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Posted by Sarah on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 11:20am.

I have a Englaih project on "Stop Starvation." I need ssubtopic ideas on the topic. For example, "What is Starvation?"

• English - Sarah, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 11:21am

  I meant: I have a English project on "Stop Starvation." I need subtopic ideas on the topic. For example, "What is Starvation?" No one has answered this question yet.

  
  

• English - jim, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 11:38am

  It may be simplistic, but I've always found the W (and one H!) questions useful for separating out issues: What? When? Where? Why? Who? Whether? Which? How?

  
  

• English - Sarah, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 11:43am

  I need some ideas on subtopics I could use. I don't know how I can come up with a question for the 5W and H.

  
  

• Jim - bobpursley, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 11:45am

  If you are interested in being a regular volunteer, please email me. Bobpursley@gmail.com

  
  

• English - jim, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 11:54am

  Well, you started out with a perfectly good What. When have people been starving since? Where are people starving? (or where used they starve, or will they starve?) Why do people starve today? (And while lack of food is the simple proximate answer, you can go back a step and ask Why there is a lack of food per person - drought? war? overpopulation? desertification?) Who is starving? Who can do something about it? There are too many Whiches and Whethers to list comfortably! How can the situation be improved? If you want to research websites, you could start by Googling: "WFP United Nations World Food Programme" (Incidentally, as a case study of doing something, you might check out Norman Borlaug.)

  
  

• English - bobpursley, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2:27pm

  Email sent. I'll be away now for a couple of hours.

  
  

• bobpursley - Oops - jim, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2:28pm

  I just overtyped your name into the from rather than the subject.

  
  

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