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“On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this graded academic work. I am a person of integrity and I do not cheat.” Agree to this statement by typing your name here: Paul Dykstra




Globalization is the increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic , political , and cultural change. Those who are pro-globalization believe that wealth will “trickle down” from rich countries to poor countries. They also believe it will spread the benefits of new ideas and new technology to all nations. One organization that loans money to nations so they can invest in business is the World Bank. On the other hand, those who are anti-globalization say it is not fair, because the richest 20% of the world’s people consume 86% of the world’s resources, resulting in inequities between “haves” and “have nots.”



Use the CIA Factbook to answer the following questions: In Luxembourg the life expectancy is 79.33, the infant mortality rate is 4.56 deaths per 1000 live births, the literacy rate is 100% and the TFR is 1.78. In Libya the life expectancy is 77.26, the infant mortality rate is 21.05 deaths per 1000 live births, the literacy rate is 82.6, and the TFR is 3.08.



We often categorize nations as being “developed” or “developing” nations. Vietnam and Mexico would be considered developing nations; Japan and Canada are developing nations.



The current world population is over 6.6 billion people. The number that measures how many children the average woman in a nation will bear is known as the total fertility rate, which is abbreviated as TFI . When this number is exactly 2.1, then the population stays the same; if it’s higher, the population goes up, and if it’s lower, the population decreases. The population is growing fastest in developing nations.



A population pyramid that is shaped just like a pyramid -- wide on the bottom and narrow at the top -- shows a country whose population is growing. If it is shaped more like a vase or a soda bottle, that nation’s population is shrinking. Young people are found at the bottom of the pyramid, and men are found on the left hand side.



When discussing migration, people who are entering a country are known as immigrants, and people who are leaving a country are known as emmigrants.



People leave their country for many reasons. An example of a push force is war, and an example of a pull force is good economic opportunities. If a nation’s net migration rate is a negative number, it means more people are leaving the country than are arriving.



Essay To Question 1- Many people believe that globalization will help the world by giving developing countries the opportunities to catch up with the rest of the world while anti-globalization supporters say that globalization will divide the world into haves and have not’s. I think the middle ground would be the developed countries supporting the undeveloped countries and almost waiting for them to catch up. It took the United States 200 years to become developed and the world wouldn’t wait that long, but they could just support the country’s economy enough to get it started and not let it fall so far behind that it won’t ever catch up



Step 4- The report says that 1/3 Mexicans say that even though the economy is bad and there aren’t as many job opportunities, they would still move to the United States and half of those said they would even if they didn’t have immigration documents. 66% of those said that life is better in the United States while 14% said it was worst. Currently there are 11.5 million and about 7 million are illegal. Since so many people are leaving Mexico and the total fertility rate isn’t as high as the net migration rate, the population is starting to drop.

power point stuff

today we worked on a power point about a region we were assinged. i worked on europe. China=Rice
Americas=Corn, Africa=Sorghum, horses are more effient then people. wheat is god, rice can grow up to 10 feet tall Wheat=Middle East
asia has 2 monsoon seasins, ones dry and ones wet

i was sick for the third day, i might be heading back in, today i watched tv and vegetated

i was sick again, but today i watched oprah

today i was sick, so i stayed in bed

today i went to the bathroom ad then i came back and we began watching a national geographic movie. it was called guns germs and steel, it started out talking about how europians have been conquering since the very beginning. jared diamond wanted to find out what seperates the haves and the have nots. he started in papua new guine. he's a proffesor at UCLA but he likes birds, he started watching birds when he was seven and now watches birds around the world. he's a biologist. people have been living in new guine for over 40000 years. a islander once asked him why white men have so much cargo but they have none and that got him thinking. the first europians thought that they were genetically superior to everyone else so why shouldnt thay have all the goods? diamond says that thats crazy beacause they can learn and react more quickly then most people, they can go into the forest and make a shelter in minutes out of what they find. why are some culture so advanced while others arent? it was a large population, advanced technology and specialized work force. he went out to solve inequality, so he started looking at before inequality.13000 years ago humans were sriving in the middle east, people lived as hunter gatherers, they were always on the move, making makeshift shelters. 13000 years ago they hunted whatever they could find. jered diamond is not a good archer

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