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 = Welcome to the Peace Corps! We couldn't be more pleased that you have decided to volunteer your services with us. =   
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has been accepted. First of all, before you go you will need to learn some background information about the Peace Corps. The video below will give you an overview of the Corps. ||
 * **Premise of the virtual-Peace-Corps project:** Your application to volunteer for the Peace Corps for two years


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 * Background Information on the Peace Corps

**Country Selection:** Next you will need to pick a destination. In which country would you like to volunteer your services? You may pick a country from the list below. Countries will be chosen on a first-come first-serve basis.


 * **Africa**: Uganda, South Africa, Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Gambia, Somalia, Angola
 * **South Asia**: Bangledesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Myanmar
 * **Latin America**: Haiti, Dominican Republic
 * **Middle East**: Israel, Iran, Iraq, Europe: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Turkmenistan
 * **Southeast Asia**: Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia

**Critical Areas of Need:** The people in the country in which you are serving need your help in at least three areas. These are critical areas of need. Choose three critical areas from the following list to address in your research:


 * Health, Pandemics/Technology and Science
 * Nuclear treaties and Nuclear Power
 * Terrorism
 * Environmental Issues/Global Warming
 * Global Finance
 * Political Rights/ Political Systems
 * Women' Rights/Childrens Issues (child-labor laws, one-child-per-couple law, etc.)
 * Ethnic Religious Tensions/Religious Beliefs and Practices
 * International Peace Keeping/United Nations

**Learning Process:** You will research the background of your country in the following areas: religion, culture, geography, economic status, and government. Address the three critical areas of your choice.

**Resources:** You may use any resource found in the sidebar on the left of this page on the world-history Pageflake, and **only** those resources. You may not use Google as your only resource.

**Student Products:**
 * Using __ [|Animoto] __, create a music video to tell the story of the background and history of your country. Your video also must address your three critical areas of need and must contain at least one of the following:

a statistic

a newspaper headline

a relevant quote

**Bibliography:** A bibliography of the sources you used must be provided. You may use [|BibMe], a "fast and easy bibliography maker," to help you with your bibliography. Bibliographies will be done in APA format.

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**Possible future project:** create a scrapbook for your Peace Corps worker by using __ [|Mixbook] __. ====== ||



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