My Oral Presentation On Population Density In Japan

Two things I’ve learned about myself from my oral presentation is that on one note, I feel like I have very strong leadership skills. I felt as if I was able to keep the project on track and moving, and the group definitely benefited from me on that. Another thing I learned about myself is that I’m not very nervous to present things to my class, and give an oral presentation. I felt very comfortable giving the presentation and didn’t feel overwhelmed or nervous. The most challenging part of the project I felt was getting pictures that I had permission to use. A lot of the pictures that I felt well covered the point of the topic, I did not have permission to use. Those that I did have permission to use I felt that they didn’t cover the topic as well. However, I did end up coming to the point where I emailed a CNN photographer, and it actually wasn’t as hard as I thought the process would be. Overall, the project really wasn’t that hard, but if I had to pick a hardest problem it would be finding pictures that I had permission to use.

My Social Studies Project

What People Look For In Settlement

The most interesting thing I learned about the influence  of climate, physical features, and natural resources on settlement , is that all humans look for the same thing in regions where they settle no matter where they’re from. Even though people tend to like different temperatures and weather, when humans came to look for a place to settle, they all wanted perfectly stable climates, physical features, and natural resources. Some got lucky and got it, and others… not so much. In my sketchnote I’m the most proud of how I drew the good physical features. I like how I included everything that can sustainably support human life.

Globalization and Trade Sketchnotes

The most interesting thing I learned about globalization and trade is that countries with a lower standard of living depend on countries with a higher standard of living. This is how it works. The United States of America, for example has majority of their products made in China. If the United States all of a sudden had their economy go down, they would stop having their products made in China, which would be a huge job loss crisis in China.

The part in my sketch note that I am most proud of is the part where the farmer is running away from the tractor that is about to squish him because I feel strong about how this picture shows culture being “killed”.

Columbia's Standard Of Living

A country’s standard of living does not show how everyone in that country lives. Standard of living is all the averages taken in a country and put together for data. So even if a country has a low standard of living there could be a really rich person who is an outlier in the data. Even though standard of living shows how the averages are it doesn’t show for each and every person.

The most interesting thing I have learned is that even if a country has high characteristic, or a good characteristic it will be brought down from the other bad traits since we have to find an average. Also even if a country has a low health characteristic the country  still might find a way to have a high life expectancy.

I think country’s with a high standard of living do not actually have that much of an obligation to help other countries that have a low standard of living. Unfortunately, people would rather buy a smartphone then send some money over to donate to charity. Even though lots of people donate, if you already have a high standard of living you instinctively don’t feel very motivated to donate to lower standard of living countries.

Economic Systems Sketchnotes

Economy And Me

As we all know, economy is the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Economy is present in my life in many different ways.

For example, my family purchases a copious amount of goods that are produced such as our cars, clothes, TV and food.

In addition, distribution plays an immense role in my life as well, such as the post office, me purchasing things from the store, and banks. The stores and banks distribute their goods to me.

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Consumption also takes place in my life. We consume many items such as food, household items, clocks, computers, etc - all by buying them.

There are many goods in my life such as water, toys,  food, and metal. From an economic context, all the items we consume in our livelihood are goods. Honestly, I think goods would be the part of the economy that affects my life the most as compared to services.

Service jobs are in which someone performs a task for a person or a business. They include: police officers, firefighters, doctors, veterinarians, teachers, janitors, garbage disposal staff, plumbers, electricians, etc. Service jobs are also a factor of my life since everything I do is either kept safe, or kept clean, by someone with that job.

Life, is a challenge, but without a good, vibrant and successful economy, I think it would be a struggle and meaningless.

Why We Should Choose To Be Bothered

It is important to be bothered by unfortunate events because when we get bothered by them, that’s when we put in our 100% effort to make these things right. For example if other people are bothered by something, but you are not, it’s a lot harder for you to "understand" the pain the others are going through. However, if you yourself are "bothered, uncomfortable, and uneasy", this is when you choose to help solve this situation. When these events get under OUR skin that’s really, truly, when we do everything we can do to make a difference.