Promises

Oops! I don't know what happened. I thought I posted this on Thursday and just checked it to see if you guys are leaving comments and it looks like I actually didn't click publish. So never mind about the homework and sorry if you were confused looking for the homework. 

Here is the link to the movie if you need to review: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1716489580121755023#

 

“I imagine that if I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would, at some stage, have joined one of the terror organizations.”
- Ehud Barak, Israeli general, and Prime Minister 1999 - 2001


“What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.”
- Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, 1956

“No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?”
- Bertrand Russell, 1970 

Israel Map Homework

Use these 2 interactive features to answer the following questions and complete the following tasks.

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,,720353,00.html
• http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/gisrael2/flash.htm

On your blank map color and label the pre-1967 boundaries between Israel and Palestine.

Label the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem.

Label the Sinai Penninsula.

Label neighboring countries and bodies of water.

On the back of your blank map, draw a map of Israel/Palestine showing the borders of the two state solution (Israel and Palestine) that the U.N. Partition Plan proposed in 1947.

Answer the following questions:

1. Why weren't the two states established in 1947?
2. With hind site, it's easy to say that it was foolish not to accept the U.N. proposal in 1947, but what would you have done if you were in the same position as many Palestinian refugees?? 
3. What important historical event caused an increase in Jewish immigration to Palestine?
4. Who had control of Palestine in the years between World War I and 1948?
5. What is the "intifada"?

Partition Stories

Map of Bomon in case you still need.

1. Finish drawing map. It must be easy to read and include names of newly created countries and capital cities.

2. On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions in complete sentences.

• How many states were created?
• What type (shape) of states were created?
• Do the newly created countries have equal opportunities for economic advancement? Explain.
• What cultural factors were most important in your partitioning decision?
• What physical factors were most important in your partitioning?
• What will be the greatest obstacles or challenges for the newly created states?

3. Read the following article and leave a comment to this blog post answering the questions below. Be sure to include your name.

For ESL students, read this article:
http://exoticans.blog.co.in/2009/01/31/india-pakistan-partition-pictures-1947/

For Mr. Wright's English students, read this article:
http://www.thepicky.com/popular/the-partition-of-india-impact-and-aftermath/

Questions:
Do you think it was worth it to partition India/Pakistan?
Should leaders have to guarantee a completely peaceful partition before making the decision to partition, or should some violence always expected?

Write your answer as a comment to this blog entry.
*Don't worry if your comment doesn't show up right away. The blog is set up so that I check comments before they are published.


Interesting, but not required reading:
Interesting to see who is proposing the partitioning of Nigeria
Ethnic Groups in Nigeria
Explanation fo current Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Hmmm.. a trend? Similar situation in Ivory Coast

Forced Migration Web Quest

Forced Migration Web Quest

Visit the web links and answer the questions on your own paper to learn more about the geographic location, living conditions, and international governing institutions of refugees and internally displaced persons.

1. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) is the international organization in charge of monitoring the refugees in the world. They have published a booklet to explain the history and current status of the 1951 Convention on Refugees. Read through the booklet to find the answers to the following questions.

• a.) Who are refugees? (p. 6)
• b.) Who does not qualify for refugee status? (p. 9, 11, 15)
• c.) Who is responsible for caring for refugees? (p. 8)
• d.) What is refoulment and what does it have to do with the convention? (p. 13)
• e.) Look at the images in the booklet. What are the countries of origin of the refugees?

2. The UNHCR has a long history of giving assistance to refugees. Look at this Pictorial History to see what different groups of refugees have beed aided. 

• a.) What refugees were the first to receive assistance from the UNHCR?
• b.) Name three additional groups of refugees that the UNHCR has been involved with since its establishment.

3. Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontiers) is a non-governmental organization where doctors from MEDC's volunteer to go beyond the borders of their own country and provide medical care in countries where there are too few medical personnel to serve the population. They operate in some refugee camps as well. Go to their website for more information:

Doctors Without Borders.

• a.) Compare and contrast the situation of refugees and internally displaced. (numbers, rights, countries of origin)

4. This blog - P.A.P. Blog, Human Rights, Etc. - has an interesting set of maps (scroll down to the bottom) to show who is bearing the burden of international refugees.

• a. Which countries (find the top several) are taking on the greatest responsibility with respect to receiving international refugees?
• b. Is total number received the most accurate way of determining this? Why? or Why not?

5. Here you can see footage from a refugee camp in Kenya: Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya (watch video).

• a.) Where are the refugees from?
• b.) Why are they fleeing their country?
• c.) What is the biggest challenge for these refugees?

6. Sketch an IDP Camp or a Refugee Camp using the satellite images at USAID HERE or HERE.

Be sure to click on the high resolution image to see the area in detail. Label significant physical and human features of the camps. (farms = squares that are slightly darker in color; town or clusters of houses; tents (i.e. refugee homes); rivers; dry riverbeds; mountains; etc.)



Up to number 6 is all you need to worry about for Friday. The rest we can discuss in class.
Remember: Test on migration and refugees next Tuesday.





Snapshot
Africa isn’t the only place with refugees.
Also, what are some common challenges that aid organizations confront in providing services to people living in refugee camps?

Know these content terms:

refugee

1951 convention on refugees

asylum

UNHCR

non-refoulment

USAID

NGO

Internally Displaced Person (IDP)

Persecution

Open Google Earth - Go inside a Sudanese refugee camp in Chad to investigate the following:
(If the kml file is not already downloaded, click HERE.)
How is water distributed at a refugee camp?
How are children educated? (look at Colombian refugee camp in Ecuador)
How do people receive helath care?

World is Witness
Would you believe that some Africans are fleeing TO Sudan? Explain.

Getting paid for resettling refugees?
Where do we go from here? Here is one attempt to improve the situation for refugees. Do you think it will have much of an impact?

Homework

Resources to Check Out

http://www.overpopulation.org/headlines.html
Not all of these headlines have links but you can google search the article once you know the title.

Kenya article

Country's perspective on their own population problems - interesting: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11286692/Population/UN%20Population%20Policy%20Report.pdf

Search criteria:
"NGO women's status India"
"Program infant mortality Sri Lanka"
"access to contraception Somalia"
"promoting women's rights Yemen"
"overpopulation malnutrition Sudan"
"NGO women's health population Uganda"

MLA Citation and RUBRIC

You should have a copy of the rubric for your Population & Development Report in your Google Docs. Read it carefully as this is how you will be graded. The following are the criteria from the rubric needed to earn an A.

Your report will not be accepted without a WORKS CITED PAGE.

Get started by copying and pasting these two citations (Obviously, change the information in parentheses to reflect your report.)

U.S. Census Bureau. "International Data Base: (your country) Population Pyramid (date).” Census.gov. 23 Feb. 2011. Web. 10 March 2011.<http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/country.php>


Gapminder. "Gapminder World." Gapminder.org. 20 Sept. 2010. Desktop Application. 7 March 2011.

Population and Development Report Resources

• BBC Country Profiles
• CIA World Factbook
• SweetSearch - good for finding current information/news articles
• Half the Sky website - good resource for finding organizations working in countries
• Wikimedia - good for images that are in the public domain (free for you to use)
• Gapminder - good for showing correlation between different factors and growth rate/fertility rate. Use this when you are proposing solutions. You will have to capture with screenshot.

Citation PPT

**Wikipedia is not a resource for information in your report. Wikipedia can help you find resources to use use in your report. Do not CITE wikipedia. Find the original article (look at footnotes of wikipedia article) or use legitimate resources.**


All images, graphs, diagrams, information that comes from another resource besides your brain MUST be CITED in the text of your report AND on the works cited page.

Population and Development Report

Homework:

Get current and projected (2025) population pyramids for your two selected countries HERE.

Insert these into a word document and upload that word document to Google Docs. Share with me (savage DOT catherine @ gmail.com).

Write a paragraph analyzing the current population situation and future trends in ONE or your countries. Provide as much detail about the different parts of the pyramid as you can. USE ONLY the pyramid as a reference. This does not require additional research.

Don't forget to answer the questions about Half the Sky in the last blog post.

Skit video extra credit: Create a skit and video it. Your skit must demonstrate the cultural and societal pressures that contribute to family planning decisions in areas with high fertility rates and high birth rates. You should use the handout that I gave you a few weeks ago to create an original script that is creative and educational.

"Gendercide" article extra credit: Come to computer lab after school on Wednesday for oral quiz on article.


In some countries (like the U.S.) the UNFPA is seen as a controversial organization that should have its funding reduced. This is sad.

Half the Sky Reading

Sorry for the delay. I will not count this assignment late if you submit by Tuesday. But, you are required to have read and be ready to discuss the article that I gave you in class tomorrow.

Please write out the answers to the following questions.

1. What policies or programs are described in the article?
2. Which programs are successful and why? 

What? Surprised to see Angelina and Shakira with the same geography homework? :-) Turns out they also want to learn more about the plight of women around the world.

Choropleth Map for Population Growth Factors

Go HERE: http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=4 to get the data that you need.
Look below to see what data set you will use to create your choropleth map.

Map must be NEAT, ACCURATE, and INCLUDE all MAP ELEMENTS (obviously including legend).

Please disregard the number that I gave you in class. 

• Moira - Literacy: Female lit. rate as % of male lit. rate
• Pamela - Labor: Female professional and technical workers
• Red - Labor: Female legislators and senior officials and managers
• Jun - Education: Secondary school gender parity in gross (look this up to figure out what the heck it means)
• Tommy - Education: Average length of schooling
• Minki - Children's Health: Child Mortality Rate
• Francis - AIDS/HIV: Adult females living w/ HIV as % of total
• Anton - Water and Sanitation: Access to improved Sanitation (look this up to see what it means)
• Ida - Public Health: Maternal Mortality Rate
• Floyd - Urban and Rural Areas: Urban population as % of total
• Dennis - Access to Information: Internet users per 1000
• Cyril - Children's Health: Infant mortality rate (you may also use population data sheet for this information)
• Doenemi - Children's Health: Underweight children under 5
• Daniel - GNI PPP (use population data sheet)

IMPORTANT!!!

Highlight all of the countries to get the data for all the countries at once.

Make sure that you understand your indicator, the units (is it a %, number per 1000, $?), and what it is actually telling you. If you don't understand, look it up, or click on the "view technical notes" of your data set.

Use the most current data possible that is the most complete. For example, if you click on 2008 but there is only data for a few countries, try clicking on 2007 or 2006 and see if there is more information for more countries. (See screenshot below.)

Countries with no data should be GREY. (Unless you are using the color black, then you need to figure out something else that won't be confusing to readers.)

Different Ways to Show Multiple Population Pyramids

No questions. Just read.

No questions to answer, but please do read about the demographic transition model in your text pp 58-60. We will discuss tomorrow.

Population Fundamentals

Geo Starter: 
Why do geographers use rates (per 1,000 population) rather than total sums?

For example, why do the population data sheets give us the number of births per 1,000 people in every country but does not tell us the total number of babies born in a year for each country?

Hint: the total number of births in China each year is 17 million.

HW:

Population Fundamentals I

#14 should read "Graph the major regions according to total population size (in descending order) for the present, for 2025, and for 2050. What trend can be observed in terms of population change? (use graph paper)

Population Fundamentals II

In question #2, it asks you to construct a bar graph showing the different PROPORTIONS of world populations by region. 

Do not go beyond question #4. You are not responsible for age-dependency ratio.

ONLY do ONE of the graphs: either the graph on Population Fundamentals I OR the graph on Population Fundamentals II.

Quiz on Monday! 

Study Pop Fund I & II, specifically the following concepts and how they apply to different countries.

most populous countries

crude birth rate

crude death rate

infant mortality rate

total fertility rate

rates versus total numbers

rate of natural increase

population projection

major region

subregion

life expectancy

That's it...I think... :-)

Due Friday:

One paragraph describing population distribution in your country.

One paragraph explaining one of the explanations for WHY the population is distributed the way it is.

These are substantial, detailed paragraphs that will be checked in class on Friday.
You need to share your document via google docs with my personal email address: savage.catherine@gmail.com

Complete report is due Tuesday.

Come see me for remedials if you need help. This is a summative assessment (i.e. one of the bigger grades for semester).

Class Expectations and Global Issues Trivia

Today we went over class expectations and what the course will cover. Then we played Global Issues Trivia Quiz to generate some curiosity for the topics that we will cover throughout the semester.

Homework - World Map
Use the world map that I gave you to express the following information:
Place where you were born
Places where you have lived / visited
Places where you want to go (where you have never been)
5 most populous countries in the world
Extra Credit - 3 places outside of the Philippines/Korea that have been in the news recently

Also be sure to label:
continents
oceans
major lines of latitude and longitude

And include all the important map elements:
T - title
O - orientation (compass rose)
D - date
A - author
L - legend
S - scale (don't have to do this)

Geo Starter

Answer these questions with your own thoughts in a comment to this post. Your comment will not show up immediately. 


When you post your comment, please include your name.

• either your google username if it includes your name, or by typing in your name.

Geo Starter Questions:

How do you think human geography differs from physical geography?

And what makes human geography different from a history class?

Give an example of how physical geography played a role in your winter break activities.

Give an example of how human geography played a role in your winter break activities.

Follow this link to fill out the Geography Class Info form.

http://bisbphysicalgeography.blogspot.com/

(Sorry, form would not embed on Human Geography blog.)