One child policy in China

Currently we are looking at China as part of our development unit. You guys have been asking some excellent questions related to the one child policy. Please find three facts on this topic and discuss how the one child policy has affected the development of China over the past few years.

Environmental sustainability

Over the past few days we have been discussing environmental sustainability. You kept track of your garbage for 12 hours. Over the weekend I would like you to continue to keep this record; by Sunday night post the number of items you disposed of over the 4 days.

Does it surprise you? Were there items potentially recyclable? How can you change the amount of items you put in the trash? Choose one item you throw out often and find a way someone has reused it. Describe what they have done.

Humanities questions related to hunger

What suprises you about the world map, whose size is based on how many hungry people live in each country?

What do you think the artists main point was in creating a map that represented thistype of information?

Check out the following website: http://www.worldometers.info/


Dicuss two different stats that you think are interesting and explain why?

Development

In this unit we are looking at development. One key aspect of this is that we can measure development in different ways.

Your Task: Look at least one video from each of the four different countries on Magnum Photos.

Below post your response for two homes you found most interesting by answering the following questions:
1. Which country?
2. Who is speaking?
3. Where do they live?
4. What did you find interesting about their life?
5. If you could ask them one question what would it be?