Exciting News for China

Today, is October 26, 2015 and in our Human Geography class with Mr. Schick, we found out some exciting news, that China has let go of their one child per family rule and allowed Chinese parents to have up to two children. This is very coincidental because just this week, we began learning about Asia and their ways of keeping the population low. In addition to learning that exciting news, we completed our 3 class period long activity of watching this informative video that is titled, The People Paradox. Yesterday, we began learning a little bit about Kenya and how rough the poverty is over there. Similar to Japan, there population is dropping but Kenya has different reasons for this happening. People are being killed off by dangerous diseases most commonly, Aids. We looked at a particular family that was being raised by their older sister because their parents had died. In order to supply them with meals, she would sell her body and eventually she obtained aids.

India, Japan, and Africa

Today, October 26, 2015, in our Human Geography class with Mr. Schick, we were on part three of this informative yet unfortunate video. We have been watching this video all week now and since Mr. Schick insists that we take notes on the important facts within the video, I am assuming that this is what our next chapter quiz will be all about. I am paying very close attention to everything Mr. Schick is saying because I really want to do well on this next quiz and also because I find what we’re learning quite interesting. The video is covering many different topics. We learned that India’s culture creates a miserable life for women. They are being forced by their husband’s to have many children to make sure they have lots of boys even if it means the wife will die. We also covered the topic of Japan’s huge decrease in population and over abundance of retired people, causing more money to be taken out of the government than put in. Currently, we are learning about the horrible environment of Kenya.

Kiva Extra Credit Project

Person #1:

Nelia is a 44 year old woman who is married with 2 children living in Carles Iloilo, Philippines. She is seeking donations for fishing supplies to boost her fishing business which she has been running since she became married. The money that she is receiving from her business will go to making sure her children grow up in a great environment. She especially wants to give her kids a great education.

Person #2:

Yory is a 50 year old farmer who is married with 2 children. Also living in the Philippines, one of her children is depending on her to support him with his studies. She is asking for donations to keep her farming business alive and support her sons education.

People Paradox

Today, October 22, 2015, in our Human Geography class with Mr. Schick, we cleared up any confusion that anybody still had about the kiva.gov extra credit assignment. I plan on working on that for my free mod today because I really want to take advantage of these extra points. Also, I appreciate that Mr. Schick is giving us this opportunity because most teachers wouldn’t do that. Once we were finally through with the explanation of kiva.gov, we watched an informative video that explained a little bit about the over abundance of children in India. I had no idea that, the people of India were having so many children because whenever the woman would give birth to a girl, the family felt as if that girl was useless to their family and they would keep having children until they received many boys. Even though I knew that women were being discriminated in other regions of the world, I guess I never realized how serious it became. Women in India are practically pushed to keep having children until they are killed by childbirth.