EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Despite some suggestions for some daily life stories blogging, I have decided to create another blog, just for the daily life stories. Click here to get to http://theziyejournal.learnerblogs.org. Enjoy!
Homework for Block E and H (Friday, October 6)
From what I saw in other people’s presentations and what I learned from it was quite amazing. For example, I viewed two countries that shared a border. One country was very poor, with a GDP per capita of about $2,000. Keep that in mind for some comparision. Travel to literally a side-by-side country and you get a GDP of $43,000! So whenever two things may have a very close relationship, there is someting about them is completely, totally different. Maybe the literacy rate might be completely, totally different.
Everyday you go to the kitchen or bathroom, you twist on the tap, turning it on, and WOW! Water comes out! Fresh drops of invisible dew began to fall from the heavens inside that steel thingy. That’s not expression we use when something is twisted and out comes fresh, clean water. We simply use it everyday just as simple as “mustard” or “oatmeal”. Have you ever thought how it is a job just to travel (by feet) a long, long journey, just to retreive water in some places? And this water may not be fresh drops of invisible dew. This is icky, brown, liquidfied mud! Contaminated water (and food) still looms for certain countries. So are AIDS, economy, enviroment, poverty, and much, much more. Eg. take Colombia. Population and GDP, just like any ordinary country. Poverty rate? Still it sits at 49.2%! That’s practically half! I think we should do something about these issues. There is no limited time, but I think we shouldn’t disadvantage these poor poeple as we can help. A lot of people are not able lend a hand, and since we can, we SHOULD. Who knows, maybe that East Timor place may be at the top of the world in twenty years! Things change, and I think these countries are a fascinating part of it.
Ziye’s Google Earth Project
Google Earth Project Part 4
What did I learn? Wow, hard to explain. First of all, I did learn that even though the world is stretching its technology standards pretty vibrantly, certain countries, such as my country, East Timor, just aren’t at that step yet. High percentages of poverty, low chance of survival after birth, although with springing population. However, we never know what could be in store for them in the future. New rockets? Other discoveries? Who knows? On the other hand, producing this was a bit of a challenge, mainly because of html. Gathering information? Easy. Producing? Slow it down a bit. Html, trust me, is very complicated. There’s no “click-on-bold-and-your-words-become-bold” or “click-on-italic-and-your-words-become-italic” thing. Instead, you have to type in what you want your text to be. So if you want your text to become blue, you would have to type a long string of numbers and letters. Just telling it what color to write it in takes up half the time. Which basically means that half the time, you have a frazzled brain for half the time. I mean all this is still pretty interesting. I would though want to learn more about html. I don’t know what, but I know what we learned is still in the basics range. All in all, this is a very amazing project.
Challenges
East Timor faces
Just like any other country, East Timor sails on problem. Such include literacy rate, poverty rates, and GDP. I’m going to tell you about these things. First of all, rankings state that less than 59% of the people over 15 can read and write. This is not a good percentage of a literacy rate. Usually a country can usually remain a good 90% literacy rate. Less than 59% may be troublesome. The government may distribute error to the country (although not that likely, because they should be educated people). Another problem my country is defending is its poverty rate. 42%!! Think about it. Your class may contain 30 students. Around 12 people is below poverty. People aren’t very rich either. Their position is GDP per capita (amount of money an average person holds) is the very last with only $400! Think about living on that much money. You could spend a day at the mall, and spend twice that amount (I’m not saying you can’t, but it is a bit off). There are more problems that East Timor faces, but these are some of the most important ones.
