BP4 QTR4: Research and Interpretation-Geography

Location: Identify Latitude and Longitude, regional location, neighboring countries and any adjacent bodies of water. Image for this post should be a map.

Area: The total area of of your country including all land and water areas.
9 984 670 square kilometres
Area-Comparative: Country's area compared with one of the 50 U.S. states or the entire US
9 984 670 square kilometres vs .  Florida is 170304 km2
Land Boundaries: Total length of all land boundaries
8893 km
Climate: Description of typical weather throughout the year
Canada's climate is not as cold all year around as some may believe. In winter, temperatures fall below freezing point throughout most of Canada. But the south-western coast has a relatively mild climate. Along the Arctic Circle, mean temperatures are below freezing for seven months a year.
Terrain: Brief description of the topography
dominited  by candian sheild
Natural Resources: Your country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance
Land Use::arable land: 5%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 3%
forests and woodland: 54%
other: 38%
Environment-Current Issues: The most pressing and important environmental problems. These can be from the following categories:acidification, acid rain, asbestos, biodiversity,catchments,
DDT, defoliants, deforestation, desertification, dredging, driftnet fishing, ecosystems, effluents, endangered species, freshwater, groundwater, metallurgical plants,
noxious substances, overgrazing, ozone shield, poaching, pollution, potable water, salination, siltation, slash and burn agriculture, soil degradation, soil erosion,
UV radiation, water-born diseases
In “Royal Bank's profit slides 17%,” Rita Trichur mentions that the difficulty of trading to the US because of Canadian dollar increasing induces Royal Bank’s profit declined by 17% to $1.25 billion after debt writedowns. Nevertheless, RBC’s CEO, Gordon Nixon, encourages investors that RBC has strong finance and substantial performance to lay out an acceptable representation in the global stinging competition and hard market development. In contrast, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce loses billions money in the dead-alive market environment. Although RBC comes in for the impingement of the subprime mortgage meltdown of the US, it is very limited and Gordon believes that the spring of the financial markets will show up soon. However, RBC keeps the dividend unchanged, so this makes some analysts to be less promising for its future situation. As well, RBC’s capital market, credit losses, subprime mortgage, real estate exposures, and its US operations are
Environment-International Agreements: Country participation in international environmental agreements. These agreements fall under two categories: party to and signed but not ratified.
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation
Natural Hazards: Potential natural disasters
continuous permafrost in north is a serious obstacle to development; cyclonic storms form east of the Rocky Mountains, a result of the mixing of air masses from the Arctic, Pacific, and North American interior, and produce most of the country's rain and snow

BP3 QTR4: Research and Interpretation-General Information

General Information
Country Name: Conventional and Long Forms of country name
Conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Canada
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2142.html

Nationality: identifying terms for citizens (noun and adjective)

A country of northern North America. Originally inhabited by various Native American peoples, mainland Canada was explored by the English and the French beginning in the late 15th century. The French established the first permanent settlement.Canada was formed in 1867.

Languages: Languages spoken in the country; if multiple languages include percent of population that speak individual languages.

The two official languages of Canada is French and English.

31% are French Candian & about 25% came from France.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_language_is_spoken_in_Canada

Flag Description: Include image and provide a written description of the country's flag.
The Candian Red had been unofficially used since the 1890s and was approved by a 1945 "wherever place or occasion may make it desirable to fly a distinctive Canadian flag".In 1964,The Prime Minister  appointed a committee to resolve the issue, sparking a serious debate of a flag change. Out of three choices, the maple leaf design by The flag made its first appearance on February 15, 1965!

Background: Provide some general background information on the country

The country of Canada was founded in the year 1867, on July 1st. In 1982 it became independent from the United Kingdom. The Constitution Act, 1867 resulted in the formation of the nation. Canada then comprised four provinces Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
The country of Canada is located in North America. It extends from Atlantic Ocean that lies in the east to Pacific Ocean that lies in the west. The Arctic Ocean lies in the northern part. Canada is the second largest country in the world and shares the longest border in the world with United States.

http://www.canadafaq.ca/what+year+was+canada+founded/

BP2 QTR4: UN Quick Write

                                         The UN is improtant to our world to so we don't cause more wars.
                                          The UN stands for Untied Nations. The UN is 192 countries come together to form peace. It provides guidelines in order to prevent conflict between nations. It also develops rules in order to help achieve peaceful conclusions to problems affecting the world.
This is what the UN is because they want to keep the peace between these countries thats why people sign it to keep peace the charter comes up with the rules.
The UN is kind of like the Untied States but to keep peace. I got my awnser from watching video and research.

BP3 QTR3: Children's March

                                                                     In this movie, it talks how kids go for almost a parade to stand up for there race.
                                                                     Birmingham's nickname was Bombing-ham because of the violence. " Theres going to be a party in park today " was a code for protest. I think the kids were happy to be arrsetd because they knew they were standing up for them selves and knew they were gonna get out and  make their point. It took over 4 men just to hold the fire hose. The 10 kids were singing "Freedom" after everyone else had been knocked down by the powerful hoses.
                                                                      They were over whelemed with the way they were treated and disliked it so they protesed.

BP2 QTR3: Project Reflection

1. What is your final project going to be? What led you to choose this idea for your project? 
Brooke & I are going to do a news report. We are going to show information, state the questions and use the vocab. We also include small raps to helps state a question.

2.How is the project unfolding for you? 
Brooke and I are doing great.  We will be filming soon. We have wrote our script and know what to do. We have it color coated.

3. How are you gathering the required information? 
We are gathering our information from our wikispace also we are gathering the information from the intrenet.
4. What's happening that you didn't expect? In other words, how has your project changed over time?
We didn't expect to do a news report. We were going to do a rap  but he figured out it was to hard.

BP 1 QTR3: T-Shirt Travels Reaction Paper

Q1. What did the narrator have to learn when she lived in the remote village in Zambia? What was she curious to inform people about? According to Luka, why does he inspect the clothing before he makes his purchases? As a child, what obstacles did he face to attend school?
A1. The narrator had to learn that they are not very lucky the way they live. She wants to know if the people that live here really know how they get there clothes that have been sent for our country, the United States. Luka inspects the clothes because he wants to get good money off of it and if people will by it and make good use of the clothes. In order for Luka to stay in school he had to sell fire wood in a near by forest.


Q4. According to the film, what do Zambians think of Americans?
A4. Zambians think we talk in terms of cash. As in everything we do we do it in cash. That we are greedy bussiness people. For example if we were to do any type of trade money would have to be invovled. They also think when we speak in terms of cash is that we have to much of it.

Q6. What are some of the ambitions of the citizens in Zambia? What is the ultimate message of T-Shirt Travels?
A6. I think there goals are to make money and flow like America in our trading and money systems. They ultimate message of T-travels shows how the clothes end up and how people get them. In New Jersey they send them out to seas and someone sells them those people sell them to the market to get money and provide family. I think Process is helping them out with there econmy so they can experince the money life.

Current Events QTR 2 Week 8: Propose Cigarette Product Warning

Summary:
           The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) requires that cigarette packages and advertisements have larger and more visible graphic health warnings. 
FDA issued a proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements.  These new required warnings would consist of nine new textual warning statements accompanied by color graphics depicting the negative health consequences of smoking. 

Opinion:

        In my opinion, I think the Tobacco Control Act is right. They should put pictures on the pack so the smokers know what they are putting there selfs in. They also have good warnings on there packets. I think it will make people to strive to quit. I hope this effects smokers and helps them.