In the hierarchy of needs, society's have to start on the bottom and work them self's up. Not every society gets to the top of the needs pyramid. Not even in present time, society's are at the top. In the world, there has to be society's on the top and the bottom of the pyramid, because life is not fair. Even how said it is, its the truth, it was always like that in the world. Hopefully in the future less society's will be on the bottom and have to have a difficult time working up to the top.
At the bottom there is physiological needs, which is air, water, food, and sleep. Which is just not effect, when people now think about it. Most people could not live with only those needs. Wouldn't life be boring, if nothing interesting, nothing to look forward?
The next step forward is safty needs, which is so imortant to have in life. In the safety needs are living in a safe area. Without those needs it would be hard to live your life with no safty. The world is not a safe place, someone can go anywhere and not be safe.
In the middle of the pyrmaid there is social needs, which is friendship, love, and belonging in a group. In life everybody should have love. Also it's nice to have friendships because its good to have fun in life.
The second to the top is esteem needs, which is like attention, social status, accomplishment, and self-respect. Its almost 2012 and every body should have esteem needs. Its for people to have a feeling of belonging somewhere and being happy.
At the top of the prymaid is truth, justice, wisdom, and meaning. The top of the prymaid is for people to reach the fullest potential of a persons life. In life there is always opportunities to continue and grow, and have to a goal to reach the best person you can be.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Growth and Deline
How come in many societies, they rise to huge power and then deline?
I feel like looking back in history at the Maya and the Romans and how their empire fell, from such huge power. They both had such a succussful adanvance society. Time is everything, I feel like every society will fall, its just in the catorgie of time. And when it is going to fall. Like the societys now will come to an end. At the best will also be the worst. From a graph form, a downword slope from the peat of the societys. Like in life, or everyday there is a peat or a pit of everybodies day. From such a powerful society like the Romans and the Maya, the societies now, will fall too. Its not like history repeats itself, it slitly changes itself. The downfall of scoiety like cultrual, economic, and also social. I wonder when society will fall now, and people look at the societys now that fall.
Also like Malaria, we had something like it too, but it was called Swine Fly or H1N1. The time that present time is now, people dont get as sick. They can save people with shoots and other mechiaine. If that was back then it was so many people would have died because it is an airborn. Or if there wasnt good medichane a lot more poputaion would have been wiped out. People now are so lucky that they live in this time. If linguists look at medichans now present time, and say that it is weird and stupid. Just like when kids study the medichances back when they used leafs and stuff.
With good empires and societys there is always a downcline of a slope. And something good at the peat, will always go down, in the matter of time. Times is really everything. People dont appeicate is as much, then they should.
I feel like looking back in history at the Maya and the Romans and how their empire fell, from such huge power. They both had such a succussful adanvance society. Time is everything, I feel like every society will fall, its just in the catorgie of time. And when it is going to fall. Like the societys now will come to an end. At the best will also be the worst. From a graph form, a downword slope from the peat of the societys. Like in life, or everyday there is a peat or a pit of everybodies day. From such a powerful society like the Romans and the Maya, the societies now, will fall too. Its not like history repeats itself, it slitly changes itself. The downfall of scoiety like cultrual, economic, and also social. I wonder when society will fall now, and people look at the societys now that fall.
Also like Malaria, we had something like it too, but it was called Swine Fly or H1N1. The time that present time is now, people dont get as sick. They can save people with shoots and other mechiaine. If that was back then it was so many people would have died because it is an airborn. Or if there wasnt good medichane a lot more poputaion would have been wiped out. People now are so lucky that they live in this time. If linguists look at medichans now present time, and say that it is weird and stupid. Just like when kids study the medichances back when they used leafs and stuff.
With good empires and societys there is always a downcline of a slope. And something good at the peat, will always go down, in the matter of time. Times is really everything. People dont appeicate is as much, then they should.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The spread of language and modern culture
The only way linguists could learn about past cultures in Africa was to study their language and make guesses about their life styles based on vocabulary. For instance, they could learn about the types of food they ate, religion, and government by examining how many words there were for specific items or ideas. Based on that, what will future linguists say about present American culture if they study words that have spread across the Internet and into the mainstream?
Based on the things that have happened in this decade like tweeting, facebook, friending on facebook, tumblr, iphones, ipods, ipads and etc. These are somethings, in present time that are huge things that people do everyday. A few years ago no one knew what these things were and what they were going to do. But in 500 years later the linguists will be able to look at this decade and with no idea what looking at. Like when linguists now look at things years ago, they look at the vocabulary, now with the Internet its always there, and always will be. Once you put something on the Internet there is no going back, its there forever. But centuries ago, didn't have things that perserve, they would put then in clay pots and other things that would save there society. Its alot harder to understand the society's back then. But when linguists look to our prestent time all they have to do is look on the Internet. It's so much more access able than it was many years ago.
Dictionary.com, its on the Internet forever, anybody hundreds of years later will be able to look at what was able to access during present time. And have a lot more thoughts of what our society was like, they wouldn't need to make a hypotenuse. There are many other sites that kept all of the things that people right like tweeting and facebook are the to major ones.
With the easy access to what ever you want on the Internet, it would be much easier to understand what happened in our society present time right now. With just a click of a few buttons you get thousands of results, when linguists now are looking there wasn't a Internet, so we don't really know what the society was like. It wouldn't take to long to look for, like when linguists had to look for things in the old days. Also it is a lot easier to kept and preserve all of the data during present time. Thought they had to write them on pots to save their society, some of those society's were probably lost. But now its a ton easier to hold on to what happened during societies now.
Based on the things that have happened in this decade like tweeting, facebook, friending on facebook, tumblr, iphones, ipods, ipads and etc. These are somethings, in present time that are huge things that people do everyday. A few years ago no one knew what these things were and what they were going to do. But in 500 years later the linguists will be able to look at this decade and with no idea what looking at. Like when linguists now look at things years ago, they look at the vocabulary, now with the Internet its always there, and always will be. Once you put something on the Internet there is no going back, its there forever. But centuries ago, didn't have things that perserve, they would put then in clay pots and other things that would save there society. Its alot harder to understand the society's back then. But when linguists look to our prestent time all they have to do is look on the Internet. It's so much more access able than it was many years ago.
Dictionary.com, its on the Internet forever, anybody hundreds of years later will be able to look at what was able to access during present time. And have a lot more thoughts of what our society was like, they wouldn't need to make a hypotenuse. There are many other sites that kept all of the things that people right like tweeting and facebook are the to major ones.
With the easy access to what ever you want on the Internet, it would be much easier to understand what happened in our society present time right now. With just a click of a few buttons you get thousands of results, when linguists now are looking there wasn't a Internet, so we don't really know what the society was like. It wouldn't take to long to look for, like when linguists had to look for things in the old days. Also it is a lot easier to kept and preserve all of the data during present time. Thought they had to write them on pots to save their society, some of those society's were probably lost. But now its a ton easier to hold on to what happened during societies now.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Knowledge
Knowledge by humans:
Knowledge is special because it attributes human life from all of the other life that is on the planet and have a unique character. Knowledge is for one person to know oneself and to community to other people. Knowledge is important to humans because in the old days they had to think how they were going to live and where they would live on earth. They had to chose a good place on the earth by their knowledge and what they thought of the environment. In civilizations there comes big problems that have get through it and they have to overcome obstacles and understand what problems happened in the environment like earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and ect. The knowledge a civilization is so important, it separates one group from the other. Also what is functional and not functional in life that the humans want or what is needed for were they are living.
Humans don't think the same as they thought back in the day. We worry alot of natural disasters and attacks than thinking of where a community want to live. Yet humans do not need to have another layer of hair to overcome obstacles and survive stuff. If the humans were able to do it back in the day with not knowing what is coming but we have all this technically and know what is coming, humans don't need to worry any more than the people thousands of years ago. But it is difficult to understand how to be them and in a community that worries it difficult not to worry too. Like if 2012 will be the death of the plant, humans have made meths with the technology and but then if we didn't know when the world was going to end, they would have no worry. To avoid what came before when there wasn't technology and other stuff that humans are ex custom too.
The knowledge humans have now is from the people before present time had to overcome and have already had problems. Humans now ere able to build off the ideas and knowledge of what people and faced with before. And came with a better knowledge of what it was with problems years ago. It took 5,000 years to master technology to have a computer and cell phones. Some body did all the hard work for what humans in America live in. Its all artificial, all the lights, the heated rooms everything that is in our house. Humans took natural things, and improvise it so that all the natural things in the world wont be gone. The only thing that is natural is humans, plants, jewelry and maybe some other things that are in a house hold.
There was competition for technology like when the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to see who could get to the moon first. Humans seek to gain knowledge from other groups to have there group more conformable. That they can find ways to enhance what they were doing. Back then not in present time, communities had to kept secrets to ensure for their survival. Communities would be modest to defend their community by the advantage of their knowledge that they had, by their environment.
Also what the people back then did with the life needed pyramid, that the top or the bottom could effect each other. With the knowledge of what they knew back then they were able to make a type of a chart. At the bottom there is H2O, food, breathing, shelter. That is what every body should be getting now. But still in 2011 almost 2012 there is still poverty and the people have no education to get them self out of that community that they were born in. Does any one think, how lucky we were to be born into such good families, it is really just luck. Those people in Africa didn't get to choose there family and were the were born and the economic struggle that some families are in. The second bottom is safely and the third is love and belonging. Most humans love to love something and have some value to have a belonging of an item. Second to the top is self asteam and achievement, it is nice to do something good in life, every human likes doing good, like getting a good grade on a test or some achievement. And the top is purpose, with no purpose everything under it would fall apart.
Knowledge is special because it attributes human life from all of the other life that is on the planet and have a unique character. Knowledge is for one person to know oneself and to community to other people. Knowledge is important to humans because in the old days they had to think how they were going to live and where they would live on earth. They had to chose a good place on the earth by their knowledge and what they thought of the environment. In civilizations there comes big problems that have get through it and they have to overcome obstacles and understand what problems happened in the environment like earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and ect. The knowledge a civilization is so important, it separates one group from the other. Also what is functional and not functional in life that the humans want or what is needed for were they are living.
Humans don't think the same as they thought back in the day. We worry alot of natural disasters and attacks than thinking of where a community want to live. Yet humans do not need to have another layer of hair to overcome obstacles and survive stuff. If the humans were able to do it back in the day with not knowing what is coming but we have all this technically and know what is coming, humans don't need to worry any more than the people thousands of years ago. But it is difficult to understand how to be them and in a community that worries it difficult not to worry too. Like if 2012 will be the death of the plant, humans have made meths with the technology and but then if we didn't know when the world was going to end, they would have no worry. To avoid what came before when there wasn't technology and other stuff that humans are ex custom too.
The knowledge humans have now is from the people before present time had to overcome and have already had problems. Humans now ere able to build off the ideas and knowledge of what people and faced with before. And came with a better knowledge of what it was with problems years ago. It took 5,000 years to master technology to have a computer and cell phones. Some body did all the hard work for what humans in America live in. Its all artificial, all the lights, the heated rooms everything that is in our house. Humans took natural things, and improvise it so that all the natural things in the world wont be gone. The only thing that is natural is humans, plants, jewelry and maybe some other things that are in a house hold.
There was competition for technology like when the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to see who could get to the moon first. Humans seek to gain knowledge from other groups to have there group more conformable. That they can find ways to enhance what they were doing. Back then not in present time, communities had to kept secrets to ensure for their survival. Communities would be modest to defend their community by the advantage of their knowledge that they had, by their environment.
Also what the people back then did with the life needed pyramid, that the top or the bottom could effect each other. With the knowledge of what they knew back then they were able to make a type of a chart. At the bottom there is H2O, food, breathing, shelter. That is what every body should be getting now. But still in 2011 almost 2012 there is still poverty and the people have no education to get them self out of that community that they were born in. Does any one think, how lucky we were to be born into such good families, it is really just luck. Those people in Africa didn't get to choose there family and were the were born and the economic struggle that some families are in. The second bottom is safely and the third is love and belonging. Most humans love to love something and have some value to have a belonging of an item. Second to the top is self asteam and achievement, it is nice to do something good in life, every human likes doing good, like getting a good grade on a test or some achievement. And the top is purpose, with no purpose everything under it would fall apart.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
In history, for every step forward there were always consequences. As people moved from hunting and gathering to farming, it seemed that their lives would be automatically improved. However, this was not the case. People did not always consider how they would impact the environment, and many times it would cause great damage. For instance, when civilizations began to grow crops, creative problems solving lead them to build systems for getting water from the rivers to there crops. But, the consequence of being successful at farming was over-farming. Once land became over-farmed, it was no longer useful because it was not arable. Overuse of land for both farming and building lead to erosion and other problems in the societies.
Also people learned how to keep animals, instead of hunting them. Hunting only allowed the animal to be used once, but in domestication, animals could reproduce and make more animals. Instead of only being used for meat, once they were domesticated, they could other things, too, such as clothing from fur and hides, and they could be kept for producing milk and eggs. If they were killed and used once, they could not produce all of those other types of products. The consequences of using animals was that the animals carried diseases that were not common to humans. So, human immune system was not strong enough to fight theses new diseases. Many first generation farmers died as a result leading to a major population drop.
Early humans' creativity lead to advances in politics, writing, and art. It seemed that the more they were able to change their environment -- on purpose -- the better their lives became and the more advances there were to science and technology. However, people learned very often that when they took a few steps forward, there was always problems that arose and caused them to have to take a step or two back. This continues to happen today, and hopefully humans learn from their mistakes and begin to cooperate with their environment, and do not repeat the mistakes they made in the past.
Also people learned how to keep animals, instead of hunting them. Hunting only allowed the animal to be used once, but in domestication, animals could reproduce and make more animals. Instead of only being used for meat, once they were domesticated, they could other things, too, such as clothing from fur and hides, and they could be kept for producing milk and eggs. If they were killed and used once, they could not produce all of those other types of products. The consequences of using animals was that the animals carried diseases that were not common to humans. So, human immune system was not strong enough to fight theses new diseases. Many first generation farmers died as a result leading to a major population drop.
Early humans' creativity lead to advances in politics, writing, and art. It seemed that the more they were able to change their environment -- on purpose -- the better their lives became and the more advances there were to science and technology. However, people learned very often that when they took a few steps forward, there was always problems that arose and caused them to have to take a step or two back. This continues to happen today, and hopefully humans learn from their mistakes and begin to cooperate with their environment, and do not repeat the mistakes they made in the past.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Balance
In the reading it talked about balance.
Why is balance so important in life, do you ever feel like walking on a tightrope trying to keep your balance?
When people think of life, people dont always think of balance. But in order to keep every thing well you have to be balanced like in yoga. Balance to most people in school its about the balance of homework, and friends but for most people they find there self lending toward to the friends side. Or in balance for yoga and gym, its important to have the balance to do things. They are keys in life, that is needed to do really well. Some of those things are improvements in coordination, athletic skill, flexibility, and in posture of the back these help balance you in the gym area in life. Balance's term is used or describe something, it could be about any thing like the history reading intro.
Every one at one point and another faces with the management of balance, like people that are attending schools that have stressed about school work and that they want to be with their friends. In the day time to nights tend to last hours longer than really is. Like when kids look at the clock to see how much longer of a class. This can do part to finding balance in your life.
Balance is tough to get around. In stead of taking the other way to in then fixing your balance in life, its just easier at the end to fix it right there and then. Because doing it later on can cause frustration and doing it before you hit rock bottom, just takes some focus. Like when life gets way out of hand busy, or when all of some bodies energy is focused on one thing it is easy to find yourself to be off balance. Also not paying enough energy on one important piece to the puzzle in life, everything gets off balance.
Why is balance so important in life, do you ever feel like walking on a tightrope trying to keep your balance?
When people think of life, people dont always think of balance. But in order to keep every thing well you have to be balanced like in yoga. Balance to most people in school its about the balance of homework, and friends but for most people they find there self lending toward to the friends side. Or in balance for yoga and gym, its important to have the balance to do things. They are keys in life, that is needed to do really well. Some of those things are improvements in coordination, athletic skill, flexibility, and in posture of the back these help balance you in the gym area in life. Balance's term is used or describe something, it could be about any thing like the history reading intro.
Every one at one point and another faces with the management of balance, like people that are attending schools that have stressed about school work and that they want to be with their friends. In the day time to nights tend to last hours longer than really is. Like when kids look at the clock to see how much longer of a class. This can do part to finding balance in your life.
Balance is tough to get around. In stead of taking the other way to in then fixing your balance in life, its just easier at the end to fix it right there and then. Because doing it later on can cause frustration and doing it before you hit rock bottom, just takes some focus. Like when life gets way out of hand busy, or when all of some bodies energy is focused on one thing it is easy to find yourself to be off balance. Also not paying enough energy on one important piece to the puzzle in life, everything gets off balance.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Society
In class we are working on societies, and we are making our own. We were able to pick any where we wanted and what climate we wanted to work with. In the group, were making a society near a lake and has a beach and a farm and a ton of trees. Kind of what like we think Chicago was back then in the old days. We thought that Chicago's area was a great place, maybe because we live there and that's what we know of living here. Chicago back then would be great for a new society and it has a pretty good climate.
We draw a like stretch of what we wanted are society and area would look like from a bird's eye view. We wanted have a climate were not a lot of natural disasters happen. Only like earthquakes but not really bad ones, also tornado's and that they are in that area but they not to big near lakes. We thought that Chicago's area was a good place to interpret into our society and use Chicago's lake as a good stand point, for the society we wanted to start for the project.
The society would build houses out of mud, stones, cement, and wood. We didn't want our land to run out of resources so the houses could be built out of other stuff then wood. Mud and cement is useful with the climate because of the long beach for sand, water from the lake and some other igredneints for the house building. We drew out a little farm that grew crops for everybody in the little growing town, with animals and fields. And because there was a lot of forest we put the houses near the water so if there was a fire they could be safe. We had Chicago in back of our minds the whole time and thought that our climate was a great climate to have a new society. We put the historical things about Chicago but made them there own and that really helped us landscape were everything was going. I think that the society that we drew out would be a really benefitful one.
We draw a like stretch of what we wanted are society and area would look like from a bird's eye view. We wanted have a climate were not a lot of natural disasters happen. Only like earthquakes but not really bad ones, also tornado's and that they are in that area but they not to big near lakes. We thought that Chicago's area was a good place to interpret into our society and use Chicago's lake as a good stand point, for the society we wanted to start for the project.
The society would build houses out of mud, stones, cement, and wood. We didn't want our land to run out of resources so the houses could be built out of other stuff then wood. Mud and cement is useful with the climate because of the long beach for sand, water from the lake and some other igredneints for the house building. We drew out a little farm that grew crops for everybody in the little growing town, with animals and fields. And because there was a lot of forest we put the houses near the water so if there was a fire they could be safe. We had Chicago in back of our minds the whole time and thought that our climate was a great climate to have a new society. We put the historical things about Chicago but made them there own and that really helped us landscape were everything was going. I think that the society that we drew out would be a really benefitful one.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
This past Monday, we had a day off from school -- "Fall Break." It lands on the same day as the federal holiday Columbus Day. People go out of town and celebrate the long weekend, there is no mail delivery, and some government buildings are closed. But, is this a holiday to truly celebrate?
According to: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/columbus-day%3A-celebration-or-controversy, Columbus Day is not a holiday to be celebrated. In fact, it is reported that Christopher Columbus' explorations lead to the killing of 90 million people on his behalf. These were the people that in lived Central and South American tribes. Those who were not killed were taken into slavery and shipped to other countries.
Many people in towns and cities across the United States are beginning to speak out against the national celebration of an explorer who ordered the killing and slavery of so many human beings who did nothing to deserve that treatment. Some people want to end the holiday. They feel like it is not something to celebrate.
There are other populations that are against this holiday. The article above discusses how Muslim-Americans do not argee with this holiday because it is a day for Italian-Americans, and there is not a time in America for the Muslim-Americans to observe their culture.
There are others who want to continue the tradition. For example, the Italian-Americans are proud of their culture, and celebrating this explorer is part of their culture. Also, many public workers such as mailmen look forward to having the day off to spend with their families. Students across the country enjoy having a day off after such a busy start to the school year.
At Francis Parker, this holiday is not called Columbus Day. It is Fall Break. It happens conveniently at a time when there is a national holiday, but most Parker students do not associate this short vacation with an early explorer. It is really just a time to have a long weekend and relax in the long time between the beginning of school and Thanksgiving.
According to: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/columbus-day%3A-celebration-or-controversy, Columbus Day is not a holiday to be celebrated. In fact, it is reported that Christopher Columbus' explorations lead to the killing of 90 million people on his behalf. These were the people that in lived Central and South American tribes. Those who were not killed were taken into slavery and shipped to other countries.
Many people in towns and cities across the United States are beginning to speak out against the national celebration of an explorer who ordered the killing and slavery of so many human beings who did nothing to deserve that treatment. Some people want to end the holiday. They feel like it is not something to celebrate.
There are other populations that are against this holiday. The article above discusses how Muslim-Americans do not argee with this holiday because it is a day for Italian-Americans, and there is not a time in America for the Muslim-Americans to observe their culture.
There are others who want to continue the tradition. For example, the Italian-Americans are proud of their culture, and celebrating this explorer is part of their culture. Also, many public workers such as mailmen look forward to having the day off to spend with their families. Students across the country enjoy having a day off after such a busy start to the school year.
At Francis Parker, this holiday is not called Columbus Day. It is Fall Break. It happens conveniently at a time when there is a national holiday, but most Parker students do not associate this short vacation with an early explorer. It is really just a time to have a long weekend and relax in the long time between the beginning of school and Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Haiti and economic impact
For the question Haiti's economic impact, I thought this reading was really helpful. It answered the question I wanted to know, the year and the problem because of the impact. It was about the health and human rights in Haiti which caused economic impact there and this happened during 1991-1994. Which are things that Haiti really needs.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Haiti/Pompeii
The natural disasters that happen all over the world can tell what that the place was poor or wealthy. In Pompeii there was a volcano that erupted and covered everything. Kind of like a fossil it kept the city alive even though it was died. It was a rich place nice pots, jewelry, and ect. But Haiti's earthquake it was a little different. It was poverty stricken before the earthquake hit.
Pompeii was able to shead away for thousands of year from the natural disaster, but Haiti's damage is a lot different. All natural disasters does the same kind of thing, it kills people, and disrupts the land that people live on. But it never repeats itself all the natural disasters are similar in a way but not really.
Can Haiti be rebuild, it's such a poor society and is dependant upon generous and kind outside resources?
If Haiti can get cleaned up, it's going to take a lot to really rebuild the deverastion of that country. It was the poorest county on the western hemerseve. It will take a lot of time and energy to rebuild a socity with a stable government, safe schools, enough food and water for the people and jobs. But the truth is that with out those things it will never be more than it was before the earthquake. Without a stable government nothing will be able to be run. The government was never that good but with the shock of the earthquake. Will Haiti get its act together? People need education so that people their can have a future. Haiti is lucky that they have such gererous countries like the United States and others that really helped them, when they really needed it. But now the problem is that they are dependant on those countries to kept on helping once its back to normal, how will they be able to not have those countries have the generous resources.
Pompeii was able to shead away for thousands of year from the natural disaster, but Haiti's damage is a lot different. All natural disasters does the same kind of thing, it kills people, and disrupts the land that people live on. But it never repeats itself all the natural disasters are similar in a way but not really.
Can Haiti be rebuild, it's such a poor society and is dependant upon generous and kind outside resources?
If Haiti can get cleaned up, it's going to take a lot to really rebuild the deverastion of that country. It was the poorest county on the western hemerseve. It will take a lot of time and energy to rebuild a socity with a stable government, safe schools, enough food and water for the people and jobs. But the truth is that with out those things it will never be more than it was before the earthquake. Without a stable government nothing will be able to be run. The government was never that good but with the shock of the earthquake. Will Haiti get its act together? People need education so that people their can have a future. Haiti is lucky that they have such gererous countries like the United States and others that really helped them, when they really needed it. But now the problem is that they are dependant on those countries to kept on helping once its back to normal, how will they be able to not have those countries have the generous resources.
Haiti
If there were wasn't good health care before the earthquake, how do they expect to be better?
In Haiti there isn't well health care. In the United States we are so lucky to be able to go to the doctor when needed. But in Haiti there isn't any health insurance or good doctor offices. Most were in shacks and when the earthquake hit the shack probably fell down. The Haitian are the poorest country on the western herserve in the world.
It makes me think how lucky I am, when I have a cold and I go to the doctor for just a cold or a flu shoot. Haiti doesn't have good health care and like a cold or without a flu shoot people get sicker and sicker. Colds stread easily. It makes me sad that they were so poor and then the earthquake hit, if something is bad in this case how does it become better.
I know some one that went to a poor place and helped with health care. She wants to become a doctor, and she took her summer and did something really difficult for a few weeks. She told me that she would definitely go back. But she wouldn't live there. She doesn't under stand how the people haven't given up. She asked them and the people said it was for god. The people have a lot of religion, and they believe that it can be better. But how does it get better when they are poor, sick, homeless from the earthquake. If I was one of them I would have probably given up. But they are a lot stronger than me. They have lived in a dirt ground house, no electricity. But if it had happened to us, we live in beautiful homes, have electricity we would be in a lot more shock. Since we haven't lived in poverty stricken and nothing that bad has happened.
In Haiti there isn't well health care. In the United States we are so lucky to be able to go to the doctor when needed. But in Haiti there isn't any health insurance or good doctor offices. Most were in shacks and when the earthquake hit the shack probably fell down. The Haitian are the poorest country on the western herserve in the world.
It makes me think how lucky I am, when I have a cold and I go to the doctor for just a cold or a flu shoot. Haiti doesn't have good health care and like a cold or without a flu shoot people get sicker and sicker. Colds stread easily. It makes me sad that they were so poor and then the earthquake hit, if something is bad in this case how does it become better.
I know some one that went to a poor place and helped with health care. She wants to become a doctor, and she took her summer and did something really difficult for a few weeks. She told me that she would definitely go back. But she wouldn't live there. She doesn't under stand how the people haven't given up. She asked them and the people said it was for god. The people have a lot of religion, and they believe that it can be better. But how does it get better when they are poor, sick, homeless from the earthquake. If I was one of them I would have probably given up. But they are a lot stronger than me. They have lived in a dirt ground house, no electricity. But if it had happened to us, we live in beautiful homes, have electricity we would be in a lot more shock. Since we haven't lived in poverty stricken and nothing that bad has happened.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Haiti
If you start with nothing, and then you lose everything, what is left?
This is a question that many Haitians probably have asked themselves every day since the devastation of the earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010. Before the earthquake hit, most residents of the tiny island nation were already poverty stricken. The Haitians lived in tiny shacks, and often extended families lived in a single cramped home with dirt floors. Many of the luxuries that we enjoy in the United States do not exist in that poor country, such as running water, electricity, new clothing, medical treatment, and healthy food. In the earthquake, the few important posessions that people actually had were lost or destroyed. Hatians got diseases because because of lack of clean water and food, the shock of having everything ruined, and injuries such as broken bones and wounds became infected without medical care.
If this event was so horrible, how did the people of Haiti keep going? What made them want to try to rebuild their lives and continue with the act of living?
Hatians are very religious people. They are mostly Christians (Catholic and Protestant), some practice the Bah'ai faith, and a few still practice Voodoo. There are even some muslims. No matter what their religion, their faith in a higher power was strong, they believed that they could get through anything. Their religions probably also encouraged them to help each other, rather than looting, stealing, and fighting. The impact could have been a lot worse if they didn't cooperate with each other. Maybe, all of the suffering that they had in the past helped to prepare them to deal with a disaster such as the earthquake. If this had happened in the United States, maybe Americans would not have been able to deal with it in the way that the Hatians were able to do it.
This is a question that many Haitians probably have asked themselves every day since the devastation of the earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010. Before the earthquake hit, most residents of the tiny island nation were already poverty stricken. The Haitians lived in tiny shacks, and often extended families lived in a single cramped home with dirt floors. Many of the luxuries that we enjoy in the United States do not exist in that poor country, such as running water, electricity, new clothing, medical treatment, and healthy food. In the earthquake, the few important posessions that people actually had were lost or destroyed. Hatians got diseases because because of lack of clean water and food, the shock of having everything ruined, and injuries such as broken bones and wounds became infected without medical care.
If this event was so horrible, how did the people of Haiti keep going? What made them want to try to rebuild their lives and continue with the act of living?
Hatians are very religious people. They are mostly Christians (Catholic and Protestant), some practice the Bah'ai faith, and a few still practice Voodoo. There are even some muslims. No matter what their religion, their faith in a higher power was strong, they believed that they could get through anything. Their religions probably also encouraged them to help each other, rather than looting, stealing, and fighting. The impact could have been a lot worse if they didn't cooperate with each other. Maybe, all of the suffering that they had in the past helped to prepare them to deal with a disaster such as the earthquake. If this had happened in the United States, maybe Americans would not have been able to deal with it in the way that the Hatians were able to do it.
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