St. Valentine's Day

For those who want to look up Valentine's day info, the History Channel website helped me a lot on the origins and other information about Valentine's day. Use it well =)

http://www.history.com/

Search for "Valentine's Day" or to your applied holiday

Christmas

This is site has much of the early history of christmas, its change over time and across the world.
http://www.history.com/minisites/christmas/

Suggestions??

Does anyone have any suggestions for #2 on pg 258?

Can anyone help me with number 1 on the Holiday Question Set? thanks

Hanukkah

anyone with hanukkah comment back so we may share info.

How long is each paragraph?

yea...

Birthday info

This is a good starting point for finding out more info on Birthdays and in general wikipedia is a good place to start. You can look there and confirm through other sources. Just search for soe of the names and terms that they mention through a search engine like Google to find even more info on the topic and to confirm what you leanred

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday

For Mothers Day

This is a great mothers day site check it out
It really has a lot of info

http://www.dayformothers.com/mothers-day-history/index.htmlThis has great Mothers day info check it out

Maybe you can outsource your homework

Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math

By STEVE LOHR

Adrianne Yamaki, a 32-year-old management consultant in New York, travels constantly and logs 80-hour workweeks. So to eke out more time for herself, she routinely farms out the administrative chores of her life — making travel arrangements, hair appointments and restaurant reservations and buying theater tickets — to a personal assistant service, in India.

Kenneth Tham, a high school sophomore in Arcadia, Calif., strives to improve his grades and scores on standardized tests. Most afternoons, he is tutored remotely by an instructor speaking to him on a voice-over-Internet headset while he sits at his personal computer going over lessons on the screen. The tutor is in India.

The Bangalore butler is the latest development in offshore outsourcing.

The first wave of slicing up services work and sending it abroad has been all about business operations. Computer programming, call centers, product design and back-office jobs like accounting and billing have to some degree migrated abroad, mainly to India. The Internet, of course, makes it possible, while lower wages in developing nations make outsourcing attractive to corporate America.

The second wave, according to some entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and offshoring veterans, will be the globalization of consumer services. People like Ms. Yamaki and Mr. Tham, they predict, are the early customers in a market that will one day include millions of households in the United States and other nations.

They foresee an array of potential services beyond tutoring and personal assistance like health and nutrition coaching, personal tax and legal advice, help with hobbies and cooking, learning new languages and skills and more. Such services, they say, will be offered for affordable monthly fees or piecework rates.

“Consumer services delivered globally should be a huge market,” observed K. P. Balaraj, a managing director of the Indian arm of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

But globalization of consumer services faces daunting challenges, both economic and cultural. Offshore outsourcing for big business thrived partly because the jobs were often multimillion-dollar contracts and the work was repetitive. In economic terms, there were economies of scale so that the most efficient Indian offshore specialists could become multibillion-dollar companies like Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Technologies.

It is not all clear that similar economies of scale can be achieved in the consumer market, where the customers are individual households and services must be priced in tens or hundreds of dollars.

Then there are the matters of language, accent and cultural nuance that promise to hamper the communication and understanding needed to deliver personal services. Already, some American consumers voice frustrations in dealing with customer-service call centers in India. At the least, the spread of remotely delivered personal services will be a real test of globalization at the grass-roots level.

Even optimists acknowledge the obstacles. In a report this year, Evalueserve, a research firm, predicted that “person-to-person offshoring,” both consumer services and services for small businesses, would grow rapidly, to more than $2 billion by 2015. Yet consumer services, in particular, are in a “nascent phase,” said Alok Aggarwal, chairman of Evalueserve and a former I.B.M. researcher. “It’s promising, but it’s not clear yet that you can build sizable companies in this market.”

Veterans of the business offshoring boom predict an emerging market, but most are not investing. Nandan M. Nilekani, co-chairman of Infosys, said there is “definitely an opportunity in the globalization of consumer services,” and he listed several possibilities, even psychological counseling and religious confessionals. But, he added in an e-mail message, “This is just ‘blue sky’ thinking! We have no business interest at this point in this direction.”

What the offshore consumer services industry needs, it seems, is a solid success story in some promising market.

A leading candidate to watch, according to analysts, is TutorVista, a tutoring service founded two years ago by Krishnan Ganesh, a 45-year-old Indian entrepreneur and a pioneer of offshore call centers.

Concerns about the quality of K-12 education in America and the increased emphasis on standardized tests is driving the tutoring business in general. Traditional classroom tutoring services like Kaplan and Sylvan are doing well and offer online features. And there are other remote services like Growing Stars, Tutor.com and SmarThinking.

Yet TutorVista, analysts say, is different in a number of ways. Other remote tutoring services generally offer hourly rates of $20 to $30 instead of the $40 to $60 hourly charges typical of on-site tutoring. By contrast, TutorVista takes an all-you-can-eat approach to instruction. Its standard offering is $99 a month for as many 45-minute tutoring sessions as a student arranges.

TutorVista also stands out for its well-known venture backers, its scale and its ambition. The two-year-old company has raised more than $15 million from investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. TutorVista employs 760 people, including 600 tutors in India, a teaching staff it plans to double by year-end. Its 52-person technical staff has spent countless hours building the software system to schedule, monitor and connect potentially tens of thousands of tutors with students oceans away.

“Our vision is to be part of the monthly budget of one million families,” Mr. Ganesh said.

It is a long-term goal. To date, TutorVista has signed up 10,000 subscribers in the United States, and its British service, rolled out in September, has 1,000.

Further gains will depend on winning over more customers like the Tham family in California. Since he was in elementary school, Kenneth has had stints of conventional tutoring, often in classroom settings with up to 10 other students. At times, this cost the family up to $500 a month. Last year, Ernest Tham, a truck driver, noticed a reference to TutorVista on a Web site and suggested his son give it a try.

“Kenneth was apprehensive at first, and I wasn’t sure how it would work,” Mr. Tham said. “But, shocking to say, it’s gone very well.”

Kenneth said he initially found it “very unusual, not seeing another person. You get used to it, though. It’s not a problem.” He schedules one or two sessions nearly every day, mainly for English and chemistry. With a digital pen and palette, he writes sentences and grammar exercises, for example, and his work appears on his computer screen and on the screen of his tutor. They discuss the lessons using Internet-telephone headsets.

“You can also get help with homework problems,” Kenneth said, “but they’re not supposed to do all your homework for you.”

In a year with the TutorVista service, Kenneth has improved both his grades and standardized test scores, his father said.

Ramya Tadikonda has tutored Kenneth Tham, among many others, from her home in Chennai, India. To achieve its ambitions, TutorVista must recruit, train and retain thousands of tutors like her.

Ms. Tadikonda, 26, is a college graduate who had previously worked as a software and curriculum developer for a math Web site for students, but left to raise her children. Earlier this year, she joined TutorVista, took the company’s 60-hour training course, followed by tests and practice sessions for two months. She now works about 24 hours a week as a math and English tutor and makes about $200 a month.

Ms. Tadikonda says she enjoys tutoring and the flexible hours. “You can have a career and still spend time with your family,” she said. “I never thought I could do that.”

The timing is right for global tutoring, according to John J. Stuppy, TutorVista’s president and a former executive at Sylvan Learning, the Educational Testing Service and The Princeton Review. Improved Internet technology and the ability to tap of vast pool of educated instructors at low cost are crucial ingredients. “It becomes possible to make high-quality, one-on-one tutoring affordable and accessible to the masses,” said Mr. Stuppy, who joined TutorVista last year.

Steve Ludmer, 28, and his partner Avinash G. Samudrala, 27, are betting the time is right for another kind of global consumer service. They left lucrative jobs in management consulting and private equity to start a remote personal assistant service, called Ask Sunday, which began in July.

The company is based in New York, but its work force is mostly in India. It is one of a handful of startups trying to create a business in offshore personal assistant service. Some, like GetFriday, charge hourly rates of $15 or so, but Ask Sunday has a per-request model, $29 a month for 30 requests a month or $49 for 50.

The requests can be unusual. A few subscribers had Ask Sunday search online dating services for short lists of people who meet their criteria. But the requests are mainly to help busy people like Ms. Yamaki, the New York management consultant, free up time and outsource hassles.

During a late meeting at the office recently, Ms. Yamaki said, she sent a one-line e-mail message from her laptop that told Ask Sunday to order her usual meals from her favorite Manhattan restaurant, for delivery at 9:30 p.m. When the meeting ended, her take-out food was waiting.

To handle such personal chores, Ms. Yamaki has handed Ask Sunday a wealth of personal information, including credit card numbers, birth dates of family and friends and phone numbers for doctors, car services, favorite restaurants and others. She finds the convenience well worth it.

“The service is great in a pinch to make your life a little smoother,” Ms. Yamaki said. “And it’s available 24 hours a day, which is more than you can expect from a personal assistant at work.”

Christmas

this site is pretty helpful if you have Christmas

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556859/Christmas.html

Christmas

would anyone else with Christmas like to work together?

April Fools Day

For whoever else might have this holiday, I cant seem to find how it is related to folk culture. I mean, I can see how it has to do with popular culture, but not folk. Can someone help?

Thanks!

the right of passage.

does anyone else have this holiday?
if so, where have you found your information because i can't find any good websites.
the only resources i have that may help anyone else is the Judaism sheet that we were given today because if you look at the back it actually goes into a Bar mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah.
if anyone could help, i would appreciate it!

blah

Yeah, so i tryed to start the holiday homework early.
BUT, then i realized that question number 5 on page 222
makes close to zero sence to me,
anyone want help a sista' out?

holiday Qs

do we have to answr all of the holiday questions or just the first two and one of the remaining topics

HELP!

i need help with number 1.
i don't understand what they're asking me.
i've asked a few other people and their confused too.
if you can help me out in any way, i would appreciate it.
THANK YOU!

tis the season for scanning

i forgot my book at school and i was wondering if someone could possibly scan the pages that the questions are on for the holiday assignment. i'd really appreciate it.
thank you =D

I need to give you more homework so you can avoid TV

TV raises blood pressure in obese kids: study

Tue Oct 30, 12:34 AM ET

Watching too much television may not only help make children fat, it may also raise their blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

They found obese children who watched four or more hours of TV a day were three times more likely to have high blood pressure than children who watched less than two hours a day.

"There is a significant association between hours of television watched and both the severity of obesity and the presence of hypertension in obese children," Dr. Jeffrey Schwimmer of the University of California, San Diego and colleagues wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Many studies have found a strong link between watching TV and obesity, but this is the first study to show a link between TV and blood pressure in obese children and teens, the researchers wrote.

Obesity in children is on the rise, increasing the risk of heart disease and diabetes. And high blood pressure in children has been rising in right along with obesity rates.

The problem is often undiagnosed in children, and if undetected, high blood pressure can quietly damage the organs, especially the kidneys.

Schwimmer worked with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of South Alabama. They studied 546 children and teens aged 4 to 17 seen at weight management clinics from 2003 to 2005.

Height and weight were measured to determine a body mass index, or BMI, and blood pressure was recorded.

Children were considered obese if their BMI measures were above the 95th percentile for age and gender. Children in the study had a mean BMI of 35.5. In adults, a BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese.

The children and their parents estimated how much time they spent watching TV, and a doctor reviewed and confirmed their estimates.

The researchers found children who watched two to four hours of TV were 2.5 times more likely to have high blood pressure compared with those who watched less than two hours of television a day. Those who watched more than 4 hours per day were 3.3 times more likely to have hypertension.

The authors said the study illustrates the need for parents to curb their children's TV time, especially for children who are already obese or have high blood pressure.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children watch fewer than two hours of TV per day.

Some 17 percent of U.S. children are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

GOUNDHOG DAY?

Anyone has Groundhog Day?

Day of the Dead, anyone?

Interesting Article

Uruguay buys first $100 laptops

The laptop was designed to be used in developing countriesThe first official order for the so-called "$100 laptop" has been placed by the government of Uruguay.
The South American country has bought 100,000 of the machines for schoolchildren aged six to 12.
A further 300,000 may be purchased to provide a machine for every child in the country by 2009.
The order will be a boost for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation behind the project which has admitted difficulties getting concrete orders.
"I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a cheque written," Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the organisation, recently told the New York Times.
However, he said he was "delighted" with the first deal.
"We commend Uruguay for being the first country to take concrete actions to provide laptops to all its children and teachers and look forward to other countries following this example," he said.
Rumour factory
The XO laptop, as the machine is known, has been developed to be used primarily by children in the developing world.
It is durable, waterproof and can be powered by solar, foot-pump or pull-string powered chargers. It includes a sunlight readable display so that it can be used outside and has no moving parts.

OLPC aims to sell the laptop for $100 or less. However, over the last year, the machine's price has steadily increased and now costs $188 (£93).
Governments were initially offered the green and white machines in lots of 250,000. However, this has since changed and there are now a variety of ways that the laptops are sold or distributed.
For example, from 12 November, members of the public can buy a machine for themselves as well as one for a child in a developing country.
The Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) programme will initially distribute laptops to Cambodia, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Haiti.
Other schemes that have been reported include a deal with the government of Libya to provide a laptop for every child as well as deals with Peru and a sponsorship programme with Italy to provide 50,000 machines to Ethiopia.
Although various pilot projects had been announced in the past, such as the purchase of 20,000 laptops by Mongolia, there had not been official confirmation of any country that had signed up for the project.
Connected country
In July, hardware suppliers were told to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build the low-cost machines.

The $100 has already been tested in many countries
Many believed that the decision meant that the organisation had met or surpassed the three million orders it need to make production viable.
However, the latest news suggests this was not the case.
The order for 100,000 machines was placed by the state-run Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay (Latu) which runs a large scale education and communications project known as Ceibal.
The scheme will also provide connectivity to all of the schools involved.
Before placing the order, Latu had also evaluated the rival Intel Classmate PC.
Initially the XO laptops will be distributed in eight to nine of the country's 19 regions. A further 300,000 machines will provide machines for all of the country's children.
"We will also cover the rest of the country later in 2008 and Montevideo in 2009," said Miguel Brechner, president of the organisation.

Oktoberfest?

anyone have this holiday?

Mother/Fathers Day?

Who on the blog has these holidays?

St.Patrick's Day

Anyone who has this holiday, would you like to work together?

Holiday Assignment in more detail - note one more para

1. Page 222 #5
2. Page 258 #2
3. 3 long paragraphs on a Holiday and how it diffused to other parts of the world
-history of the holiday and how it has changed over time
-how the holiday has changed has it goes from space to space
-how the holiday relates to the issues of folk and popular culture

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS FOR THURSDAY FOR THE HOLIDAY RIGHT?

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS FOR THURSDAY FOR THE HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT RIGHT?
Holiday Diffusion Question Set
1. Page 222 #5
2. Page 258 #2
3. 2 long paragraphs on a Holiday and how it diffused to other parts of the world

HMWK

Notes and binders or folder are due tomorrow NOT OUTLINES. Neither I or Schencker said they were.

Outline?

wait...
Does Ms. Schencker class have to outline or not?

the outline, notebook, and everything else due monday!!

okay i wasnt in school on friday so im not sure what is exactly due on monday.... i know that the binder is due but we have to have tabs?? what are their labels?? ... and the outline for the chapters, what format does it have to be??

Folder Check Question

What are the names of the five tabs? lol i forgot

binder check

does anyone know for sure whether they will collect chapter notes? im pretty sure they're not, (atleast not monday, i think)but i just want to make sure? and does anyone know exactly what chapters we are supposed to outline?oh, is there any specific way we are suppose to outline the chapters? thanks in advance :)

Scary for Halloween

Many states seen facing water shortages

By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press WriterFri Oct 26, 6:44 PM ET

An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. Across America, the picture is critically clear — the nation's freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.

The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.

"Is it a crisis? If we don't do some decent water planning, it could be," said Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of the Denver-based American Water Works Association.

Water managers will need to take bold steps to keep taps flowing, including conservation, recycling, desalination and stricter controls on development.

"We've hit a remarkable moment," said Barry Nelson, a senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The last century was the century of water engineering. The next century is going to have to be the century of water efficiency."

The price tag for ensuring a reliable water supply could be staggering. Experts estimate that just upgrading pipes to handle new supplies could cost the nation $300 billion over 30 years.

"Unfortunately, there's just not going to be any more cheap water," said Randy Brown, Pompano Beach's utilities director.

It's not just America's problem — it's global.

Australia is in the midst of a 30-year dry spell, and population growth in urban centers of sub-Saharan Africa is straining resources. Asia has 60 percent of the world's population, but only about 30 percent of its freshwater.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists, said this year that by 2050 up to 2 billion people worldwide could be facing major water shortages.

The U.S. used more than 148 trillion gallons of water in 2000, the latest figures available from the U.S. Geological Survey. That includes residential, commercial, agriculture, manufacturing and every other use — almost 500,000 gallons per person.

Coastal states like Florida and California face a water crisis not only from increased demand, but also from rising temperatures that are causing glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise. Higher temperatures mean more water lost to evaporation. And rising seas could push saltwater into underground sources of freshwater.

Florida represents perhaps the nation's greatest water irony. A hundred years ago, the state's biggest problem was it had too much water. But decades of dikes, dams and water diversions have turned swamps into cities.

Little land is left to store water during wet seasons, and so much of the landscape has been paved over that water can no longer penetrate the ground in some places to recharge aquifers. As a result, the state is forced to flush millions of gallons of excess into the ocean to prevent flooding.

Also, the state dumps hundreds of billions of gallons a year of treated wastewater into the Atlantic through pipes — water that could otherwise be used for irrigation.

Florida's environmental chief, Michael Sole, is seeking legislative action to get municipalities to reuse the wastewater.

"As these communities grow, instead of developing new water with new treatment systems, why not better manage the commodity they already have and produce an environmental benefit at the same time?" Sole said.

Florida leads the nation in water reuse by reclaiming some 240 billion gallons annually, but it is not nearly enough, Sole said.

Floridians use about 2.4 trillion gallons of water a year. The state projects that by 2025, the population will have increased 34 percent from about 18 million to more than 24 million people, pushing annual demand for water to nearly 3.3 trillion gallons.

More than half of the state's expected population boom is projected in a three-county area that includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, where water use is already about 1.5 trillion gallons a year.

"We just passed a crossroads. The chief water sources are basically gone," said John Mulliken, director of water supply for the South Florida Water Management District. "We really are at a critical moment in Florida history."

In addition to recycling and conservation, technology holds promise.

There are more than 1,000 desalination plants in the U.S., many in the Sunbelt, where baby boomers are retiring at a dizzying rate.

The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant is producing about 25 million gallons a day of fresh drinking water, about 10 percent of that area's demand. The $158 million facility is North America's largest plant of its kind. Miami-Dade County is working with the city of Hialeah to build a reverse osmosis plant to remove salt from water in deep brackish wells. Smaller such plants are in operation across the state.

Californians use nearly 23 trillion gallons of water a year, much of it coming from Sierra Nevada snowmelt. But climate change is producing less snowpack and causing it to melt prematurely, jeopardizing future supplies.

Experts also say the Colorado River, which provides freshwater to seven Western states, will probably provide less water in coming years as global warming shrinks its flow.

California, like many other states, is pushing conservation as the cheapest alternative, looking to increase its supply of treated wastewater for irrigation and studying desalination, which the state hopes could eventually provide 20 percent of its freshwater.

"The need to reduce water waste and inefficiency is greater now than ever before," said Benjamin Grumbles, assistant administrator for water at the Environmental Protection Agency. "Water efficiency is the wave of the future."

By any chance, is there anyone that can help me understand how to do #6, part 3, on pg 222?

Singapore Laws

http://www.expatsingapore.com/content/view/1376
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/international/singapore/

Interesting link on customs of singapore / can use for laws

http://www.santaferelo.com/ecs/data/sfguide/SIN/SocialCustoms.htm

#5 please help

For # 5 (the 3 laws of Singapore) do we just list any 3 laws in Singapore or are they talking about some specific laws??

Number 2 part 1

For this question (# 2 on pg 258) i can't think of any difficulties of permitting people to choose more than one race. Can someone please help?



Thank you!

singapore questions?

im sorry but WHERE are the singapore questions i looked in the hadouts section, but i couldnt find them. are they in the book or are they under a different name in the handouts section?
someone please anwer me asap i need to do the questions. thank-you! :)

flipped

Sorry I meant number 6 part 1. can anyone help me?

part 6 number 1

can someone help me with this one I don't get it? thanks!

#6 part 2...confused

what is the question asking? does anyone have any ideas on this im a little confused...

Singapore Laws

For number 5, does anyone know where you can find the Singapore laws? If so, please post on the blog. Thanks =)

B. Jones

Byron Jones will be remembered and celebrated by his students and colleagues on Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 3:30-4:30 pm in the Lane Tech Auditorium. We invite current and past students (and their families), colleagues, friends, family, and community

where are the laws at

quick question

i need a little help answering number 3 on page 222.
thanks =]

Did someone do number 6 yet? I need help. I'm not sure what to write Thank you :-)

Singapore Q's

are they those culture questions and what do we have to read

Singapore Questions

Did anyone get number two on page 182? If you did please help, because Im confused on it.

Thanks

Question

Which questions did Mr. Lewis mention that the answers were switched or wrong? Thanks!

30. Quality government education for all has the same effect as economic development in that
A it increases the wealth of a country
B it increases the countries Gross Domestic Product
C it lowers the total fertility rate
D it increases the likelihood of women's rights along with lowering fertility rates
E Both C and D

Why is it E?

Reading Assignments

I am so confused. Is there a post that shows what the reading/outlining schedule is for each chapter/week? I am always so confused, nobody tells me anything about these assingmnets in class, and then i go on the blog and nothing is there. Can somebody just tell me where to find all the reading assingmnets? Or should we just read chapter 5?

number 4 (page 258)

I need help witht this one... can anyone help?
-thnx ahead of time

help with number 21!! plz

i dont get why that is the answer. can anyone help explain this to me?

37. According to the migration transition
A stage one countries have people that migrate to stage four countries
B stage two countries have people that migrate to stage four countries
C stage four countries have low birth rates and people emigrate to them especially if 4's wish to keep their population stable or to get it to increase.
D people from stage two countries will not go to countries in stage three
E both B and C

I am kind of confused on why the answer is E.
I only put B on the scantron. Can somebody please help me out a little bit?

#44 help PLEASE

44. Large scale migration occurred in Southeast Asia after 1975 primarily because of

A boat people
B communist victory
C failure of the monsoon rains
D separation of religious groups
E none of the above

does anyone get why it's A?
I chose B..on the scantron...

#29 Help please

29 Migration to Europe from African and Middle Eastern countries in the 1990s was due in part to the fact that these areas were (Africa and the Middle East)

A had higher natural increase rates
B were in stage 2 or 3 of the migration transition
C had drops in their CDR's
D Europe had more resources and opportunities for employment
E all of the above

does anyone know why it's E?

Can someone help me figure out why A is the right answer for #28?

If physiological density is very high by comparison to the agricultural density then a country has
a) efficient farmers
b) a high number of farmers
c) too few farmers for the people
d) too many people for the available resources
e) both A and B and maybe d

outline?

did mr. lewis ever tell us how to set up our outline for chapter 5???

Singapore Q's

Hey guys,

Is anyone done with the test corrections and has started the Singapore questions yet?

If you have, can you let me know where you are? It's making my brain hurt..and I'd like to see if I'm falling behind!


Thank youu

#17 help

17. Country X has a crude birth rate of 43 per thousand and a crude death rate of 41per thousand. In what stage of the demographic transition is it

A Stage 1
B Stage 2
C Stage 3
D Stage 4
E None

I don't really get why it's stage 1.

Can someone explain to me why A. is wrong for number 36?

Here's the question:

The epidemiological transition refers to how
a) in stage one plagues are the main cause of death
b) in stage two pandemics occur
c) in stage three there is an increase in diseases such as heart attacks and cancers
d) in stage four cancers and heart attacks get pushed back to even older ages of people
e) B, C, and D

Reading

does any one know what pages the quiz is going to be on
and does anyone know if we have to outline or answer questions

another question

There is no E for number 40
What is the right answer then?

#21

i have a question. for number 21 I know the answer is
A. population increased geometrically while food growth increased arithmetically but wouldn't B. the world's rate of population increase was higher than food production be right too?
can someone explain that to me please

# 12-14

Are the images from the older posts the same from the test?
Because I don't know how to correct those.

#21

I could'nt figure this out, then I remembered it was a misprint...
What is the correct answer?
anyone?

#33

33. Mr. Lewis frequently
A puts his cats in a stroller and takes them for a walk in the park
B knocks the books out of freshman girls' arms
C knocks on LeBosco's door and then runs
D All of the above

did anybody else get this one wrong?
what do we put for the reason for why it's d? because i don't know why mr. lewis frequently does all of the above.

format?

how is the hmwk supposed to look.
question, then our answer then the correct answer
and a explanatin why we got it wrong?

Question 57.

is the answer to 57 E or B?
because i put B and i think it's right, i don't see whats wrong with it?
is it something with the wording?

JUST SOMETHING I FOUND IN A BLOG. THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY AND INTERESTING

Soda vs. Pop
In the different regions of our great nation the beverage genre known as "soda pop" goes by different monikers. There's the coasts, which generally call it "soda" and there's the Midwest, which generally calls it "pop". And then there's those folks in the south who just call it all "coke." Freaks.Anyways, I was doing some thinking about the fact that this beverage has these different names, and asking myself "Why? Why, Lord, why must it have these different names?" And then I thought about which name was best.For starters, "coke" is right out. That's just dumb. "Soda" and "pop" both make some sense, being derived from the name "soda pop" and all.But which of those two makes most sense?Well, first off, there's the fact that these names are both abbreviations of the larger actual God-given name of "soda pop". Clearly then the superior abbreviation is the superior name. What makes for a good abbreviation? Ease and brevity, both written and spoken. "Soda" is 4 letters, and contains 2 syllables. "Pop" is 3 letters, and just 1 syllable.Obviously, "pop" is the superior abbreviation, and therefore the superior short-form of "soda pop".But even more essentially, there's something very, very wrong about using the word "soda" as a noun when it is clearly and adjective. "Soda pop" is, like "soda crackers" or "soda water", a thing which is made with form of carbonation. The thing itself is the pop (or the crackers or the water) and "soda" is just a modifier, describing the thing itself.So it makes no freaking sense to use the word "soda" as the short form of "soda pop" because "soda" can modify lots of different things, where as "pop" is the actual thing itself. We don't call a "birthday cake" a "birthday" for short; we call it a "cake" because "birthday" can modify all sorts of nouns, like "party" or "card".So, obviously, "pop" is the best - and ultimately the only sensible - short form of the phrase "soda pop."

JUST SOMETHING I FOUND IN A BLOG. THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY AND INTERESTING

Soda vs. Pop
In the different regions of our great nation the beverage genre known as "soda pop" goes by different monikers. There's the coasts, which generally call it "soda" and there's the Midwest, which generally calls it "pop". And then there's those folks in the south who just call it all "coke." Freaks.Anyways, I was doing some thinking about the fact that this beverage has these different names, and asking myself "Why? Why, Lord, why must it have these different names?" And then I thought about which name was best.For starters, "coke" is right out. That's just dumb. "Soda" and "pop" both make some sense, being derived from the name "soda pop" and all.But which of those two makes most sense?Well, first off, there's the fact that these names are both abbreviations of the larger actual God-given name of "soda pop". Clearly then the superior abbreviation is the superior name. What makes for a good abbreviation? Ease and brevity, both written and spoken. "Soda" is 4 letters, and contains 2 syllables. "Pop" is 3 letters, and just 1 syllable.Obviously, "pop" is the superior abbreviation, and therefore the superior short-form of "soda pop".But even more essentially, there's something very, very wrong about using the word "soda" as a noun when it is clearly and adjective. "Soda pop" is, like "soda crackers" or "soda water", a thing which is made with form of carbonation. The thing itself is the pop (or the crackers or the water) and "soda" is just a modifier, describing the thing itself.So it makes no freaking sense to use the word "soda" as the short form of "soda pop" because "soda" can modify lots of different things, where as "pop" is the actual thing itself. We don't call a "birthday cake" a "birthday" for short; we call it a "cake" because "birthday" can modify all sorts of nouns, like "party" or "card".So, obviously, "pop" is the best - and ultimately the only sensible - short form of the phrase "soda pop."

JUST SOMETHING I FOUND IN A BLOG. THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNMY AND INTERESTING

Soda vs. Pop
In the different regions of our great nation the beverage genre known as "soda pop" goes by different monikers. There's the coasts, which generally call it "soda" and there's the Midwest, which generally calls it "pop". And then there's those folks in the south who just call it all "coke." Freaks.Anyways, I was doing some thinking about the fact that this beverage has these different names, and asking myself "Why? Why, Lord, why must it have these different names?" And then I thought about which name was best.For starters, "coke" is right out. That's just dumb. "Soda" and "pop" both make some sense, being derived from the name "soda pop" and all.But which of those two makes most sense?Well, first off, there's the fact that these names are both abbreviations of the larger actual God-given name of "soda pop". Clearly then the superior abbreviation is the superior name. What makes for a good abbreviation? Ease and brevity, both written and spoken. "Soda" is 4 letters, and contains 2 syllables. "Pop" is 3 letters, and just 1 syllable.Obviously, "pop" is the superior abbreviation, and therefore the superior short-form of "soda pop".But even more essentially, there's something very, very wrong about using the word "soda" as a noun when it is clearly and adjective. "Soda pop" is, like "soda crackers" or "soda water", a thing which is made with form of carbonation. The thing itself is the pop (or the crackers or the water) and "soda" is just a modifier, describing the thing itself.So it makes no freaking sense to use the word "soda" as the short form of "soda pop" because "soda" can modify lots of different things, where as "pop" is the actual thing itself. We don't call a "birthday cake" a "birthday" for short; we call it a "cake" because "birthday" can modify all sorts of nouns, like "party" or "card".So, obviously, "pop" is the best - and ultimately the only sensible - short form of the phrase "soda pop."

JUST SOMETHING I FOUND IN A BLOG. THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNMY AND INTERESTING

Soda vs. Pop
In the different regions of our great nation the beverage genre known as "soda pop" goes by different monikers. There's the coasts, which generally call it "soda" and there's the Midwest, which generally calls it "pop". And then there's those folks in the south who just call it all "coke." Freaks.Anyways, I was doing some thinking about the fact that this beverage has these different names, and asking myself "Why? Why, Lord, why must it have these different names?" And then I thought about which name was best.For starters, "coke" is right out. That's just dumb. "Soda" and "pop" both make some sense, being derived from the name "soda pop" and all.But which of those two makes most sense?Well, first off, there's the fact that these names are both abbreviations of the larger actual God-given name of "soda pop". Clearly then the superior abbreviation is the superior name. What makes for a good abbreviation? Ease and brevity, both written and spoken. "Soda" is 4 letters, and contains 2 syllables. "Pop" is 3 letters, and just 1 syllable.Obviously, "pop" is the superior abbreviation, and therefore the superior short-form of "soda pop".But even more essentially, there's something very, very wrong about using the word "soda" as a noun when it is clearly and adjective. "Soda pop" is, like "soda crackers" or "soda water", a thing which is made with form of carbonation. The thing itself is the pop (or the crackers or the water) and "soda" is just a modifier, describing the thing itself.So it makes no freaking sense to use the word "soda" as the short form of "soda pop" because "soda" can modify lots of different things, where as "pop" is the actual thing itself. We don't call a "birthday cake" a "birthday" for short; we call it a "cake" because "birthday" can modify all sorts of nouns, like "party" or "card".So, obviously, "pop" is the best - and ultimately the only sensible - short form of the phrase "soda pop."

Chart?

For the test corrections, if i got questions dealing with the charts wrong, how do i do the correction?
will the charts be posted up later?

#57

57. What is Infant mortality rate A # of children that die each year B # of kids that die by age 1 C # of infants that die D Usually measured by number of children within a thousand E Both a and d in the GRA FROM WHAT I UNDERSTOOD the answer is B but the answer key says its C why is that? can someone please clear that up for me? thankyou :) IS IT BECAUSE IT SAYS KIDS AND NOT INFANTS?

#57

57. What is Infant mortality rate
A # of children that die each year
B # of kids that die by age 1
C # of infants that die
D Usually measured by number of children within a thousand
E Both a and d

for number 57 the answer is c but in the GRA atleastwhat i understood was answer b isn't it? im confused why is Cright and not B?

pop vs. soda

hey i'm a little confused on what we should write about for the pop vs. soda assignment. do they basically want us to tell them why we think people across america say different words although meaning the same thing? or what?

thanks =]

Test #11

I dont understand why for number 11 on the test it is environmental possiblism.
I had environmental determinism and I still think it is the right answer.

The question states:
If someone said that people living in the desert did not have as many opportunities because of a lack of resources, this would be an example of what geographic approach

I think that it is environmental determinism, because the people at the desert are bound to having a lack of opportunities, because of their harsh environment which is DETERMINED by nature and there is nothing they can do about it.

Please explain to me why is environmental possibilism right??

Question

It seems I'm the only one thats confused about the Pop vs Soda assignment.
How long does our explanation have to be?
So far, I have only a couple of sentences.

Hey guys, here's the answer key again. I just spread it out so it was less confusing to read. =]
Good luck!

1-a
2-a
3-e
4-d
5-c
6-d
7-a
8-b
9-e
10-a
11-c
12-b
13-b
14-b
15-c
16-b
17-a
18-b
19-b
20-a
21-a
22-c
23-b
24-d
25-c
26-c
27-a
28-a
29-e
30-e
31-d
32-c
33-d
34-d
35-e
36-e
37-e
38-c
39-e
40-e
41-c
42-d
43-d
44-a
45-a
46-d
47-b
48-d
49-e
50-b
51-c
52-a
53-d
54-d
55-c
56-b
57-e
58-c
59-e
60-a

Singapore article for fun

For Love of Country
Straitlaced Singapore has good reason to push for more babies
By PHILIP BOWRING

With its past bans on long hair and chewing gum, Singapore has earned a reputation for unsubtle attempts at social engineering. So at first glance the campaign, launched by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in his Aug. 20 National Day Rally speech, urging Singaporeans to "go forth and multiply," may seem another tedious Big Brother exercise. The government plans to unleash large dollops of tax money, as well as propaganda, to persuade Singaporeans to procreate more. The policy has already aroused negative reactions at home, as well as sniggers abroad.

Snicker if you will, but rather than fighting a rearguard action against modern mores, Singapore may be leading the developed world to a more realistic view of the relationship between economics and demography. The fertility rate, the number of children born per woman of reproductive age, has declined 35% in Singapore since 1970. The government's new financial inducements for third children, paid maternity leave and state-funded child-care centers may be just the beginning. Eventually we may see large tax and pension penalties for those who, voluntarily, do not reproduce. And why not?

This is not a question of forcing people to have or (as in the case of China's dangerous one-child policy) not to have children. The question is whether to create a link between costs and benefits for society as a whole. All economics is about making choices among scarce resources. Children are a short-term cost and a long-term benefit.

In most of the world over the past century, people have been in abundance. Now they are increasingly scarce in most affluent societies. Asian "family values" notwithstanding, Hong Kong and Singapore's fertility rates are among the lowest in the world, similar to Italy's, which is at the bottom of the West European fertility league. The average woman in Singapore has only 1.5 children, compared with the 2.1 needed to achieve a stable level of population. Taiwan and South Korea, too, are close to the European norm. Japan already has one of the world's oldest populations.

Despite the wonders of technology, there is no escaping that people are—or should be—the most important factor of production. That is even more the case in advanced societies than in developing ones. However much money we save today, our standard of living in retirement will be primarily determined by the productivity of our individual national economies. And that is directly related to availability of the human factor of production. If you deliberately do not bear—and invest in—offspring who will create wealth when you are past working age, you should not expect the same pension or health care in old age as those who do. (Liberal immigration policies could help change the equation. But most Asian nations would find it difficult, at least politically, to absorb large numbers from other cultures.)

There is, of course, much more to having children than just brutal economics. But let us not imagine that economics doesn't enter frequently into government consideration of family size and birth rates. For half a century the West has, rightly, been advocating family planning programs to reduce birth rates in developing countries. The World Bank and other agencies have long promoted policies on family planning aimed at cutting birth rates. Nations that saw the wisdom of encouraging (but not forcing) family planning prospered because fewer children meant there was more money to invest in schools, health services, roads and industries. East Asia generally did well, particularly Thailand, South Korea and Singapore. Laggards Vietnam, the Philippines and Burma continued to have excessive birth rates.

But that was yesterday. In much of East Asia, as in Europe, birth rates have collapsed to well below the replacement rate. Pro-natal policies are now as needed in some countries as birth control is in others. Yet self-styled "liberals" who were once at the forefront of family-planning campaigns now suggest that government measures to raise birth rates are an attack on individual liberty.

Later retirement is a partial answer to the problems of aging populations and increased longevity. Immigration is a partial answer to low birth rates. But given their responsibilities for ensuring minimum standards of health and welfare and for creating conditions for economic stability, governments do have reason to ensure that there is some link between able-bodied peoples' input and output. The issue is not just one of having children who, one hopes, will take some responsibility for their parents' care in old age. The essential point is that governments should have policies on demography, as they do on education, that consider the long-term needs of their society and nation. Let us hope that Singapore's petty-minded approach to chewing gum does not blind others to the wisdom of its policy on this vital question.

Singapore article (just info for fun)

Dr. Love's Super Baby-Making Show

During the 1960's and 70's, the nation of Singapore was having a hard time dealing with its population growth. Singapore is a very small island, and it was feared that the drastic increase in population would cause overcrowding and economic stress. The government started a control campaign with the slogan "Stop at Two." This strategy worked quite well, and soon the population growth leveled out.

During the late 90's, it became apparent that the campaign worked a little too well, as only 52000 babies were born in Singapore in 1988. By 2002, the number was 40800, well below the number needed to keep the population level. Condom manufacturer Durex rated Singapore as the least sexually active nation in the world for both 2002 and 2003. The Singapore government, in an attempt to get things going, began subsidizing romantic dinners on Valentine's Day, special hormone monitoring services, and tax breaks for people having second or third children. None of this seemed to have any effect on the populace.

Enter Doctor Wei Siang Yu, more commonly known to the locals as "Doctor Love." A native Singaporean trained in Australia, the good doctor had already created a program called MEGGalert, which allowed women to monitor their ovulations by cell phone text messages. Dr. Love came to the conclusion that talking to doctors was not the best way for the people of Singapore to learn more about sex. He launched a series of romantic cruise trips to locations in Indonesia in 2003, as a part of the "Sex, Love, and Babies" campaign. Soon, he decided to talk to the populace using a more direct means: television.

In conjunction with the government, Dr. Love will launch the "Midnight Dr. Love Talk Show" in the spring of 2004. "We will have people come and talk about their love lives and private lives. We will also talk about their strategies on love, basically allowing them to talk, listen, understand and analyze," says Doctor Yu. Another part of his show will include romantic bathtub and massage tutorials.

The pinnacle of this plan is the reality show. Planned to premiere in the summer of 2004, Dr. Love's Super Baby-Making Show will feature ten couples from around the world. Over the next two months, the couples would compete to see who could successfully conceive a child first. The winning couple would receive prize money, but the amount it yet to be determined. The show will also investigate some of the problems that the couples encounter while living in Singapore, in an attempt to educate viewers on how to solve their own relationship issues. This is quite a shock to the normally uptight Singapore social standards, which usually ban racy television shows from their country.

Dr. Love is still looking for a producer for his reality show. Two Singapore broadcasters, MediaCorp and MediaWorks, have displayed interest in adding the show to their line-up.

Singapore facts and fun to start with for Friday

Basic Facts
Singapore's per capita GNP is now higher than that of its erstwhile colonizer, Great Britain.

It has the world's busiest port, is the third-largest oil refiner and a major center of global manufacturing and service industries.

And this move from poverty to plenty has taken place within one generation.

In 1965 Singapore ranked economically with Chile, Argentina and Mexico; today its per capita GNP is four or five times theirs.

Singapore's government can best be described as a "soft" authoritarian regime.


On America
But as a total system, I find parts of it totally unacceptable: guns, drugs, violent crime, vagrancy, unbecoming behavior in public -- in sum the breakdown of civil society. The expansion of the right of the individual to behave or misbehave as he pleases has come at the expense of orderly society. In the East the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.

America has a vicious drug problem. How does it solve it? It goes around the world helping other antinarcotic agencies to try and stop the suppliers. It pays for helicopters, defoliating agents and so on. And when it is provoked, it captures the president of Panama and brings him to trial in Florida. Singapore does not have that option. We can't go to Burma and capture warlords there. What we can do is to pass a law which says that any customs officer or policeman who sees anybody in Singapore behaving suspiciously, leading him to suspect the person is under the influence of drugs, can require that man to have his urine tested. If the sample is found to contain drugs, the man immediately goes for treatment. In America if you did that it would be an invasion of the individual's rights and you would be sued.

The liberal, intellectual tradition that developed after World War II claimed that human beings had arrived at this perfect state where everybody would be better off if they were allowed to do their own thing and flourish. It has not worked out, and I doubt if it will. Certain basics about human nature do not change. Man needs a certain moral sense of right and wrong. There is such a thing called evil, and it is not the result of being a victim of society. You are just an evil man, prone to do evil things, and you have to be stopped from doing them. Westerners have abandoned an ethical basis for society, believing that all problems are solvable by a good government, which we in the East never believed possible.

On Asia and Families
LKY: I don't think there is an Asian model as such. But Asian societies are unlike Western ones. The fundamental difference between Western concepts of society and government and East Asian concepts -- when I say East Asians, I mean Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, as distinct from Southeast Asia, which is a mix between the Sinic and the Indian, though Indian culture also emphasizes similar values -- is that Eastern societies believe that the individual exists in the context of his family. He is not pristine and separate. The family is part of the extended family, and then friends and the wider society. The ruler or the government does not try to provide for a person what the family best provides.

In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family. This approach encouraged alternative families, single mothers for instance, believing that government could provide the support to make up for the absent father. This is a bold, Huxleyan view of life, but one from which I as an East Asian shy away. I would be afraid to experiment with it. I'm not sure what the consequences are, and I don't like the consequences that I see in the West. You will find this view widely shared in East Asia. It's not that we don't have single mothers here. We are also caught in the same social problems of change when we educate our women and they become independent financially and no longer need to put up with unhappy marriages. But there is grave disquiet when we break away from tested norms, and the tested norm is the family unit. It is the building brick of society.

There is a little Chinese aphorism which encapsulates this idea: Xiushen qijia zhiguo pingtianxia. Xiushen means look after yourself, cultivate yourself, do everything to make yourself useful; Qijia, look after the family; Zhiguo, look after your country; Pingtianxia, all is peaceful under heaven. We have a whole people immersed in these beliefs. My granddaughter has the name Xiu-qi. My son picked out the first two words, instructing his daughter to cultivate herself and look after her family. It is the basic concept of our civilization. Governments will come, governments will go, but this endures. We start with self-reliance. In the West today it is the opposite. The government says give me a popular mandate and I will solve all society's problems.

And through all that turbulence, the family, the extended family, the clan, has provided a kind of survival raft for the individual. Civilizations have collapsed, dynasties have been swept away by conquering hordes, but this life raft enables the civilization to carry on and get to its next phase. Nobody here really believes that the government can provide in all circumstances. The government itself does not believe it. In the ultimate crisis, even in earthquakes and typhoons, it is your human relationships that will see you through. So the thesis you quote, that the government is always capable of reinventing itself in new shapes and forms, has not been proven in history. But the family and the way human relationships are structured, do increase the survival chances of its members. That has been tested over thousands of years in many different situations.

On the Quickness of Change
LKY: There is acute change in East Asia. We are agricultural societies that have industrialized within one or two generations. What happened in the West over 200 years or more is happening here in about 50 years or less. It is all crammed and crushed into a very tight time frame, so there are bound to be dislocations and malfunctions. If you look at the fast-growing countries -- Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore -- there's been one remarkable phenomenon: the rise of religion. Koreans have taken to Christianity in large numbers, I think some 25 percent. This is a country that was never colonized by a Christian nation. The old customs and religions -- ancestor worship, shamanism -- no longer completely satisfy. There is a quest for some higher explanations about man's purpose, about why we are here. This is associated with periods of great stress in society. You will find in Japan that every time it goes through a period of stress new sects crop up and new religions proliferate. In Taiwan -- and also in Hong Kong and Singapore -- you see a rise in the number of new temples; Confucianist temples, Taoist temples and many Christian sects.

We are all in the midst of very rapid change and at the same time we are all groping towards a destination which we hope will be identifiable with our past. We have left the past behind and there is an underlying unease that there will be nothing left of us which is part of the old. The Japanese have solved this problem to some extent. Japan has become an industrial society, while remaining essentially Japanese in its human relations. They have industrialized and shed some of their feudal values. The Taiwanese and the Koreans are trying to do the same. But whether these societies can preserve their core values and make this transition is a problem which they alone can solve. It is not something Americans can solve' for them. Therefore, you will find people unreceptive to the idea that they be Westernized. Modernized, yes, in the sense that they have accepted the inevitability of science and technology and the change in the lifestyles they bring.

LKY: Let's not get into a debate on semantics. The system of government in China will change. It will change in Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam. It is changing in Singapore. But it will not end up like the American or British or French or German systems. What are we all seeking? A form of government that will be comfortable, because it meets our needs, is not oppressive, and maximizes our opportunities. And whether you have one-man, one-vote or some-men, one vote or other men, two votes, those are forms which should be worked out. I'm not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practice it because that's what the British bequeathed us and we haven't really found a need to challenge that. But I'm convinced, personally, that we would have a better system if we gave every man over the age of 40 who has a family two votes because he's likely to be more careful, voting also for his children. He is more likely to vote in a serious way than a capricious young man under 30. But we haven't found it necessary yet. If it became necessary we should do it. At the same time, once a person gets beyond 65, then it is a problem. Between the ages of 40 and 60 is ideal, and at 60 they should go back to one vote, but that will be difficult to arrange.






Confucius
-Stress on relationships
-Importance of the family
-The importance of rising through merit
-Benevolence of rulers
-Soft Authoritarian
-Male Dominance
-Stress on the continuity of the culture
-Importance of Wisdom
-Non-Consumer mentality


Japanese word for different also means wrong

test key

1a2a3e4d5c6d7a8b9e10a11c12b13b14b
15c16b17a18b19b20a21a22c23b24d25c
26c27a28a29e30e31d32c33d34d35e36e
37e38c39e40e41c42d43d44a45a46d47b
48d49e50b51c52a53d54d55c56b57e58c
59e60a61a

The Singapore Question Set is the culture q set and is due Friday

Culture Question Set #1
1.Questions 1-2 on page 182
2. Questions 1,4 on page 258
3. What does LKY not like about America?
4. How does Asia differ according to LKY (family liberties).
5. Laws of Singapore (3 laws)
6. 1-3 Page 222

No DOT MAPS

The dot maps are not as useful as the choropleth map on the website.

www.popvssoda.com

the test corrections

Are the test corrections posted yet? I can't find them and Ms. Schencker said that they were posted but I only see the test.

check out this google map of the california wildfires

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571

Another good Pop vs. Soda map

My uncle sent this to me last year. Who knew it would come in handy again!?

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

You can click on each state to see the statistics by county.

pop vs. soda

http://popvssoda.com:2998/images/smalldrawn.gif

pop vs soda

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Chloropleth maps for pop vs soda.

they can be found in the links section on the website.

Also for hmwk...

We should be reading pg. 207-212 and outlining as we read...just as a reminder =]




Peter T.

homework due tomorrow

i see alot of people confused what is due when, and because i am on and i am pretty sure of the assignments and their due dates, i will post the homework for this week:

due today at 11:59 = Online concept review quiz for chapter 5 (i guess alot of people forgot) - please send results to: klewis3431@gmail.com (for mr. lewis's class at least)

due wednesday = pop vs. soda assignment

due thursday = test corrections (as far as im concerned; that is what mr. lewis said today, but then again, they were supposed to be due on tues. and the date changed, so you never know; the due date my change. but as right now, they are due thursday!)

due friday = an assignment that is, according to mr. lewis, going to be posted on the blog tomorrow (by him of course)

your welcome people :D

do not forget about the online quiz due today at 11:59!!!

When is the answer key to Test 1 due?

yea...

due?

when is the pop vs. soda thing due?

Pop vs Soda

Look at the chorapleth map and explain why the patterns exist. Do this in two to three paras of around 12 or sentences each. Use vocab from the language unit, from the first unit in regards to diffusion and anything that you think pertains to the issue at hand. You might also want to explain why the chorapleth map is the best to use in this case.

Test - ans key in one hour

Introduction Test - 1 and parts of 2

1. Situation identifies a place by its

A location relative to other objects

B mathematical location on the earth’s surface

C location

D unique physical characteristics

E none of the above

2. How something is spread over a given unit of area is

A concentration

B diffusion

C density pattern

D density

E none of the above

3. Which is a form of expansion diffusion

A contagious

B hierarchical

C relocation

D stimulational

E A, and B

4. A McDonald's in India that serves a McCurry Pan burger is an example of what type of diffusion

A contagious

B hierarchical

C relocation

D stimulus

E none of the above

5. Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental elements of culture

A Customary beliefs

B Material traits

C Physical environments

D Social forms

E None of the Above

6. A good example of a Formal region

A newspaper circulations

B broadcast television affiliates

C marketable areas for shops

D State boundaries

E Drivable areas

7. Topography may be used to determine which of the following characteristics of place

A site features

B absolute location

C relative location

D situation

E none of the above

Map

8. The daily rag provides news to all the cities in the region and wants to build a new distribution center. If the Daily Rag distributes its paper according to city size, which city is the best located for minimizing distribution costs

A p B q C s D x E y

9. Students in City Y have come up with a new flavor of ice cream. If their innovation spreads hierarchically, which city’s residents will be the last to try new flavor.

A p B r C u D w E z

10. All of the following are effects of globalization except

A the growth of the importance of distance decay

B time-space compression

C uneven development

D interdependence

E none of the above

11. If someone said that people living in the desert did not have as many opportunities because of a lack of resources, this would be an example of what geographic approach

A cultural ecology B environmental determinism

C Environmental possibilism D spatial association

E none of the above

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12. Which boxes have the highest density

A ab B bc

C cd D ad

E none

13. Which of the two boxes have the areas with the highest concentration of dots

A ac B bd

C ab D cd

E none

14.In the years after globalization (post 1990), the world now has (by comparison to the past)

A Less specialization at the local level

B More specialization at the local level

C No specialization

D Equal development distribution

E None of the above

15. Geography’s most important and basic tool for thinking spatially about the distribution of features across the earth is

A GPA B GIS

C a map D remote sensing

16. Which is true

A large scale maps have a large fraction and tend to show a larger area in less detail because

they have fewer miles represented per square inch on a map.

B small scale maps have a smaller fraction and represent a more area in less detail because

they have more miles per square inch on a map represented

C large scale maps have a small fraction and show a larger area in more detail

D small scale maps have a larger fraction and in general show a smaller area in more detail

because they represent fewer miles per square inch than large scale maps

E None of the above

17. Country X has a crude birth rate of 43 per thousand and a crude death rate of 41per thousand. In what stage of the demographic transition is it

A Stage 1 C Stage 3

B Stage 2 D Stage 4

E None

18. Commuting to a location is

A Migration B Mobility

C Net Migration D Communal Migration

E Forced Migration

19. Country X has a CBR of 24 and a CDR of 15 while Country Y had a CBR of 20 and a CDR of 9. Which country has a higher natural increase rate?

A Country X B Country Y

C Both are Equal D Cannot be computed based off of the data

20. Neo-Malthusians believe that the Malthus thesis means

A the world is more frightening than before because there are more stage two countries now

B. the transferability of medical technology is morally wrong

C. The gap between people and resources is closing

D. Contrary to popular belief food resources are have not increased since the 1800s

E all of the above.

21. Thomas Malthus concluded that

A population increased geometrically while population increased arithmetically

B the world's rate of population increase was higher than food production

C moral restraint and higher wages could produce lower NIR's

D population growth was inevitably going to end in war or famine every time

E All of the above

22. One important feature of the world's population that is most likely going to have the most important future implications

A It is increasing at a slower pace

B there are more people alive today than ever before

C the most rapid growth is in the less developed countries

D people are uniformly distributed across the globe

E many countries now have negative population growth increase rates

23. Refugees primarily migrate because of which push factor?

A Economic B Political

C Environmental D None had precedent over the others

E None of the Above

24. Geographers define overpopulation as

A too many people in the world

B too many people in a region

C too many people to best use the resources

D too many people for the resources to be used in a sustainable manner

E None of the above

25.. Physiological density is the number of

A acres of farmland C number of people to arable land

B farmers per area of farmland D number of people to each unit of land

E arithmetic density of an area

26. The process through which skilled and educated classes leave to other more developed countries

A net migration

B immigration

C brain drain

D Inteliousis

E None of the Above

27. Undocumented workers are almost invariably

A illegal immigrants

B low-status foreigners

C Muslims

D southern Europeans

E an unimportant part of the country's economy

28. If physiological density is very high by comparison to the agricultural density then a country has

A efficient farmers

B a high number of farmers

C too few farmers for the people

D too many people for the available resources

E Both A and B and maybe D

29 Migration to Europe from African and Middle Eastern countries in the 1990s was due in part to the fact that these areas were (Africa and the Middle East)

A had higher natural increase rates

B were in stage 2 or 3 of the migration transition

C had drops in their CDR's

D Europe had more resources and opportunities for employment

E all of the above

30. Quality government education for all has the same effect as economic development in that

A it increases the wealth of a country

B it increases the countries Gross Domestic Product

C it lowers the total fertility rate

D it increases the likelihood of women's rights along with lowering fertility rates

E Both C and D

31. The lowest natural increase rates are found in this area of the world

A Asia B Africa C Latin America D Europe E America

32. The principal reason France had a decrease in its natural increase rate throughout the 1990s was because of

A the country's decreasing development

B the declining CDR

C the declining CBR

D the increasing CDR

E both A and D

33. Mr. Lewis frequently

A puts his cats in a stroller and takes them for a walk in the park

B knocks the books out of freshman girls' arms

C knocks on LeBosco's door and then runs

D All of the above

34. Two largest international refugees groups

35. Two largest internal refugees

A Angolans and Afghans

B Palestinians and Angolans

C Sudan and Palestinians

D Sudan and Angolans

E Palestinians and Afghans

36. The epidemiological transition refers to how

A in stage one plagues are the main cause of death

B in stage two pandemics occur

C in stage three there is an increase in diseases such as heart attacks and cancers

D in stage four cancers and heart attacks get pushed back to even older ages of people

E B,C and D

37. According to the migration transition

A stage one countries have people that migrate to stage four countries

B stage two countries have people that migrate to stage four countries

C stage four countries have low birth rates and people emigrate to them especially if 4's wish to keep their population stable or to get it to increase.

D people from stage two countries will not go to countries in stage three

E both B and C

38. Crude in CBR and CDR means

A an estimate that can only be crudely guessed because even developed countries cannot keep total track of births or deaths

B the total number of people even if they are immigrants or emigrated

C the number of births or deaths per 1000 people of any age or sex

D the number of births or deaths

E None of the above

39. Transhumance includes

A commuting

B daily activities

C College students who move from home

D Military leaves

E Seasonal, traveling nomads

40. A country has net immigration if emigration _______immigration

A Equals C is closer to net migration than

B Exceeds D is less than

41. The most important obstacle hindering emigration from eastern Europe during the Cold War was

A the Rhine river C the Iron Curtain

B the Alps D capitalist democracies and their quotas

42. Millions of West Africans migrated to Nigeria during the 1970s when the country's economy

expanded and then left when it collapsed in the 1980s. This is an example of

A a push factor becoming a pull factor

B emigration changing to immigration

C forced migration to voluntary

D a pull factor changing to push

E Refugees being forced in and out of countries

43. Arithmetic density is the number of

A acres of farmland C number of people to arable land

B farmers per area of farmland D number of people to each unit of land

E people in a country

44. Large scale migration occurred in Southeast Asia after 1975 primarily because of

A boat people B communist victory

C failure of the monsoon rains D separation of religious groups

E none of the above

45. Migration increased to the United States from Latin American and Asian countries in the 1980s and from Europe in the late 1800s to early 1900s in part because all

A had higher natural increase rates

B were in stage 4 of the migration transition

C had drops in their CBR's

D had more resources and opportunities for employment

E all of the above

46. The difference between stage one and two of the demographic transition occurs when

A the birth and death rates decline

B the death rate rises

C the birth rate declines

D the death rate declines

E both A and C

47. The highest natural increase rates are found in less developed countries in which stage of the

demographic transition

A one B two C three D four

48. The principal reason Rwanda had a decrease in its natural increase rate in the mid 1990s was because of

A the country's growth and development

B the declining CDR

C the in increasing CBR

D the increasing CDR

E both A and D

49. The following is true

A Asian and African countries are in stage three of the demographic transition

B Africa is the predominant area for stage two countries

C Latin America and Asian countries are in stage three and have high NIRs so lots of people from

those countries head to America

D America is a stage four country but immigrants help to keep the population stable or rising because they have more kids than second or third generation Americans

E BCD are all true and A is absolutely false

50 What country has the largest Muslim population

A India B Indonesia

C Pakistan D Saudi Arabia

E Yemen

51. What is TFR

A The total number of children within a nuclear family

B The total number of children averaged out per lifetime

C # of kids the average woman has in her lifetime

D the number of children that survive through the first year of infancy

E roughly the same as the infant mortality rate

52. Roughly what was the TFR in Rwanda around the time of the genocide

A 8 B 2 years

C 3 months D less than the infant mortality rate

E negative

53. Many of the Migrants to France are this?

A European B Hispanic

C From sub-Saharan Africa D Muslim

E France does not allow in migrants

54. Europe and the Middle East have this program for immigrants and W. Bush wants this for America

A Brain Drain

B Brain Infusion

C emigration

D Guest Workers

E None of the above

55. What country is an extremely homogeneous country that does not allow for immigration despite an aging population

A Spain B Holland

C Japan D America

E England

56. How does education relate to growth in terms of TFR

A Raises awareness and the TFR B Lowers it

C no effect D no relation has ever been measured of this

E directly causes underpopulation

57. What is Infant mortality rate

A # of children that die each year

B # of kids that die by age 1

C # of infants that die

D Usually measured by number of children within a thousand

E Both a and d

58. What is a J curve and how does it relate to population growth

A relates to the population decline of stage 4 countries

B relates to the stabilization of populations as they go from three to four

C relates to the population explosion that is ongoing

D does not relate to population but only to the NIR

E None of the above

59. LDC countries

A have a bulge in the bottom of their population bases

B have a median age of around 19 to 24

C could have a lifespan of around 63

D have the highest death rates

E all of the above

60. Why would Japan have a high CDR?

A aging population

B poor medical care

C poor immigrants coming into the country increase its CDR

D all of the above

E none of the above

61. Mark A. Take your point and go home and cry.