Africa/Asia project response

Two things I learned about myself while working on the Africa/Asia project is (1.) that I can make a way to use things with only what we have. For example when we were going to make a demonstration for  tsunami, we went looking for army men but we didn’t any. We only had some old toys so I suggested that we use some of them instead. Also we didn’t have a table so we had an idea to get little plastic stools. Another thing I learned about myself is that I am a quick learner because at one part I had to use the camera and it was a old video recorder one. I had know idea how to use it, but my friend told me all the buttons that do different things and it made me kinda get. So with what I knew and with what I guessed other buttons did it turned out fine. The most challenging part of completing the project was that all of us were pretty busy a lot so it was hard to find a time to get together and do the project. We all had sports and other things to do with our families so it was really difficult to find at least three days that all three of us were not doing anything.

Amazon Land Conflict sketchnote

The most suprising thing I learned about the land conflict is that there are actually a lot of uses for that one part of land. It was surprising because I just thought there was trees and that no one would really want the land at all. But this is similar to pretty much all other pieces of land because they all start out the same, just a fied of grass or a clumb of trees but people find a use for it.

Globilization

The most interesting thing I learned about globalization and trade was that globalization is helped by multinational corporations. I think it is interesting because it takes a lot of work to make a company, and then have more facilities in the country you started in. Then you have to get more facilities in other countries. The part of my sketchnote that I am proud of is about how the factories are polluting because it shows not only that there are many factories for each and everything to be made, then they have all the chemicals and gases go up and into the air. Just to mass produce things.

My thoughts about standard of living

The countries with higher standard of living are very obligated to help other countries with a lower standard of living because if they help them, then the other countries would more likely not go to war with them. So both countries benefit to it. Also countries like the United States have more leisure time to help out.

A country’s standard of living shows how the average of the people live. So it doesn’t show how everyone lives because some people could be really rich and live in giant houses in that county. But if there aren’t a lot of people that rich then they aren’t really a part of the standard of living. The US for example, there are a lot of rich people in big houses but there are also people who don’t have anywhere to live. Then there are people with a house that is kinda big, but they aren’t rich. Others could have small one level houses because they can’t afford anything bigger. That is why a country’s standard of living doesn’t show how everyone in that country lives.

The most interesting thing I learned about standard of living is that South Africa has a terrible health. This is interesting because most of the other things are quite good and I heard that it was a great country. I was surprised about how low their health was and when I looked at more of it, I just thought it was weird because they have almost 95% access to safe water. Also I saw that a lot of infants would die and there weren’t many doctors. Which I am really curious about.

Economic systems sketchnotes

Economy sketchnotes

Economy and Me

Economy is presented in our lives by being everywhere. We buy things at a store to use them.That is called consumption which is a part of economy. People make thing to be used which is called production. People send out those things (which are goods) to stores. Like Coca Cola sending their drinks to a restaurant. That is called distribution A service, which is you pay for someone to do something for you.For example you pay doctors for an operation, or you pay a plumber to fix your toilet. You pay taxes which pays for police and fire department and government etc. Examples of goods are pretty much anything you would buy, like shoes, segways, bikes, turkey(food), dogs, tvs, tables, plants, popcorn, clothes, whatever you buy at a store. A Iphone is a good example of consumption because you bought it and use it, like to play a game, or call/text/email someone, or read a book. You are using it. That is how economy is presented in our lives.

 

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