Go to a museum. It can be a major museum downtown or a local museum.
Take several pictures (6). You must be in two of them.
Write about the history of the museum and its purpose.
Review one section of the museum.
Answer this question: Why is this museum needed.
Your report must be turned in before the end of the semester. You must organize your paper and it needs to be 5-6 pages long. It has to be typed and you need to cite any sources you use.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Test Review
2. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the left
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
3. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the right
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
4. In the demographic transition chart, the highest growth rate occurs in stage
a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5
5. In which stage do the most developed societies exist
a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5
6. a pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top that does not go up too high goes along with a country
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
7. a pyramid with a rectangular look that tapers at the top indicates
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
8. On the population pyramid, the area to the right
a represents women b represents men
c represents age d represents nothing, it just mirrors the left
9. According to GGS, farming
a leads to a society with many different job
b leads to inventions
c leads to food surpluses and an increase in population
d leads to gunpowder and germs
e all of the above
11. According to GGS, having livestock
a means you have a better chance of dying of disease and is not good
b means you develop diseases first and get the immunities first making you more powerful
c is not an advantage or disadvantage
d means you will not farm
15. Having a long east-west axis
a equals having a greater variety of plants
b equals having a greater variety of climates
c equals having a greater variety of temperatures
d all of the above
16. Who in the hell are you
a someone trying to pass this test
b someone crying alone in a corner
c in your mind you are Sroth, Lord of the Dragons and Future Ruler or all Things Dungeons and Dragons
d all of the above (must answer this to get it right)
20. Answer A and take your free point and go home crying
22 According the demographic transition chart
Stage one is folk and stage four is popular and it goes from less to more developed
Stage one is less developed and has low birth rates
Stage four has high birth rates
Stage four and one have low growth rates
Both a and d
24. MDC's and then LDC's and the Hunter-Gatherers had what percentage of people working on the food supply for their people
A 50, 2, 75 B 25, 80, 100 C 2, 50, 100 D 25, 60, 90 E none of the above
25. African countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
26. Asian countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
27. Latin America countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
28. European countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
29. Malthus was
A a philosopher who believed population growth would be faster than the growth in food supply
B a philosopher whose ideas apply well to Rwanda and the crisis there
C was from 1800s England
D believed that people who have children at a dangerously increasing rate if allowed
E all of the above
40. Famines have
A Always happened and always will in the future without a doubt because we do not have enough food for all of the people
B Occurred only in democracies with a large number of people
C Occurred in countries with dictators
D Not occurred in recent years
E All of the above
41. Who believed life was nasty, brutish and short
A Hobbes B Locke
C Montesquieu D Roseau
E Mr. Lewis
42. According to Locke’s social contract you have the right to
A Life, liberty and property
B Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
C Have warm fuzzy kittens in your apartment
D Revolt if your basic liberties are maintained by the government
E All of the above
4. Per capita define
A per dollar
B per person
C per amount of capital (dollar)
D per year
12. Popular culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that it
A) tends to occur in MDC's
B) has family values that have changed to the point where alternate lifestyles and divorce are allowed
C) has values that shift over time
D) can be expected in countries like the U.S. where women are going to college in larger numbers than men
E) All of the above
13. Folk culture includes all of the following except
a homogeneous
b family
c less development
d individuality
14. Popular culture includes all of the following except
a heterogeneous
b more family values
c more development
d individuality
20. A nation-state is
a a group of people who want a country
b an ethnic group that wants its own state
c the same thing. nation means state
d nothing- it is a made up word
21. Stop crying during the exam and just put down the letter A for this one (freebie)
26. Heterogeneous means
a many differing types
b one type
c a group of people with one trait
d none of the above
67. Epidemics are usually found in what stage of the demographic transition
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
E none
68. Countries that average around 3 children per family will likely be in what stage
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
E none
86. Locally made clothing and foods are more important to
A popular culture
B folk culture
C no culture
D all cultures
E none of the above
Causes of WWI
Sides of WWI
How was the meat packing industry an example of industrialization
How did the industrial revolution change the nature of warfare
Why were bright uniforms needed for Napoleon’s army but not in WWI
How did war change from Napoleon to WWI
Spark of WWI
How did the weapons of WWI change the nature of warfare and lack of certain weapons
Trench system and why it was set up the way it was
What was total warfare
Why did Russia leave WWI
Why did America join WWI and how does the Somme relate to that
Significance to the Somme for the British
Difference between Napoleon’s battle and WWI battle
Distance in weaponry, accuracy, use of horses, gunpowder, communication,
Treaty of WWI and its consequences
Define nationalism
how was belgium significant to wwi
why did the ottoman empire join in on the central powers
what was the most effective weapon of Germans during wwi (invention)
how did wwi start
why did the US have the lowest casualty rate of any country during wwi
what was the spanish flu
who would get the highest rate of casualties in a wwi battle
how wide was the front at the Somme
why did the frontlines have to be so widespread
what is a creeping barrage
what effect did this war have on Germany
how long did Germany fight and whom did they blame for the war
define communism
define capitalism
define epidemic
Q: Has there been much or any return migration of your ethnic group
Look into this reverse/return migration within your ethnic group. Note: it does not apply often. You could also look into whether or not these immigrants are likely to send money home
Brazilians Giving Up Their American Dream
By NINA BERNSTEIN and ELIZABETH DWOSKIN
Like hundreds of thousands of middle-class Brazilians who moved to the United States over the last two decades, Jose Osvandir Borges and his wife, Elisabeth, came on tourist visas and stayed as illegal immigrants, putting down roots in ways they never expected.
After packing up their plasma-screen TV, scholastic trophies and other fruits of 12 prosperous years in the Ironbound in Newark, the couple and their American-born daughter, Marianna, 10, were scheduled to fly back to Brazil for good this morning. They expect their son, Thiago, 21, to follow in a year or two, despite his reluctance to leave the only land that feels like home.
“You can’t spend your entire life waiting to be legal,” said Mr. Borges, 42, reflecting on a hard decision born of lost hopes, new fears and changing economies in both countries since he arrived in 1996. By law, the couple faces a 10-year bar on re-entering the United States, even as visitors.
That decision — to give up on life in the United States — is being made by more and more Brazilians across the country, according to consular officials, travel agencies swamped by one-way ticket bookings, and community leaders in the neighborhoods that Brazilian immigrants have transformed, from Boston to Pompano Beach, Fla.
No one can say how many are leaving. But in the last half year, the reverse migration has become unmistakable among Brazilians in the United States, a population estimated at 1.1 million by Brazil’s government — four to five times the official census figures.
To explain an often wrenching decision to pull up stakes, homeward-bound Brazilians point to a rising fear of deportation and a slumping American economy. Many cite the expiration of driver’s licenses that can no longer be renewed under tougher rules, coupled with the steep drop in the value of the dollar against the currency of Brazil, where the economy has improved.
“You put it all together, and why should you stay in an environment like that if you have a place like Brazil, where there’s hope, a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train to run you over?” said Pedro Coelho, a businessman in Mount Vernon, N.Y., who is known as the mayor of Brazilians in Westchester County. “Are they leaving? Yes, by the hundreds.”
In Massachusetts, says Fausto da Rocha, the founder of the Boston-area Brazilian Immigrant Center, his compatriots — many here illegally — are leaving by the thousands, some after losing homes in the subprime mortgage crisis. In New York and New Jersey, travel agents and others who sell airline seats say that one-way bookings to Brazil have more than doubled since last year, to about 150 daily from Kennedy International Airport, and that flights are sold out through February.
And at Brazil’s consulate in Miami, which serves Brazilians in five Southeastern states, officials said a recent survey of moving companies and travel agencies confirmed what they had already surmised from their foot traffic: More Brazilians are leaving the region than arriving — the reversal of an upward curve that seemed unstoppable as recently as 2005, when Brazilians unable to meet tightened visa requirements were sneaking across the United States-Mexico border in record numbers.
It is too soon to say whether the reverse migration of Brazilians puts them in the vanguard of a larger trend among immigrants, or underscores their distinctiveness. Like Mr. Borges, who said he was poorly paid as a university teacher of religious studies in his native city of Curitiba, they generally come from more urban and educated classes than other major groups of illegal immigrants from Latin America, studies show. Many returning now have been investing their American earnings in Brazilian property.
But their own explanation for the surge back to Brazil contradicts conventional wisdom on both sides of the immigration debate.
For years, advocates of giving people like the Borgeses a chance to earn legal status have argued that illegal immigrants will only be driven further underground by enforcement measures like raids or denying them driver’s licenses. Advocates of harsher restrictions and penalties have argued that illegal immigration is now growing independently of the ebb and flow of the American economy. Returning Brazilians defy both contentions.
Faced with diminishing rewards and rising expenses in the United States, long separated from aging relatives in Brazil, “people say, ‘Is this worth it, being illegal, being scared?’“ said Maxine L. Margolis, a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has written extensively on Brazilians in the United States.
There are regional variations, but the pattern is consistent. In South Florida, the expiration of a driver’s license is often a turning point for families already caught short by the slump in housing construction, said Sister Judi Clemens, a pastoral assistant with Our Lady Aparecida Mission, which serves five different Brazilian communities in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. She noted that until seven years ago, Brazilians with tourist visas could get Florida licenses valid for eight years, but they are all expiring now and cannot be renewed.
“There’s no public transportation here in Florida, so people drive to work in fear and trembling,” worried that a traffic stop could mean months in immigration detention, she said. “A lot of people have just simply said, ‘I’ve had enough.’“
In Massachusetts, where there is more public transportation, a spate of high-profile immigration raids, coupled with home foreclosures, have played a key role in the exodus, said community leaders like Mr. da Rocha, a legal resident who came in 1989. “I believe we lost 5,000 Brazilians only this year,” he said. “The landlords are going to face a crisis soon.”
While Brazil does not yet offer the job opportunities of Ireland, which has drawn back emigrants in droves, neither is it an economically bleak or war-torn country. And like Italian immigrants early in the 20th century, who typically planned to return to Italy — half of them eventually doing so — many Brazilians arrived with the intention of going back as soon as they met their financial goals.
But like the Borges family, they soon changed their timetable.
“We came here to save enough money to buy a house” in Brazil, Mr. Borges said, recalling the early weeks when the family slept in a friend’s basement and he worked in construction for the first time. They expected to return to Brazil after two years.
Instead, he found his inner entrepreneur. He started a plumbing and construction business that soon employed upward of seven compatriots, paid taxes and helped build name-brand hotels in three states.
But in 2005, as the construction boom began to go bust, larger companies, prompted by labor unions, started to demand working papers, he said. And when his crew could not produce them, they were let go.
As the housing market faltered, weekly earnings in his business shrank from a high of $6,000 to barely $2,000, he said. Expenses like gas and rent rose, making it harder for him and Ms. Borges, who cleaned houses in New York, to pay off loans for the farm they were buying in Brazil.
The dollar, which once bought four Brazilian reals, dropped to a historic low of 1.7 reals in May. Then in June came their personal tipping point: the collapse of the bipartisan bill in Congress that would have offered them, and millions of other illegal residents, a path to legal status.
“After the law didn’t pass, it was like all the hope went away at once,” said Mr. Borges, who had traveled, with other members of St. James Catholic Church in Newark, to rallies supporting the bill in Trenton and Washington.
In past years, he allowed, he spent $26,000 on dubious and doomed efforts to secure a green card. Now, he hopes to make a living by processing sugar cane for ethanol on his Brazilian farm. “If we had papers, we’d stay forever,” said Ms. Borges, 41, who has been active in their children’s public schools. “We love this community.”
Proudly, they showed off the trophy that Marianna won in third grade in an anti-littering poster contest, for a design that is now featured in shop windows throughout the Ironbound.
It is in such neighborhoods, where Brazilians brought fresh bustle to faded storefronts or abandoned factories, that the departures are being felt most keenly.
“I’m scared,” said Francine Melo, the owner of the travel agency in Newark where Mr. Borges bought three one-way tickets for $1,708. “I make my living through these people.”
Another of her last-time customers, Norma dos Santos, a former house cleaner, said she felt she had no choice. Seven years after overstaying her visa, she said, she does not drive to work or pick up her children at school for fear that a traffic stop could put her in immigration detention.
“It’s just getting harder and harder to stay here without documents,” she said.
Still, she is uncertain that she is doing right by her American-born children, a newborn and a 2-year old boy.
“I’m worried they’ll grow up and ask me, ‘How could you have left America?’“ she said.
Brazilians Giving Up Their American Dream
By NINA BERNSTEIN and ELIZABETH DWOSKIN
Like hundreds of thousands of middle-class Brazilians who moved to the United States over the last two decades, Jose Osvandir Borges and his wife, Elisabeth, came on tourist visas and stayed as illegal immigrants, putting down roots in ways they never expected.
After packing up their plasma-screen TV, scholastic trophies and other fruits of 12 prosperous years in the Ironbound in Newark, the couple and their American-born daughter, Marianna, 10, were scheduled to fly back to Brazil for good this morning. They expect their son, Thiago, 21, to follow in a year or two, despite his reluctance to leave the only land that feels like home.
“You can’t spend your entire life waiting to be legal,” said Mr. Borges, 42, reflecting on a hard decision born of lost hopes, new fears and changing economies in both countries since he arrived in 1996. By law, the couple faces a 10-year bar on re-entering the United States, even as visitors.
That decision — to give up on life in the United States — is being made by more and more Brazilians across the country, according to consular officials, travel agencies swamped by one-way ticket bookings, and community leaders in the neighborhoods that Brazilian immigrants have transformed, from Boston to Pompano Beach, Fla.
No one can say how many are leaving. But in the last half year, the reverse migration has become unmistakable among Brazilians in the United States, a population estimated at 1.1 million by Brazil’s government — four to five times the official census figures.
To explain an often wrenching decision to pull up stakes, homeward-bound Brazilians point to a rising fear of deportation and a slumping American economy. Many cite the expiration of driver’s licenses that can no longer be renewed under tougher rules, coupled with the steep drop in the value of the dollar against the currency of Brazil, where the economy has improved.
“You put it all together, and why should you stay in an environment like that if you have a place like Brazil, where there’s hope, a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train to run you over?” said Pedro Coelho, a businessman in Mount Vernon, N.Y., who is known as the mayor of Brazilians in Westchester County. “Are they leaving? Yes, by the hundreds.”
In Massachusetts, says Fausto da Rocha, the founder of the Boston-area Brazilian Immigrant Center, his compatriots — many here illegally — are leaving by the thousands, some after losing homes in the subprime mortgage crisis. In New York and New Jersey, travel agents and others who sell airline seats say that one-way bookings to Brazil have more than doubled since last year, to about 150 daily from Kennedy International Airport, and that flights are sold out through February.
And at Brazil’s consulate in Miami, which serves Brazilians in five Southeastern states, officials said a recent survey of moving companies and travel agencies confirmed what they had already surmised from their foot traffic: More Brazilians are leaving the region than arriving — the reversal of an upward curve that seemed unstoppable as recently as 2005, when Brazilians unable to meet tightened visa requirements were sneaking across the United States-Mexico border in record numbers.
It is too soon to say whether the reverse migration of Brazilians puts them in the vanguard of a larger trend among immigrants, or underscores their distinctiveness. Like Mr. Borges, who said he was poorly paid as a university teacher of religious studies in his native city of Curitiba, they generally come from more urban and educated classes than other major groups of illegal immigrants from Latin America, studies show. Many returning now have been investing their American earnings in Brazilian property.
But their own explanation for the surge back to Brazil contradicts conventional wisdom on both sides of the immigration debate.
For years, advocates of giving people like the Borgeses a chance to earn legal status have argued that illegal immigrants will only be driven further underground by enforcement measures like raids or denying them driver’s licenses. Advocates of harsher restrictions and penalties have argued that illegal immigration is now growing independently of the ebb and flow of the American economy. Returning Brazilians defy both contentions.
Faced with diminishing rewards and rising expenses in the United States, long separated from aging relatives in Brazil, “people say, ‘Is this worth it, being illegal, being scared?’“ said Maxine L. Margolis, a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has written extensively on Brazilians in the United States.
There are regional variations, but the pattern is consistent. In South Florida, the expiration of a driver’s license is often a turning point for families already caught short by the slump in housing construction, said Sister Judi Clemens, a pastoral assistant with Our Lady Aparecida Mission, which serves five different Brazilian communities in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. She noted that until seven years ago, Brazilians with tourist visas could get Florida licenses valid for eight years, but they are all expiring now and cannot be renewed.
“There’s no public transportation here in Florida, so people drive to work in fear and trembling,” worried that a traffic stop could mean months in immigration detention, she said. “A lot of people have just simply said, ‘I’ve had enough.’“
In Massachusetts, where there is more public transportation, a spate of high-profile immigration raids, coupled with home foreclosures, have played a key role in the exodus, said community leaders like Mr. da Rocha, a legal resident who came in 1989. “I believe we lost 5,000 Brazilians only this year,” he said. “The landlords are going to face a crisis soon.”
While Brazil does not yet offer the job opportunities of Ireland, which has drawn back emigrants in droves, neither is it an economically bleak or war-torn country. And like Italian immigrants early in the 20th century, who typically planned to return to Italy — half of them eventually doing so — many Brazilians arrived with the intention of going back as soon as they met their financial goals.
But like the Borges family, they soon changed their timetable.
“We came here to save enough money to buy a house” in Brazil, Mr. Borges said, recalling the early weeks when the family slept in a friend’s basement and he worked in construction for the first time. They expected to return to Brazil after two years.
Instead, he found his inner entrepreneur. He started a plumbing and construction business that soon employed upward of seven compatriots, paid taxes and helped build name-brand hotels in three states.
But in 2005, as the construction boom began to go bust, larger companies, prompted by labor unions, started to demand working papers, he said. And when his crew could not produce them, they were let go.
As the housing market faltered, weekly earnings in his business shrank from a high of $6,000 to barely $2,000, he said. Expenses like gas and rent rose, making it harder for him and Ms. Borges, who cleaned houses in New York, to pay off loans for the farm they were buying in Brazil.
The dollar, which once bought four Brazilian reals, dropped to a historic low of 1.7 reals in May. Then in June came their personal tipping point: the collapse of the bipartisan bill in Congress that would have offered them, and millions of other illegal residents, a path to legal status.
“After the law didn’t pass, it was like all the hope went away at once,” said Mr. Borges, who had traveled, with other members of St. James Catholic Church in Newark, to rallies supporting the bill in Trenton and Washington.
In past years, he allowed, he spent $26,000 on dubious and doomed efforts to secure a green card. Now, he hopes to make a living by processing sugar cane for ethanol on his Brazilian farm. “If we had papers, we’d stay forever,” said Ms. Borges, 41, who has been active in their children’s public schools. “We love this community.”
Proudly, they showed off the trophy that Marianna won in third grade in an anti-littering poster contest, for a design that is now featured in shop windows throughout the Ironbound.
It is in such neighborhoods, where Brazilians brought fresh bustle to faded storefronts or abandoned factories, that the departures are being felt most keenly.
“I’m scared,” said Francine Melo, the owner of the travel agency in Newark where Mr. Borges bought three one-way tickets for $1,708. “I make my living through these people.”
Another of her last-time customers, Norma dos Santos, a former house cleaner, said she felt she had no choice. Seven years after overstaying her visa, she said, she does not drive to work or pick up her children at school for fear that a traffic stop could put her in immigration detention.
“It’s just getting harder and harder to stay here without documents,” she said.
Still, she is uncertain that she is doing right by her American-born children, a newborn and a 2-year old boy.
“I’m worried they’ll grow up and ask me, ‘How could you have left America?’“ she said.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Causes, Estates and National Assembly
Use your notes for the causes. For the National Assembly, remember the stuff you wrote down about Sieyes. The Tennis Court oath and the Dec of the Rights of Man all go along with the National Assembly. That was the group of men that broke away from the Estates meeting and started the call for a new government and a demand for the third estate to have a role in the government. For Estates meeting remember that was the meeting the King called for the estates to advise him. Use your notes to explain that as well.
Instructions
Place the events in order and for each event describe in it one small paragraph. Describe
the event. List the leaders of each government/event and describe their politics as left, far left, right or far right. Left means they tend to go for the ideals that go along with rights for the people and for changes that take the country away from democracy. Right means that they want to stick with the older ideas and conventions and do not wish to change. Far right would mean wishing to restore the monarchy or something similar.
We will go over much of this in class tomorrow and you can find much of this online or in any academic resource like an encyclopedia. Expect more help from me here on the blog
the event. List the leaders of each government/event and describe their politics as left, far left, right or far right. Left means they tend to go for the ideals that go along with rights for the people and for changes that take the country away from democracy. Right means that they want to stick with the older ideas and conventions and do not wish to change. Far right would mean wishing to restore the monarchy or something similar.
We will go over much of this in class tomorrow and you can find much of this online or in any academic resource like an encyclopedia. Expect more help from me here on the blog
French Timeline
1 Causes
2 Estates-General of 1789
3 National Assembly (1789)
4 National Constituent Assembly (1789–1791)
5 Legislative Assembly (1791–1792)
6a National Convention (1792–1795)
6b Reign of Terror
7 The Directory (1795–1799)
Place these events on a time-line along with a brief description of each.Include these events and ideas within your time-line.
Execution of the King
Wars with neighboring countries
Rise of Napoleon
Return of a King
Political Parties and Left,Right Center
Leaders and beliefs of each government
2 Estates-General of 1789
3 National Assembly (1789)
4 National Constituent Assembly (1789–1791)
5 Legislative Assembly (1791–1792)
6a National Convention (1792–1795)
6b Reign of Terror
7 The Directory (1795–1799)
Place these events on a time-line along with a brief description of each.Include these events and ideas within your time-line.
Execution of the King
Wars with neighboring countries
Rise of Napoleon
Return of a King
Political Parties and Left,Right Center
Leaders and beliefs of each government
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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Monday, November 12, 2007
New Homework Schedule for next week
11-15 Test Corrections
11-16 French Revolution Timeline and Americas Map Quiz
Expect directions and grading key for test corrections and directions for French Rev within the next few hours.
11-16 French Revolution Timeline and Americas Map Quiz
Expect directions and grading key for test corrections and directions for French Rev within the next few hours.
Test - Test Cor now due on Thursday
1. in the demographic transition chart, the space between the lines represents
a crude birth rate b crude death rate
c the amount of growth d the number of people
e the natural rate of increase
2. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the left
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
3. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the right
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
4. In the demographic transition chart, the highest growth rate occurs in stage
a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5
5. In which stage do the most developed societies exist
a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5
6. a pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top that does not go up too high goes along with a country
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
7. a pyramid with a rectangular look that tapers at the top indicates
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
8. On the population pyramid, the area to the right
a represents women b represents men
c represents age d represents nothing, it just mirrors the left
9. According to GGS, farming
a leads to a society with many different job
b leads to inventions
c leads to food surpluses and an increase in population
d leads to gunpowder and germs
e all of the above
10. According to GGS, the European beat the Aztecs because
a they had disease immunities
b the East-Wet axis forced them to have better military skills
c they had more inventions due to their better farming techniques and more developed societies
d because they had steel
e all of the above
11. According to GGS, having livestock
a means you have a better chance of dying of disease and is not good
b means you develop diseases first and get the immunities first making you more powerful
c is not an advantage or disadvantage
d means you will not farm
12. According to GGS, Eurasia
a had 13 of the 14 ancestors to all of the large animals
b had an advantage because it is the longest landmass going East to West
c had a greater variety of plants
d all of the above
13. (T/F) Women live longer than men
14. In population pyramids, the left and right sides
a separate young from old b separate newborns from others
c distinguish between men and women d none of the above
15. Having a long east-west axis
a equals having a greater variety of plants b equals having a greater variety of climates
c equals having a greater variety of temperatures d all of the above
16. Who in the hell are you
a someone trying to pass this test
b someone crying alone in a corner
c in your mind you are Sroth, Lord of the Dragons and Future Ruler or all Things Dungeons and Dragons
d all of the above (must answer this to get it right)
17. An example of a country with zero to negative population growth is
a Japan b Mexico
c India d Indonesia
18. An example of a country with a high population growth is
a France b England
c Australia d India
e none of the above
19. Both stage one and stage four of the demographic transition chart
a have low growth rate b have nothing in common
c have high birth and death rates d have low birth and death rates
20. Answer A and take your free point and go home crying
21 (T/F) Latin America is a North-South Axis and this means that the people have had little chance of meeting other to get diseases, little chance of finding plants and animals for farming but have had lots of military contact and conflicts
22 According the demographic transition chart
a Stage one is folk and stage four is popular and it goes from less to more developed
b Stage one is less developed and has low birth rates
c Stage four has high birth rates
d Stage four and one have low growth rates
Both a and d
23. T/F Eurasia had 13 of the 14 large animal ancestors and 32 of the 56 large grass ancestors which made the area more likely to start farms.
24. MDC's and then LDC's and the Hunter-Gatherers had what percentage of people working on the food supply for their people
A 50, 2, 75 B 25, 80, 100 C 2, 50, 100 D 25, 60, 90 E none of the above
25. African countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
26. Asian countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
27. Latin America countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
28. European countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
29. Malthus was
A a philosopher who believed population growth would be faster than the growth in food supply
B a philosopher whose ideas apply well to Rwanda and the crisis there
C was from 1800s England
D believed that people who have children at a dangerously increasing rate if allowed
E all of the above
30. Which has the most calories per acre of crop planted?
A Carrots B Peas
C Potatoes D Corn
E Wheat
37. (T/F) Napoleon’s overwhelmingly victorious campaign in Russia helped him but still did not keep him from eventually getting defeated at Waterloo just a short time later.
31. Africa was Isolated from the rest of the world because
A the Sahara desert
B the fact that it is a north-south continent
C the rivers there have waterfalls making them hard to travel
D all of the above
32. Famines have
A Always happened and always will in the future without a doubt because we do not have enough food for all of the people
B Occurred only in democracies with a large number of people
C Occurred in countries with dictators
D Not occurred in recent years
E All of the above
33. Who believed life was nasty, brutish and short
A Hobbes B Locke C Montesquieu D Roseau E Mr. Lewis
34. According to Locke’s social contract you have the right to
A Life, liberty and property
B Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
C Have warm fuzzy kittens in your apartment
D Revolt if your basic liberties are maintained by the government
E All of the above
35. (T/F) Enlightenment thinkers hated the idea of a stronger government that would enact changes (based on their times)
36. Place in order
a Feudalism
b Fall of the Roman Empire
c Absolute Monarchy
d Plague
e Renaissance
37. Feudal governments
A Can change rapidly B Usually use coins and not paper for their currency
C Created stability D Helped the plague to spread
E. Allowed trade and merchants to flourish
38. In the early years of Feudalism
A The society has mainly farmers and nobles
B The society had less disease than in the 1700s
C There was a mobile labor force
D No one farmed
39. Kleptocracies
A Have kings for leaders B Exist only in feudalism
C tax their people D do not exist
40) Folk customs most frequently originate in
A) more developed countries.
B) less developed countries.
C) former communist countries.
D) equally likely in all of the above
E) equally likely in none of the above
41. Folk culture includes all of the following except
a homogeneous b family c less development d individuality
42. Popular culture includes all of the following except
a heterogeneous b more family values c more development d individuality
43. Place these events in order
Renaissance
plague
crusades
feudalism
new monarchs
discovery of the printing press
44. Place these events in order
Discovery of the new world
new monarchs
enlightenment
reformation
English Civil War
45. Place these events in order
Renaissance
plague
feudalism
new monarchs
enlightenment
English Civil War
46-53. Redesign the map so that the following countries go where they should circa 15-1600
HRE
Papal states
France
England
Spain
Portugal
Ottoman Empire
Holland/Netherlands
EC – Explain in detail the differences that exist between a French and a McDonald’s restaurant
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
hmwk and test info
Homework:
page 434 1-2,6
437 def, 3-6
Events:
renaissance
discovery of the new world
plague
crusades
feudalism
new monarchs
enlightenment
reformation
discovery of the printing press
English Civil War
map
HRE
Papal states
France
England
Spain
Portugal
Ottoman Empire
Holland/Netherlands
Facts to know:
Locke believed in constitutionalism. Governments were bound by laws. Our government is based off of the ideas of Locke.
Can you as a citizen do something unconstitutional?
What are the first words of the first amendment to the Constitution.
What does this say about how we see the role of government?
Locke differed from other philosophers of the time who thought people were basically bad and needed a harsh ruler to wield power over them.
Hobbes thought human nature was low and that people could not exist without a strong, dictatorial government. He thought that without kings, people would engage in a war of each against all and that life was “solitary, nasty, brutish and short.” Questioning the government would cause weakness of the government and chaos.
Governments are designed to protect life, liberty and property. People cannot do that on their own. So both Hobbes and Locke acknowledge the need for government and that governments are more powerful than small groups or individuals
The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical theories whose subjects are the implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. In laymen's terms, this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order.
Social contract theory provides the rationale behind the historically important notion that legitimate state authority must be derived from the consent of the governed.
Differences between folk and popular culture McD's and French Rest
page 434 1-2,6
437 def, 3-6
Events:
renaissance
discovery of the new world
plague
crusades
feudalism
new monarchs
enlightenment
reformation
discovery of the printing press
English Civil War
map
HRE
Papal states
France
England
Spain
Portugal
Ottoman Empire
Holland/Netherlands
Facts to know:
Locke believed in constitutionalism. Governments were bound by laws. Our government is based off of the ideas of Locke.
Can you as a citizen do something unconstitutional?
What are the first words of the first amendment to the Constitution.
What does this say about how we see the role of government?
Locke differed from other philosophers of the time who thought people were basically bad and needed a harsh ruler to wield power over them.
Hobbes thought human nature was low and that people could not exist without a strong, dictatorial government. He thought that without kings, people would engage in a war of each against all and that life was “solitary, nasty, brutish and short.” Questioning the government would cause weakness of the government and chaos.
Governments are designed to protect life, liberty and property. People cannot do that on their own. So both Hobbes and Locke acknowledge the need for government and that governments are more powerful than small groups or individuals
The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical theories whose subjects are the implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. In laymen's terms, this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order.
Social contract theory provides the rationale behind the historically important notion that legitimate state authority must be derived from the consent of the governed.
Differences between folk and popular culture McD's and French Rest
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
some test questions
1. in the demographic transition chart, the space between the lines represents
a crude birth rate b crude death rate
c the amount of growth d the number of people
e the natural rate of increase
2. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the left
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
3. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the right
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
4. In the demographic transition chart, the highest growth rate occurs in stage
a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5
5. In which stage do the most developed societies exist
a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5
6. a pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top that does not go up too high goes along with a country
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
7. a pyramid with a rectangular look that tapers at the top indicates
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
8. On the population pyramid, the area to the right
a represents women b represents men
c represents age d represents nothing, it just mirrors the left
9. According to GGS, farming
a leads to a society with many differnt job
b leads to inventions
c leads to food surpluses and an increase in population
d leads to gunpowder and germs
e all of the above
10. According to GGS, the European beat the Aztecs because
a they had disease immunities
b the East-Wet axis forced them to have better military skills
c they had more inventions due to their better farming techniques and more developed societies
d because they had steel
e all of the above
11. According to GGS, having livestock
a means you have a better chance of dying of disease and is not good
b means you develop diseases first and get the immunities first making you more powerful
c is not an advantage or disadvantage
d means you will not farm
12. According to GGS, Eurasia
a had 13 of the 14 ancestors to all of the large animals
b had an advantage because it is the longest landmass going East to West
c had a greater variety of plants
d all of the above
13. (T/F) Women live loner than men
14. In population pyramids, the left and right sides
a separate young from old
b separate newborns from others
c distinguish between men and women
d none of the above
15. Having a long east-west axis
a equals having a greater variety of plants
b equals having a greater variety of climates
c equals having a greater variety of temperatures
d all of the above
16. Who in the hell are you
a someone trying to pass this test
b someone crying alone in a corner
c in your mind you are Sroth, Lord of the Dragons and Future Ruler or all Things Dungeons and Dragons
d all of the above (must answer this to get it right)
17. An example of a country with zero to negative population growth is
a Japan b Mexico
c India d Indonesia
18. An example of a country with a high population growth is
a France b England
c Australia d India
e none of the above
19. Both stage one and stage four of the demographic transition chart
a have low growth rate
b have nothing in common
c have high birth and death rates
d have low birth and death rates
20. Answer A and take your free point and go home crying
21 (T/F) Latin America is a North-South Axis and this means that the people have had little chance of meeting other to get diseases, little chance of finding plants and animals for farming but have had lots of military contact and conflicts
22 According the demographic transition chart
Stage one is folk and stage four is popular and it goes from less to more developed
Stage one is less developed and has low birth rates
Stage four has high birth rates
Stage four and one have low growth rates
Both a and d
23. T/F Eurasia had 13 of the 14 large animal ancestors and 32 of the 56 large grass ancestors which made the area more likely to start farms.
24. MDC's and then LDC's and the Hunter-Gatherers had what percentage of people working on the food supply for their people
A 50, 2, 75 B 25, 80, 100 C 2, 50, 100 D 25, 60, 90 E none of the above
25. African countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
26. Asian countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
27. Latin America countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
28. European countries in general are at stage
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
29. Malthus was
A a philosopher who believed population growth would be faster than the growth in food supply
B a philosopher whose ideas apply well to Rwanda and the crisis there
C was from 1800s England
D believed that people who have children at a dangerously increasing rate if allowed
E all of the above
Place the items in order
A Terror B Creation of the National Assembly
C Napoleon D Creation of the Directory
E American Revolution
35. Which has the most calories per acre of crop planted?
A Carrots B Peas
C Potatoes D Corn
E Wheat
37. (T/F) Napoleon’s overwhelmingly victorious campaign in Russia helped him but still did not keep him from eventually getting defeated at Waterloo just a short time later.
38. Africa was Isolated from the rest of the world because
A the Sahara desert
B the fact that it is a north-south continent
C the rivers there have waterfalls making them hard to travel
D all of the above
40. Famines have
A Always happened and always will in the future without a doubt because we do not have enough food for all of the people
B Occurred only in democracies with a large number of people
C Occurred in countries with dictators
D Not occurred in recent years
E All of the above
41. Who believed life was nasty, brutish and short
A Hobbes B Locke
C Montesquieu D Roseau
E Mr. Lewis
42. According to Locke’s social contract you have the right to
A Life, liberty and property
B Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
C Have warm fuzzy kittens in your apartment
D Revolt if your basic liberties are maintained by the government
E All of the above
43. (T/F) Enlightenment thinkers hated the idea of a stronger government that would enact changes (based on their times)
1. Place in order
Feudalism
Fall of the Roman Empire
Absolute Monarchy
Plague
Renaissance
2. Feudal governments
A Can change rapidly
B Usually use coins and not paper for their currency
C Created stability
D Helped the plague to spread
E. Allowed trade and merchants to flourish
3. In the early years of Feudalism
A The society has mainly farmers and nobles
B The society had less disease than in the 1700s
C There was a mobile labor force
D Noone farmed
4. Kleptocracies
A Have kings for leaders
B Exist only in feudalism
C tax their people
D do not exist
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Countries for Map Quiz
Columbia Mexico
Ecuador Canada
Brazil America
Venezuela Honduras
Peru Nicaragua
Guyana Belize
French Guiana Costa Rica
Suriname Panama
El Salvador Guatemala
Ecuador Canada
Brazil America
Venezuela Honduras
Peru Nicaragua
Guyana Belize
French Guiana Costa Rica
Suriname Panama
El Salvador Guatemala
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Hints for the final
Monoeconomies - one or so products - primary activities - low paying jobs - boom and bust - dictators can count on getting money off of the product / raw material do not have to develop country
Final Homework
Find three unusual laws of Singapore
Read the below interview and answer the following quesitons
-How does Lee Kwan Yew see America as different from Singapore
- Why are the two different?
-Look at the list down at the very bottom and explain how Lee Kwan Yew's view reflect the ideals of Confucius.Each answer should be a long paragraph and you must cite specific details from the essay. Fail to do so and you will get a very low score. YOU MUST CITE SPECIFICS
Last item - In one long paragraph explain how the laws of Singapore reflect Lee's views of government.
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
Read the below interview and answer the following quesitons
-How does Lee Kwan Yew see America as different from Singapore
- Why are the two different?
-Look at the list down at the very bottom and explain how Lee Kwan Yew's view reflect the ideals of Confucius.Each answer should be a long paragraph and you must cite specific details from the essay. Fail to do so and you will get a very low score. YOU MUST CITE SPECIFICS
Last item - In one long paragraph explain how the laws of Singapore reflect Lee's views of government.
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
More Final Info
An example of a primary sector activity is
A Education
B Manufacturing
C Mining
D Retailing
E Shipping
3. Per capita means?
A. for each person
B. the number of countries below the poverty level
C. the distribution of wealth within a country
D. the spatial distribution of global wealth
E. the level of industry within a country
44. Thomas Malthus concluded that
A population increased arithmetically while population increased geometrically
B the world's rate of population increase was higher than food production
C moral restrain was already and definitively producing lower NIR's
D population growth was inevitably going to end in war or famine every time
45. 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
Clash of Civilizations
Absolute versus poverty
Core-periphery
Adding on Qs later today
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Final Questions Part 1
What is tribalism and how does Rwanda reflect that
Who drew the borders of Africa and how can you tell - geometric borders and differing tribes in the same country - not nation-states
Europeans came in to exploit Africa economically - they had all of the inventions and machine guns and wanted to get the material and cheap labor that Africa had to offer
Europeans set up corrupt governments - governments based off of greed and corruption and ones that would set one tribe above another
Europeans also made these countries into mono economies that sold one or so raw materials. Like Latin America, many of these countries ended up having labor intensive industries like plantations or mining industries which profited a few but which could not help the workers to rise up
These types of jobs had a low multiplier effect for the countries and the areas economies. That is these jobs do not help to create other jobs. They are low wage jobs so the people do not make a lot of extra money (disposable income) and these jobs do not help to create other industries. For example, the headquarters of Boeing here in Chicago helps to create other jobs whereas a plantation does not need other jobs.
Africa was hard to explore or to wander from for a variety of reasons- rivers contained waterfalls; hard to cross terrain; lots of diseases; Sahara desert; oceans
When did much of Africa develop farming- after European invasion - lacked inventions due to isolation
Berlin Conference
core-periphery
raw materials
monoeconomy
Who drew the borders of Africa and how can you tell - geometric borders and differing tribes in the same country - not nation-states
Europeans came in to exploit Africa economically - they had all of the inventions and machine guns and wanted to get the material and cheap labor that Africa had to offer
Europeans set up corrupt governments - governments based off of greed and corruption and ones that would set one tribe above another
Europeans also made these countries into mono economies that sold one or so raw materials. Like Latin America, many of these countries ended up having labor intensive industries like plantations or mining industries which profited a few but which could not help the workers to rise up
These types of jobs had a low multiplier effect for the countries and the areas economies. That is these jobs do not help to create other jobs. They are low wage jobs so the people do not make a lot of extra money (disposable income) and these jobs do not help to create other industries. For example, the headquarters of Boeing here in Chicago helps to create other jobs whereas a plantation does not need other jobs.
Africa was hard to explore or to wander from for a variety of reasons- rivers contained waterfalls; hard to cross terrain; lots of diseases; Sahara desert; oceans
When did much of Africa develop farming- after European invasion - lacked inventions due to isolation
1. in the demographic transition chart, the top line represents
a crude birth rate
b crude death rate
c the amount of growth
d the number of people
e the natural rate of increase
2. in the demographic transition chart, the lower line represents
a crude birth rate
b crude death rate
c the amount of growth
d the number of people
e the natural rate of increase
3. in the demographic transition chart, the space between the lines represents
a crude birth rate
b crude death rate
c the amount of growth
d the number of people
e the natural rate of increase
4. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the left
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
5. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the right
a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture
b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture
d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture
6. In the demographic transition chart, the highest growth rate occurs in stage
a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4
e 5
7. In which stage do the most developed societies exist
a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4
e 5
8. a pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top that does not go up too high goes along with a country
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
9. a pyramid with a rectangular look that tapers at the top indicates
a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies
b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies
c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies
d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies
10. On the population pyramid, the area to the right
a represents women
b represents men
c represents age
d represents nothing, it just mirrors the left
11. In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
A) homogeneous groups.
B) sense of family and community
C) groups living in isolated rural areas.
D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.
E) groups living in large cities
12. Popular culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that it
A) tends to occur in MDC's
B) has family values that have changed to the point where alternate lifestyles and divorce are allowed
C) has values that shift over time
D) can be expected in countries like the U.S. where women are going to college in larger numbers than men
E) All of the above
13. Folk culture includes all of the following except
a homogeneous
b family
c less development
d individuality
14. Popular culture includes all of the following except
a heterogeneous
b more family values
c more development
d individuality
15. Hitler wanted Germany
a to adapt more popular values
b to keep its folk values
c to move on to stage 4 of the demographic transition
d to go back to stage 1 of the demographic transition with high birth and death rates
16. According to GGS, farming
a leads to a society with many different job
b leads to inventions
c leads to food surpluses and an increase in population
d leads to gunpowder and germs
e all of the above
17. According to GGS, the European beat the Aztecs because
a they had disease immunities
b the East-Wet axis forced them to have better military skills
c they had more inventions due to their better farming techniques and more developed societies
d because they had steel
e all of the above
18. According to GGS, having livestock
a means you have a better chance of dying of disease and is not good
b means you develop diseases first and get the immunities first making you more powerful
c is not an advantage or disadvantage
d means you will not farm
19. According to GGS, Eurasia
a had 13 of the 14 ancestors to all of the large animals
b had an advantage because it is the longest landmass going East to West
c had a greater variety of plants
d all of the above
20. A nation-state is
a a group of people who want a country
b an ethnic group that wants its own state
c the same thing. nation means state
d nothing- it is a made up word
21. Stop crying during the exam and just put down the letter A for this one (freebie)
23. (T/F) Women live longer than men
24. In more developed countries, you would expect their population pyramid to
a look like a rectangle with a small pyramid on top
b to have lower to no population growth
c to have a bulge at the top towards the right
d all of the above
e none of the above
25. In population pyramids, the left and right sides
a separate young from old
b separate newborns from others
c distinguish between men and women
d none of the above
26. Heterogeneous means
a many differing types
b one type
c a group of people with one trait
d none of the above
27. Who in the hell are you
a someone trying to pass this test
b someone crying alone in a corner
c in your mind you are Sroth, Lord of the Dragons and Future Ruler or all Things Dungeons and Dragons
d all of the above (must answer this to get it right)
28. An example of a country with zero to negative population growth is
a Japan
b Mexico
c India
d Indonesia
29. An example of a country with a high population growth is
a France
b England
c Australia
d India
e none of the above
30. Both stage one and stage four of the demographic transition chart
a have low growth rate
b have nothing in common
c have high birth and death rates
d have low birth and death rates
31. Answer A and take your free point and go home crying
32. These are the jobs of the manufacturing area
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
33. These are the jobs that involve mining and farming
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
34. This field involves information and college educated white collar workers
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
35. This field offers is on-white collar but is not manufacturing or involved in farming and mining
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
36. What are the three core areas
Africa Latin America and Asia
Japan China and the Koreas
America Japan and Europe
Africa Asia and the Americas
37. In the old core-periphery model
The core extracted raw materials
The core mainly engaged in quaternary industries
The core countries colonized periphery countries
The core manufactured and the peripheries extracted raw materials
Both C and D
38. Mexico
Owns most of its own industries
Owns about half of its industries
Does not own any auto companies and almost no television companies that exist in the country
Owns no industries at all
39The green revolution
Started in the year 10000 bc
Involves genetic engineering
Involves better fertilizers
Has not helped any societies get more food
Both A and C
40. (T/F) GGS explains that Latin American countries had a higher percentage of farmers which meant less time was spent inventing, developing their military and creating a socially stratified society
41Core countries have been losing jobs in this field to the periphery
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
42(T/F) Latin America is a North-South Axis and this means that the people have had little chance of meeting other to get diseases, little chance of finding plants and animals for farming but have had lots of military contact and conflicts
43The only large animal indigenous to the Americas was
Horse
Llama
Goats
Bison
44According the demographic transition chart
Stage one is folk and stage four is popular and it goes from less to more developed
Stage one is less developed and has low birth rates
Stage four has high birth rates
Stage four and one have low growth rates
Both a and d
45The highest growth in the demo trans occurs in
1
2
3
4
none
46(T/F) Stage four has low growth because of women’s rights, higher education levels, and more use of birth control and more stress on the community
47. The lowest growth occurs at what stage of the demographic transition
1
2
3
4
None
48. (T/F) The Ivory Coast is a Monoeconomy
49.. Monoeconomies are more likely to
Be LDCs
Have little social stratification or social mobility
Are more likely to have bad governments
All of the above
50.. Boom and bust relates to
Monoeconomies
Developed countries
Rise and fall of governments
All of the above
None of the above
51. (T/F) Monoeconomies are more likely to be former colonies
52. According to the core-periphery model, colonized countries
Were dependent on core countries for manufactured goods
Did not become dependent at all
Ended up ahead of the core countries
Ended up as monoeconomies in most cases
Both a and d
53. According to the Demographic transition this stage has the longest life spans
1
2
3
4
55. T/F Eurasia had 13 of the 14 large animal ancestors and 32 of the 56 large grass ancestors which made the area more likely to start farms.
56. MDC's and then LDC's and the Hunter-Gatherers had what percentage of people working on the food supply for their people
A 50, 2, 75
B 25, 80, 100
C 2, 50, 100
D 25, 60, 90
E none of the above
57. Pakistan was one of the countries to form after the break up of India after colonization, what was another
A Nepal
B Mongolia
C Bangladesh
D Thailand
E None of the above
58. Who was the leader of the Hindus in the film and then the first leader of India
A Nehru
B Jinnah
C Nefrsa
D Gandhi
E None of the above
59. What product did Gandhi make for himself in the film because he would not buy it from the British
A. Food
B. Salt
C. Clothing
D. Furniture
E Both B and C
60. What city did Gandhi go to in the end because he wanted to end the violence between Hindus and Muslims
A Delhi
B Bangalore
C Nepal
D Calcutta
E Bombay
61. Africa borders were drawn by the Europeans this way in many cases
A Operational
B Geometric
C Elongated
D Along nation lines to form nation-states
E none of the above
62. Chile is an example of an
A elongated state
B compact state
C a nation-state
D a state-nation
E none of the above
63. A compact state would be
A rectangular
B circular
C Ovular
D an island
E none of the above
64. T/F India and China have the two fastest growing economies in the world right now.
65. Zebras are known to
A cause the most zoo accidents
B dodge lassos
C not get domesticated
D All of the above
66. When choosing an animal to eat, people have usually gone for animals that are
A tame
B not pack animals
C vegetarians
D large mammals weighing over 100 pounds
E all of the above
67. Epidemics are usually found in what stage of the demographic transition
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
E none
68. Countries that average around 3 children per family will likely be in what stage
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
E none
69. In order to reproduce the current population and keep the country stable, the average family must have around____________children
A 1.9-2.0
B 2.1-2.4
C 2.5-2.7
D 3
E None of the above
70. LAT's go along with
A popular culture
B folk culture
C no culture
D all cultures
E none of the above
71. African countries in general are at stage
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
72. Asian countries in general are at stage
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
73. Latin America countries in general are at stage
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
74. European countries in general are at stage
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
75. People die of heart disease and strokes more often in what stage?
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
76. The country of Denmark would likely have a population pyramid of this shape
77. The country of Japan would likely have a pyramid of this shape
78. The country of Mexico would likely have a pyramid of this shape
79. The country of Brazil would likely have a pyramid of this shape
80. The country of Rwanda would likely have a pyramid of this shape
81. Countries is stage 2 have this pyramid
82. Countries in stage 3 have this pyramid
84. Countries in stage 4 have this pyramid
A B C
85. Secular culture is more likely to exist in countries with
A popular culture
B folk culture
C no culture
D all cultures
E none of the above
86. Locally made clothing and foods are more important to
A popular culture
B folk culture
C no culture
D all cultures
E none of the above
87. Lee Kwan Yew is an example of someone who believes in
A popular culture
B folk culture
C no culture
D all cultures
E none of the above
88. Heterogeneous mixes of people goes along with
A popular culture
B folk culture
C no culture
D all cultures
E none of the above
89. Saudi Arabia
90. Yemen
91. Afghanistan
92. Iraq
93. Iran
94. Israel
95. Turkey
96. T/F Sub-Saharan Africa does a better job of connecting people to the internet than the Middle East
97. T/F Spain translates more books into Spanish in one year than the Middle East does in around 500 years.
98. Malthus was
A a philosopher who believed population growth would be faster than the growth in food supply
B a philosopher whose ideas apply well to Rwanda and the crisis there
C was from 1800s England
D believed that people who have children at a dangerously increasing rate if allowed
E all of the above
99. The number of farmers to arable land refers to
A Arable density
B Physiological density
C Agricultural density
D Density
E None of the above
100. Cry because the test is not over and put the letter A down
101. In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
A) homogeneous groups.
B) sense of family and community
C) groups living in isolated rural areas.
D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.
E) groups living in large cities
102. Popular culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that it
A) tends to occur in MDC's
B) has family values that have changed to the point where alternate lifestyles and divorce are allowed
C) has values that shift over time
D) can be expected in countries like the U.S. where women are going to college in larger numbers than men
E) All of the above
103. 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
104. Per capita means?
A. for each person
B. the number of countries below the poverty level
C. the distribution of wealth within a country
D. the spatial distribution of global wealth
E. the level of industry within a country
105. The large percentage of population involved in agriculture in China indicates that
A. the country imports most of its food.
B. few people are unemployed.
C. most people consume an inadequate amount of calories.
D. the country exports most of its food
E. most people must produce food for their own survival.
Berlin Conference
core-periphery
raw materials
monoeconomy
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