Party!

Today we had a party in class and it was the last day before Christmas Break!!!!!

Discussion Group Day 2

Today we did the same thing as yesterday.  I didn't get to talk a lot again because I was not feeling well at all.  I don't think I'm going to get the best grade but at least I tried.

Discussion Group

Today in class we had a discussion group.  Its big part of our grade but it is hard to talk when everyone else it.  I'll try tomorrow.

Building Modern India

 People who cannot read or write work as laborers

·         They get $3 for 8 hours

·         24 hour work site

·         Giving them stability keeps them from leaving during peak of agricultural season

·         800-900 people

·         Once and 15 days someone gets hurt

·         Give them safety belts and helmets

·         People regret not studying when they got the chance because they could have been making better money

New Arrivals Strain India’s Cities to Breaking Point

·         They apartment collapsed because it was unsafe and India’s Poor Struggle for shelter

o    built to many floors 

o    the basement was flooded

• Since they don't get a lot of money they have to live in places that do not mean the criteria of the living conditions  which i unhealthy and unsafe
• One family of 5 lived in a 10x10 house before they lived in the apartment that collapsed
• 3/4 of the people in India have either bribed or know someone who has bribed a cop
• Many people died
• There were 400 people crowded into the building
• Cheap rent
• The government has been forcing people to evacuate unsafe places now

India’s College Exam Season

·         Exams take month of many tests

·         People work really hard to get into good colleges

·         There is limited slots in the country’s system of higher education

Souring above India’s Poverty, a 27-Story Home

·         The tower is known as Antilia

·         Home of India’s richest person Mukesh Ambani

·         He has $27 billion fortune

·         Ranks him among one of the richest men in the world

·         60,000-400,000 sq. ft.

·         The cost was about $1 billion

Answering the Questions

1.    Who builds such a fast growing country?

The laborers are building the buildings

DLF is building an Office Park (not physically)

2.    What happens when huge numbers of people hit the cities looking for these jobs?

The failing threatens to undermine the nation’s ability to vault its multitudes out of poverty and share the fruits of its nearby double-digit growth more widely

3.    Where- and how- do you live when you work on a big construction project?

You live in cheap places that do not fit the criteria of the living conditions

4.    What if you don’t want to be a laborer?

Middle class people study and work hard to try to get into college because there are limited spots available.

5.    Where do you live if you are the richest man in India?

You live in a 27-story house called the Antilia. 

India

• They apartment collapsed because it was unsafe
• built to many floors 
• the basement was flooded
• People in India with no education work for people that only give them $2 a day
• Since they don't get a lot of money they have to live in places that do not mean the criteria of the living conditions  which i unhealthy and unsafe
• one family of 5 lived in a 10x10 house before they lived in the apartment that collapsed
• 3/4 of the people in India have either bribed or know someone who has bribed a cop

India Paragraph Revised

In this unit on India, I have learned a lot.  Mostly I have learned about the large population of India, life in the slums of Mumbai, and India’s problems with human trafficking.  India’s population is 1,173,108,018 and is the second highest in the world.  The population growth rate is 1.376% and the birth rate is 21.34 birth/1,000 population.  The reason India’s population is so high is because of many things.  One is because of poverty and illiteracy.  Because jobs are hard to find, families think that having a bigger family would be better for manual labor.  Another reason is because there are many middle class families in India.  They think that having a bigger family is a blessing.  Others are lack of education on the subject and because of their religion.  The United States population is 310,232,863 and nowhere close to what India’s is.  India’s population is probably partially part of the cause of the problems below.
       According to Webster’s Dictionary a slum is a densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, dirty run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization. The slums in Mumbai started in 1950 and since the independence of India has tripled.  Dharavi is the biggest slum in Asia.  It is located in Mumbai.  It is 530 acres and has 100,000 residents.  That is about 18,000 people in one acre.  Around 60% of Mumbai’s population is living in a slum.  The conditions of the slums are horrible.  The people who live in these slums have to battle many struggles like lack of water and public transportation, constant migration, no sewage waste facility, pollution, and of course housing shortage.  They housed they live in are shacks, huts, and homes made out of scraps they find.  Life in the slums are not a great place to live and most of India’s population have to live in these terrible conditions every day.

            The final thing I have learned is about India’s problems with human trafficking.  Human trafficking is tricking people and getting them to go away from their homelands to work under exploitative conditions.  In India there is Human Trafficking with men, women, and children.  With men it is mostly manual work.  They work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and factories.  Women and girls are forced into marriage and they are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.  Children are trafficked by being forced to work in factories and to be servants and beggars.  Sometimes they even are forced to work in circus shows.  There are penalties to do this in India. Under the ITPA you could be in prison from as little as 7 years to as many as life in prison.  Indian authorities use Penal Codes saying that they cannot kidnap or sell minors into prostitution.  The punishment for this is 10 years and having to pay a fine.  They are also on the Tier 2 Watch list. That means that India is not fully complying with the smallest of standards for the elimination of trafficking but they are trying their best to do so.  India is on this list for the fifth year in a row.  Trafficking is an important issue that not only is happening in India but around the world.  This is what I have learned so far on our unit about India.

December 8

Today in class we had to wait a long time before we got to watch Slumdog Millionaire but we finally did.  It was about when Jamal found Latika.  When he found her he asked her to run away with him.  When she did she got caught and Salim took her.

India Paragraph

                In this unit on India I have learned a lot.  Mostly I have learned about the large population of India, life in the slums of Mumbai, and India’s problems with human trafficking.  India’s population is 1,173,108,018 and is the second highest in the world.  The population growth rate is 1.376% and the birth rate is 21.34 birth/1,000 population.  The reason India’s population is so high is because of many things.  One is because of poverty and illiteracy.  Because jobs are hard to find, families think that having a bigger family would be better for manual labor.  Another reason is because there are many middle class families in India.  They think that having a bigger family is a blessing.  Others are lack of education on the subject and because of their religion.  India’s population is second in the world compared to China and the United States is far from ever reaching them with on 310,232,863.

                Life in the slums is not somewhere someone would want to live.  The slums in Mumbai started in 1950 and have tripled since the independence of India.  Dharavi is the biggest slum in Asia.  It is located in Mumbai.  It is 530 acres and has 100,000 residents.  That is about 18,000 people in one acre.  Around 60% of Mumbai’s population is living in a slum.  The conditions of the slums are horrible.  The people who live in theses slums have to battle, for them, everyday struggles like lack of water and public transportation, constant migration, no sewage waste facility, pollution, and of course housing shortage.  They housed they live in are shacks, huts, and homes made out of scraps they find.  The life in the slums are not a great place to live and most of India’s population has to live in these terrible conditions every day.

                The final thing I have learned is about India’s problems with human trafficking.  Human trafficking is tricking people and getting them to go away from their homelands to work under exploitative conditions.  In India there is Human Trafficking with men, women, and children.  With men it is mostly manual work.  They work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and factories.  Women and girls are forced into marriage and they are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.  Children are trafficked by being forced to work in factories and to be servants and beggars.  Sometimes they even are forced to work in circus shows.  There are penalties to do this in India. Under the ITPA you could be in prison from as little as 7 years to as many as life in prison.  Indian authorities use Penal Codes saying that they cannot kidnap or sell minors into prostitution.  The punishment for this is 10 years and having to pay a fine.  They are also on the Tier 2 Watch list. That means that India is not fully complying with the smallest of standards for the elimination of trafficking but they are trying their best to do so.  India is on this list for the fifth year in a row.  Trafficking is an important issue that not only is happening in India but around the world.  This is what I have learned so far on our unit about India.

Human Trafficking

                In India there are many serious issues like human trafficking, child exploitation, and forced labor.  Human trafficking is the tricking of people away from their homelands to work under exploitative conditions.  There is human trafficking for men, women, and children.  They are trafficked for the purposes of labor and commercial sexual exploitation.  They are held in debt bondage.  They work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and factories.  Women and girls also are forced into marriage.  Children are forced to labor in factories and agriculture, and are forced to be servants and beggars.  India is the destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bengladesh.  They are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.  Some kids are also trafficked into India forced to work in circus shows. 
            There are forms of trafficking that are prohibited.  Penalties under the ITPA range from seven years to life in prison.  The laws are enforced.  Indian authorities use Penal Codes saying that they can no kidnap or sell minors into prostitution.  The punishment for the breaking of this rule is going to prison for 10 years and having to pay a fine.  When countries do not fully comply with the smallest of standards for the elimination of the trafficking but are trying their best to do so are on the Tier 2 Watch List.  India is on this list for the 5^th year in a row.  The government is trying to persecute traffickers and protect the trafficking victims.  Those are the punishments people would have to face if they break these rules.

Slumdog Millionaire

• They find Latika and they kill the man that had held them captive to be beggers because they still had Latika
• Salim kicks Jamal out and keeps Latika with him
• Years later, he finds Salim and Latika

India

http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Arts/images/Tajmahal.jpg

• Compare Motion Picture Industry in India and the US. (http://recomparison.com/comparisons/100156/bollywood-vs-hollywood/ and
• India's is in Bollywood.  United States is in Los Angeles.
• United States: made on multi-million dollar budgets.  India: big but nowhere in comparison
• India has more musicals and melodramas
• India makes 5x more movies then us
• What are the Names of the 3 main characters in the movie?
• Jamal, Salim, and Latika
• What is a chai wallah? 
• A wallah is a person that does a specific task.  They make chai tea. (http://chaipilgrimage.com/2008/11/28/what-is-a-chai-wallah/)
• 5 things about the Taj Mahal. (http://www.islamicity.com/culture/taj/default.htm)
• It is one of the 8 Wonders of the World
• Made entirely of white marble
• Made by Muslim Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
• She died during child birth giving birth to her 14th child
• Made over a period of 22 years, employing 20,000 workers.
• It cost 32 Million Rupees.
• 213 ft tall

Slumdog Millionaire

• Make the kids look even more poor and needy so they will give them  more money
• They left Latika behind when they ran away
• They grow up and they go to try to find Latika

Bombay Riots

• The Bombay Riots happened between December 1992 through January 1993. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Riots)
• Muslims were killing the Hindu's. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Riots)
• They started as a result of communal tension prevailing in the city after the Babri Mosque demolition on December 1992. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Riots)
• They attacked buses, public property, and some temples. (http://www.pucl.org/from-archives/Religion-communalism/bombay-riots.htm)

Slumdog Millionaire

• His mother was killed by people who invaded his village
• He travels with his brother Salim and a little girl who also lost her parents
• Two men find the girl, Jamal, and Salim and take them to another village
• Jamal turns into the person to reinforce the rules (ringleader)
• A man takes the kids and turns them to beggers
• 
  

Slumdog Millionaire

1. What is Kaun Banega Crorepati? It is the Indian Version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
2. List five essential facts about Bombay (Mumbai). (http://mumbai.clickindia.com/general/facts.html and http://www.mumbaihub.com/facts-and-figures.html)
1. Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
2. The population is 18 million.
3. It is the capital of Maharashtra.
4. Marathi, Hindi, and English are main languages.
5. Tropical temperature
6. Richest city in India
7. 86.5 % is the Literacy Rate
8. Entertainment and cultural capital
9. 2nd most popular city in the world
3. What is Dharavi? It is a slum.
4. What is a shantytown?  How many people live in shantytowns worldwide? It is a district where people live in huts and shacks. People who live there are extremely poor. As of 2005 one billion people lived in shantytowns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town).  Houses made from things they find.
5. Who is Amitabh Bachchan, and what does he have to do with Slumdog Millionaire? He is an Indian actor and producer. He played himself in the movie.
6. What is Bollywood? It is a film industry of India.
7. How much is 250,000 rupees (or any amount of rupees) in American dollars? (Hint: find a currency converter.) One rupee is equal to $0.021757.

Nov 29

Today I missed school.  I guess i'll see what I missed on Wednesday.

India Questions

1. What is the current population of India? 1,173,108,018 (CIA Factbook)
2. What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.65 children born/woman (CIA Factbook)
3. What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 25% (CIA Factbook)
4. Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India. (NY Times)
1. On Feb. 13 Islamic people bombed a restaurant killing 17 people.
2. A bomb was set off in 2008 killing 163 people in Mumbai, India.
5. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the counties of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list? 199th (NY Times)
6. Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India. People and animals dying, people fleeing fearing disease and loosing money. (NY Times)
7. What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people? There is pollution in the Yamuna River and the population has gotten very high so there is not enough water or distribution. (NY Times)
8. What is the literacy rate in India? 61% (CIA Factbook)
9. What are the major religions in India? Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh (CIA Factbook)
10. When did India achieve independence, and from what country? Britain ruled India.  They achieved independence in 1947. (CIA Factbook)

World Clock!!!!!!!

This is the picture of the world clock when there were 6,900,000,000 people in the world.  For some reason though when i tried to get a picture of it, it skipped a few numbers but I'm pretty close still.

India vs. China

• They are the only countries in the world with more than a billion people.
• 2 out of every 5 people in the world are equal in size to the world population in 1950
• No one is even close to China and India
• China and India are bigger that those of Africa, Europe, and the entire western hemisphere
• Life expectancy in China 73
• Life expectancy in India-64
• China is going to be more of an urbane area
• international migration is not a big part of the growth of them
• they do not allow illegal migration
• they mostly concern fertility
• in 1950 fertility rate was 6 kids per woman
• they have declined more in China then in India
• China fertility rate-1.8
• India fertility rate-2.8

Coffee Project Link

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Fk61XXAUTigZyPZ7VpZeoIRfNt0jX63mmLTX8m4HEG0

Coffee

Today we had the freshman retreat so we didn't present.  We mainly did whatever we wanted.  We will present tomorrow. Hope it goes well.

Coffee Project

Today in class we finished up our coffee projects.  Because school is closed Wednesday the project is due Thursday.  We have to be ready to present when we walk in.

Coffee Projects

Today we worked on our projects more.  I worked on the questions mostly.  Hope we can finish by Wednesday.

Starting a New Project

Today we went over our test on God Grew Tired of Us.  We also started a project on coffee,  Tasha, Brynly, Emily, and I have the coffee crisis.  We will work on it again tomorrow.

Coffee

• Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world

Vocab

• Fair Trade Coffee- an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries obtain better trading conditions and promote sustainability
• Certified Organic Coffee-coffee that has grown according to organic farming standards without using pesticides 
• Relationship Coffee- try to make a relationship between buyer and seller to make them want to buy their coffee
• Commodity- a economic good or agricultural product
• Trade Credit- an arrangement between businesses to trade goods or products.

Questions

• What is the top country in coffee production? Brazil
• Where do coffee beans grow? They are the pit of the coffee plant
• What rank are we in for coffee consumption? 16th
• How many liters do we consume per capita? 105.9
• Do we produce coffee in the US? in Hawaii

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/map.html
http://www.singleservecoffeeforums.com/top-50-countries-in-terms-of-coffee-consumption-t7688.html
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/
http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/

Finally Done

Today we did our last touch-ups on our projects and turned them in.  It took a long time though because no one had to turn the file to a PDF.  Hope we got a good grade.

Finishing Up Our Projects

Tasha and I are almost done our projects and we think we did a good job.  We also worked on the front cover which also looks pretty good. I hope we do good.

Working on our Projects Still

We worked on our projects again.  We have until the end of class on Friday.  We have finished most of it but we had trouble putting in our video.  Were going to try again tomorrow and start on the cover.

10/29/10

Today we took a quiz on God Grew Tired of Us and worked on our projects

Starting Our Magazines

Today we started working with our partners on our magazine articles.  Tasha and I have the refugee camps, which will be kinda interesting.

Finishing Up God Grew Tired of Us

Today we finished watching the movie.  In the end John reunited with his mother and sister.  Every ended up doing something good for the world. Panther wants to start a school in Sudan and John Bul Dou started a medical clinic.  Daniel is still attending college.  After it ended we talked about Manute Bol.  He was a basketball player and humanitarian.

Notes on The Lost Boys of the Sudan

Today in class we watched God Grew Tired Of Us.  Heres some of the notes on it:

• The boys were told that they can't travel in groups
• after a year the boys miss their friends and families back in Africa
• Some of them enroll in college
• One of them learns some of his family is still alive in Uganda
• One of the boys is missing and found 2 days later and was pronounced mentally unstable
• They all go somewhere to reunite with people from Sudan that went all over the country

We also went over our definitions, summary, and paragraph about the Sudanese War.

The Civil War of Sudan

The Civil War of Sudan started in 1983 and ended in 2005.  It was the second war they had.  It was located in Southern Sudan.  It was one of the longest and deadliest wars in the later part of the 20th century.  About 1.9 million civilians were killed and 4 million southerners were forced out of their country.  The fight was between the southern non-Arab populations and the government.  The war started because some of the states wanted to overthrow the Sudan Government.  They wanted to put in its place an opposition group.  Sudan has two major cultures.  They are Arab and African American.  So this caused major opposition between the two groups.  Most of the Northern parts of Sudan (cover most of Sudan) are Arab speaking Muslims.  The southern region had no independence and was neglected seriously.  A Peace Agreement was signed in the end on January 9, 2005.  It said that the south will have freedom for six years, followed by a referendum on secession, they will merge their armies together to make a strong army if referendum doesn't work out, money from the oilfields is to be split evenly, jobs split according to varying ratios, and Islamic laws remain in the north and they get to make up their own in the south.  That is the The Second Sudanese Civil War.

Info:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan.htm
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm

Definitions For God Grew Tired of Us

• In-migration- to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population (http://mw1.m-w.com/)
• Out-migration-  to leave one region or community in order to settle in another especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population (http://mw1.m-w.com/)
• Forced migration- refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region
• Net Internal Migration- crossing into a country or state and staying there for a long time
• Movers from abroad- movers from a foreign country
• Internally Displaced Person-  someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders (http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Summary of The Lost Boys of the Sudan

We started when the guys were on the plane.  They were fascinated by the electricity and our way of life.  When they got to their apartment someone had to explain how to use everything.  They had to learn how to use a light switch, a refrigerator, a trashcan, a sink, and a bathroom.  They were shocked that they didn't have to share a bed; that they only had to share a room.  Then they went to the grocery store.  They had to ask someone who worked there what everything was.  They were excited about everything they saw.  They were also very upset to think about the people they left behind.  When they got there the US government had to pay for everything: the apartment, food, clothes, and all their living expenses.  After 3 months though they have to get a job and be able to support their selves.  Buy the sixth month they have to be paying the government back for their flight to get to the United States.  The person that I saw on the video had two jobs. One at a factory and one at McDonald's.  That is where we left off in the movie.

Lost Boys Journey

They travel about 450 miles in all.

  About the same length they traveled.  If I traveled from John Carrol I would end up in South Carolina.

Lost Boys of Sudan

1. Why did the Lost Boys have to run away from their homes?
The Lost Boys had to run away from their homes because there was a war in their country between Christian Muslims and animists.
2. Why couldn’t they stay in Ethiopia?
 They couldn't stay in Ethiopia because their government crashed.
3.  What was life like in the refugee camp?
They formed a government called a Parliament.  They got some food and clothes that were donated.  It was a hard place to live. 

Migration

Today in class we talked about our family history and on google maps we marked where our ancestors came from.  My ancestors came from Poland on my dad's side and Germany on my mom's.

Part 2 My Family History

My family came from different places.  My dad’s side of the family came from Poland and Ireland. My grandfather’s dad was born in 1914 in the United States and moved to Poland when he was six.  He had family in the United States and they paid for him to come over.  They also helped him get a job and he got enough money to open butchery.  My grandfather’s mother was born in Poland in 1910.  She came to the United States in 1920 when she was ten.  My grandmother’s great-grandmother came over from Poland too, but my grandmother was also Irish.  Because my grandfather’s parents both came from Poland, my grandfather is 100% polish.  Which also means my dad is 75% polish.  That is my father’s side of the family.

My mom’s side of the family came from Ireland, Austria, and Germany.   My mom was born at Lutheran Hospital.  My grandmother’s mother was born in Latrobe in 1927.  My grandmother’s father was born in a house in Essex in 1926.  My great-grandmother’s mother was born in Latrobe too.  My great-grandmothers parents were the Von Hauser’s (father came from Austria) and the Talles (mother came from Ireland).  My great-grandmother’s father was the 13^th child of his family.  His parents came from Germany.  My great-grandfather’s grandparent’s names were John Weglein and Rose Mrozinski   My grandfather’s mother was born in Crisfield in 1932.  All of her family was born in Maryland.  My grandfather’s father was born in Virginia in 1926.  All of his family was born in Virginia.  His parents’ names were Charlie Matthews and Lillian Maddox (maiden name) Matthews.  Because my father is % Polish and my mother also has some polish in her (though we don’t know how), we think that my sister, brother, and I are at least 50% polish.  These events that happened in history made me the person I am today.

Part 1 Where I Want To Live

After I graduate from high school and college and I could live anywhere in the world, I would want to move to Paris.  Paris is very big in tourist attraction, which would be a big pull factor.  One of the reasons Paris pulls people is the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and Arc de Triomphe.  The Eiffel Tower is the most known monuments in Europe.  The Louvre Museum is where one of the most famous monuments is kept, the Mona Lisa and the Arc de Triomphe has one of the best views of Paris.  The reason I would want to move there is that I have always wanted to go there.  It is a beautiful place full of history and culture.  A reason I might not want to move there is I don’t speak French, which is their native tongue.  That is the first place I would move.

If I could not live in Paris I would like to live somewhere tropical.  I would most likely live in Florida.  The place in Florida I would like to live would be either Miami or Daytona Beach.  I would move there because I love the beach.  Plus it has nice temperatures there even during the winter.  There are many other pull factors to Florida.  One is Disney World.  It is a great place to take family.  Plus it’s not a far distance from where I would want to live.  Also it is not that expensive to move there and they have no income tax.  There are also reasons not to move to Florida.  One reason is that a lot of hurricanes in Florida.  They blow right into Florida sometimes.  Another reason is that there are a lot of animals that I don’t want to have around like alligators and snakes.  Florida would be a nice place to live but it could also be dangerous.

October 11

Today in class, we took a quiz.  I think I got and low A-high B.

Population and Settlement

• 6.8 billion people on the planet right now
• 90% of the popuation growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America
• Arizona passed a law to make people that look Hispanic take out their papers to prove their not illegal at any time (carry it at all times)
• People want to go to Canada more because they have a better economy 
• Push
• civil war 
• environmental degradation
• unemployment
• religious or ethnic persecution
   

Terms 2

NET MIGRATION RATE
People migrate because of the push
-they get pushed out because they need to get out
-cant get a job where they live
-they are getting abused and they wanna get out
Pull factor
-freedom to practice whatever religion you want
-freedom of speech
-job opportunities
-culture

United Arab Emirates has the most NMR because of its oil so they get money and jobs

POPULATION PYRAMID
-age int he middle
-boys on on left girls on right
-usually in shape of pyramid
-different for different countries

Terms

• Life expectancy is low in Africa
• 1/5 babies in Angola don't make it
• RNI-more people being born than dying; it will be a positive number (birthrate-death rate = RNI)
• Population going up in the last 50 years
• TFR- the average that are born to a women in a given population
• Need to have 2.1 babies to keep the population the same
• immigrant comes in
• emigrant goes out
• More people leaving Mexico then coming in

October 4

Today we went over our tests. I got an 84%!

Pop. Studies

Friday we talked about the population studies we did in class Thursday!

Population Studies

• Life Expectancy-the expected (in the statistical sense) number of years of life remaining at a given age
• Japan- 82.12 years (ranked 3)
• France-80.98 (ranked 8)
• Kenya-57.86 (ranked 189)
• Cuba-75.19 (ranked 55)
• United States-78.11 (ranked 49)
• Afghanistan-44.4 years (ranked 219)
• Crude birthrate- the nativity or childbirths per 1,000 people per year
• Japan-7.64 births/1,000 population (ranked 222)
• Kenya-36.64 births/1,000 population (ranked 29)
• Ethiopia-43.66 births/1,000 population (ranked 7)
• United States-13.83 births/1,000 population (ranked 154)
• Germany- 8.18 births/1,000 population (ranked 220)
• Crude Death Rate-a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in some population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time. 
• Afghanistan-17.83 deaths/1,000 population (ranked 7)
• Kenya-9.72 deaths/1,000 population (ranked 67)
• United States-8.38 deaths/1,000 population (ranked 99)
• Japan-9.54 deaths/1,000 population (ranked 69)
• Mexico-4.8 deaths/1,000 population (ranked 192)
• RNI (Rate Of Natural Increase) - the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population. If we neglect themigration, then a positive RNI number means that the population increases and a negative number means that the population decreases.
• TFR (total fertility rate)-the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime, and she were to survive from birth through the end of her reproductive life
• Niger-7.75 children born/woman (ranked 1)
•  Afghanistan- 5.60 children born/woman (ranked 13)
• Japan-1.21 children born/woman (ranked 218)
• United States-2.05 children born/woman (ranked 126)
• Germany-1.41 children born/woman (ranked 196)
• Net Migration Rate-the difference of immigrants and emigrants of an area in a period of time, divided (usually) per 1,000 inhabitants 
• Mexico- -3.61 migrants/1,000 population (ranked 153)
• United States- 4.32 migrants/1,000 population (ranked 25)
• United Arab Emirates-22.98 migrants/1,000 population (ranked 1)
• Argentina-0 migrants/1,000 population (ranked 73)
• Saudi Arabia- -7.60 migrants/1,000 population (ranked 171)
• Uganda - -8.83 migrants/1,000 population (ranked 173)
• Population Pyramid-a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which normally forms the shape of a pyramid.

Test

Today we took a test on the three religions, the Middle East, and the definitions we learned.

Things That will be on the Test

• Saudi Arabia-#1 in exports and #2 in production

• Israel is Jewish but the rest are Muslim in the Middle East

• Arable land is scarce

• Iran is
• Making nuclear weapons to bomb Israel

• Islam is biggest religion in Middle East
• Islam his the 5 pillars
• Judaism are rabbi
• Islam has Imam
• Christianity has priest
• 9/11
• Osama Bin Laden was responsible
• The people were members of Alkida 

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism

• Jerusalem is the holy city for all three religions 
• Abraham is the father of all three religions
• Oldest religion that is still practiced (3500 years)
• All Monotheistic 
• Mecca is the holy city for Islam
• Holy book is Qu'ran
• Islam- 5 pillars
• Daily prayer
• Give Alms
• Fast during Ramadan
• Go to Mecca
• Testimony to Faith
• 14 million Jews world wide
• Allah has no shape or form
• Islam-imam
• Christianity-priest
• Judaism- rabbi

Prezi

http://prezi.com/_7wrino7aiq1/comparing-religions/

September 22

Today in class we started our projects on different religions on Prezi.

September 18

Today in class we presented what we researched about our countries.  I learned that Iraq tried to take over Kuwait's land and oil.