As you all most likely already know, I will be continuing this blog (which was at first just a project, but I've grown to love it) with different facts in geography and stuff (like Egypt for example).
Well, that is all; don't forget to leave a recommendation to what our next lesson should be.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Monday, May 16, 2016
Egypt
Yay! Update!
So today, I'm going to be doing something completely random; talking about Egypt!
Ironically, I'm doing a social studies project that's actually based on Egypt.
(Note that this will include: random facts, religion, writing, and monuments/landmarks)
Let's get started, shall we?
First, we are going to talk about religion. When the Greeks and the Romans conquered Egypt, their religion was actually influenced by the Egyptians (impressive). Ancient pagan beliefs gradually faded and were replaced by monotheistic religions. Today, the majority of the Egyptian population is Muslim with a small minority of Jews and Christians.
Second, we are going to talk about landmarks (or whatever you like to call them. Attractions maybe?). My personal favorites are the Egyptian Pyramids, the Luxor Temple, and the Great Sphinx. But, there are many more than those three; such as the Valley of the Kings, Karnak, and etc.
Third, we are going to talk about how they wrote. The ancient Egyptians wrote by using hieroglyphics (basically a small picture that represents a letter, maybe a number). And, well . . . that's all I have to say about that (for now anyway).
Lastly, i decided to just go over some random facts about Egypt. Here they are:
1.) The scarab beetle was sacred to the Egyptians and represented life after death and/or resurrection
2.) Egyptians worshiped a total of about 8,700 of gods/goddesses in total, most with the head of an animal to represent their powers
3.) Ancient Egyptians needed to predict when the Nile would flood, which led to the development of the worlds first calendar
4.) Something that a lot of people don't know is that Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian
Hope you guys enjoyed today's lesson, if you want, you can leave a recommendation on what our next lesson will be (although it may take a little while).Again, sorry it was so short, but I gotta work on other stuff too ya know! Anyway, have a nice day!
So today, I'm going to be doing something completely random; talking about Egypt!
Ironically, I'm doing a social studies project that's actually based on Egypt.
(Note that this will include: random facts, religion, writing, and monuments/landmarks)
Let's get started, shall we?
First, we are going to talk about religion. When the Greeks and the Romans conquered Egypt, their religion was actually influenced by the Egyptians (impressive). Ancient pagan beliefs gradually faded and were replaced by monotheistic religions. Today, the majority of the Egyptian population is Muslim with a small minority of Jews and Christians.
Second, we are going to talk about landmarks (or whatever you like to call them. Attractions maybe?). My personal favorites are the Egyptian Pyramids, the Luxor Temple, and the Great Sphinx. But, there are many more than those three; such as the Valley of the Kings, Karnak, and etc.
Third, we are going to talk about how they wrote. The ancient Egyptians wrote by using hieroglyphics (basically a small picture that represents a letter, maybe a number). And, well . . . that's all I have to say about that (for now anyway).
Lastly, i decided to just go over some random facts about Egypt. Here they are:
1.) The scarab beetle was sacred to the Egyptians and represented life after death and/or resurrection
2.) Egyptians worshiped a total of about 8,700 of gods/goddesses in total, most with the head of an animal to represent their powers
3.) Ancient Egyptians needed to predict when the Nile would flood, which led to the development of the worlds first calendar
4.) Something that a lot of people don't know is that Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian
Hope you guys enjoyed today's lesson, if you want, you can leave a recommendation on what our next lesson will be (although it may take a little while).Again, sorry it was so short, but I gotta work on other stuff too ya know! Anyway, have a nice day!
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Economies in Asia
Hey everyone! Sorry I couldn't update sooner, I had school work. Finals are coming soon. Help me.dfffffigy
First up is China! China is a mixed economy, but with more command (but it's moving towards market). China has an economic freedom score of 52 percent. It's jobs include farming, business owners, and factory workers; the resources are iron, steel, farmland, coal, oil, and fishing.
Next is Japan! Japan has a mixed economy (although more market), and has an economic freedom score of 73.1 percent. It's jobs are fishing, technology, and industries. The natural resources are fishing, few natural resources (sorry Japan) so they depend on education and nuclear power.
We finally made it to India! Like the others, India has a mixed economy, but some rural areas are traditional. India has a n economic freedom score of 56.2 percent. The jobs in this country are farming, herding, industries, movies, technology, and customer service.Farmland, fishing, grain, wheat, and rice are India's natural resources.
Lastly is North Korea! I think it's pretty obvious what type of economy they have (command). The economic freedom score is 2.3 percent. Military, factories (machinary), and textiles are the jobs there. They have iron, coal, steel, and minerals as natural resources.
Hope you enjoyed today's lesson; more updates on the way!
First up is China! China is a mixed economy, but with more command (but it's moving towards market). China has an economic freedom score of 52 percent. It's jobs include farming, business owners, and factory workers; the resources are iron, steel, farmland, coal, oil, and fishing.
Next is Japan! Japan has a mixed economy (although more market), and has an economic freedom score of 73.1 percent. It's jobs are fishing, technology, and industries. The natural resources are fishing, few natural resources (sorry Japan) so they depend on education and nuclear power.
We finally made it to India! Like the others, India has a mixed economy, but some rural areas are traditional. India has a n economic freedom score of 56.2 percent. The jobs in this country are farming, herding, industries, movies, technology, and customer service.Farmland, fishing, grain, wheat, and rice are India's natural resources.
Lastly is North Korea! I think it's pretty obvious what type of economy they have (command). The economic freedom score is 2.3 percent. Military, factories (machinary), and textiles are the jobs there. They have iron, coal, steel, and minerals as natural resources.
Hope you enjoyed today's lesson; more updates on the way!
Friday, December 4, 2015
Education in Africa
Hello everyone, Katie here! So today i'm going to try something new and colorful!! (Which i will be doing for a while). Today, we are going to talk about education for children in Africa. I may not be able to post a picture with this page so i'm sorry about that. By the way, this page may be a little short so i'm sorry about that too. Anyway, lets get on with it shall we?
So the thing that makes education in Africa is all the challenges they face: say for example, language barriers. It speaks for itself don't you think? Although UNESCO have recommended since the 1950s that the children be taught early literacy in their mother tongue, progressing later to other language such English and French, not all African countries implement this effectively. The students are basically forced to switch to languages such as English and French before acquiring proficiency in these languages.
Next is the lack of proper facilities and educators. Africa has trouble employing teachers because of low pay and no suitable people can be found for the job. This shows a lack of equal education opportunity given to children from different parts of the same country.
They also have trouble with emigration: it leads to a loss of highly educated people and financial loss. There's not much to type about this except: the loss of skilled people can only be replaced with another huge cost which simply the loss of money spent for educating people who then leave and new people to replace them. Even though an almost 5.5 percent of GDP investment in education, the loss makes it difficult for the government to budget another amount into education, while they should be focusing more on military budget and dept servicing.
Lastly is the military and conflict in Africa. While the number of people dropping out of school has been increasing very dramatically, one of the influences on education is the diversion of public funds from education to the military spending; that and with the civil war, nobody really thinks about education and just kind of ignores it.
I honestly don't know much about this, as I am still learning about it, but I hope this helped you with you're work or something. Teach you soon! Bye!
They also have trouble with emigration: it leads to a loss of highly educated people and financial loss. There's not much to type about this except: the loss of skilled people can only be replaced with another huge cost which simply the loss of money spent for educating people who then leave and new people to replace them. Even though an almost 5.5 percent of GDP investment in education, the loss makes it difficult for the government to budget another amount into education, while they should be focusing more on military budget and dept servicing.
Lastly is the military and conflict in Africa. While the number of people dropping out of school has been increasing very dramatically, one of the influences on education is the diversion of public funds from education to the military spending; that and with the civil war, nobody really thinks about education and just kind of ignores it.
I honestly don't know much about this, as I am still learning about it, but I hope this helped you with you're work or something. Teach you soon! Bye!
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Environmental Issues
Hi, Katie here! I know it's been a long time so today we will be going over the environment issues in Africa. Now I don't remember if we've talked about this yet, but if we did, let's just review it.
In Africa, there is a lot of environment issues, which causes more bad things to happen, such as diseases from poor water quality. The cause of poor water quality is that African countries increase water pollution from factories, which basically ruins the water and makes it impossible to use; and contamination from animals and human waste, along with chemicals and other kinds of waste leak into the water. Natural phenomena such as snails, worms, insect or larvae, and other parasites, are the main factors affecting Africa's poor water quality; these organisms can and will cause waterborne diseases which reduce life expectancy, lessen the quality of life, and slow down economic development.
Next is desertification, one of the worst of the issues, even though they are all really bad. Anyway, desertification is the process of desert expanding into areas that had been been farmland. More than one-third (1/3) of Africa is threatened by desertification. Desertification is often intensified by human mismanagement through overgrazing animals, over cultivation of crops, deforestation, and over irrigation; it worsened by drought too. The effect of desertification is that farming and livestock decrease and poor soil increases, this causes droughts and this left people to famine and death. During the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, large areas of Africa experienced drought. On the human side, this led to famine and death, on the environmental side, it resulted in accelerated desertification. The many people who live in these areas often face starvation and poverty. Some Africans work hard to replant trees, build windbreaks to keep out sand, and to push the desert back whenever they can, to help in any way they can.
The next one is deforestation. Deforestation is the process of forests being destroyed to make way for human development, the main cause being commercial logging. As the number of trees shrink, so does the amount of oxygen produced. As Africa's population increases and nations try to develop economically, deforestation has become a growing concern. This causes an amount of harmful carbon dioxide in the air to increase; this also causes the destruction of the rain forest' natural resources.
In Africa, there is a lot of environment issues, which causes more bad things to happen, such as diseases from poor water quality. The cause of poor water quality is that African countries increase water pollution from factories, which basically ruins the water and makes it impossible to use; and contamination from animals and human waste, along with chemicals and other kinds of waste leak into the water. Natural phenomena such as snails, worms, insect or larvae, and other parasites, are the main factors affecting Africa's poor water quality; these organisms can and will cause waterborne diseases which reduce life expectancy, lessen the quality of life, and slow down economic development.
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