living in camps, either in Afghanistan or abroad, and accounting for the largest group of refugees in the world.
More than 90% of all nations choose to maintain political prisons for some of their citizens.
As the capacity for nuclear devastation has increased in range and precision, nuclear missile submarines have been able to patrol their targets from greater and greater distances, leaving only a remote area of the South Pacific free of nuclear submarine traffic.
In some cases walls and demarcation lines contribute to a less bloody every day life. In only a few cases is their construction or establishment met with the consent of those divided by them. These modifications of the surface of the earth usually outlast the conflicts they are designed to still, and the unintended environmental effects can have even more substantial and long term consequences.
Not all toxins are being exported and imported officially — some are simply dumped on foreign soil or exported, stored on short-term leased ground and then abandoned. Some countries make it a business to detoxify the exports; some have laws against the export and import of waste — both nuclear and chemical. Japan is the only industrialized country that has made a business of it and actually imports toxic waste.
The world's 6 billion people are by no means spread out equally over the globe's territories — yet continental lines are easily identifiable since people seem to prefer coastal regions for settlements. More than half of the world's population lives on a relatively small territory spreading from northern India to China.
Beginning with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization Mission to the Middle East in 1948, the UN has undertaken more than 56 peacekeeping missions across the world, with varying degrees of success. In 2003 14 missions were current. Almost 2000 peace keepers lost their lives since 1948.
Dotting the globe, the estimated 47 million refugees account for 1% of the world population. If it were possible for refugees to pack and take with them a proportional part of their country (measured at the world-wide average of approximately 37 people per square kilometer) it would piece together into a state the size of France, Germany, England and Italy combined (or more than twice the size of Texas)
The scale of regions reflects the size of population.
In 1997, the British Crown Colony Hong Kong has become part of the People's Republic of China — the majority of its current citizens are not eligible to live in England despite their British Passports. Those who prefer a second passport to mere trust in the new authorities can buy one in these countries. Minimum investments start at 25.000 — a US passport is most expensive and difficult to obtain.
In contrast to the South Korean government which even maintains school for émigrés to learn and succeed in foreign countries The Chinese government does not encourage emigration. Smuggling Chinese citizens out of China (mostly from the poor Fujian province) into new countries - preferably the US is a risky business. Migrants pay up to 30.000 per person - the Chinese government imposes the death penalty on those caught smuggling.
Foreign aid does not just go to individual countries; entire regions often suffer conditions making them needy and susceptible to foreign aid.
According to the proposed, and heavily debated, International Maritime Law, nations may extend their exclusive economic jurisdiction 200 miles (370 km) into the seas. This law would roughly double the amount of the earth's surface available for exclusive economic development. Given that the rest of the oceans is subject to non-exclusive exploitation, only the seas beneath the ice caps would be effectively protected.
Countries with Internet connections are identified by their country's top level domain ID.
Wetlands" is the collective term for marshes, swamps, bogs, and similar areas. About 75% of all endangered species are native to the world's wetlands.
More than 2000 nuclear bombs have been detonated worldwide since 1945. In 1963 the superpowers agreed to limit themselves to underground testing. By then the atomic radiation in Europe had increased to levels comparable to those caused by the Chernobyl accident.
Superimposed size of countries represents their respective GNP.
Being the riskiest country, Russia scores 85 on a scale of 100. The national credit risk is based on economic and political factors. Israel and Indonesia, the countries shown with the least risk, still have a factor of 40.
Most of the major airplane disasters occurred in the Northern Hemisphere.
Refugees account for 1% of the world population. Most are parked in UN camps without awareness or knowledge of each other’s existence. Connecting these refugee camps would result in this refugee net. A Refugee Republic could be a trans-global, experimental, supra-territorial state for refugees to represent themselves worldwide. Implementing the idea of an open society and the ideals represented by the UN, it could become a model for other nations.
Some company’s yearly gross income is larger than the entire GNP of a given country.
Divided into six major trading areas, global trade currents vary widely between different regions and partners. Each millimeter in arrow width represents $10 billion in yearly trade. The amount of global trade has quintupled since 1975, thus reinforcing notions of a “global” economy.
In spring 1998 uncontrolled forest fires raged in the equatorial regions. Airplanes crashed in Indonesia, Smoke plumes reached across national borders into other countries and even continents. One day the loss of forest the size of Belgium in Brazil was reported. El Nino was generally blamed for the lack of rain.
Moody's Investor Service as well as Standard and Poor rate not only corporations but countries as well. Most institutional investment firms have rules prohibiting them from buying government bonds issued by countries with a low rating. Only blue-chip (Aaa=light color) and high to medium grade countries (Aa-Baa3=dark) are considered investment grades, all other countries (Ba1 to C) do not even show up on the investors' radar.
Access to telecommunication is not universally available even within a given country. Line intensity represents phone lines per 100 inhabitants grouped in these categories:
0 - 0.9 telephone lines/100 inhabitants
0.9 to 4.6 telephone lines/100 inhabitants
4.6 - 13.5 telephone lines/100 inhabitants
13.5 to 33.3 telephone lines/100 inhabitants
33.3 to 68.3 telephone lines/100 inhabitants
Arable land vs. population size: Some areas are particularly endangered and more sensitive to ecological imbalance. Population pressure, the scarcity of arable land, soil quality and climate set strict limits to growth.
The group of the 8 major industrialized nations shares the common objective of shaping world economics. Their claim to leadership is based on a defacto control of 2/3 of the world economy. The G77, founded in 1964 to represent the poorer states, has now 133 member states and is largely unknown.
Many industrialized nations have about half as many cars as citizens.
The countries with the highest gasoline consumption are positioned along a North-South (higher-lower) scale.
Five categories of miles of road per square mile of territory are shown: [0-0,1] [0,0,5] [0,5-0,9] [0,9-2] [2 and above]. Monaco statistically has the highest percentage: up to 1/3 of its territory is paved.
Car companies are among the largest and most powerful companies of the world, rivaling entire states in economic might. Countries and groups of countries are re-named with companies whose gross income equals their GDP.
If each car produced in Germany in 1998 were to equal 1 square kilometer, then different-sized “Germanies” would result in the present globe.
n selected countries, industrial workers earn salaries indicated by white lines leading to a scale of salaries in US dollars. Their counterparts in the automotive industry earn significantly more, as represented by the black lines leading to higher relative levels. At $37.68per hour, German car workers earned more in 1997 than any other industrial or automotive workers in the survey did.
Traveling the roads of countries with a red cross is dangerous. The larger the cross, the higher the chance to continue any given trip in an ambulance and end up in a hospital or graveyard.
Although it’s a modern invention and a modern word, at least 80 languages have a word for “car”. The Native American tribes of Blackfoot and Hopi have a word for it, and even the car-less Zulu and Ethiopian nations give the four-wheeled wonder a name.
A 24-lane superhighway packed bumper to bumper would have to circle the globe 1.8 times to accommodate the world’s 440 million cars in 2000. By the year 2030, however, the superhighway to the future would have to circle the globe 4.25 times to accommodate the projected1020 million cars at that date. A hypothethical parking lot to accommodate this car population would cover all of Belgium.
If all the cars in the world were placed end to end they would circle the globe 72 times.
Surging car production slowed down as a result of oil price increases and environmental awareness in the first half of the 1970s. Meanwhile, the demand for bicycles boomed as incomes rose rapidly in China. In 1980, twice as many bicycles as cars were produced; today, the ratio has almost tripled.
Germany (.de) had about 15 million Internet users in the beginning of 2000. The size of the respective national Internet top-level domain code represents the amount of users. Government surveillance of Internet communication is routinely practiced in several countries (.de, .sg, .cn).
Represented are countries in which more than 20% of telephones are mobile phones. Cambodia has the highest percentage. It has more mobile phone (65%) than land lines. the value of the copper content of a few miles of telephone cable can feed a family for a few weeks. Cambodia, Chad, Congo and Afghanistan have only 1 telephone line per 1000 people.
The equator equals the average temperature at the beginning of the 20th century. For the last 1 million years the average temperature of the world has fluctuated
The river systems and drainage basins on every continent have created watersheds of the world’s fresh water. Fueled by precipitation, and directed by continental geography, watersheds constitute the major reservoirs of fresh water and the channels through which water flows to the ocean.
The U.S. has recently usurped from Russia the dubious honor of highest rate of incarceration - almost 700. The number of inmates per 100,000 of the national population is represented for each country. 142 is the world average.
Those countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases are appropriately colored green. Remaining countries have either signed the protocol without ratifying it, not signed it at all, or signed it and then reneged on any intention of following its guidelines.