Causes of Poverty
Overpopulation
- About 500million people are starving and ill.
- As population increase, the waste will increase which will harm the environment. As this happens, this problem will lead us to deterioration of natural environment.
- There are many countries that suffer from the poverty such as Africa. Many people have diseases and as time pass, it spreads out.
- Children in the developing countries are five times likely to die from the illness than the developed countries.
- As we build more housing for the poor people, we have to chop down many forests.
Lack of education
- Kids who do not have enough education are likely to have difficulty in finding jobs and universities.
- Lack of education may lead the children to be violent, one of the juvenile delinquents, and criminals.
- 771milion adults and more than 100milion children around the world did not have sufficient education.
- Managed Healthcare Executive clarified that as students have a lack of education and get attached to drugs, it can affect students to have behavioral problems.
Lack of employment
- As financial crises happen, people naturally get to lose their jobs which can cause a great amount of poverty.
- This situation often happens to slum dweller that got kicked out from their homes because of development that government was planning.
Lack of education:
http://www.stolenchildhood.net/images/aborogine-children-of-australia_246.jpg
Street children:
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/images/Uganda/3.Street%20children%20billboard.JPG
Overpopulation:
http://courses.spectrum.sd61.bc.ca/teacherFolders/Walsh/pictures/Overpopulation.jpg
World population growth:
http://aylluinitiative.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/world-population-growth-to-20501.jpg
My Interview with Asia
Hi, I’m Liz and I’m interviewing Asia about poem, Haiku on 8 October 2009.
- Do you enjoy reading poems?
- What poems do you most enjoy writing?
- What do you know about Haiku?
- What is your perspective for having “writing Haiku” as an independent subject in school?
- Do you think practicing for writing Haiku can improve students’ writing skill? Why or why not?
Thank you Asia, for talking to me today about Haiku.
September 29th, 2009
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The Philippine government declared that 240 people are known to be dead because of the Tropical Storm Katsana, the floodi ng that occurred at September 26th, 2009. At least 37 people are missing right now. 450,000 people in Philippine have been displaced and 374,890 people are now living at makeshift shelters. Police, troops, and volunteers rescued more than 7,900 people.
United States has donated 100,000 USD and arranged a military helicopter, and five rubber boat manned by 20 men. The United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Food Program also provided food and aid.
There were much devastation during the flooding; streets and houses were covered in muck, trees crashed into buildings, and cars were floating on the water. Even though there was a big storm, telephone, water supplies, internet connections were not affected.
Resources: http://all4freehere.com/2009/09/storm-leaves-dozens-dead-in-philippines/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8279801.stm
http://images.theage.com.au/2008/06/22/133498/PM_flood-420×0.jpg
http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/house-flood.jpg
September 27th, 2009
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1. ADB extends the loan for Bangladesh
ADB supports and cuts the poverty by providing the country a loan which is called ADF (Asian Development Fund). ADB extended $76million of loan to support the economy of Bangladesh. Bangladesh has economical crises which are employment generation and exports. Three quarters of Bangladeshis live in unsophisticated areas. The quality of education remains low with gender discrimination continuing in many areas. The number of loans in Bangladesh is 192; amount of money they borrowed was 9,857.49 million US dollars.
2. Percentage of exports and imports in Bangladesh
The export of growth in Bangladesh is decreasing through years. In the year of 2004 the percentage for the growth of export in Bangladesh was 15.9%, in the year 2005 was 14.0%, in the year 2006 was 21.5%, in the year 2007 was 15.8%, and in the year 2008 was 15.7%. However the growth of import in Bangladesh is now increasing. In the year 2004 the percentage for the growth of import in Bangladesh was 13.0%, in the year of 2005 was 20.6%, the year of 2006 was 12.1%, the year of 2007 was 16.6%, and in the year of 2008 was 25.6%.
During the long summer vacation, Liz spent her half of the break at Korea. With her family, dad, mom, and her sister, they rode on an Aisana Airline. “It was relaxing plane trip,” she says. When she arrived in Incheon Airport, lots of people were busy wearing masks because of Swineflu and population in airport decreased. “I also wore my mask on because I was afraid of getting infected from people who have swineflu,” she startled.
When she finished finding her baggage, she headed to her home, Seongnam city in Korea peninsula; the population of people in Seongnam city is 930,000 and the whole area is 142km. Seongnam city is famous for the fortress wall, Namhansanseong. It has beautiful view of green trees and lots of tourists visit there during autumn.
Many young Korean students live at Seohyundong in Seongnam city where Liz lived when she was staying at Korea. “Basically, the main purpose was to study and have fun at there. I stayed at Seongnam city with my relatives. Seohyundong had a beautiful view, it had lush trees, red flowers laid out around the sidewalk, nice cool breeze was blowing, and pedestrians were having nice resting on the bench,” she continues. Liz enjoyed the fine landscape of Korea and was glad to see the calmness of the environment. “Unexpectedly, this calming view didn’t totally represent the Korean students,” she says in a firm voice. “They were like Spartans, if they start to study, they sit and continue studying at least for three hours,” she explains it seriously. “They woke up at 6:30a.m. and slept at 1:30a.m because of competitive studying. Since I was a student I had to study like them. It was absolutely hard to adjust in that environment. It was really harsh, difficult, and sleepy vacation,” she concludes with exhausting voice.
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