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The '''Global Hunger Project''' describes itself as "a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world [[hunger]]". In [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[Latin America]], the Hunger Project has the stated intent of [[empowerment | empower]]ing grassroots people to achieve lasting progress in [[health]], [[education]], [[nutrition]] and [[family income]].
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'''Prison Books''' are an artifact in the fictional computer-gaming world of [[Myst]].
*President: [[Joan Holmes]]
Prison Books were Linking Books to desolate Ages, and no other Linking Books to return. The [[D'ni]] used this method to punish and isolate unwanted persons. Atrus also used this, and altered their [[Gateway Image]] to show rich and flourishing worlds to lure greedy explorers. Sirrus and Achenar were 'prisoners' in [[Ages of Myst IV: Revelation#Spire|Spire]] and [[Ages of Myst IV: Revelation#Haven|Haven]].
*Vice President: [[John Coonrod]]
'''The Hunger Project''' started in [[1977]] as one of many hunger-related organizations founded in the wake of the first [[World Food Conference]] in Rome. That conference discussed for the first time the notion of "ending" hunger (rather than alleviating hunger). Many expressed frustration that conventional approaches and conventional thinking did not suffice to meet the challenge. The Hunger Project sees itself as "designed to challenge conventional thinking, and pioneer strategies which could address the root causes that gave rise to wide-spread hunger and poverty".
According to Atrus' plan, Gehn also was trapped in one, thinking that he would link to [[D'ni]].
[[Werner Erhard]], the controversial founder of The Hunger Project, also founded the cult-like [[est]], which formed the basis for the techniques used by [[Landmark Education]]. Some participants in the programs have noted similarities in the philosophies and memberships of the groups. However representatives of The Hunger Project have taken pains to point out that Erhard ended his association with them in 1990. Even so, suggestions of cult-like affiliations continued to circulate. In 2003, a web page account by Carol Giambalvos of her experience with the project during the eighties was temporarily removed following a complaint from The Hunger Project. Elsewhere, criticisms of The Hunger Project have variously been that it is inneffective and bourgeois.
==Trap Books==
[[Image:trapbook.png|left|thumb|250px|Sirrus trapped in the Red Book]]
In the scenario of the two first games, we are told that Atrus discovered that with some slight modifications, [[Linking Books]] could not link the Age traveller to their destination, thus trapping him in the void between the [[D'ni Ages|Ages]] (see [[Star Fissure]]). The [[Gateway Image]] seemed normal, showing the supposedly destination. The modifications that 'harmed' the link were so slight, that even a knower of the [[Art (Myst)|Art]] who would read the book, could miss them. Atrus then decided to use them as traps for greedy explorers who would want to visit his Ages.
By the early [[1980s]], The Hunger Project had established itself in ten countries.
An interesting property of the Trap Books was that when someone tried to link to an already occupied Trap Book, the persons would switch positions, thus freeing the 'prisoner'.
In its early years, various international studies concluded that the ending of hunger lacked the required "political will." From 1977 until 1990 The Hunger Project focused most of its efforts on education and advocacy, primarily in the [[developed world]]. By the mid-1980s, and particularly in the face of continent-wide [[famine]] in Africa, it became clear to the Project that — while necessary — greater political will in the developed world did not suffice. The Hunger Project diagnosed a need for change in the policies and development methodologies applied on the ground in developing countries as well. Immediately following the 1990 [[World Summit for Children]] — a high-water-mark in mobilizing the political will to end hunger — The Hunger Project "redesigned all its programs to focus on mobilizing the [[leadership]], pioneering the strategies and catalyzing the campaigns of action in the [[developing countries | developing world]] needed to bring hunger to an end."
According to the [[Myst]] scenario, the Red and Blue Books are Trap Books, and after Atrus left for [[D'ni]], [[Sirrus]] and [[Achenar]] had eventually been trapped in the inter-Age void, while looking for more Ages to rule. They sought for [[the Stranger]] to find the 5 pages in order to link to the books, thus freeing the brothers, while s/he'd be trapped there. According to the [[Riven]] scenario, Gehn was trapped also in a similar Trap Book.
== External links ==
After the production of [[Riven]], [[Cyan Worlds]] decided for some reasons that Trap Books are not [[canon (fiction)|canonical]] and cannot exist. Instead, the simplified concept of Prison Books was real and Trap Books were [[retcon]]ned into Prison Books.
=== General Links ===
* [http://www.thp.org The Hunger Project official website]
* [http://www.hungerproject.org The Hunger Project Policy Briefings Site]
=== Critical Links ===
Unfortunately, tČhis [[retcon]] is inconsistent with the first two games: There is thus no logic behind the switching places between the [[Stranger (Myst)|Stranger]] and the brothers, since the books are now normal. In [[Riven]], Atrus' journal makes an analysis of what Trap Books are, and an essential puzzle for trapping Gehn, includes this exclusive property of Trap Books, getting trapped while switching places with another. These events are explained by Cyan Worlds as [[artistic license]], as well as the communication through the Gateway Image.
* [http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h30aa.html The Hunger Project: Inside Out (plus rebuttal)]
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For this reason, the fans didn't like the [[retcon]] and preferred to think of the Trap Books and the events concerning them as 'actual'. Some theories tried to reconcile these: At the end of the [[Myst]] game, it is believed that the brothers were indeed trapped in the void, but Atrus before burning the trap books, corrected the link, and the brothers finally linked each to his own prison Age. The switching of places though between Gehn and the Stranger, can not be explained.
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In [[Myst IV: Revelation]], the Red and Blue books appear again, being linking books to Spire and Haven. We are told that Atrus' family linked to them and visited their sons, and the Stranger also can link to them normally. The dates of the journals indicate that the brothers were always trapped in their respective Ages during the events of the first [[Myst]] game, and not in the void, thus obsoleting totally the concept of Trap Books.
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