2011 Federal Election

Vote Compass:  What views are most like yours? 

http://federal.votecompass.ca/

 

ILLITERACY:

1.  What is illiteracy?
2.  If someone is illiterate, what problems might they face in their life?
3.  How can violence be related to illiteracy?

Week of March 28th....In The Export Processing Zone!

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More than 25 million people in developing countries work in export processing zones, where goods are mass-produced, wages are usually low and human rights are not always respected.

  

Part #1:

1.    What is an Export Processing Zone

2.    What is a sweatshop

Part #2:  "Mickey Mouse goes to Haiti"

 In the late 1990’s, the CEO of Disney was making $9 783 per hour.  A Haitian worker making Disney products made 28 cents an hour.  How long would it take one worker, working a 40 hour week to make what the CEO earned in one hour?

Part #3:

Pretend you are a leader of a company who has factories in Canada, The United States and Spain.  The following chart lists the average salaries and number of employees you have working for you:

Country:	Ave. Salary:	Number of Workers:	Total Cost:
Canada	$11.42	800
United States	$10.56	1450
Spain	$12.45	760

Imagine you fired ALL of your staff, closed the factories and opened a factory in an export processing zone, paying the same number of workers 40 cents an hour.  How much would you spend on the new labour?  How much would you save?

Part #4:  Please post your answer to at least one of these questions:

1. Do Export Processing Zones exist in your country? 

2. What is the impact of this policy on the people living there?

3. How do you feel about this issue?

4. What questions do you now have about EPZ's?

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Warm Fuzzies!

1.  Why did the children give out warm fuzzies in a carefree and     reckless manner?
2. What did the children know that their parents didn't know?
3.  What could warm fuzzies represent in the world?

Week of March 7th, 2011

International Women's Day is on March 8th. 

The official theme of this day is:  “Access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology.”

We have learned that Education is a basic right that can change a country and lift people out of a life of poverty.  In your country do both genders have equal access to education?  How do you know?  What are some reasons that girls either do or do not have equal access to education in your country?

Check out:
http://www.un.org/en/events/women/iwd/2011/index.shtml

http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=38&pattern=education%20for%20all


http://plancanada.ca/page.aspx?pid=2272

Week of February 28th

Please visit the website:  http://www.worldbank.org/ and follow these steps:
1.  Read about the World Bank.  What do they do?
2.  Find your country
3.  Read the country overview provided by the World Bank.  What are the specific challenges to development?  How many MDG's are estimated to be achieved by the year 2015?  What does the World Bank say about the role of education in your country?

4.  Post one important new piece of information that you uncovered about your country during today's class.  (Please post your response with your name and class) 

Afghanistan

My country is Afghanistan. Their population is 29,121,286, afghanistan is located south of Asia. Their flag appearence and meaning has vertical bands of black , red and green, with the national emblem in white in the center (Meanings- black means the past, red means blood that shed for independence and green means either hope for the future, agricultureal properity, or islam.) Their official language is Afghan persion or dari. 50% speek Afghan persion or Dari or theres Pashto which 35% people speek. Their literacy rate for males is 43.1% ; the rate for females is 12.6% (2000 est.) their expenditure on education is NA, although their school expectancy  for males is 11 years and for females is 5 years (2004). The population below the poverty line is 36%. The GDP is $1000(2010est.) $1000(2009 est.) and $800(2008 est.) NOTE THE DATA OF THE GDP ARE IN 2010 US DOLLARS. Afghanistan's life expectancy: total population-44.65; males-44.45 years and females 44.87(2010est.)
-Maria V. 75