Reflection of Women's Development in Africa Project

In school, we worked on a project based on either Africa or Asia. My group chose this topic: women’s role in the development of Africa. About myself, I learned that I do NOT have good planning skills, and that I can get distracted easily.

At the beginning of the project, we were required to plan out what we were doing on  calendar. We had about three weeks to finish the project, and we planned to film the weekend before the week it was due. We had finished everything else we need to finish before filming a week ahead, so we just sat around in class reading the script. Then, the day came that we needed to film. But when we filmed, we weren’t able to finish, so we had to rush to finish in time. All of that stress could have been prevented just by filming earlier.

Also, I learned that I work well in a group. I like to get off topic, and I will get bored when I have to do the same thing over and over, even if it is something that I would normally enjoy. This wasn’t helpful when my group and I decided to take notes for the first four days of our project. So, eventually I started to chat about things that didn’t apply to what needed to be done. Luckily, everyone in my group helped to keep everyone else on task, and we finished taking notes faster than what it would have taken us if we had been off-topic.

The most challenging part of creating this project is filming. Since our story took place in africa, the costumes mattered (our project was a short movie), the props mattered, and the background mattered. So we had to keep track of those things. Sometimes, the scene would be long, so it was also harder to memorize our lines. But, we (eventually) got the job done.

I think my group and I made a good project. We worked hard and produced a good movie. I am looking forward to the next time I will get to make another project like this.

These women in Africa are running a small business to earn money for their families.

Settlement- Where Do People Like To Live? (sketchnotes and reflection)

This is my sketchnote for settlement:

I think the most interesting thing I have learned about settlement is that people don’t like to live in tropical climates. I find this interesting because now, a lot of people like to go on vacation to places with tropical climate. Also, tropical climates have lots of vegetation and good land for growing, so that is a good food source.

I am proud of how neat my sketchnotes are. Usually, I don’t have a good system for separating main ideas. This time, I planned it out, so it is easier to tell what the sketchnote says.

I think the most interesting thing I have learned so far in Globalization and Trade is that many companies choose to produce their goods in less developed countries. These countries generally have very low pay wages. I find this interesting because I don’t think it is worthwhile to move whole factories from place to place, and it isn’t fair to the workers, as well. Because, after a while, the country will become developed and the minimum wage will rise, so the company will have to move again. Also, the people taking jobs with very low pay must be desperate for money, so when the company’ s factory moves, they will be out of a job.

My sketchnotes on this topic were, according to me, my best so far. I think my best part were the graphics, since I have included more of them and tried to incorporate text into them, instead of the other way around. I am especially proud of my handshake, which represents trade agreements between countries, therefore creating peace between them, as well.

Economy and Me

Economy is held accountable for all the services and goods we own (and have sold!).  It starts with production.  Most of these goods were made, or produced in factories.  The making of these things is called production, and everything I use and own went through this process. I’ve also produced things myself, like movies with my friends or a lemonade stand with my brother.  Then comes distribution.  Distribution is when companies sell what they have produced.  Stores impact my life by distributing goods locally, because if there were no stores, I would have to go to where the goods were produced to purchase them, which would make purchasing anything very difficult. Again, I have also tried to sell things, like the previously mentioned lemonade stand, and a failed craft store. After distribution comes consumption. Consumption is the use of goods.  This makes me a consumer because I consume everything I own, like books, my phone, and furniture.  I consume two things, goods and services.  Goods are all material things I own, so that is definitely a huge part in my life! Services are things that others do to help me, such as insurance, police, restaurant waiters and yes, school, so I can say that services play a big part in my life as well.     

Bibliography

School bus picture

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:32166_Albemarle_County_School_Bus_Road-e-o.jpg

Standard of Living Thoughts

 

This is my infographic for France's standard of living. Here are my thoughts on standard of living:

A country’s standard of living does not show how everyone lives in that country. The standard of living shows only the standards, or averages of a country’s wealth, health, education, infrastructure, and leisure time. This means some people could be very below or above the standard in that country, but the standard only shows the average person, so their standard of living wouldn’t be recognized.

The most interesting thing that I learned about standard of living is that everyone in France has access to safe drinking water. I find this interesting because when I went to France, there were some homeless people, so that must mean that even they have access to safe drinking water.

Countries with a higher standard of living have an obligation to help countries with a lower standard of living. The countries with high standards of living aren’t legally obliged, but they usually provide aid to those with a lower standard of living because they want to help out.

My Economy Sketchnotes

This is my Economy Sketchnotes. Sketchnotes are just like regular notes, but with pictures to help your brain understand and learn the concepts. If the words are a little hard to read, the words coming from production say

Goods.                    Services

Any thing material.   Something someone

                               Does to help you

Why You Should Be Bothered

Why is it important to be bothered?
It is important to be bothered. Being bothered is a great thing because then it will make you want to set whatever is bothering you right. If you are bothered, it will give you the courage and strength to do what you have to do to help change the world. And if you actually do change the world, it will inspire others to do what you did. So it's not just what the immediate effects of what you do, it’s also the things that happen because of what you did. If you are not bothered, or just choose to ignore the fact that there are so many wrong things in the world, you won’t have a reason to change the world, when you could have fed the hungry, resolve abuse, stopped animal cruelty, found a cure for a disease, or something else that’s amazing.